‘It was a small disaster. We could write a book about it’: Zdeněk Štybar and his chaotic Olympic Games

The Deceuninck-Quick-Step rider had been looking forward to his second participation in the Olympics, only for everything to go wrong

Zdenek Stybar
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“We could write a book about what happened. It was a big mess, chaos.”

I hadn’t called Zdeněk Štybar to chat about his Olympic Games experience; the question enquiring about the Toyko road race more than two weeks ago was merely an easy way to begin a conversation that was meant to be about cyclocross.

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