S11 Ep27: Like a Mat Out of Hell
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2023
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
We hear Mitch’s thoughts on another superlative performance by Mathieu van der Poel and also speak to a rider who was making his debut in the race on Sunday – INEOS Grenadiers’ teen marvel Josh Tarling. After that, we take stock after another huge race that concluded last weekend – the Tour of the Basque Country – and look ahead to the second half of the Classics season, starting with Amstel Gold at the weekend.
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| 0:00.0 | The cycling podcast powered by SuperSapiens. Energy management for committed athletes and coaches. |
| 0:18.0 | Hello and joining you this week from Soyer in the Traumontine amounties of Mallorca, a location |
| 0:32.9 | with which one of today's guests has endured a somewhat traumatic relationship as we'll discover |
| 0:37.2 | later. And no, I'm not talking about Lionel Bernies in from a summer bender to Magaluv |
| 0:41.6 | in the summer of, in summer of said that twice, of 1999. My name is Daniel Friba, I'm the host |
| 0:47.9 | of this episode of the cycling podcast in which we'll bid oruo a duet tot zanes, or if we're |
| 0:53.7 | Patrick Lefevre, F-2, the cobbled classics will reflect on one rider's domination of the two |
| 0:59.8 | of the best country. And we'll ask the guests with the Mallorca PTSD, whether a race should ever |
| 1:05.7 | be named after one of the worst beers in Europe. Let's meet that first heavily aforementioned |
| 1:11.2 | guest now. He's a familiar voice on the podcast and podcast in general, including his own. He is |
| 1:16.5 | also a form of veteran over a decade in the pro peloton, nine grand tours. However, however, |
| 1:22.1 | and here we come to the first big talking point of the pod. Well, thinking about today's |
| 1:25.8 | episode and the fact we'll be hearing from someone who didn't quite make the time cut at the |
| 1:29.2 | Roubaix Velladromat the weekend. I couldn't help but notice Mitch Docker, but of the five times you |
| 1:34.8 | finished all Delay, that's out of the time limit in your pro career. Four of them were at the |
| 1:40.2 | challenge of Mallorca within a few kilometers where I'm sitting. Mitch, what do you have against |
| 1:46.4 | Mallorca or what does it have against you? I don't know if I believe that. Is that true four times? |
| 1:52.1 | Um, occasionally pro cycling starts and we'll reference them here. They get things wrong. |
| 1:56.8 | And I'm even surprised that I rode to the end. Why don't I just pull out? It must have meant |
| 2:00.9 | something to me to make it even if I was out of time. I do remember one time that I did ride |
| 2:05.3 | to the end. Andre griple won the stage. And I remember riding to the end thinking, |
| 2:09.6 | I was out of time. How could griple possibly win this stage? It was so hilly. We went from DR |
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