Christian van der Velde

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262 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 16 Jul

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For The Love Of Cycling · Another Sprint, Another Merlier Masterclass | Tour de France Stage 12 Breakdown · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

Same thing as you guys.

I mean, there's really no building blocks and path

they're all outliers they 100 are yeah it makes no sense like how these kids ever get there i mean the coolest thing we get to see and we're seeing a lot in the big boy sports like nba nfl there you get a lot of lineage coming out too like the kids of and they help them like don't do this but do this and do this this is how hard you have to work i'm going to take you on vacation you get to go get away from the sport from here you know make sure that these kids have a good path

and so we're starting to see that kind of storyline coming through which is really fun to watch like enzo hincapie uh michael berry son ashland incredible writer on visma and um enzo's on red bull um but like i said you know we have these great kids though matthew ricatel his father was a good bike rider uh triathlete um matteo jorgensen's incredible bike rider he he's not on perfect form like he has been in the past right here right now he crashed

yesterday Quinn Simmons is riding like an absolute monster he's a problem every time he's in a breakaway um we got amazing Riders we truly do um but the sport in general is so does I don't know what the best way to say it it's just it's big as far as how many people are on bikes but no racing

And that's the hardest thing is like when I was a kid, I could go to a criterium every weekend, just jump in my car and go three or four hours away from home and make good money as a kid.

And those criteriums are either gone or they're half the prize money as they once were.

Yeah.

So you could be a vagabond and just cruise around in your your Volkswagen and make decent cash.

And now all those little mom pa races are gone.

And it used to be that if you had a club

You had to have a race.

So that was part of the way you paid for your club and paid for, let's say, entry fees to all the guys who were on your club.

But the hosting of those races have gone to the wayside and the clubs, really.

So, you know, when you're a kid, you're like, oh, this is our race.

And, you know, you you help out and you help with signing or the corners or whatever that is.

And it was it was a cool you wore your heart in your sleeve.

That was this is our race, you know, and then but you could take advantage of those races all over the country.

And then we don't really have that anymore.

I'm talking from teenagers going up, but you're 100% right.

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