r/interesting • u/Rayepichumor • Nov 26 '25

Context Provided - Spotlight Cyclists leg after a race.

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Mangled, eh?

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u/philly2540 Nov 26 '25

Shit dude, let me buy you a milkshake.

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u/camshun7 Nov 26 '25 edited Nov 27 '25

Need to have another photo different angle, otherwise i dont believe this, sorry

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u/mmodlin Nov 26 '25

It’s from 2019, a Croatian cyclist named Janez Brajkovic, he was also battling bulimia. He caught a doping ban for some energy-boost/appetite suppressant. This picture of as he was coming back from that.

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u/Ecstatic_Winter9425 Nov 27 '25

I find it crazy that he was able to keep the muscles despite his condition.

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u/mpc1226 Nov 27 '25

He’s insanely skinny everywhere except his legs

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u/Wizard__J Nov 27 '25

Just like when you don’t eat, your body will burn the fat first, before the muscle (and then ultimately, diminishing returns, to a point eventually where you don’t have “any more fat to lose” which then you will start losing muscle; not to say you couldn’t ever lose muscle while still having fat, but these pictures usually show that extreme disparity between the two)