Wonderful Losers: A Different World

For most of us, cyclists in the back of the race are simply the losers. They are called water carriers, domestics, followers and Sancho Panzas of professional cycling. They are always in the back of the group, having no right to personal victories and sacrificing their careers to help their teammates.

In this documentary we follow the magnificent world of the race from the point of view of the doctors’ team crammed into a claustrophobically small car, surrounded by injured cyclists. Their work during a race reminds one of war, they are in the line of fire, on the front line. If you crash, you rise and race again. And amidst this fight, many magnificent things happen. The untold world of the true warriors, knights and monks of professional cycling.