Stage 20: Cutting the mustard

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🗓️ 27 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A breakaway winner was expected for stage 20 of the Tour de France, but did anyone expect it to be Kaden Groves?

Iain Treloar is joined by Joshua Robinson of the Wall Street Journal, Patrick Redford of Defector, and Jacob Whitehead from The Athletic to discuss the penultimate stage of this year's race.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the Escape Collective Tour Daily podcast.
0:20.5	I am Ian Chalaw, friends. We have Joshua Robinson
0:24.8	of the Wall Street Journal. Hello. Hello, I am. And we have Patrick Redford of Defector. Hello.
0:31.4	And we have Jacob Whitehead of The Athletic. Hello. It's very good to have you all here.
0:39.3	We have had a little bit of a messy day of logistics.
0:42.3	We've been all over the place.
0:44.3	We've spent about four and a half hours in the car, but we can taste the end of the Tour de France.
0:49.3	We are a train ride away from Paris, and that's a good place to be.
0:57.0	And we're about to have some snails.
0:59.4	We're having some wine.
1:01.4	Life feels good.
1:03.0	Vive l'Hort.
1:03.9	Ville l'Hort.
1:04.8	Life feels so good.
1:05.8	It's so good to be here.
1:08.9	But we should probably talk about a bike race.
1:09.5	We should.
1:11.1	I think... Despite the end of summer camp vibe.
1:14.1	Big end of summer camp vibe.
1:16.2	But the bike race, it was a good bike race today.
1:19.1	It was as kind of expected, a bit of a breakaway day from Nantua to Pontalia.
1:24.9	Nantua, lovely.
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