Get your helmets on, the Tour de France is about to begin.
The race gets underway this evening, and Anthony McCrossan, Tour de France commentator joined Jason Pine to preview the great race.
Who will be wearing the yellow jersey in Paris?
Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard have won the last four Tours between them, each aiming to win a third Tour de France. Is this a two-man race?
McCrossan told Piney that the two have a true sporting rivalry, wanting to beat each other and just will not let the other one win.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from News Talk Z'B.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
One of the most iconic sporting events in the world
is the Tour de France. It starts tonight. Let's bring
in tour commentator Anthony mccross and two Weekend Sport. Anthony,
thanks for taking the time to preview the Tour de
France with us. Tade Pagacia, Jonas Vinger Guard. They've won
the last four tours between them, each of them aiming
to win a third Tour de France. So are we
(00:34):
looking at a two man race here?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
That's an interesting question, isn't it. They have they've dominated
the Tour de France. Taddey and Jonas have won the
last four editions. But I think it's really easy for
you to be thinking this is a two horse race.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
So actually is it a one horse race?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Because Taddi Pagaccia really recently dominated the Giroditalia.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
He just rode away with it.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
He was head and shoulders above everybody else. However, when
you look at the field of the Tour de France,
there's a lot of riders who believe that had A
and Jonas are beatable now, Jonas is potentially beatable because
he's just had a huge crash a few months ago
in the Tour of the Basque Country, and there's actually
been questions over whether Yonas will actually ride the Tour
(01:19):
de France. But he's here and he's riding, and that's fantastic.
So we've got those two. But outside of that, there's
a number of other riders who can win this race. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I want to get to those other riders in the
moment here today, but just don'ts finger Guard and that
crash and the fact that he is under a bit
of a cloud coming into the Tour de France. This
is not the sort of race where you can be
anything less than one hundred percent prepared, as it could
he get found out potentially the.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Tour de France. There's nowhere to hide at some point.
There's a twist in the tail for everybody, and everyone
has some sort of bad day. If you come into
the Tour de France and you aren't prepared, at some point,
you're going to be found out. And that's the massive
question mark over Yonis finger Guard. Does he have the endurance,
(02:07):
does he have the form? Can he compete for three weeks.
Now we know on normal circumstances, Jonas can but canny
this time because Taday has been superb all season and
I'm sure at some point Yonas could be found out,
and actually wonder whether it could be in the early stages,
because as we ride into the race, Yonas will probably
(02:29):
get better and better. But the early stages of this
year's Tour de France are brutal. We start in Florence.
The first few days are intermediate mountain stages. We go
to the Glibrier on day four in the mountains, so
if you're not on form, you will be found out.
And I am sure Taday's team is going to do
(02:50):
everything they can to question Yonas over the first few
days and get rid of him potentially, and then we
might see another rider in the Visa Lisa Bike team
emerge as a possible leader of that squad. But I
do hope that Yonas is on top form, that we
have an amazing battle and we have the usual twists
(03:11):
and turns of the three weeks.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, I promise. I do want to talk about the
other riders. But just before we leave these two Regard
Chat and Vingergard, are we looking at one of cycling's
all time great rivalries already or or a bet or
that is shaping to be so.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I think it is.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
What I think is fantastic about this rivalry, though, is
that they are they do really respect each other, which
I think is a fantastic rivalry. It's not like this
really brutal rivalry where they really hate each other and
they want to just beat each other every day. There
is respect there, and they do race each other very
(03:48):
very hard on the climbs. The attacks they do are fantastic.
We've seen amazing moments actually of respect. You remember a
couple of years ago when they shook hands on the
descent because they realized they were racing each other so hard,
potentially they were going to crash each other.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
So it's kind of a beautiful rivalry in some ways.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
But it's also one of those rivalries that at top
of mountains, we're on.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
The edge of our seats.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
We can't wait for that duel between the two of
them at top of a mountain where they just don't
give an inch. They want to beat each other and
they just will not let the other one win. I
think it's a true sporting rivalry. It's fantastic to watch.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah, first and adding stuff. All right, let's look at
some of the others, Anthony, who are the other riders
to watch in terms of possible overall Tour de France winners.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
In particular, I think Primus Rogolitch is probably for me
the third favorite of this year's race, because he looks
all ready to have come out the crash in the
Basque Country, not unscathed, but relatively unscathed. He's just won
the Criteria de Dophine, which is one of those build
up races for the Tour de France. He looked superb.
(05:05):
There another couple of crashes. Primos tends to crash a lot.
Let's hope he doesn't crash too much in the tour.
He's already won three tours Tours of Spain love Welters,
He's already won the Giro Italia. He's finished on the
podium of the Tour de France. He wants to win
the tour. This is the one that.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
He really needs.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I think Primos is probably your third favorite and the
rider who we will see battle with Paddy and Jonas Remco.
He was questioned in a Dauphine and he kept saying
I'm not ready yet. He really did suffer after that
crash in the Basque country. He didn't look ready in
(05:43):
the dauphin E. I was there.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
It was what two and a bit weeks ago. Three
weeks to the tour.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
He's had time to go back to altitude to train again.
I hope Remco's ready because Remco with Primos, with Jonas
with Tadde is an incredible duel over three weeks, and
the Belgian fans really believe in him win the tour
because he's already won a Grand Tour. He's one of
the welter It's going to be exciting if he's really
(06:11):
there and he's recovered.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Let's look at the race route there in the twenty
twenty four tour features seven mountain stages, including four summit finishers.
How much is that going to suit the climbers in
terms of overall finishing position.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Well, when we look at the stages, the mountain stages,
of course are critical and you've got to be on
fom those days. But there's a couple of other stages
I'd highlight which are really important. There's a gravel stage
in this year's race that gravel day comes on day
number nine. That's the day when you get that normal term,
(06:47):
the famous term. You can't win the Tour de France
that day, but you can certainly lose it. And there
are fourteen sectors of gravel roads on DA number nine,
and I think that because that's a really critical day
for this year's race, because if you have bad luck,
you'll lose minutes, you'll be way behind. You've got to
be in touch in the mountains. That's without doubt. There's
(07:09):
fifty three thousand meters of climbing in this year's race.
And you've also got a couple of individual time trials,
notably one on the final day, so if the race
is still really close, we have a time troll on
the last day. And I always think back to nineteen
eighty nine on the Shawn Zalise when Greg Lamond famously
(07:30):
beat Lauren Fignon to steal the Tour de France on
the last day and win it by eight seconds. Are
we going to get the same again?
Speaker 4 (07:37):
That could be.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Exciting, absolutely, and it's because we don't have the traditional
what has become a ceremonial precision for the most part,
and to paeris on the final day down the Shampsalise
to the tree Off. Because of course the tour is
so close to the Paris Olympic game. So instead, as
you've mentioned, Anthony, we've got an individual time trial from
Monaco to Nice to finish things up on the final day.
(08:00):
How much will that possibly change things on that final day?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
You've got thirty three seven kilometers of time dry, it's
a long way. Maybe it won't shake up the first
and second because that might be decided by then. But
if if there's a minute between each rider, then we've
got a big battle in our hands on the final day.
But it will certainly shape the top six. You'll see
some movement, no doubt on that final day. But I'm
(08:27):
sure that the Tour de France organizers, so the race
directors Christian Prudom and Tierry Guveno, I'm sure that they're thinking,
come on, let's have one minute between two riders. Final day,
big battle. Everybody's on the edge of their seats. Everybody
wants to know who's going to win, and.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
I hope that's the case. I that's the case. Yeah,
I think we all do.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I think they'll have an exciting way to finish all
the tour at the start though, for the first time
we begin in Italy, marking one hundred years since Ortavio
Bottacia became the first Italian winner of this race. How
will they change things starting in Italy or other cyclists now?
Cyclists now just used to sort of going with it
old That's.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Very true, but let's remember that Italy is passionate about
bike racing. The geroed Italia is steeped in the history
of the Italian people for all sorts of reasons. And
it's interesting that I was at the gioed Italian in
May and I didn't think the Tourder France would have
(09:30):
much impact in Italy, but it's really captured the imagination
of the Italian people, and so many people are saying
it's amazing that Tourder France is here and that we
want to be part of it. I think the crowds
are going to be huge. I think the impact of
the race is going to be pretty special, because, as
I mentioned before, the early stages of this race in
(09:53):
Italy are incredibly hard. You've got Day two, which is
around Bologna, and you've got a famous climb of San Luca,
which is a really tough climb and also on that
day a climate Julian Ala Phelippe famously won the World
Championships on in twenty twenty. Everyone knows those roads, they
know how tricky they are. They know that if you're
(10:15):
a race favorite, you need to be at the front
that day. So I think they'll really shape what's going
to be quite a dynamic race this year in the tour.
But I think we're going to see huge, huge crowds.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
How important Anthony too success on the Tour de France's
staying out of trouble and avoiding potential creatures.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
You have to have your team around about you all
the time in the tourder France.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
They've got to keep you out of trouble.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
On tricky days like day two in the tour, you
need to be at the front. But the problem in
the tourder France is that you've got all of these
teams twenty two teams, one hundred and seventy six riders
with their sports directors in their ear all telling them
be near the front. So it's always very very tricky
(11:03):
as far as riders coming to the front in this
battle for position.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
But the teams of Taday.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Of Jonas Primus Roglitch of Remco Vnopol. They need to
be right on their game on day one of this
Tour de France. Keep them at the front, keep them
out of trouble, don't get involved in crashes because we
want to see the battle in the third week of
those big name riders. We don't want to lose a
big favorite earlier on in the tour.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I just want to touch on Sir Mark Cavendish the
first even night to race the Grand Tour. As fifteenth
and final tour. It's been confirmed that he will definitely participate.
Has he got one last stage one lift in them?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
What a year this would be If Mark Cavendish could
win race number thirty five, stage win thirty five in
the Tour de France, it would cap everything off for
Mark Cavendish. Last year, of course, he ended up on
the deck in a massive crash.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
He was taken out the Tour of France.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
We had that image of him sitting in the back
of a van, dream over raceover Tour de France. Career finished.
But he just couldn't let it go, could he. He
had to come back. So Cavendish is on the start line.
They've built a new lead out train round about him.
He's up against some of the well the fastest sprinters
(12:25):
in the world. Yes, we're Phillips and Dylan Groenevegan, Fernando Gaberia,
Sam Bennett. All of them would say we'd love to
see cav win Stage number thirty five, but not as
far as I'm concerned, because I'm going to beat him.
As long as I win some stages, I'm fine. Can
he do it? I really do think Cavendish can win
(12:48):
stage thirty five, and what a legendary win it would be.
He's just been knighted actually in the UK, so he's
now Sir Mark Cavendish, so he might as well arise
in a to France.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Aha, I love it or your analysis has been incisive,
spot on, but I'm going to need you to to
go pick now. Who is your pick to win the
Tour de France twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
It's very easy, who isn't it to pick Padde Bagatcha,
But I don't think you can look past him.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Paddy Pagacha this year has got everything right, the team right,
the preparation right, the Jiro was incredible. I'd love him
to win the Giro Detalia and the Tour de France
in the same year, because then he could go on
and win the World Championships and the last person to
do that was Steven Roach, whose son is sitting alongside
(13:39):
me in the commentary booth.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Amazing, Anthony, It's been so good to get your preview
of what is an iconic sporting event and one which
has watched the world over, including here in New Zealand.
Really appreciate you taking the time, have a great month ahead,
and again thanks for joining us across New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Thanks very much for taking the time and enjoy the
Tour de France because this year is going to be
pretty special.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Thank you, no, thank you, Anthony Anthony Mcross on their
tour momentator for the Tour de France, which is underway
in Italy tonight just on ten o'clock New Zealand time.
They'll get underway. We'll follow it right through the next
month or so and check in with all of the
updates you'll need.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
One of the most iconic sporting events in the world
is the Tour de France. It starts tonight. Let's bring
in tour commentator Anthony mccross and two Weekend Sport. Anthony,
thanks for taking the time to preview the Tour de
France with us. Tade Pagacia, Jonas Vinger Guard. They've won
the last four tours between them, each of them aiming
to win a third Tour de France. So are we
(00:34):
looking at a two man race here?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
That's an interesting question, isn't it. They have they've dominated
the Tour de France. Taddey and Jonas have won the
last four editions. But I think it's really easy for
you to be thinking this is a two horse race.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
So actually is it a one horse race?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Because Taddi Pagaccia really recently dominated the Giroditalia.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
He just rode away with it.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
He was head and shoulders above everybody else. However, when
you look at the field of the Tour de France,
there's a lot of riders who believe that had A
and Jonas are beatable now, Jonas is potentially beatable because
he's just had a huge crash a few months ago
in the Tour of the Basque Country, and there's actually
been questions over whether Yonas will actually ride the Tour
(01:19):
de France. But he's here and he's riding, and that's fantastic.
So we've got those two. But outside of that, there's
a number of other riders who can win this race. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I want to get to those other riders in the
moment here today, but just don'ts finger Guard and that
crash and the fact that he is under a bit
of a cloud coming into the Tour de France. This
is not the sort of race where you can be
anything less than one hundred percent prepared, as it could
he get found out potentially the.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Tour de France. There's nowhere to hide at some point.
There's a twist in the tail for everybody, and everyone
has some sort of bad day. If you come into
the Tour de France and you aren't prepared, at some point,
you're going to be found out. And that's the massive
question mark over Yonis finger Guard. Does he have the endurance,
(02:07):
does he have the form? Can he compete for three weeks.
Now we know on normal circumstances, Jonas can but canny
this time because Taday has been superb all season and
I'm sure at some point Yonas could be found out,
and actually wonder whether it could be in the early stages,
because as we ride into the race, Yonas will probably
(02:29):
get better and better. But the early stages of this
year's Tour de France are brutal. We start in Florence.
The first few days are intermediate mountain stages. We go
to the Glibrier on day four in the mountains, so
if you're not on form, you will be found out.
And I am sure Taday's team is going to do
(02:50):
everything they can to question Yonas over the first few
days and get rid of him potentially, and then we
might see another rider in the Visa Lisa Bike team
emerge as a possible leader of that squad. But I
do hope that Yonas is on top form, that we
have an amazing battle and we have the usual twists
(03:11):
and turns of the three weeks.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, I promise. I do want to talk about the
other riders. But just before we leave these two Regard
Chat and Vingergard, are we looking at one of cycling's
all time great rivalries already or or a bet or
that is shaping to be so.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I think it is.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
What I think is fantastic about this rivalry, though, is
that they are they do really respect each other, which
I think is a fantastic rivalry. It's not like this
really brutal rivalry where they really hate each other and
they want to just beat each other every day. There
is respect there, and they do race each other very
(03:48):
very hard on the climbs. The attacks they do are fantastic.
We've seen amazing moments actually of respect. You remember a
couple of years ago when they shook hands on the
descent because they realized they were racing each other so hard,
potentially they were going to crash each other.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
So it's kind of a beautiful rivalry in some ways.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
But it's also one of those rivalries that at top
of mountains, we're on.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
The edge of our seats.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
We can't wait for that duel between the two of
them at top of a mountain where they just don't
give an inch. They want to beat each other and
they just will not let the other one win. I
think it's a true sporting rivalry. It's fantastic to watch.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah, first and adding stuff. All right, let's look at
some of the others, Anthony, who are the other riders
to watch in terms of possible overall Tour de France winners.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
In particular, I think Primus Rogolitch is probably for me
the third favorite of this year's race, because he looks
all ready to have come out the crash in the
Basque Country, not unscathed, but relatively unscathed. He's just won
the Criteria de Dophine, which is one of those build
up races for the Tour de France. He looked superb.
(05:05):
There another couple of crashes. Primos tends to crash a lot.
Let's hope he doesn't crash too much in the tour.
He's already won three tours Tours of Spain love Welters,
He's already won the Giro Italia. He's finished on the
podium of the Tour de France. He wants to win
the tour. This is the one that.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
He really needs.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I think Primos is probably your third favorite and the
rider who we will see battle with Paddy and Jonas Remco.
He was questioned in a Dauphine and he kept saying
I'm not ready yet. He really did suffer after that
crash in the Basque country. He didn't look ready in
(05:43):
the dauphin E. I was there.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
It was what two and a bit weeks ago. Three
weeks to the tour.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
He's had time to go back to altitude to train again.
I hope Remco's ready because Remco with Primos, with Jonas
with Tadde is an incredible duel over three weeks, and
the Belgian fans really believe in him win the tour
because he's already won a Grand Tour. He's one of
the welter It's going to be exciting if he's really
(06:11):
there and he's recovered.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Let's look at the race route there in the twenty
twenty four tour features seven mountain stages, including four summit finishers.
How much is that going to suit the climbers in
terms of overall finishing position.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Well, when we look at the stages, the mountain stages,
of course are critical and you've got to be on
fom those days. But there's a couple of other stages
I'd highlight which are really important. There's a gravel stage
in this year's race that gravel day comes on day
number nine. That's the day when you get that normal term,
(06:47):
the famous term. You can't win the Tour de France
that day, but you can certainly lose it. And there
are fourteen sectors of gravel roads on DA number nine,
and I think that because that's a really critical day
for this year's race, because if you have bad luck,
you'll lose minutes, you'll be way behind. You've got to
be in touch in the mountains. That's without doubt. There's
(07:09):
fifty three thousand meters of climbing in this year's race.
And you've also got a couple of individual time trials,
notably one on the final day, so if the race
is still really close, we have a time troll on
the last day. And I always think back to nineteen
eighty nine on the Shawn Zalise when Greg Lamond famously
(07:30):
beat Lauren Fignon to steal the Tour de France on
the last day and win it by eight seconds. Are
we going to get the same again?
Speaker 4 (07:37):
That could be.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Exciting, absolutely, and it's because we don't have the traditional
what has become a ceremonial precision for the most part,
and to paeris on the final day down the Shampsalise
to the tree Off. Because of course the tour is
so close to the Paris Olympic game. So instead, as
you've mentioned, Anthony, we've got an individual time trial from
Monaco to Nice to finish things up on the final day.
(08:00):
How much will that possibly change things on that final day?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
You've got thirty three seven kilometers of time dry, it's
a long way. Maybe it won't shake up the first
and second because that might be decided by then. But
if if there's a minute between each rider, then we've
got a big battle in our hands on the final day.
But it will certainly shape the top six. You'll see
some movement, no doubt on that final day. But I'm
(08:27):
sure that the Tour de France organizers, so the race
directors Christian Prudom and Tierry Guveno, I'm sure that they're thinking,
come on, let's have one minute between two riders. Final day,
big battle. Everybody's on the edge of their seats. Everybody
wants to know who's going to win, and.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
I hope that's the case. I that's the case. Yeah,
I think we all do.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I think they'll have an exciting way to finish all
the tour at the start though, for the first time
we begin in Italy, marking one hundred years since Ortavio
Bottacia became the first Italian winner of this race. How
will they change things starting in Italy or other cyclists now?
Cyclists now just used to sort of going with it
old That's.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Very true, but let's remember that Italy is passionate about
bike racing. The geroed Italia is steeped in the history
of the Italian people for all sorts of reasons. And
it's interesting that I was at the gioed Italian in
May and I didn't think the Tourder France would have
(09:30):
much impact in Italy, but it's really captured the imagination
of the Italian people, and so many people are saying
it's amazing that Tourder France is here and that we
want to be part of it. I think the crowds
are going to be huge. I think the impact of
the race is going to be pretty special, because, as
I mentioned before, the early stages of this race in
(09:53):
Italy are incredibly hard. You've got Day two, which is
around Bologna, and you've got a famous climb of San Luca,
which is a really tough climb and also on that
day a climate Julian Ala Phelippe famously won the World
Championships on in twenty twenty. Everyone knows those roads, they
know how tricky they are. They know that if you're
(10:15):
a race favorite, you need to be at the front
that day. So I think they'll really shape what's going
to be quite a dynamic race this year in the tour.
But I think we're going to see huge, huge crowds.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
How important Anthony too success on the Tour de France's
staying out of trouble and avoiding potential creatures.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
You have to have your team around about you all
the time in the tourder France.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
They've got to keep you out of trouble.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
On tricky days like day two in the tour, you
need to be at the front. But the problem in
the tourder France is that you've got all of these
teams twenty two teams, one hundred and seventy six riders
with their sports directors in their ear all telling them
be near the front. So it's always very very tricky
(11:03):
as far as riders coming to the front in this
battle for position.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
But the teams of Taday.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Of Jonas Primus Roglitch of Remco Vnopol. They need to
be right on their game on day one of this
Tour de France. Keep them at the front, keep them
out of trouble, don't get involved in crashes because we
want to see the battle in the third week of
those big name riders. We don't want to lose a
big favorite earlier on in the tour.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I just want to touch on Sir Mark Cavendish the
first even night to race the Grand Tour. As fifteenth
and final tour. It's been confirmed that he will definitely participate.
Has he got one last stage one lift in them?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
What a year this would be If Mark Cavendish could
win race number thirty five, stage win thirty five in
the Tour de France, it would cap everything off for
Mark Cavendish. Last year, of course, he ended up on
the deck in a massive crash.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
He was taken out the Tour of France.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
We had that image of him sitting in the back
of a van, dream over raceover Tour de France. Career finished.
But he just couldn't let it go, could he. He
had to come back. So Cavendish is on the start line.
They've built a new lead out train round about him.
He's up against some of the well the fastest sprinters
(12:25):
in the world. Yes, we're Phillips and Dylan Groenevegan, Fernando Gaberia,
Sam Bennett. All of them would say we'd love to
see cav win Stage number thirty five, but not as
far as I'm concerned, because I'm going to beat him.
As long as I win some stages, I'm fine. Can
he do it? I really do think Cavendish can win
(12:48):
stage thirty five, and what a legendary win it would be.
He's just been knighted actually in the UK, so he's
now Sir Mark Cavendish, so he might as well arise
in a to France.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Aha, I love it or your analysis has been incisive,
spot on, but I'm going to need you to to
go pick now. Who is your pick to win the
Tour de France twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
It's very easy, who isn't it to pick Padde Bagatcha,
But I don't think you can look past him.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Paddy Pagacha this year has got everything right, the team right,
the preparation right, the Jiro was incredible. I'd love him
to win the Giro Detalia and the Tour de France
in the same year, because then he could go on
and win the World Championships and the last person to
do that was Steven Roach, whose son is sitting alongside
(13:39):
me in the commentary booth.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Amazing, Anthony, It's been so good to get your preview
of what is an iconic sporting event and one which
has watched the world over, including here in New Zealand.
Really appreciate you taking the time, have a great month ahead,
and again thanks for joining us across New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Thanks very much for taking the time and enjoy the
Tour de France because this year is going to be
pretty special.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Thank you, no, thank you, Anthony Anthony Mcross on their
tour momentator for the Tour de France, which is underway
in Italy tonight just on ten o'clock New Zealand time.
They'll get underway. We'll follow it right through the next
month or so and check in with all of the
updates you'll need.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
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