S10 Ep38: Kilometre 0 – The duel, part 1
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🗓️ 13 May 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The Canadian Ryder Hesjedal and the Spaniard Joaquim Rodriguez took turns wearing the maglia roas as if they were playing a game of pass the parcel. It was an intriguing clash of styles too – the patient diesel versus the jack-in-the-box.
In this two-part Kilometre 0, Lionel Birnie speaks to the boss of the Garmin-Barracuda team Jonathan Vaughters, first-time sports director Charly Wegelius, and one of the key support riders Christian Vande Velde about how they pulled it off. Just a few months earlier the team had almost ceased to exist and yet after a steady start in Copenhagen and a great team time trial when the race reached Italy they found themselves in the mix.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Kilometre Zero by the Cycling Podcast, powered by Super Sapiens, |
| 0:09.4 | energy management for committed athletes and coaches. |
| 0:14.4 | You know that was an interesting year and there's been a lot of interesting years in this |
| 0:17.7 | team, a lot of years with existential crises going on. |
| 0:23.4 | My biggest memory of the early part of 2012 was that you know our bike sponsor and at |
| 0:29.6 | that point, time co-title sponsor, Servello, had some very extreme difficulties and didn't |
| 0:38.2 | appear like for a while that they would be able to fulfill the sponsorship obligation. |
| 0:43.7 | January 2012, we didn't know, we were thinking we might have to shut the team down because |
| 0:48.5 | one of our sponsors wasn't going to be around anymore. |
| 0:50.9 | I don't know that the riders ever knew how close we were to just ceasing to operate |
| 0:56.0 | that year. |
| 0:57.0 | It was within hours of just having to call it a day. |
| 1:01.0 | That was Jonathan Vortes, the boss of the Garmin Barra Kudu team, which is now known as |
| 1:05.9 | EF Education Easy Post, of course. |
| 1:09.4 | It's hard to believe that in January 2012, the team stood on the brink of collapse and yet |
| 1:14.2 | five months later were celebrating victory in the Jura Detalia. |
| 1:18.7 | My name is Lionel Bernie and in the next two episodes of Kilometre Zero, we're going |
| 1:22.8 | to look back at one of the closest grand tours of all time, decided by just 16 seconds. |
| 1:29.5 | It was a duo characterized by a great clash of styles between the two protagonists who |
| 1:34.3 | traded the pink jersey as if playing a frantic game of past the parcel. |
| 1:39.5 | Rider Hazardal, the laid back Canadian, was a diesel engine of a rider and he was pitted |
| 1:44.6 | against Purito, Hwokin Rodriguez, the Spaniard who was a jack in the box who sprinted for |
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