Christian van der Velde

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262 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 16 Jul

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For The Love Of Cycling · Another Sprint, Another Merlier Masterclass | Tour de France Stage 12 Breakdown · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

holy shit, if they're riding like this, no one could be out there.

Let's not forget about Jonas in the middle, which is easily overlooked, which was incredible as well, but it's just that... Overshadowed by who's talking about Jonas.

I hate to say it, but it's true though, isn't it?

But that was one of those pinch me moments.

You know, everyone wants to see, and especially the way this course was set up was to be, you know, a big culmination of craziness in the Alps.

And, you know, ironically, if they would have had a mountaintop finish on top of the tourmalet, it would only have been 30, 40 seconds.

Yeah, true.

And you knew, when you knew that if he had 20 seconds, that was going to be quadrupled at the finish line.

And it was more than quadrupled.

Yeah.

And what he did down the tourmalet.

Yeah.

I was going 114K an hour behind Remco's group and they lost 30, 40 seconds to him.

The first time, you know how dangerous that first part is, right?

I just closed my eyes.

I agree.

And I don't think people appreciate, myself included sometimes, until I'm back on the motorcycle, you remember how hard it is on the descent.

Yeah.

He's sprinting at 1,200, 1,300 watts out of every corner.

And to have that capacity to do so up after you already went whatever those numbers were going above 100,

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