S12 Ep19: Flanders Classic?
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Mathieu van der Poel’s third Flanders victory was his most emphatic to date, but his triumphant solo move on the Koppenberg - while others floundered in his wake - also raised questions about whether that iconic climb should be removed from the Ronde course. We discuss this, Michael Matthews’ relegation in the sprint for the minor places, plus the accomplished performances of Movistar and runner-up Luca Mozzato.
In the last part of the episode, thoughts then turn to Paris-Roubaix next weekend and the Tour of the Basque Country - where the ‘home team’ is lining up with a surprising import.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the cycling podcast. Hello and joining you on April 2nd 2024 the date from which the much lampoon specialized head sock or TT super snood loss |
| 0:35.3 | sported by Primus Roglich in the Bas country yesterday will be outlawed. My name's Daniel Freebo. |
| 0:41.2 | I am the host of this episode of the cycling podcast in which |
| 0:43.4 | we'll Don are fully authorized scuba caps and dive deep back into the slightly |
| 0:49.2 | opaque waters of Sunday's tour of Flanders, into Piru Bay's form guide and also into what awaits us later in the week in Northern Spain |
| 0:57.8 | Mitch docker last week we started off the podcast talking about haircuts today we're rolling down the start ramp talking |
| 1:04.3 | about headgear are you sad did you know the super snoot is gone Mitch the head sock |
| 1:09.9 | gone from today I didn't know and I'm not too sad about it on a fashion police |
| 1:16.2 | style I think I want to get it back to when they just had the the plastic |
| 1:21.1 | lids on you know back in the all rig arms from days they're just like |
| 1:24.3 | those super skinny lids they were so quick those one of my favorite my favorite sort of |
| 1:30.3 | TT headgear moment when I watch it back now. |
| 1:34.4 | 1996 Tour de France, last time trail, |
| 1:36.7 | Saint Emilion, where Jan Ulrich famously won |
| 1:39.4 | beat Miguel Inderene. |
| 1:40.4 | And he's wearing just a casket on the start ramp and and sort of one second as they're |
| 1:46.7 | counting down and he goes three two and sort of on two seconds he sort of has this |
| 1:51.2 | moment where he thinks oh no I'll turn it around it looks better it looks better |
| 1:54.8 | facing the other way I love that it's just like not even concerned about you know the start taking |
| 1:59.7 | the big deep rest he's like you know what I might just do the style cab adjustment one second to go |
| 2:04.5 | it's like it's like a switch click and I'm ready yeah well listen it worked it worked |
| 2:10.9 | also joining us today is the immaculately quaffered as ever. Young Richard Abraham. |
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