S11 Ep122: Stage 13 | Formigal Huesca La Magia – Col du Tourmalet | Vuelta a España 2023
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🗓️ 8 September 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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We’ll get post-stage reactions 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 at the 2023 Vuelta España from Barcelona |
| 0:17.9 | to Madrid. |
| 0:18.9 | You're listening to El Classico, my name is Daniel Frieber and I'm the host of this episode |
| 0:34.5 | and I am on the Coldo Tour Malay or in fact slightly down the mountain on the east side |
| 0:39.9 | at La Monji. On a day which for some veteran ground tour watchers may have brought back memories |
| 0:44.5 | of the 1972 Tour de France when Bernal Tevene crashed on the descent of the Coldo |
| 0:49.8 | Loubeesque and badly concussed, assumed he was dreaming until to his question where am I, |
| 0:56.2 | his perjure directe d'Earsportif Gaston Plau replied materifactually in the Tour de France. |
| 1:02.3 | Tevene was relieved to have survived and he later told the race doctor that he hadn't |
| 1:06.8 | had to climb the Loubeesque otherwise he said he would never have finished. |
| 1:12.3 | I'm what relevant as I hinted because another rider found himself suddenly days and confused |
| 1:16.4 | on today's 13th stage of the Vuelta España for entirely different reasons and to reveal |
| 1:22.0 | who that was and discuss the action today joining me is Brian Nigel, how are you doing? |
| 1:28.6 | I'm good, I had this malconcussion myself yesterday but yeah and you're a bit under the |
| 1:35.8 | weather but yeah someone had a worst state and then we had I think that's a safe |
| 1:42.0 | to say at this point. Did you know that you were podcasting about the Vuelta España yesterday, |
| 1:46.1 | Brian? Yes, I was aware of that. I mean yes you put a coin in me then I can talk about |
| 1:52.2 | anything. Or in similar fashion did you go to dinner with your wife last night and say, |
| 1:56.4 | what, bloody glad I didn't have to do the podcast tonight. Well I am actually trying to go to dinner |
| 2:01.1 | with my wife tonight so we're moving in right direction. Very early, it's very early Brian, |
| 2:08.4 | I mean Spain this would be no problem in France it probably will be a problem for me so I |
| 2:11.8 | should kick on as well. The rider who was dazed and disoriented on the Colobisque early on today's |
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