S8 Ep130: Kilometre 0 – Tour Diaries – Part 6
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 16 September 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Michael Mørkøv of Deceuninck-Quick Step is leadout man for Sam Bennett, who currently has the green jersey, so how concerned are they about Trentin's threat?
We also hear from Ineos Grenadiers rider Pavel Sivakov and Connor Swift of Arkéa-Samsic.
Despatches from our team of audio diarists will appear throughout our Tour de France coverage as well as in Kilometre 0. The full line-up is Nikias Arndt, Sam Bewley, Simon Geschke, Ryan Gibbons, Jens Keukeleire, Michael Mørkøv, Lukas Pöstlberger, Pavel Sivakov, Connor Swift and sports director Tom Southam.
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 Zero by the cycling podcast. Power by Zwift, the fitness |
| 0:08.9 | app where fun is fast. |
| 0:20.0 | Oh, I know you're looking sun-peen there. I'm covered in mosquito bites, Richard. I've got Polka.legs |
| 0:27.0 | after two nights near the lake in AXLibar. King of the mosquitoes. King of the |
| 0:32.0 | mosquitoes, yeah. Oh, but the... Well, it gives us... I mean, you know, third week of |
| 0:37.7 | Grand Tour, your body's gonna be breaking down and you're gonna be in pain. I guess |
| 0:42.8 | it's a different kind of pain to the riders. I don't know. So yeah, well, I have |
| 0:47.3 | done back-to-back rides. We'll ride around the lake AXLibar and then today's big ride. |
| 0:52.0 | No lunch ride. Well, let's not forget. So I'm very much looking forward to our dinner here |
| 0:58.0 | in Grenoble. I think it was no lunch ride. I can see this passing into... |
| 1:02.0 | You're looking at it on the get of Hangar, you know? Well, I think he almost did. I think he's |
| 1:06.7 | having one now, as we speak. It's in the last 13 hours. I've eaten one small apple tart. |
| 1:14.7 | Okay, well, we've ordered dinner line. It'll settle down. It'll be fine. But, you know, we've been |
| 1:20.6 | following the progress of our audio diaries, haven't we, over the course of this tour. And |
| 1:27.2 | it's funny. Each of them has a sort of interesting story to tell and a great insight to offer |
| 1:31.9 | into their team. I think tonight we're gonna hear from a few of them. Nicky's aren't, you know, his |
| 1:36.3 | team Sunweb. They've been on fire, really, and, you know, his insight into how they've done that, |
| 1:43.4 | what they've been doing is fascinating. They had a stage when, of course, at the weekend, |
| 1:47.2 | another one with Sauron Kraut Anderson. Michael Morkov is sort of fully engaged in the battle |
| 1:52.8 | for the Green Jersey, which has become one of the really interesting subtexts of this |
| 1:57.1 | third of France. And, well, the CCC's Matheo Trentini is trying to sort of get in amongst that |
| 2:04.9 | battle. So maybe we'll hear from Simon Geschka as well about what that's all about. |
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