S8 Ep204: Service Course | Christmas Press Conference
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
When the questions prove too much, Tom and Lizzy turn to a selection of genuine experts, including Niamh Fisher-Black (the current New Zealand national road race champion), Alan Sheldon (Lizzy's team mechanic for the past two years) and up and coming cyclocross star, Cameron Mason.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Service Course by the cycling podcast with Lizzie Banks and Tom |
| 0:13.7 | Walley. |
| 0:15.7 | Lizzie, this is normally quite a very simple question but today it feels quite complex. |
| 0:21.2 | Where are you? |
| 0:22.2 | Oh my god. |
| 0:23.2 | Do you have a hell did you get that? |
| 0:25.2 | Do you want the lung answer or the short answer? |
| 0:27.4 | Well hello Tom, nice to see you as well this month but the answer to your question is |
| 0:32.2 | I'm in Gerona and I arrived here two days ago and for the Brits who are listening to this |
| 0:38.8 | you will probably know that that was the day that the Spanish border closed and then |
| 0:44.0 | I arrived in to France the day before that which was the day that the French border closed. |
| 0:49.5 | So yeah I'm actually down in Gerona for a training camp. |
| 0:53.9 | I was supposed to be on my team training camp right now and actually coming back from |
| 0:58.4 | that today and that was cancelled because of the COVID situation in Italy. |
| 1:04.2 | So my husband and I decided that we were going to drive to Gerona for our own training |
| 1:08.4 | camp over Christmas and New Year and we were going to drive in order to you know minimize |
| 1:12.3 | any risks to both us and to other people should we be in fact did not know and thankfully |
| 1:19.5 | we booked our channel tunnel for Sunday evening and we were in the queue for the channel |
| 1:23.7 | tunnel and my husband was going to be a bit jumpy and I said, Gabriel what's the matter? |
| 1:27.9 | There's no way they're going to close the border and we actually stayed with Richard that |
| 1:33.7 | night and we arrived at Richard. |
| 1:35.7 | Richard's a couple of hours drive from Calais and he opened the door and he said they're |
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