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S11 Ep113: Stage 4 | Andorra la Vella –Tarragona | Vuelta a España 2023

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🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Join Daniel Friebe with Rob Hatch and Lionel Birnie as they recap stage 4 of the 2023 Vuelta a España.

We’ll get post-stage reaction from Daniel on the ground, rider interviews, Fran Reyes’s wistful gazing – plus a trip down musical memory lane with “El Ritmo de la Vuelta”. Over the course of the three weeks in Spain, we’ll also have regular input from our man in the peloton, AG2R Citroën’s Larry Warbasse, and much more.

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0:00.0

You're listening to El Classico, the cycling podcast of the 2023 Vuelta España from Barcelona

0:17.9

to Madrid.

0:18.9

Today we are in Tarragona.

0:29.5

You are, indeed, listening to El Classico.

0:32.0

My name is Daniel Free, but I am the host of this episode and I am in Tarragona.

0:36.7

As you heard, our friend Rob Hatch just say, and today we is the operative personal subject

0:41.9

pronoun, because Ace Commentator, Rob Hatch is joining me from just across the Mediterranean

0:46.4

from here in Mallorca.

0:48.0

Rob, when I've, I think, no, he's not in that studio, he's in that studio, I thought you're

0:51.8

at home in Soya because I was going to say Rob, when I've been in Soya, Port de Soya specifically

0:58.4

on the very rare occasions when I've been able to see the Spanish mainland, it has been

1:03.2

the lights of Tarragona that have glittered on the horizon.

1:07.6

So I was going to say, you could have watched today's stage from your bedroom window with

1:12.4

a telescope, with a very powerful telescope, but alas, not the case.

1:18.5

No, I could have been blown over to today's stage, I think, actually, if we'd have had

1:22.0

the winds, we'd have had on Sunday, we have the back end of the storm that ruined the

1:26.2

weekend at the welder for the organisers, but yes, I'm on the mainland in Mania Studios,

1:31.2

I'm in a very rainy studio, so I hope it stops raining by with time we get to the Anglido.

1:36.4

I'm in a very sunny plaza del Forum in Tarragona.

1:40.2

Tarragona is a catalan city, it's a little bit rough around the edges, but the centre is

1:45.1

very beautiful, and that's where I am at the moment.

1:47.6

And also joining us today after a 24-hour andora-enforced hiatus, it's Lionel Bernie.

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