S11 Ep135: Route & Branch Changes
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
We deliver our own assessment of a noticeably less lofty-than-usual ‘Corsa Rosa’ route before hearing Jayco-AlUla head DS Matt White’s verdict. We, or rather Daniel, then literally travels to Italy to find out how Pozzato is trying to shake up an ageing, ailing Italian scene - and why he may need a bit more help from the Giro itself.
In the final part of the podcast, we reflect on the predicament of the many riders who find themselves jobless at the end of the 2023 season - and one in particular, the Ethiopian Tsgabu Grmay. He tells Daniel that, while his present plight looks bleak, his dreams and inner fire are very much still alive. The episode we mention featuring Mitch Docker speaking to Tsgabu Grmay on Life in the Peloton is here https://audioboom.com/posts/7878541-life-in-the-peloton-tsgabu-grmay
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and joining you on Wednesday October the 18th what would have been Lucian |
| 0:29.4 | putty brutans 141st birthday putty brutans of course the first man to win two |
| 0:34.6 | tours to France having grown up in Argentina and only discovering cycling |
| 0:39.3 | when he won a bike in a tombola my name is Daniel Freeman I'm the host of |
| 0:43.3 | this episode in which we will discover whether tombolas or a bike leasing |
| 0:46.8 | scheme may secure the future of the world's current number one team jumbo |
| 0:50.8 | visma mainly we'll be giving our thumbs up or down to the fresh out of the |
| 0:56.4 | oven twenty twenty four gira Italia route we'll be hearing about my time in |
| 1:00.5 | Italy and the Veneto last week and we will look at the precarious situation |
| 1:06.4 | some out of contract pros and one in particular find themselves in at the end |
| 1:10.9 | of this 2023 road season joining me to do all of that is the lion of not what |
| 1:17.3 | for lion or burning hello Daniel welcome back from where are you now where are |
| 1:22.6 | you you back in London a secret locate you have got a wedding to go to in |
| 1:26.1 | London over the next few days secret location one of the bigger cities in the |
| 1:30.5 | world yes and and also joining us is the house cat of Sawyer in Mayodka in the |
| 1:37.8 | Balearic Islands it's Ace Eurasport commentator Rob Hatch on you yeah on my |
| 1:43.2 | holiday semi holidays now the road's done bit of track and then doing nothing |
| 1:47.7 | for a month sitting there in your Italy number 10 kit a proper Italian |
| 1:52.3 | national football team jersey they were wearing Adidas yesterday doesn't look |
| 1:56.0 | right does it oh it really jared with me Adidas shouldn't have been worn by |
| 1:59.7 | I don't know central European nations or something about it that just doesn't |
| 2:02.8 | sit right with the azure the Italian national team is that the deal or a jersey |
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