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