S9 Ep206: Annus galaxicus: The grand tours

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🗓️ 10 December 2021

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Our review of the 2021 men’s road racing season continues with a deep look at the three grand tours.

Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe weigh up the era of the galacticos in a year when the three outstanding stage racers – Egan Bernal, Tadej Pogačar and Primož Roglič – each won a grand tour.

Transport yourself back to Italy, France and Spain with our greatest hits compilations, a selection of audio highlights from our travels this year, before we discuss each of the races in turn.

We look back at the best days of racing, ask whether the Vuelta really is overtaking the Giro as the ’second’ grand tour, revisit Mark Cavendish’s record-equalling stage wins at the Tour and ask which of Bernal and Roglic is best placed to challenge Pogačar next season.

We hear from Joe Dombrowski, Pavel Sivakov and Jonathan Vaughters on the Pog-nomenon and ask what threats there are to his dominance. And we speak to Toms Skujiņš about arguably the best day’s racing from the grand tours – or at least the day which provided the least expected thrills.

The Giro d’Italia – 12 minutes 28 seconds

The Tour de France – 37 minutes 49 seconds

Vuelta a España – 1 hour 36 minutes 27 seconds

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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
0:26.0	Hello, my name is Richard Murr, I'm with Daniel Freib.
0:31.0	Hello, Richard.
0:32.0	And Lionel Bernie.
0:34.0	Hello, Richard. Very impressive that.
0:36.0	Thank you, Lionel.
0:38.0	Listen, we are here gathered for our third week of looking back on the season that's just finished.
0:45.0	And we have looked at the classics in the last two episodes.
0:49.0	This week we're looking back at the grand tours.
0:51.0	But with a fresh look back at them, I must say we've got some clips from our episodes from the three grand tours.
0:58.0	And we'll be looking back at the Giro, the tour and the worth and hearing from some riders and sports directors as well.
1:06.0	So that's all coming up. Lionel, what are you looking like that for?
1:09.0	Well, I mean, you say clips.
1:11.0	I mean, that's not really giving it the big sale.
1:13.0	I mean, these are the audio equivalent.
1:15.0	If we were a, I don't know, some kind of Hollywood blockbuster movie.
1:19.0	These are the equivalent of the kind of retro.
1:22.0	So when did, when did sports directors replace director sportives on the site?
1:28.0	Oh, here we go.
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