Back To Basics (pt 2)
The Socially Distant Sports Bar
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
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Part 2 of The Socially Distant Sports Bar, where the conversation turns to the stories behind sport.
Join Elis James and Mike Bubbins as they deep dive into sports.
This week, the focus is on cycling legend Eddy Merckx, using a classic documentary as a starting point, alongside a book exploring participation and inclusion in sport.
As ever, you don’t need to have seen or read anything — the discussion goes where it goes.
PART 2
- Elis Documentary: Eddy Merckx: The Greatest Show on Earth (1975) https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Oqs__6rfk9c&t=2208s&ra=m
- Steff Book: Breaking The Grass Ceiling by Patricia Gregory
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's socially distant sports bar part two. |
| 0:05.8 | But there's one bit with his music. |
| 0:07.8 | I just... |
| 0:08.8 | Ah, ha ha ha. |
| 0:09.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:10.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:11.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:13.2 | And I thought it was somebody in the gym. |
| 0:15.0 | I thought I wasn't playing it to my headphones anymore. |
| 0:17.0 | I thought if someone had recorded on the TV and they were watching it going... |
| 0:20.0 | Uh... Fucking 70s. Talk about haphazard. Jesus Christ. It's chaos. It is chaos. Oh no, well, they'll have a loaded horsey on the back of a truck, wouldn't they? Okay, right. And some drops out, gets on the road. It's like ice. Is it? It's terrible, yeah. |
| 0:38.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:38.9 | One more pretty gin and tonic, man. |
| 0:59.1 | Right, this week's part two of the socially distant sports spas. |
| 1:02.6 | Going to start with a documentary and it was Ellis James' choice this time. |
| 1:03.4 | Yes, it was. |
| 1:09.9 | This is the greatest show on earth, Eddie Mux, and it's from 1975. For the first time in its history, the greatest event in the Italian sporting calendar starts here in the Vatican City. |
| 1:17.6 | Welcoming not only the riders, but also the officials, the judges, the medical staff and support teams, |
| 1:23.6 | the Pope gives his blessing to all those taking part in this great pageant, |
| 1:28.3 | the Giro d'Italia. Every year in May, since 1909, a strange caravan has wound its way around Italy. |
| 1:35.3 | The Caravan of the Giro d'Italia. What is the Giro? |
| 1:39.3 | 22 days of cycling, nearly 2,500 miles. Rome, Pompeii, Amalfi, Modena, San Remo, |
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