You're listening to El Clásico, the cycling podcast of the 2023 Buelta España from Barcelona

to Madrid.

Today we are in Lecumberri.

You are, indeed, listening to El Clásico, my name is Daniel Freiber, I'm the host of

this episode and I am in Lecumberri on a day when the unthinkable happened, namely

Kien Utabrux relinquished the honour of least pronounceable name on the Wetha España

to some of the locations visited on today's route through Navara and the Basque Country,

including Suarratte and Guarte Araquil.

That incidentally was not my co-pilot today, but Iban Itorraldi, a Basque from close to

Lecumberri, who listens to the cycling podcast now lives in London and introduced himself

at the finish today.

I say, a Basque, I've already stepped back into those slightly murky waters, shock-infested

waters.

Anyway, it was great to meet Iban at the finish today.

Hailing from another contested territory, not Navara or the Basque Country, but not Watford

this evening is, my guest, my co-pilot, it is Lionel Bernie, Lionel, how are you doing?

Very well, thank you Daniel, yes, I've been absent from Welter, I've spanned your duty

for three days and it feels like the race has gone through the wash, hasn't it?

Extraordinary.

I was catching up on it all today, so I feel like I've witnessed the ups and downs of

Remco Evena Paul's long weekend in fast forward, I suppose, up, down, up, down, and well

in the thick of the action again today.

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