S12 Ep2: Caleb Ewan - Homeward (Re)Bound

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🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

When, midway through last year’s Tour de France, Caleb Ewan ‘celebrated’ his 29th birthday, in fact far from rejoicing, the Aussie sprinter was enduring some of the most difficult days of his career - out of form and out of favour with his Lotto-Dstny team, so much so that his boss, Stéphane Heulot, would respond to Ewan quitting La Grande Boucle by questioning his professionalism.

Ewan’s relationship with Lotto looked irredeemably broken - and indeed, three months later, Jayco-Alula announced that they and Ewan were to reunite in 2024. Another three months have now passed since that news broke - and Ewan is finally ready to set the record straight, as he did in this in-depth interview with The Cycling Podcast on the eve of The Tour Down Under: on why he and Heulot never hit it off; on whether, as reports suggested last summer, he even contemplated retirement; and, most importantly, on his new beginning with the team where for him it all started.

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0:00.0	The Hello and joining you on January the 16th just hours after the 2024 World Tour season rolled out of
0:26.0	South Australia and more specifically Tananda,
0:29.3	proposedly home to the world's oldest Shiraz vines and where Sam Wellsford harvested his first
0:35.0	victory for Bora Hansgrover in stage one of the tour down under. My name is
0:39.5	Daniel Freib and I'm the host of this episode of the cycling podcast in which we'll meet another
0:44.4	Ozzy Sprinter who finished fourth today and will be very much in the spotlight
0:49.2	over the coming week. In this first quarter of a century the tour down under has become synonymous with the
0:55.0	dawning of a new season.
0:57.0	The world of cycling rebooting on mass after its winter hibernation.
1:01.3	But for Caleb Ewen, this year's race represents a fresh start in more ways than one.
1:06.0	Ewen is of course one of the foremost sprinters of his generation,
1:10.0	as his After an encouraging start his tour of France turned into a nightmare
1:24.4	one that ended with him abandoning the race, winless and joyless on stage 13 to
1:30.3	the Grand Colombia.
1:33.2	What had gone wrong?
1:34.2	Well in his lot of destiny team manager Stephen Eulau's eyes, the problem was Ewan,
1:39.6	and more precisely his attitude.
1:41.4	The morning after Eun's tour exit, Eulau doubled down on claims the previous precisely his
1:43.8	attitude. The morning after Eun's tour exit, Eulor doubled down on claims the previous day
1:45.2	that Eun had not only performed poorly but shown his teammates a lack of respect.
1:49.3	That day I put it to Eulor that rather than Paris,
1:52.1	they seem to be heading for Splitsville.
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