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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, oh&

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. Uran&

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.

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