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The Highs and Lows
With more than one hundred professional victories to his name, Marcel Wüst is one of the most successful German cyclists. He began his professional career in the late 1980’s and competed against the world’s elite for 12 years. He won 12 stages in the Tour of Spain, along with a stage win at both the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France. Winning a stage at the 2000 Tour de France was the culmination of a childhood dream which finally brought him recognition:
"Now everybody knew it, the whole world knew it: I had won a stage in the Tour de France. Sure, I had won at the Giro and the Vuelta, but the Tour is the event that brings you as a cyclist the recognition that you deserve."
The overall tour victory went to the legendary Lance Armstrong that year, but not before Marcel had proudly worn the coveted green sprinter’s jersey.
Just over a month after his Tour de France achievement, Marcel's professional career was abruptly cut short. In a post Tour de France criterium, Marcel suffered a horrific injury robbing him of the sight in one eye.
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"My ability is sprinting, so with one eye I could not race at elite level. You cannot do the Tour de France with one eye!"
Despite the crash, he remained with his team until the end of his contract and moved into team management in 2002. He now works as a television pundit and commentator in his native Germany.
Experience it
Join us in Majorca to ride with a cyclist who knows what it takes to consistently win Grand Tour stages. Hear more about the sprints and his desperate will to win, about his stages victories and defeats. Listen to him wax lyrical about the legends of the sport, teams he has raced with and against, and the friendships and rivalries he experienced as an elite sprinter.
It is a real pleasure to be able to say that he will be leading a Love Velo ride.
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