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🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This week's episode dives into Pippo Pozzato's dreams to rebuild Italian cycling, taking cues from Flanders Classics. Plus Ronan, Kit, and Caley discuss an interesting (and TT-heavy) Giro d'Italia route, the young Brit who beat Remco Evenepoel in a big time trial, and, of course, a bit of Jumbo-Visma news. 

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the placeholder podcast everybody I'm Kayle Fritz. We've got a great show for you today this week on the pod. We've got Pipo Pizato's grand plans haven't heard that name in a while.

0:20.8

An interesting Jiroroot, the Brit who beat Remco in a time trial and of course, as we do every week,

0:28.0

a bit of Yumba Visma News. We'll leave that to somewhere near the end. Joining me today, Kit Nicholson, tell me about your jumper.

0:36.0

I mean, it's got a trumpeter on it.

0:38.0

I don't know whether I look like, I don't know, I think maybe I look like a four-year-old child

0:42.0

he's been dressed at Christmas by their

0:44.2

grandmother or something but I don't know I like it I think you look great thanks.

0:48.0

Also joining me today Ronan McLaughlin Ronan who did we just talk to?

0:53.0

Oh, we just talked to Matthew Habor,

0:55.3

had a performance with Hummer, didn't me?

0:57.3

So if you want to listen to that conversation,

1:00.4

it's going to be out in a couple of weeks on performance process, which, well, those who listen to this religiously will know that is the member-only performance-oriented optimization focused

1:13.8

focused podcast that Ronan is putting together. So it was a really good conversation I very much enjoyed it I learned

1:18.8

It's basically the process of going from winning no-grand no grandtors in the season to winning all three grandtors in a single season and how

1:27.4

Yumvizma achieved that in their whole philosophy and mentality and approach and set up and yeah Who who better to speak to them the head of performance?

1:36.0

Very interesting guy.

1:37.0

They did win, they won six races, I think.

1:40.0

Back in 2015 or 16 or whatever the year we were talking about

1:44.3

And then 12 times six races this season right

1:47.9

Including they've won almost as many grantors as they won races in that year.

1:53.8

You get the feeling had there been sex ground tours,

1:55.6

they might have won.

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