S11 Ep14: The Incredulity of Thomas
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2023
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Saturday was a day when teamwork came under the microscope. In part one we examine the women’s race which was dominated by two SD Worx riders who had everything worked out except the ending. Demi Vollering seemed as surprised as anyone that her teammate Lotte Kopecky sprinted against her.
Then we turn attention to the men’s race, won in exhilarating fashion by Ineos Grenadiers rider Tom Pidcock who attacked almost 50 kilometres from home, overhauled the riders ahead of him and struck out on his own. Although his lead was barely ever more than a minute, and at one stage was down to a handful of seconds, the lack of cohesion in the chase and notably between the two Jumbo-Visma riders undoubtedly played into Pidcock’s hands.
In the final part, Lionel checks in with François Thomazeau, for an update on the opening couple of days at Paris-Nice and weighs up the brewing showdown between Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard.
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| 0:00.0 | The Cycling Podcast powered by SuperSapiens. |
| 0:06.0 | Energy management for committed athletes and coaches. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello and welcome to the Cycling Podcast. |
| 0:23.2 | My name is Lionel Bernie. |
| 0:24.8 | No Daniel Freeber this week because he is somewhere between Paris and Nice on the road |
| 0:30.4 | for ITV, television's Daniel Freeber this week, he is covering the race to the sun. |
| 0:35.7 | So I'm going to truncate his now traditional extended intros. |
| 0:41.5 | So the people who love Daniel's long introductions will be jeering, but those who don't will |
| 0:45.1 | be cheering. |
| 0:46.1 | And in Daniel's absence, I'm joined by two experts to help me see clearly through the dust thrown |
| 0:51.7 | up by the white roads of Tuscany at the weekend in no particular order. |
| 0:55.9 | Edward Pickering. |
| 0:56.9 | Ed has spent more than two decades in cycling journalism. |
| 0:59.9 | He's been deputy editor of CycleSport, editor of Pro Cycling and now is the editor of Rulur |
| 1:05.3 | magazine. |
| 1:06.3 | You may have heard him recently on how our friends of the podcast special the summer of 2012 |
| 1:11.0 | where we revisited the Bradley Wiggins Tour de France with a decades worth of hindsight. |
| 1:16.3 | What you might not know is that Ed and I went to Belgium, the Netherlands and Northern France |
| 1:20.6 | to ride chunks of all of the major classics. |
| 1:23.4 | Do you remember that, Ed? |
| 1:24.4 | The classics in a weekend trip. |
| 1:25.9 | I do remember it well, yes, it was far the cold and westerful, I remember rightly. |
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