S11 Ep141: Wheels of (Mis)fortune

The Cycling Podcast

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4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, we take you inside one of the more dramatic and harrowing stories of the 2023 season - a crash that abruptly ended one rider’s realistic chance of winning the Giro d’Italia, his season and also his seven-year career with the team that, as a teenager, he had dreamed of one day joining.

That rider is Tao Geoghegan Hart - and he is also our guest and Daniel Friebe’s conversation partner this week. We hear about the initial trauma of the accident, the ordeal of the days that followed and the slow and sometimes tedious battle to regain fitness. In addition, Tao looks ahead to his new start with Lidl-Trek and nominates some of his heroes and heroines of 2023.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the cycling podcast.
0:20.0	Hello and joining you on November the 16th, a day when the newly rechristened D.S. M. Ferminic post-N-L made its early
0:27.7	bid for the title of Biggest Team Name Mouthful of 2024, a competition in which they'll face stiff opposition from Vyefe group Bardiani
0:37.3	Chieseff fajd s'ané. My name is Daniel Freebo. I'm the host of this episode of the Cycling Podcast in which we will sink further
0:44.9	into the closed season comfy chair, invite you to do the same, and enjoy a long
0:50.3	and hopefully engrossing conversation with the gentleman who has a story to tell
0:55.1	about the past few months, one that is harrowing but also ultimately or hopefully inspirational.
1:01.6	We'll meet that individual in just a minute, but first I will say that as it is a long
1:07.4	conversation or interview, the Merit Center stage this week, we're going to dispense with the usual
1:12.3	news roundup at the start of the
1:13.9	episode has been plenty going on with the Cyclo Cross in Dendenmondo the
1:18.4	track Champions League in London the aforementioned arrival of post-N-L as a new co-sponsor for what was D-S-M
1:27.0	Thurmanic and very sadly and worryingly for a lot of our listeners the announcement
1:32.2	on Wednesday that the GCN plus service
1:35.0	and GCN app are to close down for good in the coming weeks.
1:40.3	Now I'm pretty sure we'll be revisiting that last story in our coming episodes when hopefully a little more light has been shared on what it means.
1:50.0	But as I said today's episode is going to be dedicated to a long conversation and interview a story and it is the story of someone whose voice you last heard on the cycling podcast on the first rest day of the Giro Ditalia in May.
2:05.0	At that point in the race, after the best start to a season of his pro career, including two stage
2:11.2	wins, and an overall victory in the Tour of the Alps
2:13.8	2020 Giro winner Teo Gaggen Hart had his sights on repeating the feat
2:19.8	three years later. He had sat fourth on general classification after the stage nine time trial,
2:26.0	and he would soon move up to third after pink jersey wear at Remko Avnepal's shot withdrawal
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