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🗓️ 5 July 2013
⏱️ 12 minutes
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As the Tour 2013 snakes through the Languedoc-Roussillon and the Midi-Pyrenees/South West France they are riding through major wine country.
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0:00.0 | That man was in the lead for all past 7 kilometers of this race today, but now it's a day for the sprinters in Marseille and the trains are all working flat out. |
0:23.0 | How many crashes do you think the peloton will have |
0:27.0 | before they eliminate all of the riders in the torn fronds? |
0:31.0 | I think they had more today than they've had in the last three tours combined. |
0:37.0 | It was funny because we were saying, oh, it's kind of low energy and all said it was like, |
0:41.0 | and they crashed again, and they crashed again. |
0:43.9 | Oh, it was death and destruction everywhere. |
0:45.7 | It was pretty bad and then Mark Cavendish just pulled it out |
0:48.8 | is pretty awesome. |
0:49.6 | So if you do watch the tour, |
0:51.3 | then you know what we're talking about. |
0:52.4 | If you don't watch the tour, we were what we're talking about if you don't watch the |
0:53.0 | tour we're just totally dorking out on these riders but we have made our way |
0:58.4 | through Provence and we're heading into the region of what is known as the wine lake. |
1:05.0 | The Langduke Roussion, which is the largest wine region, not just in France, not just in Europe, but in the entire world 700,000 acres under vine. |
1:18.4 | That's incredible and so this is down at the southern tip of the country right it is it is and so in terms of the tour |
1:25.8 | stage six is going through it's going to start in and Montpellier and then it's going to |
1:31.0 | stage seven will be a little bit through the Langdok and then it's going to move into an area called the |
1:36.8 | MIDI or the MIDI Pyrenees. We all know the Pyrenees mountains are always part of the tour because they're very steep and very challenging. the to be ascending actually on the other side in Spain there's quite a bit of |
1:54.4 | basque wine that we could talk about but we're not going to but we will touch |
1:59.1 | on very briefly the area of southwest France and we're not going into as much detail because this year they're not really riding through those areas and in case they do it next year we don't want to tell you all about it. We'll have to save it for next year. |
2:13.2 | But we will talk a little bit about the long duck and the fact that... |
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