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ITV Cycling Podcast

Tour de France 2020: Stage 20

ITV Cycling Podcast

ITV Sport

Sports

4.4674 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The Pod' salutes 'The Pog' - a remarkable Stage 20 of the Tour De France

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0:00.0

Well, that was La Pente Béééé, and not much out today, really.

0:10.0

Love a time trial. Never let it be said it's a dull way for a race to finish.

0:15.0

No.

0:16.0

And there are very few words available to describe the performance of Tade Pogaccia.

0:21.6

You don't win the Tour de France at his age.

0:24.6

You don't win it on the final individual time trial coming back from 57 seconds,

0:29.6

let's not forget, against a rider like Primoz Roglitch.

0:32.6

You just don't do what Tade Pogatja is doing.

0:36.6

And on La Plange de Belle Filles, one of the best backdrops of all,

0:41.3

you've just witnessed one of the greatest rides in the history of the Tour de France,

0:46.3

as Tadipaaccia, I think, wins the bike race.

0:50.3

And wherever you are watching across the world,

0:53.3

cycling fans, you will remember the moment

0:56.3

you saw that ride from Tadei Pogacier, because that was history being written in the present tense.

1:04.7

I'm totally lost for words, really. I'm exhausted. I think there's one point where I turned to you

1:10.5

in the contrary and said my mouth, the roof of my mouth has gone a bit dry. And I think there's one point where I turned to you in the contrary and said the roof of my mouth has gone a bit dry and

1:13.6

I think especially after it had happened and we had those two shots of Pogaccha in his

1:20.6

absurd youth unable to comprehend let alone articulate bless, the scale of his achievement, not really

1:30.3

registering it on his face. And at the same time, Roglitz just collapsed on the ground and

1:36.1

staring into the middle distance, and those around him not having the faintest idea what to

1:40.5

say to him, because what do you say, there's nothing. And it was at that point that I thought,

1:48.1

you know, whatever contribution that me andid might have at this point is um

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