S11 Ep26: Arrivée | Paris-Roubaix
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 9 April 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
After his victory in Milan-Sanremo three weeks ago, Mathieu van der Poel looked like the hot favourite – but could his long-time rival Wout Van Aert turn it into a Sunday in Hell for the Dutchman? Lionel was on the ground to find out, & we discuss the main talking points here.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Areve by The Cycling Podcast, supported by Super Sapiens, energy management, |
| 0:10.8 | the committed athletes and coaches. |
| 0:30.0 | The Cycling Podcast, supported by Super Sapiens, energy management, the committed athletes and coaches. |
| 1:00.9 | Well I know I can see where you are, I can see what you're in once again, second week in a row. |
| 1:08.8 | You seem to be in a deserted car park at French, is that French auto route air? |
| 1:16.8 | It is Daniel, I'm in the Cycling Podcast having made a quick getaway from the velodrome in Rubei, |
| 1:24.9 | where they were packing up very noisily actually. So my usual season ticket in the grandstand there |
| 1:31.6 | was not going to be the ideal recording location this evening because Power Reba is packing up, |
| 1:36.8 | the circus is leaving town and it will be back again next year. But what are we going to do? |
| 1:40.9 | What are we going to do? It's been a february a couple of hours, line or not least, |
| 1:45.7 | well in Rubei and also from my vantage point for the reasons but we won't go into that. |
| 1:51.1 | Just how did the atmosphere, how did today's Rubei compare to other editions that you've seen, |
| 1:57.5 | just a vibe line in the velodrome? It was frenetic, it was frenetic Daniel, I mean the weather was |
| 2:05.6 | glorious this morning, there was a real early morning mist in Valencia when we got up and drove |
| 2:11.2 | the hour and a half south to Compien and the mist lifted just as we approached Compien and there |
| 2:18.3 | was just a bright sunshine that just progressively got warmer and it was around, it was the first real |
| 2:23.2 | proper spring like day that I've experienced in 2023. It was slapping in the background. 18 degrees. |
| 2:29.8 | I needed the factor 100 because it was pretty warm this afternoon and I think the mild |
| 2:36.5 | tailwind that they had most of today and the warm temperatures accounted for an absolutely |
| 2:43.2 | frenetic race. We went to the Arnberg Forest because I was traveling with Lizzie Banks and Tom |
| 2:48.7 | Wally. Neither Lizzie nor Tom had been to the Arnberg Forest before and I suppose in terms of |
| 2:55.9 | going to watch Pau Rubei in the flesh, it is the place you have to experience because the atmosphere |
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