The greatest race of all?

BeSpoke: at the Tour de France

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🗓️ 3 April 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Tom Fordyce is joined by cycling writer Sadhbh O’Shea and BeSpoke veterans Gareth Rhys Owen and Jeremy Whittle to battle up the steep cobbled climbs and narrow roads of the Tour of Flanders, a race like no other. World no.1 Annamiek van Vleuten tells the team what it takes to win Flanders and reveals why a happy rider is a successful rider and reveals she can't tell the difference between her Mitchelton-Scott teammate twins Adam and Simon Yates. Plus Tom pressurises his guests into predicting a winner and is then blindsided by Gareth in return.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:04.8	This week on Bespoke, it is the greatest one-day race in the world, the tour of Flanders,
0:11.3	in the company of the best female rider, there is.
0:19.0	This is Bespoke with Tom Fordice.
0:24.1	Welcome to Bespoke with us this week.
0:26.4	We have the news editor from Cycle News, Syve O'S-J.
0:29.6	Welcome, Syve.
0:30.5	Hi.
0:31.4	We've got Jeremy Whittle.
0:33.0	Hello there.
0:33.8	And our old friend, Gareth Rees Owen.
0:36.1	How are we?
0:36.8	Gareth, nice to sit.
0:37.5	Last time I saw you, Gareth, was the aftermath of Wales' victory over England in Cardiff.
0:42.5	Yes.
0:42.9	You were remarkably magmatimus.
0:44.9	I was and very professional because we knew that there was still two games to go and now that's done.
0:51.0	Grand Slam has been celebrated and I'm in that perfect part of the year
0:54.7	where I've still got a touch of rugby
0:56.5	to keep myself interested in
0:58.6	but I can now start focusing on cycling
1:01.1	and in particular the Spring Classics.
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