An official trailer for season 2 of the Netflix Tour de France documentary, ‘Tour de France: Unchained’ was unveiled this morning, with a scheduled launch date of June 11, simply 18 days earlier than the 2024 race kicks off in Florence.
The second season focuses on the drama from the 2023 Tour de France, with crashes, as they have been in season 1, on the forefront and questions of doping highlighted within the one-minute trailer.
Clips from the trailer present interview segments with Thibaut Pinot, Tom Pidcock, Fabio Jakobsen, Julian Alaphilippe and Soudal-QuickStep staff boss Patrick Lefevere.
Popular French veteran Pinot was using his emotional remaining Tour de France earlier than he retired on the finish of the season however curiously, he’s proven within the trailer being requested about doping. “So do you suppose he’s doped or not?” says the interviewer earlier than slicing away with out a solution, with the previous clip additionally stating “The Tour appears to go from one scandal to the subsequent”.
Only eight groups featured instantly within the first season: Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale, Alpecin-Deceuninck, Bora-Hansgrohe, EF Education-EasyPost, Groupama-FDJ, Ineos Grenadiers, Visma-Lease a Bike and Soudal-QuickStep as they’re now recognized, however famous person Tadej Pogačar’s UAE Team Emirates facet shall be one of many new squads that includes in season 2.
The information that the runner-up from the earlier two Tours would star within the documentary was discovered throughout final 12 months’s race after it was additionally revealed that Mark Cavendish would star in his bid for a record-breaking thirty fifth stage win on the Tour.
Cavendish in the end crashed out of the race throughout Stage 8 with a damaged collarbone, which is proven within the trailer and will function in season 2.
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The public fallout of Lefevere and Alaphilippe, which has gone on for months within the media, additionally appears to be like like it can function, with clips of each the double World Champion and his staff boss forming a part of the trailer.
“Julian Alaphilippe prices some huge cash,” says Lefevere, with the French star responding “Too a lot for Patrick” when requested how a lot it’s he earns.
Jasper Philipsen is once more proven after that includes closely in season 1 the place his journey from Jasper “Disaster” to Tour de France stage winner was documented.
“We’re not right here to make mates with different groups,” says Philipsen whereas laughing with star lead-out man Mathieu van der Poel. The Belgian quick man introduced himself as the perfect sprinter on this planet on the 2023 Tour with 4 stage wins.
The pair’s Alpecin-Deceuninck staff have been the perfect dash squad on the 2023 race, dominating the finishes with aggressive however truthful techniques within the remaining runs to the road.
Also proven closely within the trailer, as talked about, are crashes for the likes of Carlos Rodríguez and Fabio Jakobsen, with this dramatic facet of the game an obvious precedence for the producers to spotlight.
Season 1 comprised of eight roughly 45-minute episodes and dropped simply earlier than the Tour de France final 12 months and was met with blended opinions regardless of being an total success. Unchained is made by the identical firm, Quadbox, that produces the extraordinarily profitable Formula 1 Netflix present, ‘Drive to Survive’.
It was one in all a number of new sports activities documentaries to hit Netflix with skilled Golf, Tennis and Rugby amongst these getting their very own collection alongside Cycling.
Key storylines within the first season included the comeback of Jakobsen from a life-threatening crash, the chaos on the cobbled stage, the strain of being on a French staff, Pidcock’s Alpe d’Huez triumph and the way Jumbo-Visma beat Pogačar with Jonas Vingegaard.
Initial opinions have been blended, with knowledgeable biking followers blissful to see hardly ever seen behind-the-scenes moments however important of the fastidiously edited narratives that centered on the groups concerned and ignored key moments of the 2022 Tour de France.
It was in the end sufficient for a second season to be renewed and confirmed simply forward of the beginning of the 2023 race in Bilbao. The collection is designed to entertain and appeal to new biking followers simply because the Drive to Survive collection has executed for Formula 1 since its first season in 2019, now in its sixth.
It’s again! Netflix’s Tour de France: Unchained documentary is ready to return for season 2 on June 11 pic.twitter.com/pupvAYsiXBMay 16, 2024