Ropey airports, cobbled roads and retirement

BeSpoke: at the Tour de France

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4.5 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Olympic gold medallist Dani Rowe joins Gareth Rhys Owen on the podcast this week to discuss life after the peloton; Dani retired from road racing in November. Rob Hayles returns from the Tour of Flanders having witnessed one of the worst airports in Europe but one of the best post-race interviews you'll hear. They discuss the pressures and strains of being a professional cyclist in light of British rider Peter Kennaugh announcing this week he'd be taking a break due to mental health reasons, plus they look ahead to the most punishing weekend on a bike: Paris-Roubaix. A race that Rob started three times but never finished.

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0:00.0	BBC sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.3	This is Bespoke.
0:08.2	Hello, welcome to Bespoke.
0:10.2	No Tom this week, it's Gareth here.
0:12.5	Tom enjoying a well-earned break.
0:14.5	So I'll be here this week and next week as well.
0:17.3	And in fairness, the Bespoke crew production team,
0:20.0	they've gone the extra mile because
0:21.2	I'm in Cardiff and I'm joined by the recently retired Olympic gold medalist Danny Roe and we've got
0:27.4	loads to get out of teeth and stuck into today Pari Roubaix preview Lizzie Dynans returned to
0:32.9	action, Tour of Flanders rap and that tour of Flanders was commentated on By the one, the only Rob Hales
0:39.7	Rob, how's Belgium?
0:41.1	Oh, it was very good, thank you, Gareth.
0:43.2	It was superb.
0:45.1	Straight in from Tour of Sicily,
0:47.7	flew straight in to Brussels,
0:50.1	had a quick beer, a few hours in bed
0:51.9	and then straight up to Udnard for the, yeah, seven hours
0:57.3	of commentary. All good, nothing to complain about.
1:00.3	And post-racing, which is the key, I mean, was it all professional, or did you get an opportunity
1:05.6	to enjoy it? There's one particular beer that's named after the Quaramont, isn't it?
1:10.6	There is. It's a fairly heavy one.
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