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Tour de France Stage 18 | The Sir Wiggo & Johan Show
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Johan Bruyneel and Sir Bradley Wiggins peel back the curtain on the tactics, strategy, and pivotal moments that shaped Stage 18 of the 2025 Tour de France, offering sharp analysis and insider perspective you won’t hear anywhere else. Zwift: Zwift...
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- [00:00]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
The modern day tactics, none of it really makes sense. And we've seen that throughout this Tour there's a new way of riding and a new, you know, kind of preempting what the other team's going to do. And you know, it doesn't seem the norm and it doesn't seem that the textbook thing to do. But as we've seen this Tour de France, you know, the tactics seem to have gone out the window of what we normally Deploy. I'm the 2012 Tour de France winner, Sir Bradley Wiggins.
- [00:26]
Johan Bruyneel
And I'm Johan Brunel. I directed my teams to nine Tour de France victories. Welcome to the Sir Wiggle and Johan show, our daily show where we dive deep into the tactics behind every stage of the Tour de France. Hi everybody. Welcome back to our show. Talking about stage 18 of the Tour de France from VIF to Courchevel with the famous Col de Lauz at the end. 5,500 meters of elevation, 171 kilometers. It's, you know, agreed that it's the Queen stage, the hardest stage of this Tour de France with me like every day, Sir Bradley Wiggins. Bradley, how are you? What, how good? Thank you. How did you watch? How did you see the stage? What, what's your takeaway?
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Sir Bradley Wiggins
Yeah, I mean it was a little bit anti climax at times. I think Visma tried everything they could. But my take of the day is definitely Ben o'. Connor. You know, when Ben wins, he wins big. It's his second stage in the Tour de France, of course, World championship medalist last year, finished, you know, fourth in Giro, second of welter. But I love how four, four in the Tour already.
- [01:34]
Johan Bruyneel
Sure, yeah, yeah.
- [01:35]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
And I, I, I love how his perseverance in this tour has paid off for him. You know, he was lying on the ground two weeks ago in Lille. Yeah. Or three weeks ago now nearly. And he's been in the break most days in the, in the mountains. And it's finally paid off for today to win on, on the toughest climb Queen stage. Ben was definitely my take of the day.
- [01:54]
Johan Bruyneel
Yeah, I agree, I agree. I mean I, I, I honestly I didn't believe he, because you know, he has been trying but you could see that every time there was somebody who was out climbing him today, man, he, he did an unbelievable ride to go away, you know, and keep, I mean it was, I mean his, his victory was never in danger, you know, in the final of the, of the stage. Yeah, so yeah, that's, yeah, I agree with that.
- [02:22]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
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Johan Bruyneel
Okay, Bradley, before we get into the stage, I just want to take the opportunity to inform our audience and you know, there are many, many every day more and more and, and we're getting a lot of messages. I just want to come back on last week I've been in the news the last few days because of my visit at the Tour de France. I talked about it, you know, I was invited by Belgian TV and I did a little tour, you know, around the buses and, and around the Village Depar and to my. For people who have been following it on social media. The day after I returned I got a surprise message from my good friend David La Partien, the UCI president, with an official press release that the UCI Solaportien launched that he was very shocked that I had been present at the Tour that it. So everybody knows I'm banned for life from, from any official function within the sport of cycling. So La Partien deemed it necessary to send out a press release to express the disapproval of the UCI and that it was actually not allowed for me to be present. There's a bunch, I mean people can find the press release on social media or on the UC website. I found it necessary to respond, but I just wanted to share with our audience that I have responded with an official statement and it looks like, I mean at least from my common sense, but also from some opinion that I got from people who have with legal experience that the statement of the UCI and the position of La Partie is actually not right and is actually illegal because I was present at the Tour de France, as a member of the media, invited by Belgian tv, I had an official pass from aso and that pass gave me access to the Village de Par and the bus area. So I just wanted to say that I disagree with Laportien and that I am looking into possibilities for him to retract that statement and see if there's any legal action I can take if I have to. And here on the podcast, I just wanted to launch the idea that if there's anybody who is an expert in the matter in terms of sports law or labor law, specifically labor law, because I think that the UCI and Laportien cannot have any authority over my life. They can have authority over what includes my ban, but my presence at the Tour was not related to my ban. So if there's anybody with any expertise or wants to help, feel free to reach out. I'm going to look into this matter seriously. You can reach us at infoedo Team. Infoedo Team. For anybody who has ideas about this, we're going to leave it at that. Let's start with the stage. Bradley, as usual, the first sprint. Very early in the stage and no surprise, little track controlled. Jonathan Milan wins the sprint. And I think, if I'm not mistaken, green is now mathematically safe. I would say.
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Sir Bradley Wiggins
Yeah, yeah. Well, I don't. I think mathematically he can still win it today, but he's.
- [07:02]
Johan Bruyneel
How would that be?
- [07:03]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
Well, you'd have to win the. The intermediate tomorrow. The stage. Yeah, the intermediate on Sunday and the sprint in Paris.
- [07:11]
Johan Bruyneel
Okay.
- [07:12]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
It's not gonna happen, but yeah, Jonathan's all but sealed green. I think barring.
- [07:16]
Johan Bruyneel
Yeah.
- [07:17]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
You know, getting through the stage tomorrow.
- [07:19]
Johan Bruyneel
Yeah, exactly, exactly. It's a hard. Tomorrow is actually a very difficult stage for the time cut. It's a short stage and super hard.
- [07:25]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
Yeah.
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Johan Bruyneel
But anyways, after the sprint, Bradley, there was, you know, it was action straight away, right on the bottom of the blondon. I was really surprised. I don't know what you think to see straight away Primo's Roglic in. In the action. What was. What was he. What was he.
- [07:43]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
I'm not too sure. Yeah, I mean, he had a good day today. He was. Look, it's looked the best I've seen in this whole Tour de France. And yeah, I'm not too sure what. What his tactic was. Maybe it was with a view that they. It was going to light up behind and he wanted to be up the road before that happened because as we saw when. When the certain riders were there, when it did launch I, Jonas Tade and then, you know, various other riders, there was such a stalemate and there always has been a stalemate once that initial attack has gone.
- [08:14]
Johan Bruyneel
Yeah.
- [08:15]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
And Jonas is not much he can do when he gets into that situation, when it's man a man. Because, you know, Tade is clearly the best rider and so it was a difficult one for him. But yeah, Rolich launched first and I think that was with a view to get up the road early.
- [08:31]
Johan Bruyneel
Yeah.
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Sir Bradley Wiggins
Anticipating the attack from, from Jonas.
- [08:34]
Johan Bruyneel
Would it be, would it, would it also be that in within Red Bull they. They give a free card to both of the riders? I mean, obviously we know Lipovitz is strong, but you know, it's still, it's still uncharted terrain. You know, he's still discovering the three week stage races and, and they see that Roglich is, is obviously on good form. Would it be possible that. Because you normally would say, well, Roglich needs to stay with. With Lipowitz.
- [09:01]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
Yeah, but that didn't happen, did it? No, it didn't. I think it looked like they were riding their own races today and, and on that, I think Lipowitz ended up riding most of the second half of the stage on his own, either in front or chasing.
- [09:16]
Johan Bruyneel
Yeah, that. We, we can talk about that. I have my, I have my thoughts about that. Initially, I also was surprised. I mean, we obviously knew that Visma was going to try to put guys in the break. It was Vonard trying then teach Benot and Matteo Jorgensen. What I was really surprised about, I mean, one of the things that I, I wrote down here is instead of following the moves was Tim Wellens attacking on his own straight away. Yeah, that was a bit strange, in my opinion.
- [09:48]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
Well, again, I think that was probably with a view to having bodies up the road, anticipating having, having Visma having gone public saying that this was their big day.
- [09:59]
Johan Bruyneel
Yeah.
- [10:00]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
And the only tactic they could deploy was to put bodies up the road, which they did with a view that Jonas was hoping that today would have an off day and that they would come up to him and they would be of some assistance. That didn't happen, obviously.
- [10:13]
Johan Bruyneel
Yeah, but don't you think it's a bit strange to have a teammate of the yellow jersey initiate on his own? I mean, you can, I mean, we know Tim Wells is strong. He could have just followed the attacks.
- [10:25]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
Yeah.
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Johan Bruyneel
I mean, if you initiate on your own, I mean, he spent a decent amount of time and.
- [10:30]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
Yeah.
- [10:31]
Johan Bruyneel
In the front, you know, like wasting energy, which ultimately he was. He was dropped on the Model N.
- [10:37]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
But, but the modern day tactics, none of it really makes sense. And we've seen that throughout this Tour there's a new way of riding and a, you know, kind of preempting what the other team's going to do. And you know, it doesn't seem the norm and it doesn't seem that the, the textbook thing to do. But as we've seen this Tour de France, you know, the tactics seem to have gone out the window of what we normally deploy.
- [11:00]
Johan Bruyneel
Yeah, well, I can understand that because, you know, I mean, especially when it comes to the big engines. Right. But you know, tactically there's still a lot of, there's a lot of things that I personally think if you do it a different way and not just focusing on, you know, the power output and I can do this, they can obtain a lot more. I mean like just this is a small example. Tim Wellens goes and rides 10km on his own with the legs that Tim Wellens has and he has shown already. There is no way that Tim Wellens will not be in the break if he wants to be in it in this stage. Yeah, so that's, that was a bit, that was a bit strange. But anyways, you know, I understand that they wanted to have guys up front and Welland was probably the best option. We see also Felix Gal in the break. Ben o' Connor the later winner of the stage. But so what we see is that, I mean the motherland, Col de la Motherland, obviously Glendon is a hard, stay hard climb, but there's plenty of places where you can recover but on like 15k from the top. So after 4k on the model N, Visma starts to up the pace and then that's when we expect. Okay, you know, they're, they're gonna have to try on the Model end. You can't wait until, yeah, until the last climb, right?
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Sir Bradley Wiggins
Yeah, yeah. And the Madeleine is a tough climb and the descent's even worse. You know, very, very tight, technical, not great road surface. And yeah, we saw him launch on the Madeleine and when they did launch it was, I thought they did a good job at that point. I think they committed to the plan. They committed to what they were said they were going to do. But the problem after that was the, the amount of time in the valley afterwards where they didn't have bodies to, to keep the pace up. Yeah, and we saw that massive stalemate which caused only to come back with, with his teammates only wrote the best stages of all today. And I, I think he wrote within himself on the Madeleine.
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Johan Bruyneel
Do you think so? I mean, I mean, it's possible. It's possible. I mean, with, with especially knowing that there's gonna, there's a long valley if you have your teammates with you. But, you know, you have to kind of count then on the fact that there's going to be hesitation in the front.
- [13:14]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
So there's hesitation every day, hasn't. Yeah. When, when they found themselves together in front.
- [13:20]
Johan Bruyneel
Yeah, I mean, they, they definitely had the best outcome. I think, I think you're right. You know, if you, if you see the way he performs on color, it's basically impossible he gets dropped so early. You know, he wrote within himself. That's, that, that's, that's probably true. Well, I think, you know, the Model N and the downhill of the Model N, you know, you could say, okay, visma. Perfect. Textbook tactics. You know, they're setting it up. The question is, however, you know, is it going to be enough, you know, for, because ultimately, it's always a mano. A mano.
- [13:57]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
What surprised me was, though, Lipovitz got dropped, didn't he? On the metal end.
- [14:00]
Johan Bruyneel
Yeah.
- [14:01]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
And was chasing and Rolich was in front of. In. In. And then he got back, and when that lull was happening, in the stalemate, he decides to clip off the front.
- [14:11]
Johan Bruyneel
Yeah.
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Sir Bradley Wiggins
Which, you know, I mean, again, you talk about riding, you know, within yourself a conservative. I don't think Lipovich Lipovic has done everything he could at every point in this tour to hang on as long as possible. So he certainly wasn't riding within himself when he got dropped on the medal. In.
- [14:24]
Johan Bruyneel
No. But then should not have. I mean, that, that attack was a mistake. I, I, I don't know if it comes from the team car. I'm going to guess initially not, you know, Lipowitz is an impulsive rider. He's done this many times already. Like, attacks that you say not just in the Tour, but like in Paris. And like, he attacks when he doesn't have to attack, when he doesn't need to attack today. You know, I mean, you know, when he, once he went and you see what's happening behind, I personally think there should be some kind of instruction from the car to say, hey, okay, this is never going to work. This is big risk. Easier said than done. Of course, you know, when you're, when you're talking afterwards. Right. But he still, he still did it, did a good job. I mean, he's strong. He's still in third. But now we have Oscar only coming really Close. And I, I personally think that tomorrow Oscar only is going to be in third position, in third place on the podium. Don't you think he's riding well?
- [15:22]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
Yeah, I mean it's 22 seconds now between them.
- [15:24]
Johan Bruyneel
Yeah.
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Sir Bradley Wiggins
And tomorrow is a big day. Again, short stage, but as we know, you know, Laplandia is not, it's not steep as they have been up, but it's, it's always been a decisive climb in the tour. Lots have always happened on there.
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Johan Bruyneel
Yeah. And it's a hard state. It's a short stage, hard stage, you.
- [15:39]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
Know, and the, the weather forecast isn't great again tomorrow.
- [15:43]
Johan Bruyneel
Okay, well that's obviously again, not bad news for today. Not that it, not that it matters. I mean, talking about him, you know, like on the, on the, on the motherland, you know, because I was watching and I would say, okay, you know, like Jonas has to go already here. He needs to put him under pressure. I, I, today was talking on the radio all the time and, and I mean he just looked completely in control.
- [16:09]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
Yeah, well, we said it a few times this week. He's like a different rider this year. He's riding way more conservatively. He's riding as he should ride and he's, he's used, he's getting the maximum out of his teammates at all. You know, he's waiting for them, he's regrouping, he's not panicking when he gets is and he's, he's using the likes of Adam Yates. He's using them to their maximum. He's making sure they come back and he's getting every last inch out of them, which is what you do as a team leader, you know, and then he's waiting to the final and, and, and taking off and nipping a few more seconds on the gc.
- [16:44]
Johan Bruyneel
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Sir Bradley Wiggins
Dig.
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Johan Bruyneel
A bit deeper into the tactics of Visma. As we said on the Model N, it looks good. Then you have Jorgensen who came back from the break. I think he based the last 3 4K on the model N and then the downhill full gas. We even heard today on the radio speaking to the team card, Jorgensen is going full gas. Initially, I mean, I thought, okay, the intention is to really put pressure on everybody. But of course, on today, you could see Jonas was glued to the wheel of Jorgensen. There was always a bit of a gap with today. And so if you put that pressure on, you avoid that today you can drink, eat, rest a little bit. And that all looks pretty good to me on paper. But then they come into the valley, there's a stalemate. And I think there, Matteo Jurgensen makes the mistake of going with those other two guys with Rubio and, and Ben o', Connor, because then everything slowed down and they actually gave Pugachar the rest that they were trying to avoid. Yeah. By exactly pushing it. Right. Not that it's going to change much, but I thought that was, I mean, and again, you know, it's easy for me to sit here and say, okay, well, that was wrong. Right afterwards, you know, what else can they do actually? Right. There's not much they can do because. No, no, today just looks, looks completely in control. It's, it's, it's amazing actually, to see how he, you know, today I didn't, I don't have the impression that today he was under pressure at all. He was talking on the radio then when he was joking with Roglic or, you know, then he was talking to his teammates. How nice must it be to have that kind of condition? And he's so much in control.
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Sir Bradley Wiggins
Yeah. And, and then his numbers on the last climb from what Spencer was saying was it was 50 climbed at 1500 VAM for the last climb, which is zone two for him, you know, and, and it looked like.
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Johan Bruyneel
I'm not sure, I'm not sure. I mean, he did, obviously. Yeah, yeah. No, it's. Maybe you're Right. I mean, listen, the, the proof is there because Ben o' Connor was out for a long time and they really didn't make up much time to Ben o', Connor, did they?
- [20:31]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
No, no, no. You know, no, they didn't. No. But he didn't have to. Again, as we've said, you know, he's got one more mountain stage in this Tour de France.
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Johan Bruyneel
Yeah.
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Sir Bradley Wiggins
And, and he's, you know, he's been conservative and, and even with that conservatism, he's still finished second of the last two mountain stages. Yeah, you know, he's been very consistent and, but the most importantly, he's, he's not bleeding his team dry. He's using them at the right moment whenever.
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Johan Bruyneel
That's, that's, that's the thing that I really like. You know, I Tour, I said, you know, I'd said it many times. I think, I think the only enemy, the biggest enemy of Pugachar is Pugachar himself. And if he writes conservatively and calculated, it's going to be very difficult to beat him. That's exactly what he's doing. The Vantu and today he didn't try to win the stage. He could have won the stage if he wanted. No.
- [21:24]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
And then, and then the biggest sign, I always think of how, how tired a rider or how deep someone has gone is when you see them initially. Afterwards, in the warm down tent, Tade was sat on his bike up messaging on his phone. He looked like he hadn't even started.
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Johan Bruyneel
Yeah, I mean, speaking of, I, I just have this quote here. I found this is actually, I mean, it's a bit borderline defying, but he said to France tv, he said, I can't wait to have the other side of Col de la Loze in the Tour de France. And that. And then I really want to win this stage. This side, this side was much easier.
- [22:04]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
You know, it is like they did.
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Johan Bruyneel
A 27 kilometer climb and said that's, I mean, listen Brad, you know how hard Courchevel is. Courchevel on its own. Yeah, that's a hard climb. And then the 6 extra kilometers are brutal. I mean, it's like I couldn't believe it when I saw the steepness. And this is his quote, you know, so I, I personally think he feels very, very in control, very confident. What should, what should Visma do now? Tomorrow? They need to keep trying the same thing and just hope for a weak moment.
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Sir Bradley Wiggins
Well, no, I think, I mean the thing they haven't tried is letting the race attack and just sitting there behind him and let, let them dictate the pace, let them use their riders up and, and try something different. That's the one thing they haven't tried. They've tried exactly this, this formula they've tried day in, day out from the start of the race and it's not worked.
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Johan Bruyneel
Yeah, and it's not. And it's not going to work tomorrow either. At this point, there is zero cracks, nothing, not any sign of weakness at any moment. It's not going to happen tomorrow. It is not going to happen tomorrow. They need to try something different. And I would, if I would be them, I would, I would go in to go, you know, go for the stage win. With send Guy sent climbers in the break. I mean, the way sepkus is race.
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Sir Bradley Wiggins
Right, the way set. I was going to say sep is probably their best bet for a stage.
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Johan Bruyneel
Yeah, I've heard, You know, I mean, I've. He's been trying, but he's been sick, so. He's been sick and he's, he's recovered. It's obviously there's something off with Mateo Jorgensen. This is not his, his normal level that we are used from him, you know, so. Yeah, and then that, that's obviously also, you know, when you don't have one of your key riders at full capacity, it, it makes the tactics more difficult. Right. So I think we should speak a bit about Ben o'.
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Sir Bradley Wiggins
Connor.
- [24:01]
Johan Bruyneel
I mean, he. What a win. He just as you said, Bradley, he took every opportunity, every single stage he could. And today finally he, he pulled it off and, and, and how, I mean, the way he rode that last climb was so consistent. It was impressive.
- [24:17]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
Yeah, well, he was pretty bashed up, wasn't he? Off that first day, he went down heavy on stage one and ever since then he was chasing. We saw him some stages, getting dropped, some stages, you know, fighting and finishing with a respectable time. But he battled through that middle of this race with those injuries sustained in week one and the disappointment of holding a team on his shoulders because he came here, you know, he moved, changed teams. Yeah, big GC Guy came to, you know, an Australian team. He's an Australian, of course, with high hopes of, of doing something special in this tour for him. And with the accident, you know, it looked like it was going to be a pretty disappointing tour, but he persisted. You know, he. In the Pyrenees, he was in the break most days and he's, he's stayed consistent in his tour and that's the big thing. I have a lot of Respect for him for Was his perseverance because many riders given up by this point.
- [25:08]
Johan Bruyneel
That was impressive because I remember this, the stage two and three after the crash, he looked very bad. I mean, he was. He looked like he was suffering in the peloton. I think he lost time now and then here and there because he just couldn't pedal. He. I think he hit his knee pretty hard.
- [25:23]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
Yeah. And we've seen riders, you know, go back to Remco, climbing off, you know, that could have been very easy for Ben to do that.
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Johan Bruyneel
Yeah, yeah. For sure. For sure.
- [25:30]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
And he's got his reward for that.
- [25:32]
Johan Bruyneel
Yeah, yeah.
- [25:34]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
It's a mark of a good leader, isn't it?
- [25:36]
Johan Bruyneel
When for him, Chapel. For him and to. To persevere like this. That was. That was amazing. It was amazing. Before we talk about tomorrow, Stage Bradley, daily phantom trivia. Stage 17 question. Yesterday was about the Rhone Valley. Location of stage 17 is known for peloton breaking winds. What formation do riders form to try and combat the crosswinds? And the answer was Echelons. You had another. You had another name for it, right? What was it?
- [26:10]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
Well, I mean, you know, that's the French word, isn't it?
- [26:13]
Johan Bruyneel
Yeah.
- [26:14]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
You've got. Of course, it's arrowhead.
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Johan Bruyneel
You know, arrowhead. Okay. Is the British term, you know, or the English arrowhead? Okay. Yeah. Echelon is. Yeah, yeah. Echelon. Yeah. Okay. Today's question. A recent addition to the high mountain finishes in the Tour. The Col de la Loze of today is quickly gaining infamy for decisive duels in GC Jacobs. What feature of this climb makes it unique amongst the other climbs used in the Tour? So what feature of the climb called the Lalos makes it unique among other climbs used in the Tour? Send your best guess to ventumracing.com themove and you will enter into the contest to win this year's grand prize of $5,000. Store credit on any Ventum bike you want to purchase on the website. You don't want to wait for that. Ventum is also offering a standing discount until the end of the Tour. 10% off the whole site using the code themove. 10 and 20% off any NS1 bike with the code NS120. Tomorrow, stage Bradley, stage 19. We're almost there. Short stage. 130 kilometers, but again, 4, 500 meters of climbing from Alberville to La Plagne with five climbs amongst them Colus 1 climb, then Col du Pre. I don't know it, but it's a horse category, so it must be very hard.
- [27:38]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
Another comet Rosalon that's quite well used, isn't it? Not that tougher climb but it is.
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Johan Bruyneel
Well from, from this, from this side it's not that bad from the other side I know it, it a very famous crash of me going down the ravine and then finally La Planya which is a horse category clamp and also so I mean yeah I wouldn't say, you know it's sealed. The victory is sealed. I'm curious to see what Visma is going to try. Yeah, there's not much, there's not much else they can do. No but, but it's going to be interesting. Okay Bradley, I need to run because I have to go to the bike shop to pick up my NS1 Ventum bike which just arrived yesterday and I'm gonna, I'm gonna ride that tomorrow so thanks and see you tomorrow.
- [28:26]
Sir Bradley Wiggins
See you later mate. Bye bye.
- [28:27]
Johan Bruyneel
Okay, bye.