'We can still learn so much from Aristotle': how history and philosophy has helped Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl's Mikkel Honoré emerge as one of the peloton's strongest riders

There's far less Netflix binging and social media doomscrolling for this scholarly Dane

Mikkel Honore
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Back in 2018, a few years before Mikkel Honoré became one of Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl’s latest riders who threatens to win in a multitude of different types of races in a myriad of ways, the Dane realised that something in his approach to life needed to change.

He had just finished his International Business College degree and he reflects: “I had a period of thinking about cycling and nothing else,” he tells Cycling Weekly. “I felt myself living in this bubble of cycling, not thinking or understanding other things, not knowing what was going on in the world. 

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