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🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

What a day in the mountains. Two races in one, a fantastic yellow jersey, and the first hints of a coming GC battle. Caley, Jonny, and Iain are joined by Chris Marshall Bell to talk through the day's stories. 

Alternate episode titles today (feel free to suggest your own):
Massif Bental St Martins College
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So go and head over to escapcollective.com forward slash member to sign up now and be a part of it too. Welcome back to the Tor Daily podcast, everybody. I'm Kaylee Fretz. We come to you from the finish, not actually the finish, just down the hill of stage 10.

1:34.0

Simon Philip Yates has won a bicycle race.

1:37.9

Brave, Brave Ben Healy is in the yellow jersey.

1:41.8

And there's a heck of a lot to talk about.

1:43.8

Joining me, Johnny Long, welcome. Hello. And Ian Trelaw. Always a pleasure. in the yellow jersey and there's a heck of a lot to talk about joining me johnny long welcome

1:45.6

hello and ian trellor always a pleasure caley uh also around is chris marshal bell he's gonna be

1:53.3

joining us again he's currently getting a guinness uh we're drinking guineas is obviously in honor

1:58.0

of of the man in yellow yeah then haly. Yeah. Irish via the Midlands

2:03.4

area in England. I think that's the, I think that's what it says on his passport officially.

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