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CyclingTips Podcast

Should Grand Tours include gravel?

CyclingTips Podcast

CyclingTips

Sports, Technology

4.4931 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The podcast crew chats Giro d'Italia so far, Egan Bernal, Giulio Ciccone, and whether or not gravel should be included in Grand Tours. Caleb Ewan's early departure from the Giro was met with criticism by many. Did he disrespect the race by leaving? Plus, mechanics pull some pretty crazy stunts behind races.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Cycling Tips Podcast, everybody. I'm Kayle Fritz.

0:15.0

I've got the usual crew with us here today. James, Abbey,

0:18.8

shotty Dave, Ronan and Dane, all at once everybody how are you top fantastic I was trying to make

0:29.6

that didn't work I was trying to make this a more efficient process you, so we have to go all the way around the rooms,

0:34.7

everybody says hi, I think, you know,

0:36.3

our listeners know everybody.

0:38.0

Anyway, it failed.

0:38.9

I'll go back to the regular version next week.

0:41.6

We have a lot to talk about today. It's Monday. Today's

0:46.6

the last stage of the Jura before the first rest day, so we're going to talk through, well

0:50.9

basically where the Jura stands, some of the big storylines, the big wins and the big losses.

0:57.3

People like Joe Nebraska, Caleb Ewen,

0:59.7

lots of crashes, Ego Bernal, what the GC picture looks like, all that good stuff.

1:06.0

And then we're going to have a little bit of a debate as to whether gravel belongs in Grand Tours.

1:13.7

Yes.

1:16.0

We'll get there.

1:16.9

We know where James stands I guess.

1:18.9

Yes.

1:19.9

We'll get there.

1:21.9

And then we've got news from a series of one days in Spain for the women's

1:25.2

peloton. Whole bunch of racing happened over the course of what three or four days and

1:31.5

we'll run through all of those.

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