THEMOVE - Tour de France Stage 2 | The Sir Wiggo & Johan Show

Episode Date: July 6, 2025

Johan Bruyneel and Sir Bradley Wiggins peel back the curtain on the tactics, strategy, and pivotal moments that shaped Stage 2 of the 2025 Tour de France, offering sharp analysis and insider perspective you won’t hear anywhere else. NordVPN: Get your Exclusive NordVPN deal here → https://nordvpn.com/themove It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! Ketone-IQ: Take your shot: Get 30% off your subscription, plus a free gift with your second shipment at https://Ketone.com/themove Ventum: Enter Ventum Trivia of the Day for a chance to win the Grand Prize: $5,000 of store credit towards any Ventum bike. Don’t want to leave it to chance, 10% off sitewide using the code THEMOVE10 or 20% off any NS1 road bike build with code NS120  https://ventumracing.com/themove/

For the last four or five years, we've only ever spoken about two teams that have dominated the Tour de France. That's true. We've talked about two riders. I mean, if you think about the last five Tour de France, there's two riders who won it. And it's not to be ended, you know, because these guys are still full, full, full on top. And there's no for the moment, there's no signs of any of those two Jonas or Tabé slowing down. I'm the 2012 Tour de France winner, Sir Bradley Wiggins. And I'm Johan Bruniel. 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. Okay, Bradley, well, let's talk about stage two. We saw a very nervous stage again, 209 kilometers. Strangely enough, the longest stage of this whole Tour de France, things have changed. But I think you can't compare anything to 10 years ago, 15 years ago. It's just a different game. A bit of rain at the start. So that's obviously very stressful. And the typical four-man breakaway peloton kept it at two and a half minutes. We had a few crashes.

We saw Von Eidfeld, we saw what's his name? The Irish guy from Angeko. That's not good. Eddie Dunbar. Eddie Dunbar. That's not good. Eddie Dunbar. Eddie Dunbar. Eddie Dunbar. Yeah.

I mean, you know, so what I wanted to ask you, Bradley, but, you know, we were going to talk about how the stage developed in a little bit. And it was as we expected, you know, it was nervous and teams fighting for position. And then finally on those last three climbs, it split a bit. But you know, the amount of times that you're holding your breath when you see these helicopter shots, you know, when they almost crash, describe a bit, you know, what it feels like on the bike, you know, because I know that I know that usually it's completely different when you're in it than when you watch it, but still describe a bit the feeling you have when you're in that washing machine. Yeah, I mean, when you're watching it, I think it's 10 times worth when you're actually in

it because it's, you know, every, well, the thing is in these early stages like this, everyone's shoulder to shoulder, everyone's waiting for the hammer to go down so it lines out so it creates a natural selection. But when it's not flat out, it's just that awkward sort of speed where everyone can be there and everyone's trying to do a job. There's all different team dynamics going on in those moments. And it's incredibly nervous and people are anticipating and waiting for a crash to happen. It's not a case of if they will crash, it's a case of when they will crash. And so with that, it creates this anxiety in the peloton and this atmosphere of nervousness, where everyone wants to be five bikes ahead of where they're already sitting, even if they don't

need to be, they want to be. So it's creates this domino effect where people are moving up the outside and this washing machine is set where teams are coming up the outside because they're not happy with where they're sat. They may be sat 20th wheel, 30th wheel. And as more teams come up the outside, you end up back in 50th wheel. And as more teams come up the outside, you end up back in 50th wheel. So you start the process of moving back up again. And this is just constant. And every time that happens and more teams start to move up,

it adds a couple of kilometers an hour each time to the speed in the Peloton. So it gets faster and faster and faster. Then eventually something happens, a corner, a piece of road traffic. There's a small incident on the right or the left. As we saw today, a cofferdist rider go off the road into the bush. That creates more unnervousness. So people go, great, we're sat too far back here if this guy's crashing. Let's move up a bit more.

And so it gets faster and faster and faster. And it's just, it crescendos. Something happens in the race, either a huge crash or a decision making split. Yeah. And also I think it's worth noting. I mean, I want people to understand that it's not just about avoiding the risk, but the amount of energy it takes and how it drains you down, you know, just constant. I know. And so, you know, like sometimes they say, Oh, you know, it's a flat stage and you talk to these writers and say, we are dead, dead. Yeah. You know, yeah. And it's, it's a

nervous energy that you expend doing that. And then at the same time, while all that's going on, you've got to make sure where your team leader is. If you're the team lead, you've got to remember to keep eating. You know, it's just, it's, there's so many things to think about. And in these early stages, so little time to switch off and take your mind away from the bike race. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Sure. Sure. Well, this show, uh, are presenting sponsors, Keto and IQ, uh, which we're going to talk about a bit later, but let's talk first about our first sponsor today, Bradley. Yeah, it's NordVPN.

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it adds another two kilometers speed every time that there's a nervous, even without chasing, this breakaway, no chance, right? Because the inertia of the race basically takes care of the speed of the Peloton. Yeah, that's right. But man, with 30K to go, like, that's when they got into I mean, and then nowadays, you know, there's no more surprises. Everybody

knows the course they have videos, they have fellow viewer, they know everything. Plus, on top of that, all the teams, especially in the tour, they have cars up front to go scout and report back to the cars. But that stress with 30 K to go and we saw this mind really, really becoming to the front. Yeah. Yesterday and today, I think either today and Jonas, they were really, really in front. But on that first, on that first climb, we saw first Walt van Aert and then Matteo Jorgensen. And there was a split already. It was it was, you know, after they came back, but it was already really split.

Yeah, Tispenu, you know, these these riders who are here for the three week tour, you know, in terms of the job they're going to have to do for their respective leaders. They're already spending a lot of energy. We saw Tispenu basically doing a podgeo style lead out on that climb and swinging off and basically stopping. Camping out is the same many times today. So we talk about the energy expended by the big guys, the Tadejs of this world, Jonas Vingergaard.

But the team are also expending. These guys are going to be here and important figures later on. We saw Wout van Aert today back to the front, which was good news, I think, for all of us as fans of well, you know, he seems to be finding his legs again after that illness. But yeah, I know teams are not resting on their laurels in this race, you know, and the we're in two days down and already we're seeing the two big teams in this race using up a lot of a lot of chips early on. Yeah. Well, in terms of Vismalisa bag, one thing that I'm noticing is that they,

obviously they have an incredibly strong team. I think for the moment, I mean, it's maybe my subjective point of view, but they look a bit stronger horsepower wise than UAE, or is it because they're more organized. But, um, if you look closely, Bradley, they have this whole, all these guys around him are around Jonas, but Simon Yates and Sepkus are nowhere to be seen. They are surfing in the back of the Peloton saving energy, which are the two

guys and I mean, Matteo Jorgensen needs to be up there because they want to keep him in front of the GC. But those two climbers are nowhere to be seen. Same thing goes with UAE. Okay, Almeida made the split today, but otherwise he's never in the front. And Adam Yates is also always saving himself. But it does take a lot out of those big guys, those big engines. I remember back in the days with Postal and Discovery, the amount of work George and Paternos and Ekimov had to do in those stages. That's really, I mean, that's something that really underestimated because every day is a classic. And the way they recover is just amazing. But anyway, so we get into those climbs and we see straight away the guys we expected, right?

The GC guys, Remco, really good today, I would say, compared to yesterday, he was there. Yeah, he was good, yeah. And his team was also really taking care of him. Something tells me, I mean, I saw an interview of Remco afterwards that yesterday they got, they got caught napping. They kind of decided already, okay, nothing's going to happen anymore from now on. They caught out, but today he was there. And it was amazing to see that on the steepest climb,

that one kilometer 10%, we had, we had Mathieu van der Poel and then all the other guys who are GC guys. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, van der Poel looked really strong on that climb actually. Yeah. He's probably as good as we've ever seen him really at the Tour de France.

Well certainly four years ago when he won on Mille de Bretagne, but he's really, really in good shape at the moment. And I wouldn't be surprised if he wins another stage in his first week, where he's going. Yeah, I think he's in, I mean, in our recap of the Dauphiné, I think I said something along the lines of Mathieu van der Poel did an intensity training camp during the Dauphiné. He was amazing there. But he was, you could see he was playing, he was, you know, managing his efforts and he took it as training.

he was playing, he was managing his efforts and he took it as training. But the power today on that climb and especially in the sprint, Bradley was incredible because he basically did everything wrong. He was way too early in the sprint and once he got going, Tad me today was on the wheel and he could hardly help the wheel. Right. Um, I w I'm happy to see much of on the pool, uh, you know, it's four years, four years after his last state, but at least now he has a picture in the yellow jersey without a mouth mask. Yes. Yeah. Remember he took the yellow jersey. Yeah. Yeah. I do. Yeah. Yeah. But what a writer. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Incredible. And Eunice actually got distance a little bit in that kick to the line. Yeah. He didn't lose any time, but he's certainly, you know, it's, it reminded me of the attack that Tade did in the Dauphiné when Eunice was just, just couldn't, those top end powers when they really going for it on an uphill.

But Eunice did played it really well today. I thought, you know, again, he was a little bit excitable. We saw him on we saw him cause that split on that descendant. We educated over just over the top. Yeah. I mean, you can ask yourself the question of is that really necessary? I think it's not. It's not. No, but it's also a way to make sure that you stay in front and that it keeps being strung out and you stay out of trouble. I think being, I mean, losing the wheel a little bit in the sprint from you and us, I think it's to be expected, right?

Yeah. Yeah. There's no way you can hold Matthew on the pools wheel in the case of you and us. And, and today is also super explosive. Let's not forget that today beat and dropped Mathieu van der Poel in his own backyard in the Tour of Flanders. So yeah, I mean, Mathieu van der Poel first, Pogacar second, Jonas third. It doesn't get any better than this. No, no, no. And as you said, Remco, good ride today. He's back in the fold. You know, what's he called? Rolich.

He was back there as well. Comfortable in that group. Yeah. He didn't make the first split, but then I think, I think, brought him back. Lippowitz is strong, man. Because this guy, he's not, he's not a master in positioning, but he brought him back. And then on top of that, he attacked in the end. I was hoping, I was hoping, you know, I think you guys talked about it on the move, right?

I was hoping we could see, I could foresee, I mean, if the favorites didn't win, I could foresee a scenario where on the top of the last climb, there was about four and a half K to the bottom of the last time that it was a guy who took a flyer and, uh, and made it, uh, and my pick had been Kevin Vokola, um, to do that. So he tried it a few times. I was, I was rooting for him. Yeah. At the end of the day, you know, there's no, I mean, usually nowadays the favorites win the race. Yeah. I mean, I'll tell you, I was really, really impressed with today. Um, you know, is, uh, Mattel Jorgensen. Yeah. I mean, I'll tell you, I was really, really impressed with today. You know, is Matteo Jorgensen. Yeah, he showed he showed his class yet again today. He's a really calming figure, I think, for Eunice. He's going to be the most important teammate

over the next three weeks. But, you know, right where he needed to be every step of the way today, right to the finish, but always side by side, he always let Eunice do what he wanted to do. And Matteo was never far away. Yeah, there was one moment when Jonas got a bit nervous. And so he went to the front and he was in the wind. And then you see Matteo looking at him and just going in front and protecting him. Right. So I agree. He's in amazing shape. Other than that, Bradley, so we have these guys, the favorites, and we have the guys who are not where they are expected. But before we go into that, I want to talk

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Yeah. Bradley, a part of the guys who are in the front, who are right now not where they should be and and who is disappointing? Well I mean so you know is it a disappointment? Yates twins I mean terrible first weekend for them both. Yeah. But are we really thinking of we're not we're certainly not thinking about them for GC they're going to be the two important riders for their respective leaders in the next few weeks. So the fact they've stayed upright, the fact that there's healthy is a positive. But there was talk

of people expecting them to be in front today, you know, but because these stages are just as important. But I think the eights in particular, I think we can give them a pass because we want to see them in the high mountains. The other one I noticed today, again, he did have a crash yesterday, even though he was in the front was Ben O'Connor. He got dropped a bit in the final today, lost 31 seconds again today, I think, or 43, I can't remember what it was,

but Ben, you know, fell hard yesterday, didn't he? Crashed heavy, and he was in the front when he did crash. Yeah, I agree. And then for me, for the moment, the disappointment is, is Timmy Nails. You know, the GC guy is Carlos Rodriguez hasn't been, hasn't been on the level we expect him to be. You know, he did have in his favor or in his defense, he did have a crash early in the season, very complicated collarbone fracture, which they took a lot more time to recover from. But you know, he was not at the level we expected him to be at the Dauphiné. And today he also lost time again. And they had, you

know, their British champion was in front. Sam Watson, yeah. Yeah, Sam Watson was in front. Sam Watson. Yeah, Sam Watson was in front. Yeah, very young boy. And was Axel Rans not in the front? I didn't see whether he was in the front. Maybe he was. But anyways, I think that's a disappointment. So I just wanted to ask your opinion. I mean, it's been in the news, Bradley, that, you know, obviously in AOS, they're restructuring, they got a new sponsor in Total Energies. Obviously also going forward they will be on board. And then one of the news items we saw before the tour is that Dave Brailsford is back with immediate effect on the team and I've seen somewhere also actually in the team car. What are your thoughts about that?

Well, I mean, it was a surprise to me, but at the same time, it wasn't a surprise. Obviously, his time at Man United was disappointing and it's not worked out there for him. And I guess the next natural thing, Dave ultimately is a huge cycling fan and Dave's first passion and love is the sport of cycling. So I imagine he has been watching the last few years from afar and seeing how INEOS has developed, you know, bearing in mind Dave, you know, had created a winning culture there. I mean, how many tours we won, they were Geraint, myself, Chris Froome, you know, Egan Bernal. So there is a natural feeling that his presence, you know, was always going to happen again coming back

to the team, particularly the lackluster performances of the last few years. I guess there's some work to be done from that. And Dave, if anything, I can't imagine Dave coming in and having an instant impact on this year's race. It's too little too late in many ways. But what he will be doing, I imagine, more so than anything in his role this three weeks, will be taking notes, observing what's going on,

what the current setup is like, in order to make changes for next year and the next few years and see where they can get back to winning ways and that winning culture. Because one thing Doug Dave is very good at is creating a winning culture, Because one thing Dave is very good at is creating a winning culture, particularly in the sport cycling. I can't speak for other sports he's done.

It took me a few days to think about that, actually, Johan, because of my own personal feelings towards him. I had to separate the two because my judgment was being clouded by what I know about him and what I know he's done. And so, you know, I've had a thought about what was the actual skill set and what can he bring to this team in this tour to France. So that's my view on Dave. I think this is more of a project for next year and where this team is going because left as it is, you know, there's a chance that this team will dwindle down the rankings even more. And there's no direction of what they're good at, particularly with Grant Thomas retiring now. And it's a young squad. There's a lot of young British riders on that squad and young talent.

Yeah. Well, I mean, I think it's good news to know, I mean, because at some point earlier in the season and last year, I was looking what happened there and I was almost convinced that the team was going to disappear. That Ineos wasn to disappear, that that the NAOs wasn't interested anymore, that Radcliffe wasn't interested anymore to keep going. So the fact that Balefield comes back, I think it's good for the team. And also, I mean, I don't know if it's confirmed, but I've seen quite a few reports is also that Grant Thomas is retiring and is going to get a major management role within the team. What do you know about that?

Well, I think there's talk of a development team next year. Yeah. You know, with... It's been confirmed. Yeah, it's been confirmed. Yeah. I'm not sure whether Grant Thomas's role is going to be within that development program. Obviously, it's all one now anyway, but I think that's a great... Grant is going to adapt into that role brilliantly. Yeah, I think that's a great grind. He's going to adapt into that role brilliantly. He's got so much to offer. He's a great guy.

I think they need a guy like him, who's been there from the beginning, seen it all, and still is in touch with actual cycling. Because believe it or not, Brailsford has been what for three, four years, five years, maybe it's, it's long enough to not be in touch anymore with, with what's going on right now. Sports changed a lot. He needs to catch up. So it's not anymore. You know, I mean, you said it before Bradley, when we were off, off, off, uh, before the show, you know, the, you have a son, a young son who's racing professionally and his numbers right now are equal to your board. That's what you want.

Tour. It's crazy. You know, and, and so, um, and, and, but yeah, so, um, I think, I think it's a good thing that Brails was coming back and I think it's even better news if Grant Thomas, uh, gets a really, really important role on INAOS because that team just can't afford to be where they are right now. They need to be up there with the top three guys, with the top three teams, right?

Yeah. Yeah. And I think they will, you know, as I say, you know, with Dave's return, you know, Dave will dissect this Tour de France, whatever the performance is. And one thing Dave will do is he will go away and dissect it and make changes and do what's necessary to get them back. And then part of that will be looking at what other teams are doing, the best teams, because Dave has always looked to other teams to see what the best teams are doing, but not to imitate it, but to create his own vision for how

Ineos can get back to winning ways at the highest level, which is the Tour de France. Because for the last four or five years, we've only ever spoken about two teams that have dominated the Tour de France. That's true. We've talked about two riders. I mean, if you think about the last five Tour de France, there's two riders who won it. And it's not to be ended, you know, because these guys are still full, full, full on top. And there's no, for the moment, there's no signs of any of those two Jonas or today slowing down. Well what's the stat Johan? There's only three teams that have won the last however many monuments? Yeah it's Alpecin and UAE and which one is the other one? It's not Visma

but they didn't win any monuments or not many. Spencer, what's the three stats? Three teams that won the last 14 monuments. Yeah, three teams that won the last 14 monuments, which is... Wow, that's crazy. It shows the dominance inside of them. I don't want to leave before we talk about Alpecin and the Koenig and the Roots of the Wothers and what they've created and how they are able to every time be there at the right moment. You know, that's two for two. Yesterday we all said, you know, Merlier was the big favorite, Milan was the big favorite,

Jasper Phillipson shows that he's the Tour de France rider by excellence, winning the first stage, taking the first yellow jersey today. It was like as if it was programmed. And of course, it's easy to set up a plan when you have the horsepower of Mathieu van der Poel. But he was by himself and he brought it home. So congrats to Christoph and Philippe Rothhoff, what they're doing, where they come from. If you look at the budgets of all the teams, they are in the lower tier. They're in the middle somewhere. They're not one of the top five or six biggest budgets.

So, you know, it's really amazing what they're doing. No, and you think what they potentially could do the next week. I mean, they've got tomorrow. I mean, you won't discount Jasper Phillips and winning again. Oh, no, no, for sure. You know, we've got we've got Vanderpoel potentially could win another stage. He's won on Mure de Bretagne before. I mean, it's quite something.

When was the last time one team won the first three stages of the Tour de France? That would be something. That would be quite something. It would have to have been a sprinter, right? But yeah, that would be quite something. It's not impossible. I mean, especially, and also when you see Bradley,

you know this very well, especially at the Tour de France. You know, it's war, right? But the sooner a team wins, it has this snowball effect. You're in this dynamic of winning the winning mode. And it just all so much easier, you know, the stress is gone, they're not nervous, they'd make less mistakes because they can be kind of more relaxed because right now, more than half of the teams, if not more, are not going to win two stages in the tour and they have done their job already. Right.

Yeah. So, so I can, I mean, that would be something to see tomorrow. Again, a stage run off of, of, of Jasper Phillips. And that would be, that would be amazing. Yeah. That'd be incredible. That would be amazing. One other thing I know that when looking at the two different interviews, Mathieu van der Poel, Polstrais interview said, you know, well, it was a lot harder than I expected

actually, the final. And then contrast, Almeida, who came to the front and started to, he's the guy who actually pulled, was it Wökelhamn? Did he pull Wökelhamn back? Yeah, I think so. And he said, yeah, you know, it was stressful, but it was not as hard as we thought. So, you know, to really, it also shows Almeida's in great form, you know, he's in great form. If he can, he's going to be for sure Pogacar's main guy in the mountains. I would, you know, what do you think about this? I mean,

me as an ex-director, I'm still struggling with the fact that, you know, if you go for the tour, that you allow these other guys to go for their own GC. Like for example, if I'll make, because I made up potentially could be on the podium. He's probably the third strongest writer in the, in the, in the race. Going off what we've seen. Right. But, uh, what, what happens to, you know, a guy who does his job, takes the last pool and then sets up, sits up and saves everything he has to be there again for the leader. That doesn't happen anymore. What's your thoughts on that?

No, I don't know. I mean, it's a tough one that isn't it? You know, I mean, obviously when I was riding the 200,000 as well with a Froomy, Froomy was the last guy, you know, but we were first and second on GC. And I guess there's an element if I fell away, you know, Froomy was there to take over. But yeah, I think more than anything these days, as we saw in the Giro, you know, it's good to have strength in numbers to play different tactical cards, you know, to create fear when you get someone up the road who's, you know, it cancels out you having to ride and it puts the opposing team having to ride

if they're fearful of losing. And then also now, you know, something we haven't mentioned is, is the importance of how, of how teams view the team classification now, you know, and keeping as many riders up there for the team classification. Really? You know, I think so. Yeah. I mean, Movistar would renowned for it back in the day, wouldn't they? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they were very famous for that. That was their number one objective was to the team. I remember one, I mean, in all the tours, in all the tours that Lance won, we've never, never gone for the team classification. We actually used it strategically to our advantage to give it to another team. But obviously that has changed. Yeah, I mean, maybe, maybe I still think, I mean, once, okay, I can understand in the beginning phase of the tour, until you get to the mountains, you try to keep these guys upfront. But once you have the first big mountain stage and you know, there's a big attack of the favorite and then, you

know, the things are straight. Yeah, it's difficult. It's difficult. It's all I guess it's also a way of keeping the egos happy, right? Because, yeah, there is not easy to keep these guys on the team, right? I mean, a guy like Almay, that would probably have a huge offers from any other team to be the leader, but yet he stays at the lead. Yeah. Yeah. And I wonder if there's ever going to be a scenario, I can't imagine a scenario where Almeida's third on GC, Tadej's in the yellow jersey, Almeida's a minute down and they strategically place Almeida in a breakaway that takes three minutes and Tadej's team

don't have to ride. Would there ever be a situation where Tadej would give the race to Almeida in a position like that? I can't imagine that ever happening. That's very difficult to imagine. I can't ever imagine that happening. So it goes back to your point that is there, what's the point in keeping Almeida close in GC to finish two riders on the podium? I mean, other than keeping egos happy.

Yeah. And also, I mean, you brought it up. I mean, it is right to think that, you know, something can happen to a leader. And then it's obviously, you have somebody else in front of the GC, right? Yeah, yeah. We're almost done.

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Question for today is... I know you know the question for today, Bradley? Question for today is... I know you know the answer. What was the longest ever Tour de France? So that's the question. What's the distance of the longest Tour de France ever in history. As I said, send your answers to VentumRacing.com and you can win $5,000 off any bike you want. Tomorrow's stage Bradley? Yeah, I mean tomorrow's stage it's going to be a sprint stage to Dunkirk. That small climb 20-30km to go, Montcastel, which we all know from the four days of Dunkirk.

The only thing that could really impact tomorrow is as we know the road, you know, obviously starts in Valenciennes, Paris-Roubaix roads without the cobbles tomorrow or she is the left rights, you know, classic Paris-Roubaix in between cobble section roads. The wind could play its part tomorrow, a little bit of rain during the night, wet roads at times, maybe some showers tomorrow. But it's another one, another tough day, much similar to the first day. Another stress fest. Stressful day for a lot of guys after two days of hard racing. I think tomorrow though, I mean, it's going to be a straight sprint. The wind, it will create nerves. But from what I've seen in the last 30, 40K, it's more of a headwind.

So that will calm the peloton down a bit. But yeah, we'll probably see the first real sprint, but hopefully all the sprinters there, because yesterday was different. And we'll be back tomorrow for Stage 3. Yeah, look forward to it. Thanks for having us. And speak soon. See you later.