S12 Ep61: The XL Tour de France Preview
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Graham Willgoss, Richard Abraham and Mitch Docker will be following the race to Nice, producing nightly episodes of The Cycling Podcast on the way.
Join our Tour de France trio for this XL Preview episode, in which they weigh up the likely rivals to Tadej Pogačar, the unmissable stages, Mark Cavendish's pursuit of a record-breaking 35th stage and everything else you need to know before the world's biggest race gets underway.
There's also details of DVine Cellars' Tour de France case of wines telling the story of the Tour from Greg Andrews. The 2024 Tour case is already on sale.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the cycling podcast at the 2024 Tour de France with Mitch Tucker, Richard Hebron and Graham Williams. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to the Cycling Podcasts' Tour de France preview episode. |
| 0:23.0 | Joining me, Graham Waugus, are the two gentlemen who will be with me following the race |
| 0:27.8 | and bringing you an episode after every stage of this year's tour. |
| 0:31.1 | From the Grand Apa in the Renaissance City of Florence on Saturday |
| 0:34.1 | all the way to the final time trial in Nice on the 21st of July. It's nearly here |
| 0:39.6 | gents. Richard Abraham, hello are your your bags packed, sir? |
| 0:43.8 | They are, they're very packed, which I think is the problem. |
| 0:47.0 | They might have to be unpacked and a coal going on. |
| 0:51.2 | How hot is it going to be, or how cold is it going to be there's a big puffer jacket. |
| 0:55.6 | Are you going to get rid of that for the... |
| 0:57.6 | I think if I get rid of that I might need it. |
| 1:00.1 | For week three in the high mountains. |
| 1:02.1 | The travel kettle is definitely in there. |
| 1:04.7 | The press centers aren't up at the finish. We can just cruise down the press |
| 1:09.8 | center and drink that free wine and keep warm down there and just watch the finish on the TV. |
| 1:14.0 | What are you talking about the high mountains? |
| 1:16.0 | Fine. |
| 1:17.0 | I'll call you for packing advice then, Mitch, I'll call you for packing advice there, |
| 1:19.0 | Mitch, there's a whole list of things that they're on the colour list. |
| 1:22.0 | Cut into the chase |
| 1:23.4 | and then what might be on offering the press room before we've even said |
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