S13 Ep100: Penultimate Stop, Pontarlier | Stage 20 | Tour de France 2025
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
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INTRODUCING OUR SPONSORS, WAHOO FITNESS
We’re very happy to welcome Wahoo as sponsors for the rest of our Tour de France coverage and the Tour de France Femmes later this month. Wahoo have been having a fantastic Tour de France so far. They supply more than half of the teams in the Tour (and Tour de France Femmes) including those by Mathieu Van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar, Ben Healy and Jonathan Milan.
Wahoo’s vision is to build the best athlete in all of us, by transforming the way the world moves through connected fitness technology and training insights. Wahoo creates a full ecosystem of software, sensors, indoor, and outdoor training equipment for those just starting their journey in cycling, right through to competitive athletes. Go to WahooFitness.com to find out more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the cycling podcast at the 2025 Tour de France, supported by Wahoo. Wahu riders have won over half of the stages in this year's Tour de France, and they hold the yellow, green and polka dot jerseys going into the final stage to Paris tomorrow. Now you might associate WAHU with the indoor trainer, the handlebar computer, the heart rate monitor, but Wahoo are not just about gear. |
| 0:24.4 | They've built a full training platform to help you improve your cycling. |
| 0:28.2 | The Wahoo app is a full training platform that helps you actually understand your fitness, not just look at numbers. |
| 0:34.1 | You get insights into your progress and plans can be built around your goals. |
| 0:39.2 | Whether you're just starting out or want to sharpen up your performance, it's a great tool to |
| 0:43.4 | keep your training on track. And Wahoo's mission is to build the better athlete in all of us. |
| 0:48.5 | So from bike computers to heart rate sensors and smart trainers to ride analytics, |
| 0:53.6 | they've built an entire ecosystem to help you ride |
| 0:56.4 | smarter wherever you are in your cycling journey just starting out or competing here in the |
| 1:01.9 | tour de france wahu can help you achieve your best so head over to wahu fitness.com to find out more |
| 1:07.7 | now is the cycling podcast on the twenty twenty five tour de france with France with Lionel Bernie, Graham Wilgoss and Friends brought to you |
| 1:15.0 | in association with Wahoo. |
| 1:17.1 | Today we're in Pontalier. |
| 1:23.4 | I have to say Lionel, I didn't think we'd be doing a podcast in a car park this tour, |
| 1:31.3 | but here we are at the end of stage 20 on the outskirts of Pontalier after another, |
| 1:37.5 | I have to say, wildly entertaining stage. |
| 1:41.3 | And it's happened. |
| 1:42.7 | Of all the places we could be, we've ended up here. |
| 1:45.9 | We fit right in. |
| 1:46.7 | We're at a kind of modern bar in a car park, as you say, Graham. |
| 1:50.3 | There's a burger place next door. |
| 1:51.7 | There's people half our age enjoying a beer in the early Saturday evening. |
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