S9 Ep170: Life in the Peloton – Niamh and Finn Fisher-Black
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4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Niamh and Finn Fisher-Black are brother and sister who are both racing at World Tour level. Niamh is 21 and in her first year with the SD Worx team after a couple of seasons with Bigla Pro Cycling. This season she was ninth overall at the Giro and won the best young rider classification.
Her younger brother Finn is still only 19 and he started the season with the Jumbo-Visma development team. As you'll hear, he was starting to be integrated in the senior Jumbo-Visma team and he rode the Baloise Belgium Tour for them in June, finishing fourth overall in a race won by Remco Evenepoel. That turned out to be his final race for Jumbo-Visma because in July he made a mid-season switch to UAE-Team Emirates.
I wanted to find out more about Niamh and Finn and listening to them speak about their journeys into the pro ranks from New Zealand reminded me of the commitment it takes to move to the other side of the road and try to make it in the sport.
Cheers,
Mitch
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| 0:00.0 | Beasts |
| 0:25.3 | Good day everyone and welcome to Life in the Peloton. We're up and running for |
| 0:30.0 | the final part of the season. I'm joined here again by Lionel Bernini to introduce |
| 0:35.0 | this episode. Lionel, where are you joining me from today? Well I'm out on the road |
| 0:40.1 | Mitch. I'm at the Tour of Britain. I'm at the top of Great Orm which for those |
| 0:45.2 | who are not familiar with the British Isles is on the north coast of Wales just |
| 0:51.3 | above Land did know and it's where the stage finishes today with a really |
| 0:56.2 | punchy climb. It's almost a combination of a sort of Belgian classic climb and |
| 1:03.2 | a sort of typical British climb. It snakes up around the headland and finishing |
| 1:11.7 | on the top with some absolutely stunning coastal views. It's stunning up here |
| 1:15.8 | really. The weather's been turned on this year in |
| 1:18.6 | the Tour of Britain. You got a bit of a late summer there don't you? I've been |
| 1:22.6 | really caught out. I didn't bring any sun cream or a hat and it's been yeah 25 |
| 1:28.4 | 27 degrees very very pleasant into the British summer. We you know our two-day |
| 1:35.6 | summer has as broken in early September this year. I'll get the dig in at the |
| 1:41.2 | British weather to save you the trouble Mitch. Well done mate that's a good |
| 1:45.5 | tactic there get in before I can get there but well we've got a great |
| 1:49.4 | episode coming up today we've had a little break while the Veltus Spaniard is |
| 1:52.8 | on a great Vuelta this year. I was sad not to be there but I very much enjoyed |
| 1:57.1 | watching it. We're in the final part of the season and I sat down with two young |
| 2:02.3 | pros. A brother and sister combination Finn and Neve Fisher Black. They're from |
| 2:09.2 | New Zealand and tell us a little bit more about them Lionel because you're a |
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