While the cameras follow the battle for victory, another story unfolds behind the race leaders. Grace Brown explores the unseen side of professional cycling, where survival becomes the objective and some of the sport's most memorable moments happen completely out of frame.
The race at the front is often not the only race unfolding.
Drawing on her own experiences in the peloton, Grace Brown explores life inside the gruppetto, where domestiques, sprinters and dropped riders come together after losing contact with the front of the race. What looks like a group of riders falling behind is often a world of its own, shaped by different goals, shared suffering and a set of unwritten rules.
From the relief of finally letting go of the leaders to the friendships formed in the middle of a hard day on the bike, Grace reveals the hidden world that exists behind the race for victory.
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