The GCN Awards Show - Celebrating The Best Of 2017 In Cycling | Ep. 259

In our grand GCN Christmas Show, we bring you the GCN Awards - as voted for by YOU!

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Along with our awards, we've got a few novel categories, judged by our friends in the pro peloton. We've wave goodbye to retirees in competitive cycling, and feature hack/bodge of the year!

What was our favourite moment of the year?

- Welcome to the Christmas GCN show

- And a very merry Christmas to all you from all of us.

- Coming up this week, we review a cracking year in cycling

- And then there's the GCN awards; you have been voting in your thousands for the best performers and performances of 2017, and there's some other very important matters such as most stylish rider and hack forward slash bodge of 2017.

- And of course, we've got a few of our highs and a few of our lows from the year, too.

- [Dan] Going the wrong way Si, jokes, oh!

- You two, that's a rib. For quite obvious reasons as you'll see, most enjoyed. Got a bad rib. This attention seeking's going up another level. Well this is cosy, isn't it?

- It's great.

- Alright then this year in the world of cycling we learned that the rise of E-bikes might just be unstoppable, sales have increased across the globe, many manufacturers have jumped onboard with new models.

- And we concluded actually, it's probably not a bad thing.

- We did, it's also a year for the history books as well, lots of cycling records broken, and cycling firsts too.

- Yeah there was Christoph Strasser's 24 hour mind and probably arse numbing indoor record, 941.873 kilometres.

- That's amazing, Peter Sagan's world championship triple.

- What about Jasmijn Muller's ride, 11035 miles on Zwift.

- That was mental--

- It was also the sweatiest ride of the year apparently too.

- There's been some incredible rides, I think we should crack straight on because our first award is for achievement of the year, here are the nominations.

- Now before we do get straight to it, we should point out that this show was actually pre-recorded before the announcement that Chris Froome had returned an adverse analytical finding for Salbutamol.

- Of course we can't now change the result, as voted for by you but I think it is fair to say there is now an asterisk hanging over his result--

- Or a big question mark.

- Or a big question mark hanging over his results at the Vuelta a Espana, and it will be until this matter is resolved one way or another.

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Music:
Traditional - Christmas Edition Jingle Bells
Anders Bothén - Wah Was What’s Up 2
Anders Bothén - Wah Was What’s Up 3
Magnus Ringblom - Red Carpet Premieres 3
Niklas Ahlström - Style 2
Suffer City - Go To Hell Scarlett Woman (Instrumental)
Jonas Erlander - Afternoon Swing 3
Magnus Ringblom - Victory Themes 1
Hakan Eriksson - Barnyard Rumble 3
Anders Ekengren - Fast Quirky 1
Charlotte Carpenter - Every Now And Then

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