S12 Ep9: Yellow Fever

The Cycling Podcast

News, Sports, Sports News

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is joined by the veteran French journalist François Thomazeau and the Aussie former Classics maestro Mitch Docker to recap Opening Weekend - the Belgian double-header dominated, as per the predictions, by the Visma-Lease a Bike team.

Wout Van Aert was the favourite for Saturday’s Omloop het Nieuwsblad and indeed looked to be zeroing in on victory until the peloton him down in the closing kilometres. It was left to Jan Tratnik to ‘save’ Visma-Lease a Bike and take the win…with Van Aert having to wait until the following day’s Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne to open his Classics account for 2024.

We discuss these and other notable performances from the two races, and also hear from Bahrain Victorious’s Fred Wright about what went…wrong for him at Omloop. Julian Alaphilippe, too, has had better weekends, and would have been hoping for a better response to his boss, Patrick Lefevere’s, recent criticism in the Belgian media. Nevertheless, we ask: what exactly was Lefevere playing at?

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0:00.0	You are listening to the cycling podcast. Hello and welcoming you after an opening weekend when Jan Trattnick ruled
0:27.6	himself out of contention for the tour of Flinders by winning on
0:31.0	Loop Hetenus Blahad thus exposing himself to the most
0:34.4	obstinate curse in professional cycling as discussed last week and Welt Van Art
0:38.5	did the opposite by proving faster than all except Rick Bossute the bearded wonder of Belgian cycling who enjoyed 15 minutes of
0:45.4	fame after half-wheeling Van Art aboard his electric scooter following WVA's victory.
0:52.3	In Kuna Brussels, Kuna on Sunday. My name is Daniel Freeb, I'm the host of this episode of
0:57.1	the cycling podcast in which will ruminate over a dominant start to the cardboard
1:01.4	classics for Vizma Lisa Bike, a frankly despotic beginning to
1:05.5	Yonis Vingar's tour build up in Spain and perhaps we'll also assess the motivational
1:12.4	tactics employed last week by Patrick Lofev with Julian Alaphilippe.
1:17.0	Joining me to do all of that today is a man who wrote Onloop Heat Newsblad, probably called Hep Volk when he started, seven times, the last of them in 2021,
1:26.0	becoming such a legend in Belgium that he has, or had, he'll tell us in a minute,
1:30.0	his own fan club there with an Instagram account that proclaimed his the best mustache in
1:35.4	cycling hence better than Rick Bossuits Rick Bossuits was more of a goatee.
1:42.3	It's Mitch Docker first of all Mitch you know who I'm talking about?
1:44.8	Mix, Mitch, I'm sorry, Rick Bossuit. This picture went around the world. The fellow, the rather
1:52.0	sort of sturdy looking feller aboard the world. The fellow, the rather sort of sturdy looking fellow aboard the electric
1:54.9	scooter. He's kind of a chaperone, I believe. Yes, yes, yes, I have seen the clips. Legend, he was so cool on the scooter.
2:02.1	I saw him running, then I saw him on the scooter
2:05.5	I read an interview. I read an interview with him actually with Sports or I think and he talks about his pre-classics
2:11.9	training regime.
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