S11 Ep9: Admirable Lord Neilson & The Battle of Hoogerheide

The Cycling Podcast

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🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

This week Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are back and joined by one of the most illustrious and recognisable voices in Belgian cycling, Sporza’s veteran commentator and reporter Renaat Schotte.

After the usual news round-up, we review the action from the cyclocross Worlds in Hoogerheide, where Fem Van Empel and Mathieu van der Poel went double Dutch by taking the women’s and men’s titles respectively.

Defeat for Wout van Aert meant disappointment for Belgium, although spirits there will have been buoyed by the latest evidence of Arnaud De Lie’s prodigious talent at the Étoile de Bessèges. With Renaat’s help, we find out more about a rider who is already being hailed as a Tom Boonen-Philippe Gilbert hybrid.

Neilson Powless took overall victory at Bessèges - and the American would be most people’s choice as the rider of the early season. We hear from the EF Education-Easypost man about his early-season success, why he’ll try his hand at the cobbled Classics and why his Native American ancestry is so important to him, especially when things are going well on the bike.

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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 join you on a fine Wednesday morning from the capital of Germany where the record-breaking
0:33.0	32 Grammy Award winner, Beyoncé, has caused a scandal this week by announcing a world tour with dates in Frankfurt,
0:39.0	Colone and Hamburg, but not Berlin, prompting the Berliner's item to shriek Beyoncé's swerves Berlin.
1:10.0	Joining me to do all of that, doing so from a place very close to my heart after my storied trip there a few weeks ago,
1:16.0	I either Grenken Velodrome in Switzerland. It's a man who may be Belgium's answer to Beyoncé, so beloved is his voice there.
1:23.0	He's also the only individual guaranteed to beat Wal-Vanart and Matthew Van der Porte, every finish line.
1:28.0	Last time he appeared on the podcast, he revealed Remco Averyneport's Porsche on for a self-help book,
1:34.0	hence this time we'll wait with Bated Breath for full disclosure about Vanart's love of Renaissance novellas or MVDP's
1:42.0	Fonus for a celebrity cookbook. He's already been to Argentina this year as I hinted he's now poised to cover the European track championships.
1:49.0	He's a veteran of 24 tours to France, 22 Giri Italia, 4 Welfters, Spain. He is the wheeler man and his name is Renart Schotter.
1:59.0	Renart, you've disappointed me already this morning by telling me you weren't at the cycler cross world at the weekend,
2:06.0	which is shocking. Daniel, I'm a bit blown away by your intro there.
2:11.0	As we start the broadcast, they pop up the volume at a cycler track here in Grenken, so I was kind of jet lagged from the Argentina trip.
2:22.0	I covered San Cuwam. I'm already in Grenken now on the track for European championships.
2:29.0	I've come in a few strange noises in the background. Those are the riders having the final training session just before these track heroes.
2:37.0	I can tell you that Ghana is here riding in front of my eyes.
2:42.0	I've been riding in the car for a while now. I've been riding in the car for a while now.
2:52.0	I missed the whole ride, but I didn't miss it on the other hand because I was watching it on television.
3:01.0	I was astonished right after the race like a lot of people I think.
3:05.0	Not the outcome. You could expect much of underpull to be a winner in front of his home crowd, but the way he did it was like magic.
3:15.0	I mean, he took a scenario, he chose a scenario completely different than everybody expected before.
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