Weekend Edition: Tour de France - what does it take to conquer the world's toughest race? - The Sports Agents
The News Agents
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🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Welcome to the new-look weekend edition with fresh interviews and content!
With the Tour de France starting this weekend Gabby and Mark try to get their heads around the immense physical and mental challenge of winning one of the world's toughest races. They speak to the winner of the 2024 Tour de France Femmes, Kasia Niewiadoma (06:15), ex-pro cyclist, Adam Blythe, and former Team Sky nutritionist, Nigel Mitchell (21:30).
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| 0:32.4 | This is a global player original podcast. The biggest bike race in the world starts this weekend, |
| 0:39.6 | the Tour de France. We're talking climbing up to 5,500 metres, parting seas of fans who get |
| 0:45.6 | right up close and trying to eat 9,000 calories a day for three weeks. We're going to be joined |
| 0:50.6 | by the winner of last year's Women's Tour de France, Cassia Niva Doma, |
| 0:54.5 | to tell us the story of that dramatic finale. |
| 0:57.6 | She won the 950 kilometre race by just four seconds. |
| 1:02.2 | We'll also have a look back at the best bits from this week's shows. |
| 1:05.6 | Welcome to the sports agents. |
| 1:19.5 | Yeah. The Sports Agents with Gabby Logan and Mark Chapman. |
| 1:28.2 | So this is a special edition and going forwards, it'll be how the weekend edition of the sports agents looks, Chappas, because not only will we review what we've done in the episodes, we'll have |
| 1:32.8 | an extra bit of content for you. Yeah, and that extra bit of content this weekend will be |
| 1:38.2 | all about the Tour de France with the men's race starting the women's starts at the end |
| 1:43.2 | of July, but we'll still have |
| 1:44.4 | those best bits as Gabby said which this week includes a football podcast essentially didn't |
| 1:49.7 | we was Julian Laurent and Dan Cook who is from the HLTCO Palace fan channel talking about what |
| 1:56.2 | is going on with Crystal Palace's potential omission European football next season. After winning the |
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