S11 Ep68: Richie and Chris: The 100th Tour, 10 years on

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🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Richie and Chris kicks off a seven-part mini series focusing on the 2013 Tour de France. To mark the 100th edition of the race, the Tour headed to Corsica for the grand départ.

Lionel Birnie spoke to former teammates Chris Froome and Richie Porte about the race. Froome led Team Sky for the first time having been runner-up to Bradley Wiggins the previous year. Wiggins was somewhat controversially – although perhaps not surprisingly – left out of the line-up a few weeks before the start.

There was drama from the start. On day one Froome crashed in the neutralised zone before the race had even started, then the Orica-GreenEdge team bus got stuck under the finish line gantry, almost bringing the entire Tour to a standstill. Froome laid down the gauntlet in the Pyrenees when, for 24 hours, everything looked to be going Sky's way. Then there was a date with Mont Ventoux, a double-ascent of Alpe d'Huez and some nervous moments in the final few days.

The rest of the series The 100th Tour, 10 years On is the story of that 2013 race as told by The Cycling Podcast. We've delved into our archive to revisit the first Tour the podcast covered. The remaining six episodes will be released for Friends of the Podcast subscribers from Tuesday to Thursday.

Our Kilometre 0 series for the 2023 Tour de France will be available to Friends of the Podcast subscribers. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com. The Friends of the Podcast feed can be added to most major podcast apps in a few easy clicks after signing up.

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0:00.0	You're listening to a kilometre zero by the Cycling Podcast.
0:07.0	You're listening to a kilometre zero by the Cycling Podcast.
0:27.0	Ten years ago to celebrate the 100th edition of the Tour de France, the race-visited
0:31.7	course-hiker for the first time in its long history. After a spectacular incident-packed
0:37.1	grand-ipile weekend, it was back to the mainland for a greatest hits of the Tour de France,
0:42.2	which featured the giant of Provence Montbonne 2 and for the first time a double assent
0:47.1	of Alp du Eres during the same stage. The race set off without defending champion Bradley
0:52.6	Wiggins, controversially though perhaps not surprisingly, left out of Team Sky's line-up
0:57.5	several weeks before the Tour started. Instead the 2012 runner-up Chris Froome, who'd
1:03.8	enjoyed a near-perfect run of stage race results in the first half of the season, led Team Sky.
1:10.2	For this episode, I spoke to the eventual champion Froome, who clinched the first of his four
1:14.6	Tour titles and his friend and teammate Richie Port about that 2013 Tour. While we talked
1:21.9	Froome was warming up on his indoor trainer ahead of a big day out on the road, port on
1:26.8	the other hand, would happily back home in Tasmania, enjoying retirement with his family.
1:31.7	It is unbelievable where those last ten years have gone and how fast they've gone and
1:39.0	then if you look at the sport of cycling, I think Sky was probably, I wouldn't say,
1:44.9	the first team to really go in and dot eyes and cross-tees. That team just missed nothing.
1:53.7	So let's go back to 2013 then. This was your third Tour de France. You'd already been
1:57.8	part of a Tour winning team, so you were becoming quite an experienced rider by that stage.
2:04.4	I think when I think back that Tour really began the moment when it was announced that
2:10.5	Bradley Wiggins wasn't going to ride because he had a knee problem and I think he'd been
2:14.8	a bit ill as well. He'd not had a particularly successful giro which he'd gone into try and
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