S9 Ep98: Kilometre 0 – Jeff of all trades
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 2 July 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In his native Brittany he sat down with our own François Thomazeau to discuss his life and career in cycling.
Quenet is a Breton, born in Brest where the Tour started. His name will be familiar to those who read his monthly column in Cycle Sport magazine in the 1990s, offering a window into the world of French cycling. His voice will be familiar too, because he conducts many of the post-race interviews for television at the grand tours.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Kilometre Zero by the Cycling Podcast, Power by Super Sapiens, |
| 0:08.6 | Energy Management for Community Dark Leads and Coaches. |
| 0:13.6 | Francois, when I started following cycling seriously, one of the foreign |
| 0:18.8 | correspondents that became aware of is John Francois Kenney, who wrote a column in |
| 0:22.7 | Cycle Sport Magazine with the French perspective on European racing every month. |
| 0:28.4 | It was a great window into a world I really knew nothing about. |
| 0:32.1 | John Francois Kenney was a name that to me was synonymous with racing on the continent. |
| 0:40.2 | We're going to hear from him in this episode and you know him very well. |
| 0:43.8 | Yeah, I've known Jeff for many, many years. I think the first time I really |
| 0:48.8 | kind of hooked with John Francois was in one of my first, |
| 0:53.4 | remember when Rob Sornitz and Loss of Yellow Jersey by hitting a curb in a stage? |
| 0:58.4 | When was that? 1980 something? |
| 1:01.8 | I mean 1990 something, I'm not sure. |
| 1:04.9 | Well anyways, I was working for Roichers and I needed stuff from Rob Sornitz and |
| 1:12.8 | what happened and quotes and whatever. |
| 1:15.6 | And this guy working for West France at the time in France for another Cycling |
| 1:21.1 | magazine from Brussels, now folding. |
| 1:26.7 | This guy came to me and said, well you know I've got quotes from Rob Sornitz |
| 1:30.4 | and he gave me lots of information and I said wow this guy knows what he's doing |
| 1:35.1 | and he's with Jeff. I saw Jeff many times, I mean we met many times in our career. |
| 1:39.6 | He was in charge of actually at a couple of Olympics I covered. |
| 1:45.5 | Jeff was again in charge of the French crown of journalists to take care of |
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