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The Cycling Podcast

S11 Ep129: Stage 20 | Manzanares El Real – Guadarrama | Vuelta a España 2023

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🗓️ 16 September 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie as they recap stage 18 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 of the 2023 Vuelta España from Barcelona

0:18.0

to Madrid.

0:19.0

You're listening to El Classico, my name is Daniel Friba and I'm in Vuelta Rama, where the

0:37.5

winner elects of the Vuelta España set course, his teammate Jonas Vingo got and his teammate

0:41.9

Primoz Rogus had just faced a full court press from the reporters covering this race, including

0:46.7

yours truly. On the indoor basketball court, which was commandeered as today's media center,

0:51.3

we'll hear more about that press conference later in the episode, probably with a bit of amateur

0:55.9

and amateur-ish body language analysis from me and my guest. But for now, suffice it to say that

1:01.7

stays 20 of the 2023 Vuelta España can't at least be consigned to history without Roglic,

1:07.5

having got off his bike on the final descent climbed into a team car and left Spain with the

1:13.1

parting message. That being the Slovenian for the immortal superman Lopez greeting Fue un placer,

1:21.7

Senores Yomek Edo Poraki, or it was a pleasure chat, but I'm stopping here. Thanks by the way to David

1:28.7

Chermil of Slovenian National Television for the translation and the lovely bit of voice over there.

1:33.9

Also still in the race or at least observing from afar is our good friend and former master of

1:40.4

spin. I'm going to call you a master of spin today, Brian, because I think we'll probably be

1:43.6

talking about spin in cycling. It is a brilliant night guard whose input I sense will be very useful

1:51.1

tonight. Brian, you have been observing from afar. I imagine we've very keen interest, not only

1:56.8

because your compatriot Jonas Vingigar has been in the thick of the action and the drama this week.

2:02.0

No, and anyone who said that the last week would be boring because the race from the sporting

2:06.9

point of view was over. We're dead wrong, right? We'll have more drama around the last week of

2:12.5

the world today than I can ever remember. There was maybe that one time when the concerto upset

2:18.5

went to day. That's basically it, isn't it? Brian, I mentioned the pre, this is a tradition in all

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