S13 Ep67: The Tour de France Dress Rehearsal
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Get ready to check-in for another block of pre-Tour preparation at The Cycling Podcast’s ‘Attitude Camp’.
With Eddy Merckx about to celebrate his 80th birthday, Tadej Pogačar equalled The GOAT's tally of Dauphiné victories (one) and reminded everyone, including Jonas Vingegaard, he remains the number one favourite for next month's Tour de France. But what else did we learn from the Dauphiné?
Brian Nygaard is on hand to remind us that although it wasn’t a winning week for Vingegaard, the Dane and his Visma-Lease A Bike team need not press the panic button just yet.
We ask Rod Ellingworth of Bahrain Victorious about Lenny Martinez’s stage victory on the final day, as the long wait for a French Tour champion approaches 40 years.
And we make a quick visit to Coorevits Corner to find out what Hugo made of Remco Evenepoel’s Dauphiné.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the cycling podcast's second installment of our Attitude Camp. |
| 0:32.9 | Lionel the second of our four repeat efforts before you and I head to the Tour de France. I'm |
| 0:39.6 | Graham Wilgos and your Lionel Bernie, I should say he first off. Glad to get that ironed out |
| 0:44.4 | early doors. Should have introduced myself early on last week, didn't. So the first corrections |
| 0:49.5 | corner. Good to get that done. Correct who you are. Yeah. Where are we? We should place ourselves at our home venue. We're pretty much at sea level. So we're not at altitude preparing for the Tour de France. We're on the banks of the River Thames, the south bank, to be precise, just along from, as I said last week week what was very familiar territory for Richard |
| 1:12.5 | Moore Daniel freeber and I years back when we started the cycling podcast because we used to |
| 1:16.7 | record just down the river there if you hear some strange noises in the background that is that |
| 1:22.2 | the river police or the coast guard or some kind of horn going off I don't know what it. A seal on the back of a tugboat with a loud speaker, we're not sure. |
| 1:30.3 | But we're getting into the swing of things because when we go to Leal for the start of the Tour |
| 1:34.6 | de France in a few weeks' time, we're going to have to get used to all of this ambient noise |
| 1:39.1 | around us, all of the distractions recording in the wild as we follow the Tour de France round. |
| 1:44.4 | So we're here face to face with a pre-11am cappuccino. |
| 1:49.7 | And both conforming to the old team Skyrule that on time is early and late is on time. |
| 1:55.5 | So long may that continue. |
| 1:58.3 | And the weather has been kind on Attitude Camp so far. It has, yes. And well, |
| 2:03.7 | the weather was fantastic in the French Alps last week, wasn't it? Where the Peloton has been getting |
| 2:10.7 | ready for the Tour de France with the big warm-up race, the Khartoum du Dauphine. And we're left with |
| 2:15.5 | a few questions, aren't we we was that the full dress rehearsal |
| 2:19.0 | for the tour de france do we already know who's going to win the tour in paris at the end of july |
| 2:23.7 | or is there a twist and turn yet to come we're going to talk about the dofine in depth in the second |
| 2:29.3 | part of this podcast but first of all graham we ought to delve into the nuzette the musette of news what have we got plunge your hand into the newsette and the first of all graham we ought to delve into the newsette the musette of news what have we |
| 2:35.8 | got plunge your hand into the news and the first item out of the bag is and i think this is this is |
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