S9 Ep1: The Speculation Episode

The Cycling Podcast

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4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

What does 2021 have in store? In this first episode of the new year Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe gaze into their crystal ball, and we hear from François Thomazeau, Ian Boswell, Lizzy Banks, Ciro Scognamiglio, Mitch Docker, Harry Tanfield and Ben Lowe of VeloViewer, with their predictions for the upcoming cycling season.

Will young riders continue to dominate, or will the oldies have their revenge? Will ultra-narrow handlebars begin to proliferate in the professional peloton, and – less likely – will Daniel get his wish and see crosswinds “banned”?

There’s also an interview with Hugh Carthy, looking back on his third place at last year’s Vuelta a España and ahead to a new season in which he is looking forward to an enhanced role at his team, EF Education-Nippo.

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In our last regular episode of 2020 we spoke to Amaraterra, the band that provides our Giro d’Italia music. If you would like to support Amaraterra’s efforts to make a new album: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/malvasia-amaraterra-s-first-full-length-album#/

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Cycling Podcast brought to you by IWaka, Flexible Loans,
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0:16.0	Hello, my name's Richard Schudmourer, I'm with Respondent in his Cascette, Palty Cascette,
0:26.0	Daniel Freib.
0:27.0	Hello, Richard.
0:29.0	I thought it was Ivankotti for a moment, but it's definitely Daniel Freib.
0:34.0	And unmistakably in the bottom half of my screen, Respondent in his Cycling Podcast Cascette, Lionel Bernie.
0:43.0	Hello, Richard, happy new year, Treps.
0:45.0	Happy new year, Paul.
0:48.0	Happy new year, is it a happy new year? It's just new year.
0:51.0	Well, I mean, we've got to hope for better things, haven't we? 2021? Enter the year with a little bit of optimism?
0:57.0	Yeah, this far worse.
0:59.0	Yes, this far worse, sequel since Team Wolf 2, I don't know. 2021 following 2020, not great so far.
1:07.0	Lockdown 3, you mean?
1:09.0	We are very much locked down.
1:11.0	We had a call we spoke the three of us yesterday, didn't we?
1:15.0	And there was a historic moment in the course of that call where Lionel, you confessed to feeling,
1:20.0	was it optimistic at one point?
1:22.0	I did. Yeah, once a decade feeling for me that, I think.
1:26.0	But I've got to be optimistic, haven't we?
1:30.0	Well, in terms of the cycling season, we've got to hope that it's less disrupted than 2020 was.
1:37.0	And the majority of events go ahead as planned.
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