S8 Ep100: Tour de France stage three: Nice – Sisteron

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🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The third stage of the Tour de France was expected to end in a sprint, and so it proved, but in this episode of our race coverage from France find out why the finish was like the race to find the quickest queue at the supermarket checkout.

After leaving Nice, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau recorded the podcast in the centre of Sisteron. The crowds may be smaller but one thing is for sure, the Tour is still the Tour.

We recap an incredible finish by Australia’s Caleb Ewan and discuss the dynamics of the sprint. Is this the Dr Beeching Tour, confirming the death of the lead-out train?

We also look ahead to tomorrow’s first summit finish and ask whether the emergence of Jumbo-Visma as a credible threat to Team Ineos has got Dave Brailsford rattled.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the cycling podcast at the Tour de France brought to you by IWoka.
0:08.4	Flexible loans built for small businesses.
0:11.2	IWoka.co.uk.
0:14.0	Today we're in Sisteron.
0:24.0	I think for us to be successful in the future in the next few stages.
0:29.0	Everyone's going to have to do their best and they did that today in the world.
0:33.0	That was Caleb Euin, a remarkable performance by him and an equally remarkable performance by Francois Thomas
0:39.5	to get close enough to him to penetrate the bubble as it were.
0:44.5	And managed to get that little sound bite from Caleb Euin at the finish.
0:49.5	I wouldn't say the bubble is blown up already but I can say that the mix zone.
0:55.0	I hope what I'm saying now is we'll not put a sort of reinforced safety measures.
1:01.0	It might frighten some of our colleagues who are staying behind and afraid of coming because of Covid-19
1:08.0	but the mix zone was very strict at first.
1:10.5	It's kind of eased up a little bit which is much better to work.
1:14.5	You're also a great operator at the front.
1:16.5	Wow, it's just new to here.
1:19.5	I just know, well you know with my experience of 31 tours or whatever.
1:26.5	I mean, you try to get close to the action and close to the...
1:29.5	You've seen it all almost.
1:32.5	The advantage Francois has, first of all his recorder, his microphone is covered in plastic which I'm assuming you'll replace tomorrow.
1:40.0	It's a short cap. I took from the...
1:42.5	I took from the hotel.
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