S8 Ep135: Tour de France stage 19: Bourg-en-Bresse – Champagnole

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🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 53 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 enjoying an early glass of Champagne and a game of table tennis before recapping stage 19.

They discuss another stage win for Sunweb and the tactics that led to it, then hear from yesterday’s stage winner Michal Kwiatkowski before looking ahead to tomorrow’s time trial to the Planche des Belles Filles and in particular the equipment choices the riders face.

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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. IWOCA.co.uk.
0:14.0	Today we're in Schoenpinghol.
0:23.0	Where are we, Lionel?
0:24.0	Well, we're in the countryside, not terribly far from our favourite town, Lure, which is where tomorrow's time trial starts.
0:32.0	You've been sarcastic there aren't you? Is that that English sense of humor coming out again?
0:36.0	Well, not necessarily seen the best of Lure over the years, have we?
0:40.0	Well, that's what we had the famous barbecue.
0:42.0	Well, we didn't have the barbecue because the man was missing a finger and you were convinced that he chopped off his finger preparing our barbecue.
0:49.0	And we've ended up in the town having fairly average fare.
0:55.0	It's not the most prosperous region of France. I'm not being unkind, but this area here is in the actual countryside. It's very attractive.
1:03.0	And actually, I just went for a bike ride and I saw some beautiful little villages and absolutely lovely houses.
1:09.0	So we seem to have wanted on our feet here, but then we put Francois in charge of booking accommodation for these last couple of nights.
1:15.0	And that was probably a wise move. Well, to selves.
1:20.0	But in France, why is not a touristy region, they should it?
1:24.0	No, not really. Not at all, to be honest.
1:27.0	I mean, the lend lady here at the BNB, where it's saying, it said, you know, husband works for Peugeot.
1:36.0	And Peugeot was the main, almost mono industry of the region of social, Montbeglieu.
1:42.0	Although those places, they've got the main, while their historical, you know, as you know, the social football club is, you know, belongs to Peugeot.
1:50.0	And so they have the main original factory there, plus various, you know, sub-centers. So I mean, it's so, and one would be going tomorrow at the plant, the better fee.
2:00.0	I mean, the unemployment rate in that area is because it's used to be a mining area. It's absolutely enormous.
2:07.0	So, for them, the tour and trying to, you know, reinvent themselves through tourism and, and the tour is a good, you know, good showcase for that.
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