S13 Ep82: Massif Attack | Stage 10 | Tour de France 2025
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 14 July 2025
⏱️ 46 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 Burney,, that was the sound of Lionel Bastille Day. |
| 0:40.8 | That was the sound of fireworks from last night, actually, in Chateau Rue. |
| 0:45.8 | After we were done recording and eating, I went for a little wonder. |
| 0:49.9 | And I was very pleased to find that the locals were celebrating early. |
| 0:53.6 | But fireworks entirely appropriate for today for what we saw on the road. |
| 0:58.9 | Yeah, fireworks from start to finish, wasn't there, on this stage |
| 1:02.2 | that really looked horrendous to ride up and down all day, |
| 1:06.7 | climbs that weren't even categorised, |
| 1:08.6 | that were bigger than some of the categorised climbs. |
| 1:10.6 | It was a great day of racing on the Tour de France, on the French national holiday, of course, |
| 1:16.2 | Bastille Day, July the 14th. |
| 1:18.7 | So, we should place ourselves before we go any further on July the 14th. Where are we? |
| 1:24.7 | Well, we're in a town called La Bouble which is what eight 10 |
| 1:29.5 | kilometers away from Le Mondeur which is where the stage finished today appropriate |
| 1:34.3 | place to be this evening because this town has hosted Irish success on the Tour de |
| 1:40.3 | France because Stephen Roach won his final tour stage in 1992 and just up the road |
| 1:46.6 | at Le Mondeur Ben Healy pulled on the yellow jersey as race leader of the Tour de France, the first |
| 1:51.9 | Irishman to do so since Stephen Roach in 1987 when he won the tour overall. |
| 1:58.1 | He was the Catherine Will that just wouldn't quit, wasn't he, in terms of fireworks |
| 2:01.8 | today, after a few strobes went off the front. Yeah, he was, the Catherine wheel, wasn't he, |
| 2:06.9 | just went on and on and on and on? I mean, he earned that yellow jersey and deserved to keep it |
| 2:14.1 | for the best part of a week, but we're looking too far ahead of ourselves |
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