S13 Ep135: Stage 18 | Valladolid > Valladolid | Vuelta a España
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the cycling podcast coverage of the Vuelta A Hispania brought to you in association with Lloyds. |
| 0:07.0 | The Vuelta has a few more days to go until it reaches Madrid and the next big appointment in the pro cycling calendar is the UCI Road World Championships, |
| 0:15.0 | where the Great Britain team, sponsored by Lloyds, will compete across men's and women's road race and time trial events. |
| 0:22.5 | Lloyd's investment in British cycling extends well beyond this season two. A multi-year |
| 0:27.1 | sponsorship deal means that Lloyds will be supporting cycling from grassroots participation |
| 0:31.8 | right up to elite level over the next few years. At the very top of the sport, Great Britain's men and women are building towards the |
| 0:39.7 | 28 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles, and Lloyds will be backing them all the way |
| 0:45.8 | as sponsors of the national team. |
| 0:48.7 | Lloyds, they're at every stage. |
| 0:51.1 | Now it's over to Spain to join Daniel. |
| 1:00.8 | Thank you. stage. Now it's over to Spain to join Daniel. You are listening to the cycling podcast at the 2025 Vuelta-Espania, celebrating 10 years of the |
| 1:08.0 | cycling podcast on the ground every day at the Grand Tours. |
| 1:16.9 | Buenos Tardes, Danny Arrivas, Salud, we haven't done this yet. We haven't clink gases yet. We are clinking because we're clinking. We're celebrating the fact that it was a time trial today and |
| 1:27.5 | Danny was very excited about seeing a time trial I was less excited I'm generally less |
| 1:32.1 | excited about time trials but the important thing once again and this was at the same |
| 1:38.4 | point that we started the show with yesterday was that we did have a race today it wasn't |
| 1:42.0 | the race that we necessarily expected when we recorded yesterday because that was before the course was shortened. More on that in just a moment, but we did have a race. |
| 1:52.0 | Anyway, Danny, before we get into all of that, just explain or just tell the listeners where are we currently? |
| 1:58.0 | Well, good tardes, Don Daniel and the listeners. |
| 2:01.6 | We are here in a shadowed terrace, just close to the Pizuerga River here in Valladolid. |
| 2:08.6 | Good weather today, even hot weather, shall we say. |
| 2:12.4 | And just having a quick drink. |
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