S11 Ep118: Stage 9 | Cartagena –Collado del la Cruz de Caravaca | Vuelta a España 2023
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🗓️ 3 September 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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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 Clásico, the cycling podcast that the 2023 Vuelta España from Barcelona |
| 0:18.0 | to Madrid. |
| 0:19.0 | Today we're on the Coyado de la Cruz. |
| 0:30.0 | You are indeed listening to El Clásico, my name is Daniel Freiber and I'm the host of this episode |
| 0:37.0 | and I am indeed in a very soggy caravaca de la Cruz. |
| 0:42.0 | I was going to say adjacent to, but I'm actually in the municipal shower block now |
| 0:46.0 | where the entire Vuelta peloton is lathering up and touting down ahead of their short flight to Bailolid |
| 0:52.0 | and the race is first rest day tomorrow. |
| 0:55.0 | Meanwhile joining me to discuss the day's action from his warm, dry, scented candle adorned recording studio |
| 1:01.0 | at an unknowable location in the United Kingdom, it is Lionel Bernie. |
| 1:05.0 | Lionel, how are you? |
| 1:06.0 | Very well, thank you Daniel, how are you? |
| 1:08.0 | Are you up to your knees in mud? |
| 1:11.0 | Not really Lionel because I didn't make it to the top of the mountain, not many people |
| 1:16.0 | as far as the press are concerned, not many people made it up to top today. |
| 1:20.0 | There were a lot of journalists coming back to the press room, sort of 20 minutes, half an hour, |
| 1:26.0 | after proudly, defiantly announcing that they were indeed going to the summit. |
| 1:30.0 | They were coming back with their tails between their legs and having not made it very far. |
| 1:35.0 | It's been a strange old day Lionel. |
| 1:37.0 | It's a strange, sort of seen some strange sights in the last 20 minutes or so. |
| 1:43.0 | I said that I'm in a municipal tower. |
| 1:45.0 | It's just so show a block. It's actually more of a sports hall. |
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