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The Tour de France, Rest Day, Number 2. It's not far now to Paris. There's only a couple of real big hurdles to get through.

Sorry that you didn't hear a lot of middle-ass days, but after the crash Friday I was a little bit dizzy.

I decided to continue and do at least one time of on tour because my dad was waiting there on the more than two.

I hugged him and stopped the race. I want to win a stage.

Go on, Cap. Let me win a stage. Flop me off.

And then there were three. We started the Tour de France in Brittany with four audio diaries,

Victor Campanates of Quebec and next hash, Tim De Clarke of the current quickstep, Conor Swift of RKS-Samsick

and Ben O'Connor from AG2R Citron. A stage winner already, of course.

After the highs of last week we experienced the lows of the Tour de France this week because unfortunately Victor Campanates will not finish the Tour de France.

He pulled out on the Montvon 2 stage and we opened this episode with his account of what happened.

We also hear from the others, Ben O'Connor still flying high in 5th overall after a home stage in Tandora, Tim De Clarke struggling after having a nasty crash.

Conor Swift, just being Conor Swift, let's get straight into it. Let's hear from Victor Campanates after that fateful, 1-2 stage.

155 kilometres still to go with 2 cents of Montvon 2. It's a horrendous stage if you drop now.

Leaving the Tour de France is not at all what you would think about going to the Tour de France.

That's the last thought on your mind. My season was quite busy and I changed myself as coming from a really structured time trial rider, everything planned out.

Getting the season planned out till October already in December the year before.

Now more free-starring, doing classic races, going from race to race, being attacking on the most unexpected moments.

I really, really enjoyed it. Together with that we also try to push the boundaries from where my capabilities are, how much racing days in a row I can handle without a decent block of training in between.

Of course we were expecting or hoping that it would only be collapsing after Paris.

But quite soon in this Tour it was visible that I was not in the best shape already in the breakaway I was in.

It was not really a good sign that I was there with four riders in all positions of the race and then just having to lose wheels.

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