S9 Ep169: Kilometre 0 – The final diaries
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
While Sivakov finished the Vuelta in good shape, and able, he said, to carry on for another week, for Knox and Bou the final week was about survival.
Bou crashed heavily and, having been in several breakaways in the first two weeks, he was reduced in the last stages to merely hoping to finish with the gruppetto.
With characteristic candour, Knox admits that he is struggling for motivation as the Vuelta draws to a close. He appreciates the places and the sights, and can reflect with satisfaction on his team's four stage wins, but wrestles with his own feelings of fatigue and low morale.
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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. |
| 0:12.2 | Well, the curtain has fallen on the 2021 Vuelta a España, but this is a bonus episode |
| 0:20.0 | of Clometer Zero, as well as being the fourth and the final installment of our rider diaries. |
| 0:25.8 | With three audio diaries at the Vuelta, James Knox of DeCunent Quick Step, Pavel L. Sivikov |
| 0:31.6 | of Ineos Grenadiers and John Boe of Uskital, Uskiddi. |
| 0:35.4 | They all have very different jobs to do for their teams, very different races, but it's |
| 0:39.2 | been fascinating to hear different perspectives on the Vuelta from some of those who were actually |
| 0:43.7 | in it. |
| 0:44.7 | We're very grateful to each of them. |
| 0:46.4 | And we catch up with them as they prepare for the final and toughest week of the 2021 |
| 0:51.5 | Vuelta. |
| 1:08.2 | Stage 16 took the riders from Laredo to Santa Cruz, the Bessana. |
| 1:11.7 | 180 km, a flat stage, one by Fabio Yakobsen. |
| 1:16.3 | Hey guys, Léory Kapp of the Stage 16, first stage after the rest of the day. |
| 1:23.8 | It has been a pretty nervous, stressful day, actually. |
| 1:27.9 | A big crash at the start, basically, I think, 20 from what I heard, around 20 guys were |
| 1:35.1 | involved in there. |
| 1:36.5 | And if you GC guys as well, I could, yeah, we saw Chico and he pulled out. |
| 1:42.6 | Also Mass was involved in there. |
| 1:45.2 | So yeah, it was not funny. |
| 1:46.6 | Then after that, obviously, it was really nervous. |
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