ESPRESSO: Tour de France Rest Day 2 | Cycling's Rare Sportsmanship, Hot Vs. Cold Climbs & Knighthoods For Indoor Training!

As the Tour's riders take their 2nd rest of 2025, Sir Bradley returns with his verdict on some of the week's huge stories, centred on his history and knowledge of the great race. This episode, joined again by producer and sports commentator, Toby Gilles, Bradley reveals how there's not much rest on a rest day and how your planning for it can impact your GC chances. He also discusses why cyclists' mentalities are different from other elite sportsmen and women, after the peloton refused to take advantage of Tadej Pogačar's misfortune when he fell on stage 11. Bradley then talks injury recovery and the use of indoor trainers, following Jonas Abrahamsen's sensational stage victory just 29 days after breaking his collarbone, and nominates the young rider he believes will be the next first-time winner of the Tour. Hit FOLLOW to make sure you never miss an episode and join the Café Aficionado community on social. ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠Strava⁠ Add your favourite cycle café stop to the⁠⁠ ⁠Café Aficionado map⁠⁠ Contact us: ⁠sirbradscafe@atomizedstudios.tv⁠  Credits Presented by⁠ ⁠⁠Sir Bradley Wiggins⁠⁠⁠ and Toby Gilles Researcher: Luca Unwin Production Manager: Ross Aitken Social Video Producer: Rosie Mansfield Produced and Edited by: Toby Gilles Executive Producers: Faye Stewart, Ashley Unwin & Dominic de Terville Sir Bradley Wiggins' Café Aficionado is an Atomized Studios production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Sir Bradley Wiggins' Cafe Aficionado is the destination for sports fans to come together and explore the magic, history, and incredible stories, from the sport of cycling and its greatest road races. Presented by one the most decorated British athletes of all time, Bradley Wiggins, and his good friend, broadcaster and cycling journalist Graham Willgoss. Every episode sees the hosts joined by some of the sports’ greats - to take a deep dive into every facet of the sport. They'll be exploring the history of the most iconic road races such as the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España, revealing the unheard stories, mythology and magic of each great stage, and discussing other elements of the sport - from performance and data, to the latest innovations in bikes. Expect entertainment, sporting history, unique insights and compelling new perspectives in equal measure. This is a podcast you can return to again and again.