Podcast 10 Apr 2014: A Ripping Ronde, Curious Cound, Red and Yellow?, Roubaix - a podcast by SBS

Was Flanders the best race you’ve seen so far this season?

They think so.

That’s about the only thing Al Hinds, Phil Gomes, Anthony Tan and RIDE Cycling Review’s Rob Arnold fully agreed upon in this week’s Cycling Central podcast.
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Certainly, no consensus came over Cound – Michelle, that is, partner of one defending Tour champ – and her tweet that was laced with more innuendo than a Victoria’s Secret nightie.

Tweeteth she: ‘Maybe an “ex” doper can win the tour this year, at least he would be qualified to answer all the doping questions’.

A day later, she tried to backpedal, saying she wasn’t tweeting about you-know-who.

Michelle, honey… It’s a bit hard to backpedal when you’re responsible for a thousand- car pile-up and switched off the airbags!

Red and yellow cards in cycling?

Well, that’s what Belgian cycling president Tom Van Damme is proposing, catching – and penalising – misdemeanours on the fly.

Both football and cycling have Euro-centric roots, but really, could the Belgies think of anything more intractable?

Phil and Al see some merit; Tanny thinks it has about as much efficacy as throwing a wet mattress up a spiral staircase, to borrow a line from John Cleese.

They began the pod with cobbles, and with the Queen of the Classics on this Sunday, so it must end with cobbles.

Yes, Paris-Roubaix is on le week-end, and everyone sans the peloton is praying for mud, glorious mud.

Alas, it’s been a dozen years now since we’ve had a muddy Hell…

Will our dreams come true – but perhaps more importantly, can anyone roadblock the juggernaut that is Fabian Cancellara?

Ms Cound, calling Ms Cound, we may just have found some use for you…

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