S13 Ep17: Can’t See Him For Dust
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
We ask whether Pidcock should have waited – and whether, indeed, waiting was what he did – and discuss what the rest of the peloton can do to stop Pogačar when he’s in such irrepressible mood.
With the peloton split between two week-long stage races, Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico, this week we keep an eye on the likely storylines, including an aggressive start to the Race to the Sun.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the cycling podcast proudly supported by Sports Tours International. |
| 0:06.6 | Now, it will soon be early July and the Tour de France will be underway and maybe that sparks |
| 0:12.0 | dreams of riding the Atap du Tour, that great sportive event which gives amateur riders the |
| 0:17.8 | opportunity to ride one of the great stages of the race and feel what it must |
| 0:22.2 | be like to be part of the Tour de France Peloton, not for three weeks but for one fantastic day. |
| 0:27.3 | They always pick the queen stage of the tour in the mountains and this year the attack route |
| 0:32.2 | will go from Albeville to La Plagne, tracing the route of stage 19, with four and a half thousand meters of |
| 0:38.8 | climbing, which is enough to test even the strongest riders, going over the Col de Seiz, the |
| 0:43.5 | Col de Cézre, the Cormé de Roseland, and up to La Plagna. Now, whenever I think of Laplania, |
| 0:48.9 | I always remember the 1987 stage there, when Laurent Finian won the stage, and Stephen Roach saved his chances of winning the tour with that fantastic pursuit of Pedro Delgado. |
| 0:59.8 | Well, you can ride up that very same climb as part of the Ataps, huge peloton of thousands of riders. |
| 1:06.4 | And you can do so in style with sports tours international because they have a whole range of packages to suit |
| 1:11.3 | every type of rider. Perhaps you just want an entry only option which will get you on the start |
| 1:16.7 | line but you have to look after all of your own logistics or my preferred option would be let |
| 1:23.3 | sports tours international take you there in style and look after you in the manner that a pro rider |
| 1:29.2 | would expect from start to finish all you have to do is pedal they'll look after you before the race |
| 1:34.1 | and after they'll look after your bike there'll be mechanics on hand to make sure your bike's in |
| 1:39.1 | tip top condition and there'll be extra backup and support on the route as well. |
| 1:44.8 | You'll stay in great accommodation near either the start or the finish |
| 1:48.0 | and there's even a VIP package too. |
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| 1:54.0 | Etapped Tour de France fam. |
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