Everyone should watch this. This is what Tour de France: Unchained wanted to be. Incredible characters and drama. Cavendish came off incredibly vulnerable, human, and inspiring. You couldn’t have written a fictional hollywood comeback movie better than this movie. And it’s 92 minutes – perfect for watching during a recovery week ride.
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I thought it was good too, but I don’t really see how you can compare one man’s biography to a show covering an entire TdF. Totally different material.
Side note: the Arnold doc is good bike watching too.
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I haven’t watched yet, but listed to this podcast episode earlier in the year.
Whilst I enjoyed the Cavendish doc very much, Arnold took me by surprise - it was a really great mini doc-series that made me smile on more than one occasion 
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Arnold is great - also highly recommend his memoir book - “Total recall” - very interesting.
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Unfortunately, they decided to play off THEMOVE podcast of abusive dopers.
Hope that they did not pay for that.
I thought the Cav doc was good but not great. It got off to a good start, then lulled a bit too much for my liking in the middle, before finishing strong. Felt like the story could’ve been told in half the time, far more impactfully.
I watched some of this while making dinner last night. Seeing Mark at 8 (?) or whatever, in the intro, was fantastic. Loved hearing his kids cheer for daddy.
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Kudos to Cav for being so open about his mental struggles….the more people share, the more any stigma re: mental health is removed.
I’ve never been a huge fan, but I ended up with a new-found respect for the man.
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Same here, although it wasn’t too surprising to hear him talk about purging food as it was the only thing he could control. Dark days.
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I thought they did a good job of including that it’s not easy on the spouse either. I know they’re very wealthy, but I’ll bet it’s a difficult and lonely life, and then when he IS home, you’re walking on eggshells.
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Great observation, pbase!
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been there, done that (except the very wealthy part), and my wife hated it. Not even the same amount of travel. Even I hated it. As it was reaching a breaking point - my oldest was a year old - was offered a promotion to run a division and like Cav would say f***k that.
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Same. I would come home and my wife and I wouldn’t even know what to talk about. We’d consumed different movies, books, music, even different news (due to me always being in a different country). We started to realize it was leaving us with little in common, so I had to stop. This was before FaceTime and even cheap cellular. We had to coordinate times and use calling cards, and getting that right was an adventure in itself!
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I’ve just caught up on this and it’s definitely worth a watch.