S11 Ep69: The XL Tour de France preview
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2023
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
A few days before the grand départ, as the team line-ups and new jerseys are unveiled we look ahead to see what's in store at the biggest race in the world.
It's shaping up to be a clash between defending champion Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar – who have won the last three editions between them – but is there more to the race for the yellow jersey than that?
We weigh up the sprinters and the relatively few opportunities for them to shine and ask the big question – can Mark Cavendish win his 35th stage and claim the outright record?
Our Tour de France logo this year features the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the silhouette of the Puy de Dôme, which the Tour will visit for the first time in 35 years.
We also hear from Mitch Docker, Ian Boswell and Richard Abraham, who will be joining the podcast team at various points through the Tour.
The Cycling Podcast's daily coverage starts on Saturday evening, after stage one, but we are continuing our build-up by kicking off our Kilometre 0 series early. To mark the 10th anniversary of The Cycling Podcast we have created a mini series for Friends of the Podcast called The 100th Tour, 10 years On. It's the story of the 2013 Tour as told by the podcast and it will be released daily as we build up to the start of this year's race in Bilbao.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Sighting Podcast at the 2023 Tour de France. |
| 0:10.0 | The Tour de France starts here. My name is Lionel Bernie and this is our preview of the 2023 race |
| 0:25.0 | which starts in Bilbao on Saturday, July 1st, in case you're wondering. |
| 0:30.0 | Last week was the 10th anniversary of the Sighting Podcast's first episode. |
| 0:34.0 | It was a preview of the 2013 race that our dear departed for Enrichetmore, |
| 0:39.0 | Daniel Freiber and I recorded in a London park and I don't think at that point |
| 0:43.0 | any of us thought that the podcast would still be here 10 years on. |
| 0:47.0 | With more than 1500 episodes under our belt, 89 million downloads and a proud |
| 0:52.0 | accuracy ratio of over 60% over the years. |
| 0:57.0 | Anyway to look forward to the greatest race on the calendar I am with, |
| 1:00.0 | Daniel Freiber, our performance coach. He's been with us every step of the season so far. |
| 1:05.0 | He's overseeing the preparation work, the build up races and the altitude camps |
| 1:09.0 | or should that be attitude camps I don't know. |
| 1:12.0 | Anyway, in July he transforms into televisions, Daniel Freiber, |
| 1:16.0 | and he goes off on loan to ITV with our blessing. |
| 1:19.0 | But it means we will miss his grumblings about French coffee and restaurant opening hours. |
| 1:24.0 | He's been in Bilbao so long already, I'm wondering whether he's going to skip the tour entirely |
| 1:28.0 | and just wait for the Classica Sansa Bastion at the end of July. |
| 1:32.0 | Daniel, hello. |
| 1:33.0 | Hello Liner, I was actually on the high skibble, the iconic climb of Sansa Bastion, |
| 1:37.0 | the Classica Sansa Bastion at the weekend. |
| 1:39.0 | You've moved me to the backseat of the Sighting Podcast team car, haven't you? |
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