Tour de France - Rest Day - Geraint Thomas and Dave Brailsford join BeSpoke

BeSpoke: at the Tour de France

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🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The BeSpoke team drive through the night to join up with reigning Tour de France champion Geraint Thomas and Ineos Team Principle Sir Dave Brailsford on the final rest day. With Julian Alaphilippe cracking for the first time yesterday, the BeSpoke team run through who has a genuine shot of glory in Paris.

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0:00.0	BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.0	The Tour de France with Gareth Rhys Owen.
0:08.3	On Bispoke, the BBC Cycling Podcast.
0:11.6	Hello, thank you very much for downloading Bespoke.
0:14.2	Very special podcast for you today.
0:16.3	I'm about to hit the road, get down to the team Inios Hotel in Meam.
0:21.2	It's a rest day and we're going to be chatting to Dave Rilsford,
0:25.2	the boss of Team Inios and the defending champion, Geraint Thomas.
0:29.1	The boys are there already.
0:30.9	Better get my skates on.
0:32.3	Bespoke from BBC Sport and BBC Radio 5 Live.
0:44.8	A warm welcome to bespoke.
0:50.5	I say warm because Neme, where we are for the rest day, is sweltering.
0:52.4	It's 30 degrees now.
0:53.6	It's early morning. By midday, it will get up to 39 degrees.
0:57.1	And we've travelled, myself, Simon Brotherton, and Rob Hales, all the way from the end of stage 15.
1:03.2	An incredible stage 15 in Foire to Neme, 220 miles, change of climate. We're just, what is it, but 30 30 miles from the med and we're in the team
1:14.0	inios hotel it's shared by other teams there's Astana swaniers passing by us a member of team
1:20.6	inios has just gone out to check the bikes and Rob hails we're waiting to speak to sir dave
1:26.4	Bilsford and Gerain Thomas.
1:28.3	Did we think that we'd be thinking of these questions that we're thinking right now two weeks ago?
1:33.3	Because this race is upside down now.
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