S9 Ep141: Kilometre 0 – The Other Slovenians
The Cycling Podcast
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4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The small country has two of cycling's superstars, Primož Roglič and Tadej Pogačar. But beneath them there are a lot of other good riders, three of whom are riding the Vuelta a España.
We speak to Jan Tratnik of Bahrain Victorious, Jan Polanc of UAE-Team Emirates and Luka Mezgec of Team Bike Exchange. We also hear from Gorazd Štangelj, a former professional who's now a sports director at Bahrain, and Marko Dzalo, a soigneur with Ineos Grenadiers.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Kilometer Zero by the cycling podcast powered by super |
| 0:07.9 | savings energy management for committed athletes and coaches |
| 0:23.0 | What is your what is your Olympic gold medal men back home in Savinio? |
| 0:28.3 | It's just special. I mean it's also super a lot to me because it's different |
| 0:35.0 | than all races. It's the biggest thing in most of the sports Olympic games |
| 0:41.4 | because they are every four years in this case free. But still, I'm extremely proud |
| 0:49.6 | and happy and we'll have good memories forever about it. |
| 0:55.2 | How much does it mean to you more generally to inspire people in Savinio and to make |
| 0:59.6 | cycling more popular in Slovenia as well? |
| 1:01.9 | Yeah, that's my mission that if I can share good stories, nice stories about the fight |
| 1:10.4 | about never giving up. So if I can do this for a cycling, I do it for a cycling |
| 1:15.6 | but yes, I can I can reach the people and I'm really thankful for that. |
| 1:21.1 | Thank you. |
| 1:22.1 | That of course was Primoz Roglic, Olympic time trial champion, two time |
| 1:27.9 | well to winner and perhaps most famously or infamously, nearly man at the |
| 1:32.0 | Tour de France. Roglic was pipped at the tour last year by his young countryman |
| 1:36.4 | Tarey Pogaciar but the legacy of that apparently has been to make Roglic more |
| 1:40.6 | popular back home in Slovenia. If Pogaciar is a little prince the name coined by |
| 1:45.1 | Kate Wagner then Roglic is the king of hearts, something that he seemed to |
| 1:49.2 | acknowledge when I spoke to him at the start of stage 4 of this year's |
| 1:52.2 | welter. This episode of kilometer zero is not about Roglic or Pogaciar however. |
| 1:58.1 | It's about the other Slovenians, there are three of them in this race. Jan |
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