S13 Ep99: I Love It When La Plagne Comes Together | Stage 19 | Tour de France 2025
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 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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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) including those by Mathieu Van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar, Ben Healy and Jonathan Milan.
Wahoo’s vision is to build the best athlete in all of us, by transforming the way the world moves through connected fitness technology and training insights. Wahoo creates a full ecosystem of software, sensors, indoor, and outdoor training equipment for those just starting their journey in cycling, right through to competitive athletes. Go to WahooFitness.com to find out more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the cycling podcast coverage of the 2025 Tour de France coming to you almost live from the Alps. |
| 0:07.3 | We're recording a bit late this evening for reasons which will become clear in a moment, but our coverage is brought to you by Wahoo. |
| 0:14.8 | And they will be sponsoring us all the way to Paris, which is only a couple of days away now. |
| 0:18.8 | And then they'll be continuing with sponsorship |
| 0:21.3 | of the cycling podcast Feminand and the Tour de France fan, which gets underway tomorrow, Saturday. |
| 0:28.4 | Before we know it, unfortunately, Graham, it will be winter and we'll be turning our minds to training |
| 0:33.1 | indoors, and that is when you need a top-notch indoor trainer. The Wahoo kicker is the gold standard. |
| 0:39.3 | It's top of Wahoo's range and the trainer has changed the game for indoor riding. |
| 0:43.3 | It's super quiet, incredibly accurate and gives you proper hill simulations up to a 20% incline. |
| 0:49.3 | So more than anything that the riders have had to deal with in the Alps. |
| 0:53.3 | Plus it connects over Wi-Fi now, |
| 0:55.3 | so everything just works faster and more smoothly. |
| 0:58.5 | Whether you're training hard, |
| 0:59.6 | or you just want to ride when the weather is a bit rubbish, |
| 1:02.0 | as it has been here today, |
| 1:03.6 | the kicker brings the road to your living room. |
| 1:06.1 | It's compatible with most 8 to 12 speeds cassettes, |
| 1:09.3 | plus the Zwift, click and cog. |
| 1:12.1 | Go to WahooFitness.com for more details. |
| 1:15.6 | Now, on with the cycling podcast. |
| 1:19.4 | This is the cycling podcast at a 2025 tour de France |
| 1:22.8 | with Lano Bernie, Graham Wilgoth and friends |
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