Tour de France Stage 18 | The Sir Wiggo & Johan Show

THEMOVE

Lance Armstrong

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🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Johan Bruyneel and Sir Bradley Wiggins peel back the curtain on the tactics, strategy, and pivotal moments that shaped Stage 18 of the 2025 Tour de France, offering sharp analysis and insider perspective you won’t hear anywhere else.

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0:00.0	The modern day tactics, none of it really makes sense.
0:02.8	And we've seen that throughout this tour.
0:04.8	There's a new way of riding and a new, you know, kind of preempting what the other team is going to do.
0:10.9	And, you know, it doesn't seem the norm and it doesn't seem the textbook thing to do.
0:15.8	But as we've seen this Tour de France, you know, the tactics seem to have gone out the window
0:20.3	or what we normally deploy. I'm the 2012 Tour de France, you know, the tactics seems to have gone out the window or what we normally deploy.
0:21.9	I'm the 2012 Tour de France winner, Sir Bradley Wiggins.
0:25.8	And I'm Johann Reneal.
0:27.3	I directed my teams to nine Tour de France victories.
0:30.5	Welcome to the Sir Wiggle and Johan show.
0:32.9	Our daily show where we dive deep into the tactics behind every stage of the Tour de France.
0:41.1	Hi, everybody. Welcome back to our show, talking about stage 18 of the Tour de France from
0:46.8	Ville to Courchelle with the famous Côte de L'Aloz at the end, 5,500 meters of elevation, 171 kilometers.
0:56.1	It's, you know, agreed that it's the queen stage, the hardest stage of the Stude of France.
1:01.8	With me, like every day, Sir Bradley Wiggins.
1:04.3	Bradley, how are you?
1:05.3	Yeah, good, thank you.
1:06.4	How did you see the stage?
1:08.4	What's your takeaway?
1:09.9	Yeah, I mean, it was a little bit anti-climax at times. I think Vizma's tried everything they could, but my take of the day is definitely Ben O'Connor. You know, when Ben wins, he wins big. It's his second stage in the Tour of France. Of course, world championship medalist last year. It's finished, you know, fourth in the Giro, second in the world.
1:30.3	But I love how...
1:32.3	Fort in the tour already, yeah, yeah.
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