S13 Ep90: The Cassoulet Podcast | Stage 15 | Tour de France 2025

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🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 58 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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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the cycling podcast coverage of the 2025 Tour de France brought to you in association with Wahoo Fitness.
0:08.5	We're very grateful to Wahoo for supporting our coverage of the Tour de France and they'll be supporting our coverage of the Tour de France fam in a week or so's time as well.
0:16.5	Now if like today, Pagaccha, you want to race or train with your heart rate visible, you want it to be accurate and you want the strap to be comfortable to wear.
0:26.7	Waho's tracker heart rate monitor delivers both these things.
0:30.1	It's super accurate and reliable, very easy to wear, so it doesn't need to be tightened up uncomfortably tight.
0:36.5	The chest strap is very comfortable plus
0:38.6	the fully rechargeable battery lasts over a hundred hours which is enough for what 20 training rides
0:44.1	yeah you can do that on a single charge so you're not constantly reaching for the charger whether
0:49.8	you're on the bike out running or in the gym it just gives you the numbers that you need and stays out of the way.
0:55.5	Just strap it on and go.
0:57.6	To find out more, go to wahu fitness.com.
1:00.8	Now it's on with the cycling podcast.
1:07.2	This is the cycling podcast at a 2025 tour de France with Lano Bernie, Graham Wilgoss and
1:12.7	France, brought to you in association with Wahoo. Today we're in Carcassonne.
1:22.4	Well, Lionel, stage 15 of the Tour de France and we find ourselves in the middle of a medieval fortress town
1:29.9	which is kind of where Taday Pagaccha finds himself before the second rest day but it was his
1:36.6	teammate who stole the headlines today wasn't it it was yeah I mean where were we going with this
1:40.8	analogy Tim Welland sitting in the tower aiming his bow and arrow through one of those little
1:45.3	slit windows there while Pagacca is sat on the throne just behind.
1:49.8	I mean, that's a metaphor for the Tour de France today, isn't it?
1:52.5	We're in Carcassonne, fantastic city, one of the four homes of Casuale or three, depending on
1:58.9	whether you're a purist or not and we're looking forward to
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