GREIPEL OPENS UP ABOUT RELATIONSHIP WITH CAVENDISH | RDMN CLIPS

1.Respecting Cavendish amid media hype

What was the relationship like between you and Mark let's say the media always made it bigger than it was we really respected each other Marcus a really good guy he really knows how to how to behave and also how to handle uh staff members Etc but let's say at the end it comes down to the Spotify point of view and I think this made it difficult to really get a good connection together yeah was it that was 2011 I'm trying to think world's 2011 was Copenhagen where Cav War so used were too as fast as the world you and cop were first and second of Copenhagen that year I was third who was Gus yeah yeah oh that's a good memory I pulled that one out yeah that was uh yeah one of the uh one of the things I really wanted to have this rainbow jersey with all the circumstances in the national team we had uh things just went wrong and we just had two guys in the final with myself the last 50 kilometers which doesn't make it easier in the world championship and so you're moving on from HTC into lotto and when I think of Andre Great Wolf I think of immediately hands in the air winning Bond Sprints in a lotto Jersey it feels like that was the most fruitful period of your career do you look back on lotto as the peak um when I went to Lotto I was 28 when I did my first Tour of France and it was a time for me to to get there to the Tour de France and uh yeah make that charge your dream come true um and yeah I'm just really grateful and happy that I made that choice because I really uh got a got a team together and also the trust of the the sponsors and also the team manages to to really put this team behind me and also uh start winning races and yeah it was really nice that I got all this uh trust and yeah that I could also prove it at the end with victories and how how are we you know a lot of listeners to the podcast they understand that cycling is a team sport and they understand there's a level of sacrifice on it but how much of a burden on your shoulders is that level of sacrifice and everybody on a given Sprint stage even this entire staff the entire focus is Andre griper you need broad shoulders it would seem to carry that level of sacrifice did that ever bother you or they're way heavy on you ah I would live I said if I would say now that it didn't bother me uh let's say I always try to to share uh the pressure I had on all the shoulders which with the right as I I took part in all the races but it never worked out because yeah mentally you're always stressed when you lost the Sprint you take it with you in the night and you you're thinking a lot about it and the next day you have the pressure again it wasn't easy I'm I'm honest but uh I had a really good teammates around me who supported me with a lot of things was going in my head and also they knew how to turn the screws that I'm totally convinced that they deliver me and uh it sometimes I never believed in it but yeah I just at the end I just trust my teammates and they delivered me which made it sometimes more and more easy um but I'm I'm honest that sometimes it wasn't easy to handle all the person it's got to be hard for one of these guys in the tour as well where you ride on day one you control the break you bring the brake back you delivered a perfect lead out and then you lose the Sprint and then day two they do the exact same thing and maybe you don't win the Sprint again for them to rally and to do the same again on the third day on the fourth day and then eventually you win a Sprint it takes some trust it's some level of sacrifice and the pressure is just most build and build and build each consecutive day that it doesn't work exactly uh but I think everybody is super professional when you when you know you have one of the fastest guys in in the bunch in your team uh it's it's just something you have to do there because you're you're taking part in the biggest races of the world and uh when you got told to chase a breakaway down then you do it and uh by doing this you also trust your teammate um but yeah let's say I never got the impression that the teammates were angry with myself when I lost the race I I felt angry or I felt uh I felt sorry for them because they really killed killed themselves to deliver me um but yeah they they were also really good in telling me that hey that we're gonna do it the next day better and uh let's say we we all knew that if everything comes together and we do what we can do best then we are how to beat and that's what we all trusted to each other because yeah we we were called the train but the train just works as as good as the smallest engine let's say if you enjoyed this little clip from the podcast you can check out full episodes of the podcast on any podcast platform Apple Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts also you can click up here for another video that I know you're going to love and don't forget to subscribe to the channel see you next day