“You portrayed me quite well”: Bissegger on his dramatic role in the Netflix documentary

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Professional cyclist Stefan Bissegger (24) will not be at the start of the Tour de France this year. Nevertheless, the Thurgau will be in the minds of cycling fans all over the world. Half the sports world has been aware of his dramatic story since this month.

Shortly before the start of the Tour de France on Saturday in the Basque Country, streaming platform Netflix released the series “Unchained”. It’s been available for a good two weeks. It’s the result of tons of video footage collected by the camera crew in the middle of the action at last year’s Tour de France. Euphoria, tension, falling, close-up fear.

Swiss drama in Copenhagen

Bissegger also took a look. “It was very bitter to see the role with me in the first episode,” he tells Blick. As a time trial specialist, he had a chance to win the opening time trial and the yellow jersey at the start in Copenhagen a year ago. The creators of the series picked up on his story. The long, meticulous preparation. The hope. And then the two fall on the rainy street.

“It was bitter because it really could have worked,” he says now. “But it sure was cool to see myself featured so prominently on the show. You portrayed my situation well.”

Everything exaggerated?

Not everyone is as lucky as Bissegger. There is harsh criticism from Belgian superstar Wout van Aert (28): “It is quite disturbing that stories are written in the documentary that did not exist. For me, the series is aimed at excitement.” That says the nine-time winner of the tour stage on the TV channel “Sporza”.

Van Aert thinks the differences between him and teammate Jonas Vingegaard (26), who later won the Tour, are overly dramatized. “We are actually best friends,” says the Belgian.

Verstappen was also angry

He blows the same horn as Max Verstappen (25) in the series counterpart in Formula 1. At times, the world champion did not even give interviews to the makers of Netflix. Despite the criticism: the Formula 1 series “Drive to Survive” was a huge success and caused an explosion.

This is now also hoped for in cycling. This year the cameras are back in the cycling circus. Bissegger’s experience of the shoot: “I personally didn’t like the cameras that much, but the cameramen were cool guys.”

Source : Blick