S8 Ep87: Remco dusts off the opposition
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe review the opening three days of the Vuelta a Burgos and look ahead to the first World Tour race following the resumption, Strade Bianche.
Twenty-year-old Remco Evenepoel picked up where he left off in the spring. After winning both stages he rode before the season was interrupted (the Vuelta a San Juan and Volta ao Algarve), the Deceuninck-Quick Step rider won the first uphill finish in Burgos at Picón Blanco ahead of a string of top climbers.
What should we make of Evenepoel's victory celebration – brushing the dust off his shoulders, seemingly suggesting it was an easy win?
We hear from three riders about what it's like to be back in action after so long – Team CCC's Paddy Bevin and Attila Valter and Trek-Segafredo's Charlie Quarterman.
Then we look ahead to Strade Bianche, where the dust from the white roads of Tuscany will fly on Saturday. Excitement is building for a race which started off in an autumn slot before becoming a spring classic and will this year be held in the height of the Italian summer.
Mitch Docker of EF Pro Cycling, and host of Life in the Peloton, looks ahead to his first race since the spring and his debut at Strade Bianche.
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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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| 0:16.0 | Hello, my name's Richard Moore. I'm joined by Ivan Gotty. |
| 0:29.0 | Is it, or Daniel Friebe? Yeah, it could be Ivan Gotty, somewhere in a Poltie Cascette on |
| 0:36.0 | Ty. Chaps. It's an early Poltie Cascette, so we're talking to the 1994 Janibuño, |
| 0:43.0 | sort of, Poltie era, isn't it? This was the colors that he was wearing when the |
| 0:51.0 | 94 Tour of Flanders. If I'm not mistaken, Napalm? That's right, yeah. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah, very distinctive logo, isn't it? The Poltie logo. Steam cleaners, is that Poltie? |
| 1:02.0 | I-Ns, steam cleaners, informously receptacles, which were very handy for carrying EPO in the |
| 1:08.0 | 1998 Tour de France. A clever. The vacuum cleaner size. Yeah. |
| 1:14.0 | Well, you're wearing a T-shirt, the online or honoring a raider who was in his mid-twenties |
| 1:19.0 | around that time. I dug out the extinction Rebellion T-shirt for a little |
| 1:23.0 | bit, or a little bit of a sentence or two in news roundup, which one come to? |
| 1:26.0 | A Rebellion, of course, was this year of Poltie. He rode for Poltie, I think, and he |
| 1:31.0 | rode for twice, I think, once in about 94, and then again, a few years later. |
| 1:36.0 | And Richard, you're wearing a Garmin cap. Is this, after you've successfully held the company |
| 1:42.0 | to ransom this week? Shouldn't joke, really? Shouldn't joke, I'm a victim of that, Lionel, |
| 1:48.0 | as I'm sure lots of our listeners are, too, although the ride that I did last night seems to have |
| 1:53.0 | been updated now on to Strava from my Garmin device, so that's nice. On the |
| 1:58.0 | subject of the great Garmin hack, we were asked about that actually by a listener, |
| 2:02.0 | weren't we? Not really something we would normally cover, but it's been covered in the latest |
| 2:06.0 | episode of Service Course, which came out yesterday by Tom Wally and Lizzie Banks. |
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