S8 Ep111: Kilometre 0 – Remembering Nico
The Cycling Podcast
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4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This episode of Kilometre 0 remembers Portal with Vincent Lavenu, the AG2R sports director who helped him switch from mountain biking to road racing. We also hear from Team Ineos principal Dave Brailsford and CEO Fran Millar, who talk about the kind, sensitive person who leaves a big void in the team, and from Pavel Sivakov who Portal persuaded to join the team.
Despatches from our team of audio diarists will appear throughout our Tour de France coverage as well as in Kilometre 0.
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. Power by Zwift, the fitness app |
| 0:09.4 | where fun is fast. |
| 0:17.0 | The first thing I, when I left from my jetwear, I love this team and I need to thank you |
| 0:22.6 | for Vincent Lavigneux and I have some really good teammates and some good friends. |
| 0:27.6 | I learned a lot. I was told for my personal experience. I come from Montenbach and nobody |
| 0:33.6 | knew me in the road and then I started to be good on the town trial. Then I was close |
| 0:37.4 | to winning some stage in the tour and I was quite young, my first tour berla. |
| 0:41.2 | And then you get these 8 tickets. Ah, it's the next, someone is the next and then you're |
| 0:44.9 | whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, and this is what happened in France. And so, you know, I was not the |
| 0:49.0 | top top rider. So I can't believe for the guy like Pino or Barguille or no Barguille |
| 0:53.4 | or Bar de or Péros. Even if it's all wise. They became a probably big star and they get |
| 0:59.3 | also all the shit, sorry for that. But all the shit pressure. It's not a good pressure. |
| 1:03.8 | It's like a, we, it seems like all the people in France, they expect something from them, |
| 1:09.9 | you know, from the old school time from, ah, now it's a new I know, we wait, no, no, it will |
| 1:15.5 | never be a new I know. You know, it's finished. Stop. He's been the rider and he's been, |
| 1:20.4 | he's been excellent and he's unique. And now we need to find another one who is, we |
| 1:25.1 | are also is identity and it's true they get, they get this pressure and they get this |
| 1:30.0 | pressure and it's not easy. Would you like to work with a Frenchman here at Team Sky? |
| 1:34.4 | Oh, yeah, we love it. And yeah, especially you, you say few names on the interview. I'm |
| 1:38.7 | not going to say in case, but yeah. Barguille. Bar de. Yeah, we've been in contact with him |
| 1:42.8 | actually. Now they are also other Philippines. Yeah, he's a, he's a smart rider and clear |
| 1:47.5 | rider and I like this style and he's a guy. It can be really aggressive, but by the way, |
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