Tadej Pogacar was the only one who Raced to Win the Tour de France - Domestique Cycling Podcast

Tadej Pogačar has won his fifth Tour de France, and he now stands level with Merckx, Hinault, Anquetil and Indurain. Five stage wins, Marco Pantani's Alpe d'Huez record beaten by more than a minute, and then a Queen stage spent riding as a domestique for his own teammate.

Remco Evenepoel finished second at 6:26 with two stage wins and the best climbing week of his career. Isaac Del Toro is third and in white on his debut. Paul Seixas is fourth at nineteen years old. And on a final stage shortened by the wildfires in the southwest, Mathieu van der Poel went over Montmartre with Pogačar and held on all the way to the line.

Bram and Ethan unpack all three weeks: why nobody even tries to follow Pogačar anymore, whether Evenepoel would have matched Jonas Vingegaard, how Richard Carapaz timed his run at the mountains jersey to perfection, and why stage 21 has become the best stage of the Tour.

We also spend a while on the part of this Tour that was not fun to watch. Half a million people on Alpe d'Huez, no barricades outside the Dutch corner, Einer Rubio into a team car with twenty stitches to the face, and ASO blaming the design of modern cars. We think something has to change before the Tour goes back.


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