S8 Ep106: Tour de France stage six: Le Teil – Mont Aigoual

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🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The Tour de France’s second summit finish of the opening week didn’t shake up the overall standings but it did see a barnstorming breakaway and a very fast pace from Kilometre 0.

Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau outside a busy restaurant in Meyrueis in the Cévennes to recap a stage win by Alexey Lutsenko – the first for a Kazakh for a decade.

One of our audio diarists, Simon Geschke, a teammate of Greg Van Avermaet’s on the CCC Team, sends in a despatch to explain how the stellar eight-man break formed. We ask whether Ineos Grenadiers are back to their best or whether Jumbo-Visma decided to throttle back a bit after consecutive stage wins and we talk about Adam Yates’s first day in the yellow jersey.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Cycling Podcast. Add to the France, brought to you by IWoka.
0:08.4	Flexible loans built for small businesses. IWoka.co.uk.
0:14.0	Today we're at Mo'igweil.
0:23.0	Where are we, a lot of front-wide or front-swastos?
0:27.0	We've been passing the buck here, even François, had to look up how you say the name of the town we're in.
0:32.0	Merry West, which features in Kim Krabber's book The Rhyder.
0:37.0	The race starts here.
0:39.0	He gets changed on this very street.
0:42.0	You're being plagued by wasps, it's late summer wasps season, isn't it?
0:47.0	There's a lot of wasps around. We're outside quite a busy restaurant.
0:52.0	We're not for a race being dominated by Yom Babizma.
0:55.0	And lots of wasps.
0:57.0	And unfortunately for you, I ordered a glass of rosey and wasps seemed to like it very much indeed.
1:04.0	At one point today it looked as if only teams in yellow and black were allowed to lead the peloton until the Enneos Granadeers took over.
1:11.0	But we'll talk about the race.
1:13.0	We should mention this beautiful place that we're in after stunning, along but stunning drive today
1:19.0	as you were telling us François, the least populated part of France.
1:24.0	It is, yeah. I mean we can I reveal the old truth.
1:29.0	I mean that we got lost.
1:31.0	People who know about Montpellier and driving around Montpellier know that it's very easy to miss a turn
1:39.0	and then to have to drive for 50km before finding your way back where you were planning to go in the first place.
1:45.0	But then when you go behind Montpellier, Montpellier is called the Othéros Upper Hero.
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