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Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast

Aike Visbeek On Surviving Relegation, Signing Biniam Girmay & Performance Culture

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast

Lanterne Rouge Media, SL

Sports

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Patrick Broe sits down with Aike Visbeek, Intermarché-Circus-Wanty’s Performance Manager, to discuss thriving during the relegation battle, transitioning from DSM to Intermarché, establishing a high performance culture, signing last season’s breakout star Biniam Girmay and finding watts with smart equipment choices.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast, presented by Zwift for a special edition,

0:05.6

but both on opposite ends of the world. I'm on the GC as usual, but I'm here with Acre

0:10.0

Vsbeck, he's at home in Sweden, and you can see the jerseys behind him off the back of maybe the

0:16.3

best season in Tommashe circus wanties history. And one that would be hard to top, he's the

0:22.0

performance manager there, and we'll get into a little bit of what that actually entails, what

0:26.4

that means, as well as having been a sports director at Team Sunweb, back when they also on

0:32.0

the jury to tell you in 2017, some of the best years in that team's history. And he's

0:37.2

interesting now to get on the podcast, because he's gone from those highs of a grand tour success

0:42.2

to now taking a team that bought the CCC license, and then they brought some sort of cycle cross

0:48.7

focus team across to now avoiding the relegation battle, which they did successfully and moving

0:55.1

into a new era in the next sort of triangle. But hopefully for them, we'll ask him what his

1:00.0

objectives are this season as well for Antommashe circus wanties, they've shortened the name a

1:05.1

little bit, fewer syllables now. But as always, this show is brought to by Zwift, the Zwift hub

1:11.7

in particular available in North America, the UK and Europe, the best value for money trainer

1:20.7

on the market. That's the fact, if you look it up on any independent reviews for the price,

1:27.8

$499 to get you going, get the cassette you need, got the set up guard, and there's plenty of

1:37.2

Zwift news events to help you with any news, resolutions you have, some fitness goals.

1:43.5

Zwift has you covered in January, so it's one of the best times to jump in on Zwift. Go check

1:50.7

out Zwift hub through the link down below, maybe hop on Zwift. Could you let us know your background

1:57.2

in the sport? I know you were a rider, but your background in the sport, how you got into being a

2:01.9

sports director in team management? Yes, I started cycling at the very of age. I come from the area

2:11.0

of Zalstad, where also Nikitaevster, a case ball, Ramon Singodam come from, and I raced until I was

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