S8 Ep166: Kilometre 0 – George Bennett
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🗓️ 20 October 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
George Bennett has suffered from a long term health issue since the beginning of his career as a professional cyclist. Last winter he underwent surgery in attempt to correct it.
He had a fantastic start to the season restart, winning Gran Piemonte and coming second to Jakob Fuglsang at Il Lombardia, in addition to playing a vital role for Primoz Roglic at the Tour de France.
Bennett will be a key lieutenant for Roglic once again, at the Vuelta a España - we caught up with the Kiwi ahead of the race.
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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. |
| 0:19.2 | George Bennett is a New Zealander who has been with Yombo Viesmas since 2015 when the Dutch |
| 0:23.6 | team was a lot to NL Yombo and at a pretty low Ebb. He and they have developed in tandem |
| 0:29.4 | since then, his team of which Bennett was part dominating this year's Tour de France |
| 0:33.9 | until that extraordinary time trial on the penultimate day when Tadeh Poggachar snatched |
| 0:38.6 | the race from Primo's Ruglich. Bennett wasn't at his best at the tour and will hear |
| 0:42.8 | why, but before the tour he was absolutely flying. He won the Italian one day race Grand |
| 0:48.0 | Piemonte and then he was second to Jakob Fulsang at Ilombardia. I was curious whether |
| 0:53.2 | this meant he had resolved the long-standing health issue that's bothered him a stitch |
| 0:56.8 | or a side stitch, he calls it. As he told us in an episode of Kilometer Zero during last |
| 1:01.2 | year's welter, he was having surgery in the winter to try and rectify the problem. |
| 1:05.6 | I could show you that it doesn't really work on podcasts, but I basically got like three |
| 1:09.9 | broken ribs. Like, you can do a self-discipline. Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh yeah, the ribs are actually |
| 1:18.1 | I can see them moving. How long has that been in the case? Well I don't know, I could have |
| 1:23.2 | been born like that or it could have been broken in rugby because I've had this for like |
| 1:27.0 | 11 years or 10, as long as I've been like a good bicracer I remember this problem. |
| 1:31.4 | Did you not know that you had the broken ribs? Why I thought they were, I don't know technically |
| 1:36.0 | if they're broken or what's actually happened is they're not broken, but I mean, so people |
| 1:42.0 | obviously this is the wrong kind of medium to be lifted my shirt up and pop up my ribs |
| 1:47.5 | around, but we'll try to scribe it. So basically all your ribs on most people are |
| 1:53.6 | connected. So if you touch a sternum, go down and connect it and then the bottom two are |
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