S8 Ep94: 2020 Tour de France preview
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
We weigh up the Ineos Grenadiers team selection, which saw Chris Froome's bid for a fifth Tour victory put on hold and Geraint Thomas also left out. Ineos will still go into the race with the reigning Tour de France and Giro d'Italia champions, Egan Bernal and Richard Carapaz.
There's a look at the route, which appears to be full of semi-hidden traps to punish a moment's inattention. And we hear from Marianne Vos about La Course, which will be held on Saturday morning, NTT Pro Cycling's boss Doug Ryder about being the first to confirm their eight-man line up for the Tour, Britain's Tour debutant Connor Swift about lining up alongside Nairo Quintana and Larry Warbasse on his recent positive test for coronavirus.
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| 0:26.0 | Hello my name's Richard Moore, I'm counting down to the Tour de France with Lionel Bernie, |
| 0:31.2 | Hello Richard, and Daniel Freib. Hello Taps. Looking very John McEnroe there Daniel. |
| 0:38.4 | I'm about to go for my run. It's very early in the morning isn't it? |
| 0:42.0 | It went very early. It's strange to be counting down to the Tour de France because it doesn't |
| 0:46.7 | feel very Tour de France like it's the end of August. It's where I am. It's rainy and cold and gray. |
| 0:53.8 | I imagine it's like that where you are Lionel. Very much so. Heavy rain this morning here in |
| 0:58.5 | not what for looking forward to escaping to new. In this week's podcast we'll be talking about some |
| 1:03.0 | extreme suffering pain and discomfort. We've had our coronavirus tests. How's your nose Lionel? |
| 1:11.0 | It's fine. In the UK you have to do the test yourself so I push the thing up my nose until I |
| 1:16.4 | get to scratch the inside of my eyeball and luckily my result came back negative last night. |
| 1:22.0 | So I'm the first confirmed member of the Cycling Podcast team on the start sheet still waiting |
| 1:26.9 | for your results Richard and Francois Thomas those results as well. Daniel of course, |
| 1:31.4 | well you'll be in the bubble I suppose by the end of today will you? I have to have my test in |
| 1:35.5 | these softening champs get results in 48 hours hopefully. You played a very cruel joke on me Lionel |
| 1:42.0 | last night, late at night. The timing of it was particularly cruel I thought. |
| 1:45.8 | Well I couldn't resist sending you a copy of the ODEAU test positive for coronavirus text message |
| 1:53.8 | and you felt free. And must I sleep for 14 days? Oh I fell for a big time. Not really the sort of thing |
| 2:00.8 | that I should be joking about really because who knows who knows if your positive Richard it's |
| 2:06.4 | just Francois and I isn't it travelling around the world. Yeah you know there were a couple of |
| 2:11.2 | considerations. Initially Lionel I sort of leaped around the room punching the air |
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