Talking Luft! with Fumiyuki Beppu. S2/E14

Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP

Mitch Docker

Fitness, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Talking Luft is back for another week, this time I’m chatting to Japanese Pro Cyclist and teammate of mine at EF Education-Nippo Fumiyuki Beppu – or Fumy as he’s known. Fumy is in his 17th (!!) year as a professional, having ridden for 6 different Pro Teams, starting with the iconic Discovery Channel team back […]

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0:00.0	Gooday, guys, welcome to Talking Luft. This week I've got a really special one for you. Fumiyuki Beppu. I explain who he is at the start of this podcast so I'm not going to go into it too much here. He's Japanese, he's been professional for 17 years. Him and I have been in teams, all of my teams, really exciting. Great to have chat with him. We're sitting here at the start of the Bing Bang
0:37.7	Tour. I thought I'd just grab him. We're having dinner. Grab him, get him up, have a chat about
0:42.7	Luft, about style, a little bit about his career. Sit back and enjoy this one. We've got Life
0:48.6	in the Peloton coming up next week, back on the cycling podcast, and we're back up and going
0:53.6	just after the Vuelta.
0:55.0	But for this week, a bit of Talking Luft, so I hope you guys enjoy.
0:59.0	Alright, here we go.
1:11.8	We're off and running, talking loft.
1:15.6	I'm sitting here with Fumiyuki Beppu, and he is a household name from Japan.
1:23.4	You could almost call him half French these days because he's lived in France, Leon, for many years, probably 17 years, I would say, Fummi. Is that correct?
1:33.2	Yeah, it's professional career, yeah, 17 years.
1:35.5	How many years in Leon, though?
1:37.2	So now it's more than 11.
1:40.5	11.
1:41.7	17 years professional. Let me run through this.
1:44.4	Fumie and I have got a lot of background,
1:46.7	but we've actually been in three teams together.
1:48.5	I can't believe that.
1:49.7	The guy who has followed me through all of my teams,
1:52.7	or have I followed him, I don't know.
1:55.3	Fumme started way back in 2005 with Discovery Channel.
1:59.1	Everyone remember that team way back then. That was when Armstrong
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