S9 Ep189: The four days of Pozzato

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🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Richard Moore has been in the Veneto region of northern Italy experiencing the rebirth of racing in an area that is rich in cycling heritage.

Richard joins Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe to talk about the week's racing and riding.

Filippo Pozzato, former Milan-Sanremo winner and Italian national champion, has created a new one-day race in his own image.

The Giro del Veneto, first held in the 1920s but absent from the calendar for more than a decade, has returned and has been joined by the Veneto Classic and a gravel one-day race, the Serenissima.

The Veneto region is also home to some of Italian cycling's most storied manufacturers, including Campagnolo and Sidi. But how does a new race fit into an already crowded Italian race calendar, what is the true potential for gravel racing, and what does it say about the current state of the sport in Italy?

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0:00.0	The Cycling Podcast, Howard by SuperSapiens.
0:06.0	Energy management for committed athletes and coaches.
0:12.0	Where are you, Richard?
0:14.0	I'm sitting outside a cafe called Danielli's in Bassano del Grappa in Veneto in Italy.
0:23.0	I place it Daniel knows very well, don't you Daniel?
0:26.0	I do pretty well, you clearly are fitting in, you're getting nicely settled there,
0:32.0	your pronunciation is improved in the last three or four days,
0:35.0	and I just thought you put the right...
0:37.0	The emphasis on the right syllable in Veneto there.
0:40.0	Working on it, Daniel, working on it.
0:42.0	I've been here for six days, so if I don't know it now, I'll never know it.
0:45.0	We spent a night here at the Giro a couple of years ago, didn't we?
0:49.0	I think at the end of the 2018 Giro or 19 perhaps.
0:55.0	19 it was.
0:57.0	I'm tempted to ask you to pop into the little shop on the famous bridge there,
1:02.0	the famous wooden bridge, the Ponta del Alpini, and there's a shop there.
1:06.0	Well there's the distillery, I think the distillery, or maybe just a shop that sells Nadini Grappa,
1:11.0	but they also do a Grappa toothpaste I bought last time.
1:14.0	Right, but unfortunately it was terrible.
1:17.0	It was absolutely wrong.
1:19.0	So why do you want more?
1:21.0	I mean it was a nice sort of party trick to produce that.
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