S11 Ep120: Stage 11 | Lerma – La Laguna Negra Vinuesa | Vuelta a España 2023
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🗓️ 6 September 2023
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We’ll get post-stage reaction from Daniel on the ground, rider interviews, Fran Reyes’s wistful gazing. 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 |
| 0:18.0 | to Madrid. |
| 0:19.0 | Today we're at the Laguna Negra. |
| 0:29.0 | You're indeed listening to El Classico, my name is Daniel Freiber. |
| 0:33.0 | I am the host of this episode and I am at La Laguna Negra, |
| 0:38.0 | high in the picoste Urbion mountains above Vinoessa, |
| 0:42.0 | setting for a somewhat acclaimed 1912 novel written by Antonio Machado, |
| 0:46.0 | in which three avaricious sons with designs on their father's estate plot |
| 0:50.0 | to kill him and dump his body in the Laguna Negra or Black Lake. |
| 0:54.0 | Only to lose their way on the night of the planned assassination |
| 0:57.0 | and stumble into, as Machado wrote, |
| 1:00.0 | the clear and silent water beneath the huge rock wall |
| 1:03.0 | where vultures nest and echoes sleep. |
| 1:07.0 | Well, it was a wily old Spanish vulture who wasn't nesting, |
| 1:10.0 | but swooping down upon his prey this afternoon, |
| 1:12.0 | we'll find out whom in just a second. |
| 1:15.0 | Well, hopefully need them plotting my murder nor falling into a black lake |
| 1:19.0 | in the not-what-foot environs is not a line of burning. |
| 1:22.0 | It nearly said niro-burning there, that was it. |
| 1:25.0 | Niro-burning. |
| 1:27.0 | Lionel man. |
| 1:29.0 | Lionel man here from not-what-foot. |
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