S8 Ep84: Countdown to restart
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Lionel Birnie, Daniel Friebe and Richard Moore look ahead to Burgos and pick out one thing each that fascinates them about the resumption of racing.
For Daniel, it's whether Quintana can maintain the form that he showed early in 2020, when he appeared re-born with his new team, Arkéa-Samsic. For Richard, it's the Ineos intrigue with Chris Froome and Egan Bernal potentially in the same Tour de France team. And for Lionel it's the fact that almost an entire season is crammed into a little more than three months – how will it all work and what patterns might emerge?
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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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| 0:25.0 | Hello my name is Richard Moore, I'm with Lionel Bernie, hello Richard and Daniel Freib |
| 0:30.0 | Hello, well listen we are, feels like we're in the final countdown stage just to a huge date in the Cycling calendar |
| 0:38.0 | First of August is my birthday, yeah I was going to say thanks for reading that, Joe Daniel |
| 0:44.0 | Strider Bianchi, first world tour race of the resume season and what's always a big date in the Cycling calendar because it's Daniel's birthday and it's a special one this year isn't it Daniel? |
| 0:56.0 | It's a special one, it's a big day because it should be a big day because usually that's when we start to find out that ride is moving teams |
| 1:04.0 | but of course Israel start up nation, lived up to their name, you know started up a bit prematurely didn't they? |
| 1:10.0 | They announced their big signing about a week ago, definitely changing the subject, it is a big birthday isn't it for you this year |
| 1:18.0 | We've been doing maybe a 40 kilometer bike ride or something to celebrate, I'm not sure about that, I'm not sure about that |
| 1:24.0 | You're younger than Alejandra Valverde, yes |
| 1:28.0 | Valverde I think turned 40 on the eve of what should have been lehge bust on lehge |
| 1:33.0 | this year but of course that's all turned on its head and well we are looking ahead to the resumption of racing very soon, very imminently |
| 1:45.0 | This is the final podcast before racing, big time racing, as I should say does resume |
| 1:51.0 | The one that we're really looking forward to the most is Vuelta, Aburgos next week |
| 1:56.0 | Normally I kind of erase that comes in a sort of lull in between |
| 2:01.0 | Could you just point to Burgos on a map? |
| 2:03.0 | Yes, because you've got guern the internet open Rich, you don't agree |
| 2:08.0 | The knife arm seems quite confident, but I don't think you are |
| 2:11.0 | That'd be easy to point to on a map if the map had place names on it of course |
| 2:16.0 | But Burgos is a little... |
| 2:20.0 | In the sea life? |
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