S13 Ep16: Very Strange Racing Behaviour
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2025
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
‘Opening Weekend’ may not have lived up to all the hype but both Omloop het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne did serve up some juicy talking points. Among the hottest topics in the Belgian media were Visma-Lease a Bike’s toils - and they’re also on the agenda in this week’s ‘Coorevits Corner’, our weekly check-in with Flandrian cycling oracle Hugo Coorevits.
In part three of the episode, we look ahead to Strade Bianche and Paris-Nice at the weekend. One of the favourites for overall victory on the Promenade des Anglais a week on Sunday, Pavel Sivakov, also shares some childhood memories of “The Race to the Sun” and discusses newfound confidence since joining UAE Team Emirates last year.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the cycling podcast, proudly supported by Sports Tours International. |
| 0:05.6 | Now maybe you fancy a trip to the Tour de France later this summer. Maybe the Grand |
| 0:09.4 | ipar weekend in Leal or the Alps, the Pyrenees, the mythical Monvon 2, or perhaps the final day |
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| 0:21.7 | right to the heart of the action. Their team are friendly and experienced guides, know the Tour de France |
| 0:28.0 | inside out, which means that you're leaving nothing to chance and you can get the best possible |
| 0:32.4 | experience out of your trip to the tour. And the reason I mention this is because way back in 1997 before I became a |
| 0:39.0 | cycling journalist, I went to watch the Tour de France with my dad. We went to see a time trial at |
| 0:44.1 | San Etienne and then the plan was to watch the race on Alp Duet. But we were there off our own backs. |
| 0:50.5 | We travelled over on our own and we were kind of making it up as we went along and we |
| 0:55.2 | didn't really appreciate how big the Tour de France was and we certainly didn't know how early |
| 0:59.5 | the roads were closed and so when it came to getting to Aptuiz, we couldn't get onto the mountain. |
| 1:06.4 | We ended up watching it on a bit of a nondescript stretch of road on the run towards Borg du |
| 1:11.4 | Azon. And while it was a great weekend, we came away thinking that perhaps we would have |
| 1:15.8 | got more out of it if we'd gone with some people who really knew what the tour was all about. |
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| 1:25.3 | really know what they're doing and they can take you on the trip of a |
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| 1:39.9 | including a once-in-a-lifetime trip that will take you inside the race in one of the Tour de France official cars. |
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| 1:54.5 | Now it's on March the 4th, 2025 after a week when in the |
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