The Tour de France reached Carcassonne, the final stop before the second rest day, and Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau discuss a second consecutive stage that was dominated by the breakaway riders. And the Astana team was celebrating for the second day in a row after Omar Fraile’s victory in Mende on Saturday. This time it was their Danish rider Magnus Cort who won. We hear how Astana planned their strategy from Cort’s team-mate Michael Valgren and sports director Lars Michaelsen and also from Trek-Segafredo’s Steven De Jongh about how their chance slipped away. Team Sky’s Nicolas Portal looks forward to the Pyrenees and Frans Maassen of LottoNL-Jumbo explains how they might use their twin threats in the mountains. All that plus the usual discussion of the latest news from the Tour de France. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Rapha and Science In Sport.