S9 Ep109: Stage 12 | Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux – Nîmes | Tour de France 2021

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🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau in a bustling square in Nîmes to recap the 12th stage of the Tour de France.

A short, flat stage looked certain to finish in a sprint but the peloton allowed a break of 13 riders to get away. There was no chase from the most likely candidates, Deceuninck-Quick Step, and so Mark Cavendish’s bid to equal Eddy Merckx’s record of 34 Tour de France stage wins will have to wait for another day.

Instead, Nils Pollit of Bora-Hansgrohe produced a fine solo effort to escape the clutches of the breakaway and win his first Tour de France stage. It meant a happy end to the day for the team, who lost Peter Sagan in the morning. Sagan pulled out with a swollen knee but hopes to recover in time for the Olympic Games.

We hear from Sagan, Pollit’s former teammate Ian Boswell, our audio diarist Connor Swift and Michael Mørkøv on Deceuninck-Quick Step’s decision not to chase.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Tour des Flanaires. The cycling podcast at the 2021 Tour de France
0:14.1	powered by super-fraithians. Energy management for commited athletes and coaches. Stage 12
0:21.7	Today we are in Nemo. Hello my name's Richard Murr, I'm with award-winning writer,
0:30.4	Francois Thomas the winner of the pre-godet. Your name is up in lights in the press
0:36.8	room in the Tour de France. I thought you were going to say it while when you were
0:41.0	writer Lionel Berney. No, I'm counting him in a moment. Award-winning
0:45.6	writer is great to be in the company of an award-winning writer and award-winning
0:49.6	photographer Lionel Berney. Well, come on Lionel. I mean it's true. It's true. You
0:56.1	told me about this yesterday. Yeah, I won the a category in the Red
1:02.6	Born Village Photography Competition a little bit earlier this year. Simon Gil
1:08.5	watched you're back. Well, he's not very happy about it. There was a cyclist
1:13.4	in your picture. There was. I took a cycling themed picture of a writer going
1:17.2	past some daffodils. I entered the spring category and I won. What did you
1:23.7	win for that? I've won some vouchers to spend in some of the village shops.
1:28.2	Does that meet you a professional photographer? I guess it does. I mean I'm being
1:32.1	awarded for my work because I've got better paid than Simon. That's hard. How
1:37.5	many other photographs were there in the spring category? Oh, loads. I mean
1:41.9	just before I came out to the tour. That wasn't a harsh comment on
1:45.1	photographers. That was a comment on people using their photographs without
1:48.9	paying them. Which we don't do. Or the general state of the industry at
1:52.7	large maybe. Well, Francois, there were loads of entries and they were all
1:57.0	displayed in the village over the weekend. The Tour de France started. So we went
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