S8 Ep158: Kilometre 0 – Giro Diaries – Part 3
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 14 October 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
With Mitchelton-Scott and Jumbo-Visma having to pull out of the race because of a spate of coronavirus positive tests, Joe Dombrowski of UAE Team Emirates reacts to the news, talks about the difficulty of keeping the bubble secure and asks whether the race will make it to Milan.
Israel Start-Up Nation's Rick Zabel talks about the highs of his teammate Alex Dowsett's stage win but is wrestling with fact the race is continuing following several COVID positive tests.
And Nathan Haas's pasta odyssey continues.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Kilometer Zero by the Cycling Podcast powered by Zwift. The fitness app where fun is fast. |
| 0:12.0 | My name is Joe Dombraski. I ride for UAE team Emirates and this is my fifth |
| 0:18.7 | Gerald Italia. Gerald Italia stage seven today we started in Matara which I actually didn't know so much about and |
| 0:28.2 | you know rarely do I get to pay much attention to the starts and finishes but |
| 0:32.5 | incredible town. I think Frebe said that it was the third oldest consistently |
| 0:40.9 | inhabited town in the world. That might be fake news but I'm pretty sure I |
| 0:46.9 | saw it on Frebe's Twitter feed so guess it depends what you believe what sort of |
| 0:52.5 | news he's hawking anyway. But in any case it was it was meant to be a pretty easy day |
| 0:59.0 | today with the exception of if there was wind and the wind was howling in my |
| 1:04.2 | window in the hotel last night so I had a feeling that today was going to be not |
| 1:08.4 | the day that everyone had hoped for. And yeah it was just a lot of stress. I was not in the |
| 1:15.6 | first group from 5k and eventually came back and was involved in this crash at |
| 1:22.9 | 45k to go which was pretty much from the banner. Once we hit 50k to go every 5k is |
| 1:29.6 | marked with a banner you know denoting the distance of the finish and also it's |
| 1:35.0 | a billboard of sorts for sponsors which obviously they generate revenue from |
| 1:42.2 | and for whatever reason they often position these arches in a way that the |
| 1:50.5 | road is a bit of a pinch point and on a day like today when there's so much |
| 1:54.4 | stress in the peloton with the wind and everyone wanting to be at the front you |
| 1:58.8 | know the road the riders are from one end of the road to the other and that |
| 2:04.5 | was caused a big crash with a lot of guys behind it was probably a third or |
| 2:09.5 | half way through the group that the crash happened. So I was caught up in that |
| 2:14.0 | and I had to change the bike and eventually came back to the bunch around 20k |
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