S12 Ep131: Review of 2024 - Ep.4: The Speculation Audit
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Did we get everything or indeed anything right? Now, with the year drawing to a close, the three co-hosts for that first episode of the year - Daniel Friebe, Rob Hatch and Larry Warbasse - reconvene to reality-check what they and others said would happen in the season just gone.
Who could see a Pog triple crown written in the stars? Who didn’t think Mark Cavendish would take his 35th Tour de France stage win? And what other egg are we left licking off our faces, at the end of an at times eminently predictable, at times highly surprising campaign?
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Cycling Podcast, proudly brought to you by Shocks, pioneers of bone conduction headphone technology. |
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