S11 Ep66: Boy Gino – Remembering Gino Mäder

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🗓️ 23 June 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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The world of professional cycling was rocked and devastated this week by the death of 26-year-old Bahrain Victorious rider Gino Mäder after a crash in his home race, the Tour de Suisse. The tragedy has completely overshadowed the build-up to the Tour de France - and, in turn, forced a change to our original plan for the episode, namely a review of the new Netflix docuseries, Tour de France: Unchained, after last week’s interview with execuitve producer James Gay-Rees.

You’ll still hear that review, for which we’re joined by another award-winning filmmaker, Finlay Pretsell, but the first part of the show is dedicated to Mäder, his short but already distinguished career and our interactions with one of the most thoughtful and admirable riders in the peloton.

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0:00.0	Hello and joining you from the Bass Country where the 110th edition of the Tour de France
0:28.4	will begin next week and I have arrived rather earlier. My name is Daniel Frieber, I am the host of this week's episode of the Cycling Podcast.
0:35.7	That episode won't start on the same frivolous note as usual for we and the world of cycling
0:40.2	are in mourning this week following the death last Thursday of the Swiss rider, Gino Meida,
0:45.7	after a crash on the descent of the Albu La Pass the previous day in the Tour of Switzerland.
0:51.6	Gino was 26 years old and in his short career he had already won stages of the Giro d'Italia and
0:57.6	the Tour de Swiss and the Vuelta Aisbaniers-White Jersey that for finishing 5th overall in the 2021 race.
1:05.0	The same year Gino had also kept an audio diary for the cycling podcast in the Giro.
1:10.3	We knew him a bit admired him a lot and the connected via the web of Comrade Chip stretches across
1:16.0	professional cycling to many individuals who adored him and will be greased
1:19.7	stricken for a long time. Our thoughts and deepest sympathy will continue to be with them over the coming weeks
1:25.6	against the distracting, those scarcely comforting backdrop of the Tour de France.
1:30.8	After last week's interview with James Gay-Riss, executive producer of Tour de France Unchained,
1:36.3	the new Netflix docuseries about last year's Corn Bougal. This week's episode was supposed to be a
1:42.0	more subjective look at the series by us. You're still going to hear that but it will come after
1:47.6	first part in which we, that is Lionel Bernier and I, will discuss, remember and pay tribute to Gino
1:53.4	Meida. So I'm going to say hello to Lionel and propose we just start by talking about our personal
1:59.7	reactions last week, Lionel, to the all four news. Yeah, hello Daniel, well my first reaction was
2:07.2	one of shock and sadness and empathy really for everybody who knew and loved Gino, especially his
2:14.4	colleagues in the professional peloton. It's a reminder, not perhaps that we need one of the risks
2:22.0	that the riders take, especially in the high mountains but not necessarily in the high mountains,
2:28.0	you know there is an inherent danger associated with professional cycling and
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