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The Cycling Podcast

S11 Ep125: Stage 16 | Liencres Playa – Bejes | Vuelta a España 2023

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🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie as they recap stage 16 of the 2023 Vuelta a España.

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

Today we are in Beches.

0:29.2

You are, indeed, listening to El Classico, my name is Daniel Frieber.

0:32.8

I am the host of this episode and I am in one quite apt on Beches.

0:37.8

I'm in the valley beneath the Beches climb.

0:40.4

Today I will dispense with the usual frivolity.

0:43.1

My intro simply because it's been a somber concerning day on the Vuelta following the

0:47.6

news this morning that the Jumbo Visma rider, Natan Van Hoidon could suffer very serious

0:52.2

injuries and was in a critical condition following a car crash that reportedly happened

0:57.3

while it did happen near Antwerp, this after Van Hoidonc had reportedly lost consciousness

1:04.6

at the wheel.

1:05.6

Lionel Bernie, you are joining me this evening.

1:09.4

We have had slightly better news but yes, it was certainly very well.

1:14.8

As I said somber and we were all worried, it wasn't this morning, it was actually a very

1:19.8

late start today but at the start I didn't know what had happened, hadn't heard this news

1:25.6

until I arrived at the start and I saw sort of a scrum of our mainly Benelux colleagues

1:34.1

around the Jumbo Visma team bus waiting to see if there was any more news that could

1:39.0

be had there or waiting to hear what the team had to say about it.

1:45.0

Lionel, first of all good evening.

1:47.0

Good evening Daniel.

1:48.0

Yes, it's overshadowed the day and influenced the day I would say certainly from a Jumbo Visma

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