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The Cycling Podcast

S9 Ep85: Annemiek van Vleuten

The Cycling Podcast

The Cycling Podcast

News, Sports, Sports News

4.73K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin, Orla Chennaoui speaks to Annemiek van Vleuten, the former world champion and one of the favourites for the Olympics.

Van Vleuten got in touch after our last episode, taking issue with something that was said. Here, she sets the record straight on the Women's World Tour and discusses missing some of the upcoming races to focus on the Olympic Games, her new team, Movistar, and much else besides.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Cycling Podcast Femina,

0:06.0

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0:12.0

Anna-Make Felfilm,

0:14.0

Anna-Make Felfilm is an exceptional woman. That might sound like an obvious thing to say given her racing credentials, but for me it's more than that.

0:38.0

Engaged and engaging, she's not someone who it's to be asked for a quote or an interview. She happily puts her own voice out there, and it's a voice that has been hard-earned and worth listening to.

0:50.0

When in her first five races as world champion last year, this year has been geared to timing her peak for the delayed Olympic Games, yet she's still taken five wins along the way and currently holds the woman's world to leaders jersey.

1:04.0

It's not jersey that layered Fand Floated to get in touch with me a short time ago, or at least,

1:10.0

quote about the jersey that had been completely misreported at Turns Out, and had formed the basis of a discussion on the Cycling Podcast Femina.

1:18.0

Fand Floated is a regular listener to the podcast, so she didn't hesitate to send me a WhatsApp to tell me we had the story completely wrong.

1:26.0

So who better to lead an extended corrections corner than Anamiq Fand Floated herself, if nothing else, and you'd be in for a fun and fascinating catch-up.

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2:05.0

So Anamiq, first of all, let's clear up our discussion on the podcast, which centered on what it now turns out to be misquoted quotes from you.

2:16.0

I read in news articles saying that you were delighted to be wearing the woman's wheelchair leaders jersey, and that it was more important to you than race wins.

2:23.0

And we discussed this on the podcast because we find that so unusual. It was the first time I'd heard a rider of any caliber saying that, never mind someone like you.

2:32.0

So we were really surprised and thought, oh, that must mean something about the leaders jersey. But actually, you said the complete opposite I understand. Is that right?

2:39.0

Yeah, it's that it was not any word from that interview. It was a translation of my audio interview afterwards. No, for me, it is about reading races.

2:48.0

And I'm not at all interested in gaining points for the wheel to a leader jersey. It's very prestigious to win races.

2:56.0

And that's also the beauty of cycling. And if you start to race for points, it makes also racing less interesting, I think.

3:03.0

So I always race for the win. So it was super funny for me to hear this in your podcast. But yeah, it was a miscommunication with my team. They had a really bad audio file.

3:14.0

So that's why they translated me wrong. And I made a joke to them like you, if you don't know me so well yet, because otherwise you would not have written this down.

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