You are listening to the Cycling Podcast at the 2023 Tour de France Thames. Today we're in Alois.

You lose the tour because of this, then you're not happy.

You made it because you work so hard for your dreams and if this happens to you and that's the reason why you lose, then you'll be really sad story.

Well, that was the sound of a very disappointed demivoloring of S.D. Works who was handed a 22nd penalty on the general classification.

Today but we'll talk a little bit more about that, about the Watson-wise and Howe's and where does the race stand after that.

But a much more important headline, Denny Gray, is that we're finally in Albi, which I've been banging on about all week about how great Albi is and how you'll have a great time because we're going to Albi and everything is great in Albi.

And I don't think I'll let you down, Denny, have I?

You haven't rose. No, when I arrived, having jumped out of a team car, as we'll find out later, I was a little bit non-plussed by your cheering for Albi because we're in some non-descript kind of edge of town area that didn't feel particularly grand.

But as soon as we walked into the centre here, it is absolutely stunning to coin a phrase.

It feels a little bit Venetian around here. I have to say, especially with the heat.

And with the apparel Spritzes. What's the plural of apparel? Spritzes.

Spritzes. Spritzy. Apparel Spritzy, maybe. I don't know.

Thank you Lizzie, thanks for noticing. We've just been having beers, haven't we on all the other days, but we remember apparel Spritz because Albi is like this beautiful red,

stone town city. You know, it's got these little winding streets that we're in right now. It's got a beautiful big square with a big red cathedral.

The Toulouse-Lotrec Museum, which I was also waxing a miracle about, which Francois Thomas will give us a little bit more on that.

But we have had to go on a little side street, haven't we, Denny to try and hide a little bit from the jazz bands that are just warming up in the main.

Square, and we have them on the line, of course, Lizzie Banks, who doesn't have an apparel Spritz with her, not that I can see.

I've got, I've got, I've got, I've got an elderflower cordial. It's actually really delicious.

Keeping my glucose levels up for what is going to be, you know, a thrilling, another thrilling episode of the cycling podcast.

Okay, well, yeah, you don't have to look quite so, sounds like sarcastic. Lizzie, but, well, Lizzie, if, you know, it's going to be so thrilling, then it all kind of comes down to how great your tail of the attack is.

I know, I did say, why don't we, I was going to say for a thrilling tail of the attack, but then I realized that put all the pressure on myself.

So I was trying to do an anime fan flute and then put the pressure back onto the whole race rather than just on myself.

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