S9 Ep3: Presenting Jumbo-Visma 2021

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🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 106 minutes

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This week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast comes from the Team Jumbo-Visma training camp in Alicante, Spain.

Richard Moore and Orla Chennaoui spent a few days with the world’s number one ranked team as they prepared for and looked ahead to the 2021 season. We hear from Marianne Vos, who will lead the new women’s team, Wout van Aert, Tom Dumoulin, Steven Kruijswijk, Sepp Kuss, Tobias Foss and Primoz Roglic, as well as team boss Richard Plugge and sporting director Merijn Zeeman.

Van Aert explains why he has agreed to three more years with the team, Dumoulin discusses his Classics ambitions, and we hear who will lead Jumbo-Visma at the three Grand Tours.

We also look back on 2020 and a Tour de France that looked to be theirs until Roglic’s defeat to Tadej Pogacar on the penultimate day. What happened at La Planche des Belles Filles, did Jumbo-Visma make any mistakes over the three weeks of a Tour in which they were the strongest team, and how can they try and ensure it doesn’t happen again?

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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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0:16.0	We're in Alicante, Richard at the Yombovisma team hotel for the pro men, pro women for the first time in the development team,
0:38.0	standing in the morning sunshine, it's rather glorious.
0:40.0	Yes, we're in a hotel, a golf hotel, a Daniel Freep should be here, shouldn't he?
0:44.0	He'd be out there having a round of golf. But we've been doing interviews and it's a big old setup here, as you say, women's team now at Yombovisma.
0:52.0	We've been here for a few days, we've been here about 24 hours, I've been here a bit longer.
0:56.0	Taking a mini break.
0:58.0	They've taken over this hotel just outside Alicante, 52 riders and 68 staff here.
1:04.0	And we've just had breakfast, aren't we all?
1:06.0	We have had breakfast and I'm allowed to say this now because I'm almost Dutch, really.
1:14.0	It was a very Dutch breakfast, wasn't it? I noticed that, well I noticed that at dinner last night, the fridge was full of flour.
1:20.0	And if you don't know your Dutch desserts and you've got to try out flour, it's a very typical yogurty drink.
1:26.0	And this morning, everything, the entire buffet was like walking into a Yombo super market and I was laughing to myself because the Dutch are no-not-they.
1:34.0	I think they know for when they go camping and they're somewhere they like to stock up on their local supermarket and brewing all the produce with them.
1:41.0	And that's what we do, we've got a camper van, we've got a Yombo and we stock up and we head to France or wherever.
1:45.0	And it felt like they just stocked up their whole camper van and driven from the Netherlands.
1:49.0	The question is, is a cultural thing or is it just because it's sponsored by a supermarket?
1:53.0	When they were rabble-minded, they'd take back some money.
1:56.0	That would have been a fun training camp, wouldn't it?
1:59.0	No, I think it's actually just a Dutch thing, I think it helps that they've got the supermarket behind them, but I think they would have done it anyway.
2:05.0	They take bits of the Netherlands with them wherever they go.
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