S11 Ep75: Stage 5 | Pau – Laruns | Tour de France 2023
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 5 July 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, catch up with Jayco-Alula rider Luke Durbridge, hear from the voice of Radio Tour and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the cycling podcast at the 2023 Tour de France. |
| 0:05.0 | Today we're in La France. |
| 0:18.0 | Where are we from? |
| 0:19.0 | We're in Arruidin. It's a little place, not far from La France. |
| 0:23.0 | Not far in principle, but as often in the Pyrenees. |
| 0:27.0 | It took us about nearly two hours to cover seven cases. |
| 0:32.0 | But yeah, we're in Arruidin, small place with a nice little fountain on the square and a church, obviously. |
| 0:38.0 | And well, we're here because I have a signing session for a book I wrote two years ago called The Tour de Dicot. |
| 0:47.0 | That's basically the Tour de France Dictionary. |
| 0:49.0 | And there's a little book shop, which is quite surprising in such a small place. |
| 0:53.0 | And they organize a kind of a signing session with another journalist who wrote a book about, yeah, it's a very interesting book. |
| 1:02.0 | In 1942, the Germans forced a French newspaper to organize a kind of Tour de France, which was the circuit of France. |
| 1:13.0 | It failed out miserably. They had planned to do seven stages and they only needed four. |
| 1:19.0 | But yeah, so we're going to have a little chat with the would-be readers, sign a few books, drink a little bit of wine and eat cheese from the area. |
| 1:27.0 | Sounds lovely. Well, Mitch and I want to get on with the business of Recording the Podcast because it was an absolute humding of a stage. |
| 1:34.0 | So, Francois, while you go and talk to your adoring fans, and we recover from your penultimate Tour de France traffic jam, |
| 1:42.0 | because it's bound to be one tomorrow as well, isn't there? |
| 1:45.0 | We Mitch and I will go and record the podcast. You ready, Mitch? |
| 1:48.0 | Ready to go, Francois? Get those books signed and get back here for the last part. |
| 1:53.0 | It's time for the tale of theatre. |
| 1:57.0 | Well, the tour finally reached the Pyrenees. I say finally, it's only day five. |
| 2:04.0 | It feels like quite a premature entry into the Pyrenees. And we saw an amazing stage in which 162 kilometres from Po to La Rose. |
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