00:00Is this your first national championship?
00:10Uh, no, this is my, um...
00:13One, two, three, four, five.
00:15Gotta get the Mohawk, right?
00:16Yeah.
00:17Six.
00:18Wow!
00:19Seven.
00:20Seven.
00:21We'll be watching for more.
00:22From California in the United States of America, it's Mattel Jorgensen that's riding to glory
00:26here.
00:27No, no, no, no.
00:32For me, I need to do a grand tour and have a good feeling in the first week, in the second
00:37week, in the third week before I even consider, yeah, trying GC.
00:42It's just such a mental challenge also to be focused every single day, and I think that's
00:49a challenge that I need to prove to myself that I can do first.
00:54I was, like, six years old when I started, and from there, I just spent, yeah, my childhood
01:03riding bikes, and I think it was the one sport that I wanted to keep doing, basically.
01:09Like, I had one half of my brain looking, maybe I can be a professional cyclist when
01:14I was 17, 18, and then the other half was, no, I should probably go to school.
01:18Like my brother and sister did, and get a real job.
01:23I think I just decided I'm going to try full gas to find a team that will take me, and
01:28if I get an opportunity, if somebody says yes, then I'll just move over there and give
01:33it a shot, because why not?
01:37You sleep okay last night?
01:38Yeah, I did.
01:39I slept, like, 13 hours or something.
01:42It was crazy.
01:44If I emailed 25 teams, I got 24 no's.
01:47One team, Chambury, said yes.
01:53I went there without speaking French at all, and these kids didn't speak a word of English
01:58either, so after 30 days, I was speaking, not good grammatically, but I was speaking
02:03with all of them, and then after three months, I think I was, yeah, I would consider myself
02:07at least somewhat fluent.
02:15Ah oui!
02:25We can trust that Jonas knows what he's doing, and is professional, and yeah, if they ask
02:30me to try to keep myself within GC, and not lose time on the mountain stages, then that's
02:35what I'll do, but I think our number one priority is Jonas.
02:38Ah, if Jonas wins the Tour, I don't care where I finish, personally.
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