RMC Sport

I mean, Ludovic Ajorc, right, if you're talking about legendary Ligue 1 players, then he's right up there.

And I, you know, I've been listening to more kind of French radio, you know, like the equivalent of French, what is it called? RMC Sport or something like that.

And there was one guy suggesting that maybe Ludovic Ajorc should get a call-up for Les Bleus, which was sort of, you know, laughed off the panel a little bit by some, but just... tells you about the level that he's kind of been performing at.

I mean, one, just to needle you a bit, Bapo, because I know that you've been incredibly down on Ogier Sidnice in, what, the past couple of years, I suppose.

Johnny, did you point this out? Yeah, you did.

That RMC Sport is an arm of Chimichugam.

Yes, I hadn't known that.

Owned by Chimichugam, their media arm.

Which also

makes me...

Well, I already sort of understood why RMC Sport was following the bus around for the entirety of the Tour de France this year.

But that makes even more sense now

The French regional paper Le Progrès reported that the 2027 route, the Champs-Élysées stage, would leave out the Montmartre climb, making it a return to the just basic Champs-Élysées bunch sprint.

RMC Sport and Le Parisien... reported the opposite uh my mantra if it is still standing and not burned down it will be in the room

joke

um for for next year none of it's official the route is presented in four days next thursday in in paris I really hope it's in.

Mm.

And then we got word, uh, via Joshua Robinson of the Wall Street Journal, that RMC Sport had...

Well, it had turned this story on its head.

The story, of course, was that the Montmartre laps were gonna be gone from next year's finish of the Tour de France in Paris, which was a huge bummer, and we, we spent about 10 minutes already-

[laughs]

... lamenting this fact.

However, RMC Sport has come in over the top of that reporting.

Uh, first of all, Le Progres.

commented to this unhappiness thing.

I think it was RMC Sport, one of those weird journal pages, right? I come out to say he's unhappy with certain things.

And then Mbappe goes to the comments and says, yes, I'm also unhappy with my great-grandaunts too.

Oh, I didn't see that.

Obviously DAZN and Disney Plus recently got LaLiga jointly co-exclusively.

In France, uh, RMC Sport has been taken over this month officially by CMA Media.

Have they got reinvigorated sports ambitions? Don't know.

BeIn has its distribution deal with Canal, so it's kind of, you know, plodded along and, and, and that, that business has been, you know, l- unlike in the early days, you know, has been, uh, run profitably.