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🗓️ 19 December 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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What a year it’s been. A clean sweep for British riders of the three Grand Tours in Geraint Thomas, Chris Froome and Simon Yates, but who will the BeSpoke team pick as the best rider of 2018? Tom Fordyce gets the band back together and is joined by Rob Hayles, Jeremy Whittle and Gareth Rhys Owen – the team that covered the Tour de France for BeSpoke. As well as rider of the year, awards are also dished out for the best day’s racing, most thrilling moment, and biggest inspiration.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, I'm Tom Forreis. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to a special festive edition of Bespoke. |
| 0:09.5 | Special, because we've got the Tour de France band back together. |
| 0:13.1 | We've got cycling writer and journalist Jeremy Whittle. |
| 0:16.0 | We have BBC Wales's Gareth Rees-Owen, |
| 0:18.7 | who was, of course, the second happiest Welshman in France this summer, and of course, Rob Helt. |
| 0:23.9 | Now, if you listen to the podcast during the tour, you know we did a lot of them in the car. |
| 0:28.2 | We're back in the car today. |
| 0:29.9 | The view out of my window, if I look out here, is rather different. |
| 0:33.2 | No great alpine peaks, no Atlantic coast, no fields of wheat. |
| 0:37.4 | Instead, it's the green hills and the |
| 0:39.7 | somewhat grey skies of the Peak District, because we are on our way to the House of Hales to |
| 0:45.1 | eat pizza. We're going to look back at the year. We'll do a little review of what we saw, what we |
| 0:50.3 | enjoyed, what we struggled with. We'll concentrate mainly on the stuff that happens on the road, |
| 0:54.8 | so we won't talk about things like the end of Team Sky. |
| 0:58.3 | We'll give out some awards along the way, |
| 1:00.1 | and hopefully we will eat a lot of pizza made by Rob Hales. |
| 1:04.4 | He promised us this in the summer, |
| 1:06.2 | and hopefully, finally, it's going to come to pass. |
| 1:13.6 | Hello? Hello? |
| 1:14.6 | Rob Hales, you've got three hungry men in the car. |
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