S10 Ep28: The Giro d'Italia preview
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2022
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are joined by Danish journalist Brian Nygaard – who featured in last year's coverage – for this bumper Giro preview, in which we look at the route, weigh up the potential winners and anticipate the culinary and cultural highlights along the way.
We hear from Simon Yates of Team Bike Exchange, who is riding his fifth consecutive Giro and who has unfinished business with the race after coming within a couple of days of winning in 2018 and ended up on the podium last year. His sports director Matt White also gives his verdict on a very open GC race.
Laura Meseguer of our Spanish cousin El Cycling Podcast assesses the hopes of Alejandro Valverde, Pello Bilbao, Mikel Landa, Richard Carapaz and Miguel Angel Lopez among others and there's a cameo from La Gazzetta dello Sport's Ciro Scognamiglio too.
This will be the seventh Giro d'Italia The Cycling Podcast has covered daily from start to finish – the eighth if you also count Our Giro, our virtual journey round Italy during the COVID lockdown. However, it will be our first without our leader Richard Moore, although Daniel and Lionel have vowed to channel their inner Spirito di Bufalo.
Our coverage kicks off on Friday (May 6) with – appropriately enough – the first of nine episodes of Kilometre 0, followed by nightly recaps of the race action. Join Daniel and Lionel in Hungary on Friday.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Jirovagando, the cycling podcast at the 2022 Jiro d'Italia, powered |
| 0:12.3 | by SuperSapiens, Energy Management for Comitted Aferies and Coaches. |
| 0:16.5 | Well, hello Lionel. Hello Daniel. Or Lionel, is it time for us to revive Lionel and |
| 0:41.3 | Lionel? Well, I can cope with that Daniel. Yes, I've picked up a bit more over the last |
| 0:48.0 | couple of years, but it's actually, I was looking at this this morning, three years since |
| 0:52.0 | I was at the Jiro. 2019 was the last time. 2020, I couldn't travel to because of all of the |
| 0:58.7 | COVID restrictions and quarantine requirements and more or less same again last year. Last |
| 1:05.3 | May, still difficult to get in and out of the UK without having to quarantine. So this |
| 1:09.4 | is my return to the Jiro. The Jiro will not recognise you. A lot has been made of your physical |
| 1:15.6 | transformation, but it's true. The Jiro won't recognise you. Lionel, we are joined by, |
| 1:20.3 | usually I'm the only fake Italian on the podcast. We're joined by another plastic Italian. |
| 1:26.0 | Brian and I got, our listeners will remember Brian from, well, numerous appearances on |
| 1:31.0 | the podcast over the years, particularly at the Jiro. They will also, many of them will |
| 1:37.2 | know that Brian has worked extensively in cycling over the years first as a head of communications |
| 1:43.2 | line. I'm not going to, Brian, I'm not going to call you just a mere press officer. You |
| 1:46.4 | are more than that. Head of communications for Team CSE, Team Sky, Orica Green Edge in |
| 1:52.6 | that team. Various incarnations and he was also a team manager of Leopardrack team manager |
| 1:58.0 | team principal, Brian. I can barely remember at this point myself. It's been more than |
| 2:03.4 | 10 years actually this year. Well, anyway, Lionel, Brian, Brian, welcome back. And indeed, |
| 2:12.7 | you are going to be a pillar, a key fixture in our Jiro coverage this year because you're |
| 2:20.6 | in the hot seat on the, well, in the second half of the race, you're joining up with us |
| 2:26.8 | in a rejoimelia, more or less the halfway point in the Jiro. And you will be accompanying, |
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