Are Visma's Tactics Pressuring, or Helping, Pogačar? | Tour de France 2025 Stage 18 | THEMOVE
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Lance Armstrong
4.6 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Lance, George, Sir Bradley Wiggins, and Spencer Martin (aka “The Professor”) break down Ben O'Connor's incredible ride to win the Queen Stage of the 2025 Tour de France atop the Col de la Loze, finishing ahead of the lead GC group, which was led in by Tadej Pogačar, with the race leader continuing to extend his advantage over Jonas Vingegaard after yet another day in which Visma-Lease a Bike’s tactics failed to put meaningful pressure on his comfortable lead. During the show, Steve Cummings—director of O'Connor's Jayco–AlUla team—calls in to discuss the team’s strategy going into the stage. The crew also examines the remaining possibilities in the Green Jersey battle, with Jonathan Milan scooping up more intermediate sprint points, before previewing tomorrow’s short but brutal day in the Alps and answering a few listener questions.
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| 0:00.0 | We can't go to break without talking about these. |
| 0:02.8 | This is just, we've spent so much time these three weeks talking about their tactics, |
| 0:08.6 | questioning their tactics as we watch the race today. |
| 0:10.9 | I think we all sit here collectively going, what are we doing? |
| 0:18.2 | It's maybe a better, it's a great question for Johan later on in your show with him. |
| 0:22.3 | So Bradley, this is a head, this is a real head scratcher for me. |
| 0:26.0 | One of the things I can't work is why they're so vocal about what they're going to do. |
| 0:29.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:29.5 | And when they're going to do it. |
| 0:30.9 | Like they've targeted to keep, you know, pin this stage, doesn't they? |
| 0:34.4 | Yeah, they said semi publiclypublicly that the whole |
| 0:37.8 | tour, their whole strategy was about cracking |
| 0:40.4 | pagetre today. Right. Why would you say that, though? |
| 0:42.9 | Why would you say that? |
| 0:47.4 | Good morning, everybody. Welcome back to the |
| 0:51.4 | Moved podcast. Brought to you each and every day |
| 0:53.8 | by Keatone IQ. |
| 0:57.0 | Talking about stage 18. Alain, what, what do we do? |
| 1:02.5 | Stage 18, from VIF to Courchevelle, called de la Lowe's. |
| 1:07.6 | From VIF to Courchavelle called de la Lose. |
| 1:11.3 | Oh, love it. |
| 1:12.9 | Joined by Sir Bradley Wiggins, Mr. Georgeine Cappy, and the professor. |
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