Tour de France Daily
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Our daily news show straight from the Tour de France! We’ll chat about what’s happening on the ground from the world's biggest bike race and have some fun along the way. Please check out our other podcasts on your preferred podcast platform: - Geek Warning - how bikes work and how to make them better - Wheel Talk - all things women's cycling - How the Race was Won - racing and tactical analysis - The Rest Day with Jack Haig - insights from within the pro peloton - Overnight Success - The founders and innovators in the cycling industry Escape Collective is entirely member-funded. If you like this podcast please consider supporting us by becoming a member: https://escapecollective.com/member/
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Our daily news show straight from the Tour de France! We’ll chat about what’s happening on the ground from the world's biggest bike race and have some fun along the way. Please check out our other podcasts on your preferred podcast platform: - Geek Warning - how bikes work and how to make them better - Wheel Talk - all things women's cycling - How the Race was Won - racing and tactical analysis - The Rest Day with Jack Haig - insights from within the pro peloton - Overnight Success - The founders and innovators in the cycling industry Escape Collective is entirely member-funded. If you like this podcast please consider supporting us by becoming a member: https://escapecollective.com/member/
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English
Episodes
Stage 21: That's a wrap
7/21/2024
The end of the Tour de France. Tadej Pogačar is now a three-time champion and the first to do the Giro/Tour double since Pantani. Caley, Jonny, Iain, and Ronan talk through the biggest storylines of the month, plus a bit of tech from the paddocks in Monaco.
Thank you to everyone who listened along this month, we hope you enjoyed this Tour as much as we did.
Duration:00:49:38
Stage 20: Very Niiice
7/20/2024
The final road stage of the 2024 Tour de France is behind us. Caley, Iain, Jonny, and Joshua Robinson of the Wall Street Journal talk through Romain Bardet's last road stage, Tadej Pogačar's win record, and much more.
Duration:00:40:35
Stage 19: Embrun and done
7/19/2024
The fight for the yellow jersey is over. Tadej Pogačar now has over five minutes, Jonas Vingegaard conceded it won't happen for him this year. Richard Carapaz has come close to locking the polka dots, and Biniam Girmay is close to making history. Caley, Jonny, Iain, and Joshua Robinson of the Wall Street Journal digest and discuss the Tour's high water mark atop Isola 2000, and then catch up in Nice to bring you inside the race.
Duration:00:38:27
Stage 18: Mind the Gap
7/18/2024
The crew discuss the cleansing power of Dad Watts, the fireworks that await, and dig into the listener mailbag.
Duration:00:46:38
Stage 17: He can't help himself
7/17/2024
The Tour Daily crew breaks down a stage 17 that finally saw a breakaway stage winner in the mountains – but that still featured attacks from Tadej Pogačar. Plus, the crew ponders whether someone on the Internet actually has special insight into what goes on behind the scenes at UAE.
Duration:00:41:08
Stage 16: Why'd you have to be so Nîmes?
7/16/2024
Jasper Philipse edged closer to the green jersey as Biniam Girmay suffered a nasty crash, and we're about to head back into the Alps for a tough end to this Tour de France. Caley, Jonny, and Iain discuss all that plus a very flat rat, some live-on-TV swearing, carbon monoxide, and Cav's last sprint stage.
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Duration:00:37:29
Rest day 2: Tarps arf in the river
7/15/2024
Welcome to the second rest day of the Tour de France. The boys have taken a pilgrimage to a site of lore on the Tour Daily pods, the river through Carcassonne, where the tarps came arf and many listener questions were answered.
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Duration:00:10:57
Stage 15: Cracking on Plateau de Beille
7/14/2024
Jonas Vingegaard tried. He used a hard stage in the best way he and his team knew how, but it wasn't enough. Caley, Iain, and Jonny talk through a battle on Plateau de Beille, plus break the chip story wide open, discuss Pogačar's press offensive with the French people, and wonder why anybody would run up a mountain in flip flops.
Duration:00:36:31
Stage 14: The Pla d'Adet stepping stone
7/13/2024
Cracker of a stage, that was. The GC lit up on Pla d'Adet as Pogačar improvised and attacked his way into time gains. Caley, Iain, and Jonny talk through the stage and consider where the race stands near the end of its second week.
Duration:01:00:55
Stage 13: It's all Pau to us
7/12/2024
Caley Fretz, Jonny Long, and Iain Treloar are in Pau after stage 13 of the Tour de France to break down Jasper Philipsen's win and the Pyrenees ahead, and Ronan Mc Laughlin joins the podcast to discuss the use of carbon monoxide during altitude training.
Duration:00:43:43
Stage 12: Bunking up with Ineos
7/11/2024
Fresh to your ears from the finest finish line-adjacent Campanile, where Caley, Jonny, and Iain are pleased to find they'll be spending the night lulled to sleep by the low whir of Ineos' trucked-in air conditioning units. The trio discuss Bini Girmay's third win, Primoz Roglič's terrible luck, and the sad isolation of a caravan Haribo vehicle away from its flock.
Duration:00:49:56
Stage 11: Who's wasting energy now
7/10/2024
Jonas Vingegaard is here to play. Dropped but not gone, he fought his way back to Tadej Pogačar and set up tight GC battle ahead of the Pyrenees. Caley, Iain, and Jonny chat through the narratives around Pogačar and Vingegaard, plus what they heard at the busses after the stage about Remco, Roglic, and the French football team.
Duration:01:05:20
Stage 10: Philipsen and a decoder ring
7/9/2024
Finally, Jasper Philipsen gets his stage win. Caley, Iain, and Jonny discuss the sprint, what it means for the green jersey, and then add a bit of Adrie van der Poel parking woes, an alpaca update, and a cheat sheet for the random things we like to talk about.
Duration:00:54:52
Rest day mailbag: Oversharing in Orléans
7/8/2024
It's a beautiful rest day in Orléans and Caley, Jonny, and Iain bring you a week one vibe check plus a big ol' bag of mail.
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Duration:00:14:44
Stage 9: Unlikely animal friends
7/7/2024
The third different gravel world championships took place in Troyes, or TRWA!, on Sunday. Caley, Iain and Jonny sat down over a 4/10 pizza to discuss the race for the win and the fight behind between the GC guys.
Duration:00:45:29
Stage 8: Where are all the doomed Frenchman?
7/6/2024
Biniam Girmay made it two and the fight for the green jersey looks like it will go all the way to Nice. Caley, Iain, and Jonny break down the day and then peruse their notebooks for other stories of the day.
Duration:00:54:09
Stage 7: Of cakes and chronomen
7/5/2024
Time trial day at the Tour de France. That means marginal gains, aero hacks, speedy suits and, of course, nutritional birthday cake. Caley, Jonny, and Iain discuss the day's racing plus a visit to a birthday boy and lots more.
Duration:00:46:12
Stage 6: No points for you
7/4/2024
Another sprint stage and another sprinter crosses the line first. Congratulations Dylan Groenewegen, but the big story today was the relegation of last year's four-time winner Jasper Philipsen. Caley and Jonny are joined by none other than Iain Treloar to talk through the stage, plus all the strange things spotted throughout the rest of the day.
Duration:00:42:15
Stage 5: Chapeau 🎩
7/3/2024
Well, he did it. Win number 35. Mark Cavendish, already the greatest sprinter of all time, now has more Tour de France stage wins than any other rider. Caley and Jonny chat through the sprint, talk to Cav's coach, his leadout man, and his whisperer, and then bring together a pile of other strange things that happened today in France.
Duration:00:44:26
Stage 4: Galibier showdown
7/2/2024
The question before the stage was simple: would they go for it? Would today be the true kickoff in the fight for the yellow jersey? The answer was an emphatic yes. Stage four took in the mighty Galibier and the race for the GC is officially on. Caley and Jonny come to you from the finish town in Valloire, where they speak to Jonas Vingegaard, chat about Pogačar's wheel selection, and break down how the best of the rest all faired.
Duration:00:51:13