# S14 Ep74: The XL Tour de France 2026 Preview | Part Two | The Route | Barcelona > Paris Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cycling-podcast-745279/s14-ep74-the-xl-tour-de-france-2026-preview-part-two-the-route-barcelona-paris Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cycling-podcast-745279/s14-ep74-the-xl-tour-de-france-2026-preview-part-two-the-route-barcelona-paris.md Podcast: [The Cycling Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cycling-podcast-745279) Published: 2026-07-01T06:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8922705 Audio file: https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8922705.mp3?modified=1782934912&sid=1405050&source=rss Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-cycling-podcast-745279/episodes/s14-ep74-the-xl-tour-de-france-2026-preview-part-two-the-route-barcelona-paris Duration seconds: 3650 ## Resource The 113th Tour de France starts in Barcelona on Saturday, and makes its way to Paris via the Pyrenees, Massif Central, Vosges, Jura and Alps. In this episode, Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss take an in-depth look at the route, picking out some highlights along the way. There's also some French flavour from François Thomazeau, who has covered the Tour for the past four decades and writes the official tourist's guide for the race. Join us for the journey when our daily episodes get underway after the opening team time trial on Saturday. Part one of The XL Preview series is online now. Part three, covering all the other contenders to look out for, will be released soon. TITLE SPONSOR – MyWhoosh Our Tour de France preview series is sponsored by MyWhoosh . MyWhoosh is a serious indoor training and racing platform, built for riders who love cycling, and it’s free. It’s built for anyone who wants to ride indoors with purpose, whether that’s staying fit, following a training plan, joining a community ride, racing hard, or exploring virtual roads and it’s free to ride, just like outdoors. Follow us on social media: Twitter @cycling_podcast Instagram @thecyclingpodcast Friends of the Podcast Sign up as a Friend of the Podcast at thecyclingpodcast.com to listen to new special episodes every month plus a back catalogue of more than 300 exclusive episodes. The 11.01 Cappuccino Our regular email newsletter is now on Substack. Subscribe here for frothy, full-fat updates to enjoy any time (as long as it’s after 11am). The Cannibal & Badger Friends of the Podcast can join the discussion at our virtual pub, The Cannibal & Badger. A friendly forum to talk about cycling and the podcast. Log in to your Friends of the Podcast account to join in. The Cycling Podcast is on Strava Th… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-cycling-podcast-745279/episodes/s14-ep74-the-xl-tour-de-france-2026-preview-part-two-the-route-barcelona-paris/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cycling-podcast-745279/s14-ep74-the-xl-tour-de-france-2026-preview-part-two-the-route-barcelona-paris.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.