S10 Ep1: Meet the World Tour's youngest rider

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🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In our first episode of 2022 we meet the World Tour’s youngest rider, Cian Uijtdebroeks.

The 18-year-old Belgian has signed for Bora-Hansgrohe and will make his professional debut in Mallorca at the end of the month.

Already dubbed “the next Remco,” Uijtdebroeks came to wide attention when he won the junior edition of Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne in 2020 with a 50km solo breakaway.

But who is he, and how does an 18-year-old deal with the expectation and hype that comes with being a talented young rider in Belgium?

Before Christmas, Richard went to meet him at the Uijtdebroeks family home close to the border between Flanders and Wallonia.

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0:00.0	The Cycling Podcast, powered by Super Safety Enns. Energy Management for committed
0:16.6	athletes and coaches.
0:18.6	Hello, my name's Richard Moore. I'm with Lionel Bernie. Hello Lionel.
0:25.1	Hello Richard, happy new year. Happy new year to you, happy new year to all our listeners.
0:30.2	We're back a week earlier than advertised. The full team that's me, Yuen Daniel will be
0:35.6	convening next week for the first regular episode of 2022. But we thought we'd kick off the
0:43.2	year with this bonus episode I suppose. It's something a little bit different.
0:47.6	Yeah, what's the story Richard? How are we going to be hearing from today?
0:50.4	We're going to be hearing a long interview from a young rider, Kean Uttabruks. He is Belgian,
0:57.5	he's 18 years old and he's just signed for Borahansgroa and he's tipped to be one of the sports
1:04.1	future stars. I went to visit him at his family's home close to the Welonia Flanders border,
1:10.4	which right there is something that makes him quite interesting and we talk a bit about that.
1:15.3	Just before Christmas I went to visit him. I'd heard a lot about him before I went to see him.
1:21.5	I think everybody in cycling is vaguely familiar with the name even if, like me,
1:27.3	a lot of people struggle with the pronunciation. Yeah, so Kean Uttabruks.
1:33.0	Well, that's it from the horse's mouth. So to speak, I'll be practicing that before he starts
1:38.3	racing. But already people are calling him the next Remco, which seems absolutely extraordinary.
1:44.1	I suppose the next next Remco is just about to start primary school probably. He's just being more.
1:49.2	Yeah, yeah. It could be, I don't know, Watt Van Arts, young child, I don't know. He was courted
1:57.3	Uttabruks, this is by Quick Step, joined them on a training camp in Italy, we'll hear a bit about
2:02.4	that. Also, team DSM came pretty close to joining them and Yombo Visma for a bit because his coach
2:08.0	was working for Yombo Visma, but eventually signed for three years with Borohansgrove and he'll
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