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S8 Ep181: The Grandest Tour stage 26: Waiting no more

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4.73K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

As the Grandest Tour reaches stage 26 – and the Vuelta a España reaches stage 11 – Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Lizzy Banks look back on a day in the mountains that was won by the Frenchman David Gaudu while the overall favourites appeared to keep their powder dry for Sunday’s finish at the Angliru.

We hear from our audio diarist, Nick Schultz of Mitchelton-Scott, whose team leader, Esteban Chaves, had a tough day. Lizzy asks what has happened to Team Ineos, and why aren’t Jumbo-Visma capitalising on their weakness. And we return to the controversy of stage 10, when the race jury couldn’t decide whether Richard Carapaz or Primoz Roglic should wear the race leader’s red jersey.

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0:00.0

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0:04.2

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0:13.6

Hello my name's Richard Shibura, I'm with Lionel Bernie,

0:25.2

Hello Richard, and joining us once again, the Oracle of Cycling, Lizzie Banks.

0:32.9

Hello Richard and Lionel. Lizzie, you had a busy day Lizzie.

0:38.7

I have had a busy day, it wasn't planned at all, but somehow I found myself at Preston

0:47.0

Bus Station. I'm too extraordinary, people won't believe this.

0:54.0

How do you accidentally find yourself at Preston Bus Station?

0:58.4

I can't quite explain it myself, but you know I actually found myself having a tap-ass

1:02.8

lunch in Preston and parking at Preston Bus Station, which is really quite unbelievable,

1:08.8

and no it wasn't planned at all, but I was travelling and I'd be gunned to get very,

1:14.3

very hungry, we couldn't find anywhere good to eat, and then we were very close to Preston,

1:19.8

so we thought, ah, why not, just get into Preston Bus Station and see if we can find some lunch.

1:25.2

Obviously, why not a butterfly? Why tap-ass? I mean a tap-ass good with a welter of course, but...

1:32.5

Yeah, well that's the thing, I was googling where I was good to eat in Preston,

1:37.2

and then I googled tap-ass, and the first thing that came up was a picture of chips and a baguette,

1:42.1

so we didn't go there, but now I thought I would get in the spirit of the welter and go to the

1:49.1

very highly rated tap-ass restaurant in Preston. For anyone listening to the cycling podcast

1:54.1

for the first time and wondering what Earth is going on, Hugh Carthie, who is going very well in

1:58.8

the GC, is from Preston. I was in Ampresson. It was Preston buzzing with talk of Hugh Carthie

2:05.1

and how he's getting on at the welter. You know what, when I was driving into Preston,

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