S8 Ep137: Tour de France stage 21: Mantes-la-Jolie – Paris Champs-Élysées

The Cycling Podcast

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🗓️ 20 September 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In a final episode of The Cycling Podcast from close to the Champs-Élysées Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau recap the last stage of the 2020 Tour de France.

Still digesting yesterday’s time trial we review a stage victory for Sam Bennett before hearing from Connor Swift, who was in the break, Alexander Kristoff, who won the opening stage of the race and is a teammate of Tadej Pogacar, and Guillaume Martin, the best Frenchman in the Tour who François has been trying to speak to for a few days.

Then we ask Bahrain-McLaren and Mitchelton-Scott sports directors Rod Ellingworth and Matt White about Jumbo-Visma could have done differently to set up Primoz Roglic.

We also find out more about the 2020 Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar from his team doctor Jeroen Swart and Slovenian journalist Toni Gruden.

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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 Paris.
0:22.8	Where are we, Lionel?
0:23.8	Well, we've made it to the plaster of Concorde on the final day of the Tour de France.
0:27.5	It's very low key, isn't it compared to normal in terms of the crowds.
0:31.7	But everything else feels pretty much as it would be.
0:34.5	All the team buses parked here.
0:36.2	We can see the race just going past over there.
0:39.1	And one of our audio diaries is in the break of four, Conor Swift.
0:43.7	We've got, we're in that situation again, Lionel wearing our DS hats.
0:48.0	We've got a man in the break.
0:50.2	How's he going to, how's he going to win from here?
0:52.6	Well, he's up against...
0:54.7	He's not, I'm sorry to spoil our light.
0:56.8	He's not going to win from here.
0:58.2	It's going to be a bunch of sprint, I think.
0:59.8	Well, the time gap is only 15 seconds and there's 15 kilometers to go.
1:04.6	You're right, he's not going to win from there.
1:06.3	But let's not be defeated, Richard.
1:08.6	He's out front on the final day of his first ever Grand Tour, first ever Tour de France,
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