S9 Ep179: Paris-Roubaix
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2021
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
From Saturday's first ever women's race we report from the first sector of pavé and hear from riders including Audrey Cordon-Ragot, Marlen Reusser and Lisa Brennauer.
From Sunday's men's race we hear from Mitch Docker, riding his last race as a professional, and Florian Vermeersch, the revelation of the race who finished second in the Roubaix Velodrome. And we also speak to Roger Hammond and Tim Harris, Bahrain Victorious sports directors of the winner, Sonny Colbrelli, as well as his teammate Fred Wright.
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| 0:00.0 | The Cycling Podcast, powered by Super Saiyan's energy management for committed athletes and coaches. |
| 0:18.0 | We're Arby Lionel. We're in Compien, Richard. We're next to the Shadow to Compien. We're standing on these wonderful cobbles here. |
| 0:30.0 | These are particularly gentrified cobbles, just a little soup sort of what awaits the riders later on. |
| 0:37.0 | And it is raining really quite hard, isn't it? It's going to be a... I'm not going to use the Epic word, Epic, but it's going to be an epic day. |
| 0:45.0 | I think it is going to be an epic day at Lionel. It's Sunday morning, still early. It's been raining all night. |
| 0:51.0 | We stayed in a hotel on the outskirts of Compien, shared a hotel with Yumbavisma. Members of their staff were coming in this morning looking like they'd been on the deck of the Titanic. |
| 1:00.0 | They were just stepping outside for a few seconds and coming back completely soaking wet. |
| 1:07.0 | It was raining all night. That's going to make conditions really hard on the sections of cobbles today. We saw a first ever women's race yesterday, Powriebe Fam. It was epic too. |
| 1:19.0 | An extraordinary race, one an extraordinary fashion. We'll be hearing our report from that race. |
| 1:25.0 | A little bit later in this episode, we're setting the scene here in Compien. You'll hear from us here. We're going to hear from a few riders before the race. |
| 1:33.0 | We'll resume our coverage of the Men's Powriebe in the Vellodrome a bit later on. |
| 1:40.0 | You'll hear our report from the women's race in the middle of the episode. |
| 1:45.0 | It's a historic day today as well for one member of the S like and podcast family, Mitch Docker, his life in the penitone features on the S like and podcast. |
| 1:54.0 | It's his last ever race today as a professional. |
| 1:58.0 | It's been a difficult road to get here this season, hasn't it? Mitch hasn't done as much racing as he would have liked. |
| 2:04.0 | He then crashed and fractured his elbow in Vellodrome racing a few weeks ago. |
| 2:10.0 | It's been touch and go that he would get to the start line here. He passed his test at the Leal Metropole race in the week. |
| 2:17.0 | He is on the start line today and hoping to grab a word with him. |
| 2:21.0 | We're standing by the mix zone just next to the presentation podium and the riders are coming through. |
| 2:28.0 | I did do a double take because the Delco team who ride look bicycles are wearing a very, very fetching retro remake of the old La Vie Claire jersey. |
| 2:39.0 | I've got my La Vie Claire T-shirt. |
| 2:44.0 | Oh, I see. I planned all this. We had a few days here in the north east of France. |
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