Alistair Brownlee has achieved almost everything in sports: double Olympic champion, serial world-title collector and one of the most uncompromising racers the sport has ever produced.

In this episode Jan sits down with someone he’s shared two decades of rivalry, respect and occasional desert bike rides with - a relationship built on racing each other to the line and trying not to push each other into oncoming traffic.

Alistair talks about what it really takes when “good enough” has never been an option: pushing himself to 99.9%, embracing obsession and why he never cared for “fake confidence.”

They dive into how perfection both powered his career and broke his body and why he’d always rather risk everything than arrive at 95% to a competition. Plus: the moment in Rio 2016 he forced himself to actually remember, why he still can’t let his brother beat him and how he’s rebuilding purpose now that the start lines are behind him.

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