S13 Ep81: Take Me Down to Cavendish City | Stage 9 | Tour de France 2025
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 13 July 2025
⏱️ 44 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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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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| 0:00.0 | This is the cycling podcast at the 2025 Tour de France with Lionel Bernie, Graham Woolgoth and Friends, brought to you in association with Van Rizond. |
| 0:13.6 | Today we're in Chateau. Mark Kavanaugh is bursting out of the practice. |
| 0:36.6 | He's had to make a run very early here. He's challenged by the spingers. Look at the speed of Mark Kaves is bursting out of the practice. He's had to make a run very early here. |
| 0:38.6 | He's challenged by the spinters. |
| 0:40.1 | Look at the speed of Mark Kavanaughes here. |
| 0:42.1 | As we get the shot, he's wiped out the champion. |
| 0:44.8 | Mark Kavanis, the youngest British rider ever to get a stage win in the Tour de France. |
| 0:52.4 | Still locked into the back position there is Mark Cavendish waiting for the moment to bounce. |
| 0:56.0 | This is the launch for the line of the missile as Wrenshaw said, okay, it's down to you Mark. |
| 1:02.0 | Mark is now having to go for a long sprint. What's the left of the road? |
| 1:05.0 | That's Gryple on the left of the road. |
| 1:07.0 | Cavendish grips his teeth but Cavendish gets it. |
| 1:10.0 | Gryple will be in second place. |
| 1:12.5 | Alley Jet on the right one will be in third. |
| 1:15.3 | Mark Cavendish relives his youth. |
| 1:17.6 | He won here in 2008, and he's come back and he's won again. |
| 1:22.2 | And that now is stage with number 17 in history. |
| 1:29.3 | Mark Cavendish in the green other side of the road. |
| 1:31.7 | Alpacin waiting to let go and it is Philipson today. |
| 1:34.8 | Sagan's chosen that line to go with and so is Bawali. |
| 1:37.4 | Dangerous territory. |
| 1:38.7 | Van Ard is also there as well and Mark Kavanaugh is boxed in for the time being in |
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