Are Long Time Trials in Grand Tours Becoming a Thing of the Past? | THEMOVE+

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🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Johan Bruyneel and Spencer Martin go through the recently unveiled 2025 Giro d'Italia route, including the lack of time individual time trials and potential overall contenders, and discuss the trend of teams releasing their Tour de France startlists before the season begins, before getting into a few listener-submitted questions.

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0:00.0	But I think it's not a guarantee if you go full, full for the Giro,
0:05.0	especially if you're not a champion, like a super champion like Polacchar,
0:09.0	that you're going to be 100% in the Tour de France.
0:13.0	So we'll see, we'll see how that works out.
0:16.0	I'm not a big fan. I'm not a fan of having somebody go full for the Giro and then count on him as being the last
0:23.1	guy to be with the leader in the tour. It often doesn't work out.
0:31.1	Everybody, welcome back to The Move Plus. I'm Spencer Martin. I'm here with Johann Bernille for
0:36.1	our weekly show where we go through the top news items
0:39.8	and pro cycling as well as answer questions from listeners.
0:43.2	Email us at info at we do.
0:45.2	dot team and we will pick the ones that we can and answer them on the next week's show.
0:51.1	But Johan, before we get into today's episode, we want to talk about a few sponsors.
0:57.4	Do you want to introduce the first one? Yes. Thank you to our presenting sponsor, Zwift.
1:03.7	We talk about it every week, and especially now during these days, the winter days,
1:08.2	Zwift just released the Zwift ride. It's an all-new smart
1:12.4	bike that's changing the indoor game and making it easier and more affordable than ever
1:17.5	before to get started riding indoors. Especially now with the cold winter days when riding
1:24.6	outdoors is a bit more of a challenge. Zwift has the perfect solution for all of us.
1:31.0	I've tried it.
1:32.2	I have it in my house.
1:34.3	The bike is ultra-quiet and also extremely easy to set up.
1:38.6	It comes in a box, but I had it all assembled within 30 minutes.
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