S9 Ep94: Kilometre 0 – Audio diaries, part 1
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Campenaerts and O'Connor are debutants, Swift is riding his second Tour, with the Grand Départ in his team's home region, and Declercq, "The Tractor", is doing his usual job of spending many kilometres on the front of the bunch, helping his teammates Julian Alaphilippe and Mark Cavendish to two stage wins so far.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Kilometre Zero by the Cycling Podcast, Power by Super Sapiens, Energy Management for Community Dark Leads and Coaches. |
| 0:12.0 | Here we have it, the first stage of the Tour de France. |
| 0:16.0 | Today was a big climb to the definition of the Hecht and Gais. |
| 0:20.0 | Every team has these victims. |
| 0:24.0 | The every job is a dream even when you're living your dream here, which is the irony of it all. |
| 0:32.0 | Carrying on a Cycling Podcast tradition at this year's Tour de France, we have four riders keeping an audio diary for us. |
| 0:39.0 | They're recording bits and pieces most nights or mornings indeed, sending them to us and we really appreciate their insights into their races and their team's races. |
| 0:49.0 | We'll hear it in this episode from Tim DeClerk of Decorant Quickstep, Connor Swift of our KSAM Sick Returning for a second year. |
| 0:56.0 | Victor Campanartz of Quebec and Next Hash making his Tour de France debut surprisingly. |
| 1:01.0 | And we'll hear all about his thoughts ahead of his first ever start at the Tour de France later on. |
| 1:07.0 | We'll also hear from Beno Connor, another debut told the Australian climber who rides for AG2R Citron. |
| 1:14.0 | In this episode, we'll also hear some clips from commentary adding a bit of atmosphere and flavour to the episode. |
| 1:20.0 | And we say a big thanks to UreSport GCN for those. |
| 1:24.0 | But without further ado, let's cross over to our diaries. |
| 1:34.0 | Hey everyone, it's Beno Connor here. |
| 1:37.0 | Starting my diary entry for the Cycling Podcast for the Tour de France. |
| 1:44.0 | I guess this is part zero because I'm not actually there yet. |
| 1:48.0 | I thought maybe I'd just speak about how the weeks going into the Tour de France have been and actually had kind of strangely normal. |
| 1:57.0 | It feels, I was lucky enough to see my parents through some circumstances they were able to come here from Australia. |
| 2:05.0 | Actually the last week has been not so stressful more or less because of having them around. |
| 2:12.0 | Are you doing a training and then you see them, are you sure of them? |
| 2:16.0 | Where I live here in Andora, so it's been actually a beautiful time to prepare for the Tour de France. |
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