Welcome back to the Lagerie Cycling Podcast, Stage 5 of what has been in eventful and historic tour of France, already a very exciting sprint stage.

Nervous ties from Saint-Germol-Géin to Saint-Vel-Bagh,

178-Ks.

The first half or first two-thirds, completely monotonous.

I had some errands to do.

You know, Toby had to get groomed, lots of different things. This is what you do on

sprint stages. It's a marathon not a sprint. That's what they say, Benji. I don't, you know, I don't

watch these, all these stages. What in the Christian Prudom is that tour of France shirt that you're wearing?

I got this when the tour came to Andora and in 2021, they throw everything out.

That's where I got the Chris Bucket hat and this year this

fucking shirt. It's probably stained yellow. I was too fat to wear it. It's like a

kids once. Now I can actually wear it and it's been sitting at the bottom of a cupboard.

I thought maybe one day I'd be able to wear a kid shirt again.

So I thought I put it on.

But yeah, I was here, not an official representative of the tour of France.

Certainly not, I wouldn't have put a bend in the final 150 meters in this sprint.

So yeah, we got a sprint stage after three of the four exciting stages before Poggi slapping Yonis about yesterday

but today a sprint first 68 k's false flat downhill to chambery which is which is where Decathlon Agediseer La Mondiale are based.

Would they want to go in the exposure breakaway?

Absolutely not.

Despicable conduct.

Then a 12k 2% climb, and then another valley around Aost, the French Aost, not the Italian Aosta,

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