107: Kilometre 0 – Tour Diaries – Part 2
Episode 5: We hand the mic to our Tour de France diarists again to get inside the race bubble.
In this episode we hear from Connor Swift of Arkéa-Samsic who is riding his first Tour de France – in fact, his first Grand Tour – and has the job of looking after their leader Nairo Quintana. Swift gives us his first impressions of the race and talks about how he's settling into the rhythm.
The coronavirus crisis has affected the Tour in many ways, some obvious, some less so. Riders are used to sharing rooms but on this Tour many are in separate rooms. There are fewer media demands – at least face-to-face ones with journalists, and a greater sense of being cut off from the rest of the world. So how are they passing the time away from the race? Jens Keukeleire of EF Pro Cycling talks about the books he's reading while away from home.
We also hear from Ryan Gibbons of NTT Pro Cycling and Nikias Arndt of Sunweb, who have had a particularly good opening week. And there are updates from Pavel Sivakov, who crashed twice on the opening day and has been battling to regain his strength so he can contribute fully for Ineos Grenadiers later in the race.
Despatches from our team of audio diarists will appear throughout our Tour de France coverage as well as in Kilometre 0.
Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is supported by Zwift, the app for riding, training and racing at home. Kilometre 0 is a 15-part series published on weekday mornings during the Tour de France.
In this episode we hear from Connor Swift of Arkéa-Samsic who is riding his first Tour de France – in fact, his first Grand Tour – and has the job of looking after their leader Nairo Quintana. Swift gives us his first impressions of the race and talks about how he's settling into the rhythm.
The coronavirus crisis has affected the Tour in many ways, some obvious, some less so. Riders are used to sharing rooms but on this Tour many are in separate rooms. There are fewer media demands – at least face-to-face ones with journalists, and a greater sense of being cut off from the rest of the world. So how are they passing the time away from the race? Jens Keukeleire of EF Pro Cycling talks about the books he's reading while away from home.
We also hear from Ryan Gibbons of NTT Pro Cycling and Nikias Arndt of Sunweb, who have had a particularly good opening week. And there are updates from Pavel Sivakov, who crashed twice on the opening day and has been battling to regain his strength so he can contribute fully for Ineos Grenadiers later in the race.
Despatches from our team of audio diarists will appear throughout our Tour de France coverage as well as in Kilometre 0.
Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is supported by Zwift, the app for riding, training and racing at home. Kilometre 0 is a 15-part series published on weekday mornings during the Tour de France.