S12 Ep128: Review of 2024 - Ep.2: Annus Horribilis
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2024
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
After Daniel’s controversial suggestion last week that it was in fact such a bad year that it was a good one for INEOS Grenadiers, who will come under the spotlight this time around? Rob Hatch has at least one nomination for a team that fared worse than the Brits - while Richard Abraham is blowing raspberries at the whole, once great cycling nation of France after its lacklustre few months.
Cofidis certainly didn’t wow anyone in 2024 - and we hear from one of their departing riders, Harrison Wood, about why it became an annus horribilis for that team.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and joining you on November the 13th, five years on from the day when |
| 0:23.0 | Raymond Poulidore passed away at age 83. Poo-Poo, who had once said that if getting old is like |
| 0:29.2 | being aboard a sinking ship, the bicycle is one of the surest ways to avoid drowning. |
| 0:34.4 | My name is Daniel Freeber and today in the second installment of our review of 2024 series, |
| 0:40.2 | I'll be summoning Rob Hatch and Richard Abraham to discuss who and what sadly was lost at sea, |
| 0:46.4 | capsizing or worse because of old age or otherwise in the pro men's season that has just passed. |
| 0:55.8 | As I mentioned last week, |
| 0:56.8 | we're slightly changing format for these review of the year episodes |
| 0:59.8 | and there'll be no interactive news roundup, |
| 1:02.4 | but I will just very briefly fill you in |
| 1:04.9 | on a couple of headlines from the week |
| 1:07.4 | you may have missed before we get on |
| 1:09.3 | to the main meet of the episode. |
| 1:11.3 | First up, and a last hurrah for Mark Cavendish, who finally officially ended his pro career |
| 1:16.3 | at the Singapore Criterium at the weekend, and did so, shot Cara with a win, that nonetheless |
| 1:22.0 | won't count towards the Manx Missiles. |
| 1:24.4 | 165 official career victories. |
| 1:27.3 | We'll have more on Cavendish in our farewells episode, |
| 1:30.6 | saluting the riders who bowed out this season, |
| 1:33.1 | which may be the next of our year review episodes to drop next week. |
| 1:38.4 | Camdish is expected to take up a management position at Astana, |
| 1:41.9 | and he'll be joined there by two compatriots and former contemporaries |
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