Meet the man who changed the face of British Cycling, Chris Boardman: the TT legend and three time Tour yellow jersey we | dG1fYTlBNy15S1l3REU
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00:00 [music] Chris Boardman, he broke our records on three
00:09 separate occasions. He smashed the individual pursuit world record twice in two days. He
00:17 also won three Tour de France prologues. I had quite low self-esteem and low self-confidence.
00:31 Suddenly I could do something that other people wanted to do and couldn't. It was much more
00:36 than just about bike racing. What cemented Chris as a true sports star
00:42 was his gold medal in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. I daydream about being in that position, but
00:50 still a voice saying, "Yes, that's what people on the telly do. You're not one of them. You're
00:55 an unemployed carpenter." Meet the man behind many of his racing frames.
01:00 You're just going to tell stories about how I got things wrong, aren't you?
01:04 I've been in Norby all day. It's just cut there.
01:09 Riding with Chris on his home roads. This was my old stomping ground. Probably about
01:13 an hour's riding to get to this terrain for me. World titles, Olympic medals, the hard
01:18 graft that got him there was done on these hills.
01:21 I was just the person that was there at a moment when Great Britain did something. It
01:27 never occurred to me that we'd still be talking about it a quarter of a century later.
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