'Tears in my eyes' - Anton Palzer on new Warner Bros. Discovery Sports documentary 'Breaking the Cycle'

Have you watched the documentary? Thoughts? I think it was two weeks ago that I saw the first rough cut and it was around one hour, so they cut it down to 45 minutes. It is super cool. Also, for me to see my decision in a movie, it's quite special.

For sure, I always knew what I what I did and what I do. Also what I what I do now with the cycling, but to see that I left behind my whole life as a ski-mo athlete, all the nice memories, and especially my last race at the World Championship. To see this, I have to admit, I had some tears in my eyes because it was my whole life.

And now it's the past and afterwards, I also say that it was the right decision to do this. Even it was even it was super special. Ad What did you hope to achieve by partnering with Red Bull to make this documentary? Giro d'ItaliaPower of Sport — Giro d'Italia 2022 created history02/06/2022 AT 10:30 Well, first of all, I would say the decision was completely for myself.

I was not happy any more with ski-mo. With ski-mo I was happy but I was not happy about my life as a professional athlete. I was a professional ski mountaineering athlete for eight years, so it was my work.

And my work was to be successful in ski-mo races. But it was always the same. We went to Andorra for the World Cup, always Italy for the World Cup.

Every two years was a World Championship and I felt a bit tired of always doing the same. So the project was, first of all, for me, but I want to tell the story of Anton Palzer and not try to imitate and be like Primoz Roglic or someone like this. They also came from different sports, but I want to tell the story of me and to show the people if you are bold, if you're fearless, if you work hard for your dreams, you can achieve a lot of