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🗓️ 31 December 2024
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Introducing Best of 2024: How To Be Annoying (in a Good Way!) with Kathryn Bertine from Good Game with Sarah Spain.
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We’re revisiting some of our favorite interviews of 2024! Back in August, former pro cyclist and forever activist Kathryn Bertine joined Sarah to discuss the history of the Tour de France Femmes, and why equality in cycling is still a long way away.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we hope that wherever you are, you're taking a second to think about all that you live through in 2024, what you gained and what you lost. |
0:10.9 | And you can rest today knowing that you gave this year your best shot. |
0:14.2 | It's Tuesday, December 31st, New Year's Eve. |
0:17.1 | And today, we're on the road again with former pro cyclist Catherine Bertine. This conversation |
0:22.6 | happened back in August just before the Tour to France Femm. We talked about equality in the |
0:26.6 | sport, the history of the tour, and her fascinating journey from figure skating to pro cycling. |
0:31.2 | That conversation is coming up right after this. Stick around. |
0:53.3 | Joining us now, cyclist, author, activist, filmmaker, former professional figure skater and former professional triathlete. |
0:58.4 | She turned professional in road cycling in 2012 and raced on world tour teams until 2017. |
1:05.1 | Her biggest legacy, though, will be as an activist helping spearhead petitions to organizers to launch a women's tour to France. |
1:13.0 | A former ESPNW colleague, a fellow Ted Lassau lover, and a newly engaged woman. It's Catherine Bertine. What's up, Catherine? Hey, Sarah. Oh, it's so great to talk to you, as always. Thank you for having me on |
1:18.6 | your kick-ass show. It's an honor to be here. You are welcome, and you're celebrating your |
1:23.3 | engagement by following the Tour de France Femm, which is like so perfect and typical of you because |
1:28.8 | you have made this so much of your life. But it wasn't always, and I love this part of the story. |
1:32.4 | So it's not like you grew up being like cycling, let's do it. You were actually a figure skater |
1:36.4 | and you turned pro in that. But after your 30th birthday, you were like, let me find some other sports to give a go. And there's kind of a fascinating journey to get to |
1:44.9 | pro cycling. So tell us about it. Yeah, the short story journey to turning pro cycling actually |
1:50.3 | stemmed from our ESPN days. And I was given an assignment of see if you can get to the Olympic |
1:56.6 | Games in two years. Like, you're the guinea pig. Try a sport. See how badly you fail. It was kind of |
2:03.4 | this setup to fail mission, right? And the reality that happened condensing that story is that I found |
2:10.1 | cycling. I found road cycling. I'd been a triathlet and my strongest of those three sports |
2:15.4 | swim bike run was cycling. So I'm like, let me give this thing a try. |
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