Introducing Re-Cycle: Eurosport’s new cycling history podcast
The Bradley Wiggins Show by Eurosport
Eurosport
4.6 • 814 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
If like Brad you're a cycling history nut, or you want to learn more about the rich tapestry of stories from the peloton’s past, Re-Cycle is the podcast for you.
Join Graham Willgoss for episode one of Eurosport’s new cycling history podcast, as we revisit the year there were two winners of Paris-Roubaix.
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| 0:32.8 | If like Brad, you're a fan of cycling history, here's a brand new cycling podcast from Eurosport to get you through the winter. |
| 0:41.3 | Recycle is a retrospective series on the most compelling, the most controversial, |
| 0:45.6 | and the most extraordinary riders and races in cycling history. |
| 0:49.6 | Search Eurosport, Recycle, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:54.0 | And to save you a job, here's episode one. |
| 1:10.0 | Welcome to Recycle by Eurosport, written by Felix Lowe and narrated by me, Graham Wilgos. |
| 1:13.9 | Recycle will explore legendary tales from the professional Peloton's past. |
| 1:17.5 | From Eddie Merck's great gamble on the Glibeye in 1972, to the kidnappings and controversy |
| 1:22.2 | behind South America's first Grand Tour win, to the World Championships road race that saw |
| 1:26.6 | USA teammates Greg LeMond |
| 1:28.0 | and Jok Boyer become the bitterest of rivals. |
| 1:31.2 | Plenty then to look back on, and much to look forward too. |
| 1:34.8 | But we start with cycling's most famous monument, The Hell of the North. |
| 1:40.4 | How did it come to be that the official list of Pari-Rubei winners exceeds the number of races by one? |
| 1:46.4 | Most of the fans present at the Roubae Velodrome on Easter Sunday in April 1949 |
| 1:50.4 | would have roared with delight as Frenchman Andre Mahé outsprinted Belgium's Franz Linen |
| 1:55.0 | to win the most prestigious of one-day classics. |
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