S12 Ep5: Poel Position
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2024
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
The reigning ‘cross world champions, Mathieu van der Poel and Fem Van Empel, are both favourites to retain their titles at the weekend. Renaat tells us why a Van der Poel victory, in particular, looks a safe bet…but possibly not a foregone conclusion.
In the last part of the podcast, we switch our attention to the tarmac and examine some of the themes of the road season so far. After last week’s laurels for the 20-year-old Mexican wunderkind Isaac Del Toro, we’re treated to an even closer look at his journey to the top by some of the men and women who first brought him to Europe with the A.R. Monex team.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the cycling podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello and joining you are |
| 0:17.0 | Hello and joining you on January the 30th otherwise I learned a few hours ago known in the |
| 0:28.7 | United States of America's National Quasante. |
| 0:31.8 | Sorry what's that today? |
| 0:34.0 | Crozaint. |
| 0:35.0 | My name is Daniel Freebur, and I am the host of this episode of the Cycling Podcast |
| 0:39.0 | in which we'll be feasting not on Crescentrescent-shaped pastures |
| 0:43.0 | quaçon or krason, as I think |
| 0:46.5 | pogach I just said. |
| 0:47.7 | But among other things, I'll cross, |
| 0:50.0 | for it is that time of year. |
| 0:51.8 | The cyclo-cross worlds are upon us mercifully, mercifully coming to my aid is a gentleman who is as much an authority on Cyclocross as I am and Ignoramus. It is one of the voices of all |
| 1:05.9 | cycling in Belgium, Mr Renard Schotter, who told me just before we started |
| 1:11.8 | recording that he hasn't been working on Cyclocross |
| 1:15.0 | this winter? |
| 1:17.2 | So we're gonna have to fire the booking agent. |
| 1:19.7 | But you have been watching Cyclocross, fortunately you're in Arba. |
| 1:23.0 | How are you, first of all? |
| 1:24.4 | Yeah, good, good, good. |
| 1:25.5 | I mean, a winter without working at Cyclicross |
| 1:28.3 | is really a thing I would recommend every cycling journalist, of not the riders of course not the riders because |
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