S9 Ep70: Kilometre 0 – The stage winners
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 26 May 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Some – Egan Bernal, Giacomo Nizzolo – have not been much of a surprise. But some certainly have, and yet there have been days when the stage winner has been overshadowed by the GC battle.
In this episode of Kilometre 0 we revisit their stages with some of the winners, including Joe Dombrowski, Taco van der Hoorn and Victor Lafay. And we hear from a rider agent, Gary McQuaid, about the value of a stage win in a Grand Tour.
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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 Sabians |
| 0:21.0 | Energy Management for committed athletes and coaches |
| 0:25.0 | Music |
| 0:40.0 | Tim Merlier, Tackle Vanderhorn, Joe Dumbrowski, Geno Mayder, Victor LaFay, Egan Bernal, Maro Schmitt, Andrea Vindrami, |
| 0:50.0 | Jackamo Nitzolo, Lorenzo Fortunato, Victor Campanars, 11 of the 16 stages so far at this |
| 0:57.9 | Jiro d'Italia have been won by first time Grand Tour stage winners. Some such as Bernal |
| 1:03.6 | and Zolo have not been much of a surprise, but some certainly have been. For riders like |
| 1:09.3 | Vanderhorn, Mayder, LaFay and Schmitt, a stage winner at the Jiro was an enormous moment. |
| 1:15.1 | And for Fortunato and his team, while his boss Alberto Contador who was watching at home |
| 1:19.4 | in Madrid seemed reasonably happy. |
| 1:21.1 | We will win! We will win! We will win! We will win! We will win! We will win! We will win! |
| 1:29.1 | Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! |
| 1:35.1 | But what beyond such moments of ecstasy does a stage win actually mean and what is it worth? |
| 1:41.0 | There have been days such as that of Schmitt's win on the strada Bianchi and Montelcino |
| 1:45.4 | when the identity of the stage winner has been very much secondary to the GC battle. Some |
| 1:50.2 | evenings we've recorded the podcast and then wondered whether we gave the stage winner |
| 1:53.7 | enough or indeed any credit. And so we thought we'd look back at some of the stage wins |
| 1:58.2 | and stage winners at this Jiro, some of which feel like a very long time ago. Let's hear |
| 2:03.1 | first from Tackle Vanderhorn, the 27-year-old Dutchman, a journeyman, as opposed we'd call |
| 2:08.0 | him, who struggled to find a team at the end of last season and who was riding his first |
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