Daniel Friebe
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✍🏼 of Mountain High (& Higher), Eddy Merckx: The Cannibal & Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was (09/06/22). One bit of The Cycling Podcast & ITV cycling.
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Because we need another Swift at the Tour de France 🔊
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General classification since 2021 (83 stages):
Pogačar: 327 hrs, 39 mins, 22 secs
Vingegaard: 327 hrs, 39 mins, 44 secs
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De Bondt spends 50+km in break, 15 mins doing interviews, then finally heads off towards team bus…sees this group of kids, does U-turn & spends another several mins taking pics/signing autographs.
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Question in press conf: ‘Tadej, are you afraid this Giro will cost you too much?’
‘So far I haven’t spent any Euros. I’m on a paid holiday since six days.’
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Tour de France vintages, 2000-22:
🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷2003, 2022
🍷🍷🍷🍷2006, 2008, 2011, 2019, 2020
🍷🍷🍷2001, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021
🍷🍷2000, 2004, 2012, 2014
🍷2002, 2005
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Soon the combined palmarès of half a dozen teenaged tenants of a Mancunian terraced house circa 2005, all of them mentored by Rod Ellingworth, will include:
1 Tour
1 🌈 road jersey
12 🌈 track jerseys
51 Grand Tour stages
1 Dauphiné
1 Paris-Nice
1 Sanremo
5 Olympic golds
etc.
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Marc Soler eating a Calippo two minutes before the stage start is the most Marc Soler thing you’ll see today.
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Devastating. One of the brightest lights in the sport - a rider whose deep, considered, expressive voice grabbed your attention from the moment he opened his mouth. Always felt it was a matter of time before a much wider audience saw that light - because he was going to soar.
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Pog on why he keeps sprinting at end of stages: ‘It’s a bicycle race. You sprint. I don’t know…’
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2021 Vuelta GC by birthplace altitude
1. Narváez 🇪🇨 3458m
2. Carapaz 🇪🇨 2980m
3. Supermán 🇨🇴 2858m
4. Cepeda 🇪🇨 2850m
5. Caicedo 🇪🇨 2842m
6. Bernal 🇨🇴 2640m
7. Camargo 🇨🇴 2572m
8. Molano 🇨🇴 2525m
9. Henao 🇨🇴 2125m
10. Kuss 🇺🇸 1988m
Simmons 🇺🇸 1988m
🚨184. Bol 🇳🇱 -1m
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Can’t think of many riders who would do an interview in these circumstances. Like the way he fought today, to Fred’s great credit.
"That was the worst day of my life"
Daniel spoke to Fred Wright after he missed the time cut 🇬🇧😔
#TDF2024
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Pog: ‘It’s 99% impossible to see me at the Vuelta this year…’
So you’re saying there’s a chance…?
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It’s taken 17+ years but - after a career that’s been one long tale of defiance - Cavendish has defeated the final boss of doubts, obstacles, records, critics, quibbles & conventional wisdom. Surrender would have been totally out of step with all the rest. Now he can finally go.
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You‘re allowed to say Pog‘s attacks haven‘t worked once Vingegaard has crossed line at Hautacam this afternoon. Until then, it‘s a bit like telling a woodcutter every swing of the axe was pointless because the tree hasn‘t fallen yet.
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Stop this Tour tonight & just call it the greatest one-week stage race in history.
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Dan Bigham’s Hour Record lasted for 6 days more than Liz Truss’s premiership.
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Just seen Tour de l’Ain startlist.
When open mic night at ‘The Dog & Duck’ turns into Live Aid.
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FWIW, the startline appears to be next to the cheese and the yoghurts
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Evenepoel needs to chill or else he'll have completed cycling by the time he's 22.
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(Revised) Vuelta GC by birthplace altitude
1. Atapuma 🇨🇴3010m
2. Superman 🇨🇴2858m
3. Nairo 🇨🇴 2825m
4. Chaves 🇨🇴2640m
5. Martínez 🇨🇴 2565m
6. Molano 🇨🇴 2525m
7. Ghebreigzabhier 🇪🇷born🇪🇹 2355m
8. Grmay 🇪🇹 2254m
9. Gaviria 🇨🇴 2200m
10. Seb / Sergio Henao 🇨🇴 2125m
176. Bol 🇳🇱 -2m
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Absolutely baffles me that people still can’t grasp this concept.
Why's nobody following Pog? 👽
@GeraintThomas86
provided a fitting analogy in last night's pod.
#Giro
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Stage 6 of the Vuelta starts from INSIDE a Carrefour supermarket. Cats are going to be lining up in the cereals aisle, next to the Golden Grahams & the Frosties…
Am not even kidding - the press release just went out.
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Find someone who pats you on the back like Damiano Caruso.
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Question to Simon Yates: ‘Who’s the favourite for Giro d’Italia?’
Him: ‘Me.’
He meant it.
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One of us is 94 years old.
One of us won 22 Tour stages.
One of us is André Darrigade.
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Best two kilometres in cycling
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Tour de France vintages, 2000-24:
🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷2003, 2022
🍷🍷🍷🍷2006, 2008, 2011, 2020, 2023, 2024
🍷🍷🍷2001, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
🍷🍷2000, 2004, 2012, 2014
🍷2002, 2005
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Tour de France vintages, 2000-23:
🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷2003, 2022
🍷🍷🍷🍷2006, 2008, 2011, 2020, 2023
🍷🍷🍷2001, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
🍷🍷2000, 2004, 2012, 2014
🍷2002, 2005
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(Now traditional) Tour GC by birthplace altitude
1 Carapaz🇪🇨2980m
2 Superman López🇨🇴2858m
3= Nairo & Dayer Quintana🇨🇴2825m
5= Bernal🇨🇴2640m
5= Chaves🇨🇴2640m
7 Martínez🇨🇴2565m
8 Kuss🇺🇸1988m
9 Urán🇨🇴1830m
10=Impey🇿🇦1753m
10=Gibbons🇿🇦1753m
176🚨Bol🇳🇱0m
⬆️🏔 Col de la Loze 2304m
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Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation tests in 2017: 14,289
International Tennis Federation tests in 2017: 6293
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Cavendish leading Coppi e Bartali. Every milestone in his career has said plenty about his ability. No result has said more about his middle-finger perseverance than today’s.
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Let the cycling historians record that Thibaut Pinot’s last words on the Champs Elysées were, ‘One day we’ll go to an Arsenal game together.’
I have the videographic proof.
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Felice Gimondi has died, aged 76. One of the best stage-racers of all time & a lovely, gentle man. Thought he‘d live forever. His mum nearly did - she only passed away in 2013, in her 104th year. She’d been a postwoman & taught Felice to ride on the bike she used for deliveries.
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(Annual) Vuelta GC by birthplace altitude:
1. Carapaz 🇪🇨 2980m
2. Supermán López 🇨🇴 2858m
3. Caicedo 🇪🇨 2842m
4=Buitrago 🇨🇴 2640m
Chaves 🇨🇴 2640m
5. Molano 🇨🇴 2525m
6. Kudus 🇪🇷 2325m
7. Kuss 🇺🇸 1988m
8. Urán 🇨🇴 1830m
9. Froome 🇰🇪 1795m
10. Impey 🇿🇦 1753m
182. Bol 🇳🇱 -2m
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Sad to see Marcel Kittel leave the pro peloton. An absolute gentleman who honoured the sport, entertained us & was exemplary in his dealings with the media in spite of his increasingly mixed feelings about his place in the whole circus. Congratulations to him on a stellar career.
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Thank you to
@ard_bierens
&
@WoutvanAert
for their touching gift of a signed maillot jaune to Richard’s son, Maxime.
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Wide-ranging, thoughtful Mark Cavendish interview in the
@BigIssue
.
On mental health - "I think Robin Williams said it best: people aren’t pretending to have mental health issues, people are pretending to be OK.’
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52 Giri d’Italia, 23 Tours de France & 50 Vueltas a España have been won by a smaller margin than the 2024 Strade Bianche.
And he lost about 30 secs celebrating.
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Marc Soler eating a Calippo just feels right.
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Cycling fans currently watching the triathlon bike leg & wondering when everyone in these groups is going to sit up & start swearing at each other. 🤷♂️
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So van der Poel is staying at the Old Swan Hotel in Harrogate, where Agatha Christie went AWOL for 11 days in 1926, checking in as ’Teresa Neele’ from Cape Town. Arthur Conan Doyle tried & failed to trace her by taking her discarded glove to a medium.
Relevance to Worlds: 0
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London putting in a strong bid to host a future World Championships...
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Jonas at start: ‘I want Sepp to be in red jersey at the end of the day.’
Sepp: ‘Sometimes you have to stick up for yourself…but everyone was on board [in meeting last night].’
Valter: ‘The strongest guy will win the race.’
Plugge: ‘You’ll see what we do today.’
Buckle up!
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First Twitter accounts ever followed by top cyclists
Roglič:
@mactricksandtip
Cavendish:
@petatodd
Sagan:
@eliaviviani
Van der Poel:
@tomboonen
Van Aert:
@sannecant
Egan Bernal:
@vincenzonibali
Tadej Pogačar:
@NASA
🚀
#truestory
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Bora ‘saved money over previous years’ & ‘had money in the bank’ to sign Roglič. Yep, definitely Germany’s team.
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Prudomme said this will be the 'highest Tour of all time'? Dunno, think some of the Festina boys were getting pretty high in 1998...
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And so died the myth of Marc Soler the freewheeling, earpiece-removing Ferris Bueller of Spanish cycling.
Ill, vomiting, it‘s 43 degrees & he still finishes the stage, 15 mins outside the time limit.
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Retiring Gracefully, a Marcel Kittel-Tom Dumoulin co-production
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In two weeks Davide Rebellin will end his pro career at the Giro del Veneto, a race in which he was 5th…in 1992. That day he finished in the same group as Laurent Fignon & just ahead of Stephen Roche. Roman Kreuziger - that is the now retired 2013 Amstel winner‘s dad - was 63rd.
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The best article I've read in this or any Tour is in
@PedaleMag
& is about 'Les Effaceurs' - the crack team who remove or doctor offensive graffiti on the Tour's roads.
'At best, genitals are turned into butterflies, into bears...'
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Spot the guy who put a juicy Tour de France victory clause in the deal when he ‘sold’ Bernal to Sky last year (as confirmed to
@cycling_podcast
at 2018 Giro).
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Current view at bottom of climb to Auron, which Paris-Nice will tackle next Saturday. Or is due to, at least. 😬
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‘Tadej, do you feel ready for a 45-minute final climb?’
Him: ‘It won’t take 45 minutes.’
15.1km @ 7.1%
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Maybe unoriginal, but among hot takes from this Tour is that Pog vs Ving already greatest/most intense/sustained rivalry in GC history, if closeness (3 Tours to 2) & mano-a-mano battles in stages main criteria. Coppi-Bartali, Anquetil-Poulidor, Armstrong-Ullrich..none are close.
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One of most memorable days in my 23 years covering cycling. And yet until Roglič was about 2km from the line, we didn’t have a clue how it would end. Richly deserved for Rog - a rider who has left a deep imprint in a remarkably short time. But so would it have been for Thomas.
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When little Jimmy's unlocked the Tron bike.
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Thomas on Roglič attack: "Not bad for a guy with Covid. He told me yesterday he had Covid..."
Seems the rumour started in the bunch a few days ago. Roglič heard it and, well, has either decided to have a bit of fun with it or, er, needs to find a new poker teacher.
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Kevin Réza in Paris yesterday: "I had a great talk in the bunch with Matteo Trentin. He's a great guy whom I've got to know over the last three weeks. He found just the right words, congratulated me on what I'd done. We agreed today was just the start of a long process..."
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Out on a limb, but personally find it quite sad when a rider’s cloak of invincibility is shredded, or yanked from their back. Something very alluring about the myth of the supernatural phenom. Today was unsettling in that it redefined the way we think of cycling‘s medium-term.
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👏
In loving memory of our great friend Richard Moore, we painted his
name on the Baneberg of Gent-Wevelgem, the last race he covered. Two years ago. Forever missed.
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The number of outlets I've seen quoting Geraint Thomas's "Remco hates Jumbo" line without any hint it may have been in jest... No wonder athletes are increasingly bypassing traditional media and putting out their own stuff.
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Remarkable article in L'Equipe about energy savings of riding in a peloton. According to Dutch researcher Bert Blocken, a rider in the most 'efficient' position in the bunch can ride at 54kph while producing watts that would give him a speed of 12-15kph if he was riding alone.
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2023 Vuelta GC by reported birthplace altitude
1. Rubio🇨🇴 2900m
2. Caicedo🇪🇨 2869m
3. (J Alv) Cepeda🇪🇨 2850m
4. Behre🇪🇹 2650m
5= Buitrago🇨🇴 2625m
5= Bernal 🇨🇴 2625m
7. Camargo🇨🇴 2579m
8. Molano🇨🇴 2525m
9. Ghebreigzabhier🇪🇷(born 🇪🇹) 2355m
10. Kuss🇺🇸 1988m
176. Bol🇳🇱 -2m
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Richie Porte climbed the Madone 11 times yesterday according to his Strava - 9000+m of climbing.
People just used to stay at home on Saturdays and watch Grandstand.
La sortie hallucinante de
@richie_porte
hier. 11x la Madone, 270kms, 14h22, 9000m de D+ 😭😭
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Top ten 🇨🇴 riders, ranked by altitude of birthplace
1. Superman López - 2858m
2. Quintana - 2825m
3= Bernal - 2640m
3= Chaves - 2640m
3= Martínez - 2640m
6. Gaviria - 2200m
7. Sosa - 2180m
8. Serg Henao - 2125m
9. Urán - 1830m
10. Hodeg - 18m
(Highest climb in 2019 GTs: 2770m)
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You think this clip can't be improved...then you add Springsteen.
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Spent 20 mins this morning trying to persuade Thibaut Pinot’s mum he shouldn’t retire.
Failed. Emphatically.
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Tour de France vintages, 2000-19:
🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷2003
🍷🍷🍷🍷2006, 2008, 2011, 2019
🍷🍷🍷2001, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
🍷🍷2000, 2004, 2012, 2014,
🍷2002, 2005
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Surely plenty of ways beyond doling out stage wins to avoid making enemies in a peloton. One is treating people cheerfully & respectfully in day-to-day interactions, which Pog seems to do. As Tobias Johannessen said last week - & I’m paraphrasing - he makes it hard to hate him.
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Has anyone told MvdP that it’s OK - Lachlan Morton isn’t in the real Tour?
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Quote of the Tour came...weeks before the Tour, from Marc Madiot about Thibaut Pinot.
‘Support this rider because he’s different. He’ll make you cry, sometimes you’ll be sad, but he’ll also lift you right up to the ceiling. His wins will taste different from the rest.’
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Rog’s 2nd place yesterday was his best ever finish at Courchevel, beating his 11th place in January 2007. Admittedly, the latter was in the HS96 men’s ski jump.
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Four leaves on a shirt
Madiot still screaming
1007 days of hurt
Never stopped me dreaming
It’s coming home
It’s coming…
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