What Was Behind Van der Poel & Alpecin's Massive Gamble? | Tour de France 2025 Stage 9 | THEMOVE

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Lance Armstrong

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🗓️ 13 July 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Lance, George, Sir Bradley Wiggins, and Spencer Martin break down an intriguing day at the Tour de France, which saw Tim Merlier win a tough sprint ahead of Jonathan Milan to claim his second stage victory of this Tour, after Mathieu van der Poel’s day-long breakaway was brought to heel inside the final few hundred meters. They discuss the potential reasons for Alpecin–Deceuninck sending two riders into an incredibly taxing early breakaway, why Visma–Lease a Bike continues to burn matches to make the race as hard as possible, the massive prize money disparity between the Tour de France and other marquee sporting events like Wimbledon, and what could be done to level the playing field, before previewing tomorrow's brutal stage, which will see the battle for the GC shift back into high gear.

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0:00.0	You never think that Matthew Vanderpool is going to go a kilometer zero.
0:04.2	With a teammate.
0:05.0	With a teammate.
0:05.9	I didn't know what I was watching.
0:07.4	Yeah, I think he shocked.
0:08.2	He shocked the whole Peloton so much so that they didn't even react.
0:11.0	They probably thought he was joking.
0:12.4	Like, okay, what's going on here?
0:13.9	Before they knew it, he's got four or five minutes.
0:16.6	You can't give a guy like Matthew Vanderipal for five minutes with a teammate because you know they're going to go all in, riding together efficiently, getting feeds from the cars all day long being a hot day.
0:25.5	It's a huge advantage.
0:26.9	They got caught at the end, but it made for a very, very exciting stage.
0:29.6	Very exciting.
0:34.9	All right, everybody.
0:35.9	Welcome back to the Move podcast talking about stage nine. Alan, what do we do?
0:44.0	Stage nine, from Chinon to Chateauro, from Chinon to Chateauro.
0:51.0	Otherwise known as Mark Cavendish's town. Apparently, they have also, they've given him co-billing on that.
0:56.5	But before, I want to show a picture.
0:57.8	I snapped a picture of the coverage earlier, but joined by Sir Bradley Wiggins, Mr. George
1:03.4	Hinkapy, also, and yet another day without the famous cowboy hat, right, that he had to take a,
1:10.3	take a lean on his house to buy here in Aspen, Colorado.
1:14.3	I remember one of these days.
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