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The Cycling Podcast

S9 Ep110: Kilometre 0 – Cycling on film

The Cycling Podcast

The Cycling Podcast

News, Sports News, Sports

4.73K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

We are living in a golden age for television and in this episode of Kilometre 0 we look at how cycling is and could be conveyed on the small screen.

We hear from Luke Durbridge and Matt White of Team Bike Exchange, Dirk Van Nijverseel, who is one of the people behind the Tour of Flanders documentaries, and Marc Pons, who directed The Least Expected Day, the Netflix series on Movistar.

With thanks to Rob Hatch, who interviewed Pons. The full interview will appear in a forthcoming episode of El Cycling Podcast, our Spanish sibling.

Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is powered by Supersapiens, energy management for committed athletes and coaches. See Supersapiens.com.

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0:00.0

You are listening to Kilometre Zero by the Cycling Podcast, Power by Super Sapiens.

0:08.6

Energy Management for Community That Leads and Coaches.

0:25.0

Fine, I know you're a Netflix and chill sort of guy.

0:28.8

We're apparently in a golden age of television.

0:31.0

You know that with Netflix, Amazon, all these new channels,

0:35.2

commissioning new documentaries, factual documentaries and series in particular are

0:40.9

probably better than ever and there's more of them than ever.

0:42.9

But is television doing justice to cycling?

0:46.0

Are we in a golden age of cycling films and series?

0:49.2

Well, I think we might be on the cusp of it with the Movistar documentary

0:54.8

into its second series now.

0:56.3

So what the second series was, a big improvement on the first.

0:59.6

It was catering for a more mature audience in the sense of cycling fans who understood

1:06.1

the workings of the sport a bit better.

1:08.5

It was more in depth, there was more light and shade to it.

1:12.5

But I think still the one weakness is that you're only seeing one team's perspective.

1:17.5

And I feel this about the many football documentaries that Amazon and others have released

1:22.8

where you're just inside one team.

1:25.3

That's great. You get one perspective.

1:27.2

You get to see their ups and downs and there's a sense of seeing behind the curtain

1:32.4

to some degree.

1:33.2

But there's still a lack of context, a lack of depth, which I think if you could get two or three

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