When People Say, ‘You Can’t’
Reach down deep for something beyond yourself.
2 min readJun 28, 2021
Dutch cyclist Mathieu van der Poel gritted his teeth as he scaled the Mur-de-Bretagne for the first lap. It would award him an eight-second time bonus for his effort, but that wasn’t enough.
He was riding hard with the top cyclists during the second and final lap until he reached down deep. He would break away…
