S9 Ep103: The Press Conference | Rest Day 1 | Tour de France 2021
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
We also hear from Wout van Aert, who Richard spoke to on the rest day, and Grischa Niermann, the Jumbo-Visma sports director.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Tour des Flaner. The cycling podcast at the 2021 Tour de France |
| 0:17.7 | powered by super sapiens, energy management for committed athletes and coaches. |
| 0:24.0 | Well happy rest day everyone my name is Richard Schimur, I'm with Francois Thomas, hello Francois, |
| 0:30.8 | I'm here. And Kate Wagner, hello Kate. Hello. For the last time Kate. I mean we hope you'll |
| 0:36.1 | join us again from time to time but this is the end of your stint with the cycling podcast. |
| 0:40.8 | We have to hand you over tomorrow. I'm devastated. No seriously I am devastated. |
| 0:47.2 | It's emotional. It's emotional. We'll try and go out on a high. This is our press conference |
| 0:51.1 | episode. Now traditional, always good fun and we'll get straight into the questions because it |
| 0:57.3 | always goes on too long. But I've either restful rest day Francois. Not really because you know doing |
| 1:03.2 | my well I have two other jobs outside of the sign podcast. Working for Le Figuero and doing |
| 1:08.7 | the official book for the Tour de France. So yeah quite a bit of work actually but well you know |
| 1:15.4 | we know the rest days well if our riders as for journalists are sometimes some of the busiest days |
| 1:21.4 | on the tour. Well we had a delightful little lunch around the corner from where we're staying in the |
| 1:26.2 | village here. We're in friend of the podcast Simon Lund's house last night and tonight and it's |
| 1:32.2 | a real treat to be here. Kate have you had a restful rest day? Absolutely not. I had like interviews |
| 1:39.0 | back to back from noon to now. You spoke with Mattie Moritz for now and a half about |
| 1:44.5 | a more like an hour. About traffic coming. About traffic coming yeah. And what books he was reading |
| 1:52.1 | and about Tari Pagaccia and about being junior world champion all kinds of interesting stuff. |
| 1:57.7 | Great. Didn't know he was junior world champion. Oh he's not junior world champion anymore. |
| 2:03.7 | I went into Yomavisma and interviewed Wat Van Art, Jonas Vingigor and Grisha Nierman, the sports |
| 2:10.6 | director there. We'll hear a bit from Van Art a bit later on what he is planning. What he thinks |
| 2:15.5 | will happen in the sprints and some interesting comments to make about that. Let's get straight |
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