S11 Ep143: For The Love Of Rod

The Cycling Podcast

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🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s regular episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is joined by Brian Nygaard and Ian Boswell - both of them formerly of Team Sky as a press chief and rider respectively - as we chew over the shock news that Deputy Team Principal Rod Ellingworth is to leave the British outfit.

We analyse Ellingworth’s legacy and ask where the team goes next, having lost one of their founding fathers. Are they on the brink of a bright new era or contemplating a crisis of identity?

There’s also discussion of the news last week that GCN+ and the GCN App are to close - in addition to the usual round-up of the latest headlines.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the cycling podcast. Hello and joining you on November the 22nd on the 6th anniversary of the
0:30.2	assassination of John F Kennedy J.F., who according to the internet wants a pine that nothing
0:35.5	compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bicycle. A quote that seems about as well substantiated
0:41.6	as some renderings of
0:42.8	Teo Gagan Hart's interview with the cycling podcast last week
0:46.0	on certain Spanish Italian and French websites.
0:48.7	The less said about that the better,
0:50.5	or maybe we will revisit it and issue a few corrections.
0:53.8	My name is Daniel Freber and I am the host of this week's episode of the cycling podcast
0:58.2	in which we will try not to get lost in too much speculation about some of the unsolved mysteries thrown up by the world of professional
1:05.1	cycling over the last few days, most notably those pertaining to Rod Ellingworth's resignation
1:10.1	from Inios Grenadiers and the closure of G.C.N.
1:14.3	At by Warner Brothers Discovery Inc.
1:19.1	Joining me to hopefully do that today are two gentlemen that can speak with some authority
1:24.8	to certainly one of those big issues of over the last few days.
1:30.4	Our Great Dane, El Barone, sorry, Il Barone, Brian, how are you, where are you?
1:38.0	What's going on?
1:39.0	Thank you Daniel. I'm well, I'm. I just passed the COVID test because I've been a little bit under the weather.
1:47.0	But other than that, I'm well, I have my debut this week as an art critic in the newspaper I write for and other than that yeah all good
1:56.5	it's just a quiet time of the year isn't it? debut as an art critic wow Brian what
2:01.0	will you what what role will you take on next for as I don't know you've
2:06.2	been a hopefully one that has an income and also joining us from a very snowy Vermont
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