THEMOVE - Surprise Gold for USA | 2024 Olympic Cycling | THEMOVE

Episode Date: August 5, 2024

THEMOVE team got together to discuss Olympic Individual Time Trials road races and Mountain Bike race. Remco Evenepoel finishes out an already amazing season in style and American, Kristen Faulkner pulls out the strength and tactics to upset a couple of very big riders. OneSkin: Give your skin the UV protection, hydration, and cellular support it needs with OneSkin. It’s time to expect more from your skin care routine. Get started today with 15% off using code THEMOVE at https://www.oneskin.co. AG1: Try AG1 and get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D3K2 AND 5 free AG1 Travel Packs with your first purchase at https://www.drinkAG1.com/tdf Ketone-IQ: 30% off your first sub order + free 6 pack when you use the link: https://www.ketone.com/themove   Helix Sleep: Helix is offering up to 30% off all mattress orders AND two free pillows for our listeners! Go to https://helixsleep.com/themove. This is their best offer yet and it won’t last long! With Helix, better sleep starts now.   

He's now been Belgian champion time trial, Belgian champion on the road, European champion time trial, European champion on the road, world champion time trial, world champion on the road, and how both in the Olympics at 24 years old. Hey everybody, welcome back to the move podcast. Talking about the Olympic Games. We're going to cover the women's time trial, women's road race, American gold medalist, Kristen Faulkner. Amazing. And we're going to cover the men's time trial and the men's road race,

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It was just what came on TV and whatever they wanted to show you, you had to watch. Like now, and of course, Peacock was our partner last month, but you can pick any sport. Like if I get TVs on our hair, I don't know, prelims and the 200, uh, uh, 200 in the, on the track. Like I can go pick badminton and watch it. I could pick swimming. I could pick cycling. I could pick golf. How about Scotty Shuffler coming from behind? You pick any, you can watch all these sports. Like what a fucking time do we live? I mean, can I get some, can I get a little support here on this i mean it's true

it's actually it's kind of distracting it's hard to pick one because you're like i want to watch this i want to watch that um definitely not going on yeah i agree i was watching it i was thinking what a fortunate time we live in you just yeah you were at the discretion of what they would show you on one channel, you know, and it was usually the big stuff. Like all of us remember as kids watching hockey. Right. But yeah, whatever you want, it's right there at your fingertips. It's amazing. Yeah. Yeah. All right. What order do we have? You know,

we're going to talk about four events here, men's and women's road and time trial. Should we, let's start with the women because I thought this story of Kristen Faulkner yesterday, when in the road race was, I was actually traveling. So I had to watch, thank God again for Peacock. I was able to go back and rewatch the race. But I got, as you do in this modern culture, there's no surprises anymore. I got tipped off that she had worn, but what a story, right?

Girl grows up in Alaska. Like she, uh, she grows up in Homer, Alaska. Like I thought that was a character on the Simpsons. Like I didn't even know that was placed. And, and then she's a rower, which is actually decent decent crossover sports-wise from rowing to cycling and vice versa. Then she is a venture capitalist, which I just found so interesting. And I had tracked that story. But she had one of these moments as a VC.

She said, this is the way that I understand the story to go. She said, look, let me just go try this. I can always come back to venture. Right. And she made the leap and, and left her job and dedicated her life to, to being a professional cyclist. And now she's a gold medalist. Like I, and you know, Johan, I'm sure you have thoughts on this, but, and I know it was strategic and tactical at the end, but there was no gifts there. Like she was there. I mean,

this was sometimes in road cycling and in road races, especially on a race like the Olympic road race, you, there can be some chance and some luck involved, like to be there a lot of the pecky and to, you know, find the time to go and then to just put the hammer down. It was so impressive. And then just the whole arc of her story. No, she was the strongest by far.

I mean, if you look, if you look at the race, you know, I mean, and the same happened in the, in the men's race, it was basically a race between Belgium and Holland. Those were the two strong teams with the strong favorites. But Kristen Faulkner was there when the, when the move went, she was the driving force. First of all,

then, then out of that group, Vos and Blanca Vaz go away. And she is the one that on the last time up the the cobbled climb she goes kopecky could barely follow her she there was not even a chance for her to to to take a relay on the climb she was on the limit and you could clearly see that kopecky took a turn whenever falter slowed down the the the decrease of time was always when Fultner was pulling. So you could see that she had a lot of power left

and as soon as they caught them, then there was this supervision between Mariana Vos and Lotto Copecchi and she took advantage of it, but she won because she was the strongest. There was no luck involved at all. She was the

strongest by far. Yeah, Johan. I mean, when she got away with Capecchi, like you said, she was doing most of the work. And it's not like Boss and the other girl, they were actually working together quite well. I mean, they were 10, 11 seconds ahead, not at all waiting for them. But she basically powered them back and not even hesitated for a moment.

And once she caught back on, she attacked that group. It was an incredibly impressive group. But I was wondering, we've heard about Boss. We've heard about Capecchi all year long racing the classics, doing all these preparations. What has Foxtrot done before this? I mean, where has she been racing? I mean, she obviously showed up to the Olympics with the track in mind.

The road race is sort of like a backstory for her. She ended up winning the road race. Now she's got her real goals coming up this week. But what was her lead up like to the Olympics? Do you know, Jan? I don't know. I haven't followed it. I do know that she was a substitute and she got called up last moment because initially there was this other American lady.

What's her name? Nip, Taylor Nip. Yeah. Who did the time trial and the triathlon. So she gave up her she was the one who was normally going to race the road race and and faulkner uh came in last moment she decided okay i have a chance uh there's this free spot here but i don't want to compromise my chances for the team pursuit which is her main goal which is which makes the story even more

unbelievable actually uh to to win gold like that. So when it's not your main focus, that's just unbelievable. Well, think of what this does for her VC future, Lance. You know, it's a little easier to take a meeting going forward, I would imagine. It's cool how that worked out because one of the other side stories, and I don't think it was new this Olympics, but how so many of the female athletes need to work. They have careers, especially in cycling and to walk away from it, knowing you can come back. That's a big thing. But that was a big discussion this year about a lot of the athletes that cannot focus on it full-time because they also have to

support a career yeah yeah we're it's it's it's trending in the right direction um and look i think if you look at uh cycling in america and if you just looked at metal counts i mean it's it's these are good days for, for women's cycling in America, right? We had a second in the mountain bike race. We'll see how Chloe Diger does in the pursuit. And certainly true that trends the same in other sports. I'm a big fan of swimming and it took nine days for the American men to win a gold, an individual gold medal,

which was last night when Fink won the 1500. That's unheard of in American men's swimming. So, yeah, these are – look, back to Kristen Faulkner, I mean, it's a road race. Anything can happen. We'll talk about the dynamics of i know the olympics specifically because there's all these weird things you know the much smaller teams the field is therefore the field is much smaller there's no radio communication which i think is super interesting um so you got to be a little lucky but she she didn't she didn't need luck she just dominated and and you would also think i mean what a you

know for for i mean cycling is not a huge sport at the olympics so you want you want a person like kristen faulkner to be able to leverage that story she's got a great story like if you're thinking right the classic example like hey i just won the super bowl what are you going to do now oh i'm going to disneyland like that's they do that with the most interesting people and the winners like she's got a hell of a story like who hopefully she can uh take advantage of that and and then uh if she's listening which i doubt she is but uh you know when she's done racing bikes maybe she'll come back and be a venture capitalist with next ventures. If I had to say. Not only that, Lance, you mentioned no radios. Um, if we watch, if you watch the course, I mean,

there was millions of spectators along the sides of the roads. So getting any kinds of information and the course was so tight with thousands of the corners. It's not like you can send your teammate back to the car. Like, Hey, go ask Johan what the, what the time gap is and what's happening. Like this was a race on pure instinct and for being a cyclist, relatively new cyclist in the sport. I mean, what she did was unbelievable. She raced on pure panache and instinct and, you know,

really took the race by the horn, so to speak. And it was just incredibly impressive to watch. Yeah. Yeah. And if you look, she only, she only started road racing seriously in 2020. That's only four years ago. That's,

that's incredible. I mean, uh, she's, I mean, I think she, she went on a little American team. Then she was two years on,

on Jayco Alula or on, on Jayco. And now this is the first year she's on, uh, on EF, I guess. Um, but that also, I mean, you know, I mean, for her to, this was probably one of the easier races for her tactically, because there's not a lot of tactics involved. It's pure strength. You know, I guess in the other races, she's probably going to have a little bit more difficulties because her lack of experience. But anyways mean uh i was impressed about the power and as i said you know when she was

i was particularly following kopecky of course because i thought she was the favorite but i could see clearly that she was completely on the limit she she could not have won this race at all you saw it i mean i've watched enough a enough of a lot of Quebec over the years. I mean, she was all over the, that, that was not a comfortable situation for her. She was, she was fighting the bike. Yeah. And, and, and, and, and I don't know how well Kristen Falkner knows, you know, what, I'm assuming she, I mean, she's a very bright girl. So I'm assuming she knows what to look, you have to see those things. Right. And so.

I mean, when you're, when you, when you're away with somebody, you feel whenever they take a poll, you feel how much power is there. I mean, also, I think we have to highlight, you know, Mariana Vos. What an incredible writer. I mean, she was almost Olympic champion again at 37. These were her fifth Olympics Olympics or fifth Olympic games. Wow. And she's been top 10 in all five of them. She won, of course, and she won in London. But yeah, I mean, she's the goat, you know what I mean?

There's, there's no doubt about it. This is the best women, women cyclists cyclists ever. Let's talk about, well, let's talk about the men's road race. Since we're talking about the circuit and the, and the, uh, sort of the intricacies around, um, these smaller fields, no radios, let's stick with the road race theme and there's not a whole lot to talk about there. I mean, Remco was, I mean, this guy came out of the tour. I,

I feel for these guys having to come out of a tour that was that demanding. I mean, we talked about it every day. We saw how, how exhausted the guys are getting. You got to then get up again for a time trial and then get up another week later for, for a road race. Boy, he, he had it perfectly calculated and planned out. It was

totally unbeatable. Almost lost. I mean, didn't almost, but certainly had that moment at the end. It wasn't that exciting, frankly. I mean, when he went, it was like, all right, this guy's going to crush everybody until he had the flat. And I like wow this is uh-oh this is interesting well just just just watching it i mean if if we did have there was radio in the race i'm sure

somebody like johan be like hey stop doing all this work i mean repco bridged up to that breakaway essentially didn't even look back and just rode these, the best guys in the world, guys that just finished a Tour de France barely asked them for any help and essentially rode them off the wheel on a course that on paper, it doesn't look that hard. I mean, of course it's very technical, short steep climbs, but to be able to ride these guys off of your wheel and then just keep going,

go with, uh, end up ultimately catching Matt Ross and riding him off his wheel who spent this whole season getting ready for this race, still wrote an amazing race got second place. But I think radios would have been a lot different because I think a lot of the direction would be like, Hey, let these guys work. You're in a big group here, but he was just on those days. We all know if you finish a tour de France strong,

you might not feel great just hanging out around the house, walking around the house, but sometimes you get on that bike and after a good Tour de France, you can dig deeper than you ever have. And I think mentally he was just on one of those days where he was not scared of anybody and didn't think anybody could even stay on his wheel. Yeah, I think, you know, I mean, first of all, I mean, as you say, Lance, you know, all the only 89 riders at the start of the race. That's very special, but you know, the advantage is it was 273 kilometers. So there's only, there's only 10 or 15 riders who can do this, right. That distance, no matter, I mean, it was still 2,800 meters of elevation. And so the guys that came out to the front France, I mean, since the professional cyclists are able to participate since 96, there's never been an Olympic Games won by a rider who did not finish the Tour.

Always coming out of the Tour. But Remco was, I think he was in a great position because it was Belgium versus Holland. And it was basically Mathieu van der Poel versus Wout van Aert, because those were the two big favorites for this kind of circuit. And initially, Remco missed the move when Mathieu van der Poel attacked. And there he was smart enough to sit back and play the game of the team. And then when they came back, they said, OK, this is it. I'm not going to get caught anymore here by tactics. He just went, you know,

he called everybody. And what's so incredible about Remco Evenepoel is, you know, first of all, we know how strong he is, but how aero he is. I mean, if you look how he rides, I mean, at the end with Volant and Madouas, Madouas is not a tall guy.

He's a tiny guy. He looked massive compared to Remco behind him. And, I mean, he was on a mission. He knew for sure that he was going to finish alone. And, yeah,

I mean, for him now to, to double gold medal, he's now been Belgian champion, time trial, Belgian champion on the road now been Belgian champion time trial, Belgian champion on the road. European champion time trial, European champion on the road.

World champion time trial, world champion on the road and how both in the Olympics at 24 years old. That's, I mean, what the hell? It's like, how can you,

what else can you do now? You know? Well, you try to win the Tour de france but we spent a lot of time we spent a lot of time talking about that a few weeks ago um and and it's interesting because cycling is is such an important sport in belgium and i haven't looked at the medal count but i have to imagine that the country of Belgium does not have a whole ton of gold medals. No, I can be wrong.

I could be wrong, but, um, so for that country, a sport, that's a country that's cycling crazy to have two of the gold medals on the metal count come from him. I mean,

it was already a huge, it's the only two for now. We only have two gold medals right now. Well, there you go. There you go. So that's, thank you.

Um, on the contrary, us, uh, has very strong gold medal count right now, but in terms of cycling, I mean, look,

we, we won the women's road race. Mateo Jorgensen had incredible ride for fourth place was so devastated not to get that, that, that bronze medal in the end but he's racing against kristen laporte who's his teammate one of the best sprinters in the world but i was very impressed with his ride i mean he was you know one of the best three four guys in

the whole race uh tactically rode a great race uh was always there made the selections when needed to be done in fact created the selections um so it was a great cycling Olympics so far for the United States. And Johan, what was it, what you touched on Vanderpool's attack and I witnessed it as well. I thought that was, I thought, wow, this kid has some power today. But then he just vanished. Like I didn't, you didn't. He missed the move. He missed the move when Remco.

So anyway, there was a group away with non-favorites, you would say. But anyway, at that point in the race, after 230K, you have to consider that. And especially on that course that everybody who's able to go up front has to be considered as a potential winner of the race. I think what happened with Van der Poel is first of all, they only had three riders, the Netherlands. One of them was Don Hall, who did the whole, basically the whole race pulling

together with one of the Belgian guys. And then he had Van Barle left. Van Barle corrected two times the situation and he was caught out. And of course, the Belgians had the advantage once Remco was in front. Van Aert was on his wheel the second time.

He could barely keep it, but he kept the wheel. Or he went back to the wheel and Van der Poel was caught out. It was a tactical race and the Belgians were in the majority with, with, uh, even a pool in one hour. Well, the pool said that he had good legs, that he had, the legs were good enough to win, but I had the impression also that he was not in a super day. He was good, but he didn't have

a great day. Not like last year, for example, in Glasgow. It was not the same Vanderpool. No. No. The same Vanderpool as last year in Glasgow. He would have been able to go with that counterattack in Remco, no doubt. Been able to match that sort of effort. But he was, like you said, a little bit off.

Maybe we're... I'd love your thoughts. we seeing more of the this trend of these riders peaking very very early as you said rimco's only 24 look what he's accomplished are we just in general going to see them peaking at like at this age and then starting to fade at at 27, 28. It's too early to say. It's too early to conclude that. But we have to. It's obvious, but we have to acknowledge that they are appearing much earlier, right? At 21, 22, even younger than 20.

And obviously, Rinko at 24. It will take time to see if this sort of stuff lasts. You got to keep in mind, right? There's going to be another crop of 20, 21 and 22 year olds coming behind them. If this trend is truly a trend that continues. So they're showing up earlier and younger and time will tell if that takes its toll. You know, one would hope not. I mean, imagine a world where they continue to improve and you've got a new batch of kids in their early twenties. Oh, hell. I mean, it's, it's on.

So TBD on that. I also think that we, the, the, the, the times of the, the, the long dominance of a cyclist is going to be, it's going to be shorter and shorter. We see that in the gap. Like for example, we have under the pool and one art, those two guys were like three, two, three years ago, they were like, okay, these are the two and nobody can touch them. Right. We see now, for example, a guy like, for example, you just named them, George, Mateo Jorgensen.

He is not far off those guys. He is very close to those guys, for example, you just named him, George, Matteo Jorgensen, he is not far off those guys. He is very close to those guys. And there's more and more of those guys getting really close. So their complete dominance, in my opinion, they're still up there. They're still with the best. Sometimes they are the best, but they're not all the time the best anymore.

And I think we're going to see that more and more. It's always the same. You have a few guys who set the benchmark and then the gap between the rest becomes smaller and smaller over the years until we have another dominator coming up. Uh, but I think that's just a normal evolution. Before we get to the, to the time trial and a little bit of business here, just the last thing real quick that I saw on the road. I mean, how epic you have the picture behind you, Johan, but in terms of, and we touched on this after we were all together,

you and I were together in Paris riding the circuit. I just thought, I think I said it on one of those shows, like this, the city of Paris is going to show itself and show off so amazingly well during the road race, like that finishing shot, like you're tight on the rider, you're coming wide and bam, I mean, squared up on the Eiffel tower. I mean, you can, you just can't, you can't think of a more dreamier finish line. It was so good.

If I were a betting man, if I were a betting man, I would say Remco had envisioned that finish in his head the night before and planned it. No, he did say that in his interview. He said he wanted this shot. He wanted this shot.

He had it all planned out. That's pretty amazing. Yeah, why wouldn't you? wanted this shot he wanted this shot he had it all planned out and that's pretty pretty amazing yeah why wouldn't you all right let's get to the time trials but before we do today's show also brought to you by ketone iq you'd often hear us uh talk about how fasting and exercise are good for the brain hvmn launched the world's first drinkable ketone in 2017 ketone iq is their latest innovation on ketones with improved effectiveness taste and cost it delivers clean fuel that can cross the blood-brain barrier supplying your brain and body sustained energy focus and sharpness you get 30 off your first subscription order plus a free

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certainly in the men's time trial. A lot of it. We are very lucky we did not experience rain in that road race. I think we talked about that in an earlier episode, but everybody that now has seen the race and watch the race, you know, what we're talking about, like it would have been a disaster on those roads. Um, the time trial was different, right? It was, it was pancake flat, not that far from the road circuit but actually

you would have thought you were in two totally different places um a lot of feedback going into the race about the road surfaces you heard a lot of riders talking about the poor quality of the pavement how bumpy it was um but real rimco and mean, you touched on how, just how arrow he is on a road bike. Yohan, I mean his package. All right, hang on. That sounded weird. Hey man, did y'all listen to the move the other day? Lance was talking about Remco's package, but let's talk about it. I'm not talking. I'm not like the pole

Walter who knocked the pole over because of his package. Did y'all see that? Yeah. Y'all see that? He's getting porn offers. No, he's for sure. He's that, that, that boy's on, uh, that boy's on only fans already. Uh, you sicko motherfuckers. I'm not talking about that kind of package, right? His, his arrow package. I mean, it's, uh, I mean, he, and he can generate Watts, right? If you, if you're that aerodynamic and you can put out that much power and, and I would love to come over the top on what Johan said about the tour. I think if you want to win an Olympic gold medal in either the time trial or the road race, you have to do the tour to France.

It just asked Filippo Ghana, like I got the special training and trying to do the road or the time trial and the track and not do the tour. That doesn't work. It kills guys and makes guys very tired, but you come out of that thing so much stronger. I just, just have to. And, and Remco, he did it perfectly. I mean, I think what's really impressive is, and as you said, the rain and the women's race was actually raining a lot also,

like even more than a man, I think. Yeah. But you know, for Remco to, to, because this was not an ideal course for him, you know, it's, it was for Ghana. I was for Tarling. It was more for Van Aert with the huge power. He compensates with his aero. But, you know, to see 53.7 kilometers average on those wet roads, there was some technical corners. That's just unbelievable, those speeds. I do think, however, I mean,

and the Belgians are probably not going to like this, but I think that Joshua Tarling, without the puncture, he takes the gold medal. That's a big one. He finishes 27 seconds behind.

He had a flat bike change. The loss of speed when you take the bike, he had a flat bike change, you know, the lose of speed, the loss of speed. When you, when you take the bike, get back on the bike, get to the rhythm again. And then on top of that, not, not, not, not the bike he has been training on for the last week. And then getting the focus again, it would have been tight. You know, he was my favorite before the race. Uh, but anyways, you know what I mean? That's, that's part of, part of the race, you know, it doesn't take away anything from, from Repco Evenepoel to uh to to beat Filippo Gana and then Walt Von Aert

um I think 25 seconds behind uh the first time ever we see in modern cycling to have a a guy on on a road time trial with double disc that was quite a gamble uh but it paid off I mean they apparently they have been testing with this for three four months already and they knew exactly what they were doing and i guess nowadays with you know with the disc brakes uh it's easier to have uh a full disc in the front because you could say well usually you know the braking would be a little bit less uh back in the days with the rim brakes. But that was a first and it paid off for Walt Bonnard.

By the way... I feel for these guys like Ghana and Josh Starlin. I mean, Josh Starlin was up in Endor training specifically for the time trial for months. And I mean, think about how mentally hard that is. Of course, Tour de France is hard, but it's your job. You're racing every day. You're getting, gaining fitness day by day, but man, just spend the whole year focused on that time trial and then get a flat tire. And you know, most, most definitely would have gotten a, a metal for sure. Definitely a metal. Yeah.

Yeah. That's that's two seconds out of the bronze. So yeah, I think it's safe to say, uh, and, and also hard to, to stay focused like that in one place training, but you know, probably spending your afternoons watching the tour to France. Oh yeah. That would, which I know they all do. Yeah. Well, we know we have Chloe, Chloe and, uh, in the women's time trial, I mean,

coming back from an incredible injury a couple of years ago, long road back, came back to fitness. She was actually at my grand fundo last year, which was awesome to have her, but the whole year was focused on these Olympics. And I know that she was really, really disappointed with bronze, although it's a medal, it's a huge accomplishment after what she's been through also with the crash, but

we got to be proud of her ride. I think she did an incredible ride. But here, I think, George, here, there was no discussion. Grace Brown, she was untouchable. I mean, 1 minute 30 and 1 minute 131 and 132 on the second and the third.

That was just, I mean, one minute 30 and one minute 131 and 132 on the second and the third. That was just I mean, she went faster than then. I think there was six or seven professionals of the man race who who went slower than than Grace Brown in the time trial. And I think it was raining more for the women than for the men, actually. She was looking. Look at look at the results she she wins she beats anna henderson by a minute 31 that's the difference between first and second if you used a minute 31 as a as a barometer here and you just went down the the results from second to whatever you got to go down to 14th place so the difference between first and second is a minute 31 the difference between second and 14th place is also a minute 31 like that's when you if you're

just looking on paper i mean that's just total domination and what what a way to what a way to fin i mean she announced her retirement uh a few ago. What a way to finish off your career with the Olympic gold. I mean, you know, and be from a country like Australia, that's just sports crazed. I mean, it's total domination. Total domination. What am I going to say about Chloe? domination, total domination. Um, what am I going to say about Chloe? When does the, yeah, Chloe's got the pursuit coming on and we don't,

I actually had a question about, and this is maybe a question for Allie and Mari, but I wonder if Kristen Faulkner now rides the women's tour. I don't, I don't know the answer to that. I would love to see her in the Tour de France family. And then, um, uh, do we love to see her in the Tour de France family with Meg Swift. Do we see Chloe Diger in the women's tour? She's got it on her schedule.

I think her next focus is the world. She does have the tour on her schedule? She does, yeah. Chloe Diger does, yes. Oh, wow. Okay. I don't know how accurate that is, but let's finish off with, um, mountain bike. Well, yeah, we, we weren't, we were, we were going to talk about the road races, but you have to talk about Tom Pitcock. I mean, I, I watched, I watched the whole race. It's,

I will say it's, it's fun. It's for me. Um, it's, it's nice to watch a race that's an hour and a half long. You can watch the whole thing. And I've told, I know less than a dozen people, like you have to watch the last lap and what he did on the last lap. again it's a circuit race he knows they all know the circuit very well they all know that there was that split in the trail the way he first of all he flatted had to get a wheel change the poise that he showed and pretty slow wheel change for that matter it's funny you say that that George, I watched it and I thought,

what the hell is taking this guy so long? I've heard. I know he has to go like, find it. Like, shouldn't you have the wheels kind of ready? I had the initial same reaction, George, but I then, uh, I then checked with somebody who, uh, who was there. And so the rules say that you are not allowed to have the wheels outside of the tent. The thing is that this mechanic, this mechanic was also on duties for bottles. Uh,

and then when he saw he had a flat, he ran into the wrong tent. So anyway, that was a bit messy. Uh, I mean, you don't want to be the mechanic when they say, all right, your job is to hand up bottles. All of a sudden the defending Olympic champion has a flat I'd be running. I'd run into the wrong tent too. I mean, the pressure, but anyhow, the poise that he showed, it's not easy to come back. I mean, everything in the mountain bike is about position and whole shot. Yeah.

The field had been sorted out a little bit, but for him to come back and to time it just right. I mean, what a boss move to come on the inside like that. Again, I've told so many people, I said, just go watch the last lap. Like it's, I still think he wins if he, if he wakes through that section, um, it's interesting to watch the reaction. Obviously, he passed a Frenchman and the crowd was not too pleased. I thought the Frenchman was cool.

He said, look, that's racing. He would have done the same thing. The Frenchman, if there's other images, the Frenchman was, he was a bit ahead because he attacked him on the last climb. And he made a mistake, actually. He made a mistake before that because all of a sudden it was outside of the images,

but all of a sudden Pitcock is in first position again. So I've seen a video where Koretsky makes a mistake. And I think that's where he lost the race. Correct, yeah. I think he was very gracious in accepting defeat. And also, if you look at the whole race, I mean, that's not... Pitcock and Goretzky were already ahead. Then, you know, Pitcock punchers, I think he deserved the win.

You know, he did an amazing race. But for him to... No, I mean, Goretzky, like you said, he run incredible. I think he actually maybe even held back, knowing that Pit talk is gaining a couple of seconds, a lap on him just so that he can kind of rope a dopamine. Okay.

You catch me. And then I'm going to attack you like a half a lap later. I thought it was super exciting to watch. And he wrote a great race, probably as good of a race as he could have with the exception of that one small mistake you made. Yeah. But once he made that mistake,

pick up was gone. I think he's Harvey was probably 210. That was everything he had left. Maybe he had the advantage of being in front, but the power of Peacock coming in that last kilometer was greater than Gretzky's, for sure. Yeah. And also double gold medal for Ineos

in the women's mountain bike. Pauline Ferrand-Perevaux wins the race. I mean, like no discussion. She was just head and shoulders above everybody else. And announces that she quits mountain biking and next year wants to win the Tour de France. That's another interesting

story. I mean, she's been already world champion on the road. She's been world champion in cyclocross. This is also a multi-discipline champion who now wants to focus on, on the road again. Well, she can climb. So we know that's, that's a nice start. All right, cool. Well, any other housekeeping? Well, we do JB.

I know we touched on the pre-show we've got, we teased it out during the tour. I don't know if anybody's seen Sir Bradley Wiggins, I believe I've heard that from very good sources, he's back in Aspen, Colorado. Um, we actually spent a little bit of time talking about Aspen and its relationship to let's just call it outlaws, uh, during the podcast with Sir Bradley Wiggins. Uh, so that should be coming out any day now. Uh, but yeah, for real, if anybody,

I have a personal APB out on Sir Bradley Wiggins somewhere in Pitkin County. Um, but, uh, I have photo evidence too. He was with a friend of mine. I think this was in Aspen today. Today. OK, good. Well, I'll look at the metadata from the photo. I guess I guess he's OK with with us running it. So let's go ahead and put that up. But it's a fascinating conversation with what I think is a brilliant guy. A brilliant, brilliant guy.

We enjoyed having him. So that's coming up soon. And yeah, I think that's a wrap. We'll go back to watching. How much more of this Olympic stuff we have? Another week? Swimming's over, so I don't watch. Swimming and golf are over, so I probably watch less.

And cycling. Road cycling is over. It's until the 12th i think right okay and that's when the the the women's tour de france farm of x swift kicks off that's right that's right it starts the 12th we'll do a preview show on the 11th and um and then fire up on the 12th it It's going to be a good race. Another... Sounds like it's going to be an even better race next year with Prevot in the race. Another housekeeping issue.

Enzo Hincapie picked up another title since we last did a show. Jesus Christ, what did he win now? What did they have? Road Race Time Trial. Yeah, no no that was it road race time trial right after a week after asking we came back from the tour

so it was a good national championship for him do they have the criteria too or they don't have that he was second in that I think he was a little bit mentally checked out so he kind of lost the sprint but his goals were the time trial and the road race, and he won them. So, it's good.

Wow. Yeah. How sick is that standing there? Like, watch it. Oh, yeah. What's the number of American champion jerseys between you and Enzo? He has more already than you, no?

He's got five now, so yeah, he's creeping up on me for sure. Wow. That's amazing. All right. You're going to be, you're going to be sleeping in that, uh, that little garage apartment thing you got pretty soon. If you keep to the, I know. Cool. All right, everybody. Thanks for tuning in and in and uh we'll see y'all soon