S9 Ep47: Kilometre 0 – The Baron of Biella
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Giuseppe Acquadro is the town‘s prodigal son – and he is an agent, not a rider. In fact, some have called the man whose client portfolio includes Egan Bernal, Nairo Quintana and Richard Carapaz cycling‘s first ‘super-agent’.
But much about Acquadro remains largely unknown – his background, his methods, the relationships that he has made, sometimes broken and often repaired.
Daniel talked to the man himself – and others who know him – to hopefully peel back some of the intrigue surrounding ‘The Baron of Biella’.
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:12.0 | You are listening to Kilometer Zero by the cycling podcast |
| 0:18.0 | Powered by Super Sapiens |
| 0:21.0 | Energy Management for committed athletes and coaches |
| 0:25.0 | The town of Bielat, West age 3 of the Giro stars on Monday |
| 0:30.0 | has apparently only meager claims to fame in its recent cycling history |
| 0:34.0 | The once promising later disgraced and discarded former Malia Rosa |
| 0:38.0 | Dario Fregor, made his home here |
| 0:40.0 | and the town most Italians associate with its textile industry |
| 0:43.0 | also sits in the shadow of a climb to the Sant'Oario d'Oropa |
| 0:47.0 | where at least one chapter in Italian sporting folklore was written in 1999 |
| 0:52.0 | with Marco Pantani's victory there |
| 0:55.0 | But Bielat is the birthplace of a much more recent cycling phenomenon |
| 0:59.0 | A man who in the last few years has left his fingerprints on the trophies of all three major tours |
| 1:04.0 | and much besides Giuseppe Acqua-Doro might be cycling's first ever super agent |
| 1:09.0 | the equivalent of football's Mino Raiola |
| 1:12.0 | Giuseppe doesn't even mind that epithet or the comparison |
| 1:15.0 | and it would be hard to dispute |
| 1:17.0 | since his portfolio of clients is comfortably the stariest |
| 1:20.0 | and yes most lucrative in the sports including Egamburnau, Naira Quintana |
| 1:25.0 | Richard Carapaz, Mihalkovsky and Rigoberto Ran |
| 1:29.0 | Agents don't usually give interviews |
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