El Pistolero to jump in the Czech Republic. Contador certainly did not resent the bike after his career

Winner of seven cycling Grand Tours, one of only seven riders to win the Giro, Tour and Vuelta. At the end of the week, this champion visited the Czech Republic. Unfortunately, I don’t have much time, explain. That’s all there is to it, and I’m spinning here. I’ve actually never been to Prague, so I want to get to know it more.

The press of the conference, interviews, photo shoots, signatures and on Monday even a fifty-kilometer ride, the editor of iDNES.cz had the opportunity to be alone. That’s what his busy schedule looked like.

He flew at the invitation of the organizer of the LEtape Czech Republic race, he is the ambassador for his fourth year, and he will be at the start in July. ]

A bike like a psychologist

I don’t mind the winter, says Contador, when he realizes how cruel April can be during the summer. I can be seduced by thousands, but I can also dream. Such is life. In the winter I was fine.

Zdenk Tybar, who rides the same way as ex-cyclist Jn Svorada and Tereza Hukov, then laughs: Well, winter is one thing. But Alberto nev, eu ns too pr. He would speak differently.

It has been seven years since he ended his magnificent professional career. Today, at the age of 41, he claims that he has gained ten kilos since his seductive weight, but he is still in shape.

Evidence? When the road goes up past the turn and from Berounka to Zdejcin, which with its two kilometers and no more than a seven percent slope passes even the LEtape section, it is immediately in its element.

He gets off the saddle, melts in the pedals, and the bike undulates beneath him. How to type!

This is how he used to tear up soupee in the hills in the days of the first snow. There are no mountains where I go. Urit, I fell out of it a bit and I would need a thorn. But it’s true that I respect that the hills are the most difficult for me, please.

His physics is probably not surprising. The bike is the only sport for him. In a year, I spend between twelve and thirteen thousand kilometers in the saddle.

Sun portions. Especially when he begins to list what his current life is like.

Take care of your Aurum wheel sign. Together with Ivan Basso and his brother Fran, he leads the second-division Polti Kometa team, which will go to the Italian Giro in May and one day I would like to see him in the elite worldtour category.

He comments for Eurosport about a hundred days a year. Ten of them are traveling around the world, the rest stay in the studio in Madrid.

Also go to conferences, my foundation. It is understandable that families are involved in this trip, and when they are, they will go to their beloved Real Madrid.

New Santiago Bernabeu? Ndhera, formidable, hls. Of course, I also sweated the 3:2 loss over Barcelona and advancing in the Champions League against Manchester City. Let’s see how it goes with Bayern.

But it’s not always like that for Real. That is why the bicycle plays such an important role in his life.

It’s like a psychologist’s job for me. Not only do I feel better physically after a whirlwind, but most of all I clear my head. First thanks to the round mm more energy for the evening projects, unloading.

Gone are the nights of hunger

During a quick stop in Broumey, he takes a sip of a traditional Czech drink at the Matuka brewery, and after driving back to the hotel, he orders a straight pint with dinner. Even so, Contador’s life changed. Today, he doesn’t have to maintain a strict lifestyle, and he doesn’t mind the extra kilos.

You couldn’t sleep at night because you were waking up hungry, remembering some drill at the thorn camps near the Teide volcano. The only thing that hasn’t changed since then is that I still enjoy driving fast. And so there was a present spirit in me. Both of them recognize other cyclists and try to meet me. Sometimes I get teased. Fun!

But otherwise, I remember my career well. It’s a shame that he won it at home at the Vuelt and also to ride triumphantly on the mythical stage of England. End of career? A dream come true that I didn’t even know was mm. Vtzstv gave me peace. I said to myself that it is right that I end my career in this way and that the fans will remember me like this first, he bowed.

Thanks to his darkness and commentary, he still hasn’t completely left the peloton and maintains that view. Time of van Aert, van der Poel, Pogaar, Vingegaard and Evenepoel. He doesn’t want to choose the most stupid of them, with an apology, but I am clear about the best.

Pogaar, he blurts out. Here it is the most universal. He won me all. We don’t have to talk only about the overall classifications, but I think Roubaix will be in his power one day.

Even he in his best form wouldn’t know how to look up to him. Here is a good shot, he knows how to sprint, so it would be hard to beat him. Could I fall asleep on some long hill? But it would still be tk. It’s been a year since I passed away, but times are different. Watts, which are needed in the industry today, have changed a lot. Viva, thorns, material, everything improved a lot. Today, even young people have professional skills and are on a much higher level, in comparison.

he fell in love

On the long climb from Roztok, he stays in front of the group, and when the road straightens again after two and a half kilometers, he sets off on a fast pace. esk cyclist looks behind him and checks: Time, we’re all, nobody’s lost. And dl continues with the panel in the call.

We talked about contemporary cycling: how he used to ride a bicycle, about his bikes, the darkness, describes the eight-year-old Tybar. We had enough to respect. We met at the Vuelt and the Tour. The first hundred and fifty kilometers, when the ride was difficult, it was possible to ride it in the hills. In the wild, it was without ance.

After fifty kilometers and almost a thousand hundred meters, Contador sits back down in Nibor and boasts: Total nron. flat bottom, seamless up and down, isolated classic profile. In addition, the landscape is beautiful. Lots of trees, woods, openings and views. I think the route will be fine.

He, too, looked at her in red.