Marcel Kittel
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Oct 29, 2026
Matt StephensGUEST
So that'll be a lot of fun.
Matt StephensGUEST
We've got Marianne Vos, we've got Marcel Kittel, we've got Wout van Aert, and all Adam, Danny, and me and the gang, and another roughly 600 people hanging out riding bikes, having a boogie and eating nice food.
Matt StephensGUEST
So that would be fun.
Matt StephensGUEST
That's till Sunday.
Matt StephensHOST
DS here as well.
Matt StephensHOST
I saw Marcel.
Matt StephensHOST
Ah, nice.
Matt StephensHOST
Yeah, Kittel is here.
Matt StephensHOST
I had a lovely bit of cheesecake, actually, with like an orange cheesecake, which I ate with Dries, bumped into Dries on a few occasions.
Matt StephensHOST
But yeah, had met Cav, lovely not seeing him for a long time.
Matt StephensHOST
Had a chat with Marcel Kittel, the Unibet Rose Rockets, who were hoping for an invite, not confirmed.
Matt StephensHOST
They had Dylan Groenewegen there.
Max GawnHOST
Who was the...
Max GawnHOST
Was it Marcel Kittel, Russian?
Alex ClementsHOST
He rode for...
Alex ClementsHOST
He rode for...
Dan LloydHOST
And then further to that, many riders, often big names, have left that team before the end of their contracts, and this was way before the current time, uh, where that seems much more common.
Dan LloydHOST
So Michael Matthews, Marcel Kittel, Charlotte Kool, Tiesj Benoot, Mark Hirschi, Tom Dumoulin, uh, they all left the team early, amongst others.
Dan LloydHOST
And when you have that many riders leaving ahead of the end of their contract, you have to start assuming there might be something going wrong at the team rather than with the riders themselves.
Dan LloydHOST
So that's probably what sparked the journalistic investigation in the first place, uh, what they uncovered was quite concerning.
Patrick BroeHOST
I think Roy they said Roy Curvers
Benji NaesenHOST
Roy Curvers he was a part of the Marcel Kittel lead out in the Skil Shimano days
Patrick BroeHOST
he will my era of the sport
Benji NaesenHOST
so
Caley FretzHOST
Yeah
Johnny LongHOST
... to this point? And the, the reporting kinda said, like, after Marcel Kittel had his, his, you know, breakout Tour, Tour de France in 2013, 2014, it sounds like the, the team itself got kind of, like, high on its own supply a bit, and were like-
Caley FretzHOST
Mm
Johnny LongHOST
... "We've cracked it.
Spencer MartinHOST
Like, huge.
Spencer MartinHOST
Well, also where did T- what, Tom Dumoulin left that team as soon as he could, along with a lot of other riders, like, what, John Degenkolb, Marcel Kittel, Mark Hershey.
Spencer MartinHOST
A lot of riders le- left that team.
Spencer MartinHOST
And-
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Spencer MartinHOST
There's not many Paul, there's not many guys doing what Paul Sass has done, and they, they are, they are-
Johan BruyneelHOST
You know who was, you know who was world champion junior time trial and then afterwards had a career that had nothing to do with time trialing?
Spencer MartinHOST
Uh, Marcel Kittel.
Johan BruyneelHOST
Marcel Kittel, exactly.
Caley FretzHOST
other than maybe the UCI and I don't see them doing it like who is the who is the the accountable authority to sort of come in and be like guys this is not you can't you can't be forcing riders to do XYZ you can't be what was the quote well tyranny a form of tyranny must not prevail
Johnny LongHOST
I think is really the the other interesting bit was kind of because the question I've always had is like why did this happen How do we get to this point? And the, the reporting kind of said like after Marcel Kittel had his, his, you know, breakout tours of France in 2013, 2014, it sounds like the team itself got kind of like high on its own supply a bit.
Johnny LongHOST
And we're like, we've cracked it.
Johnny LongHOST
We know what we're doing.
Gordon DarrochHOST
One interviewee described the management structure as a dictatorship, another said team members were treated as puppets, who were punished if they criticised team decisions, and a third said there's a prevailing atmosphere of tyranny.
Gordon DarrochHOST
The problems got worse as the team became more successful, starting when Marcel Kittel won sprint stages in the 2013 and 2014 Tours de France, but after Tom Dumoulin won the Giro d'Italia in 2017, when the team was sponsored by Sunweb, The management radicalized and started to become paranoid in the words of one former rider.
Gordon DarrochHOST
Another said, quote, nobody cared when I was on the edge of a burnout.
Gordon DarrochHOST
I felt alone.
Josh IbbettHOST
He'd be just helping.
Josh IbbettHOST
He was like M- Mar- Marcel Kittel, who he, he won a lot of times, and John Degenkolt, that kind of area.
Josh IbbettHOST
If you know about, uh, uh, that kind of, um, [clears throat] time, if you know about pro cycling.
Josh IbbettHOST
And he said, basically, he didn't wanna just like ride on the front of the bunch for 100K for the rest of his life.