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The Cycling Podcast

S12 Ep68: Stage 7 | Nuits-Saint-Georges – Gevrey-Chambertin | Tour de France 2024

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🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Join Graham Willgoss, Richard Abraham and Mitch Docker as they cover the Tour de France from Florence to Nice, providing daily episodes of the greatest race on earth.

With a new line-up for the 2024 Tour, there’ll be the familiar mix of lively discussion, race analysis, interviews from Outside the Team Bus and some French flavour.


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0:00.0

You're listening to the cycling podcast at the 2024 Tour de France with

0:10.0

Mitch Docker, Richard Abraham and Graham Wills.

0:13.0

Today we're in Jevers-Chamberton. The Jens the sound you heard playing us in there was a sound we heard a lot today the sort of poker

0:44.3

slash slow jazz the five-piece band at stage seven of this year's tour. I tell you

0:50.9

what they're rolling on aren't they Mitch, today was the time trial.

0:55.0

Days like this can feel like they're long ones, can't they for the riders,

0:58.0

your own experience. Obviously they still require a real physical effort, but they can also be a bit of a

1:03.8

psychological break. Yeah totally you know there's two different angles to today

1:07.4

they're long days for the staff the staff hate these days because they're there

1:11.6

all day that you know finicking around the

1:13.8

riders are really stressed and ask for a lot of things but as you know two angles you

1:18.8

got G.C. guys who are these are really stressful days and actually highly much more stressful than other days.

1:25.9

And then you got guys like myself who are you know sprinters or you know rule airs who will go,

1:30.4

great a day off I can relax I can just get through the time trial.

1:34.0

There was quite a nice story earlier rich before I come to you one more from one from

1:38.0

our man here it's not unusual to see a rider go through the motions on a day like today. But you mentioned

1:43.8

your man and I can't remember whether you could remember his name from the Sun Tour years and

1:47.7

years ago. He was gliding round and you were all kind of wondering what's he doing and he timed out.

1:54.0

Yeah look this is a rewind way back to the Sun Tour and a young guy Pete Smith who

1:59.6

decided to use first Sun Tour and we're all having a beer the night before the you know the

2:03.7

time trial and the following day after the time trial was a Criterion parade Criterion in Carlton so essentially he'd

2:09.8

made the Sun tour he was done he'd made it made it. T.T. Criterium. We're all having beers. Yeah,

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