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Wheel Talk: Getting EF Education-Cannondale off the ground

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🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

With 2024 just around the corner Abby chatted with EF Education-Cannondale’s new General Manager Esra Tromp about the process of building a team from scratch, the hurdles the team might come against in the new year, and more.

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0:00.0

And the Hello and thank you for listening to the Wheel Talk podcast my name is Abby Mickey and

0:18.7

today we have a little snippet of an interview that I had with Ezra Trump.

0:24.4

Ezra is the new general manager of the women's EF education

0:28.9

canendale team.

0:30.2

She's worked with teams like Park Hotel Valckenberg and helped to start the Yumbo- Vizma team when they first kicked off and so she she knows quite a bit about starting a brand new team and she got to do that again with E.F Education

0:44.5

Canada. She built a really amazing roster of riders, young riders, experienced

0:50.4

riders, riders who are super aggressive.

0:55.0

One of the things that she looked for is riders who are exciting to watch.

0:58.0

If you know anything about the men's team,

1:00.0

then you know that the team really likes riders that not only make an impact on the

1:03.8

race but are entertaining and engaging off the bike and she found a ton of that

1:10.1

for the new E.F Education Canadaale team.

1:12.5

I had a blast chatting with her

1:13.7

and I'm super excited for you to hear this,

1:15.2

but this is the regular escape collective feed.

1:19.6

If you want to hear the full interview

1:21.7

I had with Ezra, you have to be a member to hear this episode.

1:24.9

If you haven't signed up to become a member yet, well, our members are funding what we're doing. They're keeping the

1:30.3

lights on for us. So we're giving them extra bonus content and part of that is

1:37.4

off-season interviews that I'm conducting I've got one coming up soon with

1:41.6

Flirty McKai as well.

1:43.0

Some really awesome stuff over on the Escape Collective Members Only Feed.

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