S11 Ep2: Tricky, It’s Greener, Barcelona
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2023
⏱️ 89 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Daniel Friebe is joined by a pair of experts well known for their work on GCN and Eurosport - Rob Hatch and Laura Meseguer. We hear their thoughts on a route whose difficulty either impressed or appalled the riders present in Barcelona on Tuesday - but will happily leave a lighter carbon footprint than last year’s edition, hence the Woody Allen-inspired title of this week’s episode.
There’s also the usual round-up of the week’s main news, including an interview with Allan Peiper. The Aussie is returning to Tadej Pogačar’s side at UAE Team Emirates after a break due to illness.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
Pod Live Sport
The Cycling Podcast will be part of the line-up at Pod Sport Live at Kings Place in London’s King’s Cross on Sunday, February 12 2023. To buy tickets go here.
The 11.01 Cappuccino
Our regular email newsletter is now on Substack. Subscribe here for frothy, full-fat updates to enjoy any time (as long as it’s after 11am).
Supersapiens
Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
Science in Sport
The Cycling Podcast has been supported since 2016 by Science In Sport. World leading experts in endurance nutrition. Go to scienceinsport.com to see the whole range.
MAAP
The Cycling Podcast x MAAP collection is available now. Go to maap.cc to see the full MAAP range.
D Vine Cellars
To order The Cycling Podcast Highlights case, or any of the cases commemorating the 2022 Grand Tours visit dvinecellars.com
Friends of the Podcast
Sign up as a Friend of the Podcast at thecyclingpodcast.com to listen to more than 60 exclusive episodes.
The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The cycling podcast powered by Super Sapiens. Energy management for committed athletes and coaches. |
| 0:18.0 | Hello joining you on a dingy Wednesday afternoon from Berlin. |
| 0:31.0 | I feel like saying today where the talk of the town is the news that King Charles, the United Kingdom, will be visiting at the end of March. |
| 0:39.0 | Presumably not clutching copy of his second son's highly controversial autobiography. |
| 0:45.0 | Talking of high profile former Oprah Winfrey interviewees. Not only in Berlin but everywhere else. |
| 0:50.0 | This was a 10th anniversary this week. Would you believe of that? Lance Armstrong confession. |
| 0:55.0 | Anyway, my name is Daniel Frieber and I am the host of this week's episode of the cycling podcast in which we will mainly be talking about 2023 World Diespania, which yes was presented in Barcelona yesterday. |
| 1:11.0 | Without further ado, I will introduce our guests. Guests that will help me do that talk about the welta. |
| 1:18.0 | Coming to us from Madrid, like Leonel Messi, she moved from Argentina to Spain in her formative years and took the world of sport by storm. |
| 1:27.0 | As far as we know has never tarnished her legacy by posing for selfies with Salt Bay. |
| 1:31.0 | She's also managed to preserve her reputation despite starting her career in cycling at Festina. |
| 1:37.0 | That is working for them at the 2007 WELTA at the safe distance of nine years. |
| 1:42.0 | Nine years have I got that right? Yeah. After Willie votes Fiat got raided, she's a reporter and author presenter and also the voice of our sister podcast, |
| 1:51.0 | and cycling podcast, which for those who aren't fluent in Spanish means the cycling podcast. |
| 1:56.0 | She's making her full debut on the Ramshackle Angrophone version today. She is Laura Messager. |
| 2:03.0 | Hello, Daniel. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. I have a lot in common with Lionel Messi, but that's yeah, gone gone. |
| 2:12.0 | Go on. Jesus Jesus. I will leave it. I will leave it there. I will leave it there. |
| 2:18.0 | You've also been in Barcelona, you know, city very much, very much associated with more certainly more readily associated with, you know, Messi than Madrid where you are. |
| 2:30.0 | Instantly tomorrow, I'm going to see Ray Al Madrid playing not football, but basketball. They're playing Albert Berlin in the Champions League of basketball. |
| 2:39.0 | I'm going to watch that first time I've ever seen them. Laura, let's get to our next guest. He is also joining us from Spain, but he's joining us from so here in Mallorca in the Balearic Islands. |
| 2:50.0 | It's a famous, beautiful port. The oranges once prized by Louis XIV of France has previously discussed on the pod. And in 1978 for the claims by local bar owner Juan Coy, otherwise known as Johnny Memphis, that he had been contacted by aliens as reported by media throughout Spain at the time. |
| 3:09.0 | Coy later persuaded between three and 6,000 fellow islanders that they would meet his extra terrestrial pen pals if they joined him on a moonlight camping expedition to the summit of Pujamayor. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Cycling Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Cycling Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.