Masochism & unfinished business – the 2019 Giro d’Italia preview

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🗓️ 8 May 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Last year’s Giro winner Chris Froome tells BeSpoke how he loves to inflict pain on his competitors as we preview the first Grand Tour of the season, the Giro D'italia. Meanwhile fellow Brit Simon Yates - who was on the verge of winning last year’s race before spectacularly imploding - says he’s put it all behind him. Rob’s bottom is blamed for his inability to climb, Jeremy makes a very bold prediction, plus the team are joined by ex pro rider and current manager of EF Education First Jonathan Vaughters, who admits that cyclists are masochistic.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:04.6	Welcome to Bespoke.
0:05.8	Now, after last week when we were in Yorkshire at the team Ineos launch,
0:09.9	today we're looking back at cycling itself.
0:12.4	It's all about the Giro de Talia, the first grand tour of the season.
0:16.7	Miraculously, we have Rob Hales in the country.
0:20.0	I'm home, I'm back.
0:21.1	For how long? About a day?
0:22.4	Two days.
0:23.9	Yes, Tor Romandy last week.
0:25.9	I got back another delayed flight,
0:28.6	but hey, that's the life of the co-commentator, isn't it?
0:32.6	Do you wash anything when you get home, clothes-wise?
0:35.4	Or do you just...
0:36.4	Everything, everything. Yeah,
0:38.0	well, as you know, I travel light. So, yeah, everything I took, I wore on a couple of occasions,
0:43.9	several, several items. And then, yeah, get it all ready for for a month in Italy, nearly a month in
0:49.1	Italy. There's something very special about the Gero, Jeremy, isn't it? When we talked about it
0:52.9	last year on our bespoke pods,
0:57.0	we referenced it as the hipsters grand tour.
0:59.5	I think it's just really idiosyncratic,
1:05.0	and it has more unpredictable elements than perhaps either of the other two grand tours,
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