Women's Tour Down Under Stage 1: Gorge road disrupts expectations
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Dave Rome takes Abby's place leading the podcast on the ground in Adelaide to talk about the first stage of the women's Tour Down Under. Our favourite tech expert is joined by former professional Gracie Elvin and Escape Collective's managing editor Matt de Neef.
The team discusses the event's growing prestige, why the Europeans are showing up to win, how the Aussies can compete, and how the new team kits look in person.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hello, good day. How's it going? Welcome to the Escape Down Under Podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | The Large Team on the Ground Under podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | The Large Team on the Ground at the Tour Down Under, the start of the World Tour calendar. |
| 0:25.0 | We figured we'd bring you all the regular dose of the surrounding culture, racing highlights, |
| 0:30.0 | tech tidbits, and so much more from Adelaide and surrounds. I'm Dave Rome and don't worry |
| 0:36.6 | I won't be providing anyone with race analysis. Rather for the first of these special episodes I'm sitting with two experts of the racing world. |
| 0:45.0 | First up, Gracie Elvin. |
| 0:47.0 | G'd-day. |
| 0:48.0 | Good-day. |
| 0:49.0 | Former Pro, Star of Australian Cycling, turned race commentator, and a regular voice on Escape's Wheel Talk |
| 0:54.7 | podcast. |
| 0:55.7 | Gracie, welcome to whatever this is. |
| 0:58.7 | Thank you, great to be here. |
| 1:01.2 | You know me? |
| 1:02.2 | Love to talk about cycling. |
| 1:03.2 | Also joining us is Escape's a Managing Editor. |
| 1:05.4 | Matt Deneve, Matt has been in the game a long time, but most recently, |
| 1:09.3 | his byline is regularly found on a weekly newsletter focused on all things Australian |
| 1:14.0 | cycling aka the Down Under Digest welcome Matt hello good to be here |
| 1:18.6 | great to be back at this race as well after four years I think it was the last time we were here isn't it? |
| 1:23.4 | It's been a while for you and I yeah yeah so good to be back I love this race and love the vibe of it and yeah |
| 1:29.4 | It's great to be in amongst it again feels a bit like a school reunion. |
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