{"id":736834,"date":"2026-06-14T20:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T20:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/736834\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T20:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T20:14:10","slug":"nomination-for-the-best-cycling-interview-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/736834\/","title":{"rendered":"Nomination for the best cycling interview of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there is one video you watch this Sunday \u2014 alongside the clip of Liam Slock<\/a> crashing right on the finish line at the GP Gippingen \u2014 make it Kasper Haugland\u2019s flash interview. The Norwegian completed a 124-kilometer attack in the opening stage of the Giro Next Gen, keeping just two seconds in hand on the line.<\/p>\n

Since we did not see the entire stage unfold, Haugland can explain it best himself. He did so while pulling faces and gasping for air, having lost another eight minutes of his hard-earned advantage to the peloton in the final 40 kilometers. But somehow, he still had two seconds left.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was already away with a group of six riders, but it wasn\u2019t really working,\u201d Haugland said. \u201cThen I decided to attack together with my best friend Hakon Eiksund Oknes, and an Italian guy came with us. It was a breakaway where nobody was playing games; everyone did their work. But I believed in myself after the good year I\u2019ve had.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more below the video!<\/p>\n

Haugland came across the line completely empty at the Giro Next Gen<\/p>\n

The Norwegian rider from Decathlon CMA CGM\u2019s development team continued: \u201cI was on the front with 60 or 70 kilometers to go, doing 420 watts, and I saw that they were no longer pulling. So I just attacked, and suddenly I heard I had an eight-minute lead. I really had no idea what they were doing in the peloton, but I suppose I have to thank them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI just went, and I didn\u2019t know it was such a difficult course to ride solo,\u201d he went on. \u201cI probably shouldn\u2019t have done it, but I just went for it. It was a crazy day, and I am so dead. I don\u2019t think I pushed any decent watts in the final ten or twenty kilometers, but it is unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was the hardest day of my life. I don\u2019t know how long it all took. I had a good day, a really good day. It is unbelievable, and it means so much to me,\u201d Haugland said. Then, completely spent, he broke down when asked who he wanted to dedicate the victory to. \u201cI want to thank my grandmother. She died five years ago, and this one is for her, my whole family, all the coaches, but especially my grandmother.\u201d<\/p>\n

Author: David
\nBavin-Hobbs<\/a> – [email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If there is one video you watch this Sunday \u2014 alongside the clip of Liam Slock crashing right…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,166967,82],"class_list":["post-736834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-giro-nextgen","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}