You all listening to the Cycling Club GAS of the 2023 Tour of France. Today we are in power.

Well that was a sound of the fast fans at the start outside the football stadium, the home of Athletic Club de Bilbao.

Counting down to signal the start of the 2023 Tour de France. And here we are. My name is Lionel Bernie. This is a Cycling Podcast and we are going to be with you until Paris.

Not quite with us until Paris is Mitch Docker but welcome Mitch. You are going to be telling us what life is really like in the Palatine. You are rocking the Basque Barat. You have been rocking that Barat since we got here in Bilbao yesterday.

Why not? Why not? When in Rome as I say? If I wear that outside of here, people will look at me strangely. Yet you can walk down the street here in this and you know one even...

...plot as an eyelid. Everybody believes your Basque. I do. I do. It's the combination I met. It's the Moustache, the Mullet, the Barat. It's the perfect look for the Grand Depart weekend of the Tour de France.

And of course we are here with Francois Thomas-O. Still insisting that this is his final Tour de France. Well some of the things you've said today suggest that your dislike of the kind of humid press room and the crowded area is not good.

I'm starting to believe you, François. But hopefully, recording the podcast and having some dinner together will tempt you back to the Tour in future. I'll be back on the tour only for two of restaurants then.

Find by me, François. Where are we, François? We're on Plaza Barilla. That's in the very center of downtown Bilbao. It's one of the squares where you have everywhere in Spain with archives.

And bars and terraces. And yeah, it's very very bustling and busy with people with polka dot t-shirts and stuff. Yeah, we're at sat.

We are where it's at. Yeah, I like it when we record like this. We're competing with the kind of ambient noise of everyone having a really enjoyable Saturday night. They've all enjoyed the Tour de France. And what a stage it was, I guess. We ought to get on with the business of the day, the tale of the attack.

Well, if you weren't called Yates today, you didn't have a chance in the Tour de France. It was a one, two for the Yates brothers. Very spinous with Adam Yates of UAE team Emirates getting the better of his brother Simon Yates on the final run into the line. That means Adam Yates will wear the yellow jersey in the Tour de France tomorrow.

Quite surprised actually that that was his first grand tour stage win. And when you look at the two brothers and their palmarles, Simon has had the more impactful career so far, I would suggest, but it is Adam who has the yellow jersey tomorrow.

I'm really what a finale it was. I was expecting a bit more in the way of fireworks early on, but in fact, the break went early on and just sort of floated away. Five riders were in it, Lillian Kalmerjan of Antommars Che, Pascal Incorn of Lotto Destiny, Jonas Grigor of UNOX, Valentin Ferron of Total Energies and the birthday boy, Simon Gullielmi of Arcade.

Thank you. I was not in the break. I think there were three birthday boys in the peloton today. The other two were Matteo Jorgensen and Jordi Meos.

I'm in some fine company there as well as the late Princess Diana, who shares a birthday with me or do I share a birthday with her? I don't know. Thank you very much for your best wishes and my present this morning was inflatable numbers at the 4-8 to mark my age, sadly, and a kind of cuddly lion face inflatable, which is the closest I'm going to get to one of those credit Leon A lions at the stage winners at the Tour de France yet.

I didn't know you were 84. I only look 84, but I'm actually 48 from to our save you from doing the joke there. Anyway, the break was away on their big loop around the Bachelors countryside before coming back into Bilbao, 182 kilometres.

The lead really only got to a couple of minutes at the maximum and it came down and down and down as they approached the final three climbs and with 50k to go with those three climbs to still go.

Everything was all back together and well it really kicked off big time on that final climb didn't it? It was Felix Grosschartner, Tadeh Pogachars teammate on UAE team members of course who went hardest first.

He opened a gap and looked almost surprised for a moment that he got a gap, looked round wondering what to do, but that really kickstarted things and as they went over the top it was Pogachars, Adam Yates, Bingo Guard, Jonas Bingo Guard, the defending champion of course.

The surprise package perhaps, Victor Lafay of Coffidus, they were the four that went clear and then Simon Yates of Jacob Alula got across and then in the blink of an eye the two Yates brothers were away as if they were on a kind of training ride when they were kids in the Lancashire countryside and very soon after the descent as the gap hovered around sort of 12, 15 seconds.

It started to look like they might have it altered themselves with Jumbo Visma chasing behind on the final climb, well as we'll hear from Simon Yates, he cramped up a little bit coming to the line and it was Adam Yates who had been playing the team mate for Pogachars who won the stage.

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