S9 Ep134: Life in the Peloton – Ashleigh Moolman Pasio
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Then, in the final part, we talked about the women's road race at the Tokyo Olympics. It was a very surprising race from a tactical point of view and I wanted to hear Ashleigh's account of how it played out. I found her insight into all the different factors at play really interesting, and I hope you do too.
Cheers,
Mitch
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| 0:00.0 | We'll get to everyone and welcome back, this is a real |
| 0:29.5 | treat we've got back to back, life in the Pell's on episodes. Lionel, I'm sorry mate, |
| 0:34.4 | you're back on again to intro this episode. How are you? |
| 0:38.1 | I'm good, thanks, yeah, I've had a little holiday actually a few days away and I've already |
| 0:43.0 | listened to this episode, I've listened to your conversation Mitch, I'm really enjoyed this one, |
| 0:48.4 | who are the listeners going to be tuning into here in conversation with this week? |
| 0:53.9 | I'm speaking with Ashley, Mormon, Pascio and she is an amazing person, I love talking to her, |
| 1:00.8 | I went for a ride with her a couple of weeks ago and we were just talking on and on and on, |
| 1:05.8 | I'm a big talker but she's a great talker too so her and I were chewing each other's ears off |
| 1:10.1 | and I thought I've got to get it on the podcast, she is amazing, she's from South Africa, |
| 1:15.8 | she's a climber, she's got other interests as well, she's got a degree in chemical engineering, |
| 1:21.2 | she owns her own sort of hotel business called Rocker Corb Cycling, she's got the striver |
| 1:26.7 | up Rocker Corb, a very famous climb just outside of Gerona, so much interesting stuff to talk about, |
| 1:32.1 | she's the eSport World Champion, you know what can she do? She's great, great personality, |
| 1:38.6 | great to talk to, it's a really really good podcast and I just love sitting down chewing the fat |
| 1:43.7 | with her, we just sort of chewed up all her time in the afternoon, she's so busy, she's |
| 1:47.7 | hitting off the Norway and she made time for me just a few days ago just to record this episode. |
| 1:53.3 | Well I don't want to spoil it for people by giving away too much of what she says towards the end |
| 1:59.7 | of the podcast but the kind of the last third is a real deep dive into the Olympic road race, |
| 2:05.8 | the Women's Olympic road race which was won by a real outsider, a real surprise Anna Kiesenhofer |
| 2:12.5 | of Austria pulled a fast one on the super powerful Dutch team and the rest of the peloton and her |
| 2:19.2 | insight into the race from the perspective of being in that peloton is absolutely fascinating, |
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