S13 Ep74: Calm, Chaos and Dunkirk Spirit | Stage 3 | Tour de France 2025
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 52 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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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 | This is the cycling podcast at the 2025 Tour de France with Lionel Bernie, Graham Wilgoth and friends brought to you in association with Van Rizond. |
| 0:13.2 | Today we're in Dakerk. So, gents, Francois, Lionel, I was saying to you earlier, Lionel, that. |
| 0:29.7 | I thought what we were getting today was the start of a bit of a Tour de France mixtape. |
| 0:33.5 | They've kicked it off with a killer on stage one to grab attention. |
| 0:36.8 | Then yesterday, they took it up a notch, but they don't want to blow everything all at once. |
| 0:40.9 | So then they, today they kind of started to call it off a notch. |
| 0:45.0 | There are, as John Cusack says, in the film adaptation of Nick Hornby's High Fidelity, a lot of rules. |
| 0:52.1 | That, by the way, on a summer of anniversaries, that one's 25 years old this summer. |
| 0:57.9 | Cusack ruminates on heartbreak, pain, misery and regret. And that, I think, is the headline for |
| 1:04.3 | one particular man and one particular team at the Tour de France today. Absolutely. From two days |
| 1:10.4 | that couldn't have gone any better, |
| 1:11.9 | the After Philipson won on the opening day |
| 1:13.5 | and wore the yellow jersey. |
| 1:14.7 | Matthew Vanderpul won on the second day |
| 1:16.4 | and took over the yellow jersey, |
| 1:18.0 | Alpazinder Cernick on top of the world over the weekend, |
| 1:21.0 | brought crashing back down to Earth today. |
| 1:23.5 | Philipson in the green jersey, |
| 1:25.4 | crashed in the intermediate sprint, |
| 1:27.1 | about 59 kilometres from the finish |
| 1:29.0 | crashed very very hard and has had to withdraw from the race alpers indecernic's little run is over and they're |
| 1:36.7 | kind of licking their wounds a little bit this evening van derpool is still in the yellow jersey |
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