NEVER STRAYS TIRANA: THE GIRO AWAITS

NEVER STRAYS FAR

David Millar, Pete Kennaugh and Ned Boulting

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🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Lizzie's racing in Spain, Pete's at home for a change and Ned's wandering around Albania.

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1:01.5	Welcome to the soft sounds of a Tuesday night in the Albanian capital Tirana, to which I flew late on this evening.
1:08.5	And I'm just gazing out of my hotel window right in downtown Tirana, actually.
1:14.6	There's a bar opposite me, which is showing the Inter Milan Barcelona Champions League match and it's safe to say that the bar opposite is very much supporting Barcelona
1:19.6	and that they just got one goal back and a fanfare struck up in celebration in the place went wild.
1:26.6	Opposite them in the hotel that I'm staying in and just downstairs from me
1:31.3	are the entirety of the RCS organisation, many of whom,
1:39.7	I already said like 30% of whom support Inter and are gathered around the television screens in opposition
1:46.3	to this Albanian Barcelona collaboration which has struck up at least in football terms in
1:54.3	television terms this Tuesday night. I know nothing about Albania really. I've never been here before.
2:02.6	I was captivated by my first glimpse of the country when we landed at Tirana Airport and
2:09.6	to our right as we approached from I think the north, the mountain range, into which the race will be dipping over the next three days honed into view and beneath the plane in which Tirana sits.
2:21.9	It's very beautiful, very particular.
2:26.0	I think it's got a fascinating story to tell about the relationship with the country that has brought its national race here.
2:38.0	Oh! with the country that has brought its national race here. Oh, did you hear that? They might have scored again, Barcelona.
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