S11 Ep95: Stage 21 | Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines – Paris Champs-Élysées | Tour de France 2023
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 23 July 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, and hear from the voice of Radio Tour Sebastian Piquet 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 of the 2023 Tour de France. Today we're in Paris. |
| 0:12.0 | We've made it to Paris. My name's Lionel Bernie. This is the cycling podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | The final episode of the men's Tour de France. I'm with Richard Abraham. Hello Richard. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello Lionel. Where are we Richard? |
| 0:22.0 | We are about 500 metres away from Clipatchers Needle. |
| 0:27.0 | It's Clipatchers Needle. We're on the Champs Elysées. |
| 0:31.0 | We are, but just as they come around that final bend for the sprint with a few laps to go. |
| 0:35.0 | Rough old surface, but actually got a smooth surface for cobbles, isn't it? |
| 0:39.0 | Small city centre cobble stones arranged in kind of wave pattern it looks like to me. |
| 0:46.0 | And been sort of time act over over the years. |
| 0:50.0 | Like gazillions of tons of chewing gum have just slowly filled in a few of the gaps. |
| 0:54.0 | Nobody says they're comfortable after three weeks of racing, though. |
| 0:58.0 | I bet they're not. Well, the race has just under 30 kilometres to go. |
| 1:02.0 | The three riding out in front, Nelson Oliveira of Movistar Simon Clark of Israel Premier Tech |
| 1:08.0 | and Frederick Frisant of Lotto Destiny. Now, it's the final day of the Tour de France. |
| 1:14.0 | And all of our listeners will be waiting with baited breath for Daniel Friebert to announce his wine glass rating for this year's Tour de France. |
| 1:22.0 | Will it be four? Will it be four and a half? Will it even be five? |
| 1:26.0 | People will have to look out for Daniel's Twitter feed later. |
| 1:29.0 | Free boss is his handle. |
| 1:32.0 | And we will no doubt discuss that in a future episode of the cycling podcast. |
| 1:36.0 | But another final day tradition is that we run through the tour teams and give them a rating. |
| 1:44.0 | Just assess their performance over the last three weeks. |
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