S10 Ep52: Kilometre 0 – Poetry and motion
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
What happened in Salò? Who was Pier Paolo Pasolini? And do the Giro riders of 2022 consider themselves adventures and explorers or just racers?
Featuring interviews with Giro director Mauro Vegni, Chris Juul-Jensen, Guillaume Martin and others. Today’s Kilometre 0 ponders all of this and the allure of perhaps cycling’s greatest road trip, in the country they call Il Bel Paese.
Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens. Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Kilometre Zero by the Cycling Podcast, powered by Super Sapiens, |
| 0:09.2 | energy management for committed athletes and coaches. |
| 0:20.0 | Well Brian, Lion was left us just you and me, stage 15 of the German Italia. |
| 0:27.0 | And we're at the Northwesternmost point that the Giro will reach this year, |
| 0:31.5 | Cogni in the Valle Aosta, only 10 days ago. |
| 0:35.1 | We were landing in Sicily, which was, well, the southernmost point of the Giro this year. |
| 0:41.6 | What a voyage it's been for me over the last 10 days. |
| 0:45.6 | As it always is, an incredible voyage of discovery. |
| 0:48.2 | As we always say, very privileged to make this journey every year. |
| 0:51.1 | We find out a lot about Italy, but you know, |
| 0:54.6 | it's an aspect of the Giro Italia that I often wonder about, |
| 0:58.4 | and we often ponder on the podcast. |
| 1:00.8 | To what extent is this race still faithful to one of its founding principles, |
| 1:06.6 | one of its founding sort of vocations, meanings of pitching the Italians about Italy |
| 1:14.6 | and being as much about the country, the canvas, as it is about the race. |
| 1:20.0 | I think it is. |
| 1:21.3 | Obviously every year there are some fixtures in where the Giro goes. |
| 1:27.1 | But I think every year it tells the story of all the facets and all the... |
| 1:33.8 | This is the good mosaic piece of art, Italy is so diverse, it's so stretched out. |
| 1:40.6 | There's such a huge difference in language, culture, food, outlook |
| 1:46.6 | from when you first came to Sicily not that long ago to where we are now. |
| 1:51.4 | Well they speak French. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Cycling Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Cycling Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.