Why fabian cancellara is so fast

FC: For sure, I still have a passion for riding my bike. He lives like m from me at home in Bern. And now, not being a pro, I can just enjoy riding in the good weather and I no longer have to force myself out when it's cold and rainy. FC: Absolutely not!

I have Chasing Cancellara so that I can sometimes experience that bit of pain on the bike and the fun. Cyc: Why are riders no longer so dominant in the Spring Classics? Now, there are many more riders competing for the same races at a similar level, there's less dominance and riders are not made into icons as often, put on pedestals. They seem fresher, too.

The big thing going forward for guys like Van der Poel, you have to watch how they deal with the pressure. Riders these days earn more money, have more expectations, have more press requests, a bigger spotlight and you have to see how they manage to deal with it.

And you do still have a few who are pure time trial specialists like Victor Campaenearts, but it does seem like there are fewer guys focusing on this one aspect of racing.

Cyc: Will we ever see a Monuments rivalry like you and Tom Boonen again? However, if Remco Evenepoel keeps progressing like he is, he should start dominating the Tour de France very soon.

That took a while — around 3 weeks. There are two considerations when coming back from an injury: the mental state of the athlete and the physical state of the injury. How you feel and how much you want to push might not necessarily be the only consideration. I think it has healed well. The thing is that the muscles around the injury also have to heal, not just the bone itself.

It was tender for a long time after my recovery and that held me back mentally a bit. Even now, almost a year later, I still feel that the muscle is still weaker on the right side where I broke it compared to the left side. Yes, I started physiotherapy twice a week. I started with some recovery exercises and then training on the bike as well. I had lost some muscle in my right arm so we started slowly to put some weight on and do some exercises to rebuild the muscles that had been lost.

Would you say that collarbone injury was your worst injury? Yeah, that was the most major. It was not a simple break. From what I know, it broke in four places. After I had recovered I crashed during the road race at the London Olympics and injured my collarbone again. A callus grew big like a little balloon, like an extra bone. It was quite disturbing! I had it for many months. Eventually it became smaller but it took a while. It seems like the damage done by a second crash takes much longer to heal than the initial crash, in the case of a collarbone injury.

After those two bad crashes I stopped riding completely. As an athlete, do you expect to get injured one day? Is there anything you do to prevent injury? Some people can go through their whole life as an athlete without any injuries and yet I have friends who have broken their ribs six or seven times, had four collarbone breaks and a broken elbow. What about illness prevention as opposed to injury prevention?

How many illnesses do you get a year and how may days training does it cost you? As an athlete, taking care of my immune system is the most important thing. I am cautious but I still get ill. When we get sick, whether we use medicine like antibiotics is always up to the doctors; they decide.

Our doctors are usually very strict when it comes to illness. The team doctors say it is better to recover than ride. We have many rules around the medication we can take so we always get medical advice. There are other ways to get healthy. We work very hard to build our immune system, especially in the winter. We also work on making sure we have enough vitamins and trace elements to perform well. I have learnt to notice when my body is at its weakest.

I have found that lot of stress can cause me to get sick. Another weak moment for my body is after a race. After a race is the weakest time for your body and you become susceptible to viruses and bacteria, because your immune system is low. You have to take a shower straight away, make sure your hair is dry and you have to stay warm. As athletes we have to look at every detail and to pay attention to our body days a year.

And it also affects the lifestyle of my wife and my kids; this type of prevention is important for your whole life. We are taught to always be aware. You have to wash your hands regularly. It is my job to look out for my health. Yes, I follow a healthy nutrition guide.

We have nutritionists. We also get a lot of input from our doctors because they know what is good for us. However he admitted the sport's governing body had, like Boonen, perhaps been caught napping. He added: "Certainly we're going to have to speed up our research so we can scan all competition bikes in a quick and efficient way.

Up till now, such controls simply haven't been used. But while Boonen's sports director Wilfried Peetrers said he had to believe Cancellara, team manager Patrick Lefevere called on the UCI to investigate the claims fully. But if we imagine it's true, it's daylight robbery. It's worse than performance-enhancing drugs. But after seeing this video I hope the UCI are going to fully investigate. But the UCI said they are now faced with another problem. But we also know that similar mechanisms, that work without batteries and can run on solar power, are being developed," said Wauthier.