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Tota Magalhaes' World Tour Debut: How Brazil’s Rising Star Landed on Movistar · Zone2Speak Podcast

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Now, let's get into the episode.
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And we are off. Welcome back to Zone to Speak.
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In this episode, I sit down with the incredible Ana Vitória Magalhães,
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also known as Tota, a rising star in professional cycling.
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From the streets of Brazil to the toughest races in Europe, Tota has carved
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out her own path in the world of cycling with grit, passion,
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and rentless determination.
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She's not just a racer. She's an aggressive breakaway specialist,
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a national champion, and the first Brazilian woman to sign with a world tour team.
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I will dive into her journey from football to cycling, her bold racing style,
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and what it means to push the boundaries in a sport that is still growing in South America.
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I will also ask Tata about her challenges of being a Brazilian cyclist in the
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European peloton and the pressure of representing her country at the highest level.
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Whether you are an aspiring racer, a cycling fan, or just someone who loves
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the story of perseverance and ambition, this episode is packed with inspiration.
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Let's get to it. Tata, welcome to Zone to Speak.
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Thank you. Super happy to be here. So yeah, let's chat.
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Cool. So I was doing a little bit of a search on you.
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I don't know how much you have done, but I read that you did some football,
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soccer, as some call it, before cycling.
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Of course, Brazil, national sport is football. People are crazy about football.
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Cycling is more of a mode of transportation, pleasure, leisure.
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Sports is starting to grow there. So how did you start getting to this sport?
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Yeah, so, yeah, I used to play soccer for, like, 10 or 12 years,
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and, like, on a really professional way.
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Then I got an invite to study at high school in the United States,
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and at this time, I didn't want to become, like, a really professional soccer player.
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Then I stopped, like, I used to, I was playing, like, as a hobby,
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and, yeah, my whole family writes for fun.
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They do normally like a Christmas ride together.
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Yeah, until the Christmas Redeemer.
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And yeah, like I asked my mom to join. She told me like, yeah,
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but you need to train a little bit.
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Then I started training. Like we are more or less like 30 on the family that rides.
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So it's like a big group. And yeah, I did my first Christmas ride with them on 2015.
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And since then, yeah, riding, it's like, yeah, part of me.
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Cool. It's funny you mentioned that because I saw one of your videos when you
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were in Brazil, I think for this past Christmas.
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And I was thinking maybe you got them into cycling because I saw you're like,
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oh, my mom is coming back from her ride.
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And so it was the other way around. yeah like my
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grandpa also right so yeah it's it's really
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nice to see them and also like it's really special to
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well cycling now is my hobby but it's my
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well it's my work and but
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it's also my hobby and to share this with them
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it's super special yeah i bet super
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special to have you know they understand
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you they get you yeah they understand racing
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my dad that like rides less still
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he like really watch the the.
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Races and he really likes woman cycling so
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it's yeah it's pretty nice i'll say yeah and
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how was the cycling scene in brazil when you were starting out
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um like there was some amateurs like
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i am from rio so it's a big city so it's a
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little bit difficult to train there but we have like
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national park and you can ride there with
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no cars so like climbing in rio is
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quite nice we have one climb
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that is called vista chinesa and it's like a 5k climb
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with nine percent average so it's a pretty hard
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time and yeah like for amateur it's really nice to to ride in Rio as in like
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if you have two hours three hours in your day to like yeah get out of like the
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city the cows it's pretty nice and so when I started there was quite some.
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Some yeah amateurs there but
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I didn't have the I don't
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know like I didn't have the contact with professional ones you
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know and yeah i
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think that was the difficult on like
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on the beginning that i didn't have any friends or yeah from my age nothing
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it was always like friend of my mom you know so so yeah i think that was the
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hard hardest part but still like today when i go back to brazil It's like huge right now.
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It's not like, it's like the amateur scene is really, really big,
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but then the professional, no.
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Yeah. Yeah, because I'm Brazilian as well, and I don't spend a lot of time in
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Brazil as much as I would like to.
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We were there, my husband and I were there last September, and we did the climb,
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Vista Chinesa, all the way to Corcovado. Nice, no?
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Nice. It's super nice. It's a good, challenging climb, but the views make it so pleasant.
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Yeah, yeah. But yeah, I haven't seen many professionals coming out of there.
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Part is like you are on a big city like
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really chaotic city and then you have like a national
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park on the middle you know yeah that's the
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yeah i don't know if it still is but
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that's the largest urban forest in
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the city globally so yeah it's pretty
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magical yeah and how was your move from
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did you move from the u.s to europe or from brazil to
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europe yeah no i didn't went to i didn't
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go to united states oh so you ended up not going to the
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high school there with it with the soccer team okay and then
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in 2022 i got an invite
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to race la volta my first race in europe was la
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volta wow throwing you into the deep
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end and i was like okay if i survive here
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i can survive whatever it takes you know and then
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yeah i've raised la volta as in
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like a stud year for for a team spanish was
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that with bink no was with soltech
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okay a small conti team from
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spain and then yeah like i did a really good network there like i got to meet
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people and then like i signed for biscaia durango was my first really conti
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team here in spain in 2023 so two years ago.
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Yeah, almost two years and something. And yeah, then I came to Spain in 2023.
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Didn't know how to speak Spanish.
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But yeah, since then, I'm living here in Spain. I really like it.
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I think it's really similar to Brazil as in the vibe.
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So yeah, super happy. I feel really at home here.
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I was living in Basque country. so it
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was a little bit like different than
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Girona now because there it rains a lot yeah and like winter is really winter
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but yeah I I was always like ah if I survive here then I survive other places
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you know I mean yeah I survived and then moved to Girona last year,
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nice yeah I first heard of you because I also
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moved here last year and I was
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recommended to go to this mechanic bike project yeah
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I think Gerona and he was like oh you're also Brazilian you need to meet this
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family and you need to meet Tata and then when I look her you up I was like
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oh my god she needs to come on the podcast so I'm so happy you're here yeah
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me too really so okay so incredible 2023 you signed for a continental team yeah,
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Barely two years later, you are in a world tour team, big team, move star.
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How are you feeling? How are you taking it all in?
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I say to everybody that I don't have rush.
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I know where I want to go, but I don't have rush. I'm not in a rush.
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And yeah, everything came super fast.
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Like i went for my first olympic games also that's right and yeah i think like
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i really like to learn and i think i'm a fast learner so that's why i think
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i did like some quite big steps in two years,
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and yeah like i'm living my dream you
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know like since the day i came to spain i'm
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always saying like yeah I'm living my dream but truly I'm I'm
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living my dreams and being part of movie
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star is like yeah it's huge like I didn't know that like I could improve more
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and that there was like such a big instructor on the team and all the information
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so yeah I'm learning a lot and having like Marlon Hoyser, Liane Lippert,
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two like cyclists that I'm a huge fan being my teammates now.
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It's like, yeah, crazy, crazy to believe it. But yeah.
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Mind blowing. I bet to have people you look up to now be your teammates.
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But I hope you know you earned this spot, you know.
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Yeah. I just wish that I don't get used to it. You know, I just want to,
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yeah, feel like I'm living my dream still day by day.
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Yeah, I see what you're saying. I think, yeah, only time will tell,
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you know, on your journey and everything.
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I'm sure you're going to continue to conquer more and more. And I think you have this attitude.
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You're already saying it. You
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know, every day you know you're living your dream. So I don't think you...
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You change in a good, positive way of evolving. Yeah, that's it.
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Yeah, like, I don't want to stay, like, wake up and be on my comfort zone.
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Whereas I want to, like, wake up and see, like, yeah, I'm here.
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I'm wearing this movie star kit, you know. That's so sick. Yeah. Yeah.
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And you are known for being an aggressive writer who loves a breakaway.
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What draws you to that racing style just
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comes naturally yeah i guess so like
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i really like to attack i prefer attacking than
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defending myself and like on the last two years that i was on a conti team i
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had this freedom so so yeah i think like people i i needed people to get to
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know me And I found that way.
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I really like to attack, to feel the race, think I'm a true racer.
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And yeah, I really enjoy it.
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And what are the lessons you have learned from being in a pro peloton?
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On first like for sure is believing in
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yourself i think everyone there is super
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strong and yeah i think that's the
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the mentality part that you have it or you don't you know and i think that's
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the thing that yeah for example demi vollering or malin hoise have it you know
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like they really believe in themselves and they think they win they can win
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and i think that's the thing that That's the key, you know, and also like, yeah.
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Try to have less mental fat dignities as possible. Like for me,
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for sure, the head is the thing, you know, that's the key. Everyone there is super strong.
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Probably like, yeah, 90% of the peloton has more or less the same power, you know.
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And the mentality, that's the key.
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And yeah, like enjoy, really, because like, for example, I love racing.
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And like after finishing a race i'm already like thinking about the next ones
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and i think that's something that yeah i think it's like the little kid inside
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you know that you cannot let it die,
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and yeah yeah i would say enjoy it
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and have a relaxed mind about pressure and stuff yeah i think you hit the nail
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in the head because it's true when you stop to think about it of course There
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are some people that might come out more in the peloton,
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like Wolverine or Kopecky.
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But at the end of the day, more or less, like you said, everybody has about the same power.
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Most teams have a very good support for the physical training,
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nutrition, and everything.
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So it does come a lot to the mind
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how strong is your mind to get you through tough
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moments how strong is your mind to keep the kid alive how
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strong is your mind to yeah to keep going
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and believe in yourself you can never stop believing yourself or
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be what's the word i'm looking for
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you know when you look around and you see all these strong people
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and self-doubt you can't there's no room for
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it true like to know that that's your
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place also you know exactly yeah and
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of course like when you get to a world tour team you
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have a little bit more of pressure for results and stuff
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like yeah you go to the race and yeah the team wants to win you know but yeah
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like i don't know pressure is a privilege you know so think a hundred percent
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have this in your mind that yeah like okay i i'm feeling pressure right now but then like yeah.
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That's what it takes, you know? Yeah. And how does it feel, speaking of pressure
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and privilege, how does it feel to be carrying the Brazilian flag in this world tour peloton now?
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I think there's so many people so excited to watch the race this year.
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I really think that Brazilian people are different, as in the way of cheering.
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We are such a big country, so there's a lot of fans. I really feel like grateful for all of them.
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You see like a post of, I don't know, myself on Movistar, Instagram,
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like the amount of Brazilian fans there.
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It's so nice. Like I really feel it.
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And also like on the races, sometimes a Brazilian flag or someone shout my name.
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This, like it feels really a dream, you know.
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And yeah, like pressure is a privilege. so
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I might as well like enjoy it
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really enjoying and to feel
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that also I think like if I'm feeling that
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that means that I'm getting to the point where I
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want to to be and yeah
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everything that I want for my
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career are stuff that will come with
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pressure so yeah I just need to
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part of the job yeah that's it yeah so
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you you have been already at Giro Vuelta
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do you know your schedule for 2025 are you
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doing any of those races yeah I will
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do one but we're still like starting it
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out because also like since I'm the it's
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my first year on the team they are getting to know me like
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which are my abilities on like
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in which way I can they can use me so so yeah we have more or less race calendar
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already but still like yeah sometimes we are already like moving things around
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to to really get the best out of me but for sure I'm gonna do one of the run tours,
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excited to see that and how is how is a day in the life of a pro cyclist.
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It's the best way it's possible like I wake up at like here in Jirona I wake up at like 8 a.m.
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Like really have a chill morning.
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I would do like for sure my cornflakes or oat porridge.
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It depends on how the training is.
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And then, yeah, like one hour after waking up, I would do my mobility session activation.
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And then at 10, go for the ride.
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Do my session, like normally two or four or five hours.
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Depends on the day then come back eat straight
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a lot of carbs a lot
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of carbs that's like my favorite
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part and yeah then like chill
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a little bit rest a little bit and if i have gym
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i would go to the gym or like some
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i don't know breathing classes because i do it a lot and
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yeah and then eat again dinner
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sleep and all over again sounds
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really good though i'm sure those training sessions
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a lot of them must be really tough yeah yeah yeah it is but yeah part of the
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job and are weekends the same or more or less hours on the bike like it depends
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like since i mean i live on a Saturday every day, you know?
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So yeah. Exactly. That's why I'm like, I'm asking, but every day is the weekend for you.
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That's it. So it depends. Like, for example, tomorrow I have five hours and
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a half and it's Tuesday. So yeah.
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Yeah. Nice. Yeah. When I can go on a ride during the week at 10,
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I'm always saying it's pro hour.
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Yeah. It's a pro ride hour.
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100%. Yeah. And where do you ride mostly here
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for your your training do you go up els angels or do you do other if i have
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f i would go to amer san marty climb because it's like a really it's not that
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steep but also like it's a it's constant you know how do i say it's constant
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constant yeah constant yeah,
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and it's like a 9k climb something so i'll go there normally all the pros are there also,
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yeah because Los Angeles is very famous but you go up and then you go down yeah
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that's it I like more a constant long climb as well if I have efforts and like
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it's a short ride then I would do the opposite side of Els,
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that's punchy yeah yeah,
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Because then there's no descent on the middle. Yeah. But I really like else.
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So if I have like a two hours ride with efforts on the middle, I would go there.
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Okay. But then like, because to go to Ameris, like two hours,
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less than two hours, it's impossible, you know? Yeah. Whoa. So yeah.
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What's the day to Roca Corba? Yeah, three times. Whoa.
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Yeah. Yeah, in the end, I was like, no, no more.
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This year and like for my like if
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i have a free four hours ride i would go to the coast that's
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nice mine too and the winter perfect
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in summer no i would go to like san
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gregory to that area but in winter coast
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loop is the best yeah i agree though
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i probably go in a very different pace than you but
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it's so nice to get one enjoying the
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view yeah yeah yeah you get there just to
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see the ocean have some food come back home that's
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perfect right was i
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gonna ask you do you see anything
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changing in brazil now or south
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america more women coming into the world
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tour yeah for sure like we have a lot of latin americans here now and in europe
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well on my team we have paula colombian girl also have catalina the chile from
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chile in a pro conti team juliana on picnic,
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so yeah we have a lot of new faces in the in europe and i think that's also
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because like the pan-american races and stuff are like really working out and and yeah i hope like.
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Year by year, we improve that, you know? Yeah, that's really good.
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I also see, hopefully, I think that's what I'm saying.
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Hopefully I'm right, that more and more the teams are also looking into South
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America and in Africa, just other destinations that are not typically known
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for cycling, but they are looking for talent.
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Like, if you stop to think, Brazil is such a big country.
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The amount of talent that for sure has it there, you know? Like if you see,
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for example, Netherlands, it's such a small country.
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The top 20 best cyclists are from there, you know?
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It's crazy to think that maybe like in Brazil, for example, there are some huge
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talent, maybe like a new Copac is there and we don't know.
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And any word of advice for any of the young female cyclists in South America
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that would like to also have this dream to come to Europe?
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Yeah to believe it and really try to
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work things out you know like yeah I
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mean the amount of no I had in my life until I got to a the first team yeah
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it's crazy but yeah you just need to keep showing up keep trying at some point
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you have the yes and you have the door opening here So, yeah,
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I think it's just keep showing up, do the work, believe it.
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And at some point, things will turn out.
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Absolutely. Never give up. I think if you, like I said, just keep doing your
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work, keep getting stronger and don't be discouraged because it's not everyone
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that has yes, yes, yes, yes.
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I haven't heard anyone actually have this story that all the
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stars lined up and everything was easy.
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In all parts of life, you know, like if you're, I don't know,
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like someone that works on the finance, the first, trying to find a job is super
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hard, no? So yeah, it's the same in cycling.
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Just have to be patient and to keep trying, keep trying not knocking the door
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and at some point it will come.
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Yeah. And when you're not cycling, how do you reset and take care of yourself?
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I really like to watch movies
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and read so yeah if I'm chilling like
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having having a chill afternoon I
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would do that I think that's the best way to relax but
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also like being my with my family and friends are for
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me it's like my heart is full you know so yeah
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I really miss them but part of also
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the job they come sometimes like
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my mom is here right now super nice yeah she
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rides so I can ride with her a little bit
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but yeah like being
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with my family not doing much just talking and also of course watching soccer
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because that's part of me and yeah just chilling You talked a little bit about
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eating cornflakes or oatmeal porridge.
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What is your nutrition like for before ride, recovery?
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That's, I think that's the thing that I most improved the past year.
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Because, yeah, I think we underfrew a lot, most of the women's peloton.
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And when I started to really eat carbs and clean carbs, of course,
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for example, the first three months I gained some weight.
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But then the body just started burning all over again. It's like putting gasoline
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on a car and the first few rides you feel like it's not going and then boom.
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So yeah, I don't know. On a hard day, I would eat in the morning 160,
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170, almost 200 grams of corb. That's a lot.
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And yeah, in the ride, fueling 100 grams of corbs.
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If I have like a easy day then 50 60
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grams and then come back
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how many hours for the two three hours you
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have like if I have two hours 50 grams okay
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makes sense yeah yeah for example today
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I have four and a half and I did 90 grams
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per hour so yeah but it's also something that you
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need to train you know yeah absolutely because
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your body doesn't digest that easily so many carbs yeah
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that's it but yeah like I try to eat as
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much clean as possible so good foods good carbs and then yeah after the ride
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more or less the same like 150 grams of carb depending on the day and so so
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yeah a little bit of protein of course but mostly carbs yeah,
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Yeah, when I was training a lot, I used to eat so many carbs.
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And I think I was the skinniest ever.
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Yeah. And also, if you feel right on the ride, you don't feel the need of like,
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you don't feel hungry on the day, you know?
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Yeah. That's how it's supposed to be. If you get home and you want to eat anything
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and everything, you didn't do it right.
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That means that, yeah, you under food. Yeah.
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How about if you have a day off and
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you want a cheat meal what is your favorite thing go to
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i for sure like a really good pizza or a hamburger yeah like my top one top
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three favorite food is pizza pasta and sandwich and bread so like i'm really really huge fan of carbs.
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Eat like yeah pizza or maybe a
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hamburger but i would say pizza for sure
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yeah i love pizza too i'm a savory person so you can put me too pie or pizza
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definitely going for pizza yeah me too well like if i have like a really easy
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ride one hour and a half i would stop on a cafe eat a cake maybe or a cookie um,
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drink a coffee, enjoy the day. So, yeah.
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And as we spoke about, you signed up this year with Movistar team.
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What are your goals for the next two years?
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Any specific races, ambitions you are targeting for 2025 and 2026?
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I would say for sure, like first year, improve as much as possible. Like learn, of course.
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Yeah. As I say, I am like sharing the team with Marlon Heusser,
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Olympic medalist, Diana Lippert, like fourth on Worlds.
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So like a stage, two stage winner, gyro stage winner.
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So like really people that I can learn a lot from.
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And yeah, so I would say like first learn, improve, develop myself,
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improve, learn, develop myself and yeah, like we'll see.
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Which level I am you know I really
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want to be a really good domestic for the team someone that
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they really can trust so so so
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yeah for these two years would be this like as in like I did such a huge step
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and and like on a fast way yeah now I'm like yeah Now you arrive where you want
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to be Then take it easy Slowly,
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So yeah, we'll see I think that's smart.
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Observe, learn Take advantage of everything That the team is giving to you And
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I'm sure you're going to go Big places I really want to see you in Tour de Femme Yeah,
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me too I really enjoy them So I think that's really important.
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So, yeah, I'm really putting all my trust on them, on my team and my coach,
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my nutritionist, my doctor, so my directors.
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So, yeah, I think you're on a good way.
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And, yeah, I'm really believing that I can really reach a really high level.
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So, yeah, we'll see about that.
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I'm very excited. Yeah. And how was the Olympics?
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You you were part of the brazilian national team this past year 2024 how was that experience,
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yeah like when i got into cycling
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and i knew that i wanted to become professional cyclist
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i put it on my door on my in brazil on my room like the pictures of the olympics
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and i was like yeah this is where i want to go but i was always thinking about
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los angeles 2028 because yeah if If I was starting on 2022,
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I would have like two years to be on Olympics.
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So it wasn't like realistic, you know.
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But yeah, like things went pretty fast.
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I believed a lot and I dreamed a lot about Olympics. So when I was there,
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it felt like that I already been to, you know.
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You played it all in your head already. And you had this vision board and you manifested.
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Yeah, because I really like to mentalize stuff, like put it on my head,
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how it would be, you know, things like that.
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And so, yeah, it's huge. Like all the countries there, the nations.
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Like people from Africa, like it's a mini city inside Paris.
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So yeah, it was pretty special to be there.
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Since like in Tokyo, we didn't have any, any cyclist, Brazilian cyclists.
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So yeah, I hope like it wasn't the race I've been wanting to,
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like, I didn't feel, I didn't felt that great, but, but yeah,
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Los Angeles, I will still be there.
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So I was going to ask if you're planning to go in 2028.
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So yeah for sure like i really learned a
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lot absorb a lot of things and like
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i feel right now i'm ready to try something
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in los angeles great i'm always
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thinking like yeah if in two years i was there imagine four
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years you know like really doing the four-year cycle to olympics yeah so yeah
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it's more like more than half of what i have as a professional cyclist so yeah
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we'll see yeah so that's an incredible,
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five year plan you know you have movie star you have the Olympics a lot to look up yeah,
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just keep showing just keep showing up putting my work living your dream every
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day living your Saturday.
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Living Saturday on my dream love it I just have a few fun rapid fire questions
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for you I think I know the answer to this one but favorite training route in Brazil in Brazil,
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Vista Chinesa how about Girona Coast Loop,
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and favorite anywhere if you could pick anywhere you've been what's your favorite
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route I would say Coast Loop, yeah, Girona okay, cool hardest race you have
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done Giro d'Italia State,
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four or five I think the day that we climbed blockhouse yeah,
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Do you prefer a tough, steep climb or a very technical descent?
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Tough, steep climb, I would say. Any pre-race ritual or superstition?
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I would talk with my parents like one hour before race.
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One song that gets you hyped up?
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Rufus Dussault. I like that. I'm going to put it on my playlist.
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And if you could ride with any cyclist past or present who would it be that's a hard but,
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well i would say like anna van der breggen like now i can race against her.
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From retiring so yeah awesome
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anything else you would like to share with us yeah i
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think something that i would say is
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that like expect rocks
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on on your path because that's part
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of life you don't have like yeah a
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super happy days all all
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year you know but yeah expect it and you
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will be prepared when it happens
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you know wise words thank you
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Tata so much for sharing your time really appreciate your insights hopefully
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I'll see you all there in the roads here in Girona yeah we get a coffee yeah
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we need to do that yeah once you have an easy ride a few extra hours on your
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day. Let's do that. Yeah.
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