S8 Ep101: Kilometre 0 – Meet the diarists
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Debutant Pavel Sivakov had an eventful opening weekend and in this episode we hear his anticipation at the prospect of riding the Tour de France for the first time, followed by two falls during the opening stage which have turned the opening week of the race into a battle to recover.
The full line-up is, Nikias Arndt (Team Sunweb), Sam Bewley (Mitchelton-Scott), Simon Geschke (CCC), Ryan Gibbons (NTT Pro Cycling), Jens Keukeleire (EF Pro Cycling), Michael Mørkøv (Deceuninck-Quick Step), Lukas Pöstlberger (Bora-Hansgrohe), Pavel Sivakov (Ineos Grenadiers), Connor Swift (Arkéa-Samsic) and Tom Southam (EF Pro Cycling).
Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is supported by Zwift, the app for riding, training and racing at home. Kilometre 0 is a 15-part series published on weekday mornings during the Tour de France.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Kilometre 0 by the cycling podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Powered by Zwift, the fitness app where fun is fast. |
| 0:12.0 | That's our message from Pavel Syvacoff Lionel. He's been on fire, hasn't he? |
| 0:31.0 | Hi guys, sorry for your silly evening. It was a bit foggy. |
| 0:36.0 | We're late to finish. We're having a late and obviously we're all the crushes I had the day before. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm a beautiful guest so that I'm going back. |
| 0:49.0 | Well, that's Pavel Syvacoff, the in-eos grenadier's rider who's had a pretty eventful start to his first tour to France. |
| 0:55.0 | He's one of nine riders keeping an audio diary for us throughout the tour. |
| 1:00.0 | He's got to hear excerpts from those diaries in the regular episodes but especially in Kilometre 0 starting today. |
| 1:07.0 | Now, of all our diaries, Syvacoff who's been the most prolific so far, hasn't he? |
| 1:12.0 | He has and he's had a very eventful opening few days. |
| 1:15.0 | Well, a terrible opening day of the tour. He's debut-tour, two crashes, a couple of minutes inside the time limit as a result. |
| 1:24.0 | And well, he's been taking time out from his recovery and recuperation to keep us updated on how his tour is going. |
| 1:33.0 | Well, in this episode we'll hear from some of our audio diaries just to run through all of them. |
| 1:37.0 | They are Nikias Art from Team Sunweb. |
| 1:40.0 | Sort of good road captain Nikias Art thought that would be an interesting perspective. |
| 1:44.0 | Lucas Postelberger from Borhandsgrove. |
| 1:47.0 | Connor Swift, another debut-tour from RKS-Samsik. |
| 1:50.0 | Jens Kukkler from EF Procycling, Sam Buley from Winston Scott, Simon Geshka from CCC, Tom Sutham, |
| 1:59.0 | he's our DS, he's from EF Procycling, Ryan Gibbons, another debut-tour from NTT Procycling, Michael Morkov from DeKunant Quickstep and the aforementioned Pavel Syvacoff. |
| 2:10.0 | So let's get straight into it shall we? |
| 2:21.0 | This is Pavel Syvacoff. |
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