Hello. Hello and welcome back to the pretty serious bike racing

podcast for Monday June 26th we are less than a week out from the 2023 Tour de France. It's that one

bike race that people you know have actually heard of even if they're not into cycling it's very exciting

it's a very exciting time of year and we are going to talk all about the contenders for

the tour to France and also people who are going to be contending for stages, people who will be

outsiders for the title, there's lots to talk about with only a few days left before the biggest

race of the year. We're also going to do a little bit of just

a quick talk about nationals and maybe some takeaways from the tortoise women. Joining me this week, as ever,

Bike Racing Analysts Extraordinair,

Cosmo Catalano.

Cosmo, welcome to the Mountain Time Zone again.

Good to see you.

Good to be here, sunshine, dry air, not complaining.

And not quite the other side of the world, but pretty close.

Very far away from us right now.

Abby Mickey, you're nine hours ahead, so you're pretty close to halfway across the world

from Latvia, the host of the Wheel Talk podcast. Abby, how are you?

That sounds really far away when you say it like that. I mean it is. Yeah, it's almost night where you are.

It is night. Yeah, well it's still bright, but I guess you're you're like near the North Pole so yeah yeah the sun sets at like 4 o'clock a.m. So yeah, yeah. Well we are going to be talking about our picks, our outsiders. I can't wait to have

Cosmo actually make a pick because I know it's a favorite thing to do. It is now because my last one was good.

There we go.

All right, we'll see if we can keep the streak alive.

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