S8 Ep159: The Grandest Tour stage 11: A transitional stage

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🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The Giro d’Italia had a transitional stage for the sprinters and we had a transitional podcast too, with Lionel Birnie joining Richard Moore to recap stage 11.

With sprint finishes in Rimini and in Schoten at the Scheldeprijs, the question is, who’s the fastest? Arnaud Démare – who took his fourth stage victory of this Giro – or Caleb Ewan, who won in Belgium?

We hear from Jacopo Guarnieri of Groupama-FDJ after another seamless leadout for Démare, and from Elia Viviani, who was knocked off by a motorbike, a moment of misfortune that sums up his season.

We also hear from stage eight’s victor, Alex Dowsett, who has settled back into support duties for his Israel Start-Up Nation team, and from Atilla Valter, the Hungarian riding his first grand tour.

With Daniel Friebe absent, no one was available to remind Lionel of the incident at last year’s Giro when they recorded an entire episode of the podcast only to discover that the recording equipment had been on the wrong setting, meaning they had to start from scratch, which in turn meant they missed out on a sumptuous dinner and had to settle for a rushed pizza. Oh, the memories!

Tomorrow night we introduce the first of our guest co-hosts for The Grandest Tour, with former pro Ian Boswell picking up the mic.

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Grandest Tour by The Cycling Podcast.
0:06.4	Brought to you by IWalker, flexible loans, built for small businesses.
0:11.6	IWOCA.co.uk
0:15.9	Today we are at the Giro d'Italia.
0:30.0	IWOCA.co.uk
0:35.6	Hello my name is Ricardo Murasotto.
0:42.0	I might not be in Italy anymore I'm back in France but I'm holding on to my Italian moniker.
0:49.0	And I'm joined tonight by Leonelli Bernierini.
0:51.9	Oh, I'm honored. I'm honored.
0:54.6	Although I've not set foot in Italy this year, I'm never the less honored.
1:00.0	I don't ask my pronounce my own surname.
1:02.4	There I'll just butcher it.
1:03.8	You know, no, no. Well, you'll get used to it over the however long the Giro last.
1:08.0	You'll get used to it.
1:09.4	We were going to be joined by Danieli Fliber and Chini tonight, but unfortunately he is unavailable
1:16.2	at the last minute. But it's complicated, isn't it? We're all at home now and
1:21.6	other things going on. And I think Daniel will be joining us again before he heads off to the
1:26.2	Vuelta and then we'll be hearing from him at the Vuelta as well. But from tomorrow we've
1:30.5	got a rotating cast of guest presenters, don't we Lionel?
1:33.6	We have indeed kicking off with Ian Boswell, who's ridden and completed the Giro d'Italia.
1:39.8	We'll also be hearing from Francois Thomas over a few days and Lizzie Banks,
1:44.4	double Giro Rosa State winner, of course. So yeah, we'll have their thoughts on the Giro,
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