S10 Ep9: Sardines, Sangria and sprint relegations
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2022
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the Tour de la Provence, Tour of Oman and the new gravel race in Spain as the focus starts to switch to the 'holiday swing' as we're dubbing it, with the start of the Ruta del Sol in Andalusia and the Tour of the Algarve. The sun is shining and you can almost smell the sardines and sangria. It won't be long now until focus shifts to the grit and cobbles of Belgium.
It was a week of Covid cases, sprint relegations and a disqualification and in part one we delve into the racing to ask whether Nairo Quintana's win in Provence means there's still hope for the 32-year-old Colombian in the grand tours. We discuss Filippo Ganna's bike change and the continuing Cofidis revival. Then we discuss the new Clasica Jaen Paraiso won by the current gravel king, Alexey Lutsenko. Does this mean there's a new leader in The Cycling Podcast's Performance of the Year powered by Cassoulet classification?
We also discuss Chris Froome's recent comments questioning whether time trial bikes have a place in road cycling and in the final part we hear from Jumbo-Visma's manager Richard Plugge about Primoz Roglic and from George Bennett, the Kiwi climber who has swapped the Dutch squad and a role supporting Roglic for UAE Team Emirates where he'll ride with Pogacar.
There's also some droning on about drones, a terrible Smiths joke and an inaccurate football analogy. If UAE Team Emirates are the Manchester City of cycling, what does that make Jumbo-Visma? All this and more in a bumper episode.
Cycling Podcast history was made because, with Richard making a brief visit from northern France, this was the first episode recorded in Lionel's spiritual home town, Watford.
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| 0:16.6 | athletes and coaches. |
| 0:23.1 | Where are we, Lionel? |
| 0:25.0 | Well Richard, this is a great honor to have you here in Watford, the first time the |
| 0:30.2 | Cycling Podcast has ever recorded in Watford, not even not Watford, this is actual Watford. |
| 0:36.4 | This is not Watford, in fact, to be accurate. I can't believe it is such an honor to be |
| 0:43.0 | here. It's incredible, the breathing, the air of Watford. |
| 0:47.0 | What's it like? What you make of it? |
| 0:49.6 | I can't see I've explored it too much, Daniel. I literally stepped off the train and |
| 0:54.1 | crossed the road and went into kind of cafe slash business centre type place and that's |
| 1:00.1 | where Lionel and I are perched right there awkwardly at the moment and hooked up with |
| 1:05.1 | you in Berlin and it's Daniel free. Hello Daniel. |
| 1:07.6 | What's, hello, Chaps. What's the local speciality in Watford? |
| 1:11.6 | Flat white, Daniel. Daniel's got his head in his hands. Oh, it's great to be here. |
| 1:21.1 | Where's the football ground from here Lionel? Do you know? |
| 1:25.5 | Well it's straight up there, probably about a mile has walked from here. |
| 1:29.7 | It's made a great ride there. It's straight up there. |
| 1:33.4 | Well, it's straight up the main road from where we are, Richard. I'm actually here in |
| 1:37.3 | real life with Richard for the first time since last year's Parabé. We should explain |
| 1:42.9 | you know, normally Richard's based in Northern France but you've come over to the UK for |
| 1:46.3 | a visit and we thought we'd do the podcast face to face and we've been met with a number |
| 1:50.5 | of challenges today because there's been a big storm across the UK and the train that |
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