Episode 17: Lawson Craddock — TdF Lantern Rouge and Cycling’s Hero of the Year

King of the Ride

Ted King

Sports, Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

If you watched this year’s Tour de France, then undoubtedly you saw a whole lot of Lawson Craddock. He hung out at the back of the peloton for the entire first half of the race as he was reeling from a broken scapula suffered on stage one. If you know anything about me, you may remember I did the same thing on stage one of my first Tour de France. How he soldiered through July and what Lawson did afterwards to bring positivity to cycling and especially his local Texan community as outstanding.

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0:00.0	And so I got going again. I got on the bike and I was like getting back into it, get back into it.
0:05.4	And then I just something didn't feel right with my left side. I just kind of really like,
0:09.8	I kind of stand. I couldn't really put a lot of pressure on it. So then I, the doctor pulls up next to me.
0:15.7	And they're like, oh, hold on, hold on. The race doctor. And so when i go to hold on to the car you know i grab on with my
0:22.6	my left side and the car just takes off to bring us back to the race and that's when i i like
0:27.8	immediately just this huge jolt of seen white yeah yeah yeah so just trying to hold on to this
0:34.7	this doctor's car at like 40 miles an hour with a broken shoulder.
0:38.7	And that's when I knew, yeah, something was wrong.
0:44.0	Everybody, welcome on back to King of the Ride podcast.
0:47.6	I'm your host.
0:48.7	I am Ted King and dare I say it, this just might be our best episode yet.
0:53.3	I am freshly back from the Grand Prix
0:55.4	Quebec City in Montreal, just a hop, skip, and three-hour jump north of us here in New England.
1:01.5	These two one-day races, they were always a particular highlight of my season.
1:05.4	They're relatively close to home, so there was lots of hometown support.
1:08.3	That was always very nice perk.
1:11.0	They're terrifically well run.
1:13.2	The racers, they put the race organizers, rather, they put on a show with hospitality
1:17.5	hosting the race, the racers, the staff, the media, etc.
1:21.4	In this beautiful historic castle in the Chateau-Frontinec, please rest assured that this is
1:26.8	the polar opposite of what the standard European racing
1:30.1	format is all about when you've won to two teams in, let's call them, dingy hotels spread
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