S12 Ep16: Mads as a March Hare

The Cycling Podcast

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🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is joined by former Classics stalwart Mitch Docker and the journalist Richard Abraham, as we look back at last weekend’s pre-Ronde van Vlaanderen appetisers, the E3 Saxo Classic and Gent-Wevelgem.

Friday saw the latest masterclass from Mathieu van der Poel in E3, which underlined his status as the outstanding favourite for De Ronde. Forty-eight hours later, though, Mads Pedersen’s victory over Van der Poel in Gent-Wevelgem led some to wonder whether Lidl-Trek had happened upon the perfect blueprint for defeating the Dutchman - not that the strategy will be easy to implement on Sunday.

In the final part of the podcast, we hear from a rider for whom just being on the startline on Sunday will represent a personal triumph - the Dane Michael Valgren, whose career was almost ended by a horror crash in the 2022 Route Occitanie.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the cycling podcast. Hello and welcoming you on Tuesday March 26th from Sawyer in Mayorca where I'm house sitting for Euro support commentator
0:35.2	Rob Hatch. My name's Daniel Freeman. I'm the host of this episode of the
0:39.2	Cycling Podcast which will begin by wishing 1997 world champion
0:44.1	Laurent Broshar a happy birthday happy 56 birthday. The Broshar was of course the first
0:50.0	cyclist to pair a mullet hairstyle with a rainbow jersey and
0:54.0	Mattier van der Paul was the most recent to do that
0:57.0	although the mullet did disappear last weekend.
1:00.0	We'll of course be talking about E3 Harrell Becker winner MVP in this episode and since we're already talking about Bundesliga haircuts
1:08.7	Focal Healers as discussed last week mul, it's time to welcome our first guest
1:14.2	to this week's pod.
1:15.9	It's Mitch Ducker.
1:16.8	And Mitch, I do apologize for this because I feel as though
1:20.2	I have gone in with the mullet before and you know we shouldn't reduce you to just a
1:26.5	hairstyle whether it's the mullet or the mustache there's a lot more to Mitch
1:31.6	docker than just you know his Bund his Bundesliga haircut, but how are you?
1:35.0	I'm very well, it's good to be here. I'm excited. It's classic season and hasn't it just delivered?
1:41.0	The racing always gets good this time of year. The mullet, the mullet is something, you know, I have got rid of it a couple of times, but I don't know, I feel a bit naked without it. I feel like it's, is it destined to be there for the rest of my life that's
1:54.6	what I'm wondering did you see this van der Paul mullet because I feel as
1:59.1	though it was it was a bit of an herb but I mean you could it was barely barely discernible under the helmet a couple of weeks ago and then it has
2:06.4	disappeared which led me to question whether it was ever there in the first place.
2:09.4	That sounds like a Luke Rowe mullet to me.
2:11.5	He used to claim he had a little tiny bit of, you know, little couple strands of hair
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