S13 Ep14: Jebel Without A Pause
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Tour de France rivals Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard both began their seasons last week - both with instant success. Pogačar’s GC win in the UAE Tour came thanks to stage victories in the two mountain stages to Jebel Jais and Jebel Hafeet, while Vingegaard left it late with his final-day TT triumph in Portugal.
In part three of the episode, Larry updates us on an encouraging start to his season. We then premiere a new feature for the Classics season – Coorevits Corner – starring veteran Belgian reporter Hugo Coorevits.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the cycling podcast brought to you by Sports Tours International. |
| 0:05.6 | Now, you've probably heard of the Atape du Tour because it's the biggest and most prestigious |
| 0:09.2 | sportive event in the world. And it gives you a flavour of what it's like to ride the Tour de |
| 0:14.3 | France or one day of the Tour de France. At any rate, every year they pick the Queen's stage |
| 0:19.1 | of the tour and they open it up to thousands of amateur riders |
| 0:24.0 | to tackle a mountain stage of the tour. |
| 0:27.5 | And our producer, Adam Bowie, |
| 0:29.7 | has ridden the Atapto Tour with Sports Tours International |
| 0:32.9 | on two occasions. |
| 0:34.1 | Adam, you did it in consecutive years. |
| 0:35.6 | What was it that convinced you to go back and |
| 0:38.4 | ride the second year with sports tours international? Yeah, they just sorted everything out for you, |
| 0:44.2 | really, from getting the entry to the sportive itself, sorting out local hotels, and then |
| 0:51.5 | depending on which year I did it in in there was either transport to or from the |
| 0:57.1 | start finish line dependent you know exactly where the stage is running to and then they had |
| 1:02.5 | mechanics on hand so that once you'd arrived from the UK any little fettering any little bit of |
| 1:08.3 | sorting out of your bike they were to help you with |
| 1:11.5 | they also gave you a nice sort of introduction to the whole event and just ran through the |
| 1:18.9 | whole process really just to make it seamless as possible so that you know you were as |
| 1:22.9 | fresh and prepared as you possibly could be for the day an An actual team briefing, just like being a pro. |
| 1:29.1 | Did that help you out on the day itself? |
| 1:31.5 | It did. |
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