S13 Ep69: The One And Onley

The Cycling Podcast

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4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss for the final instalment of their pre-Tour de France 'attitude camp'. In this episode they recap the final major preparation race, the Tour de Suisse where UAE Team Emirates – who else? – took the overall honours.

But while João Almeida's overall victory had a feeling of inevitability about it as soon as he reached the midway checkpoint in the final time trial, the week was perhaps more revealing about the two riders who joined him on the podium.

We hear from third-placed Oscar Onley, who won a stage and put together the best stage race performance of his career as he prepares to head to the Tour for Picnic Post NL. And we discuss Kevin Vauquelin's credentials as a potential star for the home nation at the Tour. He won a stage during the opening weekend in Italy last week and he very nearly delivered a huge result for an Arkea-B&B Hotels team that has been struggling in the World Tour this season.

There's a recap of the other races, including two events on the calendar in Copenhagen and Andorra, a brush with the UCI rules and analysis of Tadej Pogačar's foray into the world of children's books with his partner Urška Žigart.

Next up – our XL Tour de France Preview episode will be out in the middle of next week.

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0:00.0	Lionel Attitude Camp number three.
0:25.6	Our Tour de France build-up for the cycling podcast with me, Graham Wilgos.
0:29.7	I should get my name in there.
0:30.9	Sometimes we get to do it.
0:32.5	But we're back in our, I'm not going to say favourite South Bank boozer, but other boozers are available.
0:38.4	But it's Monday morning. We are less than two weeks from the Tour de France.
0:42.9	And we've got a lot to talk about from the previous weekends racing.
0:46.1	We have indeed. If we're not ready by the end of this episode, we'll never be ready, Graham.
0:50.9	So a lot of pressure on this final day at Attitude Camp.
0:55.8	We're just tucked away out of the wind. I felt the wind right on the banks of the Thames here in central London might cause
1:00.8	podcast echelons. We don't want to be split up, do we, before we even get to Leal?
1:06.1	That's the exact opposite of what Attitude Camp is for. Indeed. Indeed. Shall we crack straight on and delve into the Mus opposite of what attitude camp is for. Indeed. Indeed.
1:11.2	Shall we crack straight on and delve into the musette of news or the newset?
1:16.6	I love calling it.
1:18.1	Daniel doesn't like calling it.
1:19.2	What are your views on the newset?
1:20.4	I'm a fan.
1:21.1	I'm a fan of any pun.
1:22.5	Excellent.
1:23.1	Great.
1:23.7	Can't get enough of them.
1:24.5	There is a limit.
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