Giro starts with a bang as van der Poel proves ‘Golden Generation’ has come to cycling
The Bradley Wiggins Show by Eurosport
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🗓️ 7 May 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Sir Bradley Wiggins is joined by Matt Stephens on the streets of Budapest following the Grande Partenza of the 2022 Giro d’Italia where Mathieu van der Poel lived up to his pre-race favourite status to win the opening stage and secure the pink jersey.
The pair discuss their favourites to finish in Pink in Verona where Great Britain’s Simon Yates is Matt’s favourite to bring home the goods for BikeExchange–Jayco. The legendary do also catch up on the highlights of the season so far as the Bradley Wiggins Show has had a little break, but is back with a bang.
And of course, the focus had to come to Mark Cavendish, where you can hear real-time the pair realise just how much of a legend the sprinter is, but will he be going to the Tour de France?
And it wouldn’t be a pod on the Giro without the love for Italy’s signature grand tour oozing from the duo, where Matt tells the story of the time he beat Marco Pantani.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Bradley Wiggins show by Zwift. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm here in Budapest for the start of the 2022 Giro DiTalia and joining me is an old friend of the podcast. Matt Stevens. Great to be here. |
| 0:22.4 | Of course we haven't been together since we did the Sigma Sport, a little mention of Sigma Sport |
| 0:26.0 | there. Our little cafe ride we did together didn't we, which was good fun and went down really |
| 0:30.1 | well with the public. Yeah, that went down really well. That was really nice. That was great. |
| 0:34.5 | It was a lot of fun actually, Brian. And then we did a cheeky intro pod with |
| 0:38.4 | Auler as well, didn't we? We did. Technically the first pod of the new season as well. So there's |
| 0:43.7 | been pods, there's been visual pods, which is another word for video. It's like a podcast that |
| 0:47.9 | you can see with your eyes. And this is an audio pod taking place from the heart of Budapest. Outside a restaurant coming up to 11 o'clock at night. |
| 0:56.4 | It's late, but do you know what? |
| 0:58.5 | Budapest is a city, apparently, that never sleeps. |
| 1:01.3 | Apparently so. |
| 1:02.3 | But what a crack-it-open stage. |
| 1:04.4 | There's something special about the Dura when it comes abroad, |
| 1:06.3 | and obviously Budapest was on the menu for a couple of years. |
| 1:09.5 | COVID-stiming that, But what's your thoughts, Brad, |
| 1:12.7 | before we go on to the racing, about the reception that we've had here. It's been fantastic. It's been |
| 1:16.4 | fantastic. I've been surprised just individually, just how many people recognize you in terms of |
| 1:21.5 | being cycling fans. They've really lovely people. And they've got a huge sort of history with cycling but their knowledge of |
| 1:29.3 | cycling is great I mean spotting I never expected to be recognized you as an ex rider but it's been |
| 1:33.8 | overwhelming actually um yeah we we came down the finish straight today walking through the finish |
| 1:37.8 | straight where you were working and got a standing ovation it's quite something wow that's very |
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