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Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Paul De Geyter – Behind the scenes with a Rider Agent

Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Mitch Docker

Fitness, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.8543 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The Cycling Podcast presents Life in the Peloton (Scroll to the down to listen) Ever wondered how pro cycling contracts are negotiated and signed? Or why riders of certain nationalities only go to certain teams? This week on The Cycling Podcast I chat with my old Rider Agent, Paul De Geyter, who was the first […]

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

Oh, Well, here we are, everyone.

0:28.9

We're back again.

0:29.9

Life in the Peloton is back.

0:31.7

And I've got a special guest this week.

0:34.4

I've got a new co-hosts dropping in for Lionel. We've got Richard Moore, who is on the

0:41.2

cycling podcast. He's part of the crew and he's come across to help me intro this episode today.

0:46.9

Rich, welcome to the Life in the Peloton. What an honor it is, Mitch. It's great to be here with you.

0:52.2

Great, mate. I'm happy to have you on board. I was saying before, almost called you Roger Moore, which I think is not a bad person to get confused with, especially if you're a Bond fan, and I am. I'll take that. I'll take that. Yeah, I mean, I need something to big me up because I'm obviously filling Lionel's shoes here, big shoes to fill, but it's his

1:11.1

birthday this week. So as you can imagine with Lionel, you know, it's a whole, whole week of

1:15.9

celebrations. So here I am. I was a bit disappointed when you introduced me as co-host. I thought,

1:22.0

I was on life in the Pelt, and I thought I was being interviewed. This is my moment.

1:27.1

We can. Well, let's just drop into it.

1:28.8

Let's just do an extended intro. This can be like a 45 minute intro if we like.

1:33.5

No, no, no. You've got much better guess. We do have a really good guess. So we'll get straight

1:37.4

into it. I've got Paul DeGator coming up, guys. Now, he is, in my opinion, the man when it comes to cycling agents. He was the

1:47.9

first, if not the first, the first of the second guy around to create this job in cycling. And I

1:53.9

came in touch with him early in my career. Robbie McKeown put me in touch with him. And I always

1:58.6

had a great feeling from him. He's just got a great rapport and he

2:01.7

looked after me really well throughout the first part of my career. And I was thinking about this idea, which, which writer-manager could I get in this time? It's a very tricky time. I thought, hang on, Paul's retired. He would probably like to talk about it and he's not going to, you know, step on anyone's toes. So that's what I've done. I called him up. I had a great chat.

2:20.6

Got Paul him up.

2:19.3

I had a great chat. We've got Paul coming up, guys. So sit back and enjoy this one.

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