Sean Kelly's career included 193 wins, a Vuelta general classification among them as well as nine monuments and seven consecutive victories overall in Paris-Nice, not to mention five stage wins and four green points jerseys at the Tour and 16 stage victories at La Vuelta.
And now that success - and some big wins that got away from him - have been made into a new TV documentary. It traces his life from humble beginnings on a farm in Carrick-on-Suir to becoming one of the best cyclists the sport has ever seen.
In the new GCN+ Legends Sean Kelly documentary, Kelly brings us inside his trophy room and talks us through his career, including a day in yellow at the Tour de France, which he describes as "horrible".
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"It was one of my worst days, a day that I suffered like a dog," he said of holding the jersey on stage 10 of the 1983 Tour, some 210km from Pau to Bagnères-de-Luchon, where he finished 18th, losing 10 minutes and dropping to 4th overall.
There is also one section in the documentary on a hectic week in 1986 when he finish 2nd in the Tour of Flanders - to Adrie van der Poel - before starting Vuelta Ciclista al País Vasco in the Basque Country the following day. He won three stages and the overall there, before also winning Paris-Roubaix 48 hours later.
The new doc will be available to view from tomorrow, Tuesday, April 4th.
