S8 Ep187: The Grandest Tour stage 30: Where are we, Lionel?

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🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

s the Vuelta a España reached stage 15, and The Grandest Tour reached stage 30, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau recap a day that had breakaway written all over it, but ended in a bunch sprint.

We check in with Daniel Friebe and hear from our audio diarist, Nick Schultz, who was in the break that looked like it would stay away, and from Harry Tanfield, whose Vuelta ended thanks to a persistent injury. There’s also an interview with promising young British rider Mark Donovan of Team Sunweb. And we discuss the news that Ian Stannard, a stalwart of Team Sky and Ineos, has announced his retirement.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the grandest tour by the cycling podcast brought to you by iWalker
0:06.8	Flexible loans built for small businesses. Iwoc a.co.uk
0:18.4	Where are we Lionel?
0:20.4	Where are we?
0:22.4	Just thought and threw that in there
0:25.5	Where are we?
0:27.5	It doesn't say that in the perfectly home script that we read from every night
0:35.4	We're at stage 30
0:38.7	Stage 30 ridiculous
0:40.7	We should have thought about this at the start of the grandest tour what we this is you're gonna get in the episodes
0:46.5	This was your idea this grandest tour
0:50.7	In a in concept possibly I mean yeah, okay, I'll take the blame
0:55.2	I'll take the blame Daniel came up with the name Daniel came up with the name you came up with the concept and I just got carried along and
1:03.6	You're the only one that's gonna complete the entire course. I'm the Adam Hanson of the grandest tour
1:10.6	Is that right? No, there was a episode Daniel and I did on our own wasn't there the transitional episode?
1:16.8	Yeah, no one's finished it this year very very low very low audience figures for that one
1:23.0	Um, I'm not I'm not flagging at all though. I'm still bursting with energy and
1:29.8	We're joined tonight for the last time in the grandest tour by Francois Thomas. Oh hello Francois
1:36.6	There. Yeah, I feel like you remember in the old days of the tour the tourist or what you I mean that there were guys
1:43.8	We're coming in and out of the tour, you know just
1:46.9	Racing in one stage and going out and back. I mean that that's yeah, that's nice as well
1:51.2	You know they should do that again in grand tours
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