S9 Ep24: The Galácticos
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe analyse Tirreno-Adriatico – where Wout Van Aert outsprinted the sprinters and out time trialled the time triallists; Matthieu Van der Poel also won a sprint and a hilly stage and Tadej Pogacar was better than both of them on the big climb and won the race overall.
But where does this leave us before the weekend's near 300-kilometre Classic? Will Van der Poel and Van Aert take lumps out of each other on the Poggio? Will the world champion Julian Alaphilippe try to go from further out? Will the sprinters sit tight and wait for their chance in the finishing straight? Or will, as Daniel predicts, Filippo Ganna take a flyer in the final kilometre?
We discuss all that and ask whether this is the age of the Galácticos?
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Cycling Podcast brought to you by IWOKA, Flexible Loans, |
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| 0:18.0 | Welcome to the second Cycling Podcast this week. |
| 0:22.0 | It's so much going on that we decided to split our coverage into two episodes |
| 0:26.0 | and I'm joined by Daniel Freep, hello Daniel. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello. |
| 0:30.0 | And Lionel Bernie. |
| 0:32.0 | Hello Richard. |
| 0:33.0 | Now Daniel you're wearing a cap. Is that an homage to Francesco Muzo? |
| 0:38.0 | I suppose it is. It's a Gis gelati, Gis ice creams cap. |
| 0:44.0 | Very very appropriate for this week because the one anecdote I know about Gis gelati is that they sponsored a team |
| 0:52.0 | in the late 70s and early 80s and Roger Devlamink, our old friend from Belgium, |
| 0:58.0 | rode for them in 79 and on the eve of Milan Sanremo, the boss of the ice cream company |
| 1:04.0 | that sponsored the team said that if Devlamink won the race the following day he would give him his Ferrari. |
| 1:10.0 | And lo and behold Devlamink did win. He won the sprint ahead of Giuseppe Sardoni. |
| 1:14.0 | And after a quick shower he went and collected the Ferrari keys from his boss |
| 1:18.0 | and then drove the Ferrari all the way from Italy back to Belgium in one go. |
| 1:24.0 | There you go. Nice. |
| 1:26.0 | And Chaps, a few, there are a few notable ice cream references in cycling on there. |
| 1:30.0 | There were other teams at Samontana team in the early 70s. |
| 1:34.0 | There was a time when the tour yellow jersey was sponsored by Miko. |
| 1:38.0 | Was it not? Yeah. |
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