S9 Ep104: Kilometre 0 – Audio diaries, part 2
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4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Our quartet have been documenting the race each day, letting listeners hear their thoughts as the Tour unfolds.
For Ben O'Connor of AG2R-Citroën there was a phenomenal stage win at Tignes which put him in the virtuel maillot jaune for a while on the final climb and eventually lifted him to second place overall behind Tadej Pogacar.
At the other end of the peloton was Tim Declercq of Deceuninck-Quick Step, who was part of the gruppetto riding to make it to the finish inside the time limit and keep their sprinter Mark Cavendish in the race.
Victor Campenaerts of Qhubeka-Next Hash talks about making the astonishing breakaway on Friday's stage to Le Creusot only to realise that Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel had made it too.
But we start with Connor Swift, the Yorkshireman riding for Arkéa-Samsic, who talks about his time trial effort to Laval and how he realised why the crowd cheered him by name in the race against the clock...
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Kilometre Zero by the Cycling Podcast, Power by Super Sapiens. |
| 0:08.4 | Energy Management for Community that leads and coaches. |
| 0:14.6 | Knowing me today was a race, it was just survival. |
| 0:18.1 | We did a good attack from the back, and closed the gap like real men. |
| 0:23.2 | And also was a really nice gift from him. |
| 0:26.4 | That's he gave me the jersey he wrote with today as a thank you. |
| 0:30.4 | I managed to win. It's madness, it's a dream, it's invigorating, it's shocking, it's a lot of words open into one. |
| 0:43.0 | At this Tour de France, the Cycling Podcast has four audio diaries. |
| 0:46.7 | Ben O'Connor of AG2R Citron, Victor Campanars of Quebeca next hash, |
| 0:51.6 | Conor Swift of RKSAMSIC and Tim DeClerk of DeCroning Quickstep. |
| 0:56.9 | In this, the second Kilometre Zero devoted to their daily updates will hear from the quartet who are all experiencing very different races, |
| 1:04.1 | from DeClerk's efforts to help Mark Camdish finish within the time limit in Tiniya to O'Connor, |
| 1:09.3 | who won the stage and climbed to second overall. |
| 1:12.0 | It's funny to think that on Sunday we had riders at both ends of the race, |
| 1:15.4 | both engaged in full-on intense efforts with so much at stake for both of them and their teams. |
| 1:21.6 | And it's the first time we've had an audio diaries on the virtual podium of a Grand Tour, |
| 1:25.5 | a phenomenal achievement by O'Connor, and we feel very privileged to have the inside track. |
| 1:30.5 | We're going to hear all about that victory on stage 9 from O'Connor, |
| 1:33.8 | but let's hear from another Conor first. They always entertain Conor Swift. |
| 2:01.5 | And Mark Camdish takes two fists at the sky. |
| 2:05.2 | It'll go to the front. |
| 2:06.3 | Quick recap of the past two stages, obviously. |
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