S10 Ep106: The grand cru Tour
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Every year, Daniel gives the Tour de France a rating of one to five wine glasses according to how good the race has been. The precise formula is, as you'd expect, a closely guarded secret but in this episode Daniel explains his mark for the 2022 Tour.
We look back at the battle between Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar and ask whether it is the beginning of a long-running rivalry or whether the Slovenian will be back on top next year. We discuss why the racing was so intense – was it just the Wout van Aert factor or was there more to it? And while it was a classic edition of the race, we talk about why the Tour still lags behind the Giro in an aesthetic sense.
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| 0:00.0 | The Cycling Podcast, powered by SuperSapiens. |
| 0:05.5 | Energy management for committed athletes and coaches. |
| 0:18.5 | Where are we Lionel? |
| 0:19.8 | Well Daniel, I don't know where you are, but I am in the Cycling Podcast, not what for |
| 0:25.0 | Bureau. |
| 0:26.0 | Still I'm winding from the Tour de France a little bit. |
| 0:28.1 | Where are you? |
| 0:29.1 | I've been London for a couple of weeks. |
| 0:30.8 | This is my, the French call it a recuperation beach. |
| 0:34.7 | The plush, the thick, bit hasion, we don't really have anything quite as lyrical, as |
| 0:40.1 | vivid as that in English. |
| 0:42.4 | It's just a sort of a period of limbo, isn't it? |
| 0:45.3 | Between the Tour and the Vuelta. |
| 0:47.7 | Mainly, I was saying this to you the other day. |
| 0:50.7 | What always amazes me about this period is how little is accomplished in a week or 10 |
| 0:56.1 | days or two weeks or three weeks compared to what you do when you're on the Tour de France. |
| 1:01.5 | You're traveling 400 kilometres a day, 500 kilometres a day, interviewing various people, |
| 1:08.0 | pumping out various different types of content and pumped out anything in the last few days. |
| 1:12.3 | Well, you're back to form now Daniel. |
| 1:14.3 | This, we're pumping out an episode of the Cycling Podcast to bridge from the Tour de France |
| 1:19.2 | and the Tour de France fam to the Vuelta Espania, which kicks off on August the 19th in Utrecht. |
| 1:25.4 | It's a long-aw bridge. |
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