S8 Ep199: Old beginnings

The Cycling Podcast

Sports, News, Sports News

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode we look at two high profile figures who are returning to old haunts. Mark Cavendish is going back to Deceuninck-Quick Step, the team with which he spent three successful seasons earlier in his career, while in an even more surprising move, his old mentor, Rod Ellingworth, is returning to Team Ineos after just a year in charge at Bahrain-McLaren.

In a week full of major news stories, Lionel Birnie, Daniel Friebe and Richard Moore discuss the moves by Cavendish and Ellingworth, as well as Team Sunweb's rebranding as Team DSM for 2021. The new sponsorship took everybody by surprise but we hear from the man who did the deal, team boss Iwan Spekenbrink, as well as the team's veteran Irishman, Nicolas Roche.

We also have an interview with Cherie Pridham, who will be the first female sports director at a World Tour team when she takes the reins at Israel Startup Nation, a team that in 2021 will include Chris Froome, Michael Woods and Sep Vanmarcke as well as Dan Martin and Alex Dowsett.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Cycling Podcast brought to you by IWocker, Flexible Loans,
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0:19.0	Hello my name is Richard Murrer, I'm with Daniel Freib, Hello Richard, Hello Daniel,
0:24.0	and somewhere Lionel, are you there? Lionel Bernie. Hello Japs, a hand, a disembodied hand,
0:31.0	waves on the tiny screen, hello Lionel, is there any reason why your camera is pointing at the ceiling?
0:37.0	I can't prop my phone up, it keeps slipping down, so you can look at the spot light on my ceiling.
0:48.0	Thanks very much, no musical revelations this week, I'm afraid Daniel's back in his black polineck, looking kind of 007 like Daniel,
1:01.0	appropriately enough, he's in a secret location. Well listen, this is our penultimate episode before Christmas,
1:08.0	isn't it? We've got a very special one planned for next week, details probably to follow next week.
1:16.0	Well I remember as well, there will be an episode of the service course as well before Christmas,
1:21.0	Lizzie Banks and Tom Wally, and they're doing their adopting stealing our press conference concept,
1:27.0	and they're asking for tech questions, any equipment, questions clothing, anything at all related to the bike,
1:33.0	send us in your questions, contact at thecyclingpodcast.com and audio file. I think Daniel might have one of the tech questions.
1:40.0	I did actually have a question. I did actually have a question.
1:43.0	I don't know if you saw pictures flying around online, I think it's a Dutch company that's designed some handlebars that are very, very narrow.
1:52.0	Yes, I don't know how wide they are, maybe 20m.
1:55.0	So you've got this long, straight section before the Britlea was done there?
2:01.0	Yeah, they're a bit of a hybrid between a time trial bar and normal road handlebars.
2:07.0	One of them is this the future and how soon is the future going to arrive in the proto, or in the world tour in this form?
2:17.0	Dan Bigum had quite a robust exchange on that with people who didn't like the aesthetics of it,
2:24.0	including myself among those people. Basically arguing that aesthetics are relevant.
2:30.0	It's all about performance and it's a performance sport, so forget the aesthetics.
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