S8 Ep96: My First Tour de France

The Cycling Podcast

Sports, News, Sports News

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Trailer: Get into the Tour de France mood with My First Tour, a four four-part series for Friends of the Podcast.

In episode one, François Thomazeau recalls the first time as a six-year-old boy that he took full notice of the Tour on the fateful day Tom Simpson died on Mont Ventoux in 1967. Then he fast forwards 19 years to the first Tour he covered as a journalist.

Then Richard Moore looks back at the summer of 1990 and his first trip abroad to the Alps to see Thierry Claveyrolat in full flight in the Alps.

Daniel focuses on 1996 and the emergence of a certain Jan Ullrich before talking about the 2001 race, when he was one of the youngest journalists in the press room.

And in episode four Lionel Birnie goes back to the scandal-hit 2006 Grand Départ in Strasbourg and the summer he spent following the Tour in a camper van.

My First Tour is the lastest release for Friends of the Podcast. To find out more to thecyclingpodcast.com/friends and to sign up go to thecyclingpodcast.com/join

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	In this series we're going to be talking about our first tours de France. That's a pretty
0:12.8	fluid term. It can mean the first tour de France that we saw on the television, the first
0:20.7	one that we witnessed in the flesh, the first one that we worked at, or the first one
0:25.0	that we worked at in Foul. I think we're all making different choices or a range of choices.
0:29.4	Yeah, I've been thinking about this. I mean, the first time I ever caught sight of the
0:33.4	Tour de France was on television on a programme called World of Sport which used to be broadcast
0:38.2	on Saturday lunchtime on ITV in the UK. I can't remember which year it was. It was probably
0:45.3	1983 or 1984. I remember this. This is my first tour, the four-part series for Friends
0:52.6	of the Cycling Podcast. Certainly for me, Lionel, it was 1984 because
0:59.0	my most vivid memory is Robert Miller winning a stage. He'd won a stage in 1983 as well,
1:05.0	but it was 1984 that I remember him winning at Guzé Nége.
1:09.2	Now the blacks would say just yours to go to the line, Millican, prepare himself now for the tour de France
1:16.5	mood without memories of the great race spanning four decades.
1:20.4	I think the first time I became aware of it, we used to go to a place on holiday, a place
1:25.8	down in Guernet Parfignon called Canne Plage. I vaguely remember them having a black and white
1:32.9	TV in the house and someone I don't know whether it was my dad or that I doubt my dad would have
1:38.2	known, but someone pointed to a guy with a ponytail and said it was Laurent Fignan.
1:43.6	Well, at 200 metres, it's the return of Laurent Fignan.
1:46.5	Laurent Fignan, Mayo, Jean-Dutton de France.
1:48.7	I don't know what to do. Now we're going to count the others.
1:52.2	Francois remembers the first time he saw the tour on television.
1:55.4	The fateful day, Tom Simpson died on one on two in 1967.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Cycling Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Cycling Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.