S9 Ep128: Golden Richard, Anna and Tom
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the opening weekend's action from the Tokyo Games, focusing on the way Richard Carapaz managed to escape the stranglehold of Wout van Aert and Tadej Pogacar to win the gold medal. The big question, though, was why didn't the others lend Van Aert a bit more of a hand when it came to chasing the Ecuadorian rider in the final stages of the race.
We then hear from Lizzy Banks – who may have been in Japan as part of Team GB but for the repercussions of the concussion she suffered following at crash at Strade Bianche earlier this season – about an extraordinary women's road race. Who is the new Olympic champon Anna Kiesenhofer and how did she pull of the tape-to-tape win against the might of the Dutch team? And, with earpiece radios banned, did the peloton have enough information in order to race effectively?
In the final part we look at the cross-country mountain bike race won by Tom Pidcock, one of the sensations of the spring classics, and ask where next for the Ineos Grenadiers rider?
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| 0:00.0 | The cycling podcast powered by SuperSapiens. Energy management for committed athletes and coaches. |
| 0:18.0 | Hello, I'm Lionel Bernie and in this episode we're going to be talking about Golden Richard, Golden Anna and Golden Tom with Silver Daniel or Bronz Daniel. |
| 0:27.0 | I don't know, I can't call you Golden Daniel. Daniel, free you. How are you? |
| 0:30.0 | Good Lionel, looking forward to this, we've had some feisty exchanges in the green room. |
| 0:34.0 | Broadly on the same page, but more railing against the world rather than against each other, which is good to know. |
| 0:41.0 | What was the quote about, was it originally about Mark Cavendish? |
| 0:45.0 | Well, sometimes somebody said he's like a... |
| 0:50.0 | I know what you're going to say. A man with a fork in a world of soup. |
| 0:53.0 | I used that about Mark Cavendish, but it was actually something that I think Noel Gallagher said about his brother, or Liam Gallagher said about his brother. |
| 1:02.0 | I do occasionally feel. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, I do occasionally feel like that. |
| 1:08.0 | Delicious bowl of soup in front of me and all I've got is a fork. |
| 1:11.0 | A very thin soup as well, like a consomme, not a chunky potato and leek where a fork might actually be quite useful. |
| 1:21.0 | Absolutely. Well, this is not the cycling soup cast. This is the cycling podcast. |
| 1:27.0 | It's the Elim kit games, which is... well, it's a big deal in the world of sport. |
| 1:32.0 | It's a big deal in the world of cycling these days. I'm talking from the old-timers perspective. |
| 1:37.0 | I remember 84, 88, 92, when it was still an amateur. |
| 1:42.0 | Games, no professionals were able to take part in the Olympic games, but the professional era is now... |
| 1:47.0 | well, it's generations, isn't it? It's 25 years. The first professional games were in Atlanta in 1996. |
| 1:54.0 | The cycling has taken centre stage over the weekend. The Men's Road Race kicked off the cycling programme with a gold medal for Richard Carapaz of Ecuador. |
| 2:06.0 | Only Ecuador's second ever gold medal, so a really big deal for Carapaz and Ecuador. |
| 2:12.0 | A very strong attack, initially with Brandham McNulty of the US, to hold off the Chase Group of Well Van Art, |
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