July 9, 2025 • 8 mins
Round up of all the action from Days 3, 4, and 5 of this year's edition of the Tour de France, covering the 7th, 8th, and 9th of July 2025
Big turnaround of fortunes for Alpecine-Deceurnick as their Green Jersey hopeful crashes out on Day 3.
Tadej Pogacar was the big winner at the first TT as he took 2nd place behind Remco Evenepoel and takes the Yellow Jersey into Stage 6.
Big turnaround of fortunes for Alpecine-Deceurnick as their Green Jersey hopeful crashes out on Day 3.
Tadej Pogacar was the big winner at the first TT as he took 2nd place behind Remco Evenepoel and takes the Yellow Jersey into Stage 6.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey folks, welcome to the midweek roundup. This is Ride
and Thrive and we've got a blistering few days racing
for you to cover on the Tour de France and
we're going to start on Monday, which was stage three. Now,
this was Valencian to Dunkirk and this was supposed to
be a nailed on bunch sprint. However, it was far
(00:23):
from it in the end, as ecstasy turned to agony
for Yasper Phillipson, so the winner at the weekend of
a fantastic stage and al Sindy Kernigre on a high,
he ended up crashing out in a sprint for some
intermediate points about sixty kilometers from the line. He went
(00:43):
down really heavy. Another rider just rode into him. It
totally wasn't his fault and he went over the handlebars
and went down really hard and he broke his collar
bone unfortunately, and that's him out of the race. That
was done and dusted. So how did it pan out? Well,
there was a sprint for the line in the end. However,
there was a few more crashes along the way and
(01:06):
some big names went down and going out. Thomas was
one of them. Thankfully got up and back on his bike.
But the overall sprint came down to two riders and
they were Jonathan Milan and Tim Murlier. So Milan from
Little Trek and Tim Merlier from Pseudal Quickstep and it
(01:30):
wasn't out and out sprint, and Merlier just took it
by the skin of his teeth. It's like the width
of a tire. So he took the sprint leading stage three.
So that left Matthew vander Pole is still in the
yellow jersey going into stage four. Jonathan Milan took the
green jersey and Tim Wellens took the polka dot jersey
(01:52):
into Stage four the white jersey still with a vocalom
of ARKABNB for the Young Rider Award. That was an
action packed day and it was. It was a fantastic day. Now,
subsequently there were some of yellow cards handed out. As
far as I'm aware, Brian Cockard from Cofferdice, he kind
(02:14):
of came into Phillipson and at the time the commentators
said it was just a racing incident, but the commissars
have seen it a little bit differently and they've given
him a yellow card, which is like a warning. So
they've got a fine as well. So it's basically like
in football where you get a yellow card, it's just
like getting a warning. So that took us onto Stage four,
(02:35):
which was a somewhat hilly route and it's one hundred
and seventy four kilometers. It kind of could have been
a sprinter's day. However, the finish was uphill, and it
wasn't a mountain stage finish, but it was just enough
uphill like to think that actually, maybe the sprinters aren't
going to be up for this and it's going to
be more maybe the GC guys that are going to
(02:57):
show the hand. And that was the case in this
particular stage, so that the finish was in Ruan and
it was the big three Matthew, vander Pole and Pagatcha
and vinger Guard that went for it. With a couple
of kilometers to go, they were kind of trading blows
going up the climbs. Vinger Guard ended up getting dropped
(03:19):
and it was Matthew, vander Pole and Pagatcha that were
sprinting to the line uphill absolutely balls to the wall,
and it was Pog that just took it on the
wheel from Matthew vander Pole sort of reversing the placings
from the other day when vander Pole got the better
of him in the sprint. And this was a significant
(03:43):
win for Pagatcha. It was one hundred stage career wins
for him, which is a really good, good milestone for
the young rider still only six something like that, twenty seven,
so that unfortunately that's didn't give him the yellow jersey,
Pog it was Evander Poul kept it with the same
time but on count back he kept the yellow jersey.
(04:04):
Green was still with Jonathan Malan and the polka dot
was with Pog this time because he took some of
the King of the Mountains points. So that was stage four.
Now Stage five can sometimes be a little bit a
little bit boring, but they can offer up a little
bit of a shock this early on in and we
did have a little bit of drama today on stage five,
(04:27):
which was a time trial and it was in the
northern town of con and it was a quite a
flat corse thirty three kilometers and remco Evnor Poul was
the was the kind of the what's the word, I'm
looking for the favorite for this one, and it turns out,
(04:48):
you know, he did win with the best time. However,
Pagatcha put in a really really good stint and he
came out just sixteen seconds down to come second overall
on the stage. A really good effort from Pagatcha. Unfortunately,
vinger Guard he was the loser, the big loser on
the day and he ended up losing one O five,
(05:09):
one minute and five to Pog. So that was a
really big and I'm looking into why that was the
case now. Now, vinger Guards was said in the press
conference the other day that you'd be doing a lot
of training, you know, you put weight on and a
lot of it was muscle, and his power numbers were up.
So everyone was expecting vinger Guard to actually really ace
(05:32):
this today and really put some time into into Pog,
and that just wasn't the case. So I'm going to
try and get to the bottom of that and see
see why that was. There's some talk about, you know,
was the equipment faulty or anything like that, so that
will probably come out in the washer bit more. Keeping
the keeping a little bit tight lipped about it at
(05:52):
the moment. So that has led us. That was stage
at five. So with that second place, Tadey Pagatcha actually
took the yellow jersey and with that he took all
three jerseys, so he actually holds yellow, green and Polka
dot jersey. Evanapole is third overall now the GC, sorry
(06:13):
second overall on the GC, down forty two seconds, and
Valcalen is now third, which puts vinger Guard down to
fourth place in the GC. So it's significant loss for
him today. Really, he's really going to have to pull
out something special to get this time back because he's
just leaking time now, the odd seconds here and there.
(06:33):
So Pog's just going to stick on his wheel the
whole time, so we'll see how that pans out. Vinger
Guard is now down one minute thirteen overall on Poggy,
So that leads us onto stage six. Now Stage six
is just reading off my notes here. Stage six is
(06:55):
Bayu starts in Bayu, the famous Bayo Tapist. We went
there actually last year on holidays. It's very nice and
it's two hundred kilometers and it's a hilly route again,
so you know, we're thinking it could be a sprint again,
or it could be one for the GC. There might
be a breakaway. Quite often on these long days they
(07:16):
do have a breakaway, but the breakaways aren't being up
to much at the moment, and a lot of people
at the moment, or a lot of the riders just
kind of couldn't be bothered to get off in a
breakaway because they put all the effort in just to
be caught by the paloton with twenty ks to go.
So we'll see if there's a breakaway. But it might
be the GC riders, maybe Vinger Guard's going to make
(07:38):
a move. You never know, but certainly Remco Matthew vander
Pohl is going to be up there. And of course
the omnipresence, it's had a pagatcha, so of course they're
going to have it in the legs from the TT,
so you know that might factor in. On the hills,
the TT of course can take it out of them,
(07:58):
so but but we'll see. So yeah, keeping that, we'll
keep an eye on that. And I'm going to report
back again on Friday with the next roundup of stages
six and seven and also a preview of what's to
come at the weekend. Thanks for watching, gud I hope
you've enjoyed this little roundup and until Friday, bye for now.
Hey folks, welcome to the midweek roundup. This is Ride
and Thrive and we've got a blistering few days racing
for you to cover on the Tour de France and
we're going to start on Monday, which was stage three. Now,
this was Valencian to Dunkirk and this was supposed to
be a nailed on bunch sprint. However, it was far
(00:23):
from it in the end, as ecstasy turned to agony
for Yasper Phillipson, so the winner at the weekend of
a fantastic stage and al Sindy Kernigre on a high,
he ended up crashing out in a sprint for some
intermediate points about sixty kilometers from the line. He went
(00:43):
down really heavy. Another rider just rode into him. It
totally wasn't his fault and he went over the handlebars
and went down really hard and he broke his collar
bone unfortunately, and that's him out of the race. That
was done and dusted. So how did it pan out? Well,
there was a sprint for the line in the end. However,
there was a few more crashes along the way and
(01:06):
some big names went down and going out. Thomas was
one of them. Thankfully got up and back on his bike.
But the overall sprint came down to two riders and
they were Jonathan Milan and Tim Murlier. So Milan from
Little Trek and Tim Merlier from Pseudal Quickstep and it
(01:30):
wasn't out and out sprint, and Merlier just took it
by the skin of his teeth. It's like the width
of a tire. So he took the sprint leading stage three.
So that left Matthew vander Pole is still in the
yellow jersey going into stage four. Jonathan Milan took the
green jersey and Tim Wellens took the polka dot jersey
(01:52):
into Stage four the white jersey still with a vocalom
of ARKABNB for the Young Rider Award. That was an
action packed day and it was. It was a fantastic day. Now,
subsequently there were some of yellow cards handed out. As
far as I'm aware, Brian Cockard from Cofferdice, he kind
(02:14):
of came into Phillipson and at the time the commentators
said it was just a racing incident, but the commissars
have seen it a little bit differently and they've given
him a yellow card, which is like a warning. So
they've got a fine as well. So it's basically like
in football where you get a yellow card, it's just
like getting a warning. So that took us onto Stage four,
(02:35):
which was a somewhat hilly route and it's one hundred
and seventy four kilometers. It kind of could have been
a sprinter's day. However, the finish was uphill, and it
wasn't a mountain stage finish, but it was just enough
uphill like to think that actually, maybe the sprinters aren't
going to be up for this and it's going to
be more maybe the GC guys that are going to
(02:57):
show the hand. And that was the case in this
particular stage, so that the finish was in Ruan and
it was the big three Matthew, vander Pole and Pagatcha
and vinger Guard that went for it. With a couple
of kilometers to go, they were kind of trading blows
going up the climbs. Vinger Guard ended up getting dropped
(03:19):
and it was Matthew, vander Pole and Pagatcha that were
sprinting to the line uphill absolutely balls to the wall,
and it was Pog that just took it on the
wheel from Matthew vander Pole sort of reversing the placings
from the other day when vander Pole got the better
of him in the sprint. And this was a significant
(03:43):
win for Pagatcha. It was one hundred stage career wins
for him, which is a really good, good milestone for
the young rider still only six something like that, twenty seven,
so that unfortunately that's didn't give him the yellow jersey,
Pog it was Evander Poul kept it with the same
time but on count back he kept the yellow jersey.
(04:04):
Green was still with Jonathan Malan and the polka dot
was with Pog this time because he took some of
the King of the Mountains points. So that was stage four.
Now Stage five can sometimes be a little bit a
little bit boring, but they can offer up a little
bit of a shock this early on in and we
did have a little bit of drama today on stage five,
(04:27):
which was a time trial and it was in the
northern town of con and it was a quite a
flat corse thirty three kilometers and remco Evnor Poul was
the was the kind of the what's the word, I'm
looking for the favorite for this one, and it turns out,
(04:48):
you know, he did win with the best time. However,
Pagatcha put in a really really good stint and he
came out just sixteen seconds down to come second overall
on the stage. A really good effort from Pagatcha. Unfortunately,
vinger Guard he was the loser, the big loser on
the day and he ended up losing one O five,
(05:09):
one minute and five to Pog. So that was a
really big and I'm looking into why that was the
case now. Now, vinger Guards was said in the press
conference the other day that you'd be doing a lot
of training, you know, you put weight on and a
lot of it was muscle, and his power numbers were up.
So everyone was expecting vinger Guard to actually really ace
(05:32):
this today and really put some time into into Pog,
and that just wasn't the case. So I'm going to
try and get to the bottom of that and see
see why that was. There's some talk about, you know,
was the equipment faulty or anything like that, so that
will probably come out in the washer bit more. Keeping
the keeping a little bit tight lipped about it at
(05:52):
the moment. So that has led us. That was stage
at five. So with that second place, Tadey Pagatcha actually
took the yellow jersey and with that he took all
three jerseys, so he actually holds yellow, green and Polka
dot jersey. Evanapole is third overall now the GC, sorry
(06:13):
second overall on the GC, down forty two seconds, and
Valcalen is now third, which puts vinger Guard down to
fourth place in the GC. So it's significant loss for
him today. Really, he's really going to have to pull
out something special to get this time back because he's
just leaking time now, the odd seconds here and there.
(06:33):
So Pog's just going to stick on his wheel the
whole time, so we'll see how that pans out. Vinger
Guard is now down one minute thirteen overall on Poggy,
So that leads us onto stage six. Now Stage six
is just reading off my notes here. Stage six is
(06:55):
Bayu starts in Bayu, the famous Bayo Tapist. We went
there actually last year on holidays. It's very nice and
it's two hundred kilometers and it's a hilly route again,
so you know, we're thinking it could be a sprint again,
or it could be one for the GC. There might
be a breakaway. Quite often on these long days they
(07:16):
do have a breakaway, but the breakaways aren't being up
to much at the moment, and a lot of people
at the moment, or a lot of the riders just
kind of couldn't be bothered to get off in a
breakaway because they put all the effort in just to
be caught by the paloton with twenty ks to go.
So we'll see if there's a breakaway. But it might
be the GC riders, maybe Vinger Guard's going to make
(07:38):
a move. You never know, but certainly Remco Matthew vander
Pohl is going to be up there. And of course
the omnipresence, it's had a pagatcha, so of course they're
going to have it in the legs from the TT,
so you know that might factor in. On the hills,
the TT of course can take it out of them,
(07:58):
so but but we'll see. So yeah, keeping that, we'll
keep an eye on that. And I'm going to report
back again on Friday with the next roundup of stages
six and seven and also a preview of what's to
come at the weekend. Thanks for watching, gud I hope
you've enjoyed this little roundup and until Friday, bye for now.
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