S11 Ep104: Arrivée | Men's World Championship Road Race

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🗓️ 6 August 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Arrivée returns with our on-the-whistle review of the world championship men’s road race in Glasgow - where the grumbles about the crit-like course were drowned out by a pulsating, heavy metal battle for the rainbow jersey.

Much of the pre-race speculation focused on the latest instalment of Mathieu van der Poel and Wout Van Aert’s age-old rivalry. Tadej Pogačar and Mads Pedersen were among the riders overshadow them and indeed defending champion Remco Evenpoel - and all of the aforementioned quintet would be in the thick of the action on Sunday.

Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss who came out on top and why on a memorable afternoon in Scotland.

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0:00.0	You are listening to a re-veh by the Cycling Podcast.
0:30.0	I hate Lionel. How you doing? Oh dear. Oh dear. I mean, we're going to do the whole podcast
0:46.0	in Glasgow region. Well, your dad is Scottish. He is Scottish from very close to the root Lionel
0:55.0	from very close to a point where, well, something significant happened in today's World Championship
1:01.0	road race, which we will discuss later, no doubt. My Scottish ancestry, well, my Scottish
1:08.0	ancestry goes back a little bit further, so I'm not going to push it with a terrible accent.
1:12.0	No, am I going to make a comment about the Scottish summer? I've got in trouble for that before.
1:16.0	But there was a glimpse of Scottish summer this afternoon, wasn't there? It broke out
1:21.0	in between the rain showers, but that was the crowd and the finish line commentary in Glasgow
1:27.0	as Matthew Vanderpool won the rainbow jersey in the men's road race as recorded by Tom Wally,
1:33.0	who is up there in Glasgow this weekend. He won the rainbow jersey in the tenant super race,
1:41.0	the World Urban Cycle Across Championship, the Edinburgh Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow.
1:49.0	It was a criterion championships, really, wasn't it? It was a very, well, it was kind of
1:55.0	harking back to the British tradition of city centre criterion racing. It could have been a super
2:01.0	addition of a Kellogg's city centre criterion from the 80s or the Friends Providence series.
2:07.0	I'm sure you remember that, Daniel, from the 90s, or more recently the tour series.
2:11.0	I think I've been reflecting on this in a couple of hours since the race finished,
2:16.0	and I think it's good that there are different flavours of World Championship road races,
2:22.0	and I suppose if the whole point of the race is to bring the best riders in the world,
2:27.0	the best one-day riders in the world to the four and have them battle it out for the rainbow jersey,
2:32.0	well, it completely ticked that box, didn't it? I had some reservations about the course itself
2:37.0	and about the kind of, it was a period where the race slipped into a bit of a lull,
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