{"id":538228,"date":"2026-03-13T17:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/538228\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T17:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:44:08","slug":"i-see-myself-as-a-winner-mattias-skjelmose-qa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/538228\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I see myself as a winner&#8217;: Mattias Skjelmose Q&#038;A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclist: What did you learn most about yourself last season<\/p>\n<p>Mattias Skjelmose: That I\u2019m a fighter, I don\u2019t give up. I\u2019ll take my knocks but I\u2019ll always stand back up. The whole season was pretty much a downfall. I had a few ups, in Amstel of course, but otherwise it was just chasing, always chasing. And when you chase all the time, it\u2019s difficult to enjoy. The only part I really enjoyed was being with Quinn [Simmons, LidlTrek teammate], being in the US and also before Amstel. Going to him really saved my season in some ways. We have quickly become really close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cyclist: What did you learn most about yourself last season Mattias Skjelmose: That I\u2019m a fighter, I don\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,49602,85],"class_list":["post-538228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-lidl-trek","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}