S8 Ep118: Tour de France stage 11: Châtelaillon-Plage – Poitiers

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🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Cycling Podcast from the Tour de France, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau are in Chauvigny to reflect on a routine sprint stage that had a moment of drama after the riders had crossed the line.

Victory went to Australia’s Caleb Ewan, who claimed the fifth stage win of his career and the second of this race ahead of Peter Sagan and Sam Bennett.

However, Sagan was later disqualified for a couple of aggressive and illegal nudges of the head towards Wout Van Aert in the sprint. That has opened the door for Ireland’s Sam Bennett, stage winner yesterday, to stake a serious claim to the green jersey.

We also recap the recent meals France has to offer, hear from our audio diarist Lukas Pöstlberger and, finally, talk to Dutch rider Hennie Kuiper, twice a winner on Alpe d’Huez, a runner-up in the Tour and champion at Paris-Roubaix.

To find out more about Hennie Kuiper’s book Champion Willpower, which the publishers hope to release in English, visit: https://championwillpower.com/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You are listening to the cycling podcast, add a tour de France, brought to you by IWOCA.
0:08.4	Flexible loans built for small businesses.
0:11.2	IWOCA.co.uk.
0:14.0	Today we're in Poitier.
0:20.8	What are we, Lionel?
0:21.7	Well, Richard, we are in Chauvinis, which is the start-town of tomorrow's stage.
0:27.0	We were supposed to be staying in Poitier, the finished town of today's stage,
0:31.6	but we took a look at our hotel for the night.
0:35.0	We won't name the establishment.
0:36.0	There's no names.
0:37.0	We won't name the establishment, but it didn't look...
0:39.8	In the fight thing.
0:40.8	I mean, we don't mind roughing it occasionally when needs must, but...
0:45.0	And we've landed on our feet, haven't we?
0:48.6	We have.
0:49.2	Although you're not a fan of dogs in restaurants.
0:51.8	Well, we're actually outside a restaurant. We're in the terrace.
0:54.8	The dog doesn't like the local cat walking onto the terrace.
0:57.6	There's a problem.
0:58.2	The two cats actually went to provoke the local dog, so you can...
1:02.4	It's sort of like Lucas Postalberger with...
1:05.6	You can't ask me.
	...

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