Sam Gaze on his mountain bike world titles, depression, and joining Alpecin-Deceuninck

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Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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In 2014, Sam Gaze was a privateering teenager from a rural farming town in New Zealand when he took the men's title in the opening round of an eliminator World Cup in Cairns, Australia. With this breakout ride, he caught the eye of Specialized Racing and relocated to Europe, where he went on to claim five world titles, including U23 World Champion and Elite Marathon and Short Track World Champion. He now races for UCI team Alpecin–Deceuninck where he competes in the WorldTour as well as the W...

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0:00.0	I went and looked back and I had clear track behind me and it was a lap and a half to go world championships.
0:05.7	You know there's 20,000 people wrapped around that course that day and the only spot where there was no one.
0:11.0	There's dad and Amanda parked up there.
0:12.8	No way.
0:13.3	And it's like I'm 12 years old in New Zealand again.
0:15.3	And then from that moment forth, I was just fixed in.
0:18.4	It was just tree, root, rock, go.
0:20.7	And I remember hitting the tarmac.
0:23.4	It was literally like having a heart attack, you know,
0:25.5	like realizing what had done.
0:27.0	And coming across the line and all I could think about was finding dad.
0:31.3	And, you know, it's a bit quirky.
0:33.7	But, you know, those movies when someone's looking for their lover in a crowd
0:36.6	and in lock eyes, it was literally like that with my dad yeah you know it's just that's yeah that's it people
0:42.2	it's my best day of my life it's showtime everybody showtime you've been living in the dream
0:50.4	world neo this is the world as it exists today.
0:57.2	Life moves pretty fast.
0:59.6	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
1:02.1	You could miss it.
1:05.2	Listen, we talk about practice.
1:08.3	Repeat on the dude's room.
1:10.0	Donnie, you're out of your element.
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