You can't say anything, can you guys, other than Jonas Fingerguard is going to win this and win it quite comfortably, I would imagine.

We'd like to think not, but he is the out and out favourite for a reason.

He gets a little bit underappreciated by the general cycling public.

But then I think the public view him and the way he do because of the way he races.

Whenever he retires, he might be one of those

characters will probably just disappear completely and we'll just never see.

Well, hello, my name's Ned Bolting and hello, Lizzie Diedman, first. Actually, I didn't know

in what order to introduce you, but I'm going to go with Lizzie first. Hello, Lizzie. How are you? I'm good. Thank you. Ned. You know, nerd yourself.

I've got a story to tell of, well, I'll get to that, because I'm a little bit stressed. I'm in Bulgaria at the moment. Hello, Pete. Where are you? Hello, Ned. Hello, Lizzie. I'm on the beautiful Isle of Mark.

Cool.

Excellent.

All right.

Well, listen, hold that thought.

Not that it was a thought.

It was just I'm on the Isle of Man and I'm in Bulgaria. Because I've got a big announcement to make. And it goes to something like this. Hello and welcome to something brand new, something that's so new, in fact, that what you're experiencing now is the joy of kind of unboxing something.

In fact, if you think about it, this very sentence is like peeling off one of those incredibly satisfying transparent layers of plastic off something to reveal what you're looking

at now called For the Love of Cycling.

And that's what this is all about.

For The Love of Cycling is a podcast that is absolutely designed to make you remind you of what it is that you love about cycling.

And it features a whole host, as you can see, of familiar faces and voices that you've endured

and suffered over recent years from the now sadly defunct

ITV cycling but also from the dear old podcast that you may have been listening to for many years

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