THEMOVE - Tour de France Femmes 2025 Preview | THEMOVE

Episode Date: July 21, 2025

Lance, Ali, and Mari break down the 2025 Tour de France Femmes, which kicks off Saturday. They delve into the looming GC battle, the addition of an extra day, the absence of a time trial, the struggle for the green jersey, and identify which stages will be critical to the battle for the overall win.

Something to note is there is no time trial. Right. We can discuss that later. There was a quote by Kasia Niyadoma. We love her. She won the tour last year by the closest margin, four seconds. She said, I wish there was a time trial. And I was kind of like, do you?

Interesting. I didn't see that one. I read that quote and I was like, you have Damien Vollerain, Marlon Rousser. Do you really wish there was a time trial? All right, everybody. Welcome back to the Move podcast. We're talking about, it is a rest day for the men's Tour de France. So we thought what better way to spend a rest day than talking about the race that comes right after this, the one that's actually going to be pretty

hopefully close and exciting. Right. Just like last year, we're talking about the Tour de France fam of X with this is going to be the preview show. Of course I'm joined by Olympic medalist, Mari Holden. Mari, how are you? I am good. Good. And we never know where you are. Where are you now? I'm in Jackson. I'm by my friends.

Jackson. You know, we can never, oh, Jackson. Ventura, boom, boom. It's good. All right, cool. And Allie, how are you? I'm doing fantastic. Yeah, of course.

Already gonna get a lot of hits on the, on Alison's t-shirt there. Already a lot of demand. Mari and I already have one comment. Me first. You got it. You first, good, ladies first, ladies first. Okay, let's go through the 2025 Tour de France

Femme Vec Swift. Some updates, right? So we added a day or two, and I'm going to be a little behind on some of this stuff, but I have actually just logistical and technical questions that'll help me that I think will help the audience, but we've added one or two days. One. One day, That's right. It's nine days. So it goes from July 26 to August 3rd, covers

1168 kilometers and 17,240 meters in elevation. It is currently the longest UCI women's World Tour race, but both Mari and I can attest we have done UCI World Tour races longer than nine days. And, and there's some overlap with the men's tour. I think we have two days, two days of overlap. I still, I haven't even gone into the, to the timelines on, on each race. And I'm assuming the tour has figured that out so that they, they are not finishing at the same time. Yes. It'll, I think the overlap will be fantastic

for the fans on the road. Agreed. I think it's really exciting. So it starts in Brittany, and it'll kind of be based around that Brittany area for the first three days. And then it goes into one of your favorite places that you like to describe,

the Sif Central. Yeah. Well, I looked through the route. To me, it's one of these... It's a true build-up. describe the Seif Central. Yeah. Well, I looked through the route. To me, it's one of these, it's a true build up. You have these stages in Brittany, which, by the way, can be deceivingly hard. And then, of course, the Masif Central is always harder than you want it to be.

And then some really tough mountain days. And I think something to note is there is no time trial. Right. We can discuss that later. There was a quote or Kasia Niyadoma. We love her. She won the tour last year by the closest margin, four seconds. She said, I wish there was a time trial. And I was kind of like, do you?

Interesting. I didn't see that one. I read that quote and I was like, you have Damie Vollering, Marlon Rooser. Do you really wish there was a time trial? But anyway, we can talk about that in a bit. But one big thing, missing a time trial, which is interesting. I don't think you've ever done a tour, Lance, without a time trial. No, I don't. Yeah, no, I have not.

But I mean, the first couple? No, I don't. Yeah. No, I have not. But I mean, the first couple of days, super punchy. So I think it's just game on fiery feisty from the gun. The sprinters have to wait maybe to stage three, but that still looks like pretty chaotic. And there's maybe two sprint stages. And then you go into the mountains and it's like legit outs, mountain stages, Queen stage on the eighth and the ninth, no joke either. So we can dive into that.

Yeah, I mean, I think the way it's set up, it's gonna be pretty interesting to see how it builds, like who's waiting for the mountains, who are kind of those riders in between that might wanna be taking some chances, opportunists looking to maybe get a little bit of time in the beginning. But it's going to be, it's going to be pretty exciting.

Yeah. And I mean, so stage one's actually going to be shockingly short. It's only at 79K, but it's super punchy and it's a circuit, but you're doing a 1.6 kilometer climb. That's 5.4%. So I mean, a little attrition there and you know how the first day of a tour starts. It's always just the nerves are high. By the way, I don't hate a short stage like that to kick things off. Lots of action. It but Alex your point a second ago, I mean, I'm looking at the profile right now. You've got a category three, 15 kilometers, almost 10 miles before the finish. So what I heard you say is that that's, you think that's enough to rule out the sprinters? I do. Wow.

But we'll see. We'll see. I think it's going to be really hard on any sprint stage to beat Weebus, Lorraine and Weebus. I mean, she was our green Jersey winner, uh, last year and every race she's entered this year, she's won the green Jersey in any stage race. Um, her results look stellar as a sprinter, but I think, um, so of course she got the green Jersey at the UA tour tour, Britain, Jiro, she won two stages

there, she won Milan San Remo, Yant Welbegum, Bruuges Japan. It's going to be hard to beat her in a sprint. But I don't think there's that many opportunities the way the race is set up. But then we- I kind of wonder about that, Ellie, because I mean, those classics that she won and did really well in, those are punchy, difficult little climbs. This to me, I think is a great stage for her. I would think a sprint, the opening one, especially with the distance, it's not super long. They're not tired from the multiple days of racing. She's a good one-day racer in that sense. So I do think that that could be a sprint stage and the sprinters are going to be wanting to keep things together. And get a yellow jersey and get a yellow jersey. I mean, that's the, if you're, which I mean, for SD works,

it's going to be huge because I think they're going to have a hard time during this race getting that yellow Jersey. So they have to be ultra motivated for that. I think we know that Lance will know who wins based on their nail polish color as of this year. Well, yeah. I mean, look, I meant what I said. We'll see what she shows up with. No, but I meant what I said at the start. I mean, and you said that, I mean, four second win in a, in a tour to

France. I mean, that's exciting. Right. And look, spending my days, uh, talking about the men's tour right now and obviously recognizing the greatness of Tati Poguchar winning by minutes. Can't imagine watching a race that somebody, nevermind. I won't get into that. But last year was a true nail biter and that's exciting for the, I found myself going, wow, this is, I'm on the edge of my seat. Like this isn't, this is different than what I was watching for three weeks in the men's race.

Correct. And I think something Lance that we love that you're a women's cycling fan, we know you will fangirl out with us every day and it's super exciting. I do identify as a fangirl. Thank you. Especially when he has his cowgirl shirt on, he will be. Absolutely. That's right. Oh boy.

I got your hat ready for you too. You're, you're watching the FEM half. Um, but I think something that's interesting is last year we had some dominant teams. Of course, we didn't know that Kasia would win. That was just an incredible performance. Um, we not only had a bunch of transfers going on, so SD works kind of splits and these strong riders go different places. You got Damien on FDJ, Marlon Roosers on movie star, and then fangirling, speaking of fangirling, we have our Pauline is on Lisa bike. Visma. Yeah.

Yeah. I was going to say Yumbo. I still am stuck on that. Sorry. Those team names. So like, I think the strength of the Peloton has moved around in different teams and they all have different strengths. And so it's going to offer a very unique dynamic. So if I look at the hitters, I'm looking at, of course, previous Tour de France winner, we got Damien Vollerin, we have Cassia Niyadoma, and Marlon Roussart winning the Tour de Swiss beats Damien Vollullering. So I think, and then you, and Pauline hasn't raced a ton, but when she races, she can win her podium and her preparation, you know, being a world champion in every single discipline and cycling except BMX and track, I think, she has a, could have a very unique preparation. So a lot of altitude camps going on. I wanted to just a little bit dive into

some of these racers being a little quiet, you know? At this time of year. Like Pauline. I mean, Pauline was on the record that she was making, the way I remember it, she was on the record of saying she was switching to the road to focus on the Tour de France and make this a priority. So, I mean, this is going to be very interesting,

obviously also a French writer. And she said it right here on the podcast last year. So listeners, if you want to go back, Pauline was on the podcast saying she was coming back to road and targeting the Tour de France Femmebax Zwift. Her first win this year was Perry Rebay, right? She gets second at Flanders, third at Strade Bianche. And you know, she's very patient in her preparation because she has a very cute story waiting to get a water bottle from you, Lance.

You know, you also you left out Vanda Bregan too, who's also said that this is a really big priority, even though she was only six that the Giro. And I think because there's no time trial, you also have to look at the riders like Sarah Gigante, who had that, she had an amazing finish at the Giro on the Queen stage and made up a lot of time. And when you look at the difference between winning the GC at the Giro and where she finished, it was about a minute and she lost a minute

in her time. So she's climbing really well. Maybe not for the wind, but a podium possibly, you know, and there are a couple mountaintop finishes. Yeah, she also lost a lot of time in crosswind. It was. Well, which I mean, it's definitely a possibility. Yeah. With this route, I mean, in Brittany and even in the massive central, I mean, look, it's bike racing, crosswind is part of it. So that, yeah. Yeah.

And not to stir the pot. So I think Anna van der Bruggen is incredible. Looking at her results, so it's a little sleepy this year. She got second at Stradivianchi to Damie. So at least Damie didn't have to sprint her own teammate, but she also was sprinting her former coach and DS. Anna Van der Bergen is a multiple time Olympic medalist, seven time winner of Flesh Wallone,

world champion in the road race in time trial, four times winning the Giro. But like one Liège-Vastogne-Liège, Flanders, Amstel Gold. She's incredible. But this season she's won a stage at the Volta. So I'm curious, she retired in 2021. She started directing SD Works and she just made her comeback. She's an incredible person. Amazing. Her husband's actually a coach for Visma, Lisa Bike, by the way. He used to race for them. Um, but I think this is going to be interesting not to serve the drama pot here, but, uh, but please do. Thank you. Um, lotta Capecchi world champion also has had a pretty slow start

to our season. I mean, coming back from the lot of that we were watching, spending all these days in yellow and climbing out of her mind and of course winning world championships. And I did quote it's a lot as world we're just living in it. It's a little different. I mean, it's a slower start. I think that she's used to, um, she pulled out of the Giro saying her back hurt, but I'm thinking she pulled out of the Giro to rest up for the tour is my guess. And she has won Flanders this year and the Belgian national time trial. And that's it. That is a different lot of than we saw last year. And so when you're looking at what SD works is coming in, are they going to work for Anna or Lada and Anna Lada are supposed to be very good friends. I think they get along well and Anna is such a sweetheart and she's, I don't know, I think she's very nice woman.

I mean, they all are, but I think they have a couple of cards to play, but both of them haven't had the seasons that we've seen them have before. And Lance, you had a comeback and, you know, Anna retires in 2021 at the top of her game, you know, double gold medalist, world champion, you know, these amazing images and this beautiful racer. And she's coming back in 2025. And I just feel like she's missing that last punch that she needs. Like second at Strata Bianchi is no joke.

Like it's good, but the levels come up. Mari, I mean, it's possible that she, you know, was right. I mean, she was disappointed with her result at the Giro, but she may come through it and have better fitness after it. But looking at it, we'll be able to tell what SD Works is thinking as they go in if Kapecki tries to get into things before the climbs and Anna's holding back and waiting for the mountains. Because they're going to want to protect someone to be able to go forward at the finishes. So I think we all know pretty quickly, you know, what their

strategy is going to kind of look like. I mean, it's great that they have options. I think their strategy is options. Right? Like when you do that as a director, Mari, because they're- Yeah. I mean, I think that Kapecki and, you know, she has such a good chance to get stage wins and I think that that they have to be more confident in the stage wins and the overall I would think so they're going to need to try and get some like maybe they get the yellow jersey on the first day but I think that the stage wins are going to be a big deal for SD works this year because I think that if Demi's riding the way she should be able to ride you know it It's gonna be very hard to beat her.

Well, that was a question I had. Obviously huge news through the off season with Demi Voller and switching teams from SD Works to FTJ. I guess high level, how has that worked out? And thoughts on how it will work out for her. I think she's shining. During the tour for her. I think she's shining. During the tour. Yeah, I think she's shining. She's gonna have a great team supporting her.

She's got Aveda Music, she's got LaBouse writing for her. She's signed huge deals. I mean, she's making a million euro, which is impressive. But also we've had her on the show as well and she's a nature lover. She knows how to train. She likes to hide in her Swiss Alps and spend time with her partner. Her results this year, I mean, she did get second to Marlene Rooser at the Tour de Suisse, but she won star at Bianchi. So I mean, they've had these battles, but she's been a little quiet, except

Lance. This might be interesting. She commented on Tadej Pogacar's Instagram post the other day. Can I swear on this? Because we're not on this. Yeah. But so you know how the Peloton- And we're not live so we can bleep it out if you want later. Oh, I don't care. Yeah. But you know how we've been having these big debates on whether or not the Peloton should have waited for Tadej, wouldn't get that crash, 5k to go. And so he's like, thank you, you know, to the Peloton, thanks for the

respect. And Damie writes on his Instagram and says, looks like you had all this shit I've experienced. Only for me, it cost me a Vuelta GC win and a tour. So she's, she's coming out with some, cause you remember that last year. I remember. Well, how could you forget? By the way, these, these are apples and oranges. I mean, let's just be honest. You know, we all watched, right? And we're like, wait, what are we waiting for?

You got to get going. I mean, Tati Pogatar bounced up like a, like he was on a trampoline. Yeah. She did not bounce up off the trampoline and, and. And the race was on, but she was in yellow and they didn't send one team bait like teammate back for her. But the race was on, like that was the front of the race. It is completely different.

She's on a new team though. So yeah. Yeah. I almost file that up as, as, uh that was then, this is now like, Mar, to your point, new team, new environment, new year, new season, new race. Let's go. Like. And it will make it interesting. I mean, with a different team, you know, like what's going to happen out there. Obviously she has their full support, but since we haven't seen her race, I mean,

it's always hard to predict what someone's going to come out of so much time out of racing, you know? So I think it's going to be pretty interesting and Katja is the same way. Haven't seen her race either. So either they could be flying or they could just not have that last leg. That race legs, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kasia has been a little, yeah, she's a Polish championship. She won that. She got third at the Tour de Swiss and then a lot of fourth places, fourth at Flanders, fourth at Strada

Bianchi. And then the last hitter were, well, there's probably a lot of hitters in there, but Alisa Longo-Berghini just won her second Giro. And she's not a pure climber. She's not a pure time trialist, but this woman races with heart. That's why I like to call her Lambo. She, I had her for the podcast Lance. We missed it. I have her.

She's, she's ready. She's, she's on, but, um, yeah, just don't have pineapple on your pizza. That really makes her mad. But I mean, it was amazing. She had such a good ride at the Giro and it was great to see her win again. But, you know, with Marlon being sick in those last few days, it's kind of like when you're trying to figure out where someone's fitness is and what the form is, you know, it's, it's hard to say, you know, if she's was, it would be better than Marlon in this race, you know.

Marlon was a domestic for a lot of and Amy, you know, last year. So this is going to be a super exciting stage. Also she got fined 750 Swiss francs, lost some UCI points and got a yellow card. And so then I got dived into this yellow card thing, because that's kind of a new thing. She was going into a sprint, she raises her arms and gets mad at a human powered health writer. They didn't even file a protest. It was the jury. And the woman opened up a gap in the sprint. She's in the pink jersey leading the Giro d'Italia and she raises her hand because this gap opens and I think I actually feel bad for the human powered health because they didn't file it

It was just the jury was like you get a yellow card you get This and and I found out so then I was interested if what the yellow card thing was and I was like, oh no What if she gets another yellow card in the tour? That's okay. She can't get three. So it's two yellow cards in one race, such stage race. And you'd need to get three yellow cards within 30 days. Then you're suspended. And they've been rare. I mean, they're not throwing that many of those out there.

No, it was weird. And she has a doctor. So she's our doctor of the Peloton, of course, but she does have a yellow card. Yeah. Yeah. I call her the doctor. Yeah, we should call her the doctor. Mari, let's question about Kristen Faulkner, obviously, our our Olympic Olympic champion American and Chloe

Dygert, right to the both in the race. Kristen has been was was on the record of saying that she's targeting the tour. And that's that's her main focus for the season. I think that's great. And I have actually chatted with her just a little bit. You're the Olympic champion. Savor that enjoy that be celebrated. So be out there and maybe that time of celebratory stuff is passed and now time to focus on the tour. What is this tour? How does it play out for her if you had to guess?

If I had to guess, I would say that a stage win would be a huge, awesome and realistic. You know, I mean, her style of writing where she's opportunist and goes goes for it. I could see her doing that. I think she's going to struggle on the Madeline. But I mean, she may still be if she gets top 10, I think that would be awesome on a climb like that. But I don't see her going for the overall GC. I would think it would be more of a stage. And I think the same for Chloe and Chloe is really strong right now. motivated. So I think that those opening stage, well, not the opening stages, but maybe the middle stages are the ones

where we're gonna see the Chloe's and Voss and Kapecki kind of going for it. It'll be so exciting. You bring up the Madeline, I'm just sitting here looking at the profile. I love looking at this stuff every day. I have enjoyed it the last two weeks. Well, Lance, you have done it. You've done it.

I know I've done it, but these things that, listen, I don't remember. I don't know what is wrong with me. Like I just, I don't, I'm not a reminiscer. I'm not, I don't sit around and reflect. Like I know I've done it. I'm helping, I'm being the Berniel here. I got you. But if you dropped me, for example,

if you drop me there, like that show, Destiny, it put you somewhere blindfolded and take off the blindfold, say, where are you? If you drop me on the Madeline, say, where are you? I was like, I don't know where I am. And by the way, I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but that's just the truth. Anyhow, I'm looking at the profile,

I just love putting this in context for the listener. 18.6 kilometers at 8%. It's hard. That is very hard. What it is is long. It's long. It's been in the Tour de France 27 times and Mari, if you did the Grand Boucou in 2002, you did it twice in one day.

Yeah. And Lance, you've done it twice, by the way. It was first featured in the tour. We've done it the same amount of times. Yeah, see. And I don't remember it either. I mean. I'm here for you guys.

I think this thing's out of my mind. It was first featured in 1969. It has been in the tour, like I said, 27 times. Lance, you have done it twice. The highest you placed was sixth place. but one then, um, but the, in 2004 it helped launch you to attack on Al Duwez. So like it was part of a stage as you only finished on the top once. But, um, I did look up to see if you had the fastest time or anything like that.

You don't know. I knew you wouldn't remember it. And I have never raised up it, but I thought I would, I would help you out there because Johan will text us later. Yeah. And an interesting, like if I, if I just, I mean, we're talking about Madeline and how difficult it is. And if I go to the final stage, now this is a, this is a climb. I remember stage eight, the climb right now it's climb right now, it's awkward because it's in the middle of the stage.

The stage is 124 kilometers long. Right in the middle, they have Col de Jouplan. Col de Jouplan is one I actually remember very well. That was the one where Jan got away from me and I bonked and we had to do the descent and the finish was down in Morzine. It was brutal, but that is a very hard climb. And then of course, but it's only halfway through the stage, right? And then you descend down and then you've got one more category one and then you descend

from that and then on and on. But this is, it's kind of an interesting final stage of the Tour de France. Not a possession. No, not at all, but also a difficult day. Let's just say if you had somebody that just had to go on some sort of a kamikaze attack, this is a hard day to do that. Yeah. I mean, there's over 9,000 feet of elevation in the last 9,450 feet of elevation gain in the final stage.

The final climb is 30 kilometers. The top of the final climb is 30 kilometers from the finish. And it is not necessarily flat. You descend down and it kind of falls flat up to the finish. That's a hard day to make a move, so to speak. Definitely, I think that, you know, you would think that at the top of the Madeline is gonna be where the race is decided,

but there's definitely on this next day, if you don't have a team around you to help to bring things back in the beginning part of the race for all the people trying to attack, it's gonna be a crazy stage, but fun to watch. Took the words out of my mouth. Took the words out of my mouth. Your plan is nasty with a capital N.

You know what? We're going to be having a great time in Aspen covering this, and we are not racing up it, but it is going to be a hell of an exciting race. I had one rider I wanted to bring up that we haven't talked about. It's the name of my cat, but we haven't talked about Puck Peeth. Why do we, I keep hearing about this said cat. There was rumors that the cat was coming to Aspen.

Spencer told me no. No, we're not. No, we don't. Cat was coming to Aspen. Spencer told me no. No, we're not, no. Are you hearing a cat? I'm hearing cat, but I just can't even imagine travel. You can't, you can't, to like a rental, like a cat, cats. Look, and I have nothing against cats,

but anyhow, go back to the writer you were talking about. I did ask if I could bring the cat. I heard a firm. No, I was allowed to bring, bring blaze, thankfully. But, um, so puck though is interesting. She was our best young rider, uh, last year in the tour. And remember this, a tour to France from effects with was her first stage race. She's ever done.

She's a world champion in mountain bike, cyclocross. She's incredible. A U two three world champion as well and road well in road. But she won flesh this year, which was super exciting to watch. And because this girl races elbows out, and I think we just really enjoyed watching her. She's just like a spitfire and she just doesn't, she's 23 years old at the moment and she doesn't know her road racing capability. And she launches on flesh and wins it. Like Anna Vanderbrink has won it seven times and puck just looked like she was doing a

mountain bike short track start. She's super fun to watch on mountain biking. But I mean, she's coming back. She hasn't raced a ton of road. She's done maybe 10 road races, world tour races this year. She's never finished outside of the top 10. So she won flesh, uh, second at LBL, third at Amstel. Uh, of course she wins all the world cup mountain bikes races. She basically enters. So a week ago, she kind of had a bad crash in the world cup mountain bike. And then she's like, I have a week to become a

roadie. So she's doing this fun, like road to roadie. And I'm not saying she's a GC contender, but that woman just is so exciting to watch because I don't think she knows that her capacity as a road racer yet. She's not developed in this form. And she does, I listened to this interview where they were like, oh, so you're getting,

you're ready for the tour. And she goes, no, I do road racing for fun. Mountain biking's my job. Yeah, it's a part're getting ready for the tour. And she goes, no, I do road racing for fun. Mountain biking's my job. Yeah, it's part time side hustle. Yeah. I mean, she's the one that she chugged the beer. Did you see that, Lance?

Amstel, she was on the podium of Amstel and everyone's like sipping their beer and Puck just like grabs it. And she chugs the whole thing. She probably weighs like, well, she's 55 kilos. But yeah, small little thing, but she will be interesting to watch anything very dynamic for Alpecin Phoenix.

Yeah. And I should have mentioned at the top, but this is just so cool for us. Our show, our little show here, right here, the three of us gonna be live on Peacock. It's been interesting. I say it's been interesting. It's actually been, and I think we've done it the right way.

We just been doing it like we always do it. Let's take a commercial break in the middle. But what a hit. That's awesome. I didn't know I could say anything about it. I was so excited. It's like two minutes and 32 seconds. Can I do that when we're on the show?

Yeah. Well, you can only do that if you go back and watch Chuck Woolery highlights on YouTube from him hosting Love Connection for many, many years. I have no idea what that is. Well, I'll send you some links. That's because you're young. Mari and I are old enough to remember Love Connection and Chuck Woolery and you know this Debonair dude and anyways, but it's been great. It's been great and just awesome. I'm super excited. It's going to be a lot of work for you Lance those first couple days though. This is what I was sort of hinting at at the start and if I, I mean I'll go through the

websites here or the road books and look at how they're staggering. I mean, it's a lot of work for the tour. They have two days of the men's race, which are eventful days, right? They've tweaked the finish into Paris. That is no longer sort of a procession. They're doing more March and, you know, very similar to the Olympic course. So they got to focus on that. And then they have to start the women's tour and allow viewers to watch both and also allow us to watch both and cover both.

But yeah, we'll just have to, and speaking of Peacock, I'm sure surely they've figured out how these things stack up. So does that mean Emily and I are working out with you, George and- things stack up. Does that mean me and I are working out with you, George? And, you know, sure. You know, George is a little more Instagram workouts. To be honest.

Well, we don't want to ride with him. We've heard so. No, I don't. But I am a little disappointed. Lance, you have your hat on. Were you worried about your hair? I am having a bad hair day. That's, that's for sure. And I am not, we're getting off topic here, but that's, I'm, since you asked, I am after this,

gonna, I'm gonna slightly, um, I'm going to get a slight, uh, uh, tweet. I'm going to trim my hair a little bit. And so it's just getting a little gross. I'm not going to cut that. I'm not buckling to this pressure. Do not. Do not.

All these. I am here for affirmations. Your hair looks great. The thing, the top and the stain, but just a little, it's just getting a little dirty. You know what I mean, Mari? Mari can be our fashion icon. By the way Mari, that we had the best time in Hawaii. Let me tell you all-

I don't even wanna talk about that. But let me tell the listener this, all right? Everybody knows Mari Holden can ride a bike. Got a silver medal in the Olympics in the time trial. Let me just say this for the record, home girl can swim fast. I was like, she's like, oh, we're going to do this open water swim. I was like, uh, I've swam with some cyclists. Like it's not too good. Home girl can swim. Oh, like getting my hair wet.

That was so fun. So good. Homegirl can swim. Oh, like getting my hair what I was so fun. So good. I'm perfecting my rock workout though. Yeah, rock running, rock running down. Whatever you crush the rock rock running. Laird Hamilton, your heart out bro. Crushed it. But no, we have damn good time. I'm glad you guys did. I have Mari and find my friends. So I do know where she is.

She knows where I am. I know. I realized that the other day. I'm still on your, you're still following me everywhere. I am. I'm like, oh, she's in Jackson Hole. Oh, she's in Hawaii. Oh, Mari is just at Rosewood.

Okay. Any, before we go, anything else stand out here? Uh, we've touched it. Well, we touched on obviously Chloe, um, and Kristen, any other Americans that we should recognize? How many Americans total in this, in this year's tour de France, family of eggs with? I was digging into that and a lot of the rosters aren't super finalized. Is the EF girl, oh, and I'm spacing. What is the climber on EF, American girl? When?

Let me see. But ballpark. I mean, it's less than a handful. Yeah, it's less than a handful. Okay. But we have two really good stage hunters on two different teams. Obviously, we have Faulkner and Dygert, I think both have a huge shot at a stage win. And even without their time

trial. So I think that's going to be very fun to watch. And especially the way the course is set up, but no day is easy. There's not one day where you're like, that's gonna be a snoozer. Everything's very punchy. It's gonna be very feisty and spicy, which is going to give a huge opportunity for stage winners. And I think those courses both suit them quite well, like all like, besides the huge mountain stages, unless they're in a break, but I don't think that'll happen. Because they're very, those are tough. It's tough. are very, um, those are tough.

It's tough. Um, you are so motivated. I mean, they're, they're really going to be going for it. This is super important to them. I know for Chloe, she's been really focused on this. Yeah. That'd be what a story that would be. Yeah.

We're have a lot of good stories. I think Lance, you're going to be on the edge of your seat and fangirling with your great new haircut. And my new cowgirl t-shirt. Hey, you know what? You never know what's going to happen. I'm down for whatever. I'm just also seeing, and cause this would have made a difference last year.

Let's just cover this because I'm seeing, as has been the case in the past, these time bonuses within the stages. You go to stage two, 87 kilometers. What are, what are we, how are they waiting those this year? And it's like on a non categorized climb as well. Right. But what is it? 10, six,64? Is it? I believe it's 1064. I mean, that's a lot. That starts to be, look, that's stage.

Six, there's one. Stage two, there's one. I mean, that could change the yellow jersey even. Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, it's easy to sit here and go, well, 10 seconds. But, you know, Nia Doma won the dang bike race by four seconds last year. So all I'm seeing is stage two. Also interesting right here towards the finish

of stage five, right? Yes. So yeah, I mean, you started getting a couple of those, two 10s, I mean, you started getting a couple of those two tens as well. I mean, it matters. Well, we'll have fun watching that. Sounds hard. Stage six.

Stage six as well. Yeah, that's what I was saying. Yeah, towards the end. It's not categorized client, but it's still. Yeah, but they just put them in there. And if you're there, so we've got, I mean, it matters. I'm curious what the, if it's, and that's, those are the ones, right? And here we are, Madeline, obviously nothing. You can go get your own time on that stage. How about the final day? Nope. No, no, no. That's, that's appropriate.

Um, yeah, the final day is brutal. That can matter. Keep an eye on that. All right. Well, what do we have a week? Yep. I guess I'm not bringing my cat, but I'll be there in no no puppy too. Well I haven't picked him up yet, but next year he'll be there. Yeah, you know, Pitkin County just put out an alert. Uh, no felines from California are allowed. There's something, there's something. No, I'm serious. Like it

was, it was a county wide, uh, notification. I need that. I don't know what's going on, but it's an Aspen thing. Boy, we could have a lot of fun with this. Nevermind. Do not bring your... No, I'm just kidding. No, no. All right. On that note, on that note.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a hell of a bike race coming up. Yeah. And let's hope for one like last year. I mean, I, it's, it's, I struggle with the men's race. It's, it's, it's amazing watching what I do consider the greatest of all time. But it's, he's so unbeatable. Right? So as a fan, like we have to sit there as fans, and then you reflect back to last year's Tour de France family of ex-Swift coming right down to it. Like that's sports. Like that's what you want.

I mean, that's, they're in the red zone, the two minute offense, whatever. Like it's, you don't know what's going to happen. Like pretty bad ass. And all the teams split up. We've got some serious spicy racing. You're going to have so much fun with us. Lance. Every yellow cards. We got yellow. I'll do some drama. Lama. We're

going to have a great time. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Cool. I'm looking forward to it. I will see y'all in a couple of days. And of course, Twitter friends, fam of ex with kicks off next Saturday, week from today. Yeah, watch the film. Watch the film. Oh, do I get to do it, Lance? No, not you got to do it in person. No, I can do it. Okay.

Do it in person. All right, we'll see you all in a couple of days. All right, bye. Bye. There it is. See you do it. Thanks for watching!