July 30, 2025 • 20 mins
🎙️ Tour de France 2025: Highs, Heartbreaks & Heroics
Three weeks. Twenty-one stages. Endless storylines. From Pogačar’s clinical dominance to the cobbled chaos of Montmartre, this year’s Tour blended tradition with unpredictability.
In this special wrap-up episode, we break down the biggest winners, the unexpected losers, and the moments that made this Tour unforgettable.
Who cemented their legacy? Who cracked under pressure? And who deserves more love than the headlines gave?
We talk climbs, crashes, comebacks, and controversies—with fresh insights for fans and first-timers alike.
Whether you followed every stage or just dipped in for the final showdown, Ride & Thrive has you covered.Â
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Three weeks. Twenty-one stages. Endless storylines. From Pogačar’s clinical dominance to the cobbled chaos of Montmartre, this year’s Tour blended tradition with unpredictability.
In this special wrap-up episode, we break down the biggest winners, the unexpected losers, and the moments that made this Tour unforgettable.
Who cemented their legacy? Who cracked under pressure? And who deserves more love than the headlines gave?
We talk climbs, crashes, comebacks, and controversies—with fresh insights for fans and first-timers alike.
Whether you followed every stage or just dipped in for the final showdown, Ride & Thrive has you covered.Â
Grab your free Beginner Cyclist Toolkit HER
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We've had drama, we've had intrigue, we've had excitement, controversy,
a bit of nostalgia and tears of both joy and sorrow.
But who were the real winners and losers at this
year's Tour de France. Stay tuned to find out. Hi, folks,
My name is Dave and this is the Ride and
Thrive Podcast with the very last today at the Tour
(00:23):
for twenty twenty five. Because we have wrapped it up,
that's all done and dusted. I'm going to talk through
the race as a whole in a moment, but we
just need to do a bit of housekeeping first and
finish off the last couple of stages. So Stage twenty
was a bit of a chance for those guys that
had not really done anything yet to get a bit
of redemption and to try and get something back from
(00:45):
the race. And so it came to pass. It was
a breakaway stage, and there was a tax and counter
attacks to start with all these kind of smaller teams
if you're like trying to get in a breakaway and
make it stick. And it was very, you know, fierce competitive,
and in the end, after sixty five kilometers of racing,
a thirteen man breakaway was established and it was teams
(01:08):
like Tudor Pro Cycling Group, mar FDJ, RKB and B
movie Star, those teams that are desperate to try and
grab something from this last real stage. And so it
was this this breakaway till sixteen and a half kilometers
to go. There was a more second, to say, a mountain,
a small hill to get over the Cot de Longville,
(01:31):
and the six riders are broken away at this stage
and they were kind of going up this hill as
a smaller, smaller group and then coming down the other
side of it, there was a crash on a lethal
corner which took out three riders. Their front wheel just
literally came away from underneath them. That was a movie
Star rider. Even Romeo and a group mar FDJ rider,
(01:56):
Roman Gregare and Simone vallesco of Astana all came down
on that corner, which left three riders to go on
to fight it out. They were Caden Groves from Alpha Sin,
Jake stewartt from Israel Premier Tech, and Frank Vanderbrook from
a Picnic Posts. So those three went off and then
(02:19):
a bit further down the road, a funny thing happened
really it was a bit bizarre. Jake Stewart and Frank
Vanderbrook were having a bit of a chat about maybe
about who was going to take on the stage, who
you know, who was going to lead in the front.
And while they were chatting away, Caden Groves decided to
just press on and go up the road, and so
(02:39):
he did, and before they knew it, they carried on
chatting and before they knew it, he'd gone and he
had a lead, and so it was that Caden Groves
romped home to a great victory. Yeah, and that was
that really. Frank vander Brook came in second picnic post
and Pascal Ekhorn came up in the end to take
their place for Pseudal quick Step. Jake Stewart didn't have
(03:02):
the best day in the end and he ended up
coming in six. So there was no real threat to
the GC on this particular day, so there was no
changes in the top six and that led us into
to Paris for Stage twenty one and the final stage.
Now this is a little bit different this year. Normally
this is a procession which sees the riders you know,
(03:24):
trail round Paris, do a few laps, you know, have
drink Champagne and then there's always a bunch sprint up
the chan Salese to finish, you know, and it's normally
one of the sprinters that finishes off by romping home
in the champ Salise. Now they changed it up this
year because of the Olympics last year, the Paris Olympics.
They were so enamored with the road, the cycling road
(03:48):
race last year at the Olympics, that they decided to
put a bit of the course in this year's this
year's tour to finish off with. And what that involved
was a trip, a couple of trips up the mob
Mart which is a fairly steepish hill, which kind of
meant that it wasn't really going to be the sprinter's day,
so it's going to be more the one day Classics
(04:10):
riders day, so that more of a powerful but of
someone who's able to climb a bit more. Now, a
couple of the interesting and I'm going to point this
out now, a couple of the riders were a bit
a bit unsure about this, and they weren't shown. One
of those riders was without van Art and there was
a little piece in Cycling Weekly and I'm quoting this now,
(04:31):
I won't do his voice, so that should do his voice.
I don't know. I'm not really a fan of it.
He's from Belgium, so I don't know. I think it's
going to be a dangerous stage anyway. The thing is,
it's a kind of stage that would suit him. He
was worried that in the Olympics there was like fifty
people in the paloton, and you know, there was like
going to be one hundred and sixty flying up there. Now.
(04:53):
The thing is that it was wet as well, so
they decided early on to call the stage. In terms
of the GC, they said, will will end it here
as though we'll freeze the times as they are, but
you can still carry on a race for the stage win.
So we knew then, with still a few laps of
Paris to go, that that tide Pagatcha was going to win.
That we kind of knew that anyway. But the race
(05:15):
was on for the stage and it was wau van
Art who took it up, took up the baton, and
Pagatcha did chase him, and he put up a bit
of a show because he kind of knew he'd won
the GC then, So he thought well, it might as
well go out and have a go. But at the
end of the day while van Art was too strong
(05:35):
for him. So Mark van Art actually ended up winning
the stage, with David Ballerini coming in second for Astana
and Mara Hitch for Borrowing Victorious coming in third. Pagatcha
was fourth in the end. So yeah, so that was
quite an exciting, a thrilling end and something a bit
different to the normal sprint that we see. We still
(05:57):
had the same possession early on in Paris, or the
teams coming together for photos and stuff coming up the
up the road. But yeah, it was it was a
good It was a good end to the race. And
what's been an absolutely thrilling three weeks, you know, I've
hardly feet hardy touched the ground, have been so much
(06:17):
going on. So who were the winners and who were
the losers? So to recap the actual overall GC, first
was Pagatcha, second was being a Guard, and third was
Lipovitz from Borrow hands Grower. The green jersey which the
sprinter's jersey, went to Jonathan Miland for Little Trek, and
(06:39):
the white jersey went to Lipovitz again for hands Grower.
The Polka Dot Jersey went to Pergatcha. Now the most
combative Rider, which is an award they give out for
the rider they feel, as you know, attacked the most
and good good value for money in terms of entertainment,
that went to Quinn Simmons of Little Track otherwise known
(07:00):
as Captain America. And the best Teammate I don't know
if that's an actual award whatever went to Ben Heey
of EF Education, and the best Team award went to
Vismar Lisa Byke. So we did have we did have
winners and losers. Really this year's this year's race, and
it really all depended on the goals for the actual
(07:23):
race for the teams. So some of the teams that
the bigger teams, they would have been out to win it,
to win the GC, you know that their tour would
have been measured on that really on how they got
on with that. Some of the teams were maybe wanting
stage wins, others were wanting, you know, to make a
good show the breakaway, maybe get on the podium in
(07:44):
a couple of stages, so that that's really how that's measured.
So obviously the big winners on the day were at
UAE Team Emirates because they won the overall and they
ended up winning five stages as well. Well. Obviously Pergatcha
had a lot to do with that, but yeah, they
were the they were the best team. Their tactics were fantastic,
(08:07):
and they lost a they lost a teammate as well
in al Mada, so they made the best of it
and they ran the best race and that was you know,
they've got to they've got to come out on top.
Little Trek got the green jersey. You know, that was
really really good, good showing for them, So I think
they they came. They came out on top as well.
(08:28):
They won a couple of stages as well. Alpasinda Kernig
won won three stages, so they had they had. I
think they had a good race, that's what they could do.
Sud A quick Step again, they had four wins, four
stage wins, so pretty pretty good for them. So you know,
you could say it was a good few weeks for
(08:49):
those guys. Now, Little Trek, I've already mentioned them, Vismar
Lisa Bike. Now they've they have really high standard because
they were wanting to win the whole thing and they
were the only other team that was capable of winning
the whole thing. Now they got a couple of stage
wins and they got second on GC. They got the
(09:10):
best team as well, so you know, they've had a
good tour. I don't know, it'd be interesting to see
how they view that. It's spoke Volumes really. I think
afterwards the Tour of Spain, the level Weltet is coming
up with Le Weltet Span. Yeah, the Tour of Spain
(09:32):
and it's the other one of the other big races
the other three weeks stage races and Jonas Bingerguard is
going to race that, so I think he wants to
win that. And Tody Bagatcha had it on his roster
for this year, but I don't think he's going to
to race it, so we'll wait and see. But yeah,
that spoke Volumes really that vinger Guard is going to
(09:54):
go for the Tour of Spain having come second in this,
But yeah, I think I personally think it was a
good a good one for Vismar, even though that they
didn't win win the whole thing. Who else did well?
Notable mentions picnic post with Oscar Onley. They've got three
podium finishes in stages and they got fourth as well
(10:15):
with oscar Ony, so really good for those and you know,
and they are a smaller team so to speak as well,
who know X Mobility Now they won a stage and
they're punching above their weight really the stage win with
a Jonus Abrahamson. So and they were a wildcard entry,
(10:36):
which means they're not one of the top eighteen World
Tour teams, but they were given an entry by the
UCI to come and race. So it's a really good
showing for them. There were plenty of teams that didn't
win a stage, so you know, they didn't particularly have
(10:56):
a good time of it, so Kofferdice Group, mar FDJ
and some of these, some of these teams you have
to look up twice that they were actually in the race.
You know, you've heard them mention that that few times
that you don't even know who they were in the race.
So in to marsh a one Tea Israel Premier Tech Now, yeah,
(11:19):
they didn't have the best of times. They could have done.
They could have done better. And movie Star now movie
Star were once really big hitters, a bit like Ineos.
They were the team to beat, and you know it
was a stage when Ineos was Team Sky that those
two guys were kind of battling it out for the win.
(11:41):
You know, they were slugging it out. But movie Star
had a pretty bad time of it this year. They
didn't really really get to get much out of this.
Now Ineos were having a bad time, but they had
two wins courtesy of timon Aaronsman. So I think their
tour was saved by that. So hopefully that will be
(12:03):
good with dB Dave Brailsford getting back into the helm,
I want to see Ineos springboarding off this having a
really good next couple of weeks and a great welter,
so so that'll be good, good for them. So I've
mentioned a few names already, you know, honorable mentions. Ben
(12:26):
Healey and I really enjoyed seeing him. He got he
got the yellow jersey as well. He had a day
in Yellow which was fantastic to see. And oscar Onley.
I mentioned him as well Picnic Post. He was a
brit He had a really good a good tour at
Quin Simmons. I've already mentioned him. Yeah, most most combative,
(12:46):
he had a he had a great few weeks as well.
So yeah, so you know, good good times for for
a few of the riders that Now you've got to imagine,
this is the most grueling race. It is three thousand
kilometers over three weeks, you know, averaging between one hundred
and fifty and two hundred kilometers per day every day.
(13:08):
And they're not just cycling that, you know they are.
They are rasing it. They are racing that whole time,
you know, averaging fifty kilometers an hour. I'll go out
on a you know, twenty k bike ride, you know,
and I'll average about twenty five kilometers an hour or something,
and so I can appreciate that, you know, racing at
fifty kilometers an hour twice as fast as I'm going
(13:28):
for like one hundred and fifty to two hundred kilometers,
and then going up those mountains and then doing it
all again the next day, along with you know, crashes
and bumps and scrapes. It's just it's just so you know,
they're like Superman, these guys. So to actually get round
the whole thing is an effort, and is a good effort. Now,
(13:50):
there were some notable retirements. There was twenty four withdrawals overall,
so quite a few over the three weeks. And then
they were through illness, through crashes, things like that. I'm
just going to mention a few more notable ones. And
Filipo Ganna from Ineos he crashed out on day one,
(14:11):
which is really sad to see because he was a
big hope for Ineos and they might have got another
stage win because he's a he's a time trial specialist SUE,
so yeah, him crashing out was pretty pretty bad. Yasper
Phillipson crashed out on stage three for Alpasinder Kernig. He
was a Green jersey hopeful, so it was sad to
(14:33):
see him go. Who else have we got? Eddie Dunbar
from Jaco Irishman he went out on stage eight. I've
already mentioned Yao al Maida from UE Team Memorates went
out on stage nine and then on stage at fourteen.
Remco Evnopol a big one there that was through illness.
I think he just became ill. Remco Evnopol. He was
(14:57):
in the white jersey when he left, so that got
handed on to Tulipovitz who kept it till the end
of the race, so he was out there. Skelmosa from
Little Trek he went out, and Brian Cockard from Coffin
This all went out on stage fourteen and then Matchew
vander Pohl from Absin de Kernig went out on stage sixteen.
(15:20):
So another big name went out on that day Danny
van Poppel from Red Bulborough Hands Grower. He went out
on stage seventeen. So yeah, so it's a bit sad
for the guys that retired, but like I say, it's
a hard, hard game, So that pretty much wraps it
(15:43):
up for this year. It's a really fantastic race. It
was really sad to see ITV's last day of coverage there.
So in the UK we have three to coverage on ITV,
which is a TV channel and they've been covering this
(16:04):
for years with a good crew headed up by Garim
Lack and their Bolting does the commentary and it was
their last time because they've decided not to bid for
the race for next year for the rights to show
the race sorry so on TV. So unfortunately in the
UK all of the bike racing is behind a paywall
(16:26):
which we have to pay thirty odd pounds a month
for to Discovery Plus. So that's a bit of a
bit of a kick in the teeth for cycling, which is.
I must say it's on a bit of a bit
of a downward spiral in the UK. So, you know,
bike racing in general, we don't really have many teams.
(16:47):
We've got ineos but that's pretty much. It's you know,
we've got a few good British riders coming up. But
this isn't going to help, you know, not being able
to watch the Tour of France on free to air,
you know that, I mean the Tour de France. Watching
it is where I got got into it, you know,
(17:08):
and if if it's not on free to air, because
it's by people just maybe catching it and watching a
bit of the bit of the drama unfolding or something
like that, you know, getting to know some of the
stars in it and they kind of get hooked on cycling.
So yeah, it was a bit sad to see it
TV kind of lose losing that coverage. And they did
David Miller, who's an ex cyclist. He does a bit
(17:30):
of commentary with Ned Bolton. They did a nice little
piece on the on their time with with ITV. They
also have a podcast called Never Strays Far, which is
a really good listen. They're really funny, those guys. I
shouldn't really be mentioning that because yeah, they're I'm in
competition with them, so not much competition, I have to
say with my my few listeners, my my avid listeners,
(17:54):
should I say, but yeah, if you can have a
listen to that, that that's that is really funny. And
and I think he said he's always going to go
to the tour, so he'll be there next year in
some capacity, will will Ned Boulting and probably David Miller.
Other notable mention for g for Gerrint Thomas. It's his
last tour, so you know that was he went out
(18:18):
on a you know, he was on a high. He
got round the whole thing and he said it was
absolutely brutal, but you know he's going he's going to
miss it. But he was, Yeah, he was having a
few beers on that night, he did say. And yeah,
he'll be back for the Tour of Britain which is
(18:38):
in September, so we'll be watching out for him. So
that'll be his swan song, that'll be his final race,
so that will be a good one to watch out
for him. So so long to Gorint Thomas. Pagatcha made
a really funny comment one of the ITV reporters was
saying to him, all, this is my this is my
last last race, my last commentary for ITV, you know.
(19:02):
So that means you're my last person that I'm going
to report on and do an interview with. So I'm
so glad it's you, tad O Pagatcha, and Pagatca says, oh,
you know, maybe you and me both, maybe this is
my last tour, you know. And I don't know if
it was a little hint at retirement, but it obviously
just raced three weeks and he's absolutely knackered. So yeah,
(19:25):
I don't think I'll read too much into that, but
I think maybe he's just teasing us. Hopefully he won't
be retiring at least for the next couple of years.
It'd be great to see him racing, right. So that's it.
I'll try not waffle on too much longer. The Welter
is a Spania is coming up in end of August.
(19:45):
Twenty fourth of August. I've written down the date somewhere.
I can't see where I've written it. I think it's
around about the twenty fourth of August, so I'll be
I'll be doing a podcast for that, probably won't probably
podcasting every day for that, it's not as big as
high profile race. But well, we'll see how we go.
(20:08):
In the meantime, I'm going to be putting out plenty
of content around cycling and fitness, health and you know
a bit of bike racing news as well, so a
bit of everything, but mainly around your personal development through cycling. Yeah,
through this fantastic sport. Okay, folks, thanks for listening, Thanks
(20:29):
for tuning in for my today at the tour updates.
It's been it's been a blast. I really enjoyed doing
these podcasts and I'll speak to you soon. Bye for now.
We've had drama, we've had intrigue, we've had excitement, controversy,
a bit of nostalgia and tears of both joy and sorrow.
But who were the real winners and losers at this
year's Tour de France. Stay tuned to find out. Hi, folks,
My name is Dave and this is the Ride and
Thrive Podcast with the very last today at the Tour
(00:23):
for twenty twenty five. Because we have wrapped it up,
that's all done and dusted. I'm going to talk through
the race as a whole in a moment, but we
just need to do a bit of housekeeping first and
finish off the last couple of stages. So Stage twenty
was a bit of a chance for those guys that
had not really done anything yet to get a bit
of redemption and to try and get something back from
(00:45):
the race. And so it came to pass. It was
a breakaway stage, and there was a tax and counter
attacks to start with all these kind of smaller teams
if you're like trying to get in a breakaway and
make it stick. And it was very, you know, fierce competitive,
and in the end, after sixty five kilometers of racing,
a thirteen man breakaway was established and it was teams
(01:08):
like Tudor Pro Cycling Group, mar FDJ, RKB and B
movie Star, those teams that are desperate to try and
grab something from this last real stage. And so it
was this this breakaway till sixteen and a half kilometers
to go. There was a more second, to say, a mountain,
a small hill to get over the Cot de Longville,
(01:31):
and the six riders are broken away at this stage
and they were kind of going up this hill as
a smaller, smaller group and then coming down the other
side of it, there was a crash on a lethal
corner which took out three riders. Their front wheel just
literally came away from underneath them. That was a movie
Star rider. Even Romeo and a group mar FDJ rider,
(01:56):
Roman Gregare and Simone vallesco of Astana all came down
on that corner, which left three riders to go on
to fight it out. They were Caden Groves from Alpha Sin,
Jake stewartt from Israel Premier Tech, and Frank Vanderbrook from
a Picnic Posts. So those three went off and then
(02:19):
a bit further down the road, a funny thing happened
really it was a bit bizarre. Jake Stewart and Frank
Vanderbrook were having a bit of a chat about maybe
about who was going to take on the stage, who
you know, who was going to lead in the front.
And while they were chatting away, Caden Groves decided to
just press on and go up the road, and so
(02:39):
he did, and before they knew it, they carried on
chatting and before they knew it, he'd gone and he
had a lead, and so it was that Caden Groves
romped home to a great victory. Yeah, and that was
that really. Frank vander Brook came in second picnic post
and Pascal Ekhorn came up in the end to take
their place for Pseudal quick Step. Jake Stewart didn't have
(03:02):
the best day in the end and he ended up
coming in six. So there was no real threat to
the GC on this particular day, so there was no
changes in the top six and that led us into
to Paris for Stage twenty one and the final stage.
Now this is a little bit different this year. Normally
this is a procession which sees the riders you know,
(03:24):
trail round Paris, do a few laps, you know, have
drink Champagne and then there's always a bunch sprint up
the chan Salese to finish, you know, and it's normally
one of the sprinters that finishes off by romping home
in the champ Salise. Now they changed it up this
year because of the Olympics last year, the Paris Olympics.
They were so enamored with the road, the cycling road
(03:48):
race last year at the Olympics, that they decided to
put a bit of the course in this year's this
year's tour to finish off with. And what that involved
was a trip, a couple of trips up the mob
Mart which is a fairly steepish hill, which kind of
meant that it wasn't really going to be the sprinter's day,
so it's going to be more the one day Classics
(04:10):
riders day, so that more of a powerful but of
someone who's able to climb a bit more. Now, a
couple of the interesting and I'm going to point this
out now, a couple of the riders were a bit
a bit unsure about this, and they weren't shown. One
of those riders was without van Art and there was
a little piece in Cycling Weekly and I'm quoting this now,
(04:31):
I won't do his voice, so that should do his voice.
I don't know. I'm not really a fan of it.
He's from Belgium, so I don't know. I think it's
going to be a dangerous stage anyway. The thing is,
it's a kind of stage that would suit him. He
was worried that in the Olympics there was like fifty
people in the paloton, and you know, there was like
going to be one hundred and sixty flying up there. Now.
(04:53):
The thing is that it was wet as well, so
they decided early on to call the stage. In terms
of the GC, they said, will will end it here
as though we'll freeze the times as they are, but
you can still carry on a race for the stage win.
So we knew then, with still a few laps of
Paris to go, that that tide Pagatcha was going to win.
That we kind of knew that anyway. But the race
(05:15):
was on for the stage and it was wau van
Art who took it up, took up the baton, and
Pagatcha did chase him, and he put up a bit
of a show because he kind of knew he'd won
the GC then, So he thought well, it might as
well go out and have a go. But at the
end of the day while van Art was too strong
(05:35):
for him. So Mark van Art actually ended up winning
the stage, with David Ballerini coming in second for Astana
and Mara Hitch for Borrowing Victorious coming in third. Pagatcha
was fourth in the end. So yeah, so that was
quite an exciting, a thrilling end and something a bit
different to the normal sprint that we see. We still
(05:57):
had the same possession early on in Paris, or the
teams coming together for photos and stuff coming up the
up the road. But yeah, it was it was a
good It was a good end to the race. And
what's been an absolutely thrilling three weeks, you know, I've
hardly feet hardy touched the ground, have been so much
(06:17):
going on. So who were the winners and who were
the losers? So to recap the actual overall GC, first
was Pagatcha, second was being a Guard, and third was
Lipovitz from Borrow hands Grower. The green jersey which the
sprinter's jersey, went to Jonathan Miland for Little Trek, and
(06:39):
the white jersey went to Lipovitz again for hands Grower.
The Polka Dot Jersey went to Pergatcha. Now the most
combative Rider, which is an award they give out for
the rider they feel, as you know, attacked the most
and good good value for money in terms of entertainment,
that went to Quinn Simmons of Little Track otherwise known
(07:00):
as Captain America. And the best Teammate I don't know
if that's an actual award whatever went to Ben Heey
of EF Education, and the best Team award went to
Vismar Lisa Byke. So we did have we did have
winners and losers. Really this year's this year's race, and
it really all depended on the goals for the actual
(07:23):
race for the teams. So some of the teams that
the bigger teams, they would have been out to win it,
to win the GC, you know that their tour would
have been measured on that really on how they got
on with that. Some of the teams were maybe wanting
stage wins, others were wanting, you know, to make a
good show the breakaway, maybe get on the podium in
(07:44):
a couple of stages, so that that's really how that's measured.
So obviously the big winners on the day were at
UAE Team Emirates because they won the overall and they
ended up winning five stages as well. Well. Obviously Pergatcha
had a lot to do with that, but yeah, they
were the they were the best team. Their tactics were fantastic,
(08:07):
and they lost a they lost a teammate as well
in al Mada, so they made the best of it
and they ran the best race and that was you know,
they've got to they've got to come out on top.
Little Trek got the green jersey. You know, that was
really really good, good showing for them, So I think
they they came. They came out on top as well.
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They won a couple of stages as well. Alpasinda Kernig
won won three stages, so they had they had. I
think they had a good race, that's what they could do.
Sud A quick Step again, they had four wins, four
stage wins, so pretty pretty good for them. So you know,
you could say it was a good few weeks for
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those guys. Now, Little Trek, I've already mentioned them, Vismar
Lisa Bike. Now they've they have really high standard because
they were wanting to win the whole thing and they
were the only other team that was capable of winning
the whole thing. Now they got a couple of stage
wins and they got second on GC. They got the
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best team as well, so you know, they've had a
good tour. I don't know, it'd be interesting to see
how they view that. It's spoke Volumes really. I think
afterwards the Tour of Spain, the level Weltet is coming
up with Le Weltet Span. Yeah, the Tour of Spain
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and it's the other one of the other big races
the other three weeks stage races and Jonas Bingerguard is
going to race that, so I think he wants to
win that. And Tody Bagatcha had it on his roster
for this year, but I don't think he's going to
to race it, so we'll wait and see. But yeah,
that spoke Volumes really that vinger Guard is going to
(09:54):
go for the Tour of Spain having come second in this,
But yeah, I think I personally think it was a
good a good one for Vismar, even though that they
didn't win win the whole thing. Who else did well?
Notable mentions picnic post with Oscar Onley. They've got three
podium finishes in stages and they got fourth as well
(10:15):
with oscar Ony, so really good for those and you know,
and they are a smaller team so to speak as well,
who know X Mobility Now they won a stage and
they're punching above their weight really the stage win with
a Jonus Abrahamson. So and they were a wildcard entry,
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which means they're not one of the top eighteen World
Tour teams, but they were given an entry by the
UCI to come and race. So it's a really good
showing for them. There were plenty of teams that didn't
win a stage, so you know, they didn't particularly have
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a good time of it, so Kofferdice Group, mar FDJ
and some of these, some of these teams you have
to look up twice that they were actually in the race.
You know, you've heard them mention that that few times
that you don't even know who they were in the race.
So in to marsh a one Tea Israel Premier Tech Now, yeah,
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they didn't have the best of times. They could have done.
They could have done better. And movie Star now movie
Star were once really big hitters, a bit like Ineos.
They were the team to beat, and you know it
was a stage when Ineos was Team Sky that those
two guys were kind of battling it out for the win.
(11:41):
You know, they were slugging it out. But movie Star
had a pretty bad time of it this year. They
didn't really really get to get much out of this.
Now Ineos were having a bad time, but they had
two wins courtesy of timon Aaronsman. So I think their
tour was saved by that. So hopefully that will be
(12:03):
good with dB Dave Brailsford getting back into the helm,
I want to see Ineos springboarding off this having a
really good next couple of weeks and a great welter,
so so that'll be good, good for them. So I've
mentioned a few names already, you know, honorable mentions. Ben
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Healey and I really enjoyed seeing him. He got he
got the yellow jersey as well. He had a day
in Yellow which was fantastic to see. And oscar Onley.
I mentioned him as well Picnic Post. He was a
brit He had a really good a good tour at
Quin Simmons. I've already mentioned him. Yeah, most most combative,
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he had a he had a great few weeks as well.
So yeah, so you know, good good times for for
a few of the riders that Now you've got to imagine,
this is the most grueling race. It is three thousand
kilometers over three weeks, you know, averaging between one hundred
and fifty and two hundred kilometers per day every day.
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And they're not just cycling that, you know they are.
They are rasing it. They are racing that whole time,
you know, averaging fifty kilometers an hour. I'll go out
on a you know, twenty k bike ride, you know,
and I'll average about twenty five kilometers an hour or something,
and so I can appreciate that, you know, racing at
fifty kilometers an hour twice as fast as I'm going
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for like one hundred and fifty to two hundred kilometers,
and then going up those mountains and then doing it
all again the next day, along with you know, crashes
and bumps and scrapes. It's just it's just so you know,
they're like Superman, these guys. So to actually get round
the whole thing is an effort, and is a good effort. Now,
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there were some notable retirements. There was twenty four withdrawals overall,
so quite a few over the three weeks. And then
they were through illness, through crashes, things like that. I'm
just going to mention a few more notable ones. And
Filipo Ganna from Ineos he crashed out on day one,
(14:11):
which is really sad to see because he was a
big hope for Ineos and they might have got another
stage win because he's a he's a time trial specialist SUE,
so yeah, him crashing out was pretty pretty bad. Yasper
Phillipson crashed out on stage three for Alpasinder Kernig. He
was a Green jersey hopeful, so it was sad to
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see him go. Who else have we got? Eddie Dunbar
from Jaco Irishman he went out on stage eight. I've
already mentioned Yao al Maida from UE Team Memorates went
out on stage nine and then on stage at fourteen.
Remco Evnopol a big one there that was through illness.
I think he just became ill. Remco Evnopol. He was
(14:57):
in the white jersey when he left, so that got
handed on to Tulipovitz who kept it till the end
of the race, so he was out there. Skelmosa from
Little Trek he went out, and Brian Cockard from Coffin
This all went out on stage fourteen and then Matchew
vander Pohl from Absin de Kernig went out on stage sixteen.
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So another big name went out on that day Danny
van Poppel from Red Bulborough Hands Grower. He went out
on stage seventeen. So yeah, so it's a bit sad
for the guys that retired, but like I say, it's
a hard, hard game, So that pretty much wraps it
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up for this year. It's a really fantastic race. It
was really sad to see ITV's last day of coverage there.
So in the UK we have three to coverage on ITV,
which is a TV channel and they've been covering this
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for years with a good crew headed up by Garim
Lack and their Bolting does the commentary and it was
their last time because they've decided not to bid for
the race for next year for the rights to show
the race sorry so on TV. So unfortunately in the
UK all of the bike racing is behind a paywall
(16:26):
which we have to pay thirty odd pounds a month
for to Discovery Plus. So that's a bit of a
bit of a kick in the teeth for cycling, which is.
I must say it's on a bit of a bit
of a downward spiral in the UK. So, you know,
bike racing in general, we don't really have many teams.
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We've got ineos but that's pretty much. It's you know,
we've got a few good British riders coming up. But
this isn't going to help, you know, not being able
to watch the Tour of France on free to air,
you know that, I mean the Tour de France. Watching
it is where I got got into it, you know,
(17:08):
and if if it's not on free to air, because
it's by people just maybe catching it and watching a
bit of the bit of the drama unfolding or something
like that, you know, getting to know some of the
stars in it and they kind of get hooked on cycling.
So yeah, it was a bit sad to see it
TV kind of lose losing that coverage. And they did
David Miller, who's an ex cyclist. He does a bit
(17:30):
of commentary with Ned Bolton. They did a nice little
piece on the on their time with with ITV. They
also have a podcast called Never Strays Far, which is
a really good listen. They're really funny, those guys. I
shouldn't really be mentioning that because yeah, they're I'm in
competition with them, so not much competition, I have to
say with my my few listeners, my my avid listeners,
(17:54):
should I say, but yeah, if you can have a
listen to that, that that's that is really funny. And
and I think he said he's always going to go
to the tour, so he'll be there next year in
some capacity, will will Ned Boulting and probably David Miller.
Other notable mention for g for Gerrint Thomas. It's his
last tour, so you know that was he went out
(18:18):
on a you know, he was on a high. He
got round the whole thing and he said it was
absolutely brutal, but you know he's going he's going to
miss it. But he was, Yeah, he was having a
few beers on that night, he did say. And yeah,
he'll be back for the Tour of Britain which is
(18:38):
in September, so we'll be watching out for him. So
that'll be his swan song, that'll be his final race,
so that will be a good one to watch out
for him. So so long to Gorint Thomas. Pagatcha made
a really funny comment one of the ITV reporters was
saying to him, all, this is my this is my
last last race, my last commentary for ITV, you know.
(19:02):
So that means you're my last person that I'm going
to report on and do an interview with. So I'm
so glad it's you, tad O Pagatcha, and Pagatca says, oh,
you know, maybe you and me both, maybe this is
my last tour, you know. And I don't know if
it was a little hint at retirement, but it obviously
just raced three weeks and he's absolutely knackered. So yeah,
(19:25):
I don't think I'll read too much into that, but
I think maybe he's just teasing us. Hopefully he won't
be retiring at least for the next couple of years.
It'd be great to see him racing, right. So that's it.
I'll try not waffle on too much longer. The Welter
is a Spania is coming up in end of August.
(19:45):
Twenty fourth of August. I've written down the date somewhere.
I can't see where I've written it. I think it's
around about the twenty fourth of August, so I'll be
I'll be doing a podcast for that, probably won't probably
podcasting every day for that, it's not as big as
high profile race. But well, we'll see how we go.
(20:08):
In the meantime, I'm going to be putting out plenty
of content around cycling and fitness, health and you know
a bit of bike racing news as well, so a
bit of everything, but mainly around your personal development through cycling. Yeah,
through this fantastic sport. Okay, folks, thanks for listening, Thanks
(20:29):
for tuning in for my today at the tour updates.
It's been it's been a blast. I really enjoyed doing
these podcasts and I'll speak to you soon. Bye for now.
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