Every year, there are three “monument” races in professional cycling. The Tour de France, the Giro d’Italia, and the Vuelta d’Espana.
Between May and August of each year, millions of people gather to watch these massive events, and billions more view the month-long races on TV.
These are the most challenging and competitive endurance races on earth. Serious injury and death are an ever-present risk.
Over a single season, however, professional cycling teams compete in 230 international races.
No other sport moves its players across the roads of the globe.
Cycling is a season-long game of endurance. The strategy is stamina.
The endurance required of riders over the course of a race and over the course of a season is without professional parallel.
No other popular competitive sport demands that its heroes perform every day over an entire month.
For the first time, BREAKAWAY! will take viewers inside a full season of pro cycling. This is an all-access, behind-the-scenes look at this international sport, its best teams, and their riders.
We will travel around the globe enjoying the true fuel of the sport—the human drama and the drive to win.
This unprecedented series will follow the most compelling teams competing in cycling today. Each episode will focus on two team storylines and a single major race.
Embedded production crews will capture internal team dynamics, filming as the teams plan, prepare, and pray to win.
From the award-winning producer of Amazon’s Emmy-winning EAT. RACE. WIN., this doc series will take the audience on an exhilarating journey into the drama of victory and defeat.
Our partner Velon Ltd. is our passport to access and success.
Velon is a media collective of 11 of the best 16 teams, including the top-ranked 7. Velon riders win 90% of all race stages. They are the sport’s most aggressive competitors.
Access to the Velon collection of teams is access to the real, behind-the-scenes story of pro cycling. No previous cycling program has had this comprehensive access.
The Velon Teams
It’s a new setting in every episode. Mountains, cities, rain, sun, and everything in-between.
The right equipment. The best mechanics. The highest standards.
An uncompromising drive to win.
In this race, the human body is the engine. It must be fine-tuned and protected at all costs. With speeds of over 110 km/h downhill, there’s little margin for error. One small mistake and catastrophe—a year’s worth of work is gone.
Because the body is the engine, life off-the-bike has a huge impact on performance and victory.
We will follow the real-life drama as it impacts race performance, season ranking, and career trajectories.
Viewers will get to live with top riders, hear their back stories, go to their hometowns, and meet their families.
What drives them to want to win? What have they sacrificed to do it? How do they balance excellence and real life?
Top riders only achieve the podium with the help of a team.
“Domestiques” are the unsung heroes of professional cycling. They make victory possible.
The soigneurs, the mechanics, the drivers, the cooks, and the coaches. They all play a critical role, under incredible stress.
Adding to the pressure: the team owners and sponsors expect nothing less than success.
Every team faces the threat of collapse: If you fail to win, you risk losing sponsorship, budget, and riders.
The team itself must work like a perfectly tuned bike. Even the slightest malfunction can cost a rider everything from points to teeth. The stakes could not be higher.
Amazing vistas, raw physical exertion, and huge emotion on and off the bike. Dynamic o
riginal camera footage married to hyper-kinetic race footage.
This is a rare opportunity to dive into one of the most popular sports on the planet, with never-before-granted access.
It’s an amazing race for a global audience.
Join us for this epic adventure!
It starts now!
Breakaway!
