July 4, 2025 • 19 mins
Ride Back in 2014, the Tour de France rolled through Yorkshire—and something clicked. In this beginner-friendly Ride & Thrive episode, David shares how watching the world’s greatest cycling race right on his doorstep ignited a passion that’s shaped his life ever since.
You’ll get a down-to-earth preview of this year’s race, learn why it’s more than just Lycra and mountains, and discover how the Tour might just inspire your own two-wheeled adventure.
If you’ve ever wondered what all the fuss is about, this one’s for you.
You’ll get a down-to-earth preview of this year’s race, learn why it’s more than just Lycra and mountains, and discover how the Tour might just inspire your own two-wheeled adventure.
If you’ve ever wondered what all the fuss is about, this one’s for you.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The Tour de France is brutal, relentless, unforgiving, but you
can also find beauty and the camaraderie and the teams
and the selfless acts of the teammates helping their leader
to victory. It's also electrifying the sprints, the mountain attacks. Hi,
(00:23):
my name's Dave and this is the Ride and Thrive podcast.
I wanted this podcast. I wanted to dedicate it to
the Tour de France, which is starting very soon. After all,
it's the Tour de France that got me into cycling
in the first place. And my hope is that by
understanding a bit more about the race and about the
riders and the tech and the teams, that you might
(00:45):
also get into it, watch a bit of it, and
that might spare you on to go cycling, I hope.
So anyway, so what's it all about the Tour de France. Then, Well,
it's essentially a bike race over twenty one stages, and
it's a total of three three hundred and twenty kilometers
all over France, each stage on a different day. There
(01:08):
are also two rest days. Now, the stages are some
of them are flat, some of them are in the
high mountains, and there's a couple of them which are
time trials, so they're shorter stages, except you go all
out and the winner is the one that does it
the course in the quickst possible time. So we've got
some of the magic, or a lot of the magic
(01:29):
around the Tour de France is centered around the yellow jersey,
and that's the winner of the race gets to keep
the yellow jersey, and it's a really prestigious it's probably
the most prestigious accolade that you could get in cycling. Now,
each day, the leader of the race so far, the
one that's done it in the quickest time so far,
(01:50):
they get to wear the yellow jersey. So there is
a way of expectation on that rider, and that's also
an accolade to actually put the yellow jersey on your back.
So everyone on the first day wants to win that
first stage because they will get to wear the yellow
jersey on the next day. Now, there's twenty three teams
(02:11):
in the race. Twenty three teams, and each team is
made up of eight riders. Now realistically there's only a
handful of teams that are going to go on and
win the whole thing, and you know, you think, well,
what's the point of all the rest of the guys
being in it if there's only a few teams or
a few riders that are capable of winning the whole thing. Well,
(02:34):
in this race, anything can happen. It is over three
thousand kilometers, so anything can happen. But also there are
other accolades other things that you can win in the
race as well, and they all carry their own different
colored jersey, So to win a stage of the race
is an accolade in itself. That is a really prestigious
(02:56):
thing for a rider to do and also a team
to do. It's a great thing for a rider to
put on their CB makes them more mar marketable, it's
easy for me to say, and so every rider would
dream of actually winning just one stage of the Tour
de France. So it's great for them. It's great for
the sponsors because it gives them their name out on
(03:20):
the podium at the end of the day. And this
race is watched by millions of people all over the world,
so the sponsors are happy. And also for the teams,
it's a great accolade and also will help to keep
the sponsors that they've got and also to attract new
sponsors to their team because you know, they all need
(03:40):
the money to keep this whole big show rolling. So
that's that's the that's the stages now to win. If
you win a stage, you also get points, and there
is a points jersey so you can amass points so
that the yellow jersey is based on time. The green
jersey is based on points, so you can win a
(04:00):
whole heap of stages and get yourself a green jersey. Now,
the leader of the points competition every day wears the
green jersey, so you can look out for them in
the palatop. It doesn't stop there though. There is also
a Polka dot jersey. Now. The Polka Dot jersey is
(04:21):
for the King of the Mountains, so the first person
to get to the top of the mountain in certain
the mountains stages, they will get points and basically it's
a points tally, so the leader of the competition gets
to where the points the polka dot jersey. Sorry for
going over the mountains. Now, each of the mountains are categorized,
(04:44):
so a Cat one mountain is not very big and
then Cat four, you know, will be a massive mountain,
so you get more points on their degree of difficulty.
I guess you could say, okay, so that's the polka
dot jersey. You've also so got a white jersey which
goes to the best young rider, and the young rider
(05:05):
meets under twenty six, so they wear the white jersey.
And as the race progresses over the over the weeks,
then the person in the yellow jersey could also have
the other jerseys as well. So you know, if you've
got a good climber that's in the leads will have
the yellow and the polka dot jersey. Right, So that's
(05:26):
covered that. So so here were the big stars. Well,
the standout star of this particular race is Taddy Pagatca.
He is being lauded as think one of the greatest,
if not the greatest rider of all time because he's
just winning everything at the moment and it's very hard
to see past him. For this particular race, he's already
(05:50):
had a hat full of wins this season and his
main rival is a chap called Jonahs finger Guard. Now,
he has already been up against the Pergatcha in a
in a recent race, and the loss to him and
Pagatcha left him for dead on a couple of climbs,
so we're interested to see whether these two can get
(06:13):
it together again. Eonus vinger Gard has won the Tour
de France before, so as Pergatcha, so there is form there.
And last year they went up head to head and
there was some talk that Jonas finger Guard wasn't particularly
fully fit, so it would be nice to see the
two of them fully fit rare in to go for
this particular race. So they're they're the main protagonists of
(06:36):
the race, and there's a there's a couple of other names,
rempco Evanopol. He came third last year and he's kind
of one of the best of the rest, so to speak.
Now a bit onto the teams then, so the two
traps I just mentioned Pergatcha and vinger Guard. Pagatcha belongs
(06:56):
to UA Team Emirates. They are the number one team
in the world, no surprise. They've got a really strong team.
Obviously with an elite leader a rider, then they're going
to attract stars to their team because they want to
be part of it. So they are the number one
team and they have the number one rider, Yunus. Finger
(07:19):
Guard belongs to Vizmar Lisa Bike. That's another team, and
they also have a really strong team of climbers, so
they'll be looking to give a really good good account
of themselves this year. And remco Evnopol belongs to Sudal
quick Step. So, like I say, the rest of the teams,
(07:42):
you know, like there's twenty three teams altogether, they will
be having their own battles. Now if you are if
you are in the team and you are a team leader,
you will be classed as a GC, a general contender,
so you are going for the overall classification. That's that's
what you want to win the whole thing. Now, like
(08:04):
I mentioned earlier, not not all the teams are going
to be capable of that. So on some of the
team's agenda that they will be looking for stage wins,
so they will be having their sprinters that will be
going for stage wins. Now, some of these sprinters could
win three or four stages of the Tour de France.
Now this is something that I didn't really understand when
(08:27):
I first got into cycling. I couldn't understand why you'd
have these these sprinters that would win maybe four or
five stages and yet you know, they wouldn't even be
thought of being in the general classification and I never
understood that and why not, And that's because it's all
based on time. The yellow jersey, and remember the Green
(08:51):
Jersey is based on points. So what happens is you've
got a sprinter who's you know, around eighty kg. They've
got muscle, they got power, you know, and they will
go along the flat stages in the Palaton and at
the end they all sprint, get a lead out and
they're all sprinting for the line to win, and they're
putting out this amazing amount of power. However, in the mountains,
(09:16):
you've got a massive mountain in the Pyrenees or the Alps,
and that eighty gaugees it doesn't really count for much.
It's in fact it's a massive hindrance. So then you've
got your climbers who are sixty cagees. If they're really,
really light, they are going to fly up their mountains.
(09:37):
So it's really I think that the Tour de France
is won and lost in the mountains because the sprinters
then they will absolutely hemorrhage time in the mountains. And
in fact, as part of one of the kind of
the mysteries of the Tour de France. There's lots of
these little unwritten rules, which I love, all these little
(09:58):
unwritten rules. I go go through a few of them
in the moment. But you know, the sprinters, they come
to a mountain and the time for a for a
stage will have a cut off and you've got to
be within They set a time and it's something you
have to be back within, you know, half an hour
of the leader or forty five minutes of the leader
(10:20):
the leader's finished time. And sometimes in the mountains you'll
get a bunch of sprinters from different teams and they'll
basically get dropped on a climb or one of the
first climbs, and then all stick together and they form
something called a group peto, which is like a mini group,
and their job is just to get get them around.
(10:42):
And a classic example of this was was Mark Cavendish
who was desperate to win his record of the most
tall you know, the most stage wins in a tour
and he was struggling to get around in the time
and he needed to stay in the race to do this.
So there were a few of them from other teams
(11:06):
and his own teammates stayed with him to get him
up and over, and he labored painfully up and over
the mountains and he made it just before the off
time to stay in the race. So it's little things
like that, I think, which is the magic of the race. Also,
there's a there's a there's a camaragerie, and there was
I wanted to mention an example of the camaraderie and
(11:29):
the the honor amongst the riders. A couple of years ago,
there was a case when inger Guard and Pergatcha we
were racing and Vinger guarder put Pergatcha really under pressure
on a climb and they were coming down the other side,
and you know, being a guard is leading and Bagatcha
(11:51):
was was kind of behind, just behind him, and Pog
was he was really pushing it really hard, and he
came off on a corner had a crash, and you know,
Vinger Guard could have taken advantage of this, he could
have pressed it home, and he actually waited. He just
slowed right off and waited for Pog to catch him up,
(12:12):
and they shook hands and then they carried on racing.
And afterwards binger Guard was like, I don't want to
beat him by him having a crash, you know, I
want to beat him fair and square, you know, which
I thought was so honorable, you know, and because he
would have been in within his rights to do that,
you know, because he because Pog was pushing it too
hard and lost control of his bike, you know, so
(12:34):
he you know that he could have done that, and
I think no one would have said anything. But that's
the sort of camaraderie that I'd love to see in
the Tour de France. So there's also if you know,
there's a big crash, the palaton will slowed down and
they'll let people catch up. And there's the the infamous
sticky bottle, and the sticky bottle is a reference to
(12:58):
when riders will their team can't travel behind the pallet on.
So all the teams will have a car that will
travel and in the car will be a ds A
directing staff and they will be in radio contact with
some of the riders of their team. And they also
carry all the spares and also spare bikes. Have like
eight spare bikes on their rooftrack to see it is amazing. Anyway,
(13:24):
if if a rider is kind of come off his bike,
he'll get back on his bike and then he'll he'll
get a bottle from he'll ride up alongside the car,
and they're riding along, you know, and the car is
driving along the side of them, and they'll reach out.
The guy in the passenger side will will reach out
and give the rider a bottle. And then just as
(13:45):
just as he's handled in the bottle, the car will
accelerate and the rider will hold onto the bottle and
get a little bit of a tow. And there's a
there's a kind of a really fine line where you know,
there's there's giving somebody an advantage and there's given somebody
a little bit of a little bit of a toe,
and you're not really allowed to do it, but it's
(14:08):
an unwritten role rule that kind of teams to do it.
And if it's deemed to be too long, like they've
got too much of an advantage, it will become a
sticky bottle situation. There's a similar thing when somebody's come
off their bike and they get back on and the
paloton hasn't stopped, and on this occasion, so they will
(14:30):
get behind the team car and they will draft their
way back up to the paloton. Again, not strictly or allowed,
but you know, sometimes it is. The commissiles allow it
to happen sometimes and they will penalize people and other times,
so it's little nuances like that I think that you've
(14:50):
really really got to get into. So it's starting this Saturday,
which hang on, it's the fifth of July, all right,
so hopefully i'll get this podcast out in time for
the start. So if you want to have a look,
if you are in the UK, then it is live
for the last time. I should add. It's live on
(15:12):
ITV every day and there's a highlights package on ITV
as well, which starts around about seven o'clock. I think
it's normally on ITV four, so you can catch the
highlights of the race, which I quite like to do.
If I don't watch the whole thing, watch the highlights
of it. They have a really good team on ITV
(15:33):
at TNT Sports. There's been a bit of controversy over them,
but they pulled their specific cycling coverage last year and
put it all in with their regular sports coverage. So
if you want to watch it on full coverage, uninterrupted
on TNT Discovery, you do have to get a subscription,
(15:53):
which I think is around thirty pounds per month. Thirty
to thirty three pounds per month. I'm sorry, but I'm
not sure I'm coveraging other countries. If you're listening to
this from from another country, you'll have to look it up. However,
there is some good YouTube highlights packages. TNT put one
(16:13):
on there. I think the Tour de France channel itself
will have a highlights package as well, which gives you,
you know, which will give you the main the main
highlights of it. It's only normally around about five or
ten minutes. And there's some really good podcasts as well
at Lantern Rouge. Lantern Rouge do a good podcast and
(16:35):
also get Right Thomas, who is in his last race.
He's retiring this year, the legendary Welsh rider, he's doing
his last Tour de France. Who he's going out on
a big hurrr so hopefully he'll get round it all safely.
He also has a podcast which is called It's Absolutely
(16:58):
It's the Right Thomas Cycling Club. And yeah, I can't
I can't remember what it's called. Oh, what's oc caring?
I think it's called what's occurring? What as in watts
a great play on words there, So what that's called?
What's occurring, and he normally puts out random podcasts throughout
(17:18):
the throughout the Tour de France and be from his
like his hotel room after after he's been riding. So
they are normally quite entertaining and you've got you get
a good insight into the peloton as well. I mean
at the moment Garon Thomas is he's like late thirties
and thirty eight or thirty nine, and he goes mad
at all these young young ones that are coming along
(17:41):
and they're racing every two minutes and he's like, calm down, guys,
calm down. So he puts out some some good content
b Ride and Thrive podcast. This podcast, I am hoping
to do a bit of a catch up every every
few days just to keep you updated on the race.
It's something new this. I'm not not really made any
(18:01):
content like this before, and I don't know how interested
people are going to pe, so I'm going to put
it out there and see how we get on. You
can always email me and David at Ridingthrive dot co
dot uk if if you'd like to see somethink a
specific or you could leave You could leave a comment
(18:24):
or a review wherever you listen to this podcast. I
think that about wraps it up now. The the the
first stage of the Tory France is in lil this weekend,
and I think it's a circuit, a circular route which
ends ends back in Lilee as well. The last stage
(18:45):
is in Paris. It always finishes in Paris on the
Champcealse so and that's normally. The last day is just
a procession and there's a sprint at the end, but
we normally know who the winner and who's got the
yellow jersey is at the end. It's normally celebration. Okay, folks,
(19:06):
I hope you've enjoyed this podcast, something a bit different,
trying to get you infused and motivated to get out
ultimately to get out riding your bike. So thanks for
listening and buy for Now or au revoir
The Tour de France is brutal, relentless, unforgiving, but you
can also find beauty and the camaraderie and the teams
and the selfless acts of the teammates helping their leader
to victory. It's also electrifying the sprints, the mountain attacks. Hi,
(00:23):
my name's Dave and this is the Ride and Thrive podcast.
I wanted this podcast. I wanted to dedicate it to
the Tour de France, which is starting very soon. After all,
it's the Tour de France that got me into cycling
in the first place. And my hope is that by
understanding a bit more about the race and about the
riders and the tech and the teams, that you might
(00:45):
also get into it, watch a bit of it, and
that might spare you on to go cycling, I hope.
So anyway, so what's it all about the Tour de France. Then, Well,
it's essentially a bike race over twenty one stages, and
it's a total of three three hundred and twenty kilometers
all over France, each stage on a different day. There
(01:08):
are also two rest days. Now, the stages are some
of them are flat, some of them are in the
high mountains, and there's a couple of them which are
time trials, so they're shorter stages, except you go all
out and the winner is the one that does it
the course in the quickst possible time. So we've got
some of the magic, or a lot of the magic
(01:29):
around the Tour de France is centered around the yellow jersey,
and that's the winner of the race gets to keep
the yellow jersey, and it's a really prestigious it's probably
the most prestigious accolade that you could get in cycling. Now,
each day, the leader of the race so far, the
one that's done it in the quickest time so far,
(01:50):
they get to wear the yellow jersey. So there is
a way of expectation on that rider, and that's also
an accolade to actually put the yellow jersey on your back.
So everyone on the first day wants to win that
first stage because they will get to wear the yellow
jersey on the next day. Now, there's twenty three teams
(02:11):
in the race. Twenty three teams, and each team is
made up of eight riders. Now realistically there's only a
handful of teams that are going to go on and
win the whole thing, and you know, you think, well,
what's the point of all the rest of the guys
being in it if there's only a few teams or
a few riders that are capable of winning the whole thing. Well,
(02:34):
in this race, anything can happen. It is over three
thousand kilometers, so anything can happen. But also there are
other accolades other things that you can win in the
race as well, and they all carry their own different
colored jersey, So to win a stage of the race
is an accolade in itself. That is a really prestigious
(02:56):
thing for a rider to do and also a team
to do. It's a great thing for a rider to
put on their CB makes them more mar marketable, it's
easy for me to say, and so every rider would
dream of actually winning just one stage of the Tour
de France. So it's great for them. It's great for
the sponsors because it gives them their name out on
(03:20):
the podium at the end of the day. And this
race is watched by millions of people all over the world,
so the sponsors are happy. And also for the teams,
it's a great accolade and also will help to keep
the sponsors that they've got and also to attract new
sponsors to their team because you know, they all need
(03:40):
the money to keep this whole big show rolling. So
that's that's the that's the stages now to win. If
you win a stage, you also get points, and there
is a points jersey so you can amass points so
that the yellow jersey is based on time. The green
jersey is based on points, so you can win a
(04:00):
whole heap of stages and get yourself a green jersey. Now,
the leader of the points competition every day wears the
green jersey, so you can look out for them in
the palatop. It doesn't stop there though. There is also
a Polka dot jersey. Now. The Polka Dot jersey is
(04:21):
for the King of the Mountains, so the first person
to get to the top of the mountain in certain
the mountains stages, they will get points and basically it's
a points tally, so the leader of the competition gets
to where the points the polka dot jersey. Sorry for
going over the mountains. Now, each of the mountains are categorized,
(04:44):
so a Cat one mountain is not very big and
then Cat four, you know, will be a massive mountain,
so you get more points on their degree of difficulty.
I guess you could say, okay, so that's the polka
dot jersey. You've also so got a white jersey which
goes to the best young rider, and the young rider
(05:05):
meets under twenty six, so they wear the white jersey.
And as the race progresses over the over the weeks,
then the person in the yellow jersey could also have
the other jerseys as well. So you know, if you've
got a good climber that's in the leads will have
the yellow and the polka dot jersey. Right, So that's
(05:26):
covered that. So so here were the big stars. Well,
the standout star of this particular race is Taddy Pagatca.
He is being lauded as think one of the greatest,
if not the greatest rider of all time because he's
just winning everything at the moment and it's very hard
to see past him. For this particular race, he's already
(05:50):
had a hat full of wins this season and his
main rival is a chap called Jonahs finger Guard. Now,
he has already been up against the Pergatcha in a
in a recent race, and the loss to him and
Pagatcha left him for dead on a couple of climbs,
so we're interested to see whether these two can get
(06:13):
it together again. Eonus vinger Gard has won the Tour
de France before, so as Pergatcha, so there is form there.
And last year they went up head to head and
there was some talk that Jonas finger Guard wasn't particularly
fully fit, so it would be nice to see the
two of them fully fit rare in to go for
this particular race. So they're they're the main protagonists of
(06:36):
the race, and there's a there's a couple of other names,
rempco Evanopol. He came third last year and he's kind
of one of the best of the rest, so to speak.
Now a bit onto the teams then, so the two
traps I just mentioned Pergatcha and vinger Guard. Pagatcha belongs
(06:56):
to UA Team Emirates. They are the number one team
in the world, no surprise. They've got a really strong team.
Obviously with an elite leader a rider, then they're going
to attract stars to their team because they want to
be part of it. So they are the number one
team and they have the number one rider, Yunus. Finger
(07:19):
Guard belongs to Vizmar Lisa Bike. That's another team, and
they also have a really strong team of climbers, so
they'll be looking to give a really good good account
of themselves this year. And remco Evnopol belongs to Sudal
quick Step. So, like I say, the rest of the teams,
(07:42):
you know, like there's twenty three teams altogether, they will
be having their own battles. Now if you are if
you are in the team and you are a team leader,
you will be classed as a GC, a general contender,
so you are going for the overall classification. That's that's
what you want to win the whole thing. Now, like
(08:04):
I mentioned earlier, not not all the teams are going
to be capable of that. So on some of the
team's agenda that they will be looking for stage wins,
so they will be having their sprinters that will be
going for stage wins. Now, some of these sprinters could
win three or four stages of the Tour de France.
Now this is something that I didn't really understand when
(08:27):
I first got into cycling. I couldn't understand why you'd
have these these sprinters that would win maybe four or
five stages and yet you know, they wouldn't even be
thought of being in the general classification and I never
understood that and why not, And that's because it's all
based on time. The yellow jersey, and remember the Green
(08:51):
Jersey is based on points. So what happens is you've
got a sprinter who's you know, around eighty kg. They've
got muscle, they got power, you know, and they will
go along the flat stages in the Palaton and at
the end they all sprint, get a lead out and
they're all sprinting for the line to win, and they're
putting out this amazing amount of power. However, in the mountains,
(09:16):
you've got a massive mountain in the Pyrenees or the Alps,
and that eighty gaugees it doesn't really count for much.
It's in fact it's a massive hindrance. So then you've
got your climbers who are sixty cagees. If they're really,
really light, they are going to fly up their mountains.
(09:37):
So it's really I think that the Tour de France
is won and lost in the mountains because the sprinters
then they will absolutely hemorrhage time in the mountains. And
in fact, as part of one of the kind of
the mysteries of the Tour de France. There's lots of
these little unwritten rules, which I love, all these little
(09:58):
unwritten rules. I go go through a few of them
in the moment. But you know, the sprinters, they come
to a mountain and the time for a for a
stage will have a cut off and you've got to
be within They set a time and it's something you
have to be back within, you know, half an hour
of the leader or forty five minutes of the leader
(10:20):
the leader's finished time. And sometimes in the mountains you'll
get a bunch of sprinters from different teams and they'll
basically get dropped on a climb or one of the
first climbs, and then all stick together and they form
something called a group peto, which is like a mini group,
and their job is just to get get them around.
(10:42):
And a classic example of this was was Mark Cavendish
who was desperate to win his record of the most
tall you know, the most stage wins in a tour
and he was struggling to get around in the time
and he needed to stay in the race to do this.
So there were a few of them from other teams
(11:06):
and his own teammates stayed with him to get him
up and over, and he labored painfully up and over
the mountains and he made it just before the off
time to stay in the race. So it's little things
like that, I think, which is the magic of the race. Also,
there's a there's a there's a camaragerie, and there was
I wanted to mention an example of the camaraderie and
(11:29):
the the honor amongst the riders. A couple of years ago,
there was a case when inger Guard and Pergatcha we
were racing and Vinger guarder put Pergatcha really under pressure
on a climb and they were coming down the other side,
and you know, being a guard is leading and Bagatcha
(11:51):
was was kind of behind, just behind him, and Pog
was he was really pushing it really hard, and he
came off on a corner had a crash, and you know,
Vinger Guard could have taken advantage of this, he could
have pressed it home, and he actually waited. He just
slowed right off and waited for Pog to catch him up,
(12:12):
and they shook hands and then they carried on racing.
And afterwards binger Guard was like, I don't want to
beat him by him having a crash, you know, I
want to beat him fair and square, you know, which
I thought was so honorable, you know, and because he
would have been in within his rights to do that,
you know, because he because Pog was pushing it too
hard and lost control of his bike, you know, so
(12:34):
he you know that he could have done that, and
I think no one would have said anything. But that's
the sort of camaraderie that I'd love to see in
the Tour de France. So there's also if you know,
there's a big crash, the palaton will slowed down and
they'll let people catch up. And there's the the infamous
sticky bottle, and the sticky bottle is a reference to
(12:58):
when riders will their team can't travel behind the pallet on.
So all the teams will have a car that will
travel and in the car will be a ds A
directing staff and they will be in radio contact with
some of the riders of their team. And they also
carry all the spares and also spare bikes. Have like
eight spare bikes on their rooftrack to see it is amazing. Anyway,
(13:24):
if if a rider is kind of come off his bike,
he'll get back on his bike and then he'll he'll
get a bottle from he'll ride up alongside the car,
and they're riding along, you know, and the car is
driving along the side of them, and they'll reach out.
The guy in the passenger side will will reach out
and give the rider a bottle. And then just as
(13:45):
just as he's handled in the bottle, the car will
accelerate and the rider will hold onto the bottle and
get a little bit of a tow. And there's a
there's a kind of a really fine line where you know,
there's there's giving somebody an advantage and there's given somebody
a little bit of a little bit of a toe,
and you're not really allowed to do it, but it's
(14:08):
an unwritten role rule that kind of teams to do it.
And if it's deemed to be too long, like they've
got too much of an advantage, it will become a
sticky bottle situation. There's a similar thing when somebody's come
off their bike and they get back on and the
paloton hasn't stopped, and on this occasion, so they will
(14:30):
get behind the team car and they will draft their
way back up to the paloton. Again, not strictly or allowed,
but you know, sometimes it is. The commissiles allow it
to happen sometimes and they will penalize people and other times,
so it's little nuances like that I think that you've
(14:50):
really really got to get into. So it's starting this Saturday,
which hang on, it's the fifth of July, all right,
so hopefully i'll get this podcast out in time for
the start. So if you want to have a look,
if you are in the UK, then it is live
for the last time. I should add. It's live on
(15:12):
ITV every day and there's a highlights package on ITV
as well, which starts around about seven o'clock. I think
it's normally on ITV four, so you can catch the
highlights of the race, which I quite like to do.
If I don't watch the whole thing, watch the highlights
of it. They have a really good team on ITV
(15:33):
at TNT Sports. There's been a bit of controversy over them,
but they pulled their specific cycling coverage last year and
put it all in with their regular sports coverage. So
if you want to watch it on full coverage, uninterrupted
on TNT Discovery, you do have to get a subscription,
(15:53):
which I think is around thirty pounds per month. Thirty
to thirty three pounds per month. I'm sorry, but I'm
not sure I'm coveraging other countries. If you're listening to
this from from another country, you'll have to look it up. However,
there is some good YouTube highlights packages. TNT put one
(16:13):
on there. I think the Tour de France channel itself
will have a highlights package as well, which gives you,
you know, which will give you the main the main
highlights of it. It's only normally around about five or
ten minutes. And there's some really good podcasts as well
at Lantern Rouge. Lantern Rouge do a good podcast and
(16:35):
also get Right Thomas, who is in his last race.
He's retiring this year, the legendary Welsh rider, he's doing
his last Tour de France. Who he's going out on
a big hurrr so hopefully he'll get round it all safely.
He also has a podcast which is called It's Absolutely
(16:58):
It's the Right Thomas Cycling Club. And yeah, I can't
I can't remember what it's called. Oh, what's oc caring?
I think it's called what's occurring? What as in watts
a great play on words there, So what that's called?
What's occurring, and he normally puts out random podcasts throughout
(17:18):
the throughout the Tour de France and be from his
like his hotel room after after he's been riding. So
they are normally quite entertaining and you've got you get
a good insight into the peloton as well. I mean
at the moment Garon Thomas is he's like late thirties
and thirty eight or thirty nine, and he goes mad
at all these young young ones that are coming along
(17:41):
and they're racing every two minutes and he's like, calm down, guys,
calm down. So he puts out some some good content
b Ride and Thrive podcast. This podcast, I am hoping
to do a bit of a catch up every every
few days just to keep you updated on the race.
It's something new this. I'm not not really made any
(18:01):
content like this before, and I don't know how interested
people are going to pe, so I'm going to put
it out there and see how we get on. You
can always email me and David at Ridingthrive dot co
dot uk if if you'd like to see somethink a
specific or you could leave You could leave a comment
(18:24):
or a review wherever you listen to this podcast. I
think that about wraps it up now. The the the
first stage of the Tory France is in lil this weekend,
and I think it's a circuit, a circular route which
ends ends back in Lilee as well. The last stage
(18:45):
is in Paris. It always finishes in Paris on the
Champcealse so and that's normally. The last day is just
a procession and there's a sprint at the end, but
we normally know who the winner and who's got the
yellow jersey is at the end. It's normally celebration. Okay, folks,
(19:06):
I hope you've enjoyed this podcast, something a bit different,
trying to get you infused and motivated to get out
ultimately to get out riding your bike. So thanks for
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