Tour de France 2025 | Episode 1

Press conferences, team presentations and nervy stages: the opening weekend of the #TDF2025 is in the books ✅🇫🇷

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Tune in for words of wisdom from Adam Yates, our pre-race tactical briefing and of course, plenty of incredible fan support for Tadej Pogačar 🎥🎬 #WeAreUAE

You are you ready for your three weeks vacation in France? Always ready like Gar Thomas said is a vacation with everything included. So we need to enjoy. So where we are now and what we going to do? Yeah, we are in a little I suppose we’re going to go for the briefing and presentation and yeah, we’re going to have a good time or try to have a good time here and then not think about dinner. [Music] [Music] You win. You win. [Music] Okay. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Doctor, we’re good. No, let me like this. No, it’s been great season so far. Perfect. and uh going here to the to the tour is one of the favorites. It’s it’s an honor. I’m pleased and uh yeah, I hope I can live up to the expectation and I think yeah uh where Yonas might uh yeah be stronger than me and we don’t know. We will have to see uh in the tour. I think he’s uh the best climber in the in the world at the moment in the last few years. He’s uh yeah on the long climbs. Uh I think he’s he’s one of the best if not the best. Uh but he can also do great time travel. sometimes better than than me, sometimes worse, but uh we’re there and and yeah, we will see this tour where he he will be better than me and where I can be better than him. But uh yeah, we will have to wait and see. Thank you. Look, look, look, look. Look now. Look. They’re coming. They’re coming. Everybody’s sleeping. Everybody’s sleeping. Always late. And me and Tai, we’re working. Working. And these guys, look now. Look, look, look. Put the video this way. Put the video. Look. Sleeping. If you’re not early, you’re late. Look. Now we go. This is the night time. I’m like, “Okay, thank you.” Good. No. [Applause] [Music] Gracias. Okay. Babel, [Applause] [Applause] [Music] we are Oh, really? [Applause] [Applause] in some [Music] [Applause] [Music] check for [Applause] [Music] just the perur of to the France you see luckily we start now more north it’s not 40° so at least few days will be will be here but Uh but you remember uh maybe three years ago or four years ago this first nine stages will be like everyday classic stage or wind or a hilly final. So uh these nine stages we need to be super focused because uh you can lose here tour. We will not win here tour but you can lose if if something happened. We are the best team in the world and a lot of times we need to expect if happens no one will help us but we need to stay calm and do the best in situation that happened we need to stay uh and do our best okay always with respect I know uh but sometimes it’s not possible but always have in mind this first part of the race at kilometer 25 passing through the villages uh narrow Uh traffic traffic islands. I be careful of this. First week very nervous with tricky finals. Uh it’s important. Yeah. [Applause] [Music] Super good atmosphere so far and looking forward to spend the three weeks with the guys. Beat up. [Music] [Music] What the [Music] Pizza. How was your day? Yeah, good. Big stress today. No, a lot of stress, but it was good in front. We lose a little bit time with the cow. He will take it back next days. He knows how it works from this. [Music] Uh the goal is to to go for the yellow. Uh but if there’s any stage opportunities, we will try to to take it. It’s very aggressive finish, but it’s going to be hard to take time as well, but uh it’s going to be easier to lose the time. So uh yeah we will try to be careful and not to make any mistakes in the final is not looking back he’s going for it struggling to close the gap. Yes he is closing the gap slowly but on the wheel moves up to get ready only looking good as well 170 m to go. Enrich Mass on the right hand side there goes Matthew Vanderpool. Vanderpool starts the acceleration. He sees the gantry in front of him. It’s going to be all out between Vanderpool and Pagacha. Vanderpool and Pagatcha. Left, right, Vanderpole. [Applause] Oh, sorry, man. I was uh I was keeping it to like 300 meters, but they passed me. We live coming from you. So, are you guys ready? [Music]