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In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Fran\\xe7ois Thomazeau in a bustling square in N\\xeemes to recap the 12th stage of the Tour de France.

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A short, flat stage looked certain to finish in a sprint but the peloton allowed a break of 13 riders to get away. There was no chase from the most likely candidates, Deceuninck-Quick Step, and so Mark Cavendish\\u2019s bid to equal Eddy Merckx\\u2019s record of 34 Tour de France stage wins will have to wait for another day.

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Instead, Nils Pollit of Bora-Hansgrohe produced a fine solo effort to escape the clutches of the breakaway and win his first Tour de France stage. It meant a happy end to the day for the team, who lost Peter Sagan in the morning. Sagan pulled out with a swollen knee but hopes to recover in time for the Olympic Games.

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We hear from Sagan, Pollit\\u2019s former teammate Ian Boswell, our audio diarist Connor Swift and Michael M\\xf8rk\\xf8v on Deceuninck-Quick Step\\u2019s decision not to chase.

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