S8 Ep165: Kilometre 0 – NTT SOS
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🗓️ 19 October 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Gerald Ciolek took their first win at Milan Sanremo back in 2013. Shortly afterwards, the team was riding and winning stages at the Tour de France.
They made a splash in 2015 when Daniel Teklehaimanot took the polkadot jersey on stage six, and again on stage 14 where Steve Cummings won at Mende.
The addition of riders like Edvald Boasson Hagen and Mark Cavendish to the roster made them a formidable force in the sprints and they took a total of six Tour de France stages between 2016 and 2017.
However, things have since taken a downturn for the team. Marred by illness and injury, the wins began to dissipate and on the eve of the Giro d'Italia, NTT announced that they would not be renewing their sponsorship.
What does the future hold for them?
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Kilometer Zero by the Cycling Podcast, powered by Zwift. The fitness |
| 0:09.1 | app where fun is fast. |
| 0:19.1 | The mini-copot-sub-evo at 37 years of age is trying to take the gin of the Italian part. |
| 0:26.4 | It is going to be laughing at the end of the day though and it is brewing up, Brian, to be a very |
| 0:31.6 | interesting day indeed as the peloton or what's left of it comes over the top of what of Marco |
| 0:36.0 | Pantani's favorite training climbs, the barbotto. I'm very happy to be back in the peloton and also |
| 0:43.6 | now improving my shape and being one more time in the fight. I'm very close to be 100%. I think |
| 0:52.2 | something always lacking the left arm is not so stiff like the right but my shape is very close |
| 0:59.6 | to what I had before the action. That was Dominico Potsivevo who it seems strange to describe as one |
| 1:05.0 | of the revelations of this hero but who at 37 has been riding as well as he's ever ridden. He's |
| 1:11.2 | also been riding confidently. On a couple of stages including Thursday's Tuchezanatico he ordered |
| 1:16.4 | his NTT team to the front ride hard and aggressively to try and set him up. It didn't work but it |
| 1:22.4 | was an impressive team performance perhaps the best we've seen from this team for a few seasons. |
| 1:27.4 | Africa's World Tour team has been around in one guys or another as MT and Quebeca, |
| 1:31.9 | dimension data and now NTT since 2007 becoming a continental team in 2008 and a pro-conti team |
| 1:40.0 | in 2013 when Gerald Cheelick took their first major win at Malan San Remo. A year later they |
| 1:46.1 | rode their first Grand Tour of the world to Espanya and a year after that some big names joined |
| 1:51.0 | including Edvard Bolson Hagen. With him on board they won a wild card to the Tour de France |
| 1:55.9 | and made a big impact Daniel Teclay Mnott spending four days in the King of the Mountains jersey |
| 2:00.8 | and Steve Cummings winning stage 14 on Mandela Day. In 2016 there was another influx of star names |
| 2:06.9 | including Mark Cavendish and their best Tour de France winning five stages for for Cavendish |
| 2:12.3 | and one for Cummings. They won 32 races that year but since then dogged by Injuries, Illness and |
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