S9 Ep150: Kilometre 0 – Scott's second act
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🗓️ 24 August 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
He raced domestically in the UK in 2019 before returning to the big time last year. In this episode he tells us about his crash and comeback.
He’s 31 now and out of contract at the end of the year, but in the meantime he is relishing the experience of being back at his first Grand Tour since his accident and in a team that – even without its star, Mathieu van der Poel – has continued its winning ways at the Vuelta.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Kilometer Zero by the Cycling Podcast powered by Super Sabians. |
| 0:09.2 | Energy Management for committed athletes and coaches. |
| 0:16.7 | Yeah, it's good. I'm really happy in this team. |
| 0:20.0 | We're only pro-County, but I think we're up there with the best of the best in terms of the World Tile team. |
| 0:25.2 | We showed that yesterday in the first sprint stage with the victory and we've won a stage in every Grand Tour. |
| 0:30.6 | Despite it being the first time the team's been in Grand Tour this season. |
| 0:35.4 | So yeah, it's going really well. I think the team's really bonding well and work well as a unit. |
| 0:43.0 | So it's a great place to be and we're really excited for the rest of the tour. |
| 0:49.5 | That was Scott Thweight's of Alperson Fenix, who I spoke to in the first week of the Volta. |
| 0:53.9 | Having last spoken to him 18 months ago on the evening of Hett NewsBlad in late February 2020, |
| 1:00.0 | shortly before everything ground to a halt. We'll hear more from Scott at the Volta later, |
| 1:04.8 | whereas we're well used to now, his team is punching above its weight with two stage wins at the time of speaking. |
| 1:09.8 | But first let's scroll back 18 months to the Vandervalk hotel in Flanders on a win-swept cold and |
| 1:15.4 | dark evening. Thweight's had just finished 24th at Hett NewsBlad and I glanced that the names around him |
| 1:20.8 | underlines his quality. Set Van Mark, Henrik Hausler and Michael Valgrim were just ahead of him, |
| 1:26.0 | Antony Terjees and Nathan Van Hoidonk just behind. It was a very decent performance for his new team, |
| 1:31.8 | a team built around Matthew Vanderpull, but a team that also represented a life raft for Thweight's, |
| 1:36.8 | or a way back into the biggest races. His return had seemed very unlikely. Two years earlier, |
| 1:41.9 | almost to the day, he suffered a dreadful crash in which he fractured his spine. |
| 1:46.0 | At the time he was a world tour rider in his second year with Dimension Data. |
| 1:49.8 | The previous year he'd ridden the Tour de France, but this was contract year, |
| 1:53.5 | and it was a season in which a lot of riders would be looking for jobs. Thweight's was 28th |
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