📢 𝗟𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗼 𝗗𝘀𝘁𝗻𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗼 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 📢 Discover the 1⃣7⃣ youngsters who will be part of the team's Development program, to be named Lotto Dstny Devo Team from next year onwards 👇 lottosoudal.be/en/news/detail…
Lotto Soudal's Verschaeve shares how he almost quit professional cycling - "I felt that my chances in cycling had run out, and I was done with that misery myself"
CyclingSunday, 23 October 2022 at 06:00
Lotto Soudal rider Viktor Verschaeve’s season was not so great. The rider suffered from a trapped femoral artery and, at one point, almost considered leaving professional cycling for good but thankfully, his team was supportive of him and stopped him from taking any harsh decisions.
"In the fourth stage of the Tour du Limousin, I had a breaking point," Verschaeve said. He continues, "There remained a lot of uncertainty about my left leg. I felt that my chances in cycling had run out, and I was done with that misery myself. For a good two months, I was pretty sure I was going to stop cycling. I had already let some cycling friends and teammates know. When I had to get off again there in France with too much pain, I broke down and gave up crying by the side of the road."
The rider couldn’t stop his tears of disappointment in the Tour de France. That evening he was about to give up his professional racing, but team manager Maxime Monfort talked to him and stopped him from taking any irreversible decision without thinking clearly. “He told me that otherwise, I would have regretted all my life because of the 'what if' question.”
Later he realised the truth in his manager’s words when he competed in Schaal Sels to support Arnaud De Lie. “I was riding so smoothly and was strong. Then I realized it would be a shame if I had to stop like this.”
Read also
The young Belgian rider has decided to continue his racing career but he is not ready to take part in the WorldTour team and chooses Lotto Dstny Development Team for his next season.
“This season I lived for two months under the delusion that I was going to stop. If that is the case, then that abyss is no longer so deep. I've been this close before. But this profession is incredibly beautiful,” concluded Verschaeve.
Read also
Just in
Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter today!
Nov 05, 13:04
0
Popular news
Latest comments
- Many other drugs cheats also had no empathy.awp25-11-2024
- See if you can name one person whose career Lance Armstrong destroyed. Just one.
MarkFour25-11-2024 - Lance was the only one who destroyed people's careers to cover his doping. That is what made him a pariah.SeenItBefore24-11-2024
- I'm fine I'm fine just give me a bike. Epicspock12324-11-2024
- Doubt that, he is still competitive with the others stars but MVDP is another level.abstractengineer24-11-2024
- He already did it at the world champs. He may go very long thereabstractengineer24-11-2024
- For an agent, the more transfers with higher salary there are the better earnings they have. A bonus for the transfer plus a percentage of the salary.abstractengineer24-11-2024
- not unless mathieu is riding with a broken leg.OCexile24-11-2024
- When a guy like Madoff gets done do you spout off about all the others trying to fraud in a lesser style who didn’t really gain much from their efforts? It’s like taxes, if we’re going to pursue everyone equally we may as well never start. I’m fine that we start at the top, there’s plenty of work there. Once we’ve caught the big cheats then we can see how valuable it is going after smaller ones.Mistermaumau24-11-2024
- again, no mention that all of Lance's competitors were doping as well... 98% of them also denied doping ....Xrider5124-11-2024