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In this episode Patrick and Benji recap the fifth stage of the 2026 Tour de France.
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Stage 5 results
Total scores after stage 5
Patrick: still 55
Benji: still 55
Third stage in a row with zero points scoring unfortunately.
Patrick
Route release: Milan 0 pts
Week before: Philipsen 0 pts
Day before: Girmay 0 pts
Total:0
Benji
Route release: Arnaud de Lie 0 pts
Week before: Philipsen 0 pts
Day before: Philipsen 0 pts
Total:0
Viestroffer on an admirable suicidal mission today, gotta hand it to him though at least he's trying. I guess you should never doubt the courage of the French; they were the ones who discovered snails are edible.
For stage 6 we're back at Pau. Again. I've been trying to figure out why Pau is so popular. Other than it's location at the foot of mountains, the best guess I've got is that in 2015 they built 104 sculptures to previous TdF winners. So build 104 monuments and they will come I guess 🤷
Anyway we're treated again to some absolute gems of commentary on the stage 6 preview. Patrick "someone is going to go for it." And Benji "it's not a tactical benefit to be behind." Both are equally T-shirt / mug slogan worthy.
For both previews each competitor has locked in a UAE team member, but interestingly not the same one. Patrick has gone for Isaac del Toro, declaring in the week before pod that he'll win it by 10-15 seconds. Benji meanwhile locked in Pog and thought this was going to be "a banger of a stage."
Patrick's del Toro Vs Benji s Pog will play out on the Tourmalet. Let's go!
Really hard to say who the best bunch sprinter is rn: classics is Philipsen and then Tobias Lund. But we only saw Merlier against top competition at Belgium tour, Milan didn’t look convincing at the Giro and his UAE wins were against pro Conti level sprinters like Malucelli and Blikra. I’d rank Merlier, Magnier, and Kooij all above Milan.
We have Benji waving again – the day is saved 🎉👋
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There is no global warming – it's called summer.
Was 104 at Wimbledon 50 years ago and beautiful hot summers all through the 80s.
This stage Benji brought the 67 into play so far 3/5 stages with 67 jokes
Magnier beat Milan clearly in the Giro. Clearly. And Milan had Consonni, TTT, Soobrero and Waldscheid.
When the TDF was free to watch in the UK piss boring stages like this never bothered me , now after having to pay thirty quid I’m really bloody annoyed , what a bag of utter shite !
Decathlon signed him for this, he left Visma for this and he delivered on his first try, pretty damn good.
Make it later in day. It may be hot, but the shadows are longer and this is thing.
"Mogs" 😕
Make a golden kilometer worth as many seconds as there are between first and second place, plus one second.
Then can you imagine if EF put Sean Quinn (the good Quinn) into a break. Haha
Even bigger green jersey pull then yesterday for mads today
Disgraceful stage. They owe me the five minutes I spent fast forwarding.
Salut les Boys, vive Le Tour, thanks for the great work powering through the heat 😎
Benji needs to put that Grand Theft Auto VI-shirt back on… yeah, it wasn't exactly that game, but you know which shirt I mean
I’d get up at 0400 Eastern Time (1000 in FRA) to watch TdF 😇
Well people say Pogi is boring, so here you go, a flat stage😂😂
Del Toro satellite tomorrow, take those 6 minutes
We need sprinter rankings with H2Hs weighted by race importance on the LR website
Benji based for calling out AI slop. Keep fighting the good fight.
The GP Torres Vedras, despite being a very modest race, has better streets than the Tour de France in the final kilometers. A shame…
Stage 6 would be spectacular if it finished on the Tourmalet. As it is, it's a complete mess.
I am one of the 7 french listeners 🙋♂️
I'm with you on the AI 'artist' helmets Benji ✊
If I’m Visma, I go more aggressive tomorrow than to send Armirail as a satellite.
I try to sneak Piganzoli into the break.
He‘s just a couple of minutes back from the heads of state, and he‘s a good enough rider that UAE has to pay attention to him.
UAE let Træen go so far ahead because they know he and his team are good enough to keep yellow for a while, and therefore will do the work of chasing down breaks to protect it. You don‘t give him 7:30 if you intend to take it back after a couple of stages. So it doesn‘t make sense for UAE to go tomorrow. It makes more sense for Visma to bait them into working when they don‘t really seem to be keen to do it at the moment.
Kanter looked lively today
French bus , that’s subtle.
Pogi pushing after the radio clearly said that Jonas crashed. Bleach boy as classy as always
7 listeners from France ?? we are at least a dozen!!!
Any news on how bad Molenaar was injured in the crash? He seemed to stay down a long time
The only way I can see Vacek holding white is if lidl trek decides to go for team classification😅.
Can Unox sneak Tobias in the breakaway?
My favorite cycling nerds 🤣👍 j/k Love your work!
The point delta between 1st and 2nd and 3rd on a 70 pt vs 50 pt stage is exactly the same, and it's only a few points larger for 4th, 5th, and 6th where Pedersen will usually finish. So it's not like Pederson just lost 20 pts per sprint to the pure sprinters cuz of this rule change. If you all were proper cycling strategists you would have mentioned that in the preview 🙄