S13 Ep75: The Road to Rouen | Stage 4 | Tour de France 2025
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 53 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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| 0:00.0 | This is the cycling podcast of the 2025 Tour de France with Lionel Bernie, Graham |
| 0:10.0 | Wilgoth and friends brought to you in association with fun reason. |
| 0:15.9 | Today we're in one. |
| 0:20.8 | Well Lionel, just you and me this evening, no Francois Tomazzo, who is making his way back to Marseille. |
| 0:29.5 | So it's just the two of us picking over the stage for Fallout. |
| 0:35.8 | Indeed, yeah, it was a stage dominated by two majestic structures, |
| 0:40.7 | each as spectacular as the other, |
| 0:42.5 | towering above all others around them. |
| 0:45.1 | But that's enough about the cathedrals in Amiens and Rouen. |
| 0:48.9 | I'm talking about, of course, |
| 0:50.6 | Tedé Pogaccha and Jonas Vingagor |
| 0:52.4 | and their respective teams, Visma Lisa Lisa Bike and UAE Team Emirates. |
| 0:58.1 | Racing at Tour de France stage as if it were a spring classic, really, really aggressive racing, |
| 1:05.9 | very exciting finale after what was a kind of a gentle approach to this flurry of climbs that were in the last 40, 45 kilometres of the race. |
| 1:16.4 | And the big finish, which we will get into, but before we do, we should place ourselves as ever. Where are we? |
| 1:22.8 | Well, we are literally, talking, talking of cathedrals. We are literally in the shadow of the Ruan Cathedral, or rather |
| 1:29.6 | I am. I'm in the cold here, Graham. You're in the bright, warm sunshine and I'm in the shadow. |
| 1:37.4 | That says a lot, I think, about our respective personalities and dispositions. My slightly sunnier |
| 1:43.2 | disposition most of the time. |
| 1:46.0 | Yeah, I mean, it is an absolutely, it's a beautiful, beautiful sight. |
| 1:51.0 | You might be in the shadow, I can't see it, I'm just looking at you. |
| 1:55.0 | So you're the one who should have the sunny disposition this evening, given you've got the view. |
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