S12 Ep1: The Speculation Episode

The Cycling Podcast

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4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

This week’s regular episode of The Cycling Podcast is our annual Speculation episode, in which we ponder & prognosticate what will be the major stories of the coming season.

Daniel Friebe is joined by Décathlon-AG2r La Mondiale star Larry Warbasse & ace commentator Rob Hatch - & together they’ll scrutinise the 2024 predictions of assorted friends, colleagues & riders. Can Visma-Lease a Bike repeat their 2023 heroics? Will Mark Cavendish take his 35th Tour de France stage win? And will the year end with Patrick Lefevere & Mikel Landa BASE jumping in Venezuela? We discuss all of the above & more…

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0:00.0	You are listening to the cycling podcast. Hello and happy new year to you are listeners it is now
0:26.2	2024 a year in which should life imitate art and specifically the 1991
0:31.0	blockbuster Highlander 2 a corporation will come up with an ingenious plan to end climate change, namely by building a giant shield to shade the earth from the sun.
0:41.0	Well, we thought hell would freeze over before Thibaut Pina and
0:44.6	Richard Plugger charged their glasses of beer we should add to celebrate the
0:49.2	earth completing another lap of the sun but that is indeed what happened in Tign in the French Alps at the
0:55.0	weekend will the remainder of 2024 reserve any greater surprise than that?
1:00.1	Well my name is Daniel Freeman I am the host of this special annual speculation slash
1:06.0	predictions episode of a cycling podcast and I am here to help you, all of us, answer that question. will there be a bigger surprise than
1:14.8	Richard Plouger and Tibopinot having a drink together at tea at the weekend I
1:20.0	believe the reason they bonded has something to do with the fact well the Pino
1:25.6	family were staying 100 meters coincidentally from where Richard Pluger was
1:30.2	spending his winter holidays and they both own the same breed of dog I believe Swiss
1:35.8	Swiss um Belge. Shepherd dogs there you go and one of guests knows about dogs. I don't know anything about dogs, but one of our
1:46.8	guests is a dog lover. So helping me to predict prognosticate today, fresh off the plane from Hawaii I believe bound for France I believe
1:58.0	he's now in France it is the Decadlon a je dossier la mandial team's Motown Maestro, Larry Warbas, who's about to embark on his 12th full season as a professional,
2:09.0	if I'm not mistaken, Larry, happy new year to you.
2:13.4	How are you?
2:14.5	Yeah, good, yeah, just got off.
2:16.5	Don't sound so excited about it.
2:18.0	28 hour travel day, straight onto the Slack News podcast,
2:22.0	so, you know, I'm ready but no you sound absolutely psyched
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