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ITV Cycling Podcast

2016 Tour de France podcast: Rest day one

ITV Cycling Podcast

ITV Sport

Sports

4.4674 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Matt Rendell is joined by Gary Imlach in Andorra to bring you all the news from the team hotels, as the Tour pauses to catch its breath after nine fast and furious stages. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

WhatEves, it's the Rest Day podcast and everyone's gone because they've got far more important things to do.

0:10.9

What bleeding reste?

0:12.0

So it's me and Gaz and...

0:17.0

And you'll have to talk me through it because I'm a podcast novice, so... And you know, I always feel guilty.

0:22.4

We never promote it on the show.

0:23.5

And I always think, God, why am we promoting the pod show?

0:25.4

The podcast.

0:26.4

And we'll have to promote it now I'm on it.

0:28.8

Well, we never promote the television program on the podcast, so it's mutual.

0:33.7

And so it's you, me, and a tweet by Killian Kelly at Irish Peloton, who pointed out that the top 10, and in fact the top 11, after nine stages and two massive mountain stages, are all within 61 seconds, and that is unprecedented at this stage in the history of the Tour de France.

0:56.0

It's an incredible race this.

0:58.0

It is. And it's an incredible stat, but it's sort of meaningless.

1:02.0

I mean, they're all rates interesting Killian's tweets, but I mean, on the one hand, yes, it's incredibly tight over that span.

1:14.8

But really, who else is the race between except Kintana and Frum?

1:17.3

So, I mean, it doesn't matter what the time gaps are.

1:23.5

The time gap that matters is 23 seconds between Frum and Kintana. And that's no disrespect to Adam Yates who's having a sensational race but says himself,

1:28.6

look, sooner or later I may have a bad day, I'm not, you know, and Dan Martin who's having a

1:32.5

sensational race, not to disrespect them at all, but, you know, this great tight race is really

1:40.4

a tight race between two men, one of whom has let the other get 23 seconds

1:46.3

on him by nipping ahead on a descent.

1:47.8

Yeah, absolutely.

1:49.1

Well, the team has been in different guises travelling around all the hotels and the press

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