Jens Voigt feature: The Hardest of the Hard?

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Jens Voigt feature: The Hardest of the Hard?

Written by: Long Dong
Date: Thu Jul 29 2010

Professional road cyclists are tough. Tour de France riders are tougher, but amongst these men there are the riders who can ride set the pace in the front of the peleton for hour after hour or hold the high pace of a breakaway for 150 kilometres. But rising above these heroes is one man, the rider voted most popular non-Asian rider in our poll last year, and the king of the breakaway, Jens Voigt.

A crash nearly killed him in the 2009 Tour. But Jens came back.

Jens was severely hurt at Le Tour in '09

On Stage 16 this years tour, Jens had a major crash. Some pretty bad contusions + massive loss of blood + fractures (have a look at the picture below). His bike was destroyed and his support car was ahead with Andy Schlek. For the average pro the thought process is simple: Take the easy option; give up.

The words aren't in his dictionary.

Read on as Jens describes what he does to ensure he gets to Paris . . .

"That stage pretty much got off on the wrong foot. For starters, we just went out so hard. We started out climbing up the Peyresourde Pass and everybody came out with their guns smoking.

I came over the top only 20 seconds down on the front group, but about 2 kilometers into the descent my front tire blew and I thought, "Oh God," and I went down. Just one year after my horrible crash, and there I was tumbling on another mountain descent. And let me tell you, about the only place that feels good right now is my right ankle. The rest of me is all road rash. Plus I've got five stitches in my left elbow and then there are some ribs that are not in the right place! I may have to get x-rays, but I hate x-rays (the radiation), and plus, if I've got a fractured rib, what can anyone do about it?"

Jens on his 'loaner' bike on Stage 16

Read on it gets better . . . Jens continues, "The worst thing of all was that I almost got forced out of the Tour for a second year in a row. The problem was that the first team car was behind Andy Schleck, and the second had decided to go up ahead to hand out water bottles at the foot of the next climb. As a result I had no bike, because mine was shattered.

So then the broom wagon pulled up and was like, 'Do you want to just get in?' And I said, 'Oh no, I don't need YOU!' But there I am with blood spurting out my left elbow and no bike. Finally, the race organizers got me a bike, but it was this little yellow junior bike. It was way too small for me and even had old-fashioned toe-clip pedals. But that is the only way I could get down the mountain, so I had to ride it for like 15-20 kilometers until I finally got to a team car with my bike."

"Give up is never a word in my dictionary"

Race doctors quickly taped some gauze onto the open elbow wound. Jens explains how he gets back into the race, "Then, I still had to get up to the grupetto. All I can say is that that desperate times need desperate measures, but I got up there. And once I did it was grupetto all day long.

Needless to say, I had plenty of time to come up with a fitting book of the day. It's from the Disk World series by Terry Pratchett. In it, the protagonist is Conan the Barbarian, who is a 70-year-old who has just survived everything. At one point he, and his other old warrior friends capture this village, but then they find that they are surrounded by an army of tens of thousands, and his only reaction is, 'Oh man, it's going to take days to kill all these people!' And that's the way I was today when I was lying on the ground. I just thought, 'Oh no, I'm going to Paris this year, I'm going to Paris. There's just no way you are going to get me out of this race for the second year in a row!"

Thanks for reading - we hope you have a good weekend riding your bike . . .

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