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The Cycling Podcast

S11 Ep24: Men who stare at GOATS

The Cycling Podcast

The Cycling Podcast

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4.73K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s regular episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are joined by long-time contributor François Thomazeau to reflect on Tadej Pogačar’s Tour of Flanders victory at the weekend and look ahead to Paris-Roubaix. 

Since Flanders, debate has raged about whether Pog will one day complete cycling’s “Monument Slam”. We discuss how much prestige should in fact be associated with such an achievement - and also revisit a few minor controversies thrown up by Sunday’s race. 

After that, it’s time to look forward to “The Hell of the North” and hear about a febrile backdrop of social unrest in France. 


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The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Cycling Podcast, powered by SuperSapiens. Energy management for committed athletes and coaches.

0:13.3

Hello and joining you this week from Soyer in Mayorca, where since my comments about Belgians

0:28.2

in our archivist podcast at the weekend, I face more hostility from people in black belts

0:33.2

than another Daniel Leruso had to contend with at the 1984 All-Valley Karate Championship.

0:38.4

My name is Daniel Frieber. I'm the host of this week's episode of the Cycling Podcast

0:42.7

in which we'll reflect further on the men's tour of landers at the weekend, evaluate

0:46.1

whether Bernat Inot did once called Pirabay at Boulchid Race and pond at other urban myths

0:52.4

such as the one stating that Le Bleu, the badger, only rode the hell of the North on one

0:57.4

occasion and won it. Helping me to do that today is a gentleman known on the podcast

1:02.8

as the supreme arbiter in the high court of Cycling Podcast Boulchid. He is currently

1:07.4

partway through a farewell tour proceeding about as briskly as DSM's riders on the court

1:11.8

to get in flanders the other day. This rate he'll be telling us just one more classic

1:16.4

bluah atlantic in March 2038, having just seen today pogache when he's 18th of Milansand

1:22.4

Ramon. Here's the owner of the finest main scene in Marseille since Chris Waddle was strutting

1:27.5

his stuff at the Stad Veloid Horm in the 1990s. It's François Tours-Masseau. Welcome

1:32.5

back François. Nice to be with you guys. Also with us today and he gets a short intro

1:36.6

as per a new policy to try and tighten things up around here. It is the John Creece to my

1:41.4

Terry Silver line of Bernie. I should say apologies to anyone not familiar with the Karate Kid

1:46.4

films or Cobra Kai TV series at this point. They've been on my mind since Sunday just

1:51.6

because the moment when pog road on to the odour quorum won't remind me of the mythical

1:55.9

crane kick scene in Karate Kid and I did actually tweet a gif of that. Apologies to anyone

2:02.2

who doesn't know what we're talking about. This also applies to the last 10 years of the

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