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It's been
months in the waiting.

But the waiting is now over.

Get ready to welcome
the world's top bike riders

to the biggest race
in the world.

Umm...

Just please...

You know, all of this needs to b

...very confidential.

For this team, this tour is,

you know, a fight to survive.

And I'm probably the only
person that knows that.

The riders are getting set
for the start of this race

that so many thought
would never happen.

Let's hope we can get
all the way to Paris.

We're like an airplane

that just ran out of fuel,
you know?

Like, things seem great
from the outside.

The French
acrobatic team fly overhead

as the peloton roll out
for the 2020 Tour de France.

But as of today,

we have no assurance that...
you know, that 2021 will exist.

JV...

...how long does the team have t

We got a couple of weeks.

I mean,
I don't know, maybe--

maybe three weeks at--
at the maximum.

They want that you take your bik

You do a lap into the stadium.

You go to the stage.

And then you sit down until the.

'host'...

does his, uh...

speech.

My management
career with

has been very entrepreneurial.

Duct-taping an organization together

with various sources of funding.
I've gone from running

a six-rider junior team

stuffed into the back
of a station wagon--

Come on, come
on, come on, come on, come on.

Get up to speed.
There you go.

Come on, Freedman.

--to, you know,
managing a team that--

it's won four
of the five monuments

and the second biggest race
in the world, the Giro d'Italia.

Rigo! Rigo! Rigo!

Holy shit, Juanma.

What happened?!

The favorites to win this stage.

Education First Pro Cycling with

The Colombian champion returns t

Very good, boys.

Very good stuff.
Very good stuff.

[into radio] Very
good, Rigo. Very, very good.

Okay, boys. Come on.

Rotate.
Rotate to the left.

Rotate to the left.

Rotate to the left.

Girar a la izquierda.

All right, boys. Great, great.

Come on, we are going to win the

Okay, in front now,
we have the first place team...

Whew!!

18 minutes and 3 sec

45 seconds faster than [team] De

Whoo!

Give a big hand to Rigoberto Urá

For winning the first stage of t

- Ah?

Rigo! Rigo! Rigo!

Thanks, kids!

For me, riding a bike is not a j

Because I do it with passion.

Cycling has been my life. Cyclin

Silver in the Olympics.

Second in the Giro d'Italia.

Second in the Tour de France.

Just like in the Tour de France

We are riding for Rigo.

The guys need to go and train -

The guys need to train.

The last
one-and-a-half kilometers

probably is the steepest.

Just be straight with your
teammates, and go for it.

It's an incredibly difficult

sport to even stay alive in
from a business perspective.

You have to consistently produce.

Sergio Higuita of Ed

You have to
always be sort of in the frame.

You don't always have to win.

A big hand for the winning team,

But if you're
not being talked about at all,

the sponsors don't derive
any value from that,

so why would they stick around?

If you want to look at
core reasons for doping,

that instability
is a very core reason

that people will do
anything to perform.

The acceleration of Armstrong

is absolutely frightening.

Armstrong is flying away.

I can't remember the last time

I saw a yellow jersey
ride like that.

Doping has
always been part of cycling.

But the performances
have become totally, well,

unbelievable.

It was, you know,

whatever you had to do to win,
you had to do.

The boys
who have guided Lance Armstrong

now bring him on
to the Champs Élysées.

What should have been

the pinnacle of my career
was instead... bullshit.

It changed the direction
of my life.

Jonathan Vaughters is a former

Tour de France teammate
of Lance Armstrong.

He admits using
performance-enhancing drugs

and testified
against Armstrong

before
the US Anti-Doping Agency.

Welcome.

Part of the reason
you're here, right,

is you are trying to

change cycling for the better?

Yeah, absolutely.

I--I--I mean,
it has to happen.

It was not an easy period to--

to launch a team and to say,

"I'm going to do
something different."

He really
managed to create a team culture

that's very different
from the other teams.

You know, like--
20--24 hours...

We ready?

I raced
between '99 and 2011.

I never won a race
in my whole career,

so I was just helping
in the hills...

Made a living out of that.

I think our sport looks
even more cruel than it is

because a race can take
hours and hours and hours.

And if somebody has the race on
at home on the TV

and then they go out
to the shops and they come back,

they can see that loser
pulling on the TV for hours.

And then he disappears,

and some guy
they haven't seen all day

pops out of nowhere,

and like goes on the podium
and kisses the girls.

Maybe it can come across
as unfair,

but it works, you know.

Like any other team sport,

we have different positions
for different riders.

Most of the riders on the team

are not actually trying to
win the race themselves,

they're actually trying to help
somebody else win.

- Coffee for everybody?
- Yeah, yeah.

Cappuccino...

Two cortados...

Coffee with...

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh mother!

In our team there are cyclists f
and friendship among all of us i

it doesn't matter if it is an Am

Each of us has clear objectives
our team mates as much as possib

A leader has to be available for

A leader wants the team to win.

I always want Education First to

We're a family
that's unlike any other.

Anyhow, um,
this is the only time

you can see each other
all year long.

Enjoy this time.

All right, good. Thank you.

Where 2020, is for me,

is that we're starting
onto the path of

"Can this team win
the Tour de France?"

This is the first year
I've ever asked that question.

Cycling's most famous race,

the Tour de France,

has been postponed due to
the coronavirus pandemic.

The situation at the moment

is very concerning
for individual teams,

but the sport as a whole.

You know, are
any of the races gonna happen?

We might not exist
because of this COVID thing.

Fifteen years of
always having something to do

to keep the team going.

And, all of a sudden...

it just stopped.

I mean, it's--it's tough.

Cycling. The team.

It could all go away.

There's still an awful lot of
unanswered questions

at the moment.

It's rough though, because
as a group of people,

we're not used to...

accepting that kind of uncertainty.

There's been so much talk

that we're not gonna have
the Tour de France.

We finally got here.

Twenty-two teams.

One hundred and seventy-six
riders.

One of the toughest
Tour de Frances in years.

Pressures that are on me,

and the pressures
that are on the organization.

That pressure is something that
is very intense.

Looking forward to seeing

these riders get racing.

There's a huge amount
of expectation.

And now EF Pro Cycling.

This combination
of youth and experience

you have on this particular team

has a lot of expectations
coming your way.

What is your favorite part
of your team?

With Rigo basically sort of

almost as, like,
the road captain,

that's a big unifying factor
in this team.

He's the most talented
Colombian of his generation,

if not the most talented
rider of his generation.

Cycling was a way out of

torture and misery,
quite literally, for Rigo.

His father was killed

when he was 13 years old

by a gunshot
that was part of the drug wars

around Medina
at that point in time.

You know, winning races
was a way to feed his family.

You can't imagine
a better leader.

Huigita and Dani Martinez,

they would sacrifice themselves
in a second for Rigo.

For Dani and Sergio, what does i
and what will be your role durin

To be besides Rigo is fundamenta

Because he gives unity and confi

When I got the opportunity to r

You come to a team with people y
idolize and now you sleep in the

It is a huge boost for your ego.

To Sergio, how does it feel to

Well, this is a dream come true.

I watched my first Tour at 10, a here.

And now I am 23 and I have made

so I'd love to get to Paris.

My goal in the Tour is to suppor

Learn from him.

And be sure Rigo knows he has a Tour.

I feel at ease knowing Rigo and

The problem is, what happens if

Fuck... the three of us cracking.

Cancel the interview.

Fuck...

Knock on wood, knock on wood.

The stakes are higher this

year than they normally are.

You know, we're gonna meet
3,000 people

dragging around
from town to town in France.

That is certainly
not without risk

in an era of a pandemic.

How did that feel,
Neilson?

First Tour de France
.

It feels good, man.

You screwed up
the top left corner there.

Yeah, I'm worried
that if I try to fix it,

it's gonna get worse.

When you're in a hole, stop digg

I only got
the call that I was gonna be

officially racing the Tour
about six, seven days ago.

Grew up racing triathlon,
and at one point,

I sort of
started to focus on cycling.

He's cycling's newest

sensation, Neilson Powless.

Who was named best young rider

in the 2016 Tour California.

Neilson Powless is

even being projected

as a future
Tour de France winner.

It still doesn't
really feel... real.

It's Nielsen's
first day of the Tour,

and I think you two together
can help reassure him.

If you have a doubt, ask Tejay.

And if Tejay tells you
something, do it.

I feel like
I'm the role model

to a lot of the young guys
on the team

because they see me
as a veteran.

I've been fifth in the Tour twice.

I was named
the Leader of the Tour

for a couple of years there.

I'd say that I'm--I'm--

I'm happy with what I've done,
but I'm not content

to call it a day right now.

Rigo! Rigo!
We love you, Rigo!

The riders are getting set

for the start of this race

that so many thought
would never happen.

It's time for the 2020
Tour de France.

We get a chance here

to look at Rigoberto Uran
wearing number 71,

one of the coolest
customers of the stage.

And it's raining now.

This is a little bit
more tricky.

Crash already.

Oh, another crash.

Oh, this is a big,
big crash this time.

Roglic saying,
"Calm down."

Super hectic day and so many
guys are going down.

It was terrible.

There was no reason
for it to be...

as chaotic as it was
or people to be panicking.

But good to get this day
behind us.

Let's work well with the back.

I need you to take the pain away

Last year I was going to end my

Those were the instructions from

That I wouldn't ride a bike anym

You know,
he's late in his career.

I mean, he's 33 years old,

um, and has been racing
since he was 19.

He crashed
in the Vuelta a España.

He hit hard.

Broke his collarbone,
broke some ribs.

A couple of the ribs
went into his lung,

punctured the lung.

Shattered his scapula.

Most of the time,

doctors see broken scapulas
in car accidents that are fatal.

I think a lot of us thought,
you know,

maybe this is when
Rigo calls it a day.

When you feel passionate about

I didn't think I would come back

I had difficult moments.

But I have worked for a long tim

We didn't expect him

to want to race here.

But he insisted on it.

The legs.

Power.

Power.

They have power.

Rigo! Rigo! Rigo!

Rigo! Rigo! Rigo!

A race like this
brings such an amount

of being witness
to human endurance,

being witness to how far
humans can push themselves.

That's why people watch cycling.

The Tour de France started out
as a publicity stunt.

Can a man ride a bicycle

all the way around
the country of France?

It was almost like an odyssey.
It was a voyage.

Just a pure endurance event
back then, a perseverance event.

The Tour actually

reshaped the
geography of France.

It was a way of joining up

the north with the south

and the coast
with the mountains.

The great star of the
Tour de France is France.

The Tour de France,

that amazing
3,000 miles cycling marathon...

...through town, countryside,

and over mountain ranges.

It sprinkles stardust
as it goes, if you like.

I mean,
I often think of the Tour

as being like an electric spark
on a fuse wire

traveling around the country.

And when you're on the route,

there's a sort of
magic in the air.

The air's heavy with expectation.

They're up and down
the mountains

every day for 21 days.

And it's so long,
you know, 3,500 Ks.

The riders ride for
five or six hours every day.

Doing a three-week grand tour,

it's one of the biggest
mental, physical,

emotional tests
that somebody can partake in.

It still does
retain that

hundred-year-old glory
through suffering.

Bike races aren't canceled
because of rain.

They aren't canceled
because of snow.

They are run almost
no matter what,

and the riders have
an attitude of, you know,

we are--
we are road warriors.

And, you know, when we
fall down, we get back up.

This is a sport about
perseverance no matter what.

Welcome to
stage two of the Tour de France.

What an incredible day.

This here
is gonna be interesting.

We have two proper climbs
and then a final loop.

It's probably gonna feel wild,
but then it will calm down.

Between us on this bus,
take it seriously.

Is that clear for you, Dani?

Yes, yes, yes, yes...

Yes.

We are approaching the s
the 2nd stage of the Tour de Fra

One, two...

The peloton roll out for

stage number two
of this year's Tour.

13.5 Ks to the climb.

13.5...

Take your time, guys.

The peloton is going steady.

Halt... halt...

and go.

♪ Fiesta, forever ♪

How good is this song? Yeah?

It's so good.
Just so good.

* Forever ♪

The descent
is a very fast, tricky descent.

Dani's down!

Dani's down.

Okay, we're on the way.

Dani's down?

Dani's down.

[indistinct].

Ooh, a crash.

And Martinez has crashed.

Martinez crashes
on that left-hand turn.

Get out of the fucking way!

Turning left, the terrain was a
and I lost control of the bike.

Martinez
really having to work hard.

There's no one around him.

The entire race changed for me.

I lost too much time and was out

You know going
into the race

that something unwanted
will happen.

And we have to balance the fact

that there's still
three weeks of racing to do.

Why is it that when you clean my

I feel like I'm going to faint?

This will burn a little, ok?

Yes?

Man...

Fuck, dude, I thought you only f

What? One what?

One time?

One...

Two times...

Here you are.

We're done here.

There. Here we go.

You know, we've, uh...

had to tighten up
the budget this year

in EF Pro Cycling,
so this is, uh,

just one of the ways
we're saving money, on haircuts.

Let's see.
Well, we are stage four

of the 2020 Tour de France.

This is the first very
important stage of the race.

With the team classification,

maybe it's not exactly
the sexiest thing in cycling.

But from a sponsor's
perspective,

it's like the best thing
you can win in a race.

It would mean a lot to--

to everybody
if we could pull it off,

so let's really fight for it.

Stage four
of the Tour de France.

This is not a stage

that you should fall asleep
on the sofa.

Still many fans
at the side of the road;

less than
we would normally see

because, of course,
of the pandemic.

Wait...

Because Neilson...

We don't want you spent because
we can win the teams classificat

Tejay van Garderen leads.

That geezer's
got loads of power.

Neilson Powless takes over
in second place,

Higuita in third place.

Neilson. Neilson Powless.

Did you see him?

That's incredible.

What some
people do to be on television.

Exactly.

Rigo is there... boom.

First on GC...

Well done, boys. Nice.

Two hundred guys at the start;
199 lose.

Only one guy wins.

That's why they created,
you know,

different jerseys:
the best climber,

the best sprinter,
the best team.

For some of
the less senior riders

or the helpers,

it's a really nice chance
to get proper recognition

for who you are
and what you do.

And it's such a team sport,

and there's so much
teamwork goes into it.

I know when I raced,
it was really great

because it gave me a chance to
be actually a winner.

Today, yellow helmet. We are now

It's got massive value

for the partners of the team.

It's the team that wins that
or leads it; its EF Pro Cycling.

The business model

for cycling has been around

for over a hundred years.
All the money comes from

commercial sponsorship.

Cycling is one of
the few sports

where actually the team
is named after the sponsor.

Without the sponsor,
that means there's no team.

It doesn't matter
how much money

or how big of a budget
a team has any one year;

any year,
it could all go away.

Team managers,

their main concern every year
is to renew contract

of their sponsors,
or find new sponsors.

JV has definitely been
able to pull a lot of rabbits

out of a lot of different hats.

He's always able to...
keep this thing going.

You know,
we are the longest running

professional cycling team the
United States has ever had.

You change the sponsors;

you change the name on the shop.

But it's always the same--
the same kind of shopkeeper.

It's still Jo--Jonathan
Vaughters's team, you know?

Uh...

So...

what's your strategy today?

I reckon the guy
most likely to get

into the break is Nielson.

Yeah.

Nielson, super riding yesterday.

Think with the confidence
you've got, and on these roads,

it's gonna be super easy for you
to get in the breakaway.

You feel happy trying?

Yeah - if you want me to.

Breakaways are
hard to get into.

You know, it's a crapshoot
of which move's a good move,

which is not a good move.

You have to push your way

and elbow your way
up to the front

in order to try to
slip in one of those.

The breakaway performs
quite a useful function

all the time
in the Tour de France

in giving
these riders some exposure,

some active
participation in the race,

and giving the peloton
something to chase.

Sometimes teams send out
guys up front,

you know, to be shown
on TV because--

there's even an expression
for that in French,

they say--
to show the jersey.

Honestly,
I didn't really know

what to expect
coming into the Tour.

But the team told me

I'd go for it
in a few breakaways...

It's a harder place to be
than in the peloton.

For some of the teams
and riders,

your only chance
of being noticed

is by doing something
out of the ordinary.

You'll only create
that chance for yourself

if you are there,
if you are up the road.

Was that Neilson back there?

Come on, Neilson, come on.

You can work your way up there.
Come on, buddy.

Neilson Powless is

in this front group

riding for EF,
a great day for him.

His first appearance
at the Tour de France.

Twenty-four years of age today.
It's his birthday.

To earn respect
in the peloton, to...

um... to get into a breakaway,
you have to be aggressive.

Attacks hard.
Wraps this one up now.

You have to fight
for your position.

Another
attack of Neilson Powless.

You have to do that
in order to--

to be a bike rider.

We have now
got a leading group of

four riders.

Cycling fans love breakaways,

because it takes courage,
it takes cunning.

When these guys suddenly
decide to up the tempo,

you're just going to follow.

Neilson Powless,

he's gonna end up third or
fourth on the stage.

And that's the arrival of
a young rider in the world tour.

Surely he's gonna get cake
tonight for this.

♪ Happy birthday, dear Neilson
Happy birthday to you ♪

Thanks, everybody.
It's a great birthday.

Um... yeah.
Wouldn't want it any other way.

What's going on?

[indistinct].

Hi.

My internet
might not be so good.

I don't know if... hopefully
we can get chess to work.

Hmm... I like your shirt, Rylan.

Thank you.

If I get
myself an all-white shirt,

can you tie-dye it for me?

- Um-hmm.
- Cool.

That can be my birthday present.

Even though my birthday
was last month,

we still haven't...

still haven't been able
to celebrate it.

Ah, it doesn't matter. I don't
need to get any older anyways.

Some people, they, you know,

they go into the Tour
knowing that okay,

they're not the type of rider
who can win the Tour.

Only one guy gets to win.

And all of his teammates
helped him to win,

but they didn't get to
stand up on the podium.

Cycling
is an individual sport.

And everybody who becomes
a cyclist has individual goals.

I don't think anybody
becomes a cyclist

dreaming one day
of helping somebody else win.

As soon as we know who's in fron
then everything on Rigo to help

If you're not in, Tejay, that's

To hold on as long as you can wi

And I know that you can do that.

You're
gonna have guys that need to...

to block the wind.

You have to have guys

that are gonna have to make
position in the bunch.

The energy
that you're using

is for somebody else.

And so that might be

working on the front to
help bring back a break.

It might be just sitting
in front of a team leader.

One of them might go back
for a ring cape

from the car for food,
for bottles.

Ice for Rigo.

It's for Rigo.

It's sort of a pedaling

waiter, butler, windbreaker.

You know, all these things.

Tejay van
Garderen tries to set the tempo

for the team in pink.

It was basically my job to--to
look after Rigo.

And, you know, your mind
and your role switches.

Tejay is always calm and willing

He gives you security and confid

He is a good friend to me, a goo

There comes a time in
every rider's career where

they have to decide,
am I going to carry on

pursuing my dream
of being a star,

being a winner in my own right?

This is the trophy
from the 2012 Tour de France

when I won the white jersey
for best young rider.

Or am I going to, um...

turn myself into something else
and abandon those dreams,

and become a different
kind of rider.

There's a pragmatism in that,

and I think an intelligence
in making that decision that--

that some display
and some don't.

Tejay Garderen

just sneaking through

with Rigoberto
right on his wheel.

At this level, we--

we all kind of have
bought into the team aspect

and we know what our job is,
and we know how to do it.

Your value sometimes
is determined by

how you contributed
to another's success.

The thing is if the team wins,
then you win.

Hold on, Tejay.
Good luck.

Squeeze it more.
Three, two... Down, three...

It would have been more difficul
the Tour had run on the origina

That would have been complicated

Because back in July I was compl

He's put in a pretty--
pretty solid effort into--

into... um, uh,

pretty solid effort is--
is an understatement.

He's put in a--
a phenomenal effort into--

into coming back.

Having done a ton of physical
therapy over the winter,

completely off the bike.

You know,
the left side of his body

is still very atrophied.

On the bike, he kind of
has to lean to one side.

Um, and so here he is.

The strength of Rigo,

apart from
his athletic capabilities,

is also his mental approach
to life.

Things that don't count
just totally flow over him.

You see a little bit of that
extend to his racing style.

He knows that these races
are 18-round title matches.

He's just gonna follow,
and follow, and follow

until hopefully, the, you know,
knockout punch moment comes.

Rigoberto
rides in a perfect position.

Aw, Rigo, come on.

Push, push, push,
push, push, push.

'The Bull from Urrao,' Rigoberto

Rigo is climbing up the general
he is currently in 6th place.

Yesterday, we did great.

We've done just great until now.

And Rigo was absolutely
in the game.

Tejay, if you can do anything,
you can to help him

get in the break,
it would be just great.

Perfume.

Oh yeah?

Yes, that's perfume.

Perfume, very good.

Smell it.

For the peloton?

For the peloton...

'Ah, Rigo smells good!'

Yes, yes.

Yes, yes, yes.

Everyday.

It's kind of
funny if you look at it.

It's a lot of second place,
second place, second place,

second place with Rigo.

And a lot of people have said,
"Well, you know,

that's because
he's not ambitious

and he doesn't have that killer
instinct" or whatever else.

And that's a--
that's a bunch of bullshit.

It's actually incredible

that he's been able to get
those second places.

His sort of natural gifts
are maybe of a rider

that would finish 10th or 20th.

But he is so smart
and intelligent

and strategical
in how he races,

and is willing to push himself
so far and hard,

that he's been able to

go way beyond where
he should have gotten to

from a physical standpoint.

Now, he's looking prime for
a podium spot in the Tour,

which would be, you know,
amazing for him,

it would be amazing for EF,

and it'd be amazing for me
to be a part of that,

because he's just
such a great guy.

He's, uh, you know, just
a professional all around.

It is important to face these ra
as they create lots of tension a

You have to learn to be sure of

It's also important to enjoy tha
keeping at the front, and stop t

Let's hug the trees.

Let's feel the energy.

For pure energy!

I know my job.

I have two jobs.

One of them is to give fans joy.

We walk next to them.

It's an energy that you can't fi

It's true that for people who do

It seems a bit bizarre.

Most of the excitement

of watching the Tour is,

uh, is waiting for it to happen.

You see on the roadside
adults, you know,

clad in polka-dot jerseys,

fighting the young kids for
a piece of garbage, you know.

The guy in the devil costume

stands out quite a bit.

Dinosaurs,
devils, anything, you know?

They're already flocking there,
organizing the party,

organizing the fun.

Beer, marijuana.

You can smell all this stuff.

We are pleased to
as part of the fight against the

...the wearing of
mandatory from 8am to 00am.

Usually, the fans have
such access to us riders

and that's what people love
about the sport.

And now, there's none of that.

So, if a fan asks for a selfie,

we're afraid to
even talk to them.

We all know how high
the stakes are.

The uncertainty with

all the testing that we're doing

as to whether or not
you're gonna have to send,

you know, staff or riders
or the entire team

home at any given moment...

that's also, uh...
pretty tricky to deal with.

We know everybody is at risk. T
We've been tested around 15 time

I really wish I could
take this fucking mask off.

We're racing
each day to win that day

because we don't know
if the next day will happen.

There are so many
unanswered questions.

You know, from--from
the broad scale strategic level,

it's--it's, uh...
it's phenomenally complicated.

And--and it's unnerving.

Everybody here okay?

This is the stage.

Twenty Ks dead flat.

Thirty Ks a little bit more
up and down.

Seven Ks the first flat.

Neilson, try for a break.
All right?

Another beautiful day here

in France for this Tour.

Get in the front,

the ones who need to
get in the break.

Let's get ready to race.

Play the game today,
Neilson, play the game, yeah?

You're doing good.

- You got a rice cake?
- Yeah.

Good job, buddy.

This is
the breakaway, 13 riders.

We're approaching one and a half
hours of today's stage.

Really good, Neilson.

Just perfect.
Fueling now, fueling.

Eating and drinking.

Great to
see Neilson Powless

in here again for
the second time.

Well, hopefully the breakaway

from a couple of days ago

hasn't taken too much
out of him,

because when you put in
a big effort like that

during a stage
of the Tour de France,

it is very difficult to recover.

I've got your bag
if you need anything, mate.

[over radio] Yeah.

On the way, mate.

This is Neilson Powless

of EF Pro Cycling.

Would love so much to--

to see him to sort of ride away

and take the victory
in today's stage.

Neilson, fill in.
Fill in, fill in, fill in.

Come on, back to him.
Come on.

We're heading
towards the top of the climb.

The Port de Lers.

Come on, mate.
You can come back to these guys.

Come on, it's all your effort.

Eight and a half K to the top.

It's not fucking over, come on!

Neilson Powless

is refusing to let this go.

As he now tries to chase
,

they're going so quick uphill,

they'll have to squeal
on the brakes

through their right hander.

Come on, mate, come on!

It's the fucking
Tour de France, come on!

Neilson Powless is putting

another great ride in today.

For his first Tour de France,

we're seeing him
in the breakaway

and attacking
on a number of occasions.

He's really giving
this Tour everything.

Doesn't look too comfortable

at all on this climb.

He's just trying to stay there
as long as he can.

Neilson Powless
in all sorts of trouble

on the climb that is the
steepest part of today's stage.

We need every second.
We need every second.

We need every second.

Fuck!
He's not gonna get there.

...25 seconds between the front
rider and the changing four.

[into radio] Keep going up
to those four, mate.

Come on.

Cookies?

Yeah. No. Banana bread.

Banana bread?
That's good.

All good?

Yeah. It's good.

Always good, super strong.

Everyday...

Boom, bang...

Neilson in the break.

Who's in the break? Neilson.

Neilson, Neilson...

Neilson's always in the break.

Good job.

- Hey.
-

Hi, how was it?

Um... It was good.

It was tough.
No, it was like...

I don't know,
kind of frustrating too though

because every breakaway
that I've gone in

has gone to the line.

Somebody's won from it.
But I just--

Yeah.

I haven't
been able to stick it.

It's also just
kind of bittersweet

because I'm just like,
I'm always... I'm always there.

It's just...

man, I just don't have
that little bit extra to...

to get something out of it.

It's Thursday?

Or Sunday? -Sunday, no?

- Oh... no.
- No.

It's Thursday.

After--after a month,
you start to lose also these--

these--these things.

But I think
it's Wednesday today, no?

No. Thursday.

Eat, work,
eat, work, eat, work.

Eat, sleep.

What day is it?

Today is...

Tuesday...

Tuesday...

Tuesday, September 20th.

Is it the 17th?
18th?

19th?

I'm still laughing
at that picture.

Where are we?

I have no idea.

More eat, eat.
More sleep.

Just take a deep breath
in. And out.

Ooh, ooh.
That's tight, huh?

Yeah.

Let's bend
the right one.

Yeah.

People say think positive,

but I feel like
that's a dangerous concept

because if you're like, "Ah,
maybe today will be all right"

then you're not really prepared
for it being a miserable day.

But...

For a long time,

I was thinking...
you know, I'm a cyclist.

That's all I think about.

I can't let, um...
I can't let what happens next

enter my thoughts.

Now, you know, I'm--I'm 32,
and that's not old

but it's certainly not young.

It is probably wise to start
thinking a little bit about

what's next because, you know,
years tick by pretty quick.

Holy shit,
your feet are furry.

What do--
what do you want me to do?

Shave my toes?

It's not your
toes. It's like--just the...

I mean...
at a certain point,

you gotta stop shaving.

Cycling
is such an intense sport,

if you begin to put the sport
secondary to something else,

you will not be successful.

I feel like I'm not playing

my best chess right now.

I have like
stage eight team fog.

Mom doesn't even want to
watch the race anymore

because they never show you

'cause you're
so far in the back.

Yeah.

They have
created a life for themselves.

The people around them
revolve around that passion.

And it's not balanced, you know?

Okay.
Let's get ready for bed.

Turn across.

To head that more, more.

And squeeze that.

Squeeze... more...

Squeeze more, more, more.
Soft in front.

And the back, across.

Shoulder down, lean over.

We're doing great.

But we've also spent quite
a bit of energy, right?

There's a lot coming up.

By necessity,
that means that we have to

start making hard decisions.

We came here with a leader,
and I think now's the time

to make a sacrifice
within this group.

- Yeah.

I am getting old...

...but I still look great!

Well, the important thing is I f

I have always said that these 3
us to be focused until the very

There are hard climbs.

We are in a good position.

Rigoberto Uran is a rider

who is not going to wait.

He's gonna capitalize and move
into the podium if he can.

Push, push, push, push, push.

Hurry!

Rigo's biggest
strength as a rider

is his consistency.

But at the same time,

you also can't crack him.

Go, Rigo!

Rigoberto Uran

is getting ready to strike.

Let's go, Rigo!
Let's finish this fucker up!

Come on, hurry!

A strong
ride by Rigoberto Uran.

He just kept within himself,
and that's experience.

A good day for EF.

Rigo moved up to third.

Oh yeah?

Should be able to
hold it, I think. I would--

How--how about that?

- Huh?
- How about that?

-

How about that?

From a
sponsorship perspective,

now we have sort of
something to point to for,

you know, the next ten days.

People's memories are short.

My philosophy is that the road

Anything can happen.

Take it day be day...

You know, he's sitting in third
place right now.

It's not gonna be easy
to wrestle that from Rigo.

I fully expect to see him
up on the podium in Paris.

[indistinct],

have you seen this last climb?

Four thousand five hundred
meters of climbing on this.

But check this out.

Dani wasn't good yesterday

so he should maybe try
and get some faith back?

Staying with Rigo?

Okay.

Because a break will go.

Where's the GC?

We're getting to the bit

where people start to
get a bit tired, right?

As a group, we've got
a lot going for us.

Dani, you didn't have
the best day yesterday,

but I think today
if you stay with Rigo,

build up some confidence,

make sure that your legs
are back

without going out
and killing yourself,

then we can get you back
for later on.

Ahead of us
now, a different picture

as we go into what is gonna be
a difficult day.

In the meeting they told me: you
not go in a breakaway today.

On the front
now of the chasing group,

the arrival of Martinez.

But before the actual start, whe
on my pedals, Charly came to me

Dani, if you get a chance and fe

Dani Martinez attacks.

Daniel Martinez now attacks.

Starts the acceleration.

Martinez just left the g

Can EF salvage this?

They have only one rider left
in this group now.

Martinez is trying to give EF

a stage victory in the Tour.

Behind him is Kamna,
who's hanging on well.

Come on, Dani!

You are the best here, you are t

Come on!

This is wonderful to watch.

Martinez is ripping it up here.

On the last stretch, Kamna attac

I kept riding, but I didn't want

Kamna goes,
and Martinez didn't see it!

So he went for it and I was ther

Kamna's now going for the line.

Martinez, can he get
in the slipstream?

I changed gear and that was it.

Leonard Kamna, 100 meters to go.

Martinez comes
alongside him now.

Martinez of EF is going to
outdo the two Bora riders.

It's gonna be a win
for the Colombian!

Dani Martinez
wins an enthralling stage!

Dani Martinez, EF.

Yes!

Ah!!!

The heart sign is for my family,

And also for all the people in C

A wonderful day for EF.

A fantastic day
for Dani Martinez.

Whoo-hoo.
The paparazzi's here.

Well done, Dani!

You have diamonds in your legs.

Guys! Thank you very much to
all--all team.

Really, in the last case...

I no think for myself.

I think the--whole team.

Whoa...

We really brought Dani
from sort of a rider

that no one knew about
to winning a stage here

and really showing potential.

But we won't see that.

He's gonna go off to...
you know,

greener pastures or--

or at least more financially
stable pastures.

This whole Tour, I--
I've been--I've been...

kind of on and off the race,

but the entire time fighting to

pull the finances together, and...

and having to put on
an absolutely brave face.

As soon as
I start to fall apart--

No problem.

--the
performance of the

whole team falls apart,

because everyone starts to
realize that, you know...

that they're walking
on quicksand.

It really--
it really fucking sucks.

I'll be honest with you.

You know, and all these people
at work...

All these people at work,

they just think that I can,
like, pull off a miracle

every single time
and that somehow...

you know, uh, he'll be--
he'll be able to find

that extra five million dollars
or whatever it is.

Rigo's not even looking at
other teams,

because he's like, oh no,
Jonathan always figures it out.

And, you know, this is--

this is where I want to
finish my career.

And I don't know that
I'm gonna figure it out.

JV...

...how long does the team have t

We got a couple weeks.

I mean... I don't know,

maybe--
maybe three weeks at--

at the maximum.

My work here is done.

Here we go again.

Hot today,
24 degrees up at the top.

Sergio...

I like your face now.

It's better, no?

Same as yesterday.

If you get in a break,
go to the line.

Welcome to stage 15.

Let's go, boys.

Got a good team,
and we're gonna go and do

some really good stuff today.

There's the yellow jersey.

not of the leader of the race.

Sergio Higuita going across too.

Very good Sergio, very good so f

Boivin goes
tries to close up with Higuita.

Oh, ohand

There's a crash... there'

Copy, we're on the way.

Sergio.

Higuita on the deck.

That's a nasty crash.

I hope he's okay.

Yeah, that was a bad crash.

Fuck!

The Colombian
champion... bit shaken.

A huge crash
at really high speed.

That is a funny move
by Boivin [indistinct],

moving so violently
across the road like that.

[indistinct].

Shit!

Can Higuita come back?

Such a shame to have

such a heavy crash on a--

on a stage like this
because Higuita's a guy

that could really feature in
today's stage from a breakaway.

Careful Sergio... careful.

See, Higuita has been

bandaged up there.

It's good to see him back.

Higuita crashes again
on the roundabout.

Fuck!

He's with the ambulance now.

Sergio.

I may have one finger broken.

Okay.

I may have a finger broken.

Let's go first
behind the car.

We talk in--
in one minute, okay?

Huh?

Let's try to get first
a little bit more to the front,

and then we talk. Okay?

If his finger's broken he can't

If his finger's broken he can't

No.

A disconsolate Sergio Higuita,

who is going to abandon
the Tour de France.

When the riders crash,

they'll get back on their bikes.

You know, you have to tell them
no, you have broken bones,

you need to not
ride your bike anymore.

But they will jump right back
on because in their mind,

you have to complete
the odyssey.

Did you see
how the crash happened?

He switched Higuita's wheel
and took him out.

If you look at the apology
that he put online,

it was
such a half-assed apology.

Either you apologize,

or don't say anything.

But to say like I feel bad, but...

wasn't really,
you know, it was normal.

It's like no,
that wasn't normal.

You just crashed a rider.

Like if I won a stage.

I have more messages than if I h

I should fall more often. Everyb

We were very fast, 58 kilometres

So the fall was very hard.

I tried to rejoin again, in grea

The cuts were deep and serious.

Then, during the chase, I tried respond.

So I entered the roundabout too

I wanted to keep fighting, even

But if I have a fracture, it wil
another accident.

So I told the team: I am going h

Today,
we're getting set up to reach

the highest point of the race
on the Col de la Loze.

This is showdown day.

When you come
out of the village,

it's basically a road
made for the Tour,

and it goes up
in steps like this.

And it's really hard.

Today isn't a day for...
massive analysis,

because it's gonna be on legs.

So you stay with him
as long as you can.

You two place him
for the Madeleine.

Tejay and Dani try to get in
the break, using our brains.

Neilson tries to recover.

And Rigo does his race.

Okay?

Normally,
these finishing climbs

are somewhere between like
25 minutes and 45 minutes,

and it's enough that if you're
well fueled at the bottom,

that you make it to the top.

It sucks trying to eat
on climbs,

but like if you don't do it,
you're gonna be fucked today.

Are you scared?

Afraid?

I've been through too many scary

Afraid?

Do you really know what it's lik

Really? Like, real fear?

Coming from a country in armed c

Losing my father.

That's what it is to be afraid.

For me, a stage is not something

Scared? Scared of what?

Losing time?

It's a stage in a bike race.

[into radio] Give it
a real go from the start.

We never know what can happen,
all right?

Rolling out.
The race starts for what is

going to be a really tough day
for these riders.

Rigoberto Uran,
a big day for him.

Third overall;
possibility of him

consolidating his third place.

High-altitude finish today.

I think that's gonna
suit Rigoberto.

If he's not up there
on the top step today,

I don't think
he'll be too far away.

[into radio] Uh,
Dani is in front now, boys.

Remember the plan guys.

We don't go too far

towards the climb and
cook ourselves.

Four Ks to be climbed.

All the
riders that they would expect

or need to be there
are still there.

Come on, Rigo.

The fight is on.

We're onto the first slopes

of this climb
of the Col de la Loz,

the new path that is
gonna take the riders

to the top of this mountain.

The Tour de France is poised
around at one-thirty-four.

All right.

Shit's gonna get real now, boys.

Oh yeah.

But so far,
no one has taken the race.

Eleven riders left

and the first nine
on the general classification.

Tom Dumoulin cannot respond

to the increase in tempo.

Grit your teeth!

Come on.

Oh, Mikel Landa is distanced

after his team
have ridden all day. Uranand

Rigo's blown...

Big time!

Rigoberto Uran

is distanced suddenly.

Dela Cruz is doing the damage.

Uran has gone,
he's third overall.

Time in cycling is gold,

as it is in life.

You risk a lot.

You give a lot.

It's a fight for survival.

Here is the
loser of the podium today.

Rigoberto Uran started today
in third place.

He's gonna drop down
the classification,

just couldn't quite respond
on these steep slopes.

Cycling is a...
it's a sport of heartbreak.

Even if you're a team
that wins a lot,

you still lose more.

The lows are low
and consistent.

And you spend most of the time
in a valley.

But the highs...

they're like a mountaintop
in the race, right?

You're actually
only at the top,

at that
mountainside,

you're only there
for like 20 seconds.

And then you're
already on the descent

going toward the valley.

Like I don't think you ever get

that high anywhere else.

So I think, I don't know,

we're just like a bunch of
cocaine addicts or something

in that we're just searching
for that next extreme high.

If you had a bad day yesterday,

if you were suffering yesterday,

whatever type of rider
you might be...

put that out of your mind.

Just reset today, because
this is the last big push.

Right?

Good afternoon,

and a very warm welcome
to Stage 19.

Man, we got nobody on
GC, we got no jersey,

and you're just thinking, like,
God, just get me to Paris.

Good afternoon.

A very warm welcome to Stage 20.

I know that you're tired.

I know you've done a great Tour.

You really deserve a result.

We just want to help you
get what you deserve.

No regrets.

We're like an airplane

that just ran out of fuel,
you know?

Things seem great
from the outside.

You're still going
500 miles an hour,

and you're still
at 30,000 feet.

But the truth
of not having any fuel

will start to come to bear.

The Tour de France

has made it to Paris.

Many of us dreamt
this would happen,

many thought it would
never be able to be achieved.

I just want to say thank you.

Because I had
a really, really great time

working with you guys.

It was really nice.

Regardless of the results,
which were good,

I think we did
what we should have done,

and we could have done,

and of the Tours that I've done
until now as a director,

I think it's gonna be
one of the ones

that I remember the most,

for how we went about it
together as a group.

So, thanks, it was really nice.

Okay?

Today is a special moment...

Arriving in Paris....it's beauti

You can feel the effort and the

Being on the Champs-Élysées is s

...you always dream of as a chil happiness.

I'm sure I'll,
um, get pretty emotional

when I finally see
the Champs-Élysées.

Yeah, I mean,

it's nostalgic, I guess.

If you can be nostalgic
for a place you've never been.

You know,
it's always a special feeling

once it's done
and you get to those cobbles

and realize like,
wow, this has been...

a tough three weeks but we--
we all made it.

The intense
willingness to overcome pain,

the intense willingness
to overcome risk,

that is something that I think
is good for society

to look at and say,
okay, we can overcome.

Will you want to try frogs?

Frogs!?

Si... Oui, oui...

It's like chicken.
I[Tejay] Oui, oui.

Frogs!?

It's like chicken.
You should try. It's good.

- Oui.
- Oh, put everything.

Sophie, can you just
order like... like...

Everything.

I'm kind of
tired of going through

the survival routine once again.

It's something that the highly
successful teams in cycling

don't have to deal with,

and that's the reason
that they're able to perform.

It's testing my patience.

Of course, I'm gonna fight

all the way to the bone
to survive,

but it's just like,
goddammit, it just sucks.

It was worth it
to try, no?

No, it's nice.

Watching people
that you've

known for over a decade and
trusted you,

watching all of that evaporate.

Do we get another shot
at the Tour de France or not?

This may very well be that
the end of, uh, you know, uh...

uh, being, uh, being a...

like a 30-year journey for me

in the world of cycling.

Just receiving
news that might be of interest

to our cycling podcast listeners.

Jonathan Vaughters
of EF Pro Cycling

announced that the team
has landed a new sponsor.

The team will
ride forward in 2021

with the Nippo Corporation
of Japan.

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