Spicy secret
Rohan Dennis caused a scandal with his sudden disappearance on last year’s tour. Now the Australian explains.
Rohan Dennis explains his tour exit in a podcast.
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–He says that he was afraid for his marriage.
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–Rohan Dennis keeps making headlines, most recently with a provocative Instagram post.
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The 12th stage of the Tour de France was running when the Bahrain Merida team lost its driver. Rohan Dennis was just sitting on his bike when suddenly it was announced that he had left the tour. And that was a day before the time trial when he would have started as a favorite. What happened? Even Bahrain-Merida had no idea where the 29-year-old was. The team tweeted that they were looking for the driver and would report back if they knew more.
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Dennis showed up again. But what really happened remained his secret. The team leaders avoided any questions. The 29-year-old switched to the Ineos team and remained silent. Until now.
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Dennis had to pull the handbrake
In a podcast, Dennis talks to British journalist Matt Barbet about this 12th stage: “I feared the separation.” Dennis was worried about his marriage. He didn’t want to be alone, not a year after the birth of his child. «Before the tour I had a fairly open conversation with my wife. The things she said were not good for me to hear. I became aware of who I became. »
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So it just didn’t go on, says Dennis. He noticed that he was walking down a street that he knew was the wrong one. He makes it clear: “Cycling is not the be-all and end-all. There is so much more in life. I didn’t want to be another professional athlete with a broken marriage. » And: “I had to pull the handbrake.”
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The corona virus can “lick my ass!”
In addition, there were problems in the team. He had been promised wrong things, he hadn’t had the right material. “But that was not the real reason for the exit,” notes Dennis in the podcast. After the exit, he felt liberated, even if it was the hardest time in his life. Fortunately, he had some very good people around him, like his wife.
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Dennis, who won two races in the virtual racing series “The Digital Swiss 5”, always makes headlines. The Australian, who lives in Spain, caused outrage with an Instagram post in mid-April. He posted a photo that shows him on a trip with his car and thus in violation of the quarantine rules. Under the photo he wrote: «Covid-19 and the quarantine can lick my ass!»
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