1.Hello you beautiful cycling fans and welcome back to another A1 Tour…

Hello you beautiful cycling fans and welcome back to another A1 Tour de France show special. So we're three weeks in and it is all done and dusted. It's been an amazing Tour de France and today I'm going to have a look back at Kayla Bion who took victory today. I'm going to have a look back at overall winner Eigen Barnal, what it means for Colombia to have their first ever grand tour winner. Where does this leave Grand Thomas in the sky pecking order now with four grand tour stage winners on the current Ineos roster. Gonna have a look at Wiggins sauce on the back of the motorbike. How other teams need to raise their game. What it means for Luke Groat and not beyond the Shaun's Alize. And will we have a forced ever Colombian world tour cycling team. So we got a busy show ahead. So So when I'm further ado, I'm going to jump right in. So our stage today, they call it the Sprinters World Championships, race down the Champs-Elysé. We finished off with Caleb Yoon taking the win, Dylan Granaweg in second and Bonifacio a little bit unexpected on the podium, but after three weeks of race, the farmbook is nearly out the window. It's hard to know how so many sprinters have come through the Alps and the Pyrenees. I had myself a little wager on to this stage on Paddy Power. I got Saigon, I think at 6 to 1 and then I got Caleb, I'm gonna say 15 to 8. Look, there was big money stuff there, the tenor on Saigon. It was kind of my bet that I was looking to come in. As I said yesterday, show, heart set Saigon, head set Caleb. So I went with a 10 euro on Saigon at 6 to 1 and a 5 or on Caleb to hedge So Caleb won and I ended up breaking even so very exciting stuff there my hedging betting strategy Look it worked well It's I think if you know the if you know your cycling and especially if you're listening to you sort of daily podcast You're keeping a breast to your cycling You probably know a lot more than the bookmaker and it's quite easy to pick out those smart little bets Like you know if you had a blade a little bit like like a Grunewagen Caleb and then Viviani, for everyone each of them. You're almost guaranteed to take the win out of the trade and you're gonna come out ahead. So it, very, very easy to beat the bookies on the cycling stuff, especially on stages like that. They're a little bit formulaic and we have a good idea. You know, we know what a break's never. Has a break ever stayed away on the shots, Lisa, I don't think so. Not that I can remember anyway. I was saying Greg Van Evermaert had a good ping off at their late British shows, which fast these lead-out trains are gone because Van Avermard had a good ping off it and we know the power he has he's insane or he looks a bit chunky this year. I don't know what the story is in me he definitely looks chunky and that CCC's brat a kid's name on the mountain forum. He's absolutely hit our old BMC and he would be one of my favourite roiters but he doesn't know he looks a bit tired and old and withered or something this season he needs to get himself on that red light therapy. Yes, he's very, but anyway, he still got that big horsepower. So, he took a floor at 4 or 5k to go with the shoot. So easily shut down, it was untrue. Some sprinters had bad locust balls, we'll call them for, to use a disparaging phrase, we'll call them second-tier sprinters. Michael Machus and Sony Calbrelli both had mechanicals. And so it the last 15k or so. Yeah, Cabrelli got back in here. A nice little domestic to drop back from Vincenzo and Eblie. 11 grand tour podiums for Vincenzo and Eblie. The best GC rider of a generation. Chris Frome and Cleo would have to save Vincenzo and Eblie at the moment. Obviously he's a lot more chapters to write in that legacy. I think Frome's forward toward the France wins and a well to win. Yeah, it's pretty hard to, Naby's consistency 11 podiums is insane and when you throw in your Milan San Ramos into that equation, I just tip it to Naby over from, but from his back, from, from, from his back, from a, from his back on the trainer, he's back with one leg, you'd have to wonder if that's the owner's recovery and he goes, it looks like it's brutal painful, he's one leg on a sponge or some shit and he's got the other leg pedaling away more for the cameras I'd say or maybe for his morale. I've been that soldier myself. I remember breaking a collarbone in racing in Canada. No, I was racing in Florida on a block of the collarbone. I was rehabbing in Toronto and going back to Toronto, getting the surgery and like a day after the surgery, two days after the surgery, back on the tourbo-trainer, cutting all the bars, sitting up, rowing some sort of shelf to prop my arm up, back on the tourbo-trainer, barely turn their legs, the road rash to fuck all over and just looking back like what benefit are you getting out of them sessions?

2.Mentally challenging to get 15 minutes in in that extreme pain using…

So so mentally challenging to get 15 minutes in in that extreme pain using some sort of opioid based pain killer at the time OxyContin I think it was highly addictive. I was in shock and pain after the surgery. The surgery was 20 times worse than I've had a lot of crashes whenever the surgery from that was the most painful thing I've ever experienced it was 20 times worse than the actual break I'd be timing my pain killer so I'd say my next light would be like 2 o'clock and I'd be literally counting down a minute until 2 o'clock and I'd be in 9 10 out of 10 pain like a minute or two I'd take that at 2 o'clock boom gone don't know how much that was placebo don't know how much of it was do you extremely addictive potent opioid that is OxyContin, but who knows? Nice little drug indeed. Garand Thomas, a great iconic image. Garand Thomas crossed the finish line hand in hand with a Gambernail. It was like a hand in over from Donacolma veteran, but the experienced to the new era, the new generation. It was symbolic and it was also a mark of just how classy a guy Garon Thomas is. He's the defending champion and there was never a doubt that he was going to go on the attack yesterday. He done well, good pros there. He got soldiers. He fell in line and he helped his teammate out there and helped him out on the road. But as we've seen from interviews and Podcast Aaron Thomas is a podcast and even on that He was co-hosted with Luke Rojo on the tour didn't hear anything about it very quiet The only ones are here that had a podcast where wiggens and Euro sport that was great value And obviously the Armstrong move podcast was very good and then there's some You know the cycling podcast the raffle one whatever that's called like that's pure tort like it's bad shit. It's bad Like the boys are doing they're doing their best, but it's it's very sterile. It's very British Yeah, it's not for me. I'm sure there's an audience there that enjoys that, but I struggle to listen to five minutes of it. It's too polished and it's too proper British. But I think Wiggins is great because he doesn't take himself too seriously. He obviously has tons of experience and brings a perspective that's very difficult to get. He brings the grand tour winner perspective to a debate which is almost impossible to get and then about Kelly, like the coverage on Eurosports, it's world class, but Kelly as well, he's brilliant. But anyway, I'm going on as you'll, if you're a regular listener, you'll know I do go on this segues, the roller G within the team now. I think he's got another ground tour in him. Yeah, it's going to be tough because it's a stacked roster and from Thomas Carapas Bernal, Bresford's got a cute hugos wear, but I think G has another one. If you think about like two years ago, G had I think 11 or 12th was his best ever GC position. He had no results of note. He goes and wins the Tour de France last year. We were all waiting for him to blow up all the way along pretty much the same as we were all off a leap this year. We're saying this can't last, this can't last. And then he goes and wins on up to Wes and he obviously goes on and wins the Tour de France and his life must have changed. He went from normal go, G, kind of low key, playing second fiddle to Port Wiggins for him through the years to all the attention and all the spotlight going on top of him. So that's got to be tough for Thomas. It was a big, big year of media obligations for him. It was a big year getting used to being towards a France champion, he had some crashes, preparation wasn't good, so bear on all that in mind to come back and play second in the Tour de France, his second best ever result. It's pretty remarkable and I think he's got more to come. I think he's got to do it carefully. I really think he's a company man, I can't say I'm leaving Inyels but I was going to say he'd be better off leaving Ineos, but then you look at just how like Landers performed since leaving, Richie Pors performed since leaving like they all left because they thought they could go on wind ground tours when they left, but it's proved very difficult and Ineos is a well-oiled unit so most probably his best bet is there and some smart man management from Portal and Brails for last of where they send Thomas and how he prepares for races and that type of thing. I totally enjoyed today's stage. I know it's a bit of a mucking around. It's the late start and I'm finding myself now. I'm back in Dublin by the way. I came up this morning. I was only down down to two nights in Kinsale, beautiful part of the world. If anyone's not from Ireland, get down and check it out.

3.Beautiful bike riding around there all around the Royal Atlantic Way

Beautiful bike riding around there all around the Royal Atlantic Way. out like can sail down towards Clonicilty and stuff. It's amazing. Out around the old head I can sail some of the most picturesque beautiful roiden in the country. That's well worth checking out. Last week actually I was out in Mayo as well and that's some beautiful beautiful roiding. Assume the weather. I'm not sure if I need to order. I've got to at Joel Rogue and podcast. He does he drink water during the podcast because I get parched when I'm giving these podcasts. That's what some of the pauses are. Yes, Joel Rogue is interviewing people so he's sipping away. I'm a sneaky little fucker when he's interviewing them. So yeah, the Tour de France podcast hasn't really led itself to a lot of guests but as we go, the daily Tour de France podcast is hard as well. I've done it a couple of years ago with YouTube videos daily. It's a bit of a grind, but I would roll back into more consistent, probably a week or boy weekly podcasts coming up in the next week, toward Francis Over. I totally enjoyed today's stage. Very formulaic, as we say, break goals, break comes back, sprinters contest. But Paris, as a venue, is phenomenal. It's the biggest annual sporting event in the world. There were the and commentary what's the second biggest of no idea is a Wimbledon is it the Gulf I've no idea but Paris is just such a beautiful scenic backdrop and watching Bernal standing on the top step at a podium with his girlfriend there his family there you gotta remember this is a family you know this is family hasn't come from Black Rock you know they're having come from Aflu and so verbs in London or Paris or Munich they're from Bogota it's different in Bogota. They're coming from relative poverty from what we're used to here in the West. So this is huge for the village, it's huge for the whole family and it's because that the family up for generations and you could see the mother was talking yesterday about how they just didn't have enough money to give Agan a proper upbringing. They said it was hard for them and you know coming from them when they say hard it means different than when we say hard. It's not like hard like Oh, I didn't get a car on until I was 19. It was really hard. It's not like that. So you could see the parade on their faces. He took the top step with the Colombian National Anthem and the art the tree of and the background and it's absolutely, it was amazing. It was absolutely amazing backdrop. I still got a kind of random messages on Twitter and Instagram and a couple of emails and stuff. Basically kind of like like, what have you been up for the week or we haven't heard from you from the week? Not so much this week because obviously you guys have been hearing from me pretty much full gas this week but in previous weeks I've been quiet for been away research and something. I'd get like, you know, what's going on? What are you up there? I kind of have, I suppose, weird weeks and it's people are looking for a little bit of insight into what I'm doing week to week, it's definitely not your, you know, your typical week that a lot of people would have. So I guess some people are finding interest. And so I started out a weekly email, like a five point bullet point email, I rubbed the idea off Tim Ferriss actually. He does a five bullet point Friday or something. I'm not organized enough to get it out on a Friday. So kind of get it out anywhere between Thursday and Sunday. But I just took 500 topics and they're the main focus for me for the week and I picked about an email so I'm going to just run through some of the ones that I went through this week. So these are things that were on my mind or as pondering or contemplating this week. So it's what book was there reading. So I was reading actually Victor Franklin. If anyone has read it, it's unreal. It's a man's search for meaning. It's about a guy who's a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. It's kind of a what's a meaning of a lifestyle book but it's brilliant, totally enjoyable. I'm a good man for quotes. I enjoy quotes when I find a quote I like to scribble it down in the a journal, constantly scribbling, journals everywhere. I've got eight journals, even if I go into town for the day, I feel they need to bring two or three journals with me. Different journals for different topics. But I always try and scribble down quotes and I found out I sent a quote this week that I was kind of just wondering about and I suppose it occupied a bit of free time when I was out on the bike, just letting it sink in and take my meaning for it. So, as Seneca said, sometimes even to live as an act of courage, true happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves, read our hopes, our fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing." I enjoyed that quote.

4.Enjoyed it. Best event I intended this week was another of the Wim…

I enjoyed it. Best event I intended this week was another of the Wim Hof called immersion workshop this week. With a beta group, it's kind of a biohacked. Cyclist group with a lot of corporate type guys on it. It's a close group, it's not open for clients, but we experiment with a lot of stuff like cold thermogenesis control and blood sugar levels, with strategies like lotus extract, apple cider, vinegar, upregulation, a glue for transponders. We're walking about with some photo boya modulation, it's kind of like light terpians, bunch of crazy wacky stuff like that which you know I shouldn't put the tuck crazy wacky on it because I would have a couple of years ago but stuff you know rooted in some cool science now and it seems to be only the top execs and stuff can afford this but yeah no I'm happy to be a part of that kind of I guess the new way for coaching which we're definitely enjoying being a part of and leading leading a lot of the research into it so that's fun. I've seen Wiggans sourced on the back of the motorbike today, which was really funny. I've had a lot of time for Bradley Wiggans. Wiggans, I guess I would have grown up with cycling long before I ever raced a bike. The TV would have been always on my house with bike races on and Wiggans just strikes me as that type of character as well. He's an old romantic the way he sees the boy, the way, you know, I seen him, he posted a picture of himself in Vincenzo and Eebly yesterday and he said he was nearly fighting the French fan for Eebly's bottle at the top of Valeras, Valeras yesterday, the horse category climb on the shortened stage. He can strikes me as a fan, even though he's a grand tour winner, he's a fan almost, and I love that, but today he was on the back of the motorbike and he was gone from car to car and he was getting a glass of champagne off every car so if you're looking for a bit of entertainment jump on the weeds it's twitter account there and you'll see him completely sauce talking about Jules how little he's had to eat that day and he's a bit of danger on the back of the bike I'm sure you'll get he'll probably get but I don't think he'll get sacked from your sport for us because he was great value for the whole thing but you'll definitely get complaints about it's promoting irresponsible drinking on the back of an order bike yeah yeah yeah the sterile police. The podium that we rounded out with, it's not a podium I didn't expect it, it's not a podium that even won a stage this year, it's 22 year old Aegon Bernal standing on top, Garand Thomas in second, a Christwick, the nine Dutch man to stand on a podium in Tord. Sagin, obviously the institution that he is wrapped up the green jersey competition, with two French men standing on the podium, Bardet, who looked like his tour was over in week one, so to pull out a king in a mountains jersey, There was a great twist this morning from Barday when he was a kid watching the tour wearing a King in the mountains jersey for so for him to stand on the podium in Paris with a King in the mountains jersey on you know that means something and it means something for engaging the French fans as well and we almost couldn't have had a podium it would have been a different race without the most aggressive rider in the race Yulia and Alifleep. People like Alifleep and Saigon they're essential for cycling they're the great characters in cycling and they're what's gonna attract sponsors or what's gonna attract kids They're absolutely brilliant and I'm looking forward to watching them for the next decade. The podium meant something different to everyone. As I said for birthday, it's the realisation of a childhood dream. For Bernal, we went through that with the poverty that has come from the common up, being identified by Brails for the country on the Italian team. Is it sake or something like that? that brought him in an Italian team. And, you know, now it's obviously vindication that this is a career for him that he can make money out of it, he can support his family out of this. You know, it means a lot and then powers the whole country as well. You know, I was at lunch today with a friend and his girlfriend, son, is a Colombian. And, like, he's a sweater, eh? Like, it's a cycling conversation. You know, how many 12 year old kids see me in Ireland that it's a cycling conversation straight away. They just love it. It's their football. It's what they do. It's their main sporty. Like I didn't see him 20 seconds till he mentioned the word Cantana. Cantana is his favourite writer. So it's brilliant to see. And then I think Christwick, you know, 32 years old, he controversially or more unluckly than controversially lost to Jiro a couple of years ago. So, he's... it's nice for him to stand on the podium.

5.Think criticism maybe of him was yesterday

I think criticism maybe of him was yesterday. Criticism level by me as much as some of the other media that he didn't attack. But you gotta look. He's on a podium with Eigenbarrnal. Who knows what Barrnal goes on to be? Who knows what Thomas could pull out on her two or three tour wins? He's on a podium with two of the great writers of our generation. If he attacks and he slips down to Fort, That's a different narrative for his kids. It's a different narrative for his grandkids He can pull out that picture when he's 90 years old and say I was on the podium with egg and burnout Potentially could run on to be one of the greatest rotors ever. We don't know yet that story still to be written There was a lot to lose. There was a lot to lose for Christ we've gone on the attacking Yeah, I'm glad the same get a podium It's he's deserved that he's riding well for a couple of years now I was as I said on this on the hill on up to as last year and Christ we can say attacking the main GC guys up for now on the front of the group chasing behind for the crowds and great TV so I'm glad to see the two boys again back and animating the race this year. Like any else didn't win a stage this year and they had quick step to almost all the roading for them. It's the I mentioned yesterday the quote from Grand Thomas just sticks in my head. There's many ways to win the Tour de France we're used to seeing them on the front controlling race day in day out. They didn't this year, they sat back and they waited. Like Brian Smith and Euro Sport coverage was talking about how their week this year, early week are absolutely genius because they've worked well in the one two and they've had Quickstep due to Roying for them all week. Like do they just know the altitude, the high mountains toward week, he can't sustain us. We have more than reserve. We can wait and attack then. So they have Quickstep defend the jersey, ultra-deforced two weeks, the scolibos are chilling and now instead of having one protected rider, it works to go in with a co-leader as they're done with two protected riders and they put two boys in the podium. I'm not saying it was that tactical and that's how it played out, but it played out and it's 1-2 and you can't say for it's lucky because he's just not lucky. It's not look when you do it every single time. Other teams need to step up. They need to raise their game. You know, movies start yesterday, or what's really for the team, or is like it's allowed a shot, like they could have won this day at yesterday. And there just seems like there's more self-interest than other teams where Inyos never has that. It's the team works fostered over individual expression. a lot of probably the closest team for me, a lot of what if I was given a roadman of the tour, it would be one of the lot of guys, it'd probably be a lot of team, if I was to be honest, they were just, you know, they deleted our mans, he was on one stage, he was growing away on one stage, he was second again today, they won the team time trial, fanart winning the stage. They were just they were phenomenal. They cry swig on the podium, they did a little bit of everything about them and when you think they've roggled you to come back to that and Tom Dumilland gone to that team as well. You know that's what I mean by open the game that's what teams are going to need to do. Inios have said to mark other teams need to raise their game because it's just not washing at the moment and we're going to see absolute ineos domination if other teams don't step up. I couldn't help both failed for I'm gonna take one of my little breaks for a sip of water I couldn't help both failed for Lucro seeing the guys arm and arm I'm riding down the Champs-Elysé, Eigenbarnal in yellow. Grand Thomas 2nd, you know, Katriviejo, Walt Pels, Dylan Van Barra, Moskon. I definitely miss someone there, I can't remember who. All-royd, Arm and Arm, and Luke Rose watching from the Soylines. Or at home, I don't know, I didn't see him there. I assume he's stuck around. It's got to be heard on him for something as trivial as that head to head. Tittle of tits with Tony Martin. Fear for Luke Rowe. A fear for Tony Martin as well, but more so Luke Rowe. He seems a good guy. He seems like God gets his job done. And yeah, it's a tough one. I'm sure he'll go out on the pace with the boys tonight, but... I've been that, not in Salih's Limb, but I've been that soldier in football back in the day. You'd be a part of a team all the way up till the quarter finally to get an injury or something and Even though you could be the key player all the way up to the quarter finally going on with the cup And they're celebrating and you just don't you just don't have the same Feeling our attachment as the other guys in the team.

6.Obviously not comparable winning the skill by football tournaments…

So Yeah, obviously not comparable winning the skill by football tournaments versus sort of France, but it's It the emotion I'm sure is very similar As I said yesterday, we don't have a podcast sponsor in part because we haven't gone really looking for a podcast sponsor if one had a land on our lap during the tour. Perfect. At some point, I think when we're a bit more established, we'll make a more proactive attempt to attract sponsors. The numbers are good, so thanks for that already. That's humbling to think that people take time out of their day or bring me on their China road, so that's amazing. So in lieu of a show sponsor again I'm gonna show you one coaching. So I think it's the time of season where you need to double down your efforts. You need to think about building a groundwork for next season. You need to think about can I add 10, 15 watts even if it's not a goal like a race. You got to be thinking can I add 10, 15 watts onto my threshold? Can I add 200 watts onto my sprint before the end of the season? Because that's gonna give you a higher platform to spring from next season. You've got to be looking at key performance metrics. You've got to be data driven. You've got to have someone in the background managing your training stress score. Even me, like I know this stuff. I put together the playbook, but I can't coach myself. It's you have no objective credibility. You've know I never know when I'm trying it too hard. I never know when I'm trying and not enough. So you need that toward party to do it. So what we're going to do for listeners is obviously I said, yes, we're gonna give 20% when you mention A1 show on after first month but also this week obviously we can't do this for everyone but the first five people to drop us an email info at A1coaching.net we're gonna hook up a training call for you so we're just gonna get one to coach just give you a buzz just talk about how your season's going absolutely no obligation to sign up for anything it's literally just a chat so I'll be myself I want to do your coaches we're just gonna have a chat see here your season's gone and give you a a few pointers say, look, you could have done this better. You're like, boy, you're using, it's not right. The nutrition you're using isn't right. Or the way you're preparing for these races isn't right. You guys are putting a lot of time and effort into getting ready for this stuff. 2% extra is gonna elicit way, way better results. And it's just small little tweaks. A lot of time we've clients coming into us. We're actually taking down the amount of trying and hours they're down. We're just giving them a little bit more structured and a little bit more focused and results are insane. Sometimes we can't even post the results. You know, like, some of the results, if we post the client testimonials, people will be like, you're dope. And then up, it's a systematic dope and US postal stuff is going on there. We're sticking 20% on client's threshold in eight weeks. It's insane. The way corporate group I was talking about them, we're coming at the moment. The results are just the blowy away. So the weight loss, increase in energy levels, increase in sleep quality. baffling stuff but I'm gonna leave the the plug there I'm gonna keep down them plugs guys feel free if you're if you don't like listening to me rant about A1 for the meantime feel free to just whack the all forward 30 second button on that I'll try and keep them to sort of 60 seconds max because I know I listened to the lance Armstrong podcast and it's littered eight nine times true with two minute ads so I'm gonna be respectful at your time and I'm gonna keep it to one lot of ad stuff per podcast I'll generally just trouble them whenever I think about it and when I get a bit more organized I'll try to lump them all into start maybe the Irish how would we get on how would a little Irish get on in this fucking tour de France and I'm going to try and get Neil Martin on during the week and Neil will be a great man the chapter Neil's interest in duty to obviously Dan's interest in title and career himself, which is all around the interest and guy. You talk about a man who's figured a lot of shit out living out in Jerona. Figured out, you know, he's newly hacked what it's like to be the perfect retired semi-retired life. It's figured out a lot of shit. He's a good man so I'd love to get a him on for a bit of a chat so if you're listening there and he'll let us show it out to you. So we hooked that up. Dan's, yeah look, you couldn't help football team was disappointed and he was disappointed in his own performance as well. So he said there yesterday, it's been a bit strange really, obviously I came in with excellent conditioner for whatever reason it just didn't happen.

7.Think the team's got to look at what that performance was in there…

I think the team's got to look at what that performance was in there but obviously today it was nice to finish on what was probably one of my best days at a race. We'll go forward with that. I had the condition but there was just something blocking me and that's what was frustrating. He said, I came in with excellent condition, but that's just the way it is. My body emptied and I had no power in the finishes. Every day I was in the mountains and I was in the brake. I was feeling good and then suddenly the lights went out. All very mysterious. It kind of sounds like dance, alluding to something that the team is doing, that's not working for him, whether it's a nutrition provider, whether it's something logistical that's affecting his sleep. I have no idea, but it sounds like something that's out of dance control and within the team's control, which is quite odd. But it's, you know, Dan's a consummate professionally wasn't pointing fingers at anything. Maybe it's equipment. I don't know with no idea. It seems like we're probably won't ever know. It's probably a change that's going to get made internally. Dan had a disappointing tour. Nico had a good tour, I thought. He was a little bit off. He was a little bit off the pace. He was again bringing Machus back today, which was cool. He was a little bit off the pace in the final but he was great to watch. You got into breaks and you couldn't fall in front, honestly you've ever had any good slap off the deck on the four style points stages as well so good to see him making Paris. Another guy has been a guest on the A1 show before so I would love to get him back at some point. Maybe in the next week if I can snag it and have a chat I heard a tour went from. Do you want Chris? You want to get a great tour? Like he every day, work in the mini stage wins of the boys win, Trentain was a two or three for Yates I can't remember and then they had the South African impie, I'm gonna say five stage wins, could have been four, could have been four or five stage wins for Mitchell and Scott so that's an epic, it's an epic tour of France, considering they went in with GC hopes for Yates not didn't pan out and they have to pivot. Like, uh, their director of white must be absolutely delighted with that, because it's a proper Tour de France. That's one of the most successful ones. I'd say we're looking at, you know, obviously any else, a lot of Mitchell's and start as the podium of successful Tour de France teams this year. Will we see a Colombian team in the next few years? Like, there's a lot of good Colombians out there at the moment. I think yesterday, I said, Carapas is Colombia, and I think he's Ecuadorian. But we've obviously Cantana, we've Bernal, we've Gaviria, we've Rigoberto Iran. There's a lot of Colombians out there. I don't know what the course is like for the Olympics in Tokyo, but you've got to think Colombia is a favor to be winning out there. It's a super strong team at the moment. I'd love to see a Colombian world tour team. I think the criticisms of the Colombians have been around for years. Back in the 80s, when Kelly was racing, They were talking about Columbians breaking through and winning tours. They were all these great climbers, but I think they had a bad rep back in the day for crashing on the fence. They seem to have shaken that rat-brand-ails, a good boy-cannler. He was second in the U-23 World Mountain Bike Championship, so he's well-eviled a handler's boy. I'd love to see a Columbian cycling team. I don't think it's going to be that long until we see one. It's a great little carrot on the end of the stick for any young lad in Colombia, known there's a development team there straightaway running Bernal's pathway was over to Italy and then to Inyos imagine having that noise step in stone of a Colombian team because it's difficult to go from Colombia into an Italian team you know culturally it's difficult it's for a young kid going a long way from home it's difficult foods are difficult you know it's hard and I tell you a lot of kids should crack with that type of logistical just mental anguish and torture I know as a you know I graduated from college when I went over to France and gone over there racing as I'm sure still real hard you know going over and not having the language you know different foods away from a friend's family it's hard so I'd love to see a Colombian cycling team the next few years also how how shit do I feel about my linguistic skills watching 22 year old Eigenbrennall on the podium not only is he the best cyclist in the world He gives his victory speech in four different languages. What the fuck? He thanked them in French Italian English and in Spanish that that's a rock star.

8.That's unbelievable I think we a lot of attention today goes on The…

So that's unbelievable I think we a lot of attention today goes on The guys who are standing the podium with their hands in the air Especially the guy with the big loin and the yellow jersey that we've talked about so much But the sacrifice it takes to finish the Tour de France is phenomenal. You're talking 365, 24, 7, these guys are switched on. It affects every relationship they have. It affects every travel choice they have. It affects every food choice they have. It affects every aspect of their life from what time they got to Beda to what time they wake up at to how much they're hydrating to how much they're trying and it can't be overemphasized how all encompassing being a Silicon pro is when you contrast it to, you know, at football pro tennis pro golf pro, it's just so full on. So anyone who gets to that level, it's just to ultimate in sacrifice. And it's an obvious, the opportunity cost is so high for somebody goes. And you know, for like the cost benefit analysis, I suppose, for Bernal, guys who are with the we know their names, you know, your Caleb Eons, your Bernals, your Bling Matches. The benefit again is huge out of huge contracts, huge publicity, potentially media careers after sponsorship and doors, mentor, celebrities and huge paychecks. And Jeff Orgone, obviously a career, they could be doing something else, but it's well watered because of the financial and financial rewards they're getting off it. But to go, I'm going to go out in the back of the pedal tunnel. The guys here are saying riding on the front every day into the wind. Some of these guys aren't getting huge salaries. I think it was a car past one, the Giro d'Italia, and he was on 55,000 a year, I think. Something around that, don't quote me on that figure, but it wasn't over 70k as far as I remember. And he won the Giro d'Italia. He was the winner of the Giro d'Italia. So think what's on the domestic, so make it 35, 40k a year. They're putting their life on the line every day. They're putting their body on the line every day. They're doing long term damage to their body with someone to race and have to go to a race and sick, race and injured. It's a difficult, difficult sport. So to those guys, to the guys at the back of the peloton, that's who I want to give their old man award today. So thank you for just making the last three weeks possible. They're the guys who are facilitating the great champions. Sometimes they're doing to work before we even come on air. are ferrying the bottles up, they're keeping the team leaders warm, they're keeping them shelled, they're keeping them motivated, they're bringing them back from crashes, they're giving them their bikes, they're helping them out for the stage with little bits and pieces. You know, they're the guys I want to take my hat to, the road men. And I think that's a nice place to leave it for today. I think it's touching after 11 o'clock here because of the late stage finish. I'm sure in Paris the guys are about to just wind up the after party and get stuck into So, for me, I'm about to stick on the pajamas and do my final piece of editing to get this out to you guys immediately so you can listen to it tomorrow. And this concludes our A1 Tour de France podcast. I'll be back next week. I'll start confirming check out our social and I'll confirm times and days that we'll be back. And yeah, I'm looking forward again, stuck into some of the more substantive training topics as we go. So, if you've any requests for what you'd like me talk about. Guess you'd like me to interview. Keep that sort of stuff coming. So for me, Bonuit et vivalator, the 100th anniversary of the Yellow Jersey. It's been taken by Colombian Egan Bernal. He'll go down in the history box. Thanks for tuning in and chat to you soon.