S12 Ep133: Review of 2024 - Ep.6: Man of the Year
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
‘Pog’ has been briefing the media on what to expect from him in 2025 - and Fran Reyes has been on the ground in Spain taking notes. In this episode, Fran tells Daniel Friebe and Richard Abraham what he’s heard from the Slovenian and some of those who either masterminded or assisted his all-conquering season.
Before all of that, we also discuss the two main news headlines of the week: Patrick Lefevere leaving his CEO position at Soudal-Quick Step and Tom Pidcock signing for Q36.5.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Cycling Podcast, proudly brought to you by Shocks Bone Conduction |
| 0:05.2 | headphones. Now, last week we ran a competition to win a pair of Shocks Open Run Pro 2 headphones. |
| 0:12.2 | That's the flagship model, the top of the range, if you like, and all you had to do to stand |
| 0:16.9 | a chance of winning was answer a very simple question. Anyone with access to Google or Wikipedia could have done it, but I'm sure that everyone |
| 0:24.2 | who answered just relied on the knowledge contained within their brains. |
| 0:28.4 | Anyway, the question was, before Ted A. Pagacchar, two male riders had completed the so-called |
| 0:34.4 | Triple Crown, winning the Dioro Tour and World Championships in the same season. |
| 0:38.8 | But who were they and in which years did they do it? |
| 0:42.0 | The answer, of course, was Eddie Merck's in 1974 and Stephen Roach in 1987. |
| 0:48.3 | So we picked a winner at random and the lucky winner of a pair of Shocks Open Run Pro 2 headphones is, drum roll please, Alistair Alexander. |
| 0:59.2 | Congratulations, well done, Alastair. Those headphones will be making their way to you very soon. |
| 1:04.7 | Now, we were absolutely swamped by an avalanche of correct answers, and when we told Shoxys, |
| 1:09.9 | they decided to put up four more fantastic prizes. |
| 1:13.1 | And we'll be notifying the winners of those four prizes |
| 1:15.1 | by email very soon. |
| 1:17.5 | So second prize is a set of open Swim Pro headphones. |
| 1:21.3 | Third prize is a set of Open Run Pro headphones |
| 1:24.1 | and a Shocks T-shirt. |
| 1:25.9 | Fourth prize is a set of open-run pro headphones. And fifth prize is a Shox T-shirt. Fourth prize is a set of Open Run Pro headphones, and fifth prize is a Shox T-shirt, bag and |
| 1:32.2 | sport belt. |
| 1:33.0 | We'll notify you by email very, very shortly, probably by the end of the day. |
| 1:37.6 | In the meantime, if you are not lucky enough to win a set of headphones, the discount code |
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