S8 Ep169: The Grandest Tour stage 17: The Italian-Spanish-Belgium triangle
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 21 October 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In the first part we review stage 17 of the Giro d’Italia, where Aussie Ben O’Connor went one better than yesterday and took a vital victory for NTT Pro Cycling.
Then we recap the men’s Three Days of De Panne, where the wind caused havoc, Mathieu Van der Poel ran off the road and ended up in a ditch and Yves Lampaert took victory on a day for the hard men.
Finally we talk about Movistar’s Least Expected Win – only their second of the year – by Marc Soler at the Vuelta a España, plus we check in with Daniel Friebe in Spain.
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| 0:00.0 | This was real racing. This is cycling like it was 100 years ago. |
| 0:07.0 | You are listening to the grandest tour by the cycling podcast brought to you by |
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| 0:24.5 | Well, Champs, whose voice was that and what race were they talking about? |
| 0:30.0 | Francois Thomas, oh do you know? |
| 0:32.0 | It was not any time in accents, it was not a Spanish accent. |
| 0:38.0 | So my guess is, well I think you have quite a clue there. |
| 0:44.0 | Yes, it was a Belgian accent. It was a Tugacore of it, so of Het Newsblad. |
| 0:49.0 | A man who's well he's not been covering races for 100 years, |
| 0:52.0 | but he certainly knows a good bite race when he sees it and he loved today's race from |
| 0:57.0 | Bruce to the pan once the three days of the pan now. |
| 1:00.0 | He rebranded as Bruger de Paner and oh my goodness it was quite a days racing, windy, cold. |
| 1:07.0 | But once we kind of accepted the conditions, there certainly was some of the riders accepting the conditions, |
| 1:13.0 | we saw a really thrilling race. |
| 1:15.0 | But it was one of three big races going on today. |
| 1:19.0 | You Francois in Marseille are kind of, you were right in the centre of the action in a way |
| 1:26.0 | because with the Giro happening in Italy, the Welton Spain and the Pan up in Belgium, |
| 1:33.0 | you're kind of right in the middle of it, geographically speaking. |
| 1:36.0 | Yeah, really. I guess that had been in Lyon, |
| 1:39.0 | it would have been even closer to the centre of the, you know, of the Psychian Universe today. |
| 1:44.0 | I was not far, I was not far. |
| 1:46.0 | I was actually watching the three races unfolding on two computers and a TV set. |
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