Legend: Jens Voigt | movie | 2021 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Cycling powerhouse Jens Voigt was the boss of the breakaway when he was a professional. Bernie Eisel travels to Berlin t | dG1fLUx6cUVIVktNSFE

Transcript

00:00 When he was on, he was absolutely on.

00:08 He could push himself to the absolute maximum, more than anybody I've ever met.

00:15 Jens Voigt has claimed a sweet victory for Team CSC.

00:19 I've come to Berlin to meet a rider, when he was a pro, would probably outrun wild horses.

00:25 That is of course the unbreakable, irrepressible legend that is Jens Voigt.

00:41 Welcome to Berlin.

00:43 There, people from Western Germany had to stop and turn around because right here, at

00:48 that bridge was the border, it was life changing.

00:52 The sprinters particularly never liked me because I made their teams work hard to chase

00:57 me.

00:58 Really hard.

00:59 Coffee and bikes go so well together.

01:02 We did hard training, we did scientific training, we did count heart rates, watts, calories.

01:07 You just never understood how he could just keep going and going and going.

01:12 He would basically collapse.

01:15 As always, you're full of surprises.

01:17 Three, two, one, and go.

01:21 Nothing motivated me more than losing.

01:24 Getting my head kicked in made me come back better and stronger the next weekend.

01:29 Discipline is required.

01:30 It's no rocket science.

01:31 If you look at the cards, life has given you.

01:34 You have to play the best game you can with the cards you have.

01:40 That hurt.

01:41 Yes it does.

01:42 It doesn't get easy, eh?

01:43 [music]