S12 Ep123: Lonely G.O.A.T
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
The build-up to the final Monument of the season had been enlivened or overshadowed - depending on your viewpoint - by Tom Pidcock’s shock exclusion from the INEOS line-up. We examine the likely consequences of that - and the possible reasons.
It’s then time for another attempt to contextualise arguably the finest cycling season of all time by a male rider, and certainly the most extraordinary since Eddy Merckx’s ‘cannibalistic’ reign.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the cycling podcast. I'm going to say this. |
| 0:24.0 | How are you fine? |
| 0:27.0 | How are you fine? |
| 0:28.0 | How is it? |
| 0:30.0 | I'll talk to my own age. |
| 0:32.0 | I've been dropped there? I know, I know I know I know listen let me let you in how could a podcast between us not |
| 0:38.4 | start Romeo and Juliet style very romantic isn't it me calling down from the balcony I'll come |
| 0:43.5 | let you in. |
| 0:45.7 | I'm coming. I've got a confession a couple of two or three nights ago when I was walking I was on talking a |
| 0:55.6 | romance and a romantic walk with my fiance through the streets of Granada. |
| 1:00.1 | Yeah we were we were passing a bookshop, |
| 1:03.0 | Ela Sterisko I think it's called, |
| 1:06.0 | and I happened to look inside |
| 1:08.0 | and I saw a handsome young Spanish gentleman holding forth |
| 1:12.0 | in front of what looked like a book club. |
| 1:14.3 | Yes. |
| 1:15.3 | Yes, it was indeed. |
| 1:16.9 | We were discussing John Didion. |
| 1:19.2 | John Didion. |
| 1:20.2 | The American author, her first book. |
| 1:23.4 | Oh wow. |
| 1:24.4 | We read it this month. |
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