The Tour de France wrapped up in Paris on Sunday with Tadej Pogačar sealing a record-equalling fifth title, and Sport5's cycling podcast wasted no time getting into it. The channel gathered its regular Shvoong panel — Guy Dar and Guy Niv — for a special episode dedicated to picking apart the three-week race, with reporter Yordan Gazit joining live from the French capital.
Gazit had travelled to Paris for the finish and watched the closing, shortened stage around Montmartre and the Champs-Élysées in person before dialling into the recording to relay what the atmosphere was like on the ground as Pogačar's team celebrated down the finishing straight.
Niv brought a rider's-eye view that few Israeli broadcasters can offer: he became the first Israeli cyclist to start and finish the Tour de France, riding for Israel–Premier Tech in 2022, before retiring from professional racing and moving into commentary and podcasting on the sport back home.
The headline fact the trio kept returning to was simple — Pogačar's fifth yellow jersey pulls him level with Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Induráin as the most successful riders in Tour history. He finished with an overall time of 73 hours, 56 minutes and 26 seconds, roughly six and a half minutes clear of Belgium's Remco Evenepoel in second.
Much of the conversation turned to what the panel called the sport's next generation, embodied by Isaac del Toro. Pogačar's UAE Team Emirates–XRG teammate took the white jersey as the race's best young rider, a result the hosts read as a signal of who might eventually challenge the Slovenian at the very top.
They also revisited the tension of the mountains, singling out the stage to Alpe d'Huez as the race's most dangerous and dramatic day in the high peaks. Richard Carapaz's breakaway victory there was enough to lock up the polka-dot King of the Mountains jersey, closing out a mountains battle the podcast described as tighter than the final margins suggested.
Mads Pedersen's points win, sealed after a strong closing week on the flatter stages, rounded out the jersey sweep the panel worked through — alongside the finish itself, where Mathieu van der Poel took the shortened, crash-marred final stage into Paris while Pogačar rode it out safely in yellow.
It made for a lighter, more reflective edition than the panel's usual stage-by-stage coverage — three broadcasters talking through a Grand Tour they had just spent three weeks living inside, with one of their own having once raced it himself.
