Stage 6: The art of the long shot
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
We thought it would be a breakaway day, and indeed it was. Ben Healy put on a show, sneaking away at just the right moment to take his first Tour stage win. Behind, weird decisions from UAE and Visma left the pod crew with many questions.
Caley and Jonny are joined by pro photographer Zac Williams and reporter Chris Marshall Bell to break down the motivations of those big teams, how Healy pulled it off, and plenty more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Kaylee Fretz here. |
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| 0:26.2 | It's where we put the good stuff. |
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| 0:30.9 | Join. I'm going to be. I'm Welcome back to the Tor Daily podcast, everybody. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm Kaylee Fretz. |
| 1:02.0 | We just wrapped up stage six. |
| 1:06.3 | Indeed. |
| 1:06.9 | Indeed, Johnny Long. |
| 1:08.6 | We've lost Ron to McLaughlin overnight. |
| 1:10.1 | He went home. |
| 1:11.0 | We replaced him with the power of two men. Yes, which was what was required. |
| 1:15.1 | Yes. Yep. He has a lot of power. Two extra sled dogs for the load. |
| 1:20.8 | These names, these voices will be familiar, I think, to long time listeners. I'm nervous. Not going to lie. |
| 1:26.0 | We're a little nervous. We're a little nervous. |
| 1:28.5 | I'm very nervous. Let's start with Chris Marshall Bell. Chris, welcome. Thank you for having me yet |
| 1:34.9 | again. It's good to be back. I do say this every time I'm honest, the same guy, but like, I'm getting |
| 1:38.8 | close and closer to Josh. Yeah, but he's showing up later. So like, Yeah, but the longer that he doesn't show up, the happier I am, basically. |
| 1:45.2 | We should do the math at some point. |
| 1:46.8 | Yeah, we should. |
| 1:47.5 | I reckon it'll be like the Pagetra Vingo stat when you add up the tours of France. |
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