S13 Ep78: The Bayeux Tapestry | Stage 6 | Tour de France 2025
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 57 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.
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Transcript
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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. Today, we're in Viran Normandis. |
| 0:30.9 | Well, Lionel, that was the EF Education Easy Post bus in the paddock at the end of today's stage. |
| 0:36.3 | Stage six of the Tour de France. And they had a lot to honk the horn about, didn't they? Stuck in traffic, were they? |
| 0:37.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:39.6 | They were not. |
| 0:40.9 | They were over the moon at Ben Healy's victory and rightly say. |
| 0:45.7 | And even actually being there and just obviously I had gone to wait outside the bus to see who would talk to us about how the race was won while you were |
| 0:56.7 | in the press room to catch the press conferences and keep an eye on exactly what happened in those |
| 1:02.4 | closing kilometres but it was almost following on from my day on the course yesterday as part of |
| 1:10.0 | the caravan the joy was well if anything it had yesterday as part of the caravan, the joy was, well, |
| 1:12.6 | if anything, it had gone up a notch. |
| 1:14.2 | The caravan of love is infectious, isn't it, Graham? |
| 1:16.7 | It can be. |
| 1:17.3 | It was a joyous day yesterday and a very enjoyable one today, another proper race, very different |
| 1:22.7 | to the style of racing we've seen over the first four days with the real kind of full gas GC riders racing, |
| 1:30.0 | but it was a proper Tour de France stage. |
| 1:32.0 | Proper Tour de France stage as well. |
| 1:34.6 | Absolutely. Shall we recap what happened? Because it was a great day for the Irish, wasn't it? |
| 1:39.1 | Lots of Irish influence in this podcast, not least from me. I'm from County, not Watford, of course. Ben |
| 1:45.5 | Healy won his first Tour de France stage in, well, Ben Healy fashion, wasn't it? |
| 1:51.4 | In the only way he knows how. I mean, if you could, knowing what we know about it, if you could, |
| 1:57.0 | if you could say, right, how many kilometres did Ben Hele go from today to win the stage somewhere between |
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