S8 Ep99: Kilometre 0 – Col d'Èze
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The race used to conclude with a Sunday afternoon time trial on the hill and in the 1980s the Irish dominated, with Stephen Roche and Sean Kelly sharing the victories between 1981 and 1989.
In this episode, we hear from Kelly, who also gives Lionel some tips on how to ride the hill.
And, with the Tour starting in the south east of France for the first time since 2009, we look back at the race with Bradley Wiggins, who made his breakthrough as a grand tour challenger that summer.
Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is supported by Zwift, the app for riding, training and racing at home. Kilometre 0 is a 15-part series published on weekday mornings during the Tour de France.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, I see, I know you're holding a great Panini Sticrose album with the sort of France 2020. |
| 0:06.1 | You know who wrote the fascinating literature you got in there? |
| 0:09.9 | Here is what it was me when you say literature. |
| 0:13.9 | Well, I think that's about 250 words of literature in there. |
| 0:19.4 | And the first time I did it for the first time last year, |
| 0:22.4 | I actually did all of them because there's only two Panini albums. |
| 0:26.5 | You are listening to Kilometre Zero by The Cycling Podcast. |
| 0:30.9 | Powered by Zwift, the fitness app where fun is fast. |
| 0:40.5 | Yeah, I feel like a kid again. Never let it be said. |
| 0:42.3 | I'm not a serious journalist. |
| 0:43.7 | I'm Lionel Bernie H.45 and a quarter. |
| 0:47.7 | I'm going to collect my Panini Sticra album, |
| 0:49.5 | which, remember during the Euro, I didn't complete it, did I? |
| 0:53.4 | Because I couldn't find the stickers anyway, |
| 0:54.8 | but I'll gather it will be easier to find them here in France. |
| 0:58.5 | You're the first sticker you pulled out of your, |
| 1:01.1 | when you opened your Giro one, was none other than our diarist, Lucas Postelberger, |
| 1:05.8 | who just won the stage and think of the pink jersey. |
| 1:08.7 | If I'd opened the stickers before the stage |
| 1:11.3 | and Postelberger had come out first as he did and they need one the stage, |
| 1:15.0 | I would have thought there was some kind of mystic quality to the stickers. |
| 1:17.7 | So I'm going to try it again. |
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