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The Bradley Wiggins Show by Eurosport

18: 'Phenomenal Bernal has triumph in his grasp, tough to see G winning Tour again'

The Bradley Wiggins Show by Eurosport

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4.6814 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Brad and Matt catch their breath after an unforgettable Stage 19 of the Tour which was prematurely ended due to a hailstorm. That wasn't enough to dampen the spirits of Egan Bernal though, who snatched yellow to lead with just one more day in the mountains to come.


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0:00.0

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0:04.4

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0:07.1

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0:45.8

This is the Brady Wiggins show once again here with Matt Stevens. We are in Valterren, which is the finish of tomorrow's stage.

0:52.5

We've just had one hell of a day in the Tour de France, haven't we, Matt?

0:55.6

What an amazing. Well, supposedly finish at Tien, which we didn't get, did we? You experienced them out on the road. But there is so much to talk about.

1:11.9

But how about first up, we talk about it from your point of view on the about what you saw.

1:16.0

And then the subsequent decision-making process by the race organisers in terms of cancelling the race, basically.

1:21.7

Well, actually, up to the foot of the Calde de'Hs-Hon, it was a great, it was turning out to be a great stage.

1:26.9

And as we was lining up to be one hell of a race, I was in a t-shirt going over the summit of the

1:32.4

Israel, but on the descent I put a jacket on. By the time we got into Valdezere, it started raining.

1:37.9

By the time we got out of Valdezre, it was hailstorms, and we were through the tunnels which is on the Bordelac at the bottom of Tien before you turn

1:44.2

left and the gendarme stopped us in a tunnel they said you can't go any further there to bring

1:48.7

diggers through to clear the road further up there'd been a landslide a mud landslide so I think it was

1:53.9

in hindsight at the time I think a lot of people were scratching their heads and confused but looking

1:58.1

back I think it was the best decision because the road was simply unsafe to race on. And you couldn't send riders through. So I think they made the correct

2:05.2

call. I think maybe the way it was communicated back to everyone was what was frustrating for a lot

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