S12 Ep84: Arrivée | Men's Olympic Road Race
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
A 272km race with just 90 starters promised to be a gruelling affair - and certainly a spectacular one with its three ascents of the Butte de Montmartre to one of Paris’s most famous landmarks, the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur. Could Mathieu van der Poel justify his favourite’s billing after a low-key Tour de France - or would his eternal rival, Wout Van Aert form a deadly duo with countryman and newly crowned Olympic TT champ Remco Evenepoel?
These and other questions were answered on Saturday afternoon - and Daniel and Larry review what we found out here.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Achievay by the cycling podcast. Bons Vonsieur, uh, taut and a tuss good evening to you, Larry Wollbus, first of all, |
| 0:31.8 | Larry this is an unusual format we don't give you usual |
| 0:34.0 | sort of ceremonial convoluted intro and just straight in Larry you're in France you're not |
| 0:41.0 | in Paris but you'll be joining me today to talk about the Olympic Road Race, |
| 0:46.4 | which I hope Larry you've been watching assiduously all afternoon. |
| 0:49.6 | Yeah, I watched a bit of it. |
| 0:51.2 | I mean I was expecting this nice. A bit, a bit of it. I mean, I was expecting it nice. |
| 0:54.0 | How much are we paying you for this? |
| 0:56.0 | No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I watched the most important parts. |
| 0:58.0 | So I watched the start and then I watched like the last 80K or something so so it's pretty good. I watch from when like Healy went away with Lutenko so I think that was really when the action started. |
| 1:11.0 | Right, okay. Well you just have to listen to the very exhaustive race recap that I'm going to do in a minute, |
| 1:17.7 | but Larry, first of all, tell us we haven't heard from you for a while, how the devil are you? |
| 1:21.7 | Yeah, doing pretty well. Spent the last while at home training |
| 1:28.0 | in France did a little stint on the TV at the end of the tour of France which was enjoyable. |
| 1:34.1 | Yeah I guess I was with your nemesis, huh? |
| 1:37.8 | Larry told me that it has to be quick tonight. He has to sign off in about 40 minutes |
| 1:41.2 | because he's due on Jay Lane Was it Jay Lane or Letterman tonight, Larry? |
| 1:45.0 | You Bicketers' media personality. |
| 1:47.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:48.0 | So yeah, that was an interesting experience. |
| 1:51.0 | It was cool. |
| 1:52.0 | Enjoyed that. And then, yeah, pretty much other than that, I've just been training, recovering, |
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