S9 Ep173: In Bruges
The Cycling Podcast
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4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
It was a neck-and-neck battle between defending champion Filippo Ganna and home favourite Wout van Aert.
We hear from four-time world champion Tony Martin, who confirmed his intention to retire after this week's races, from Ireland's Marcus Christie, whose story we featured in a Friends of the Podcast episode earlier this year, and from Dan Bigham.
Looking ahead to Sunday's men's road race we speak to Kasper Asgreen about the star-studded Danish team and wonder how they will take on the Belgians and Italians and from Tim Declercq, who was born in Leuven, about racing a World Championships in his home town.
Finally, following the tragic death of Danish rider Chris Anker Sorensen, a former Giro d'Italia stage winner who in retirement became an integral part of Danish TV's Tour de France coverage, his friend and colleague Brian Nygaard pays tribute.
Coming later this week are an episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin, Mitch Docker meets Hannah Barnes in Life in the Peloton and Service Course returns too.
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| 0:00.0 | The cycling podcast, powered by SuperSapiens. |
| 0:06.0 | Energy management for committed athletes and coaches. |
| 0:36.0 | What was that very enthusiastic crowd noise? |
| 0:42.0 | I am right now in the centre of Bruges Lionel at the Fanzone at the World Championships. |
| 0:49.0 | It's Monday and we're in between the under 23 time trial and the women's time trial. |
| 0:55.0 | And the noise that we opened with there, well that was a sound of Remco even the pole finishing yesterday's men's time trial. |
| 1:02.0 | He went into the hot seat at the time, held on for third place to give Belgium the home nation silver and bronze. |
| 1:12.0 | Because what of an art of course finished second, feel people ganna defend his title to become again the men's time trial champion. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah I'm here in Bruges at the World Championships and it feels like I guess we expected the World Championships in Flanders to feel in a way, |
| 1:28.0 | pretty lively, pretty busty and quite international. You know I can see he can all see Norwegian flags can't you. |
| 1:34.0 | And there are a few Norwegian fans here and a few from other countries too. |
| 1:39.0 | They're not as many as you would normally see at a World Championships but it's a good atmosphere and it was a great atmosphere yesterday for the men's time trial. |
| 1:48.0 | Well it's the celebratory UCI World Championships isn't it because it's the centenary of the first World Championships which were in, do you remember where? I mean I'm not asking you. |
| 1:59.0 | I don't remember. I was in there in 1921. I couldn't get a croat taste and put that one. |
| 2:05.0 | In Copenhagen, in Denmark, in 1921. No time trial then of course because it was just a road race. |
| 2:14.0 | One by a Swedish rider, Gunnar Skold and who could forget? |
| 2:20.0 | Who can forget? Yes and the, well this is a celebratory World Championships in more ways than one isn't it because watching on the TV as I have done so far which the crowds look absolutely fantastic and it does feel very uplifting. |
| 2:36.0 | It is almost as if Covid never happened because they were 6, 7, 10 deep in places and the noise was coming through the TV very very clearly. |
| 2:47.0 | Obviously Remco got cheered all the way around and then so did Vanart and then there was an absolutely deathly silence when Philip Hoganna hit the line and denied Belgium the gold medal. |
| 2:59.0 | I don't know whether that's me just projecting or whether it did feel a little bit flat for the home fans when Gunnar took gold. |
| 3:07.0 | Yeah I think so. I was actually asking some of our Belgian colleagues who's more popular while Vanart or Remco even the pole because Vanart is the more accomplished, the older rider. |
| 3:23.0 | Evan the pole is the great hope for the future and he rides for a Belgian team and I wondered if that made a difference but I was told it was pretty unanimous that Vanart is the more popular figure in Belgium and you know Evan the pole is popular too but Vanart is sort of universally loved. |
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