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Yes for Philipson, giving everything in this sprint.

He moves into the lead.

Philipson thinks he's won it.

Yeah.

Philipson celebrates, thinks he's won this stage.

Why not?

Van Aert was already there.

Van Aert wins the stage with a stunning attack.

What the fuck?

I thought I won.

In stage four I thought I won.

Jasper, he sometimes lives in his own world.

I'm Jasper Philipson and my nickname is Jasper Disaster.

We try to work as a team.

We try to work as a team with him as good as possible.

And there is no space for disaster.

All right.

I'm looking over there.

I am Christophe Rothoft.

Together with my brother I am the manager of Alpecin de Koenink cycling team.

Me and my brother, we started the team in 2009.

It was last year our very first Tour de France.

So for us it was all new.

And Mathieu van der Poel attacks.

Mathieu winning the stage, getting the yellow jersey in Tour de France.

It's like, here we are now.

Mathieu is a big star in cycling.

He has been here since he was 15 years old.

It's also his team.

It's three of us who created it.

It's been really cool to see it develop and to be part of it.

But this year I've done too many races and it's not ideal.

I didn't really think it through.

Now the Tour is in three weeks.

I've never seen a rider who can really destroy himself like he can.

It's sometimes a bit scary to see him go all the way.

After the Giro his sensations haven't been that good.

I used to love energy.

Now the Tour is going to be really difficult.

We don't have the luxury to choose from 20 riders.

To go to Tour de France.

Alpecin Deceuninck, ladies and gentlemen.

Dutch superstar Mathieu van der Poel.

Alpecin Deceuninck is a small team in the second division.

Their goal is to win stages.

And they pinned all their hopes on Mathieu van der Poel.

The countdown has begun.

The second stage of this year's Tour is about to start.

Mathieu van der Poel lagging at the back of the peloton since the start of the stage.

And doesn't seem able to fight for victory.

Surprising to still see Mathieu van der Poel at the back.

When will he make his mark in the race?

Mathieu van der Poel crosses the line way behind the favorites.

Disappointing.

We had high hopes for Mathieu today.

But he just wasn't there.

At the moment I am a shadow of myself.

And that's frustrating.

Why is that you think?

I got no idea.

I wish I could tell you but I don't know.

I do think that doing both the Giro and the Tour de France was too much for him.

No.

I think he hasn't fully recovered.

This could become a very long Tour for Mathieu.

We shaped the team around Mathieu van der Poel.

But it's clear that at a certain point the team needs to

be strong enough to continue without Mathieu van der Poel.

It was not how we planned.

Of course we have other riders.

Jasper.

He needs to step up.

It won't be easy.

But for us it's crucial.

I'm Jasper Philipsen.

My specialty is sprint.

To complete a Tour is pretty hard.

There will always be some moments in the Grand

Tour that you think, fuck what I'm doing here.

What I do to my body is just a self-suicide attempt to the body almost.

Okay, so.

FTP intervals of six minutes is for Sylvain, for Jasper.

And there is only two minutes of recovery in between.

As a sprinter you're struggling more over the mountains.

And you have to survive those hard days.

And looking forward to the next sprints and next opportunities for yourself.

And keep on fighting.

Keep on putting pressure on the pedals.

Who forgot the lunch packet?

I bet on Jasper Philipsen.

No, no, no.

You can take it in the car.

Jasper Philipsen is a very friendly, empathic guy.

Still good leg day?

They call him Jasper Disaster, but I don't like it.

Do they?

No.

Do I have shit on my cleats or not?

Yeah?

Can't do it.

Things like this happens.

Sometimes you forget some things or, yeah, just

some small, small things that looks like a disaster.

Jasper.

What?

What did I do?

It's always you, huh?

It's not equality in cycling.

You have to do the things right.

And it's not okay that you forget today your

helmet and tomorrow your socks and then the

In the last Tour de France, we finished six times in the top

three, which was very nice, but in the end there was no victory.

The nicest one to win is the Champs-Élysées in Paris.

It was the last opportunity for a sprint and the most beautiful one.

Wout van Aert strikes, Cavendish gets ready, Philipsen is there as well,

who's going to get it?

Foto on the line, Wout van Aert!

The goal was never achieved.

I just remember celebrating the end of the Tour with a glass of champagne,

with tears in my eyes from the disappointment.

That was painful.

Jasper has to win stages, but the Jasper disaster thing we would like to disappear.

Welcome to the fourth stage between Dunkirk and Calais.

A lovely day for the sprinters.

You still haven't won a stage.

Never taken you this long before.

I hope to find my legs again over the next week and have a go at getting a stage win.

I think it's best that we just lay our bet on Jasper today.

The flat stages are for sprinters.

Jasper... is a really strong rider, in my opinion.

The day you have an opportunity on the sprint, these

are the moments you try to take with both hands.

Solo,

Wout, it's solo.

18 seconds and one kilometre to go for van Aert, alone in the lead.

Wout van Aert leads the stage with a stunning attack.

Philipsen celebrates, thinks he's won the stage.

But Philipsen's going to be second.

I thought I won.

In stage four, I thought I won.

I think he didn't know that van Aert was up in the round.

He's going to be second.

Whoa, whoa, careful, careful!

That was really strong.

It was the best today.

I think it shows how strong and how incredible that effort was.

That he could make such a gap, that's incredible.

Come here.

How are you doing?

Are you OK?

Okay.

Oh, sweetheart.

How are you?

Did you not hear then?

I want to be alone.

Yeah?

Should I wait here?

Come this way.

You know, on the screens it wasn't even noticeable.

It sucks.

They're not even writing about it, so I don't

think it was all that noticeable what happened.

It's toe curling.

So you didn't hear that Van Aert was ahead?

I didn't.

And like, how is that possible?

It was incredible that he could even do that.

On his own.

It's impossible.

It's not normal.

Oh, that fucking sucks.

You will... They're all going to laugh at me.

In the Tour de France, you're only as good as your last day's racing.

And so far, the last day's racing isn't that good.

It's been falling to pieces somewhat.

And it's not going to get easier from here on.

And the eleventh stage of the Tour de France has begun.

We're heading to the highest finish line of the Tour.

A real physical and mental challenge for the riders.

The reason the mountains matter so much is because they are so hard.

Coming off the back of a first week that has been absolutely brutal.

It's here, if you don't have the form, you're not going to make it through.

Three kilometers and 9.5% incline.

What can we do without this today?

The peloton attack, the first classified climb of the day, four minutes.

Another bad day for Mathieu van der Poel.

He's dropped.

He's lost a lot of power in the first 20 kilometers.

One

kilometer from the summit.

Okay, okay, to the summit.

Mathieu van der Poel is two minutes behind in reaching the summit.

It's a lot of suffering over the mountains.

It's not easy to be a cyclist at the highest

level and people expect you to win every time.

I don't want that pressure in the Tour.

There's a high chance he's going to drop out.

Hello, so we're now being told someone is

dropping out of the Tour, Mathieu van der Poel.

Okay, she stopped.

Stopped.

Mathieu van der Poel really seemed to be struggling.

It's already from the beginning of the Tour that I don't really feel myself.

And it makes no sense to continue if you can't even follow the last guy.

That's not my place normally.

So, you know, you can do more bad than good, to be honest.

So, yeah, it makes no sense to continue.

A great day for Jumbo Wismar with a stage victory for Jonas Wengergaard.

Jasper Philipsen crosses the finish line 36 minutes behind today's winner.

Completely exhausted.

With Mathieu van der Poel dropping out, it's

been a terrible day for Alpersen de Keurink.

Every day there are new disappointments.

The disappointment goes together with some frustration.

When you have lost or when there's a disappointment, then you have to accept.

And most of the time it does not stay that long.

Maybe I hope sometimes that I could be a bit more emotional.

But now we need to move on with the Tour.

This is Tour de France.

They need to win a stage.

They kind of have to win a stage.

But without Mathieu van der Poel, they've got limited options.

And that's not their fault.

They're not one of the biggest teams.

The bigger teams have lots of options.

So they're going to have to find another way to win.

But that's an opportunity as well for some of those riders.

The younger riders.

This is the opportunity you've got to grasp.

It's been a tough Tour so far.

I hope to have had a stage win already.

I was close a few times but it didn't happen so far.

But I have good motivation to hopefully take

my chances in the last opportunities for us.

Carcassonne will be a crucial day for us.

It will be a stifling stage today.

The heat will be the main topic of conversation.

One of the hottest stages for the riders.

They're forecasting 40 degrees in the southwest.

After all the effort, getting through a heat wave will be tough.

Does the heat have a big physical impact on you when you're racing?

Yeah.

When your body heat goes above 37 degrees, it can't be good.

In heat like that, you can push two, three times max.

But after that, your heart rate goes... You've got to be careful.

Stage 15 transitions through the Alps and the Pyrenees.

We discussed already a lot.

The final.

They will try to achieve a sprint.

And to sprint for victory, of course.

Not like our friend there, Calais.

Sprint this time for the victory.

In the

team, we haven't won so far in this Tour de France.

So today is a possible chance.

The pressure is on.

The pressure is on me.

Wout van Aert is in the GC team.

They have higher priorities than winning stage 15.

They want to win the Tour de France.

I'm just in a team where we focus for stages.

We go all in for those days.

We go for it.

Primoz Roglic has decided to drop out of the Tour after his fall on the cobbles.

Yeah, it's really, really unfortunate he has to go home.

We have the yellow jersey.

We need every help in the world.

I'm confident that the other remaining riders, they can handle it.

But, of course, it's not a good thing for the team.

Rodès to Carcassonne.

202 kilometres.

Main goal for today.

Keep the yellow safe.

Stick together.

Make sure Jonas can save as much as possible.

Actually, I'm really motivated for the stage of today.

I understand our tactic.

But I would really like to try and jump also in the breakaway.

I always want to be the best.

I had it since I started cycling.

I wanted to win the races.

And I always want to give 100%.

That's still in me.

Personally, I also see it's a possibility to get in front with a strong group.

Do I have the freedom for that?

I think we have to see what happens.

What we just said is also important.

To really keep Jonas in a good position.

Wout is one of the biggest riders in the world.

But he's also important as an outlet for our yellow dream.

I don't want to end up again sprinting for seventh place.

No, no, no.

But the biggest priority is to keep the yellow safe.

Wout van Aert is one of the superstars of this generation of cycling.

Those guys, they just can do almost everything.

Those are just the superstars that don't get born every year.

Wout van Aert is riding exceptionally well as we know.

And he's there in the final going for the sprint.

How do you see that?

Surely if it will come down to the sprint, Wout

van Aert will also be there to try for the win.

So that's a big rival for today also.

Testing, testing.

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

Hello, everybody.

Hello, hello, everybody.

Testing on Radio Tour, broadcasting live.

Getting ready for the 15th stage of the Tour de France.

Jonas Wengergaard is still in yellow.

He has a two-minute and 22-second lead over Tadej Pogacar.

Geraint Thomas is third.

The race is about to start.

They're getting ready now.

You can see a fair few sprinters already in position at the front.

Alpersen de Kernickaar, of course, going to try to secure the stage for

Jasper Philipsen, one of the fastest guys in the peloton.

And the green jersey, Wout van Aert, may be a real threat today.

He's an all-rounder and found the mountain

stage less arduous than the other sprinters.

There's been a crash there.

They're in the pack.

Crash in the peloton.

Van Aert is down.

And so is Kreisweik.

The race has stopped.

The race has stopped.

Fuck!

I've been involved in the crash.

The green jersey is not riding anymore.

This may prove to be a bad day for Jumbo Wismar.

Have you got a fit?

Have you got a fit?

It's back on.

The race is back on at the front.

Well, van Aert is still waiting for his teammates.

When Stevie crashed, I was just behind him.

So I stand still with him because I saw he was really in a lot of pain.

The peloton is moving at quite a pace.

I don't think it's slowed down in the least.

Steven Kreisweik, one of Jonas Wengergaard's most important teammates,

is still on the ground.

And Wout van Aert sets off.

I made a call myself.

I wanted to wait with him, but then I realized, like,

I would be left alone with no chance of coming back.

Well, van Aert can't wait for Kreisweik.

His job isn't to stay behind, but to reclaim

his place in the peloton near the yellow jersey.

I'm going to stay with Stevie.

I'm going to keep my head down.

Stevie, keep your head down, man.

No, you have to go.

I think he's out of sleep.

Stevie is out of the race, unfortunately.

Really, really shit.

It's a bit like...

Retire from the race after a crash.

Jumbo Visma has lost two riders, Roglic and Kreisweik.

So he's coming through now, all right?

Coming from behind us.

Well, van Aert is back in the peloton.

The rest of the Jumbo Visma team ahead of him, protecting Jonas Wengergaard.

At the front, Jasper Philipsen for Alpsen de Keurig.

Another 60 kilometers to go.

Refocus, refocus after the crash in the bunch.

Watch out to the village.

Also, there are speed bumps in the traffic furniture.

Be careful.

41.7 kilometers to go.

Look out for the speed bump.

You lost all the brakes, theoretically.

Everyone is a bit nervous.

We lost a very important helper and rider for the team.

And we don't want this to happen again.

Five kilometers later, there was a little bit of tension in the peloton.

Roundabout is coming in the middle sections.

We came out of the roundabout and the peloton was getting back together.

There's a crash.

A crash that is the yellow jersey.

Jonas crashed there.

Jonas crashed.

We have to wait for Jonas.

I'm thinking, shit, this is not good and maybe this is it.

Maybe I'm out of the Tour de France.

A big problem for Wengergaard who has to change bikes.

He throws the other one to the ground.

It's a terrible half hour for Jumbo Visma.

Okay, I think almost everybody is ready for Jonas.

I'm really surprised by Wout van Aert's attitude.

The yellow jersey came off and he's not even waiting for him.

It's really surprising.

He has his eyes on the prize.

The other guys would wait for Jonas and my teammates

were strong enough to do the job themselves.

We were entering the final climb of the race.

The only thing I'm thinking about is being in the right

position and trying to launch my sprint on the right time.

So I stayed in the bunch.

Jasper Philipsen at the front, really going for it.

You're almost there, come on.

You're almost there.

Jonas Wengergaard back in the peloton.

We're heading to the finish.

Yeah, now it starts, the action.

Maio Schoenbeck in the bunch and...

The two men at the front have a 20 second lead on the peloton.

There might be a way to defeat the sprinters today.

Another 20 kilometers to Carcassonne.

Two guys in the front, 20 seconds now.

The breakaway was so strong and we had still failed sprinted guys in the bunch.

So it was up to their teams and our team to try to chase them down.

Just a small gap that has to be closed and then

suddenly people, they are not willing to close it.

Oddly, the peloton is slowing down.

They've got a 20 second lead.

They're slowing though.

The front group seems to have slowed down but they're still 20 seconds ahead.

When you get to the last 15 kilometers, the GC teams mutually agree.

They say, okay, so let's all slow down and the pace drops.

There have been a lot of crashes today.

They understand that the sprinters are going to take some risks.

Are going to jostle for position to win the stage.

That's why the leaders in the general classification

have decided to block the race to avoid any danger.

The peloton totally cramped on this narrow

road and there's nothing the sprinters can do.

I was thinking, as far as I know, not again.

Not again today.

I don't want to be able to have a sprint in the end.

In here, just blocking the road.

Yeah, then push them out of the way.

Just fucking push them out of the way.

We're also not in their way when they're right for the Tour de France victory.

When the peloton crosses into the final 10

kilometers, the teams of sprinters stop playing nice.

There's one objective.

Place the sprinter into the best position for the final sprint.

We had to catch them.

We couldn't let anybody ride away.

And now for Sinder-Koenig, take the lead.

30 seconds, eh?

30 seconds.

Jasper Philipsen is near the front of the peloton.

Come on, boys.

Come on it, guys.

Come on it.

Less than four kilometers to the finish line.

Goujard in trouble and up front, Benjamin Thomas.

Benjamin Thomas enters Carcassonne alone.

Can Benjamin Thomas go all the way?

If he does, that would be the first French victory of the Tour.

It would be amazing.

But the sprinters increase their pace.

The gap narrows.

Jasper Philipsen on the right.

Well, van Aert throws away his last water bottle.

Van Aert takes the lead.

Sinder-Koenig is close to launching Jasper Philipsen,

who's aiming for his first Tour de France victory.

Everybody tries to be in the best position possible.

There's only a certain amount of places on the road, so you have to be 100% alert.

There's Wout van Aert.

10 seconds for Benjamin Thomas.

Benjamin Thomas leans in.

And the pack of sprinters arrives.

Going to a sprint is like 100% focus.

It's a fight at more than 60 km an hour to maintain your position.

You can be as strong as you want, but if you're two places too far at the

moment where you have to manage your sprint, you cannot beat the other guys.

If you go too early, you maybe run out of

energy when they come with speed from the back.

Or you go too late and you couldn't do your full sprint.

It's a mental game between the pain you feel in

your legs and how bad you want it in your head.

Another 600 meters.

A big acceleration by Benjamin Thomas.

But he's going to get swallowed by the peloton.

There's the finish line for Benjamin Thomas.

Benjamin Thomas is overtaken.

Pedersen is second.

Wout van Aert is third.

Wout van Aert is powering ahead.

And Philipsen recovers.

Coming up on the left in front of the barriers.

The green jersey.

Pedersen.

Philipsen.

Neck and neck.

Jasper Philipsen.

Jasper Philipsen.

Really pushing himself now.

Philipsen.

Jasper Philipsen has his first stage win here on the streets of the Tour de France.

When you see yourself going first over the line, many emotions come up and you

realize the thing that you're aiming for for such a long time.

And it's finally there.

And

it's finally there.

Good job guys.

Put it in.

You don't have to hold it.

Keep it in.

You don't have to hold it.

It's not going to stale.

I've been looking for this all day.

Ian Bovisma got decimated tonight.

A hard blow for the yellow jersey, Jonas Venkegaard.

It was supposed to be quite a calm and relaxed day.

But, of course, that was a really bad day for us.

Jonas was hurt a bit, and we didn't know how bad it would be.

We lost two very important helpers, so of course we were a bit hit.

You're a bit nervous going into the last few stages.

But still, anything can happen.

We'll just have to try to do our best to come back.

Jasper Philipsen, you finally win your stage of the Tour de France.

It must be a massive happiness for you.

I know what it's like to lose in the Tour de France.

I was close many, many times.

It's been a lot of...

I'm not going to cry on television!

But it's been a massive search for this victory.

And we were thrilled.

We worked really hard for it.

We just had to wait, wait until the right moment and the right opportunity.

And today, that was the day.

Enjoy the moment.

Thank you.

Sink the joy in.

Thank you.

The road to success is like ups and downs all the time.

Maybe in the end you arrive in the top, but there's a long way towards the success.

You have to pick yourself up.

You have to look after these disappointments.

And just find the motivation again.

I'm not done with the Tour yet.

Gaudu is in trouble!

David Gaudu is in trouble and has dropped!

If you don't have the mental or personal strength, you're not cut out for this.

I have to bounce back from my team.

Go out there and... I've got to go out there and achieve again, you know?

You're right.

Thomas has to prove that despite his age, he

can still make it onto the podium in Paris.

Come on, Jean.

All the way to the top.

Who will be on the podium in Paris?

David's accelerating.

You have to find that strength and team

spirit that will help you rise from the ashes.