S8 Ep167: The Grandest Tour stage 16: Cappuccino, waffles, jamón

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🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are joined by guest host and former Team Sky and Katusha-Alpecin professional Ian Boswell to discuss today's racing in three countries.

It was a day to celebrate for Slovenia and one to commiserate for Jolien D’Hoore. We start in northern Spain, the Basque Country to be precise, where the Vuelta a España got underway.

Primoz Roglic picked up where he left off in Madrid last year – in the leader's red jersey – after he won the opening stage. It was a brutal start to the Vuelta, with the overall battle already reduced to a dozen or so contenders. We know for certain that former Vuelta winner Chris Froome and French hope Thibaut Pinot are out of the overall picture already.

Then it’s the the Belgian coast for the Driedaagse Brugge-De Panne which is, logically enough, a pair of one-day races held on consecutive days now. Today it was the turn of the women and there was a controversial relegation for Jolien D’Hoore, who won the sprint finish only to be relegated for an illegal move in the finish straight. Was it the right decision or was she hard done-by?

Finally, we pick up the Giro d’Italia, which resumed after its rest day with the news of a couple of positive coronavirus tests – one for Fernando Gaviria, a teammate of our diarist Joe Dombrowski. We unpick another Slovenian victory and Ian weighs up the overall hopes of his former teammate Tao Geoghegan Hart.

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Grandest Tour by The Cycling Podcast.
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0:16.0	Hello, my name is Shadmura, I'm with Lionel Farrony, Halle Richard, and once again
0:29.9	joining us, Ian Boswell.
0:31.9	Hey Richard, Halle Ian, hello Lionel, my head is spinning, I feel a bit dizzy after a day
0:38.3	of trying to keep up with three different bite races.
0:41.6	What were the practicalities of this for you Lionel, how did you manage this?
0:46.7	Well, I made myself a cappuccino and a Belgian waffle and then I had some ham on.
0:52.2	I might have known, I might have known that it would be a food based answer to this.
0:56.8	I was stocked up.
0:57.8	Did you watch The Racing at all?
0:59.2	Oh, did you just eat?
1:01.2	I did watch The Racing as well.
1:04.0	You know, whilst sort of licking my fingers and reaching for plates of things, I did miss
1:08.9	some crucial action.
1:09.9	No, it was good fun, wasn't it?
1:11.8	Because everything was quite well coordinated today.
1:14.7	There was the women's race at Dapana and then the giro finished it, got out of the way
1:19.9	in time for us to watch the exciting bit of the Vuelta.
1:23.5	So it's perfect.
1:24.5	There was one odd moment when I was watching the Vuelta and the giro simultaneously and
1:30.0	Benlconner attacked of NTT and at the same time an NTT rider crashed at the Vuelta.
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