Van Aert performance up there with the greats - but should he target GC?
The Bradley Wiggins Show by Eurosport
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🗓️ 6 July 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Brad and Matt are joined by the one and only Bernie Eisel our Stage 4 pod from the Tour de France as the gang reflect on a quite stunning performance from Wout van Aert, who blew the peloton away in yellow for his first stage win at the Tour.
There's plenty of discussion about his greatness - but should he be looking to transition into a GC rider, with ambitions of maybe one day even winning a Tour de France?
Brad's own experience in doing so reveals some of the sacrifices a rider like Van Aert would need to make to achieve this dream.
Plus there's a look ahead to Wednesday's cobbled stage and why it could be a day for Geraint Thomas...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Bradley Wiggins Show by Eurosport here in Belgium, although we're just on the border with France, joined as ever by Matt Stevens. Thank you, Matt. |
| 0:18.6 | Hi, Brad, we're outside. Oh, we're not in a van. We're outside. Not in a building. |
| 0:21.8 | And a big roundtable. Lovely. |
| 0:23.3 | And we've got another guest tonight, a special guest, teammate of mine in 2012, Bernad Isle. |
| 0:27.9 | Yeah, thanks for the good memories. No, thank you for joining us. |
| 0:31.6 | Bernie, how are you finding the tour so far? far. Great. Honestly, it was amazing when we look back to the days in Denmark. |
| 0:39.3 | It was stressful, but an amazing start. |
| 0:41.3 | Grantapar, really the best one since the Yorkshire. |
| 0:45.3 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:47.3 | And today, I mean, we'll get to today a bit, but quite something, wasn't it really? |
| 0:52.3 | And just going on that, oh, you haven't done so much this year with us, have you? |
| 0:55.7 | Because you've been on the ground with Borra, haven't you? |
| 0:57.9 | Yeah, I'm doing both. |
| 1:00.0 | I did a bit of commentary, or did the Gero de Italia for the German Eurosport channel. |
| 1:05.0 | But otherwise, I'm on tour with Borer and Sports Director, |
| 1:09.5 | driving cars, giving orders. Nobody orders nobody to listen to you find that |
| 1:13.3 | it is really interesting honestly it's stressful and i think i underestimated actually the work of |
| 1:21.3 | sports directors in modern cycling it's days of work just before you even get to the race yeah |
| 1:27.4 | yeah and how are you enjoying not juggling it because he clearly did It's days of work just before you even get to the race. Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:28.4 | And how are you enjoying, not juggling it? |
| 1:31.0 | Because you clearly do in both, but you're very, you're very organized man. |
| 1:34.9 | The other night when we were having Pete's birthday, and there wasn't a toilet downstairs, |
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