Not the Dauphiné
6/5/202659 min
The build-up to the 2026 Tour de France starts here. It's not the Dauphiné because the race has been rebranded the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, which may take us a while to get used to.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they are reunited to look ahead to the first big preparation race for the Tour, which starts on Sunday. With Jonas Vingegaard resting after a convincing victory at the Giro d'Italia, and Tadej Pogačar focusing on the Tour de Suisse, that puts the spotlight on the young French sensation Paul Seixas.
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First 90 secondsGraham Willgoss· Host0:00
[upbeat music] You are listening to the Cycling Podcast. [upbeat music] Welcome to the Cycling Podcast. Our Tour de France Attitude Camp starts here. This is the first of four weekly episodes of, Lionel, let's call them vertical mindset meters that will take us to the Tour's Grand Départ in Barcelona, where myself, Graeme Wilgos, and you, Lionel Bernie, uh, will begin our second three-week road trip as normal men following the peloton around, well, a little corner of Spain, uh, and then France. In the meantime, Lionel, you're in the Sierra, not Watford, um, and I'm currently about seven meters above sea level at the base of Hampton Hill.
Lionel Birnie· Host1:08
Well, we were gonna meet face-to-face, weren't we, on the South Bank in London, our, our Sierra Nevada, the, to podcasting world, our Attitude Camp's home venue. But we had to invoke the extreme weather pro- protocol, didn't we? Uh, the weather- It is, yeah ... not been great. We had the heatwave here in the UK last week. It's now turned, well, it feels autumnal almost,