S11 Ep32: Arrivée | Liège-Bastogne-Liège | men’s race
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 23 April 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
After a spring dominated by the sport’s biggest names, La Doyenne, the oldest of the Monuments, was shaping up to be a showdown between Tadej Pogačar, winner of the Tour of Flanders, Amstel Gold Race and Flèche Wallonne, and reigning world champion and defending Liège champion, Remco Evenepoel.
But how did it pan out? Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie discuss the action.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to a Revee by the Cycling Podcast, supported by Super Sapiens, energy |
| 0:09.9 | management, the committed athletes and coaches. |
| 0:15.0 | Lionel, where are we? |
| 0:23.2 | Where are you? |
| 0:24.2 | I'm in the Cycling Podcast Hartfordshire HQ, feeling pretty chipper this Sunday, early |
| 0:31.0 | evening, how about you? |
| 0:32.4 | I'm not feeling too good. |
| 0:33.5 | I feel like I've been on Remco Avenopause wheel for the last six hours. |
| 0:36.7 | I've got an absolute, all category, cold, absolute stinker. |
| 0:40.8 | Oh, going to be fit for the giro. |
| 0:43.2 | Oh, it's going to be fit for the giro. |
| 0:45.0 | Oh, Remco Avenopause certainly looks like he's going to be very fit for the giro, does he |
| 0:48.6 | not? |
| 0:49.6 | He certainly does. |
| 0:50.6 | He certainly does. |
| 0:51.6 | What will happen to Daniel if you sit in rainy spray on somebody's back wheel for, well, |
| 0:57.7 | it didn't rain for the whole day, did it, but it started raining for the culmination |
| 1:02.0 | of the age, best on the age this afternoon. |
| 1:04.3 | Could have made it very tricky, but didn't really. |
| 1:07.7 | It reminded me, I mean, not that Remco Avenopause said in advance what he was going to do, but |
| 1:13.4 | the way it turned out, it was like a boxer who said that they would win with one knockout |
| 1:20.1 | punch in sort of the ninth round, something like that. |
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