S9 Ep8: The Ineos grand tour battle plan

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4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the Ineos Grenadiers strategy for this season's three grand tours.

With Geraint Thomas, Egan Bernal, Richard Carapaz and Tao Geoghegan Hart in their squad they have four grand tour champions to divide between three races – and that's before considering the ambitions of Pavel Sivakov, Adam Yates and others.

So how will they manage it? And will Dave Brailsford's suggestion that he wants his team to rip up the established tactical handbook and race more freely be possible? Can they 'prepare like Germany, play like Brazil' as he put it?

We also discuss the latest UCI rule changes which bans the so-called 'super tuck' descending position and seriously increases fines for littering.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Cycling Podcast brought to you by IWaka, Flexible Loans,
0:10.0	Built for Small Businesses, iwoca.co.uk
0:20.0	Hello and welcome to episode 2 of the Cycle Cross Podcast as we've been rebranded, maybe permanently,
0:26.0	thanks to the response to last week's episode.
0:29.0	This week, in which we discuss the world championship.
0:32.0	This week I'm going to like everything, I'm just going to be relentlessly positive about everything.
0:37.0	This week on Daniel Freibon, how mud is the new tarmac and forget about the
0:42.5	stale view, it's all about coxider now.
0:45.0	Preferably indoors, preferably on a velo bowl.
0:51.0	That's Daniel Freibon, Richard Murrer and there's Lionel Burney, hello Lionel.
0:55.0	Hello Richard, hello Daniel.
0:57.0	Did you, you've not been cancelled for your views on Cycle Cross?
1:00.0	I think I might have been, I think I might have been.
1:03.0	Certainly by some people.
1:05.0	A new range of t-shirts coming with a quote, Cycle Cross is demeaning, I think we'll put on the grading.
1:11.0	It was degrading, it was degrading as a slow even better.
1:15.0	Oh, there were some great lines last week.
1:19.0	Designed to provoke, of course Daniel.
1:21.0	Mainly Lionel.
1:24.0	Designed to provoke Lionel, but all good fun, all good fun.
1:28.0	We are moving on from Cycle Cross, I think, aren't we?
1:31.0	Reluctantly.
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