S11 Ep3: Touching the Void or (Down) Under Pressure
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2023
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
Mitch is joined by Daniel Friebe and multiple former Monument and Grand Tour stage winner Dan Martin to also discuss the rest of the week’s news. That includes the announcement that one of the most beloved riders in the pro peloton, Thibaut Pinot, will retire at the end of the 2023 season.
The existential void into which some riders disappear when their career ends is our big discussion point in the second half of the podcast. It is also a poignant one in the week when the former Astana rider, Lieuwe Westra, passed away at the age of just 40, after years of mental turmoil. In the episode we’ll hear about those from Westra’s friend and biographer, Thomas Sijtsma.
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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 on a seasonably glacial Berlin morning. My name is Daniel Freiber. I'm currently |
| 0:29.1 | suffering from Covid. In fact, I haven't told the guests that yet. Hence, why I've got a touch of the |
| 0:33.7 | Barry White. No, this isn't my first bout. Hopefully it'll be my last and my everything as far as |
| 0:39.1 | this illness is concerned. That is a Barry White reference. I am the host of this episode of the |
| 0:44.0 | cycling podcast in which we'll be talking about the first three days, three I think three days, |
| 0:48.5 | the tour down under and in which two somber bits of news from the last few days did want quite |
| 0:54.3 | tragic. We'll give us pause to reflect on and discuss the void which lies beyond life as a |
| 0:59.9 | professional cyclist. To do all of that, I'm joined by two exceptional guests. The first one is a |
| 1:06.3 | former rider himself, a veteran of a decade and a half in the pro peloton. He became a professor of |
| 1:12.8 | life therein and has authored a peer reviewed study about precisely that field of research |
| 1:18.7 | as being his peers and are review being that life in the peloton is a ripper poddy made. He's also |
| 1:24.4 | the world of cycling's preeminent ambassador of Luft, the owner of the most lustrous moustache |
| 1:29.9 | this sport has ever seen. I'm going to stop there because I'm slightly intimidated by this host |
| 1:34.6 | because he's hosted more podcast than me. Even more intimidating, he's coming to us from the future. |
| 1:40.0 | Mitch Docker, it's the evening of January 19th where you are. Meaning you've seen things a time |
| 1:46.1 | on this planet that I, we have not experienced yet. That feels quite unnerving. How are you mate? |
| 1:52.8 | The Alvoids are beautiful evening here. I can tell you the beers are cold. You've got a great evening. |
| 1:57.6 | What is the beer? What is drinking? What can we afford to drink in the future? |
| 2:02.2 | I'm drinking a really crazy beer called a, it's from Bridge Road. These guys brutally spear out of |
| 2:09.2 | each other. They've got this beer. I can't remember the exact name, but it's a beer that they use |
| 2:15.2 | like a morose. They use the same sort of sense for a morose. No hops in it. They bring the |
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