THEMOVE - The Closest Finish in Tour History | Tour De France Femmes 2024 Stage 8 | THEMOVE

Episode Date: August 18, 2024

Forever, the LeMond Fingnon finish from the 1989 Tour was considered the closest margin in history until today. The showdown today between Demi Vollering and Kasia Niewiadoma is epic and one for the ages. Buycycle:  Unlock free seller protection when you sell a bike on buycycle with the code: THEFEMMES. https://buycycle.com/en-us?&utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=brand&utm_content=wedufemmes&utm_country=us Roka: THEMOVE listeners get 20% off. Just go to https://www.ROKA.com and enter code THEMOVE at checkout. Wahoo: Wahoo’s cycling products are trusted by the pro peloton. We see Wahoo’s ELEMNT BOLT GPS bike computer on the handlebars of many Tour Teams. Now you can save 20% on select full-price products by using the coupon code THEMOVE2024 at checkout. OneSkin: Give your skin the UV protection, hydration, and cellular support it needs with OneSkin. It’s time to expect more from your skin care routine. Get started today with 15% off using code THEMOVE at https://www.oneskin.co.  

So my boomstick is going to go to Damie Vollering, who had a huge setback in this race. Tried her best. Four seconds short, but goodness, she tried, right? I'm just so proud of her because that was a horrible setback for that crash. But to win the stage second overall and never give up, even when things were going against her, Damie Vollering, the boomstick is yours. From Ali. We got to go retro boomstick. I mean, you got to give Katia Niewiadoma, I'm probably butchering her first,

the pronunciation of her first name, but I do know enough Polish, right? And I talked about my affinity for, for sort of really the Polish connection to USA Cycling way back in the day, but in Polish, you know, I would say her performance was bardzo dobrze. Whoa, look at you.

Did you practice that? No. But bardzo dobrze means very good. But congratulations, Kasia, for the boomstick. Yeah. We got double boomstick. First time in the Move history, I believe, double boomstick. All right, everybody, welcome back to the move podcast talking about stage eight of the tour de france fam of x swift and what i think we're all just sitting here like

wow what a bike race what what a rate what a week but to have it come down to this and i mean we knew it was going to be exciting but i mean we all feel i mean we're all you you just can't help but feel stunned and not in a bad way or good it just was such a race and we were like nobody knew what was going to happen and we all had questions and um i'm still sweaty and nervous and a little clammy you're a little clammy but uh but to quote yourself, I thought it was incredible. I really did. So we're going to get into all that action. But before we do, a couple of things.

Number one, Mel, this is our last day. What did we do? Where did we start? Stage eight. Le Grand Bournon to Alpe d'Huez. Le Grand Bournon to Alpe d'Huez. Alpe d'Huez. Oh, wow. I think I've been saying it wrong this whole time.

Me too. I think we all said that to ourselves. Like, oh, shit. Like, that's... We've been messing that up forever. Stage eight. And, you know, I noticed something today. I knew there was an airport up there and it's a really, I love flying and I love looking at different, the dynamics of flying. And I love managing the risk of flying because there's always risk.

So I always admired that strip that they have up there. But as they were showing the helicopter shot, I had not ever noticed that there was actually a golf course right by the airport on Alpe d'Huez. And I'm really pissed that I never noticed that. Got to go back now. I will be going back. I will be going back. You know what you'll be doing.

Do a little climb, you know, do some golf and then take that nice fun flight down. It looked like a very short runway. It's very short. Yeah, We don't need to get, this is not an avionics or aviation, um, podcast, but, uh, yeah, it's fun. It's fine. Imagine I've never, I've never done it, but let's do a little bit of business. Allie, what do we

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Yeah. 22 people in the break, big break. Um, and then, you know, we hit the, are you up to say the climb Glendon? Glendon. That's good. And then things just start hitting the fan there. The brakes disintegrates. Some of the riders are up there to be domestiques. We're falling off pace.

That's pretty exciting. Yeah. I mean, it was, look, the high level. And if you look at the total time over the eight stages, it was about 24 and a half hours of racing. Right. Compare and contrast. Last year, Demi won the race by over three just over three minutes um neodoma wins the tour de france by so here's last year's gc so

she's uh a lot of capecchi and and uh neodoma tied at 303. i mean that's that's a comfortable margin um and and you know of course neodoma has story of, and we talked a lot about it, of just not being able or not being able to find ways to actually win races, get second a lot, third a lot. By the way, you can get second and third a lot and still win an overall race like the Tour de France. But what a win for her. And she wins by four seconds. And on top of that, the entire podium is separated by 10 seconds this is uh of course most people remember 1989 greg lamon wins the tour de france by eight seconds um but this is and i don't know who was third that year but um what a tight race and it all came down

it literally came down to the last minute. And we all knew that Alpe d'Huez was going to make a huge difference in this race. And people were waiting for it. But to think that it all comes down to 10 seconds on the podium. I mean, we were just on the edge of our seats the whole time. And I've never seen Lance, you do so much math. I love math. You were crunching for being the guy from Plano.

You were crunching numbers for hours this morning. By the way, the guy from Plano who did not go to high school very much. It was. I mean, it brought in a lot of questions, right? There are people that don't think you should have time bonuses on stages like this. The stage is 4,100 meters of climbing, 13,000 feet. It finishes up Alpe d'huez you already have to go over the glen dome one could say look whoever gets there first that that's that's their time right i mean let's reserve time bonuses for perhaps in the middle of the stages for the

sprints or even at the finish on the sprint days and the tour has gone back and forth on whether or not they give time bonus so yeah you're sitting you're sitting here going, all right, if she wins, that's 10 seconds. And then if Neodoma gets third, that's four seconds. Then it becomes a math game. They are getting, I suspect, getting this information in their ear real time. It was, I mean, the best way to sum it up was that it was just a drag race between these two women. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

So time bonuses and me on like mountaintop finishes. I disagree. I don't like them because I understand I am not a climbing specialist by any means. So your reward is you drop me on that climb. And my reward is I kept my pace to like minimize that loss because I don't get a time mode is if I win a time trial. No, you don't go, oh, you won the time trial. Here's your 10 seconds. I mean, the interesting thing is, is by adding those, you could bring climbers who aren't necessarily a time trial list or an all around kind of rider back into the game by some of the

time bonuses on the finish. But I agree. I haven't seen them as often. I feel like they used to do more where you didn't have a time bonus in an uphill finish, but kind of made it exciting. This is a decades old story, right? They have gone back and forth. Um, nonetheless, the, the race is separated after eight stages by four seconds, right? So if you're Demi Vollering, you have to look, you have to even right now, as she's sitting there in a, in a team bus or or a team car or in a hotel room saying, where are the four seconds? And I don't know. I think the three of us. It started a long time ago. By the way, it's easy for us to do this, and we're not trying to throw shade. But there were plenty of opportunities to find four seconds. four seconds is is just so frustratingly low and and tight that well i think it shows why it was so important to be concerned about that

finish where she lost the lost the jersey you know it didn't seem like there was any the team didn't seem that stressed about the fact that their leader was dropped at 6k to go and thought that they'd make up all this time. But as you can see, coming down to four seconds, she needed every second. I mean, you got to fight for every second you can. I think that's the most important thing. Maybe the seventh place sprint finish was worth it that day. I don't think anyone is.

No, but Blanca Vaz had a great win that day. But still, I mean. I bet the team would have liked this one. I believe so, too. If you're her, if you're Demi Volner or the team, you have to look back to two things. It's the time she took to get up off the ground. We talked about this on the show. This is not new opinions from us.

She took her time. She did the inventory. She did not need a bike replacement. She got back on her race bike, but that just took too long. So that right there is, is more, way more than four seconds. I think there's actually a moment where, where she made an even bigger mistake. And that was today, right? Going that early on the Glendone. She immediately got a minute. Nia Doma even said it. My morale was broken. I thought it was over. She rode away from me. You have to look at this. Those valleys in between the big climbs in the Alps, you have no idea what's going on there. First of all, they're long, right? It's 15, 20 kilometers long. You don't know what the wind's doing necessarily. You don't know who's going to be with you and help you you have to have help in the valleys you cannot do that alone especially when you're riding towards Alpe d'Huez right one of the

hardest climbs in France she the way she went on the Glendon if she waits she easily wins the Tour of France on Alpe d'Huez I think hindsight though is 2020 and it's kind of like she was in second place and we we even said it yesterday she's got to figure out where she's going to get time back and when she went today maybe she surprised herself with how much she got but i think that um you know head uh lucinda had lucinda not made that group say the group was a little bit smaller or you know just minus lucinda then all of a sudden it's a totally different game because no one else in there was working with you know kacha

it was like lucinda on the front chasing you know to get her back to get gaia back to the bottom of alp duos so i think you know if it if lucinda hadn't been there and she had gained you know a minute through that valley we would have been discussing something different right now. Yeah. Of course. Yeah. Still it's, it's yeah. All of these things are right by the way.

None of them are wrong. And of course it is easy to sit here and, and break it down and armchair quarterback this thing. Yeah. And we've had Damien on the show and we are huge fans. Like we are all cheering for all the writers of course. And she's very special to me as you know, but so it's nothing against her too, me on the show and we are huge fans. Like we are all cheering for all the writers of course. Um, and she's very special to me as you know, but, um, so it's nothing against her too, because I think maybe in that moment there's a sense of desperation because she's starting

stage eight in eighth place, like a minute and 14 down, like she's got a lot of time to make up. And so she went, but you saw that she put so much time with that attack and took a lot of risk down the descent and then you're committed and yeah and she had a you know a friend with her that wasn't helping that much with paulina wasn't helping i mean if she could have kept the three of them together it might have made a four second difference too you know i mean she dropped that the valentina valentina on the descent and if it had been three that went and were riding it would have been different than just her on the front basically it's wild to think i mean if they had been three that went and were riding, it would have been different than just her on the front, basically. It's wild to think. I mean, if they had a graphic, just almost like a hologram on out the west and showed what four seconds actually looks like after eight stages, people would be shocked.

I mean, four seconds sounds like a little bit of time. You'd be shocked how close that is. Right there. you'd be shocked how close that is right there well and i think the fact that the two of them were looking at each other a little bit on that last climb had demi been able had uh demi been able to get a gap and gone i bet she would have had those four seconds if she could have somehow like put in a good attack on um valentina and go i was curious if it was kind of getting her head that um paulina was sitting on her wheel. Paulina sitting on her wheel.

I think so. And, and well, yeah, they, she wasn't going all out at the most of the climb until the very end. And then she attacked her. That's snap.

I mean, what were you saying though? You were, you had some choice words. Uh, uh, you could smell that attack. Yeah. That you, you just, that attack. Yeah.

You, you just, that's by the way, um, the, this race was dominated by the Dutch and whether you're a Dutch woman or a Dutch man, the Dutch race spikes a certain way.

That's a Dutch move. And I love Holland. I love, and I loved racing with the, with Dutch riders, but they know tactics. They know how to play the game. They know how to cat and mouse and play pop, whatever you want to call it.

That was, that's, that's, uh, I mean, you kind of have to do that. You saw that attack coming from a mile away. I, I might've played it. As I said, as we were watching, you know, the, the fear was, um, she covers the move. We're talking about Demi covering the move. And then, and then she sits up. Right. And then, then it's a lot more than four seconds. But she kept going. I would have let her sit out there a little more so that she's going even harder.

Right. Anyways, this thing comes down to snapping the fingers. So it's. It's. Paulina had. And by the way, she's never been in this position. No had think about this and we talked about it we talked about her the stage one she and we talked about today she was in a and i guess she was thinking about this she could have won the tour de france today she was thinking about that in her team that's talking to her in her ear certainly are

telling her you can win by the way we talked about her i don't know a week ago she won the dutch national beach race championships five times we didn't know it was a thing um has never competed like this at the highest level she could have won the tour friends the best results i found her fifth flesh will own um this year and fourth GC in the Giro this year. Also very decent. But she was right there. I mean, by the way, 10 seconds also, if that hologram is on the screen, it's also right there. Yeah, she has an interesting career. I raced against her.

She was on Bowles-Dolman, which is now the SD Works. It's all the same management, just different sponsors. Back in the 2010, 11th last year. Fun fact, she raced for Canyon SRAM. So imagine if you had the one to punch, like if Kasia lost that and Paulina one,

I was like, Hmm, different signing. I don't know. Let's do some more business. And then we'll talk about, we've got to talk about all the other jerseys. You know, there were,

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because you just i. I feel exhausted. I thought it was amazing, too. I'm not complaining. I thought it was incredible. I thought Nia Doma, she did everything right. She hung in there, too. She said in her post-race interview that the attack of Demi Volner on the Glandon defeated her, deflated her morale. She refueled on the descent and all of a

sudden she felt a little better and she hated every second of the climb she also said i hated every second of it the way she just hung in there i mean well the women's racing has just been so exciting amen amen you know i mean two of the best races i've seen is this finish today and then the olympic road race for the women. I mean, they're on next level right now. And the women are racing just at an incredible level. And it's fun to watch. Yeah.

And we always love you have this connection with Casio. You love cheering for her. And we all do. Like, I don't think there's one dry eye out there today with her just with her passion and her fierceness and always attacking and trying so hard and to see her, did she win a stage this tour? Did Katja? Yeah. We should know that.

No, I don't think she did. I don't think she did. I did not win one. You said that you could win a tour without. Absolutely. And, you know, so she's always been said, like, you know, people saying that she's got seconds and thirds. And we've always said that because of her fierce attacking and look at, she just won

the Tour de France Farm farm of x lift well i think last year when she won the um the world championships on the gravel i think you could feel this like shift in her confidence which i thought was i mean i just kept thinking i hope this is her breakthrough to where she starts getting the results that she can get and then this year she's just really broke out and then to win this, it's just amazing. Yeah. Very talented, beautiful,

passionate writer that we really like to cheer on. So congratulations on that. We also had some jerseys that, you know, Lance, you love the jerseys. Well, yeah,

no, I do. Yeah. Awesome. Most of them. We got, we got it. And I often wonder like in the minds of people out there,

do they rank the jerseys? Like what's obviously the yellow jersey is normally the most important in most people's mind. Is there like a second most important jersey? I think the green jersey, the green jersey kind of, I know it's a big damn deal. If you win the green jersey, it's a big damn deal. If you went any of the jerseys, but let's, so let's start with the green jersey. No surprise here. We talked about it last couple of days.

Marianne Voss, Oh, the boss. Just bosses people around. You know, it's super cool. It's like, we didn't know if she was going to get the green Jersey in the first couple of stages. Charlotte of cool looks so good. And then the stages got a little lumpier and harder and Voss is just kind of doing like the wow thing, you know, but when she gets herself into the breaks and she's always there. Yeah. And it's also cool that see right there on if you're

watching the show that on the screen born in 1987 so it starts with a one nine versus a two zero i raced against boss my entire career and she's an incredible human and travels around her family and and her cat i like her cat a lot too wait she travels with a cat her family and and her cat. I like her cat a lot too. Wait, she travels with a cat? Her family comes around in the camper van and her brother's there and they had a cat. Wow. I don't know about this. Oh, it's pretty good. It's pretty good. I don't know about this.

But she's the most decorated female cyclist of all time and to see her in the green jersey of the Tour de France or something just like as fitting as anything. Question, because I don't know. She's racing next year? Yes. Because she, and then we sort of teased out 2025. Of course, we had

Pauline Ferrand-Pervot on the other, a few days ago. She's going to lease a bike or jumbo lease it or whatever they call it now. So she's going to have a great road captain. She made it i've heard her say it her goal is to win the tour of france 2025 what a road captain to have

and marianne boss and she um actually said that the one of the reasons besides all the lots of reasons that she would choose that team was boss and boss being such an inspiration throughout her entire career and so excited to be able to race alongside of her. So, um, and they raced together on Robo bank before. So interesting back in 2015, then we got, then the third most popular Jersey in people's minds is probably my favorite Jersey is the polka dot Jersey, right? You love the polka dot Jersey. Did you see her bike today? They did a full like tarmac polka dotted by ass. I think they asked her about it yesterday. They were like, are you excited to get the, cause they must've known this bike was coming by the way but they don't carry these bikes around in the team trucks like they have to get these things made up pretty quick or

paint or or even stickered up or whatever they do but they asked her about it yesterday she was pretty excited um she said this morning pronunciation yeah oh and well this is the other thing because we keep butchering. We butcher most people's names. But we actually got the correct pronunciation of Justine's last name. You'll see it being here. It's Justine Gekieren. Justine Gekieren. There's also people who say Gekieren, but the way that she says is she comes from West Flanders

and yeah, I posted the interview that I did with her two years ago. So French. So yes, that's a good pronunciation. That's a from my friend. We didn't do it that way. No. Jose Bean. So if you want to follow her, she does a lot of covering and cycling for Eurosport and such. But it's at Jose Bean TV on Twitter or X, I guess.

We can't even get Alpe d'Huez, right? Okay, I have a problem with Alpe d'Huez. And Blaze is going to be so embarrassed that I'm going to say this. But he's been trying to have me practice saying Alpe d'Huez because we have this little hill that's, you know, within 15 miles from the house that like, that's when you have to pee. So we call it Alpe d'Huez. Oh, wow. And so like, I've been calling Alpe d'Huez. He's like, please do not say that on the show. It's Alpe d'Huez.

If you say it fast enough, nobody would catch that. Cause we just go like, you know how you say these things in cycling and you're like, Oh, Alpe d'Huez. Yeah. But Alpe d'Huez. But now Mel just taught me. Is there like a convenience store there or what do you do? Like, no? No. Okay, folks.

For all you Allie fans out there, all you creepers. You want to get super creepy. Go to Alpe d'Huez. Just go over there. Just wait around Alpe d'Huiz. Just go over there. Just wait around Alpe d'Huiz and she will come by. But you guys all probably have an Alpe d'Huiz in your backyard where you ride bikes and stop. I got a lot of them.

See? I'm not that unique. All right. Fourth and finally, the white jersey. Yeah. Which she rode a hell of a race. Puck beaters. By the way, the team rode great.

We talked about it at stage one. Look at us. They were strong. We know a thing or two. They were strong. And she, yesterday, had a very emotional finish, which actually worried me a little bit for today. She laid on the ground, collapsed. I finished safe.

I finished her. I did it safe. Just since she was still in the Best Young Riders jersey. And for her to finish. Once again, Lance, this is her first stage race of her entire life her first stage race 11th overall yeah and it's the tour de france from vicksworth that's up there we didn't know if she could continue the magic through today today seemed like a bit of a rough day she slipped down to 11th place on the overall but still secures the white jersey i mean yeah first stage race not bad no i mean i always wonder you

have to ask yourself like if you if you give people an offer before the race even starts do they take the offer right but so puck before the race starts we're if you sign this you're going to win the white jersey she signs that every time right that's that that's that's an amazing result for her and won a stage i mean yeah yeah that's, that's an amazing result for her. And won a stage. I mean, yeah, that was not, that wasn't even on the contract,

but yeah, great race. Um, what's your fifth Jersey? Uh, well, uh, it's,

it's, it's, it's a very unknown Jersey, but it's number one in my heart. It's team Uzbek. All right. They've had a rough eight stages. Now, okay.

Yanina Kuzkova, of course, young, born in 2001. Yeah, 2001. Wow, my goodness. But the team from Uzbek, and I've yet to look up where Uzbekistan is, but they lost everybody. Ex-Ukraine, Kazakhstan, landlocked. Yanina actually rode strong today she finished the race um and and this is this is another jersey and that's her flag good for you you know i don't want people to think i'm picking on his peccastan no you're proud of her you've been cheering her on she's good and i've just been curious

well i bet she comes back a lot stronger next year too. Yeah. She looks good on the bike. They showed her, and it was easy to find her because there was only one who's Becky left in the race, but they showed her. And she's young. Their whole team was like 19. Yeah. Beautiful that they had that opportunity. And speaking of young riders,

though I also wanted to just throw out a little congratulations to Audrey Cordon-Rigaud. She races for human powered health at the moment, Olympian for France, multi-time French national champion, current French TT champion. And she announced her retirement in tears on stage today. But she's had a beautiful long career. So she's kind of a boss in the peloton. She's a very she's one of those matriarchs. She'll tell you if you're doing something right or wrong. Usually me, I would think I was wrong.

But she's a lovely person. And that was just a career with a lot of longevity and setbacks so congratulations great congrats on a great career isn't sport just it it just if you if you look at the snapshots right you got kasha niwa doma look at her face on the podium and of course demi vollering was on the podium because she won the stage today in her face. Like, isn't that, that just sums it up. It just like, damn. Sports hard. And we're coming off a hell of a six weeks of sports. Obviously, I had the men's tour.

Then we had the Olympic. We're seeing a lot of this. Like, it's amazing what sports, sports. Incredible. I just think it portrays life in so much ways. There's setbacks. There's successes. There's failures.

And it's just a demonstration of the emotions that we deal with in life. But you can do it on a bike. It's not bad. I mean, I really liked her interview at the end when she was saying, you know, the last year she was tied for it. It was all within seconds. And then, you know, her race at the Olympics didn't go so well because she was caught behind a crash. And then she actually things turned around in this one that a crash benefited her. So it's interesting to hear the highs and lows.

Highs and lows. And 2025 is just, if you believe the reports that you hear, Demi leaving SDWorks, going to a new team, how that all plays out. Pauline comes in, how that plays out. The Odoma's still there. Does that team get sort of fortified, how that plays out. You know, Doma's still there. Does that team get sort of fortified? How that plays out? Well, Muzik got third today.

Yeah. Took some bonus seconds. So that could be someone good in the hills for Demi if those rumors are true. Well, I just think that France is going to go crazy next year. With Demi, if she goes to FDG, FDG, oh, God. It's okay. Anyways. And then it's okay. And then, and then, um, and then, uh, with Pauline coming, you can only imagine that

if they do a climb similar to Alpe d'Huez next year, one of the main iconic ones and finish on it, the crowds are just going to be over, over the top. Yeah. It's going to be incredible. But Lance is always happy that he's not sitting next to me because I get the boomstick. I'm between two people with sticks. But we have two boomsticks today. We're bringing back the old school boomstick.

Mari is officially frightened. I'm in the danger zone. I'm going to use my boomstick first. Okay. Mari does not want to use it, but she's also very nervous. So my boomstick is going to go to Damie Vollering, who had a huge setback in this race, tried her best four seconds short, but goodness, she tried, right? So she did so much passion. She wore the gold Rokas for George today, I felt. And those clear lenses, you could see those eyes, that focus, the namaste bitches that she tried to conjure up.

But I'm just so proud of her because that was a horrible setback for that crash. But to win the stage, second overall, and never give up, even when things were going against her. Damien Bullering, the boomstick is yours. From Ali. We got to go retro boomstick. I mean, you got to give Katia Niewiadoma, I'm probably butchering her first, the pronunciation of her first name, but I do know enough Polish, right? I talked about my affinity for sort of really the Polish connection to USA Cycling way back

in the day, but in Polish, you know, I would say her performance was bardzo dobrze. Whoa, look at you. Did you practice that? No. Well, yeah, I've spent all this time with Eddie B and, you know, I'd pick up a few words, most of them bad words. As it is. But bardzo dobrze means very good. Did he ever say that to you?

Yeah. Oh. Yeah. No, he was, Eddie was, Eddie was, he kind of came, the image of him was he was this Eastern European hard ass that just couldn't say anything nice. He was, he was very supportive. Always. This guy. Not this guy.

Because he had. This guy has diamond legs. I remember one time we went, this is right now we're getting off we did we went i would and it was the original iteration of what was the postal team back then the day was montgomery securities and subaru and and uh uh and i was just looking for races so we found this race uh up in way northern california called tour of the unknown coast and if you like, uh, I don't even know where it was. I just know that was the name. And we drove up there and I didn't have anybody from the team to go. So the, so Eddie was like, Hey, take Dan.

Dan was like the PR guy. Dan Ospa was a PR guy. And I was like, what about a swan year or something? You know, he goes, Lance, teach the dan massage i was like what he goes teach you the dan massage i'm like that fuck it i'm gonna skip massage dan will be happy i will be happy teach you the dance it's true story and i won the tour of the unknown coast without massage. That's a hard climb. The honeydew thing or whatever. That's like,

it's brutal out there. I was, I'm from Plano. I was like, man, it's the end of the earth. I thought that was the end of the earth. Might as well be,

but congratulations, Cassia for the boomstick. Yeah. We got double boomstick. First time in the move history, I believe double boomstick. Come on. Maybe we've done it before. It's a double boomstick kind First time in the move history, I believe, double boomstick. Come on. Maybe we've done it before.

It's a double boomstick kind of day, though, for sure. It is. Well, real quick, of course, and I did not know this. I've been so focused on the Tour de France fam of X Zwift. The men's Tour of Spain started yesterday. Brandon McNulty. Heck yeah. Jesus Christ. American National Time Trial champion.

Yeah, but. Was in the red jersey. I don't think the bike's any... I mean, I heard, I don't know if it's true or not, one of the fastest, if not the fastest time trial in history. Like, God. He sure came back from the Olympics, because I know he was really disappointed in his ride there.

And then to come back and have to do this is pretty awesome. Hard to ride the Olympics, certainly the time trial, without doing the Tour de France. disappointed in his ride there and then to come back and have to do this is pretty awesome hard to ride the Olympics uh certainly the time trial without doing the Tour de France I think that's he didn't do the Tour of France very hard to jump into a race with a bunch of guys that are that trained up now they might be a little fatigued but they are super fit super lean very difficult to do that in training so maybe he's's trying, he's catching his groove. But anyways, we did a show yesterday. Also, Johan and Spencer are doing, of course, outcomes, predicting the winners.

I wonder how they did today. Apparently there was a big crash today. 1.7 K to go. Yeah. You asked us, do we want to know? Yeah. Do you want to know? Well, now you can tell us who won.

Caden Groves won. Caden Groves. Cool. He's on Alps and Phoenix. Great. And he won the stage and Wout took over red. So Wout took the leader's jersey from Brandon. Sprint finish though. But Wout looked a little funny sprinting. He almost looked like he didn't want to win because he won that red jersey so bad. He didn't want anything to go wrong. Or Caden, maybe it was just faster. Weekly recaps of the welter there you go um and also and and uh before we get to the the most important thing i know y'all love it at the end um but make sure you like and subscribe

wherever you get your podcast apple spotify iheart etc etc thanks for tuning in it's been a hell of six weeks um i'm still i i i hate to keep. I, I kind of can't believe that was, I feel like I got punched a couple of times watching. It was just so, um, it was intense. It was really intense. Um, and a beautiful way to finish eight stages of the Tour de France Femme of X-Wift. And we really do appreciate all the listeners tuning in. Your comments are so lovely and supporting women's cycling and lands for, and the whole team here at the move. I want it by the way,

I want every bike race to end like this one. Like I'd be so tired. Like send a message to all those guys out there. The race bikes could be just set it up so that they, a lot of them finished this way. That would be the best way to do it. Yeah. But the whole hashtag watch the film,

we really ended it with a good, a good group. And he, the whole team here at we do in the move is just incredible. So Yeah. But the whole hashtag watch the film, we really ended it with a good group. And the whole team here at We Do and The Move is just incredible. So there's a lot of people behind the scenes that are making this happen. And next year, a year longer? Or a day longer. A day longer. You get a day longer, Lance.

Okay. I'm fine with that. Yeah. Whatevs. Whatevs. As the kids say. We'll keep spilling the tea. Oh, yeah.

I don't want to spill it. We've learned a lot. You know, my spilling the tea. Oh, God. Oh, yeah. I want to spill it. We've learned a lot. Oh, you know, my other, Riz. The Riz. What's that? I don't know that one either. You don't know that one. See, that's my kids are always like, oh, yeah, he or she.

They got Riz. Like, what the fuck are you talking about? Riz is, it's like a cool, the cool kids say that word, Riz. What does it mean? It's very, it's very short. It's like a cool, the cool kids say that word, Riz. What does it mean? It's very short. It's like charisma. Like if you're cool, you just sort of got this vibe about you. That's the Riz.

All right. All right. Awesome. All right. You stick with me, ladies. I'll learn so much. Just don't do urban dictionary. Apparently some people did yesterday.

And if y'all miss that. We can't end it on that. By the way, if you missed it, you can go back and watch it. The ladies, they won't let me bring it up again. I forget it.

Anyways. All right. One last time. Three, two, one. Bye.