S8 Ep109: Tour de France stage eight: Cazères-sur-Garonne – Loudenvielle

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🗓️ 5 September 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The 2020 Tour de France reached the Pyrenees and an absorbing day of racing further sorted the overall standings and perhaps suggested for the first time that this race will be more complex than just anticipated battle between Jumbo-Visma and Ineos Grenadiers.

Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau are in Luchon, at the foot of the Peyresourde where the race burst into life.

In this episode we recap Nans Peters’s first Tour de France stage win, ask whether Tadej Pogacar would have attacked had he not lost time yesterday, pick over the bones of Thibaut Pinot’s overall challenge and ask what Jumbo-Visma were up to.

There are also contributions from our audio diarists from inside the peloton and François remembers his first day on the Tour in 1986 when he came face to face with Bernard Hinault.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Cycling Podcast. Add to the France, brought to you by IWOCA.
0:08.4	Flexible loans built for small businesses. IWOCA.co.uk.
0:14.0	Today we're in Luda, yeah.
0:21.0	Where are we, Lionel?
0:22.0	We're in Luciault, Richard, at the foot of the Paris Sword and the foot of Superbanière,
0:28.0	a famous climb from Tour de France history. The Paris Sword, of course, came over today,
0:33.0	but went down into Luda on Vienne, instead of coming down to Luciault.
0:38.0	This is normally a fixture on the Tour de France route.
0:41.0	We took a little detour, didn't we?
0:43.0	A Nielsen Palace tried to join us here.
0:45.0	We did, yes.
0:46.0	Last an in drink on the terrace at the hotel here, because he went straight on where he should have gone right.
0:51.0	We drove over the Port de Baleste this afternoon, didn't we?
0:54.0	On the race route, really stunning climb all the way up and lovely descent.
1:00.0	Absolutely lovely descent. I'd have loved to have ridden that.
1:03.0	Real pudding descent.
1:05.0	Well, we had after last night's conversation about Lionel's love of downhill cycling,
1:11.0	and him christening himself the pudding.
1:14.0	You said you were going to put in the jersey.
1:16.0	I said I was wearing the pudding color jersey.
1:17.0	I said I was wearing the jersey for the best decender.
1:20.0	One of our listeners and good friends, Moyen-Islam suggested the flying,
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