S13 Ep72: Van Rijsel With Love | Stage 1 | Tour de France 2025
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 5 July 2025
⏱️ 49 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 VAN RYSEL, OUR TOUR DE FRANCE SPONSORS
We are very pleased to welcome Van Rysel as our sponsors for the first half of our Tour de France coverage. The Tour gets underway in Lille, the city where the company was founded and has its headquarters. The city is steeped in French cycling history and heritage, not least because the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix are on the doorstep.
Van Rysel supplies bikes and kit for the Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale World Tour team, who feature Felix Gall, Bruno Armirail and Aurélien Paret-Peintre in their line-up for the Tour.
If you are going to Lille for the opening weekend make sure to drop in at Van Rysel House, a pop-up venue and hub for cycling fans. It’s located at Hein Estaminet in Place Saint-Hubert a short walk from the Euralille train station. It’s a place to have a drink or something to eat and watch the race on TV and there’ll be lots going on over the weekend with a quiz night to test your cycling knowledge each night at 8pm. There’s also some group rides setting out from there. A chance to see the Van Rysel bikes and the innovation that goes into their design.
Visit www.vanryselcycling.com to find out more.
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| 0:00.0 | 10, 10, 4, 3, and |
| 0:07.0 | 17. |
| 0:09.0 | We've just seen the Tour de |
| 0:14.0 | France |
| 0:15.0 | 2025 begin. |
| 0:17.0 | We've seen the teams and riders rollout from Lille, Lionel Bernie. |
| 0:21.6 | Francois Tomaso, joining me, Graham Wilgos at the very, very start, where it all started for you, |
| 0:26.6 | Francois. |
| 0:27.6 | Indeed, yeah, for me, that's real. |
| 0:29.6 | It was really Le Grand Depart because I was born in Lille. |
| 0:32.6 | Actually, I even say we were stuck in the huge traffic jams you'd expect from Tour de France starts, |
| 0:38.8 | it was probably worse than ever, or maybe every year we think it's worse than, and then we get into the role. |
| 0:46.3 | But yeah, we went past signs of Lombard, a small, you know, suburbs of Lille, |
| 0:52.3 | and that's where actually I spent |
| 0:54.3 | the first four years of my life |
| 0:56.1 | so it was yeah it was not really emotional |
| 0:57.9 | because I can't remember much about it |
| 1:00.4 | but still yeah |
| 1:01.9 | back home for me |
| 1:03.2 | we had to do a bit of a dash out of the car |
| 1:05.8 | having parked up very very swiftly |
| 1:08.2 | having been stuck in what felt like |
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