S13 Ep2: Summer of Sam
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
There’s also a postscript to last week’s discussions about both the future of the sport and its business model - and also what 2025 has in store for INEOS Grenadiers.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the cycling podcast. Hello and joining you on January the 22nd, hopefully a happy 62nd birthday to Andre Schmiel, the former Tour of Flanders and Milan San Remo winner who during his career |
| 0:38.1 | represented five different nations and was the most terrifying man in each one of them. |
| 0:43.5 | My name is Daniel Freiber. I survived my harrowing encounter with Andre 15 years ago and I am the host |
| 0:49.6 | of this episode of the cycling podcast in which we have a lot to discuss, including the resumption of |
| 0:55.1 | World Tour Cycling at the Tour Down Under. |
| 0:57.7 | Joining me, helping me today is an unchanged lineup of Rob Hatch. |
| 1:02.3 | Hello, Rob. |
| 1:03.2 | Good evening. |
| 1:04.3 | And emerging from his mountain of fan mail. |
| 1:07.6 | Hello, Daniel. |
| 1:08.7 | How many of those five nations can you name off the top of your head? |
| 1:12.2 | I'm assuming you all of them. |
| 1:14.4 | Yes. |
| 1:15.1 | Well, do you know what? |
| 1:15.8 | I did have a doubt about one of them. |
| 1:17.4 | So the five are Russia, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Moldova and Belgium. |
| 1:23.1 | I had a bit of a doubt about Russia because if you go back and look at, well, other sources, other |
| 1:30.7 | media who have quoted this bizarre stat, some of them refer to four nations he represented. |
| 1:36.3 | And Russia is the one that's left off. |
| 1:40.0 | And I think he represented, he possibly represented Russia, well, in, I think, between 1990 and 1991, possibly. |
| 1:51.0 | He represented Russia. |
| 1:52.3 | And of course, one, the famous, the very, very muddy, wet edition of Pai Rube in 94, one of the sort of, I suppose, one of those iconic races of the |
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