S9 Ep22: Paris-Nice and the case of Dr Freeman
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2021
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Roglic lost the Tour de France to his Slovenian compatriot Tadej Pogacar in the most dramatic fashion in the final time trial. And with victory all but certain in Paris-Nice, he crashed twice on the same descent on the final day of the race and was unable to claw his way back into the leading group.
We discuss Roglic's misfortune and ask whether his Jumbo-Visma teammates did enough to help him on the final day. We also look at the previous day's stage, when he overtook Gino Mäder right on the line to take the victory and the time bonus. At the time there was plenty of debate about whether Roglic should have let Mäder have his moment of glory but given how the race turned out is it not the case that the riders have to take every chance they get?
In the final part, which starts at the 45:00 mark, we discuss the news that a Medical Practioners Tribunal had found former Team Sky and British Cycling doctor Richard Freeman guilty of the charges against him, saying that Freeman had ordered a consignment of testosterone gel knowing or believing it was for a rider. We hear from The Guardian's Sean Ingle, who has covered the long-running case since the start, and ask where this leaves the architects of British cycling's golden era, and Dave Brailsford of Team Ineos, in particular now.
Our analysis of a sensational edition of Tirreno-Adriatico and our look ahead to Milan-Sanremo, the first monument of the season, will be in our second episode of the week, which will be released on Wednesday.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Cycling Podcast brought to you by IWocker, Flexible Loans, |
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| 0:19.0 | Hello for the second week in a row from Paris, from Meerichard, Murr and I'm going to be joined |
| 0:24.0 | by the usual Motley crew a little bit later on. We've decided to split our coverage |
| 0:29.0 | this week into two podcasts, a French one and Italian one. In this one, the French one |
| 0:34.0 | will look back at Paris Nisse and later in the week will review Toreno-Adreatical |
| 0:39.0 | and Preview, Milan San Remo. There is stage 5 of Paris getting underway. So I'll be joined by |
| 0:48.0 | Daniel Freib and Lionel Bernie a little bit later on but I can't quite review Paris Nisse yet |
| 0:53.0 | because as you can hear it's still going on and I'm at the start of stage 5 in Vienn. |
| 0:59.0 | I was by the banks of the Loire for last week's podcast and today I'm sending |
| 1:05.0 | near the banks of the Rhone as it may and just through Vienn. |
| 1:09.0 | Ahead of what should be another sprinter stage with a headwind all day apparently today. |
| 1:16.0 | Yes and afternoon we finished at Sherub in Bozile country after a tough up and down stage |
| 1:23.0 | with a 7 kilometer climb at the end. It was a stage at Primo's Ruglet written all over it. |
| 1:29.0 | Along with it was Rog who got his Yombo Visma team to take control in front, Tony Martin |
| 1:35.0 | and Yosvan Mden and George Bennett and finally Stephen Kruzwick all did a lot of work |
| 1:39.0 | before a very sharp looking Rog took off to win by 12 seconds. |
| 1:44.0 | Ahead of the defending champion Max Shachman of Borough Hansgrohe |
| 1:48.0 | I had spoken to Shachman at the start of the stage about his teams relatively purer start |
| 1:54.0 | to the season we've spoken a bit about them being one of the big 5 or big 4 teams |
| 1:59.0 | and they've had a purer start, sluggish start to the season. |
| 2:03.0 | Shachman bristled a little bit of that but he did point out that the absence of Peter Sagan |
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