Placeholders: Is it about the athletes?
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Ronan Mc Laughlin, Jonny Long, and Kit Nicholson join Caley Fretz to discuss the rumors of a potential (and large) investment in bike racing from a Saudi Arabian firm as well as the news of the UCI banning a pedal and Zdeněk Štybar's retirement.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Placeholders everybody. I'm Kayle Fritz. We got a great show for you today. |
| 0:15.0 | Discord was making fun of my my intros. I guess I do say exactly the same thing every single week but I'm stuck in a rut. Anyway, I have a warning about trying to change what you usually say. I recently tried to not say fascinating in performance process and what I did say was much worse. |
| 0:33.0 | What did you replace it with? |
| 0:35.0 | I'm not willing to go there, so anyway. |
| 0:38.0 | Wow. |
| 0:40.0 | Well, Rona McLaughlin, welcome to the show. |
| 0:41.0 | Johnny Long, welcome to the show. Kit Nicholson, welcome to the show, |
| 0:43.4 | Kit Nicholson, welcome to the show. |
| 0:45.1 | We got, like I said, we have a lot to talk about. |
| 0:46.9 | We've got, frankly, we must circle the plug hole once again. |
| 0:51.2 | We're gonna kick off with quite a bit of chat around this Saudi |
| 0:55.0 | 250 million investment, one cycling, etc, etc. |
| 1:00.0 | What's going to happen to the sport? |
| 1:01.0 | Lots of teams saying that they're potentially looking at this, |
| 1:05.2 | even some that are sort of, I guess you say they're more on the traditional end of things, |
| 1:08.9 | teams like Moby Star. We'll get into that in the beginning of the show here. Also on today's show we got a little Colombian doping update |
| 1:17.1 | We got some update on the UCI's extreme heat protocol |
| 1:20.9 | We got demyvollering maybe going to UAE for a million euros which would be |
| 1:26.7 | believe the biggest salary on the women's side of the sport by a fair margin. |
| 1:31.6 | I thought you were talking about the price of flights these days but I don't |
| 1:34.2 | sorry. Could be, could be. Of course there was a little bit of Cyclocross that happened |
| 1:38.8 | over the weekend and we will get to that later in the show and we've got a weekly paying showdown between Ronan and a |
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