S9 Ep198: The Giro's slow striptease

The Cycling Podcast

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4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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In this episode Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the final unveiling of the 2022 Giro d'Italia route. The Giro stages have been revealed bit by bit this time in batches, rather than chronologically. Has this robbed the Giro route of some of its mystery and majesty or does it not really matter? And what are the other terrible innovations in recent grand tour history?

It's track season, cyclo-cross season and silly season. We discuss the controversy of riders taking part in events on their new team's bikes before their contracts have expired in the light of EF Education First's threat to terminate Sergio Higuita and Lawson Craddock's contracts for doing just that. We ask whether Adam Yates's Barcelona marathon time was impressive for a professional cyclist.

Richard's show and tell segment discusses a new show on GCN featuring EF Education First sports director Tom Southam teaching a bunch of fourth-category riders how to ride as a team, and we hear from Southam himself.

And in the final part we speak to Tony Moffa, a Friend of the Podcast who has recently secured a job in the World Tour with Team DSM as a mechanic – a move which came about after he listened to our Friends of the Podcast special episode A Team Apart.

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0:00.0	Music
0:11.0	The Cycling Podcast, powered by SuperSapiens.
0:15.0	Energy management for committed athletes and coaches.
0:18.0	Music
0:20.0	Hello, my name's Richard Murrer and with Lionel Bernie.
0:23.0	Hello Richard.
0:24.0	And Daniel Freib.
0:25.0	Hello Richard.
0:26.0	And we are in the middle of an argument about Adam Yates' marathon performance in Barcelona
0:34.0	at the weekend.
0:35.0	So we just thought we'd start with that.
0:40.0	But are we in the middle of an argument about it?
0:42.0	Well, I think we were asking.
0:44.0	You were asking if he'd done it in his cycling shoes, which suggests that you weren't that impressed with his time.
0:49.0	Well, I had an terrible judge of running times, but Daniel was our running expert.
0:53.0	I mean, I wouldn't say it, but we should explain what we're talking about.
0:59.0	Yes.
1:00.0	Adam Yates ran, competed ran in the Barcelona marathon a few days ago.
1:07.0	And his time, well, he broke the mythical for amateur runners at least three hour barrier.
1:15.0	And two hours, 58 minutes and something and change.
1:19.0	A presumed was a fancy dress. What was the...
1:23.0	A panda. No, it wasn't a dress.
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