S13 Ep86: Hautacam et Haute Cuisine | Stage 12 | Tour de France 2025

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🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.

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’re very happy to welcome Wahoo as sponsors for the rest of our Tour de France coverage and the Tour de France Femmes later this month. Wahoo have been having a fantastic Tour de France so far. They supply more than half of the teams in the Tour and Tour de France Femmes and six of the 10 stages before the rest day were won by riders using the Wahoo Element Bolt 3 cycle computer and Trackr heart-rate monitor – including those by Mathieu Van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar Ben Healy and Jonathan Milan.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the cycling podcast at the 2025 Tour de France, supported by Wahoo Fitness.
0:06.2	Wahoo is supporting and sponsoring more than half of the teams in this year's Tour de France and the Tour de France fam, which starts, well, not that long to go until the Tour de France fam starts, in fact.
0:16.0	Riders using the Wahoo Element Bolt 3 computer and tracker heart rate monitor have held the yellow jersey in this tour ever since the race started in Leal.
0:24.8	Jasper Philipson, Mati van der Poohalla, Teday Pogacha and Ben Healy.
0:29.3	Wahoo Fitness have a vision to build the better athlete in all of us by transforming the way the world moves through connected fitness technology and training insights.
0:38.7	Wahoo creates a full ecosystem of software sensors, indoor and outdoor training equipment.
0:43.9	For those that are just starting out on their journey and cycling, right up to the
0:47.5	competitive athletes and those who are good enough to wear the Mayo Jeune here in the Tour de France.
0:53.6	Go to WahooFitness.com to find out more.
0:57.8	Now it's time for our cycling podcast episode
1:00.8	recorded on location in the Pyrenees.
1:06.6	This is the cycling podcast at the 2025 Tour de France
1:10.0	with Lano Bernie, Graham Wilgoth and Friends,
1:13.1	brought to you in association with Wahoo. Today we're in Otakam.
1:20.6	Well, Lionel, that was quite the day. It was hot, sweaty, it was tough. The tarmac was sticking to our feet at times.
1:29.7	We're into the high mountains, stage 12 at the Tour de France, and we're not alone because I'm
1:34.8	very pleased to say for one night only, Francois Tomazzo is back on the cycling podcast, Francois.
1:41.5	Yeah, well, I'm glad to be here. It's quite, I was about to say, how lucky, you know. By chance, I meet you guys in a place in the Pyrenees called Saint-Savans, you know, a small little village, and how come you're here?
1:57.4	Well, we've come to Le Viscos, Francois, because you very kindly invited us to dinner. Oh, really? Yeah. What were the chances? What were the chances? Well, let's place ourselves first, actually. Chaps, Francois, tell us about Le Viscos. Where are we? Well, Le Viscos, I mean, lots of listeners know about Leviscos now, and I must say that I'm always amazed when I come back here.
2:19.3	I mean, I've been here two days already, you know, I came here three days ago, and there's lots of cyclists around, and in the past two days I met lots of you listeners, you know, from Scotland, from Ireland, from Britain.
2:35.1	Leviscos has actually become a kind of a cycling podcast, you know, venue.
2:39.7	Second home.
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