Michael Woods special

BeSpoke: at the Tour de France

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4.5 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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EF Education First's Michael Woods played Ice Hockey before becoming an elite runner, only taking up cycling to keep fit. He joins BeSpoke to discuss his journey to front of the peloton, describes how he suffers from imposter syndrome and reflects on how his son Hunter, who he lost at 37 weeks, spurred him on to his maiden grand tour stage victory at last summer's Vuelta.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	This is Bespoke, the BBC Cycling Podcast with Tom Fordice.
0:10.0	Yeah, welcome to the show. It's the middle of June. It should be the perfect time to get out on your bike, the perfect time to watch other people get out on their bikes. It hasn't been like that. It's been smashing it down
0:21.3	across Europe all week. Luckily, I'm happy to say, there isn't and there never will be an
0:27.0	extreme weather protocol on this show. So Jeremy Whittle, Rob Hales, we're back together once again.
0:32.9	And now, Tom, is the perfect time actually to bring in where have you been today this morning I've
0:38.4	been a little bit of traffic sorry I've been it I've been dragged in Jeremy's been
0:41.9	dragged in early out of bed I had to wake up before my alarm to get here because of you
0:47.9	I'm still in the dream time normally this time of morning boys you let me let me
0:53.1	offer a formal apology and also flag up Rob Hales the fact that you were so early that you came into the studios 24 hours early.
1:00.8	I've not left.
1:02.0	I've been here since yesterday.
1:03.9	How did it feel when you arrived at the day early for the podcast?
1:07.2	Well, it was the fact that the WhatsApp message that I sent was, are we still good for 10 o'clock today, i.e. yesterday, and I just got yep back.
1:15.5	And then when I turned up at the door, shaking heads going, what are you doing here?
1:19.3	Read the message.
1:20.4	This team's falling apart, Jess.
1:21.9	We haven't even got to the biggest part.
1:23.2	Well, all I can say is I'm glad you're not coming to the tour this year.
1:26.3	Hang on, you got the day wrong?
1:28.7	Yes.
1:29.4	I didn't.
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