The Cycling Podcast: Recent Episodes
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast – daily insight and analysis of the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, Vuelta a España and Classics.
Join journalists Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie – and a few special guests along the way – as they podcast about the latest cycling news and the world of professional cycling.
Expect a mix of insight and analysis as our three experienced journalists cover not just the big talking points but take you behind the scenes of professional cycling.
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie
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All to gain and all to lose on the final day of the race. Find out more by listening to Rose Manley and Denny Gray on the ground at the Tour de France Femmes as The Cycling Podcast Féminin brings you daily coverage from the race.
There will be analysis, interviews, plenty of French flavour and undoubtedly, there will be cheese, so tune in every night to not miss out.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
Also on the agenda: dog turds and testicles
Introducing our sponsors, MyWhoosh
Our Tour de France Femmes coverage 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.
Episode sponsors
Bikmo
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Bikmo, cycle insurance built for cyclists who actually ride.
Whether it's a crash, a stolen bike, or your pride and joy arriving at baggage reclaim in three separate pieces – it's covered. Flexible policies you can cancel anytime, 50 per cent off extra household bikes, plus protection for your kit, race entries and travel.
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
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Nice proves nice for some! Find out more by listening to Rose Manley and Denny Gray on the ground at the Tour de France Femmes as The Cycling Podcast Féminin brings you daily coverage from the race.
There will be analysis, interviews, plenty of French flavour and undoubtedly, there will be cheese, so tune in every night to not miss out.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
Also on the agenda: Denny at the disco and Rose’s moisture levels
Introducing our sponsors, MyWhoosh
Our Tour de France Femmes coverage 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.
Episode sponsors
Bikmo
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Bikmo, cycle insurance built for cyclists who actually ride.
Whether it's a crash, a stolen bike, or your pride and joy arriving at baggage reclaim in three separate pieces – it's covered. Flexible policies you can cancel anytime, 50 per cent off extra household bikes, plus protection for your kit, race entries and travel.
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
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Another legend of Ventoux has just been crowned! Find out more by listening to Rose Manley and Denny Gray on the ground at the Tour de France Femmes as The Cycling Podcast Féminin brings you daily coverage from the race.
There will be analysis, interviews, plenty of French flavour and undoubtedly, there will be cheese, so tune in every night to not miss out.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
Also on the agenda: a brief revival of the Nienke Vinke Fan Club and oompah loompahs
Introducing our sponsors, MyWhoosh
Our Tour de France Femmes coverage 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.
Episode sponsors
Bikmo
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Bikmo, cycle insurance built for cyclists who actually ride.
Whether it's a crash, a stolen bike, or your pride and joy arriving at baggage reclaim in three separate pieces – it's covered. Flexible policies you can cancel anytime, 50 per cent off extra household bikes, plus protection for your kit, race entries and travel.
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
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Wins don’t get much more popular than this! Find out more by listening to Rose Manley and Denny Gray on the ground at the Tour de France Femmes as The Cycling Podcast Féminin brings you daily coverage from the race.
There will be analysis, interviews, plenty of French flavour and undoubtedly, there will be cheese, so tune in every night to not miss out.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
Also on the agenda: battles over Napoleonic battles and Ventoux weddings
Introducing our sponsors, MyWhoosh
Our Tour de France Femmes coverage 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.
Episode sponsors
Bikmo
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Bikmo, cycle insurance built for cyclists who actually ride.
Whether it's a crash, a stolen bike, or your pride and joy arriving at baggage reclaim in three separate pieces – it's covered. Flexible policies you can cancel anytime, 50 per cent off extra household bikes, plus protection for your kit, race entries and travel.
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
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
The GC battle has only just started. Find out more by listening to Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Lizzy Banks on the ground at the Tour de France Femmes as The Cycling Podcast Féminin brings you daily coverage from the race.
There will be analysis, interviews, plenty of French flavour and undoubtedly, there will be cheese, so tune in every night to not miss out.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
Also on the agenda: beards and muffs
Introducing our sponsors, MyWhoosh
Our Tour de France Femmes coverage 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.
Episode sponsors
Bikmo
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Bikmo, cycle insurance built for cyclists who actually ride.
Whether it's a crash, a stolen bike, or your pride and joy arriving at baggage reclaim in three separate pieces – it's covered. Flexible policies you can cancel anytime, 50 per cent off extra household bikes, plus protection for your kit, race entries and travel.
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
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Who cut the mustard? Find out by listening to Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Lizzy Banks on the ground at the Tour de France Femmes as The Cycling Podcast Féminin brings you daily coverage from the race.
There will be analysis, interviews, plenty of French flavour and undoubtedly, there will be cheese, so tune in every night to not miss out.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
Also on the agenda: bosom watch and press pack wacky races
Introducing our sponsors, MyWhoosh
Our Tour de France Femmes coverage 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.
Episode sponsors
Babbel
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Bikmo
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Bikmo, cycle insurance built for cyclists who actually ride.
Whether it's a crash, a stolen bike, or your pride and joy arriving at baggage reclaim in three separate pieces – it's covered. Flexible policies you can cancel anytime, 50 per cent off extra household bikes, plus protection for your kit, race entries and travel.
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
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Follow along with Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Lizzy Banks on the ground at the Tour de France Femmes as The Cycling Podcast Féminin brings you daily coverage from the race.
There will be analysis, interviews, plenty of French flavour, and undoubtedly, there will be cheese, so tune in every night to not miss out.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
Also on the agenda: daydreaming of Denny Gray and the peculiar feeling of comté.
Introducing our sponsors, MyWhoosh
Our Tour de France Femmes coverage 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.
Episode sponsors
NordVPN
Get NordVPN two-year plan + four months extra ➼ https://nordvpn.com/tcp It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee.
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
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
The cheese angel has returned! Follow along with Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Lizzy Banks on the ground at the Tour de France Femmes as The Cycling Podcast Féminin brings you daily coverage from the race.
There will be analysis, interviews, plenty of French flavour and undoubtedly, there will be cheese, so tune in every night to not miss out.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
Also on the agenda: hypothetical middle fingers and roadside excursions
Introducing our sponsors, MyWhoosh
Our Tour de France Femmes coverage 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
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Follow along with Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Lizzy Banks on the ground at the Tour de France Femmes 2026 as The Cycling Podcast Féminin brings you daily coverage from the race.
There will be analysis, interviews, plenty of French flavour and undoubtedly, there will be cheese. Be sure to follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app to never miss an episode.
Also on the agenda: scooter drama and the Swiss James Brown
Introducing our sponsors, MyWhoosh
Our Tour de France Femmes coverage 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
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
The people demanded – well, some of them asked – for a mash-up episode. At Alpe d’Huez, we gathered in a car park (a typically glamorous recording location) to record a bonus episode, which will go out later this week.
The Cycling Podcast x Escape Collective. Or Escape Collective + The Cycling Podcast, if you prefer.
Graham and I joined Caley Fretz and Iain Treloar for a freewheeling, sometimes whimsical chat about life on the road at the Tour de France, this year’s race, and how the media landscape has continued to evolve.
Caley was an early guest on The Cycling Podcast way back in 2014, when he worked for VeloNews. In recent years, having established the Escape Collective, they’ve established their own podcast and have often joked about sharing the mic for a one-off episode. Midway through the Tour we found ourselves at the same hotel – the charming Saint Regis in Chalon-sur-Saône – and they were recording their episode as we were enjoying dinner. At some point, Caley shouted over and I joined them for a few minutes. Anyway, our people got together with their people, we thrashed out the terms and quibbled over the fine details and spent 40 minutes or so chatting about the Tour. We know that many listeners tune in to both podcasts so hopefully you’ll enjoy the exchange of anecdotes and ideas in the episode.
This episode of KM0 is available ad-free for Friends of the Podcast subscribers. Sign up to listen to our back catalogue of more than 300 special episodes and support The Cycling Podcast in the process. An annual subscription helps keep us on the road. Go to thecyclingpodcast.com
In the final episode of our behind-the-scenes look at Paul Seixas’s début Tour de France, we see the 19-year-old launch his final bid to make the podium in Paris. He will ultimately fall short, but his first Tour will still have been a success. Whether we’re more confident now of France’s 41-year Tour drought ending soon is, however, a moot point.
In the final instalment of our Tour-long series, we hear from Seixas, team-mates and a man who’ll be key to the direction of his future: Décathlon CMA CGM chief Dominique Serieys.
Join The Cycling Podcast Féminin team as they look ahead to the 2026 Tour de France Femmes. Daily coverage of the race, recorded on location at the race, begins on Saturday (August 1).
Yes it is that time again, we’re rolling out the cheeseboard once more as we preview this year’s Tour de France Femmes. Join Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Lizzy Banks as they discuss the route and top contenders in what is set to be the closest fought Grand Tour in recent memory.
We also hear from Jeremy Whittle, author of Ventoux: Sacrifice and Suffering on the Giant of Provence about the history and legend of the fabled climb that makes its Tour de France Femmes debut this year.
Also on the agenda: Lottery Kopecky, Denny's stage 10 and is Nice our new cheese battleground?
Introducing our sponsors, MyWhoosh
Our Tour de France Femmes coverage 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.
Episode sponsors
NordVPN
Get NordVPN two-year plan + four months extra ➼ https://nordvpn.com/tcp It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee.
Bikmo
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Bikmo, cycle insurance built for cyclists who actually ride.
Whether it's a crash, a stolen bike, or your pride and joy arriving at baggage reclaim in three separate pieces – it's covered. Flexible policies you can cancel anytime, 50 per cent off extra household bikes, plus protection for your kit, race entries and travel.
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
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss for a three-week adventure taking them from Barcelona to Paris, following the 2026 Tour de France.
The Cycling Podcast has covered the Tour with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes recap the stage action with analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
Ask us anything for our next rest day Press Conference episode:
Email contact@thecyclingpodcast.com
Or leave a voice message at speakpipe.com/thecyclingpodcast
Introducing our sponsors, MyWhoosh
Our Tour de France coverage 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.
Episode sponsors
NordVPN
Get NordVPN two-year plan + four months extra ➼ https://nordvpn.com/tcp It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee.
Bikmo
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Bikmo, cycle insurance built for cyclists who actually ride.
Whether it's a crash, a stolen bike, or your pride and joy arriving at baggage reclaim in three separate pieces – it's covered. Flexible policies you can cancel anytime, 50 per cent off extra household bikes, plus protection for your kit, race entries and travel.
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
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss for a three-week adventure taking them from Barcelona to Paris, following the 2026 Tour de France.
The Cycling Podcast has covered the Tour with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes recap the stage action with analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
Ask us anything for our next rest day Press Conference episode:
Email contact@thecyclingpodcast.com
Or leave a voice message at speakpipe.com/thecyclingpodcast
Introducing our sponsors, MyWhoosh
Our Tour de France coverage 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.
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Bikmo
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Bikmo, cycle insurance built for cyclists who actually ride.
Whether it's a crash, a stolen bike, or your pride and joy arriving at baggage reclaim in three separate pieces – it's covered. Flexible policies you can cancel anytime, 50 per cent off extra household bikes, plus protection for your kit, race entries and travel.
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
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss for a three-week adventure taking them from Barcelona to Paris, following the 2026 Tour de France.
The Cycling Podcast has covered the Tour with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes recap the stage action with analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
Ask us anything for our next rest day Press Conference episode:
Email contact@thecyclingpodcast.com
Or leave a voice message at speakpipe.com/thecyclingpodcast
Introducing our sponsors, MyWhoosh
Our Tour de France coverage 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.
Episode sponsors
Bikmo
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Bikmo, cycle insurance built for cyclists who actually ride.
Whether it's a crash, a stolen bike, or your pride and joy arriving at baggage reclaim in three separate pieces – it's covered. Flexible policies you can cancel anytime, 50 per cent off extra household bikes, plus protection for your kit, race entries and travel.
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
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
This episode of KM0 is available ad-free for Friends of the Podcast subscribers. Sign up to listen to our back catalogue of more than 300 special episodes and support The Cycling Podcast in the process. An annual subscription helps keep us on the road. Go to thecyclingpodcast.com
In episode six of our series taking you behind the scenes of Paul Seixas's début Tour, we look at the 19-year-old's meteoric rise in the context of a sport increasingly obsessed with youth.
As Seixas's podium and white jersey bids gather momentum, Daniel Friebe speaks to his first coaches in Lyon about how much of his story does – and doesn't – apply to other aspiring pro riders. We also hear from a top agent and team bosses about why WorldTour outfits are now recruiting riders in their mid-teens, in their desperate search for the next Seixas. Décathlon fought off stiff competition to lock him in when he was just 14 – but now that they have him, why are the French team still having to work hard to rein him in? Their head sports director, Luke Rowe, tells us.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss for a three-week adventure taking them from Barcelona to Paris, following the 2026 Tour de France.
The Cycling Podcast has covered the Tour with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes recap the stage action with analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
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Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss for a three-week adventure taking them from Barcelona to Paris, following the 2026 Tour de France.
The Cycling Podcast has covered the Tour with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes recap the stage action with analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
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Introducing our sponsors, MyWhoosh
Our Tour de France coverage 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.
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Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss for a three-week adventure taking them from Barcelona to Paris, following the 2026 Tour de France.
The Cycling Podcast has covered the Tour with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes recap the stage action with analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
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Introducing our sponsors, MyWhoosh
Our Tour de France coverage is sponsored by MyWhoosh.
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Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss for a three-week adventure taking them from Barcelona to Paris, following the 2026 Tour de France.
The Cycling Podcast has covered the Tour with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes recap the stage action with analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
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Introducing our sponsors, MyWhoosh
Our Tour de France coverage 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.
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The Cycling Podcast is supported by Bikmo, cycle insurance built for cyclists who actually ride.
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This episode is available ad-free on our Friends of the Podcast feed. Subscribe at thecyclingpodcast.comThe fifth instalment of our wall-to-wall, behind-the-scenes look at Paul Seixas’s début Tour de France begins where Seixas’s love affair with cycling and the Tour also started, in Magland, just a few kilometres from the stage 15 finish on the Plateau de Solaison.
It was indeed an intense and emotional few days for the 19-year-old, as Daniel Friebe reports in this episode. As always, we hear from team-mates, coaches and opponents, as Seixas underlines his credentials as the man most likely to end Tadej Pogačar’s reign. Of course no one is any closer to knowing when that will be, or indeed how Pogačar will fall or abdicate.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss for a three-week adventure taking them from Barcelona to Paris, following the 2026 Tour de France.
The Cycling Podcast has covered the Tour with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes recap the stage action with analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
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Introducing our sponsors, MyWhoosh
Our Tour de France coverage 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.
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The Cycling Podcast is supported by Bikmo, cycle insurance built for cyclists who actually ride.
Whether it's a crash, a stolen bike, or your pride and joy arriving at baggage reclaim in three separate pieces – it's covered. Flexible policies you can cancel anytime, 50 per cent off extra household bikes, plus protection for your kit, race entries and travel.
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The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss for a three-week adventure taking them from Barcelona to Paris, following the 2026 Tour de France.
The Cycling Podcast has covered the Tour with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes recap the stage action with analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
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Introducing our sponsors, MyWhoosh
Our Tour de France coverage 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.
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Whether it's a crash, a stolen bike, or your pride and joy arriving at baggage reclaim in three separate pieces – it's covered. Flexible policies you can cancel anytime, 50 per cent off extra household bikes, plus protection for your kit, race entries and travel.
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The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss for a three-week adventure taking them from Barcelona to Paris, following the 2026 Tour de France.
The Cycling Podcast has covered the Tour with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes recap the stage action with analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
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Introducing our sponsors, MyWhoosh
Our Tour de France coverage 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.
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The Cycling Podcast is supported by Bikmo, cycle insurance built for cyclists who actually ride.
Whether it's a crash, a stolen bike, or your pride and joy arriving at baggage reclaim in three separate pieces – it's covered. Flexible policies you can cancel anytime, 50 per cent off extra household bikes, plus protection for your kit, race entries and travel.
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The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss for a three-week adventure taking them from Barcelona to Paris, following the 2026 Tour de France.
The Cycling Podcast has covered the Tour with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes recap the stage action with analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
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Introducing our sponsors, MyWhoosh
Our Tour de France coverage 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.
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In episode four of our series taking you behind the scenes of Paul Seixas’s début Tour, we begin with a trip down memory lane, to 1987, when another young Frenchman carried the hopes of the nation. Jean-François Bernard was his name, and we meet him in the fourth instalment of Ça Revient.
Other interviewees in this episode include Tour boss Christian Prudhomme, Seixas’s coach Alexandre Pacot, his all-terrain bodyguard Tiesj Benoot – and of course Seixas himself.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss for a three-week adventure taking them from Barcelona to Paris, following the 2026 Tour de France.
The Cycling Podcast has covered the Tour with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes recap the stage action with analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
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Our Tour de France coverage 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.
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The Cycling Podcast is supported by Bikmo, cycle insurance built for cyclists who actually ride.
Whether it's a crash, a stolen bike, or your pride and joy arriving at baggage reclaim in three separate pieces – it's covered. Flexible policies you can cancel anytime, 50 per cent off extra household bikes, plus protection for your kit, race entries and travel.
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The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss for a three-week adventure taking them from Barcelona to Paris, following the 2026 Tour de France.
The Cycling Podcast has covered the Tour with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes recap the stage action with analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
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Introducing our sponsors, MyWhoosh
Our Tour de France coverage 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.
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The Cycling Podcast is supported by Bikmo, cycle insurance built for cyclists who actually ride.
Whether it's a crash, a stolen bike, or your pride and joy arriving at baggage reclaim in three separate pieces – it's covered. Flexible policies you can cancel anytime, 50 per cent off extra household bikes, plus protection for your kit, race entries and travel.
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The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss for a three-week adventure taking them from Barcelona to Paris, following the 2026 Tour de France.
The Cycling Podcast has covered the Tour with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes recap the stage action with analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
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Introducing our sponsors, MyWhoosh
Our Tour de France coverage 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.
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The Cycling Podcast is supported by Bikmo, cycle insurance built for cyclists who actually ride.
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In episode three of our Tour-long series following the fortunes of French prodigy Paul Seixas, we focus on his first major test on the Col du Tourmalet. It would end up being a highly promising performance by Seixas, but also one that highlighted the dominance of Tadej Pogačar and UAE Team Emirates.
Cue some fairly bleak predictions about how much suspense is still left in this Tour, and some soul-searching about the very future of the sport. What can be done to spread wealth and talent more widely across the WorldTour? And, might UAE be poised to sign Seixas and tighten their grip even further?
If you don't find definitive answers here, the episode should certainly give you much to ponder.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss for a three-week adventure taking them from Barcelona to Paris, following the 2026 Tour de France.
The Cycling Podcast has covered the Tour with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes recap the stage action with analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
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Introducing our sponsors, MyWhoosh
Our Tour de France coverage 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.
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Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss for a three-week adventure taking them from Barcelona to Paris, following the 2026 Tour de France.
The Cycling Podcast has covered the Tour with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes recap the stage action with analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
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Introducing our sponsors, MyWhoosh
Our Tour de France coverage 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.
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The Cycling Podcast is supported by Bikmo, cycle insurance built for cyclists who actually ride.
Whether it's a crash, a stolen bike, or your pride and joy arriving at baggage reclaim in three separate pieces – it's covered. Flexible policies you can cancel anytime, 50 per cent off extra household bikes, plus protection for your kit, race entries and travel.
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Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss for a three-week adventure taking them from Barcelona to Paris, following the 2026 Tour de France.
The Cycling Podcast has covered the Tour with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes recap the stage action with analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
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Paul Seixas's first Tour de France has been the subject of feverish expectation, and the wait was finally over when the 19-year-old phenom rolled down the start ramp in Barcelona on Saturday.
In part two of our Tour-long series — not just following Seixas but also exploring the reasons for France's 41-year drought in cycling's crown-jewel event — Daniel Friebe chronicles what turned into a baptism of fire, with mechanical mishaps, teammates crashing and, of course, those furnace-like temperatures.
The good news for Seixas, as the Tourmalet loomed, was that nothing he'd done so far had dampened the hype. In fact, quite the opposite...
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss for a three-week adventure taking them from Barcelona to Paris, following the 2026 Tour de France.
The Cycling Podcast has covered the Tour with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes recap the stage action with analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
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The Cycling Podcast has covered the Tour with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes recap the stage action with analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
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"I wouldn't have bet a single centime on no Frenchman winning the Tour for forty years."
So said Bernard Hinault, the owner of what he called an "unwanted record" as the fourth decade since his 1985 victory was about to expire last July. "We haven't got any chance…" Hinault added in the same interview. Kevin Vauquelin's plucky seventh place on GC notwithstanding, it seemed unfathomable after three weeks that the drought wouldn't extend to forty-one years in 2026, forty-two and so on at least until Tadej Pogačar either began an inexorable slide or retired.
Unfathomable is also the adjective many long-in-the-tooth observers would use for the eventuality of Paul Seixas winning the 2026 race at age 19. It would certainly be historic, not only because Seixas would bring the Tour "home" for the first time since Hinault in 1985, but also because he would be the youngest ever winner: to be precise, 49 days younger than Henri Cornet in the Tour's second edition, way back in 1904.
Improbable it certainly sounds, and logic would suggest the same — and yet this summer France expects. Hopes. To a certain extent believes. And will certainly get extremely excited if, even after the first skirmishes with the Pyrenees in week one, the boy from Beaujolais has not been Pogcinerated out of contention.
Having witnessed Seixas's definitive coming of age at the Tour of the Basque Country in April, over three weeks in July, Daniel Friebe will take up potentially the story of the summer at the Tour de France. Not necessarily by chronicling Seixas's every pedal stroke but by examining the question of how France got here — now approaching half a century into one of professional sport's most agonising and baffling droughts — and how, one day either soon or still too far into the future for comfort, deliverance can and will finally arrive.
The 2026 Tour begins its journey in Barcelona — as does our series, outside a curious hospital building in the heart of the Catalan capital which, twenty years ago, was somehow charged with shaping the future of professional cycling. In episode one, Daniel explains exactly what occurred, and also why and how it determined the destiny of Paul Seixas.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they complete a trilogy of episodes looking ahead to the 2026 Tour de France.
With the big battle between Pogačar and Vingegaard covered in part one, and the route dissected in part two, this time it's a chance to take a deeper look at some of the other storylines and riders who are set to animate the Tour de France.
From the much-anticipated debut of French sensation Paul Seixas, to the joint-leaders of the Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe team, Remco Evenepoel and Florian Lipowitz, who else will challenge for the podium and the other top places on GC?
We weigh up a deep field of fast finishers and ask who will be left standing when the sprinting game of musical chairs comes to a halt. There's a visit to Coorevits Corner, we hear from the Voice of Radio Tour, and ask which teams really need a good Tour de France.
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Daily coverage of the Tour de France starts on Saturday, July 4.
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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.
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Will it be Tadej Pogačar or Jonas Vingegaard? There's more to this year's Tour de France than these two, of course, but it's undeniable that the race for the maillot jaune will focus on the sport's two heavyweights (or should that be lightweights?)
The 2026 Tour de France starts here. There are just a few days to go until the Grand Départ in Barcelona and The Cycling Podcast kicks off a three-part preview of the greatest race in the world by weighing up the two outstanding riders – the champion, Tadej Pogačar and the challenger Jonas Vingegaard.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they find out about the two men who have dominated the Tour de France since 2020. Graham speaks to journalist Andy McGrath, author of Unstoppable, a biography of the Slovenian, about the man aiming to join the five-time winner's club. And Lionel talks to a man our listeners will be very familiar with, Brian Nygaard, who has followed Vingegaard's career from the beginning.
Part two and three of The XL Preview series will cover the route, and all the other contenders to look out for, and will be released soon.
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Donkeys beware, there’s enough chat about recent racing from Rose Manley and Lizzy Banks that they’re at risk of losing their hind legs.
Rose and Lizzy tackle some major talking points from the Tour de Suisse and beyond. Like how might Zoe Backstedt shape up against Lorena Wiebes in future? What might Kasia Niewiadoma’s rumoured transfer to Lidl-Trek mean for the Polish champion and for Canyon-SRAM? And who should Team UAE-ADQ pick for the Tour de France Femmes considering their huge roster of climbing talent?
Plus there’s a message for our listeners from co-host Rebecca Charlton after she made her cancer treatment public last week.
Also on the agenda: legless donkeys, Lizzy the richest-woman-that-never-was and how a poo could disrupt the Canyon-SRAM team camp.
With the Tour de France now just ten days away, the Tour de Suisse was one of the final competitive opportunities for riders to impress their team management and earn selection for La Grande Boucle.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they complete their own countdown to the 113th edition of the greatest race in the world.
After Jonas Vingegaard impressed at the Giro d'Italia, it was over to Tadej Pogačar to show what sort of condition he's in as he aims for a record-equalling fifth Tour title. In a shorter, but by no means less intense, edition of the Swiss stage race Pogačar left few people in any doubt that he's the number one favourite for the Tour.
Who else impressed in Switzerland, Slovenia and Belgium as the Tour beckoned? And which big name star will miss the race and what impact will that have on his team? We get deep into all that in our final episode of The Cycling Podcast's Attitude Camp.
Next week we complete our final preparations for the Tour de France with a bumper three-part preview, kicking off on Tuesday.
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With the Tour de France just three weeks away, the mountain stages at the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (aka the Dauphiné) was set to be a big test for two young riders who are set to make their debut appearances in La Grande Boucle.
Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss wrap up an enthralling week of racing in the French Alps as Mexico's young pretender Isaac Del Toro continued his development into one of the finest stage racers in the world. We know he'll be a huge help to his UAE Team Emirates leaders Tadej Pogačar at the Tour but might he be podium material in his own right?
Meanwhile, the French sensation Paul Seixas and his Decathlon team endured a setback – perhaps a timely reality check to temper the already sky-high expectations ahead of the Tour?
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Who would have thought it possible to take such a deep dive into a team time trial stage? Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the story of the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes – the race formerly known as the Critérium du Dauphiné – so far.
After two entertaining wins from the breakaway to kick things off, the 'new' team time trial format finally captured the imagination, perhaps because it's a dress rehearsal for the opening stage of the Tour de France in Barcelona in a few weeks' time.
How did the teams stack up against each other? Which squads got it right and who still has work to do?
And, now they have reached the halfway mark, who is poised to seize the yellow jersey in the mountains?
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Daniel Friebe and Michele Pelacci answer a final round of 2026 (Men's) Giro-related listeners questions.
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The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
Stage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)
Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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Could this really be the end? Join Rebecca Charlton and Lizzy Banks for one final instalment from the Giro d’Italia Women as the winner of the maglia rosa is finally decided on an explosive day.
We also hear from key names in that GC battle, Lidl Trek’s Isabella Holmgren and Canyon Sram’s Antonia Niedermaier, who was virtual leader on the road earlier in the stage.
And don’t forget to catch up on our whole race's worth of podcasts as The Cycling Podcast Féminin brings you daily coverage from the race.
Also on the agenda: Heart over legs, wonky helmet straps and, of course, cheese.
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Bow down before your queen! Yes indeed, it’s time for the queen stage at the Giro d’Italia Women on a route that was due to take in the Colle delle Finestre and end in Sestriere, however best laid plans went a bit frosty and chaos ensued. Join Rebecca Charlton and Lizzy Banks as they take a closer look at all the happenings of Stage 8, where it was all drama, a sheet of ice and a makeshift finish line.
We also hear from Dani Rowe MBE from the top of a mountain, and Marlen Reusser drops in for a chat.
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We hear all the ‘what if?’ theories ahead of the final stage and also on the agenda is our angel of cheese, Denny Gray. Will he have deviated from the mainstream? Tune in to find out.
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Close up that deeply unreliable road book and listen in as Rose Manley and Lizzy Banks take you through Stage 7 of the Giro d’Italia Women, which offered up all kinds of drama and chaos.
We also hear from breakaway superstar Alison Jackson on her day at the front of the race.
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Also on the agenda: Gerytales, phantom triathlons and cheese larvae
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The build-up to the 2026 Tour de France starts here. It's not the Dauphiné because the race has been rebranded the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, which may take us a while to get used to.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they are reunited to look ahead to the first big preparation race for the Tour, which starts on Sunday. With Jonas Vingegaard resting after a convincing victory at the Giro d'Italia, and Tadej Pogačar focusing on the Tour de Suisse, that puts the spotlight on the young French sensation Paul Seixas.
The Decathlon rider won Itzulia earlier in the spring to amplify the growing hype around him. France is starting to believe they finally have a successor to Bernard Hinault, the last French man to win the Tour.
But who stands in his way next week, and what other clues will we gain about who's on track for the Tour?
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Rose Manley and Rebecca Charlton react to stage 6 of the Giro d'Italia Women.
We also hear from Maggie Coles-Lyster
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We’re getting the good-o-meter out for Stage 5 of the Giro d’Italia Women as Rose Manley and Denny Gray attempt to dissect a stage which offered up plenty of winners, losers and inbetweeners.
We also hear from two of the most impressive riders of the day, Nadia Gontova of Liv Alula Jayco and Lauren Dickson of FDJ United Suez.
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Yes, it is time for one-rider-to-go-up-a-hill-after-another as it is time trial day at the Giro d’Italia Women! With the GC riders yet to fully show their intentions, Stage 4 provided a huge opportunity to shake up the battle for the maglia rosa.
We also hear from young French talent Solène Muller about her time in the race hot seat.
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Also on the agenda: late-night cheese reading and zombies on bikes
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We’re finally hitting the hills so listen in as Rose Manley and Denny Gray look back over Stage 3 of the the 2026 Giro d’Italia Women which saw the GC riders start to come out to play.
We hear also from Olympic gold medallist Lily Williams of Human Powered Health.
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Also on the agenda: domestique cheese, one rider pedalling up a hill and yet another alarming conspiracy theory via Madame Fan Club President.
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Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and Michele Pelacci take you to the heart of the action, on the ground, at the Giro d‘Italia.
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The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
Stage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)
Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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Pop on your tin foil hats and join Rose Manley and Lizzy Banks as they cover both Stage 2 of the Giro d’Italia Women as well as the controversies and conspiracies of Lorena Wiebes’ stage 1 disqualification.
We also hear from Soraya Paladin of Canyon-SRAM about racing through her hometown.
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Also on the agenda: polemica Lorenica, Denny our cheese angel and what was Rebecca Charlton doing throwing that stone?
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Put the bucket and spade aside and join Rose Manley and Rebecca Charlton as they tackle the first stage of the 2026 Giro d’Italia Women that runs between the seaside towns of Cesenatico and Ravenna.
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Also on the agenda: having no interest in remaining upright, barmen vs sports psychologists and a REALLY MASSIVE BUT BADLY TIMED BOMBSHELL
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Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and Michele Pelacci take you to the heart of the action, on the ground, at the Giro d‘Italia.
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The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
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Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
Stage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)
Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
Stage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)
Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
Stage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)
Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
Stage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)
Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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The 2016 Giro d’Italia was the first edition covered end to end, on the ground, by The Cycling Podcast, and what a race it proved to be. A thrilling last week saw Steven Kruijswijk fall at the last hurdle, almost literally, and Vincenzo Nibali mount an extraordinary comeback. But neither of these stories could rival stage 15 to Alpe di Siusi and more specifically the victory of rank outsider Alexander Foliforov for sheer shock value.
Foliforov disappeared almost as quickly as he burst onto the scene, retiring two years after his Giro stage win. Since then he has become a meme, a sort of post-ironic legend, but above all an enigma: what mysterious force propelled him to victory that day, and where has he vanished to over the last ten years?
Exactly a decade on from the Russian’s greatest day, Daniel Friebe tracked him down and invited Foliforov to relive and explain one of the strangest days and results in recent Giro history.
One-Hit Wonder was written and produced by Daniel Friebe. Music is by Amaraterra.Follow us on social media:
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The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
Stage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)
Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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Grab a round of agua con gas and listen in as Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Rebecca Charlton review the Spanish stage racing block.
With many of the big hitters away making preparations for the forthcoming Giro d’Italia, the short stage races of Itzulia and Vuelta a Burgos provided plenty of surprises and breakthroughs. On a rare opportunity from domestique duties, Mischa Bredewold led the charge for SD Worx who looked back to their old imperious best. But what does the win mean for a team that already have so many champions in their roster? Yara Kastellijn’s huge victory on the final day of Burgos cemented a phenomenal few weeks for the rider who has been without a win since her breakthrough at the Tour de France Femmes in 2023. Plus, did FDJ United Suez make the wrong call in Itzulia by not backing young British star Lauren Dickson?
In our mini feature we speak to the last Spanish rider (before Paula Blasi this year) to win a women’s Grand Tour. That champion is Joane Somarriba, a rider who twice won the Giro Feminile and three times won Tour de France Femmes precursor the Grand Boucle. She talks about her journey to the top, overcoming hospitalisation and prejudice to become one the best riders of the late 90s and early 2000s.
We also look ahead to this year's Giro d’Italia Women which begins at the end of the month. The Cycling Podcast Féminin will be bringing listeners daily coverage of the race for the first time, starting on 30th May.
Also on the agenda: the ambience of shopping malls, virtual sangrias and Denny’s dream of being paid in cheese.
Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and Michele Pelacci take you to the heart of the action, on the ground, at the Giro d‘Italia.
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The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
Stage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)
Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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2026 Girovagando selection:
You can buy this year’s Girovagando wine selection here: https://dvinecellars.com/products/cycling-podcast-giro-26.
The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
Stage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)
Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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Join Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and Michele Pelacci as they take you to the heart of the action, on the ground, at the 2026 Giro d‘Italia. Today’s Giro d’Italia rolled from Porcari to Chiavari on a tough 195km medium-mountain stage, with punchy climbs and a breakaway-friendly finale along the Ligurian coast.
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2026 Girovagando selection:
You can buy this year’s Girovagando wine selection here: https://dvinecellars.com/products/cycling-podcast-giro-26.
The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
Stage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)
Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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Join Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and Michele Pelacci as they take you to the heart of the action, on the ground, at the 2026 Giro d‘Italia. Today’s Giro d’Italia rolled from Porcari to Chiavari on a tough 195km medium-mountain stage, with punchy climbs and a breakaway-friendly finale along the Ligurian coast.
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2026 Girovagando selection:
You can buy this year’s Girovagando wine selection here: https://dvinecellars.com/products/cycling-podcast-giro-26.
The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
Stage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)
Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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Join Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and Michele Pelacci as they take you to the heart of the action, on the ground, at the 2026 Giro d‘Italia.
Today the race rolled from Porcari to Chiavari on a tough 195km medium-mountain stage, with a breakaway-friendly finale along the Ligurian coast. So how did it pan out?
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2026 Girovagando selection:
You can buy this year’s Girovagando wine selection here: https://dvinecellars.com/products/cycling-podcast-giro-26.
The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
Stage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)
Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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Join Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and Michele Pelacci as they take you to the heart of the action, on the ground, at the 2026 Giro d‘Italia. Today, after a rest day, the race is back underway with an individual time trial from Viareggio to Massa on the north-west coast of Italy.
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2026 Girovagando selection:
You can buy this year’s Girovagando wine selection here: https://dvinecellars.com/products/cycling-podcast-giro-26.
The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
Stage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)
Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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Long-time regulars on The Cycling Podcast’s Giro d’Italia coverage, in this year’s edition Matt White and Max Sciandri are directing operations, together, from the front seat of the Movistar team car.
Australia and Italy, fire and ice, they make an intriguing duo, but can it be a successful one at this year’s Giro? We went behind the scenes on the day of their boldest tactical plan yet, on stage 4 of the Giro to Cosenza, to get a sense of how their partnership is galvanising the Spanish team at this year’s Giro. Daniel Friebe then summoned Matt and Max the following morning for a debrief and typically mirthful discussion of what they each bring to their roles.
The Cycling Podcast would like to thank Velon for their assistance in the making of this podcast.
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2026 Girovagando selection:
You can buy this year’s Girovagando wine selection here: https://dvinecellars.com/products/cycling-podcast-giro-26.
The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
Stage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)
Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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Join Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and Michele Pelacci as they take you to the heart of the action, on the ground, at the Giro d‘Italia. Today, ahead of the second rest day, they head further north as the race heads from Cervia to Corno alle Scale.
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2026 Girovagando selection:
You can buy this year’s Girovagando wine selection here: https://dvinecellars.com/products/cycling-podcast-giro-26.
The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
Stage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)
Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and Michele Pelacci take you to the heart of the action, on the ground, at the Giro d‘Italia.
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2026 Girovagando selection:
You can buy this year’s Girovagando wine selection here: https://dvinecellars.com/products/cycling-podcast-giro-26.
The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
Stage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)
Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and Michele Pelacci take you to the heart of the action, on the ground, at the Giro d‘Italia.
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2026 Girovagando selection:
You can buy this year’s Girovagando wine selection here: https://dvinecellars.com/products/cycling-podcast-giro-26.
The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
Stage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)
Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and Michele Pelacci take you to the heart of the action, on the ground, at the Giro d‘Italia.
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2026 Girovagando selection:
You can buy this year’s Girovagando wine selection here: https://dvinecellars.com/products/cycling-podcast-giro-26.
The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
Stage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)
Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and Michele Pelacci take you to the heart of the action, on the ground, at the Giro d‘Italia.
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2026 Girovagando selection:
You can buy this year’s Girovagando wine selection here: https://dvinecellars.com/products/cycling-podcast-giro-26.
The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
Stage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)
Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and Michele Pelacci take you to the heart of the action, on the ground, at the Giro d‘Italia.
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2026 Girovagando selection:
You can buy this year’s Girovagando wine selection here: https://dvinecellars.com/products/cycling-podcast-giro-26.
The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
Stage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)
Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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There’s both plenty of racing and plenty of Spanish omelettes for Rose Manley and Rebecca Charlton to get their teeth stuck into in this special Arrivée episode on the Vuelta Femenina.
With seven days of racing ranging from the pretty bumpy to the vertiginously mountainous, including a historic first summit finish on the Angliru, expect no shortage of drama from this first ‘Grand Tour’ of the year. With back-to-back champion Demi Vollering choosing not to compete this year, a brand new champion was set to be crowned, but who could it be? Would Tour de France Femmes champion Pauline Ferrand Prevot back up her Grand Tour credentials in Spain? Could Anna van der Breggen show that she’s back to her stage racing best? Or might this be the crowning moment for a surprising young star?
Also on the agenda: free jazz race reportage, unwanted gifts and Denny Gray’s 4am McDonald’s order.
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The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and Michele Pelacci take you to the heart of the action, on the ground, at the Giro d‘Italia.
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2026 Girovagando selection:
You can buy this year’s Girovagando wine selection here: https://dvinecellars.com/products/cycling-podcast-giro-26.
The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
Stage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)
Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and Michele Pelacci take you to the heart of the action, on the ground, at the Giro d‘Italia.
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2026 Girovagando selection:
You can buy this year’s Girovagando wine selection here: https://dvinecellars.com/products/cycling-podcast-giro-26.
The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
Stage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)
Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and Michele Pelacci take you to the heart of the action, on the ground, at the Giro d‘Italia.
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2026 Girovagando selection:
You can buy this year’s Girovagando wine selection here: https://dvinecellars.com/products/cycling-podcast-giro-26.
The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
Stage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)
Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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On Friday, the first Grand Tour of the season rolls out from Bulgaria, not Italy – and, as always, we’ll be there, on the ground, to bring you all the action from the Giro d’Italia.
This year’s “Corsa Rosa” starts here, with our race preview and the troika who’ll take you on the journey to Rome over the next three weeks: Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and Michele Pelacci. Before sinking our teeth into the Giro, though, we discuss the first big headline of the week: Paul Seixas’s announcement that he’ll be riding the Tour de France.
It’s then time to talk about the Giro, focusing first on the favourites, then moving into the beautiful canvas upon which Jonas Vingegaard et al. will hopefully create cycling art over the next three weeks.
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2026 Girovagando selection:
You can buy this year’s Girovagando wine selection here: https://dvinecellars.com/products/cycling-podcast-giro-26.
The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
Stage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)
Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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Every year, as the Giro d'Italia approaches, we ease into our coverage with an episode that has — ostensibly — nothing to do with racing bikes. Any listeners with a passing interest in wine, stay with us. Everyone else, there are plenty of other episodes in our build-up to the Grande Partenza that will be more up your strada.
The Cycling Podcast has been on the ground at every Giro since 2016, and the lesson we keep relearning is that these races can't really be separated from the places that host them. The culture, the land, the things it grows and makes — all of it is part of the story. It was with that in mind that we headed to D Vine Cellars HQ in London last week for the unveiling of our 2026 Girovagando selection (link to buy and list of wines in the shownotes below), with Greg Andrews the master of ceremonies.
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The wines with corresponding stage numbers are as follows:
Stage 3: Mixtape Red, Georgiev & Milkov, Plovdiv (red)
Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
Stage 5: Vigneti del Vulture, Pipoli, Aglianico del Vulture, Basilicata (red)
Stage 10: Bianco 'il Terraio’ Paterna, Tuscany (white)
Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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The spring Classics campaign has come to an end and the Giro d'Italia is just around the corner. To bridge the gap between the two, and with Daniel Friebe absent as he prepares for the Giro, Lionel Birnie is joined by Tudor Pro Cycling's Larry Warbasse to wrap up the first part of the season, look ahead to the first Grand Tour of the year and react to some huge sponsorship news which may help Ineos Grenadiers challenge for the Tour de France once again.
In part one Larry updates on the Tour of the Alps, where he and a lot of riders were fine-tuning their form ahead of the Giro and one of his teammates made a rapid and successful transition from speed skating to elite level cycling with a stage win. He also talks about his version of the all-day-breakfast and heat training indoors.
In the second part, Lionel reports back from the big reveal which confirmed a new title sponsor for Ineos Grenadiers. From the Giro d'Italia they will be Netcompany-Ineos thanks to backing from a Danish IT company that is pumping in a figure thought to be around €100m over five years. The target is for the team to win an eighth Tour de France in the next five years, but its the introduction of Netcompany's AI software, Pulse, which makes this more than just a sponsorship deal. Pulse, which is used at several major airports, including Heathrow, will be used to help the team make 'better decisions more often'. We ask whether its use can extend beyond logistics and training and start to influence racing strategy and tactics.
In the final part, we tie up all the loose ends from the spring and turn our attentions towards the Giro before handing over to Daniel and co for daily coverage of the Corsa Rosa, which starts in Bulgaria on Friday, May 8.
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Get the waffle-o-meter out for one last time as Rose Manley and Lizzy Banks react to the the final Spring Classic of 2026, Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes.
With the Ardennes Classics providing both surprise winners and familiar champions so far this season, which way will this tenth edition of Liège-Bastogne-Liège go? Could breakout star Paula Blasi go for victory once more this week? Might Demi Vollering make it a record-breaking third title at the race? Or could Kasia Niewiadoma finally take the top step after a season littered with podiums?
Also on the agenda: a picnic’s worth of puns and Preston Bus Station… obviously.
Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie recap the men’s edition of Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the final race of the spring classics and the oldest one day race of them all.
Rose Manley is joined by Flèche Wallonne Femmes’ biggest fan Lizzy Banks as they react to the 2026 edition.
With five former champions lining up for the race this year, the spoils really could go anywhere. Plus with surprise Amstel Gold Race winner Paula Blasi returning for a second Ardennes Classic, might fans be in for another big surprise?
Also on the agenda: fickle fan club presidents, cat skinning and getting your knickers and tongues twisted.
Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie recap the men’s edition of Flèche Wallonne, the Ardennes classic famous for its steep, uphill finish on the Mur de Huy which was celebrating its 90th birthday this year.
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Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie return for another spring Classic review, this time focusing on Remco Evenepoel’s surgical performance and victory in Amstel Gold Race at the weekend
We examine how Remco learned from his near-miss last time around and pick out some of the other notable displays from Sunday’s race. It’s then time to look forward to the true Ardennes Classics, which kick off with Flèche Wallonne on Wednesday.
Daniel has an intriguing theory about why Paul Seixas may struggle on the Mur de Huy, while Lionel wonders whether Tom Pidcock may have made a wise choice by skipping Flèche altogether.
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Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse are in the hotseats as we return to review the big talking points from another fascinating week in the world of pro cycling.
Our men’s Arrivée episode at the weekend covered the key moments in Wout Van Aert’s redemptive victory in Paris-Roubaix. A few days later, with a visit to Coorevits Corner and Larry’s reflections, we dig into what we and also you at home may have missed on a Sunday in “Hell”.
Daniel spent last week at Itzulia aka the Tour of the Basque Country. We get a flavour of that trip and a sense of what victory could mean for Paul Seixas and French cycling. We also touch on Primož Roglič’s struggles in Spain before looking ahead to the start of a new Classics swing this weekend.
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Three very different Paris-Roubaix debutants share their stories in this month’s mini feature. We hear from long-time Classics stalwart Shirin Van Anrooij, youngest finisher Jente Koops and Alexis Magner who comes to the race after recovering from a life-threatening crash last season.
Before that, Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Lizzy Banks discuss their big take-aways from the cobbled classics and how the current rider injury list might shape the Ardennes Classics to come.
We also delve into the decision by race organisers ASO to move the women’s Paris-Roubaix from Saturday to a shared slot with the men on the Sunday. And explore in what ways the race’s limited TV coverage could have wider ramifications for the sport.
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As the roar of the velodrome subsides, Rose Manley and Denny Gray take you through this year’s edition of Paris-Roubaix Femmes.
But who will become this year’s Queen of the Cobbles? Will reigning champion Pauline Ferrand-Prevot reign again after her late call up? Could Lotte Kopecky and SD Worx make up for a lacklustre Classics season so far? Or might we all be in for a surprise in this most predictably unpredictable of races?
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The Cycling Podcast returns in perhaps the most eagerly anticipated week of the season, to look back in more detail at Sunday’s Tour of Flanders and ahead to Paris-Roubaix at the weekend.
Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are joined by former team manager and press chief Brian Nygaard as we reflect on the story that dominated the build-up to Flanders: Remco Evenepoel’s shock announcement that he would start for Redbull-BORA-hansgrohe after months of denials. Are the media entitled to feel upset at being misled, or is all ultimately fair in love and the war for eyeballs?
We hear what Hugo Coorevits thinks, and also what’s on his mind ahead of the “Hell of the North”. Do only the redoubtable pavés of northern France stand between Tadej Pogačar and his next piece of history – or will Van der Poel, Van Aert et al. halt his march towards a Monument Grand Slam?
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Get those waffles out of your cupboard and dig in as Rose Manley and Lizzy Banks discuss the 2026 edition of the women’s Tour of Flanders.
An all star cast of riders lined up to face the 15 cobbled sections and climbs of the Ronde Van Vlaanderen. Amongst them, record holding three time winner Lotte Kopecky who has been on sporadic form this season and two time champion Elisa Longo Borghini who heads up a firing UAE Team ADQ. The race also offers up a number of other conundrums. Can Dwars door Vlaanderen winner Marlen Reusser double up and take a second Flandrian win this week? Will Demi Vollering finally add a Flanders title to her palmares? Might Lorena Wiebes survive the climbs and go for the win?
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Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie for Arrivée, the post-race reaction to the second Monument of the spring campaign, the Ronde van Vlaanderen.
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The Cycling Podcast returns to recap the latest round of cobbled Classics, with the E3 Saxo Classic and In Flanders Fields neatly teeing up the Ronde van Vlaanderen this weekend.
Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie examine both races in detail, looking at how Alpecin-Premier Tech made it another superb weekend for them. First up was Mathieu van der Poel’s latest cobbled clinic in E3…not that he didn’t leave us guessing until the final kilometre. A similarly nailbiting pursuit match the following day saw MvdP reunited with old foe Wout Van Aert, though it was Jasper Philipsen who finally prevailed.
We ask what this all means for the big one at the weekend, with a little help from faithful Flandrian correspondent Hugo Coorevits. We also cover the big talking points from the Volta a Catalunya, which was dominated by Jonas Vingegaard.
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A few days on from Tadej Pogačar’s extraordinary victory in Milano-Sanremo, we return to add an extra layer of analysis to our Arrivée episode on Saturday.
Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse joins Daniel Friebe to discuss what most impressed him about Pogačar’s latest masterclass and other talking points from La Classicissima. We also reflect on how a performance that was widely celebrated has already prompted much more lukewarm reactions – and where we can find a middle ground.
There’s the usual weekly trip to Coorevits Corner ahead of a huge weekend in Belgium, plus impressions on first skirmishes in the Volta a Catalunya.
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Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie as they kick off the spring series of Arrivée episodes with La Classicissima, Milano-Sanremo.
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Join Rose Manley and Rebecca Charlton as they kick off the spring series of Arrivée episodes with the second edition of the revived Milano-Sanremo.
Whether you’re a Milano Sanremo stan or a Milano Sanremo can’t-stand-it, you’ll want to listen to this Arrivée episode covering the women’s race.
With a couple of big names not making it to the startline, the race to the Via Roma looked to be turned on its head. Crashes, breakaways and fierce battles on the Cipressa and Poggio all came into play in a dramatic 2026 edition, only the second ever official Milan-Sanremo for the women.
Can Lorena Wiebes take the pressure and defend her title? Will Kasia Niewiadoma the story of her season with a win? Might Lotte Kopecky find an opportunity for herself?
Find out exactly what certainly did and what certainly could have happened as Rose and Rebecca take you through the race.
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Dai dai dai! No that’s not a threat, that’s our call to come and listen to our latest episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin where we are taking a look at the Italian Classics block. Lizzy Banks makes her much hoped-for return to the podcast to join Rose Manley, Rebecca Charlton and Denny Gray as we discuss a drama packed Strade Bianche and an equally surprising Trofeo Binda.
In our mini feature we look at the history and significance of Trofeo Binda, a race that is often overlooked in favour of races with a men’s equivalent but has long been a firm favourite among the peloton. We hear from twice winner and this year’s super domestique Elisa Longo Borghini, former British champ and winner of the 2018 junior race Pfeiffer Georgi and bici.PRO chief editor Enzo Vicennati. We dig deeper into the unique elements of this race, one of the oldest on the women’s calendar, and explore its connection to 1920s cycling icon Alfredo Binda.
And lastly we look ahead – or perhaps don’t – to Milan-Sanremo and the raft of cobbled classics that follows.
Also on the agenda: an Elisa Longo Borghini panino, Denny speaks Mandarin (but does he really?) and Rebecca’s goes all quasi psychologist on us with a theory that encompasses Milan-Sanremo fandom and university dissertation punctuality.
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The Cycling Podcast returns for another round-up of a packed and intriguing last week in professional cycling, with Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico completing their respective journeys and Milan-Sanremo on the horizon.
Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and Rob Hatch look first at Paris-Nice, where Jonas Vingegaard served up a timely reminder of his credentials ahead of his Giro-Tour double bid. We discuss Redbull–BORA–hansgrohe’s tactics on the decisive stage to Uchon, a thrilling team time trial and Lenny Martínez’s tactical masterclass on the final stage. The focus then switches to Tirreno, where good friends Isaac del Toro and Giulio Pellizzari turned rivals, with the Mexican ultimately prevailing.
In the final part of the episode, we look ahead to the great cliffhanger of the spring season, Milano-Sanremo, and particularly Tadej Pogačar’s latest bid to win there. There’s a trip to Coorevits Corner, former winner Pippo Pozzato’s advice for Pogačar, and another interview with the Slovenian’s own dedicated Sanremo coach, former rider and local boy Niccolò Bonifazio.
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Tadej Pogačar made his return to racing at Strade Bianche at the weekend, and it was a familiar story for him, his rivals and those watching. What for one set of fans was yet another sublime and glorious exhibition, for others represented just the continuation of a monotonous, all-too-familiar theme.
Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and Brian Nygaard debate what Pog’s first solo recital of 2026 stirred in them, and we also consider to what extent Paul Seixas’s remarkable performance could herald the beginning of an era-defining rivalry.
There’s a round-up of what’s been happening in France at Paris-Nice and in Italy at Tirreno-Adriatico, plus some rare speculation about INEOS’s future.
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The Classics season has truly commenced, with Opening Weekend out of the way and regular trio Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and Rob Hatch back to analyse the key takeaways from two intense days of racing on the cobbles and hellingen of Flanders.
On Saturday, Mathieu van der Poel’s latest masterclass suggested it could be a long spring for some of his rivals. MVDP’s eternal antagonist, Wout Van Aert, was absent from Visma-Lease a Bike’s line-up through illness, but that team could at least console themselves with Matthew Brennan’s superb victory in Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne on Sunday. We review both races and what they said about the coming weeks, with help from the ultimate authority on springtime racing in Belgium, Hugo Coorevits.
It was also a busy weekend in France, and a delirious one for patriotic French fans. Paul Seixas’s dominant performance at the Faun Ardèche Classic on Saturday prompted former rider turned pundit Jérôme Pineau to hail Seixas as “already the third best rider in the world”. We evaluate those claims and look ahead to Seixas’s first clash of the season with Tadej Pogačar at Strade Bianche.
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It’s another packed week of early-season racing, as we look back on the key action from the UAE, Andalusia and the Algarve last week – and ahead to Belgium’s Opening Weekend.
Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and Rob Hatch focus first on the Volta ao Algarve, where Paul Seixas cranked up the hype around his short and long-term future with a stunning stage win and top-three overall finish. The winner of that race overall was Juan Ayuso, now of Lidl-Trek and formerly UAE. The rider who some might argue made Ayuso expendable at UAE, Isaac del Toro, ruled the roost at the UAE Tour.
Our Omloop Nieuwsblad preview is also an opportunity to find out whether there’s any truth to rumours about perhaps the biggest star of the recent Winter Olympics joining Uno-X. Team manager Thor Hushovd sets us straight on that, plus we visit our own Belgian Classics oracle in Coorevits Corner.
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It’s been another frantic week in the world of pro cycling, with early season races in several parts of southern Europe and the Middle East. Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse, who began his season at the Tour of Oman, is back in the co-host’s seat with Daniel Friebe to review some of the key action and talking points.
The most prestigious of the races starting this week, at least according to the UCI’s ranking system, is the UAE Tour. Many expected a revealing first head-to-head battle between Remco Evenepoel and Isaac Del Toro, and indeed they emerged from the first three stages with a win apiece. Only one of the pair, though, will have been satisfied with his GC position with the final showdown at Jebel Hafeet to come – and that was Del Toro.
Larry and Daniel discuss Evenepoel’s struggles at the other Jebel, Mobrah, and ponder what they say about the rest of his season. We also talk about some other prodigious talents that have been in spotlight early this year, wayward leadouts and Pinarello Q36.5’s recent trip to Chile, as described to us by Fred Wright.
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The Cycling Podcast returns with another debrief from the latest round of early-season racing, this week focusing on the Volta Comunitat Valenciana and the Tour of Oman.
Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and Rob Hatch discuss Remco Evenepoel’s most recent tour de force in Spain and Astana’s similarly fast start to the season, with Christian Scaroni winning in the Middle East. Scaroni also lays claim to one of the best nicknames in the pro peloton (clue in the episode title), but we learn that a new contender for that title may have emerged in Oman.
It was a busy week on other fronts, with Jonas Vingegaard’s coach leaving Visma-Lease a Bike, Marc Soler dragged into a minor family drama in Spain, and news of a new Lance Armstrong biopic. All that and more in another feisty episode!
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...SURPRISE! Gotcha. Yes the mini feature in this month's episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin is all about two surprising wins from last season. We'll be hearing from reigning world champion Magdaleine Vallieres about her huge shock win last September and from podcast favourite Lotte Claes about the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad victory which upset all the big hitters last February.
Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Rebecca Charlton will also be covering the less surprising UAE Tour where Elisa Longo Borghini took the overall title for the third time and Lorena Wiebes claimed all three sprint stages. The less than thrilling racing does however give the team the chance to look more closely at superstar Wiebes. An athlete who makes a credible bid for the title of best sprinter that has ever been but is still so often overlooked by both media and fans.
You can hear more from world champion Magdaleine Vallieres in our forthcoming Friends Special, an exclusive for Friends of The Podcast subscribers. Hear about the 1,000km bikepacking trip that sparked her imagination as a nine-year-old in Quebec, her difficult transition into the elite ranks and her rise to claim the rainbow stripes.
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With the racing hotting up all over the pro cycling world, we return with the same Friebe-Birnie-Hatch trio as last week to review the latest action and talking points.
The biggest news story of the week was ASO’s decision to hand Spanish outfit Caja Rural a Tour de France wild card at the expense of the Unibet Rose Rockets. We discuss to what extent Caja’s place on the startline in Barcelona is justified and the case for the opposition i.e. the Rockets.
One man who’ll certainly be heading to the Tour, barring accident, is Remco Evenepoel. His three wins in his first three outings for Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe in Mallora augur well for the rest of season. Daniel’s question is: could Remco even be the man to ruin Tadej Pogačar’s Sanremo dream?
Another candidate for that role, of course, is Mathieu van der Poel. He won his eighth world cyclocross title at the weekend, which has us wondering about the Winter Olympics extending his career in the discipline.
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With the first WorldTour race of the season, The Tour Down Under, already done and dusted, we review the action in Australia plus other early-season racing and talking points from the week in professional cycling.
Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are joined by Rob Hatch, who was on the ground to see Jay Vine take his second TDU overall victory. After his masterclass with Vine on the Corkscrew climb early in the week, Jhonatan Narváez’s crash threatened to derail UAE’s race. Happily for them, Vine couldn’t be shaken – not even by bushfires or a kangaroo running amok in the peloton.
The other hot topic of the week was Jonas Vingegaard’s crash on a training ride near Málaga, amid suggestions that he was trying to shake off an amateur who wanted to tag along. We ask whether cycling fans have a “stalking” problem – or whether it’s the riders who need to change their attitude.
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WorldTour racing is back with the Tour Down Under underway in Australia. The Cycling Podcast returns to recap the action from the first three stages and the latest news from the pro peloton.
Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie, and our very own in-house professional cyclist Larry Warbasse discuss UAE Team Emirates’ rip-roaring start to the year, as well as the predictions we didn't get from Larry last week. There is a detailed meditation on Larry’s 14-year search for the perfect training formula—and the peloton’s broader search for equilibrium in a sport that is increasingly data-obsessed, sometimes at the expense of mental and physical wellbeing.
Derek Gee-West certainly experienced his share of emotional turmoil while attempting to change teams last autumn. We hear from Lidl-Trek’s newest recruit on that saga and how close he thinks he can get to the likes of Pogačar and Vingegaard.
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Gather around The Cycling Podcast Féminin crystal ball and try (and mostly likely fail) to take a look into the future of the 2026 road season. Yes it is that time of the year when we bring out our ‘bold’ predictions for the racing ahead. This time the team are taking safety in numbers as Rose Manley is joined by a bumper number of co-hosts in Denny Gray, Rebecca Charlton and Jo Rowsell.
Who will be tipped for success in the Classics? Which rider might be headed for a Giro-Tour double? Who is looking likely for a big bounceback? Before the team inevitably squabble over what is to come, they’ll first be taking a look at how they fared with their predictions last year.
But enough conjecture, the team will also be taking a close look at the first Women’s World Tour race of the season, the Tour Down Under. There’s plenty to talk about after Team UAE-ADQ squandered a three-versus-one advantage over Noemi Ruegg to grant the Swiss rider her second consecutive title at the race. Plus we discuss the recently announced UK Grand Depart for the Tour de France Femmes in 2027.
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The first regular episode of the year is traditionally our excuse to indulge in some rare speculation ahead of the coming season – and Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are back to uphold the time-honoured ritual here.
In addition to our hosts’ often leftfield prognostications, we hear what our international carousel of regular contributors is expecting from the next few months. Which one of our regular guests, for example, reckons that Primož Roglič won’t win a single race in 2026? Who reckons that Jonas Vingegaard will complete the Grand Tour Grand Slam before Tadej Pogačar? And what on earth is a Noni fruit – and what ‘juice’, exactly, does Daniel have on their miraculous ability to boost performance?
All of this and more will be revealed!
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This episode is KM0 is free for everyone to listen to thanks to the support and generosity of our Friends of the Podcast subscribers. You can get an annual subscription at thecyclingpodcast.com which will give you access to an archive of more than 330 special episodes released since 2015.The final stage of the 2025 Lloyds Tour of Britain marked the end of an era for British cycling. It was the final road race of Geraint Thomas's long career, taking the Welshman on roads he has ridden since he discovered cycling as a child. The stage began at the velodrome in Newport that has been named after him and finished in his home city of Cardiff.
On the run-in to the line, the peloton passed the outdoor velodrome at Maindy where Geraint's journey began. From riding laps of the track as a youngster he went on to win world and Olympic titles and the 2018 Tour de France.
At the start of the year, Lionel Birnie took a trip to Cardiff to meet the people who founded and built the Maindy Flyers, a club created specifically for children and teenagers to learn how to ride and race. When the club was founded, 30 years ago, there were very few clubs in the UK that truly welcomed children. In a way, the Maindy Flyers ruffled feathers and showed what was possible if young talent was encouraged and nurtured.
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, we continue to round up the biggest stories from the ‘Costa crawl’ of pre-season training camps, with our spotlight this week falling on Lidl-Trek and their new star signing Juan Ayuso.
Before Dani Arribas reports back from Ayuso’s curious ‘welcome’ press conference in Spain, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie give their impressions on the newly unveiled 2026 Vuelta a España route. On paper it may be the hardest Grand Tour in recent memory. But will that make for exciting racing on the road?
The second and third parts of the episode feature exclusive interviews with Ayuso and also one of the men charged with coaxing the best out of him in his new team: Lidl-Trek’s Head of Performance, Josu Larrazabal.
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You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout… would all be worthy advice for our co-hosts on this episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin. Yes, quizmaster Rose Manley, defending champion Rebecca Charlton and perennial quiz loser Denny Gray are back for another humdinger of a quiz. Join in as they take on such rounds as Blankety Bonk, the Sound Round and the now infamous Cryptic Criterium. No genuine cycling knowledge required but an enjoyment of puns is advisable.
Before all the ugly competitiveness sets in, the team look back at some of their top racing moments of 2025. Tantalising rivalries, career-changing breakthroughs and some French flair all make the list. And we hear from a few familiar friends to find out their top picks from the season too.
And of course no Christmas is complete without a little homespun festive music and some Cycling Podcast themed gifting.
Keep listening right to the end for a very special exclusive treat from Paul Carella, the musician extraordinaire who also happens to be Rebecca Charlton’s partner.
Also on the agenda, Greek rising star Flyinthesoupis, more allegations of quiz fixing and could that be the sound of Rebecca really enjoying Nienke Vinke’s white jersey win?
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In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is joined by fellow journalist Dani Arribas for a special bulletin from UAE Team Emirates’ December training camp.
Before hearing Tadej Pogačar reveal his 2026 race programme in Benidorm, we find out more about a revamped and renamed team born in Barcelona, NSN Cycling Team. Their manager, Kjell Callström answers Daniel’s questions about their controversial old owner, Sylvan Adams, and his successors.
Pogačar’s great unveiling told us that he will target Paris-Roubaix first and the Tour de France second, in that order of chronology and importance. We hear from the SlovAlien himself, his coaches and one team-mate, Florian Vermeersch, who opens up about the famous leader who fascinates him maybe as much as his superstar team-mate.
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In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is joined by fellow journalist Daniel Benson for a look at how RedBull-BORA-hansgrohe are gearing up for the 2026 season.
After Remco Evenepoel’s arrival, the German team are under pressure to deliver on their long-standing ambition to join cycling’s ‘superteams’. This week their riders and goals for the new season were presented in Mallorca, with Daniel Benson among the reporters in attendance. He tells us what he heard and what he makes of Ralph Denk’s grand plan to integrate Remco while still keeping his other star names happy.
We also give you the latest on the Oscar Onley-to-Ineos speculation and ponder what Lidl-Trek are likely to reveal about Juan Ayuso’s 2026 schedule at their own media event in Spain.
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In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is joined by Brian Nygaard and Michele Pelacci as we run the rule over the men's 2026 Giro d’Italia just presented in Rome.
The ‘Corsa Rosa’ will start from Eastern Europe for the second year in a row. After Albania this year, next May it’ll be Bulgaria’s turn to host Italy’s national tour - at a hefty price. In part three of the episode, we hear from Eurosport’s Bulgarian reporter Simeon Kichukov about what the Giro should expect from Bulgaria and his homeland from the race. We then ‘revisit’ Albania - checking in with their national coach, Mejdin Malhani - to find out what legacy, if any, the Giro has left there.
There’s also discussion about which GC contenders might actually be tempted to throw their hat into the ring. Should Jonas Vingegaard seize this chance to complete a Grand Slam of Grand Tours? One of our hosts this week certainly believes so…
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In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe and Tudor Pro Cycling stalwart Larry Warbasse discuss some of the more intriguing and controversial news stories of the last few weeks.
With most teams about to gather for their first pre-season training camps, some also face an uncertain future. The long-mooted Lotto-Intermarché merger still hasn’t been confirmed, raising questions about who will even be in the WorldTour in 2026. The UCI’s introduction of a promotion and relegation system was supposed to ensure that such matters were decided primarily on sporting merit. With the latest three-year cycle having just concluded, Daniel and Larry discuss whether the UCI needs to go back to the drawing board.
We also discuss what was formerly Israel Premier Tech’s new identity, Marcel Kittel’s eye-catching recent comments about doping and why exactly the pro peloton has got so much faster since Covid.
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Oi you, loser! Or should that be winner? Yes on this month’s episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin, we discuss our picks for the winners and losers of the season. Our very own losers Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Rebecca Charlton pick out a few notable performances – both for good and bad reasons – from a season that threw up a number of surprises. We ask who faired best and worst from the big transfer shake up which saw many big name riders find new teams and responsibilities.
For our mini feature this month we look at the rise of African cycling in light of Team Amani’s announcement that they will become the first ever Africa-based Women’s Continental team. We hear about the challenges facing African riders from visa complications to community stigma and find out about Team Amani’s ambitions to make it to the Tour de France Femmes by 2028. Listen in to hear from team mentor Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio, partnerships director Xylon Van Eyck and Team Amani star rider Xaverine Nirere who lit up the World Championships time trial in Rwanda this year.
We also take a look at next year’s Tour de France Femmes course which covers nine stages from Switzerland to Nice.
Also on the agenda: Anna Van der Breggen plays the piano, Denny embraces his inner beatnik poet and a wet ffff… firework.
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In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, we revisit one of the most intriguing storylines of the late summer and autumn in the first instalment of a new KM0 series - Trapdoor - examining the fight to avoid relegation from the WorldTour.
First up is Astana and their miraculous recovery from a dire position a year ago. Exactly how did the recruitment of a data scientist, new bikes, a bit of ‘Moneyball’ recruitment and a completely fresh approach to race planning revive a team that looked dead and buried twelve months ago? Maybe the key individual in the whole, miraculous process, the team’s Head of Performance, Vasilis Anastopoulos, reveals many if not all of the secrets in this interview with Daniel Friebe.
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In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, we digress from the usual diet of weekly news and analysis for a check-in with a familiar voice and regular guest over the years, Matt White, who in recent weeks has joined the Movistar’s team staff after over a decade in senior management at Jayco-AlUla.
White’s departure from the Australian trade team he had shaped for years was almost as much of a surprise as his professional ‘emigration’ to Spain, although he has lived close to Valencia for many years. In this episode, he explains the specific challenges facing Movistar to Daniel Friebe, while also meditating more broadly on the challenge for ‘mid-table’ teams of staying relevant in the Pogačar era.
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With the 2025 road racing season now firmly in the rear view mirror, join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie for a freewheeling ramble through some of the big stories that have hit the headlines in the past couple of weeks.
We start by discussing the fragile nature of survival at World Tour level with the news that the Australian team Jayco-Alula came within days of possibly folding, and the delays to confirmation that two Belgian teams, Lotto and Intermarché, intend to become one. Where does that leave the riders, especially Intermarché's biggest star Biniam Girmay?
Then we indulge in a bit of off-season speculation and wonder what Tadej Pogačar's 2026 season might look like, particularly with a number of race organisers making changes seemingly to entice the SlovAlien to ride. The Vuelta a España starting in his adopted home town of Monaco is not a particularly subtle overture and it seem an appealing prospect but, as we discuss, the picture is more complicated than that.
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The Cycling Podcast returns on Halloween for an end-of-season debrief and audience with the rider formerly known by his team-mates as ‘The Ghost’, Larry Wabasse - for reasons the Tudor Pro Cycling ace will explain.
After a quick dip into the week’s headlines, including news of Oier Lazkano’s provisional suspension for biological passport anomalies, we open our mailbag and invite Larry to respond to your questions. From Madeira travel tips to the now familiar question of whether Tadej Pogačar is turning pro cycling into a snoozefest, we demand answers and Larry, happily, obliges.
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Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and Rob Hatch, give their verdict on the parcours unveiled in Paris on Thursday morning.
The ASO bigwigs have backloaded the course, apparently in the hope of maintaining a little more suspense this year. Will they succeed? Or, in trying to Pog-proof the Tour, have they merely underlined what an impossible task that is?
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The Monument season ended at the weekend in time-honoured fashion, with il Lombardia, and its now traditional denouement of a Tadej Pogačar victory. What more can anyone say about Pogačar’s extraordinary domination? As ever, we at least try to dig out new superlatives, this week with Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and TNT’s voice of cycling, Rob Hatch.
We’ve got other reflections from Lombardy, including on Quinn Simmons’ remarkable performance and Redbull-Bora-hansgrohe’s struggles. There’s also the usual round-up of some of the week’s most eye-catching news stories, including the latest on Derek Gee and the battle for survival in the WorldTour.
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It’s a meeting of minds on this month’s episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin as Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Rebecca Charlton take a closer look at sports psychology in light of World Mental Health Day.
We hear from Dr Allie Wagener, sports psychologist at the Human Powered Health team about her work. Plus we hear from General Manager Ro de Jonckere and rider Ruth Edwards about the ongoing influence sports psychology has on the workings of the team both on and off the bike.
The Cycling Podcast Féminin team also pick over the European Championships road race and debate the merits of that surprise World Championships win in the first regular episode since the race.
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**This episode was released for Friends of the Podcast subscribers at the start of the year and, with the 2025 UCI Gravel World Championships taking place in Maastricht in the Netherlands over the weekend, we're making the episode available for everyone to listen to in the build-up to the race.
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Last October, Lionel Birnie and Simon Gill went to Leuven in Belgium for the third edition of the UCI Gravel World Championships.
They'd made the journey across the channel to the Flanders Classics many times but this was their first trip to a gravel race and they were keen to see what this overnight sensation (which was more than a century in the making) was all about.
They meander through the history of gravel racing, examine where gravel and road converge, and take part in the Rainbow Gravel Ride, the sportive for amateur riders held on the finishing loop of the World Championship course.
In this episode we hear from two American riders, Ian Boswell and Larry Warbasse, about their experiences of gravel racing, Colin Clews, the organiser of the Cicle Classic in Britain – a road race with gravel that preceded the current trend by a decade or so – and Connor Swift, who was in the thick of the racing in Leuven.
The autumn season rolled on with the European road race championships at the weekend - and report back from a men’s road race dominated in familiar fashion by Tadej Pogačar, but also lit up by a French teenager riding and starring on home roads, Paul Seixas.
Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are joined by the voice of Radio Tour, Seb Piquet, to analyse Pog’s latest masterclass and what’s next for Seixas. Before all of that, we also catch up on other news from the last week in pro cycling, including Cian Uijtdebroeks’ surprise transfer to Movistar, Alexander Kristoff’s unhappy farewell and the likely demise of the Arkéa team.
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The inaugural UCI road World Championships on the continent of Africa took place in Rwanda last week. Dominated - again - by Tadej Pogačar, the men’s road race was widely dubbed ‘the hardest edition ever’, but was it really? Team USA’s Larry Warbasse joins Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie to give his verdict and general impressions from Kigali.
We also solve the mystery of Nauru’s first ever World Championship entrant - who didn’t make it to the start-line. In addition, we pay tribute to two influential figures in the cycling media who have passed away in recent days, and look forward to the European Championship road race at the weekend.
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Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie as they analyse the men's elite road race at the 2025 UCI World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda. No spoilers here in the episode notes.
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Join Rose Manley and Rebecca Charlton as they analyse the 2025 women's UCI World Championship road race in Kigali, Rwanda. No spoilers here but stand by for an account of a stunning edition of the race for the rainbow jersey.
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The Cycling Podcast is proudly supported by Lloyds. Last year, Lloyds began a multi-year partnership with British Cycling, which includes becoming title sponsors of the Lloyds Tour of Britain races for men and women. Lloyds also sponsors the Great Britain team and National Championships across a range of disciplines – road racing, track cycling, mountain biking, BMX and cyclo-cross. Thanks to sponsorship from Lloyds, The Cycling Podcast covered the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men with daily episodes for the first time.
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The inaugural UCI road World Championships on the continent of Africa take place in Rwanda this week. The first few days of racing threw up one major surprise, the next few could yield more - and Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie & Brian Nygaard are on review & preview duty here.
Remco Evenepoel‘s trouncing of Tadej Pogačar in the men‘s TT last Sunday confounded some tipsters but not the form book in that discipline. It‘ll be Pogačar, not Remco, defending his world title on Sunday - but did the former‘s performance on Sunday suggest his road race crown is there for the taking?
We discuss this, hear from one Slovenian on the ground in Kigali and ponder the curious, in fact downright mysterious case of Nauru‘s single entrant on the provisional startlist.
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Listen up class! The Cycling Podcast Féminin has returned after our post Tour de France Femmes summer break and we have that back-to-school feeling.
Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Rebecca Charlton tackle some enticing subjects after a number of contentious topics have arisen over recent weeks. We discuss weight loss in cycling, the disqualification of five teams at the Tour de Romandie, Lorena Wiebes’ continued domination and we look ahead to the World Championships in Rwanda.
We broach the furore surrounding Pauline Ferrand Prevot’s four kilogram weight loss in preparation for her victorious Tour de France Femmes campaign and delve further into the conversations around health, weight and disordered eating that have been brought up in the weeks since.
In technology (or as Denny says, should it be politics?) we talk about the disqualification of five major teams at the Tour de Romandie after refusing to pick a rider to trial the UCI’s new GPS tracking system. The teams – Visma Lease-a-Bike, Canyon SRAM, EF Education Oatly, Picnic Post NL and Lidl Trek – wanted the UCI to choose the riders, citing that mounting the 60 gram tracker would put that rider at a disadvantage. The UCI refused and disqualified the teams before the start of the race. The fall out has raised a number of questions over safety, stakeholder rights, the commercialisation of cycling and data usage and ownership, all of which we go into here.
In geography, we cast our eyes over the upcoming World Championships route in Rwanda, centred around the capital city of Kigali. The race is notable not just for being the first time that the World Championships have been held in Africa but also for promising some dramatic racing on a climb-packed course.
Also on the agenda: the debating club champion debates with herself and the odd things Denny used to do at the back of the bus with a protractor… or should that be a pair of compasses…
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Join us for daily coverage of the Vuelta a España recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Turin to Madrid. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Spain.
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The end is almost in sight — this is our 20th daily podcast from the Vuelta a España 2025, recorded on the road as the race heads towards Madrid. Each episode brings race analysis, rider interviews, and daily postcards from Spain.
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Join us for daily coverage of the Vuelta a España recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Turin to Madrid. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Spain.
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The Cycling Podcast is proudly supported by Lloyds. Last year, Lloyds began a multi-year partnership with British Cycling, which includes becoming title sponsors of the Lloyds Tour of Britain races for men and women. Lloyds also sponsors the Great Britain team and National Championships across a range of disciplines – road racing, track cycling, mountain biking, BMX and cyclo-cross. Thanks to sponsorship from Lloyds, The Cycling Podcast will be covering the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men with daily episodes for the first time. Check out the full route of the race on the British Cycling website.
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Join us for daily coverage of the Vuelta a España recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Turin to Madrid. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Spain.
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The Cycling Podcast is proudly supported by Lloyds. Last year, Lloyds began a multi-year partnership with British Cycling, which includes becoming title sponsors of the Lloyds Tour of Britain races for men and women. Lloyds also sponsors the Great Britain team and National Championships across a range of disciplines – road racing, track cycling, mountain biking, BMX and cyclo-cross. Thanks to sponsorship from Lloyds, The Cycling Podcast will be covering the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men with daily episodes for the first time. Check out the full route of the race on the British Cycling website.
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Join Graham Willgoss and Lionel Birnie for daily coverage of the Lloyds Tour of Britain for the first time. The race begins with two stages in Suffolk before it heads west via Buckinghamshire and Warwickshire to Cardiff, where it will mark the final chapter in the glorious career of Geraint Thomas. Our coverage features race analysis, interviews and more from the UK's home tour, with on-the-ground coverage from Stage 3 through to the finish.
OUR SPONSORS, LLOYDSThe Cycling Podcast is proudly supported by Lloyds. Last year, Lloyds began a multi-year partnership with British Cycling, which includes becoming title sponsors of the Lloyds Tour of Britain races for men and women. Lloyds also sponsors the Great Britain team and National Championships across a range of disciplines – road racing, track cycling, mountain biking, BMX and cyclo-cross. Thanks to sponsorship from Lloyds, The Cycling Podcast will be covering the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men with daily episodes for the first time. Check out the full route of the race on the British Cycling website.
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The Cycling Podcast is proudly supported by Lloyds. Last year, Lloyds began a multi-year partnership with British Cycling, which includes becoming title sponsors of the Lloyds Tour of Britain races for men and women. Lloyds also sponsors the Great Britain team and National Championships across a range of disciplines – road racing, track cycling, mountain biking, BMX and cyclo-cross. Thanks to sponsorship from Lloyds, The Cycling Podcast will be covering the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men with daily episodes for the first time. Check out the full route of the race on the British Cycling website.
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Join Graham Willgoss and Lionel Birnie for daily coverage of the Lloyds Tour of Britain for the first time. The race begins with two stages in Suffolk before it heads west via Buckinghamshire and Warwickshire to Cardiff, where it will mark the final chapter in the glorious career of Geraint Thomas. Our coverage features race analysis, interviews and more from the UK's home tour, with on-the-ground coverage from Stage 3 through to the finish.
OUR SPONSORS, LLOYDSThe Cycling Podcast is proudly supported by Lloyds. Last year, Lloyds began a multi-year partnership with British Cycling, which includes becoming title sponsors of the Lloyds Tour of Britain races for men and women. Lloyds also sponsors the Great Britain team and National Championships across a range of disciplines – road racing, track cycling, mountain biking, BMX and cyclo-cross. Thanks to sponsorship from Lloyds, The Cycling Podcast will be covering the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men with daily episodes for the first time. Check out the full route of the race on the British Cycling website.
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Daily coverage of the Vuelta a España continues, with Daniel Friebe joined by Brian Nygaard for episodes recorded on the road in Spain as the race makes its way from Turin to Madrid. Each episode features in-depth race analysis, exclusive interviews, and daily postcards from Spain, capturing the atmosphere and stories from along the route.
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Join Graham Willgoss and Lionel Birnie for daily coverage of the Lloyds Tour of Britain for the first time. The race begins with two stages in Suffolk before it heads west via Buckinghamshire and Warwickshire to Cardiff, where it will mark the final chapter in the glorious career of Geraint Thomas. Our coverage features race analysis, interviews and more from the UK's home tour, with on-the-ground coverage from Stage 3 through to the finish.
OUR SPONSORS, LLOYDSThe Cycling Podcast is proudly supported by Lloyds. Last year, Lloyds began a multi-year partnership with British Cycling, which includes becoming title sponsors of the Lloyds Tour of Britain races for men and women. Lloyds also sponsors the Great Britain team and National Championships across a range of disciplines – road racing, track cycling, mountain biking, BMX and cyclo-cross. Thanks to sponsorship from Lloyds, The Cycling Podcast will be covering the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men with daily episodes for the first time. Check out the full route of the race on the British Cycling website.
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Join Graham Willgoss and Lionel Birnie for daily coverage of the Lloyds Tour of Britain for the first time. The race begins with two stages in Suffolk before it heads west via Buckinghamshire and Warwickshire to Cardiff, where it will mark the final chapter in the glorious career of Geraint Thomas. Our coverage features race analysis, interviews and more from the UK's home tour, with on-the-ground coverage from Stage 3 through to the finish.
OUR SPONSORS, LLOYDSThe Cycling Podcast is proudly supported by Lloyds. Last year, Lloyds began a multi-year partnership with British Cycling, which includes becoming title sponsors of the Lloyds Tour of Britain races for men and women. Lloyds also sponsors the Great Britain team and National Championships across a range of disciplines – road racing, track cycling, mountain biking, BMX and cyclo-cross. Thanks to sponsorship from Lloyds, The Cycling Podcast will be covering the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men with daily episodes for the first time. Check out the full route of the race on the British Cycling website.
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Join us for daily coverage of the Vuelta a España recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Turin to Madrid. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Spain.
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The Cycling Podcast is proudly supported by Lloyds. Last year, Lloyds began a multi-year partnership with British Cycling, which includes becoming title sponsors of the Lloyds Tour of Britain races for men and women. Lloyds also sponsors the Great Britain team and National Championships across a range of disciplines – road racing, track cycling, mountain biking, BMX and cyclo-cross. Thanks to sponsorship from Lloyds, The Cycling Podcast will be covering the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men with daily episodes for the first time. Check out the full route of the race on the British Cycling website.
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Join Graham Willgoss, Lionel Birnie and Tom Southam for daily coverage of the Lloyds Tour of Britain for the first time. The race begins with two stages in Suffolk before it heads west via Buckinghamshire and Warwickshire to Cardiff, where it will mark the final chapter in the glorious career of Geraint Thomas. Our coverage features race analysis, interviews and more from the UK's home tour, with on-the-ground coverage from Stage 3 through to the finish.
OUR SPONSORS, LLOYDSThe Cycling Podcast is proudly supported by Lloyds. Last year, Lloyds began a multi-year partnership with British Cycling, which includes becoming title sponsors of the Lloyds Tour of Britain races for men and women. Lloyds also sponsors the Great Britain team and National Championships across a range of disciplines – road racing, track cycling, mountain biking, BMX and cyclo-cross. Thanks to sponsorship from Lloyds, The Cycling Podcast will be covering the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men with daily episodes for the first time. Check out the full route of the race on the British Cycling website.
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Join us for daily coverage of the Vuelta a España recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Turin to Madrid. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Spain.
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The Cycling Podcast is proudly supported by Lloyds. Last year, Lloyds began a multi-year partnership with British Cycling, which includes becoming title sponsors of the Lloyds Tour of Britain races for men and women. Lloyds also sponsors the Great Britain team and National Championships across a range of disciplines – road racing, track cycling, mountain biking, BMX and cyclo-cross. Thanks to sponsorship from Lloyds, The Cycling Podcast will be covering the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men with daily episodes for the first time. Check out the full route of the race on the British Cycling website.
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Join Graham Willgoss, Lionel Birnie and Tom Southam for daily coverage of the Lloyds Tour of Britain for the first time. The race begins with two stages in Suffolk before it heads west via Buckinghamshire and Warwickshire to Cardiff, where it will mark the final chapter in the glorious career of Geraint Thomas. Our coverage features race analysis, interviews and more from the UK's home tour, with on-the-ground coverage from Stage 3 through to the finish.
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The Cycling Podcast is proudly supported by Lloyds. Last year, Lloyds began a multi-year partnership with British Cycling, which includes becoming title sponsors of the Lloyds Tour of Britain races for men and women. Lloyds also sponsors the Great Britain team and National Championships across a range of disciplines – road racing, track cycling, mountain biking, BMX and cyclo-cross. Thanks to sponsorship from Lloyds, The Cycling Podcast will be covering the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men with daily episodes for the first time. Check out the full route of the race on the British Cycling website.
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Join us for daily coverage of the Vuelta a España recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Turin to Madrid. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Spain.
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The Cycling Podcast is proudly supported by Lloyds. Last year, Lloyds began a multi-year partnership with British Cycling, which includes becoming title sponsors of the Lloyds Tour of Britain races for men and women. Lloyds also sponsors the Great Britain team and National Championships across a range of disciplines – road racing, track cycling, mountain biking, BMX and cyclo-cross. Thanks to sponsorship from Lloyds, The Cycling Podcast will be covering the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men with daily episodes for the first time. Check out the full route of the race on the British Cycling website.
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Join us for daily coverage of the Vuelta a España recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Turin to Madrid. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Spain.
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The Cycling Podcast is proudly supported by Lloyds. Last year, Lloyds began a multi-year partnership with British Cycling, which includes becoming title sponsors of the Lloyds Tour of Britain races for men and women. Lloyds also sponsors the Great Britain team and National Championships across a range of disciplines – road racing, track cycling, mountain biking, BMX and cyclo-cross. Thanks to sponsorship from Lloyds, The Cycling Podcast will be covering the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men with daily episodes for the first time. Check out the full route of the race on the British Cycling website.
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Join us for daily coverage of the Vuelta a España recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Turin to Madrid. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Spain.
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The Cycling Podcast is proudly supported by Lloyds. Last year, Lloyds began a multi-year partnership with British Cycling, which includes becoming title sponsors of the Lloyds Tour of Britain races for men and women. Lloyds also sponsors the Great Britain team and National Championships across a range of disciplines – road racing, track cycling, mountain biking, BMX and cyclo-cross. Thanks to sponsorship from Lloyds, The Cycling Podcast will be covering the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men with daily episodes for the first time. Check out the full route of the race on the British Cycling website.
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Join us for daily coverage of the Vuelta a España recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Turin to Madrid. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Spain.
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The Cycling Podcast is proudly supported by Lloyds. Last year, Lloyds began a multi-year partnership with British Cycling, which includes becoming title sponsors of the Lloyds Tour of Britain races for men and women. Lloyds also sponsors the Great Britain team and National Championships across a range of disciplines – road racing, track cycling, mountain biking, BMX and cyclo-cross. Thanks to sponsorship from Lloyds, The Cycling Podcast will be covering the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men with daily episodes for the first time. Check out the full route of the race on the British Cycling website.
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Join us for daily coverage of the Vuelta a España recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Turin to Madrid. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Spain.
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The Cycling Podcast is proudly supported by Lloyds. Last year, Lloyds began a multi-year partnership with British Cycling, which includes becoming title sponsors of the Lloyds Tour of Britain races for men and women. Lloyds also sponsors the Great Britain team and National Championships across a range of disciplines – road racing, track cycling, mountain biking, BMX and cyclo-cross. Thanks to sponsorship from Lloyds, The Cycling Podcast will be covering the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men with daily episodes for the first time. Check out the full route of the race on the British Cycling website.
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Join us for daily coverage of the Vuelta a España recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Turin to Madrid. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Spain.
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The Cycling Podcast is proudly supported by Lloyds. Last year, Lloyds began a multi-year partnership with British Cycling, which includes becoming title sponsors of the Lloyds Tour of Britain races for men and women. Lloyds also sponsors the Great Britain team and National Championships across a range of disciplines – road racing, track cycling, mountain biking, BMX and cyclo-cross. Thanks to sponsorship from Lloyds, The Cycling Podcast will be covering the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men with daily episodes for the first time. Check out the full route of the race on the British Cycling website.
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Join us for daily coverage of the Vuelta a España recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Turin to Madrid. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Spain.
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The Cycling Podcast is proudly supported by Lloyds. Last year, Lloyds began a multi-year partnership with British Cycling, which includes becoming title sponsors of the Lloyds Tour of Britain races for men and women. Lloyds also sponsors the Great Britain team and National Championships across a range of disciplines – road racing, track cycling, mountain biking, BMX and cyclo-cross. Thanks to sponsorship from Lloyds, The Cycling Podcast will be covering the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men with daily episodes for the first time. Check out the full route of the race on the British Cycling website.
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Join us for daily coverage of the Vuelta a España recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Turin to Madrid. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Spain.
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The Cycling Podcast is proudly supported by Lloyds. Last year, Lloyds began a multi-year partnership with British Cycling, which includes becoming title sponsors of the Lloyds Tour of Britain races for men and women. Lloyds also sponsors the Great Britain team and National Championships across a range of disciplines – road racing, track cycling, mountain biking, BMX and cyclo-cross. Thanks to sponsorship from Lloyds, The Cycling Podcast will be covering the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men with daily episodes for the first time. Check out the full route of the race on the British Cycling website.
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Join us for daily coverage of the Vuelta a España recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Turin to Madrid. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Spain.
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The Cycling Podcast is proudly supported by Lloyds. Last year, Lloyds began a multi-year partnership with British Cycling, which includes becoming title sponsors of the Lloyds Tour of Britain races for men and women. Lloyds also sponsors the Great Britain team and National Championships across a range of disciplines – road racing, track cycling, mountain biking, BMX and cyclo-cross. Thanks to sponsorship from Lloyds, The Cycling Podcast will be covering the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men with daily episodes for the first time. Check out the full route of the race on the British Cycling website.
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Headline SponsorThe Cycling Podcast is proudly supported by Lloyds. Last year, Lloyds began a multi-year partnership with British Cycling, which includes becoming title sponsors of the Lloyds Tour of Britain races for men and women. Lloyds also sponsors the Great Britain team and National Championships across a range of disciplines – road racing, track cycling, mountain biking, BMX and cyclo-cross. Thanks to sponsorship from Lloyds, The Cycling Podcast will be covering the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men with daily episodes for the first time. Check out the full route of the race on the British Cycling website.
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The third Grand Tour of the 2025 season kicks off from Turin, Italy, at the weekend – and as ever we’ll be there on the ground with our daily coverage. Before that, we take a deep dive into the route and riders with three of our Vuelta team: Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and new signing Dani Arribas.
Can Jonas Vingegaard reclaim centre stage with his nemesis, Tadej Pogačar, opting not to start? Or will Pogačar’s UAE team-mates Juan Ayuso and João Almeida still be able to thwart the Dane and his Visma-Lease a Bike team? In Lionel’s absence… time for some speculation.
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In this bumper episode of The Cycling Podcast, Lionel Birnie, Graham Willgoss and Brian Nygaard ask where Ineos Grenadiers go from here?
Thymen Arensman saved a disappointing Tour de France with two memorable stage wins in the mountains, but Carlos Rodriguez crashed out when his bid for a high finish looked like it had stalled on the cusp of the top ten.
With Dave Brailsford returning to the Tour after a stint at Manchester United Football Club it became apparent just how far the team has drifted since the days when they dominated the race, winning seven editions in eight years between 2012 and 2019.
Geraint Thomas is approaching retirement as a rider but could he be the man to galvanise the team off the bike? Or is it simply a case that Ineos have been overtaken by a handful of teams who have been quicker at identifying and recruiting new talent and more ruthless in calling time on riders who've gone over the summit in their careers?
Before that, Lionel, Graham and Brian recap the week's racing as the cycling season splinters across Europe in this period between the Tour de France and Vuelta a España. And in the final part we hear from journalist Sophie Smith about her trip to the north of Norway to cover the Arctic Race.
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In our first episode since the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes, Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss are joined by Brian Nygaard to recap a busy week of racing during this in-between period before attention turns to the third and final grand tour of the season, the Vuelta a España, gets underway later this month.
The week's news has been dominated by the confirmation that Remco Evenepoel will leave Soudal-Quick Step before the end of his contract, transferring to the Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe squad at the end of the year. What does it mean for Remco, but also his current and future teams?
We recap the racing from the Clasica San Sebastian to the Tour of Poland plus events in northern Spain and France. Then we look back to the Tour de France and get Brian's perspective on Jonas Vingegaard's performance. The Dane is the outstanding favourite for a Pogačar-free Vuelta but is it time for him to accept that the Tour is out of his reach unless the Slovenian is absent?
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Join Rose Manley and Denny Gray on a journey through the final, decisive stage of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes.
Follow along as they cover the race from the Grand Départ in Brittany to its conclusion in the Alps. There will be interviews, insight, features and Denny’s inevitable daily pilgrimage for cheese.
And don’t forget to follow The Cycling Podcast on your favourite podcast app to listen to the episodes as soon as they drop.
INTRODUCING OUR SPONSORS, WAHOO FITNESS
We’re very happy to welcome Wahoo as sponsors for the rest of our Tour de France coverage and the Tour de France Femmes later this month. Wahoo have been having a fantastic Tour de France so far. They supply more than half of the teams in the Tour (and Tour de France Femmes) including those by Mathieu Van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar, Ben Healy and Jonathan Milan.
Wahoo’s vision is to build the best athlete in all of us, by transforming the way the world moves through connected fitness technology and training insights. Wahoo creates a full ecosystem of software, sensors, indoor, and outdoor training equipment for those just starting their journey in cycling, right through to competitive athletes.
Go to WahooFitness.com to find out more.
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The mountains are here! Find out what happened on the only summit finish of the race as Rose Manley and Denny Gray take a look at Stage 8 of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes.
Follow along as they cover the race from the Grand Départ in Brittany to its conclusion in the Alps. There will be interviews, insight, features and Denny’s inevitable daily pilgrimage for cheese.
And don’t forget to follow The Cycling Podcast on your favourite podcast app to listen to the episodes as soon as they drop.
INTRODUCING OUR SPONSORS, WAHOO FITNESS
We’re very happy to welcome Wahoo as sponsors for the rest of our Tour de France coverage and the Tour de France Femmes later this month. Wahoo have been having a fantastic Tour de France so far. They supply more than half of the teams in the Tour (and Tour de France Femmes) including those by Mathieu Van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar, Ben Healy and Jonathan Milan.
Wahoo’s vision is to build the best athlete in all of us, by transforming the way the world moves through connected fitness technology and training insights. Wahoo creates a full ecosystem of software, sensors, indoor, and outdoor training equipment for those just starting their journey in cycling, right through to competitive athletes.
Go to WahooFitness.com to find out more.
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Take a seat on our beautiful terrace and listen in as Rose Manley and Denny Gray take a look at Stage 7 of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes.
Follow along as they cover the race from the Grand Départ in Brittany to its conclusion in the Alps. There will be interviews, insight, features and Denny’s inevitable daily pilgrimage for cheese.
And don’t forget to follow The Cycling Podcast on your favourite podcast app to listen to the episodes as soon as they drop.
INTRODUCING OUR SPONSORS, WAHOO FITNESS
We’re very happy to welcome Wahoo as sponsors for the rest of our Tour de France coverage and the Tour de France Femmes later this month. Wahoo have been having a fantastic Tour de France so far. They supply more than half of the teams in the Tour (and Tour de France Femmes) including those by Mathieu Van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar, Ben Healy and Jonathan Milan.
Wahoo’s vision is to build the best athlete in all of us, by transforming the way the world moves through connected fitness technology and training insights. Wahoo creates a full ecosystem of software, sensors, indoor, and outdoor training equipment for those just starting their journey in cycling, right through to competitive athletes.
Go to WahooFitness.com to find out more.
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Join Rose Manley and Denny Gray as they take a look at Stage 6 of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes.
Follow along as they cover the race from the Grand Départ in Brittany to its conclusion in the Alps. There will be interviews, insight, features and Denny’s inevitable daily pilgrimage for cheese.
And don’t forget to follow The Cycling Podcast on your favourite podcast app to listen to the episodes as soon as they drop.
INTRODUCING OUR SPONSORS, WAHOO FITNESS
We’re very happy to welcome Wahoo as sponsors for the rest of our Tour de France coverage and the Tour de France Femmes later this month. Wahoo have been having a fantastic Tour de France so far. They supply more than half of the teams in the Tour (and Tour de France Femmes) including those by Mathieu Van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar, Ben Healy and Jonathan Milan.
Wahoo’s vision is to build the best athlete in all of us, by transforming the way the world moves through connected fitness technology and training insights. Wahoo creates a full ecosystem of software, sensors, indoor, and outdoor training equipment for those just starting their journey in cycling, right through to competitive athletes.
Go to WahooFitness.com to find out more.
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If the local karaoke night hasn’t swept you up already then come and listen in as Rose Manley and Denny Gray take a look at Stage 5 of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes.
Follow along as they cover the race from the Grand Départ in Brittany to its conclusion in the Alps. There will be interviews, insight, features and Denny’s inevitable daily pilgrimage for cheese.
And don’t forget to follow The Cycling Podcast on your favourite podcast app to listen to the episodes as soon as they drop.
INTRODUCING OUR SPONSORS, WAHOO FITNESS
We’re very happy to welcome Wahoo as sponsors for the rest of our Tour de France coverage and the Tour de France Femmes later this month. Wahoo have been having a fantastic Tour de France so far. They supply more than half of the teams in the Tour (and Tour de France Femmes) including those by Mathieu Van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar, Ben Healy and Jonathan Milan.
Wahoo’s vision is to build the best athlete in all of us, by transforming the way the world moves through connected fitness technology and training insights. Wahoo creates a full ecosystem of software, sensors, indoor, and outdoor training equipment for those just starting their journey in cycling, right through to competitive athletes.
Go to WahooFitness.com to find out more.
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Pull up a chair in Poitiers and listen in as Rose Manley and Denny Gray and a couple of extra friends take a look at Stage 4 of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes.
Follow along as they cover the race from the Grand Départ in Brittany to its conclusion in the Alps. There will be interviews, insight, features and Denny’s inevitable daily pilgrimage for cheese.
And don’t forget to follow The Cycling Podcast on your favourite podcast app to listen to the episodes as soon as they drop.
INTRODUCING OUR SPONSORS, WAHOO FITNESS
We’re very happy to welcome Wahoo as sponsors for the rest of our Tour de France coverage and the Tour de France Femmes later this month. Wahoo have been having a fantastic Tour de France so far. They supply more than half of the teams in the Tour (and Tour de France Femmes) including those by Mathieu Van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar, Ben Healy and Jonathan Milan.
Wahoo’s vision is to build the best athlete in all of us, by transforming the way the world moves through connected fitness technology and training insights. Wahoo creates a full ecosystem of software, sensors, indoor, and outdoor training equipment for those just starting their journey in cycling, right through to competitive athletes.
Go to WahooFitness.com to find out more.
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Don’t be a square! Pull up a table in ‘hip and happening’ Angers and listen in as Rose Manley and Denny Gray as they take a look at Stage 3 of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes.
Follow along as they cover the race from the Grand Départ in Brittany to its conclusion in the Alps. There will be interviews, insight, features and Denny’s inevitable daily pilgrimage for cheese.
And don’t forget to follow The Cycling Podcast on your favourite podcast app to listen to the episodes as soon as they drop.
INTRODUCING OUR SPONSORS, WAHOO FITNESS
We’re very happy to welcome Wahoo as sponsors for the rest of our Tour de France coverage and the Tour de France Femmes later this month. Wahoo have been having a fantastic Tour de France so far. They supply more than half of the teams in the Tour (and Tour de France Femmes) including those by Mathieu Van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar, Ben Healy and Jonathan Milan.
Wahoo’s vision is to build the best athlete in all of us, by transforming the way the world moves through connected fitness technology and training insights. Wahoo creates a full ecosystem of software, sensors, indoor, and outdoor training equipment for those just starting their journey in cycling, right through to competitive athletes.
Go to WahooFitness.com to find out more.
Follow us on social media:
Twitter @cycling_podcast
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The Cannibal & BadgerFriends of the Podcast can join the discussion at our new 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.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.
We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
INTRODUCING OUR SPONSORS, WAHOO FITNESS
We’re very happy to welcome Wahoo as sponsors for the rest of our Tour de France coverage and the Tour de France Femmes later this month. Wahoo have been having a fantastic Tour de France so far. They supply more than half of the teams in the Tour (and Tour de France Femmes) including those by Mathieu Van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar, Ben Healy and Jonathan Milan.
Wahoo’s vision is to build the best athlete in all of us, by transforming the way the world moves through connected fitness technology and training insights. Wahoo creates a full ecosystem of software, sensors, indoor, and outdoor training equipment for those just starting their journey in cycling, right through to competitive athletes. Go to WahooFitness.com to find out more.
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Put on your Breton stripes, pick up your bagpipes and listen in as Rose Manley and Denny Gray take a look at Stage 2 of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes.
Follow along as they cover the race from the Grand Départ in Brittany to its conclusion in the Alps. There will be interviews, insight, features and Denny’s inevitable daily pilgrimage for cheese.
And don’t forget to follow The Cycling Podcast on your favourite podcast app to listen to the episodes as soon as they drop.
INTRODUCING OUR SPONSORS, WAHOO FITNESS
We’re very happy to welcome Wahoo as sponsors for the rest of our Tour de France coverage and the Tour de France Femmes later this month. Wahoo have been having a fantastic Tour de France so far. They supply more than half of the teams in the Tour (and Tour de France Femmes), including those by Mathieu Van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar, Ben Healy and Jonathan Milan.
Wahoo’s vision is to build the best athlete in all of us by transforming the way the world moves through connected fitness technology and training insights. Wahoo creates a full ecosystem of software, sensors, indoor, and outdoor training equipment for those just starting their journey in cycling, right through to competitive athletes.
Go to WahooFitness.com to find out more.
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Come join the Breton festivities with Rose Manley and Denny Gray as they pick apart the first stage of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes.
Follow along as they cover the race from the Grand Départ in Brittany to its conclusion in the Alps. There will be interviews, insight, features and Denny’s inevitable daily pilgrimage for cheese.
And don’t forget to follow The Cycling Podcast on your favourite podcast app to listen to the episodes as soon as they drop.
INTRODUCING OUR SPONSORS, WAHOO FITNESS
We’re very happy to welcome Wahoo as sponsors for the rest of our Tour de France coverage and the Tour de France Femmes later this month. Wahoo have been having a fantastic Tour de France so far. They supply more than half of the teams in the Tour (and Tour de France Femmes) including those by Mathieu Van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar, Ben Healy and Jonathan Milan.
Wahoo’s vision is to build the best athlete in all of us, by transforming the way the world moves through connected fitness technology and training insights. Wahoo creates a full ecosystem of software, sensors, indoor, and outdoor training equipment for those just starting their journey in cycling, right through to competitive athletes.
Go to WahooFitness.com to find out more.
Follow us on social media:
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Friends of the PodcastSign 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 Cannibal & BadgerFriends of the Podcast can join the discussion at our new 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.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.
We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
INTRODUCING OUR SPONSORS, WAHOO FITNESS
We’re very happy to welcome Wahoo as sponsors for the rest of our Tour de France coverage and the Tour de France Femmes later this month. Wahoo have been having a fantastic Tour de France so far. They supply more than half of the teams in the Tour (and Tour de France Femmes) including those by Mathieu Van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar, Ben Healy and Jonathan Milan.
Wahoo’s vision is to build the best athlete in all of us, by transforming the way the world moves through connected fitness technology and training insights. Wahoo creates a full ecosystem of software, sensors, indoor, and outdoor training equipment for those just starting their journey in cycling, right through to competitive athletes. Go to WahooFitness.com to find out more.
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Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.
We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
INTRODUCING OUR SPONSORS, WAHOO FITNESS
We’re very happy to welcome Wahoo as sponsors for the rest of our Tour de France coverage and the Tour de France Femmes later this month. Wahoo have been having a fantastic Tour de France so far. They supply more than half of the teams in the Tour (and Tour de France Femmes) including those by Mathieu Van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar, Ben Healy and Jonathan Milan.
Wahoo’s vision is to build the best athlete in all of us, by transforming the way the world moves through connected fitness technology and training insights. Wahoo creates a full ecosystem of software, sensors, indoor, and outdoor training equipment for those just starting their journey in cycling, right through to competitive athletes. Go to WahooFitness.com to find out more.
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A month or so before the Tour de France, Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss were discussing ideas for KM0 episodes...
'How about camping on Mont Ventoux?' said Lionel.
'Yes!' said Graham.
And so Lionel packed a tent, airbed and sleeping bag and decided not to book a hotel near the Giant of Provence so there could be no turning back.
After picking up camping equipment for Graham at the Nîmes branch of Decathlon, they set off up the mountain to meet Simon Gill, who was in his camper van. The original plan was to camp in the forest, where other Tour spectators were setting up for the night. However, police restrictions on the crowds and vehicles meant Lionel and Graham could not risk being stuck down the mountain, 10km from the summit, on race day, so they soldier on, past Chalet-Reynard and the shelter of the tree-line and up to the bald, rocky peak.
It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience – as in something they will not repeat in a hurry. Unforgettable in its own way as they braved the strong winds.
Who knew Ventoux could be windy? Well, the clue is in the name for a start, and remember the last time the Tour was scheduled to finish at the top of the climb, in 2016, when high winds forced the organisers to bring the line down to Chalet-Reynard?
This is the story of Lionel, Graham and Simon's wild night on the mountain.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.
We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
INTRODUCING OUR SPONSORS, WAHOO FITNESS
We’re very happy to welcome Wahoo as sponsors for the rest of our Tour de France coverage and the Tour de France Femmes later this month. Wahoo have been having a fantastic Tour de France so far. They supply more than half of the teams in the Tour (and Tour de France Femmes) including those by Mathieu Van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar, Ben Healy and Jonathan Milan.
Wahoo’s vision is to build the best athlete in all of us, by transforming the way the world moves through connected fitness technology and training insights. Wahoo creates a full ecosystem of software, sensors, indoor, and outdoor training equipment for those just starting their journey in cycling, right through to competitive athletes. Go to WahooFitness.com to find out more.
Follow us on social media:
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This episode of KM0 tackles Dave Brailsford's return to Ineos Grenadiers and the Tour de France, the scene of his greatest sporting triumphs.
Between 2012 and 2019, Team Sky and then Ineos Grenadiers won seven out of eight editions of the Tour. However, there had been controversies along the way – therapeutic use exemptions to permit their key riders to take otherwise prohibited medication, therefore pushing right up to the line in terms of what is allowed by the rules. The jiffy bag incident. Letting riders and staff members go in the wake of the 2012 reasoned decision by the United States Anti-Doping Agency into Lance Armstrong's doping, and their team doctor through the glory years, Richard Freeman, getting struck off by the general medical council for his conduct while working in cycling.
After a spell at Ineos Sport, overseeing Jim Ratcliffe's sporting empire, and an unsuccessful period with Manchester United football club, Brailsford returned to the cycling team on the eve of the Tour de France with all the enthusiasm of a kid in a sweet shop, according to team CEO John Allert.
But since the start in Lille, allegations from Team Sky's past have stalked Brailsford. It concerns their head carer, a Slovenian called David Rozman, who had been involved in the Operation Aderlass doping investigation relating to alleged text messages between him and Dr Mark Schmidt, subsequently jailed for doping offences, shortly before the 2012 Tour.
Brailsford and the team initially said they would not be commenting on the allegations but today (Thursday) they confirmed Rozman had been contacted by the International Testing Agency regarding the alleged texts, initially informally.
Lionel Birnie delves into the background, examines Brailsford's comeback and talks to David Walsh about why he has more questions to answer about what went on in 2012.
We’re welcoming Féminin listeners old and new to get into the Tour de France Femmes spirit with Rose Manley and Denny Gray as they meet up to preview the race over a platter of French cheeses.
In what proved to be a far longer “punchy” episode than anticipated, Rose and Denny share their top fives of the race to come. They discuss the top five things to look out for on the course, plus their top five GC contenders, interesting prospects and stage hunters. Plus they finish it off with some crucial guidance for new listeners to the Féminin pod: a top five of Féminin references so that everyone knows their Nienke Vinke Fan Club from their ‘Casio’ Niewiadoma.
Also on the agenda, the English for “fromagerie” and Denny gets trapped down a SD Worx vortex.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.
We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
INTRODUCING OUR SPONSORS, WAHOO FITNESS
We’re very happy to welcome Wahoo as sponsors for the rest of our Tour de France coverage and the Tour de France Femmes later this month. Wahoo have been having a fantastic Tour de France so far. They supply more than half of the teams in the Tour (and Tour de France Femmes) including those by Mathieu Van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar, Ben Healy and Jonathan Milan.
Wahoo’s vision is to build the best athlete in all of us, by transforming the way the world moves through connected fitness technology and training insights. Wahoo creates a full ecosystem of software, sensors, indoor, and outdoor training equipment for those just starting their journey in cycling, right through to competitive athletes. Go to WahooFitness.com to find out more.
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This is the third part of Lionel Birnie's conversation with Shelley Verses about her experiences working as a soigneur for the 7-Eleven team at the 1986 Tour de France. She was the first woman to work as a soigneur on the Tour and her presence on the race attracted a lot of attention from the media. If you've not listened to part one yet, you can find it here. That concludes our Chapter & Verses mini series for now.
This episode of KM0 is available for everyone to listen to for free, thanks to you the support of our Friends of the Podcast. To sign up to listen to all our KM0 episodes go to thecyclingpodcast.com. An annual subscription works out at a few pounds (or dollars) a month and plays a huge part in keeping the show on the road.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.
We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
INTRODUCING OUR SPONSORS, WAHOO FITNESS
We’re very happy to welcome Wahoo as sponsors for the rest of our Tour de France coverage and the Tour de France Femmes later this month. Wahoo have been having a fantastic Tour de France so far. They supply more than half of the teams in the Tour (and Tour de France Femmes) including those by Mathieu Van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar, Ben Healy and Jonathan Milan.
Wahoo’s vision is to build the best athlete in all of us, by transforming the way the world moves through connected fitness technology and training insights. Wahoo creates a full ecosystem of software, sensors, indoor, and outdoor training equipment for those just starting their journey in cycling, right through to competitive athletes. Go to WahooFitness.com to find out more.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
This is part two of Lionel Birnie's conversation with Shelley Verses about her experiences working as a soigneur for the 7-Eleven team at the 1986 Tour de France. She was the first woman to work as a soigneur on the Tour and her presence on the race attracted a lot of attention from the media. If you've not listened to part one yet, you can find it here.
This episode of KM0 is available for everyone to listen to for free, thanks to you the support of our Friends of the Podcast. To sign up to listen to all our KM0 episodes go to thecyclingpodcast.com. An annual subscription works out at a few pounds (or dollars) a month and plays a huge part in keeping the show on the road.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.
We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
INTRODUCING OUR SPONSORS, WAHOO FITNESS
We’re very happy to welcome Wahoo as sponsors for the rest of our Tour de France coverage and the Tour de France Femmes later this month. Wahoo have been having a fantastic Tour de France so far. They supply more than half of the teams in the Tour (and Tour de France Femmes) including those by Mathieu Van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar, Ben Healy and Jonathan Milan.
Wahoo’s vision is to build the best athlete in all of us, by transforming the way the world moves through connected fitness technology and training insights. Wahoo creates a full ecosystem of software, sensors, indoor, and outdoor training equipment for those just starting their journey in cycling, right through to competitive athletes. Go to WahooFitness.com to find out more.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.
We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
INTRODUCING OUR SPONSORS, WAHOO FITNESS
We’re very happy to welcome Wahoo as sponsors for the rest of our Tour de France coverage and the Tour de France Femmes later this month. Wahoo have been having a fantastic Tour de France so far. They supply more than half of the teams in the Tour (and Tour de France Femmes) including those by Mathieu Van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar, Ben Healy and Jonathan Milan.
Wahoo’s vision is to build the better athlete in all of us, by transforming the way the world moves through connected fitness technology and training insights. Wahoo creates a full ecosystem of software, sensors, indoor, and outdoor training equipment for those just starting their journey in cycling, right through to competitive athletes. Go to WahooFitness.com to find out more.
Follow us on social media:
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Friends of the PodcastSign 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 Cannibal & BadgerFriends of the Podcast can join the discussion at our new 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.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.
We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
INTRODUCING OUR SPONSORS, WAHOO FITNESS
We’re very happy to welcome Wahoo as sponsors for the rest of our Tour de France coverage and the Tour de France Femmes later this month. Wahoo have been having a fantastic Tour de France so far. They supply more than half of the teams in the Tour and Tour de France Femmes and six of the 10 stages before the rest day were won by riders using the Wahoo Element Bolt 3 cycle computer and Trackr heart-rate monitor – including those by Mathieu Van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar, Ben Healy and Jonathan Milan.
Wahoo’s vision is to build the better athlete in all of us, by transforming the way the world moves through connected fitness technology and training insights. Wahoo creates a full ecosystem of software, sensors, indoor, and outdoor training equipment for those just starting their journey in cycling, right through to competitive athletes. Go to WahooFitness.com to find out more.
Follow us on social media:
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Friends of the PodcastSign 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.
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Come and chow down on our Grand Tour sandwich episode! Deliciously filled with all the chat from a thrilling Giro d’Italia Women plus a look ahead to the imminent Tour de France Femmes in our mini feature about Breton cycling.
Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Rebecca Charlton cover all the talking points from a Giro which saw the maglia rosa change hands several times. It took a daring strategy on the Queen stage from Elisa Longo Borghini to finally wrestle the overall victory from this year’s breakthrough GC rider Marlen Reusser. And we ask a question rarely asked, where the heck were SD Worx?
In our mini feature, we explore Breton cycling in light of next week’s Tour de France Femmes Grand Départ in Brittany. The Cycling Podcast favourite François Thomazeau explains the history and heritage of the region, plus we hear from two Breton riders that have had outstanding Tours de France in recent years: Cédrine Kerbaol of EF Education Oatly and Maeva Squiban of UAE Team ADQ.
Also on the agenda: a café that floods once a day, Liane Lippert’s many hats and a shocking revelation about Breton cheese that blows the Belgian cheese debate out the water.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.
We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
INTRODUCING OUR SPONSORS, WAHOO FITNESS
We’re very happy to welcome Wahoo as sponsors for the rest of our Tour de France coverage and the Tour de France Femmes later this month. Wahoo have been having a fantastic Tour de France so far. They supply more than half of the teams in the Tour and Tour de France Femmes and six of the 10 stages before the rest day were won by riders using the Wahoo Element Bolt 3 cycle computer and Trackr heart-rate monitor – including those by Mathieu Van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar, Ben Healy and Jonathan Milan.
Wahoo’s vision is to build the better athlete in all of us, by transforming the way the world moves through connected fitness technology and training insights. Wahoo creates a full ecosystem of software, sensors, indoor, and outdoor training equipment for those just starting their journey in cycling, right through to competitive athletes. Go to WahooFitness.com to find out more.
Follow us on social media:
Twitter @cycling_podcast
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Friends of the PodcastSign 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 Cannibal & BadgerFriends of the Podcast can join the discussion at our new 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 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 Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.
We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
INTRODUCING OUR SPONSORS, WAHOO FITNESS
We’re very happy to welcome Wahoo as sponsors for the rest of our Tour de France coverage and the Tour de France Femmes later this month. Wahoo have been having a fantastic Tour de France so far. They supply more than half of the teams in the Tour and Tour de France Femmes and six of the 10 stages before the rest day were won by riders using the Wahoo Element Bolt 3 cycle computer and Trackr heart-rate monitor – including those by Mathieu Van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar, Ben Healy and Jonathan Milan.
Wahoo’s vision is to build the better athlete in all of us, by transforming the way the world moves through connected fitness technology and training insights. Wahoo creates a full ecosystem of software, sensors, indoor, and outdoor training equipment for those just starting their journey in cycling, right through to competitive athletes. Go to WahooFitness.com to find out more.
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On the evening of the first Tour de France rest day, Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss headed to the EF Education-Easy Post team hotel on the outskirts of town for dinner.
There, they met the team's chef, Owen Blandy, a keen amateur racer who quit his job in finance to pursue a dream, combining his love of cycling with a passion for cooking. For Owen, preparing the meals for the riders is an ever-changing challenge. First there's the sheer logistics of driving a catering truck that wouldn't look out of place at a street food festival around France, sourcing the ingredients and designing a menu that not only tastes great but gives the riders the right balance of nutrition to perform at their best in the most demanding race in the world.
With Ben Healy in the yellow jersey it was a busy day for everyone on the team and while there was not necessarily any extra pressure on evening meal service, there was an additional sense of pride in fuelling the race leader.
Forget The Great British Bake-Off, this is the Great French Cook-Off... how does a team chef prepare the food for riders tackling 3,500 kilometres and, most importantly, what does it taste like? Normally Owen's food is reserved exclusively for the riders – the team staff usually have whatever's on the hotel menu but they hover around after the riders have eaten to see if there's any leftovers. So, we felt very lucky to get a taste of Owen's food and the chance to eat a meal fit for the maillot jaune.
Then Lionel and Graham turn cookery contest judges and, as you can see from our episode artwork, Owen earned a handshake from Graham in the style of the Bake-Off judge Paul Hollywood.
This episode of KM0 is available for everyone to listen to for free, thanks to you the support of our Friends of the Podcast. To sign up to listen to all our KM0 episodes go to thecyclingpodcast.com. An annual subscription works out at a few pounds (or dollars) a month and plays a huge part in keeping the show on the road.
In 1986, Shelley Verses became the first woman to work as a soigneur at the Tour de France, when she was part of the American 7-Eleven team's support staff.
Shelley had been at the Giro d'Italia with 7-Eleven the previous year but the attitudes towards women being involved in professional cycling were such that she was confined to duties at the team hotel. That changed at the 1986 Tour when she was able to work in the feed zone.
A month ago, Shelley contacted Lionel Birnie keen to share her stories from life on the road and so this is the first part of a series called Chapter & Verses. The first three parts focus on her early days as a soigneur in cycling and the 1986 Tour.
Of the ten 7-Eleven riders, only Doug Shapiro had experienced the Tour before, and so the whole team – on and off the bike – were going into the unknown. This is Shelley's story.
This episode of KM0 is available for everyone to listen to for free, thanks to you the support of our Friends of the Podcast. To sign up to listen to all our KM0 episodes go to thecyclingpodcast.com. An annual subscription works out at a few pounds (or dollars) a month and plays a huge part in keeping the show on the road.
The episode artwork is a photo from Shelley's archive. It features the 7-Eleven team's three soigneurs for the 1986 Tour – Etienne Illegems, Shelley, and Marc Verroeye.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.
We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
VAN RYSEL, OUR TOUR DE FRANCE SPONSORS
We are very pleased to welcome Van Rysel as our sponsors for the first half of our Tour de France coverage. The Tour gets underway in Lille, the city where the company was founded and has its headquarters. The city is steeped in French cycling history and heritage, not least because the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix are on the doorstep.
Van Rysel supplies bikes and kit for the Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale World Tour team, who feature Felix Gall, Bruno Armirail and Aurélien Paret-Peintre in their line-up for the Tour.
If you are going to Lille for the opening weekend make sure to drop in at Van Rysel House, a pop-up venue and hub for cycling fans. It’s located at Hein Estaminet in Place Saint-Hubert a short walk from the Euralille train station. It’s a place to have a drink or something to eat and watch the race on TV and there’ll be lots going on over the weekend with a quiz night to test your cycling knowledge each night at 8pm. There’s also some group rides setting out from there. A chance to see the Van Rysel bikes and the innovation that goes into their design.
Visit www.vanryselcycling.com to find out more.
Follow us on social media:
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The Cannibal & BadgerFriends of the Podcast can join the discussion at our new 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.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
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Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.
We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
VAN RYSEL, OUR TOUR DE FRANCE SPONSORS
We are very pleased to welcome Van Rysel as our sponsors for the first half of our Tour de France coverage. The Tour gets underway in Lille, the city where the company was founded and has its headquarters. The city is steeped in French cycling history and heritage, not least because the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix are on the doorstep.
Van Rysel supplies bikes and kit for the Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale World Tour team, who feature Felix Gall, Bruno Armirail and Aurélien Paret-Peintre in their line-up for the Tour.
If you are going to Lille for the opening weekend make sure to drop in at Van Rysel House, a pop-up venue and hub for cycling fans. It’s located at Hein Estaminet in Place Saint-Hubert a short walk from the Euralille train station. It’s a place to have a drink or something to eat and watch the race on TV and there’ll be lots going on over the weekend with a quiz night to test your cycling knowledge each night at 8pm. There’s also some group rides setting out from there. A chance to see the Van Rysel bikes and the innovation that goes into their design.
Visit www.vanryselcycling.com to find out more.
Follow us on social media:
Twitter @cycling_podcast
Instagram @thecyclingpodcast
Friends of the PodcastSign 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 Cannibal & BadgerFriends of the Podcast can join the discussion at our new 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.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.
We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
VAN RYSEL, OUR TOUR DE FRANCE SPONSORS
We are very pleased to welcome Van Rysel as our sponsors for the first half of our Tour de France coverage. The Tour gets underway in Lille, the city where the company was founded and has its headquarters. The city is steeped in French cycling history and heritage, not least because the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix are on the doorstep.
Van Rysel supplies bikes and kit for the Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale World Tour team, who feature Felix Gall, Bruno Armirail and Aurélien Paret-Peintre in their line-up for the Tour.
If you are going to Lille for the opening weekend make sure to drop in at Van Rysel House, a pop-up venue and hub for cycling fans. It’s located at Hein Estaminet in Place Saint-Hubert a short walk from the Euralille train station. It’s a place to have a drink or something to eat and watch the race on TV and there’ll be lots going on over the weekend with a quiz night to test your cycling knowledge each night at 8pm. There’s also some group rides setting out from there. A chance to see the Van Rysel bikes and the innovation that goes into their design.
Visit www.vanryselcycling.com to find out more.
Follow us on social media:
Twitter @cycling_podcast
Instagram @thecyclingpodcast
Friends of the PodcastSign 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 Cannibal & BadgerFriends of the Podcast can join the discussion at our new 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 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 Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.
We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
VAN RYSEL, OUR TOUR DE FRANCE SPONSORS
We are very pleased to welcome Van Rysel as our sponsors for the first half of our Tour de France coverage. The Tour gets underway in Lille, the city where the company was founded and has its headquarters. The city is steeped in French cycling history and heritage, not least because the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix are on the doorstep.
Van Rysel supplies bikes and kit for the Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale World Tour team, who feature Felix Gall, Bruno Armirail and Aurélien Paret-Peintre in their line-up for the Tour.
If you are going to Lille for the opening weekend make sure to drop in at Van Rysel House, a pop-up venue and hub for cycling fans. It’s located at Hein Estaminet in Place Saint-Hubert a short walk from the Euralille train station. It’s a place to have a drink or something to eat and watch the race on TV and there’ll be lots going on over the weekend with a quiz night to test your cycling knowledge each night at 8pm. There’s also some group rides setting out from there. A chance to see the Van Rysel bikes and the innovation that goes into their design.
Visit www.vanryselcycling.com to find out more.
Follow us on social media:
Twitter @cycling_podcast
Instagram @thecyclingpodcast
Friends of the PodcastSign 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 Cannibal & BadgerFriends of the Podcast can join the discussion at our new 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 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 Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.
We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
VAN RYSEL, OUR TOUR DE FRANCE SPONSORS
We are very pleased to welcome Van Rysel as our sponsors for the first half of our Tour de France coverage. The Tour gets underway in Lille, the city where the company was founded and has its headquarters. The city is steeped in French cycling history and heritage, not least because the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix are on the doorstep.
Van Rysel supplies bikes and kit for the Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale World Tour team, who feature Felix Gall, Bruno Armirail and Aurélien Paret-Peintre in their line-up for the Tour.
If you are going to Lille for the opening weekend make sure to drop in at Van Rysel House, a pop-up venue and hub for cycling fans. It’s located at Hein Estaminet in Place Saint-Hubert a short walk from the Euralille train station. It’s a place to have a drink or something to eat and watch the race on TV and there’ll be lots going on over the weekend with a quiz night to test your cycling knowledge each night at 8pm. There’s also some group rides setting out from there. A chance to see the Van Rysel bikes and the innovation that goes into their design.
Visit www.vanryselcycling.com to find out more.
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The publicity caravan has been a Tour de France institution for almost a century. Introduced in 1930 by the race founder Henri Desgrange to generate much needed funds for the Tour, the cavalcade of promotional vehicles that precedes the race has grown to become a much-loved spectacle for millions of roadside fans every summer.
It's bright, colourful and noisy and during Tuesday's fifth stage The Cycling Podcast's Graham Willgoss was part of the show.
He had a place on one of the Basic Fit floats, promoting a chain of French gyms. He joined the happy, enthusiastic (mostly) young people for their pre-race dance to get the energy levels pumping ahead of the stage.
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Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.
We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
VAN RYSEL, OUR TOUR DE FRANCE SPONSORS
We are very pleased to welcome Van Rysel as our sponsors for the first half of our Tour de France coverage. The Tour gets underway in Lille, the city where the company was founded and has its headquarters. The city is steeped in French cycling history and heritage, not least because the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix are on the doorstep.
Van Rysel supplies bikes and kit for the Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale World Tour team, who feature Felix Gall, Bruno Armirail and Aurélien Paret-Peintre in their line-up for the Tour.
If you are going to Lille for the opening weekend make sure to drop in at Van Rysel House, a pop-up venue and hub for cycling fans. It’s located at Hein Estaminet in Place Saint-Hubert a short walk from the Euralille train station. It’s a place to have a drink or something to eat and watch the race on TV and there’ll be lots going on over the weekend with a quiz night to test your cycling knowledge each night at 8pm. There’s also some group rides setting out from there. A chance to see the Van Rysel bikes and the innovation that goes into their design.
Visit www.vanryselcycling.com to find out more.
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Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.
We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
VAN RYSEL, OUR TOUR DE FRANCE SPONSORS
We are very pleased to welcome Van Rysel as our sponsors for the first half of our Tour de France coverage. The Tour gets underway in Lille, the city where the company was founded and has its headquarters. The city is steeped in French cycling history and heritage, not least because the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix are on the doorstep.
Van Rysel supplies bikes and kit for the Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale World Tour team, who feature Felix Gall, Bruno Armirail and Aurélien Paret-Peintre in their line-up for the Tour.
Visit www.vanryselcycling.com to find out more.
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Join Lionel Birnie, Graham Willgoss and François Thomazeau as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.
We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
VAN RYSEL, OUR TOUR DE FRANCE SPONSORS
We are very pleased to welcome Van Rysel as our sponsors for the first half of our Tour de France coverage. The Tour gets underway in Lille, the city where the company was founded and has its headquarters. The city is steeped in French cycling history and heritage, not least because the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix are on the doorstep.
Van Rysel supplies bikes and kit for the Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale World Tour team, who feature Felix Gall, Bruno Armirail and Aurélien Paret-Peintre in their line-up for the Tour.
If you are going to Lille for the opening weekend make sure to drop in at Van Rysel House, a pop-up venue and hub for cycling fans. It’s located at Hein Estaminet in Place Saint-Hubert a short walk from the Euralille train station. It’s a place to have a drink or something to eat and watch the race on TV and there’ll be lots going on over the weekend with a quiz night to test your cycling knowledge each night at 8pm. There’s also some group rides setting out from there. A chance to see the Van Rysel bikes and the innovation that goes into their design.
Visit www.vanryselcycling.com to find out more.
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Join Lionel Birnie, Graham Willgoss and François Thomazeau as they recap the 2025 Tour de France.
We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
VAN RYSEL, OUR TOUR DE FRANCE SPONSORS
We are very pleased to welcome Van Rysel as our sponsors for the first half of our Tour de France coverage. The Tour gets underway in Lille, the city where the company was founded and has its headquarters. The city is steeped in French cycling history and heritage, not least because the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix are on the doorstep.
Van Rysel supplies bikes and kit for the Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale World Tour team, who feature Felix Gall, Bruno Armirail and Aurélien Paret-Peintre in their line-up for the Tour.
If you are going to Lille for the opening weekend make sure to drop in at Van Rysel House, a pop-up venue and hub for cycling fans. It’s located at Hein Estaminet in Place Saint-Hubert a short walk from the Euralille train station. It’s a place to have a drink or something to eat and watch the race on TV and there’ll be lots going on over the weekend with a quiz night to test your cycling knowledge each night at 8pm. There’s also some group rides setting out from there. A chance to see the Van Rysel bikes and the innovation that goes into their design.
Visit www.vanryselcycling.com to find out more.
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Join Lionel Birnie, Graham Willgoss and François Thomazeau in Lille as they recap the first stage of the 2025 Tour de France.
We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour.
To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app.
INTRODUCING VAN RYSEL, OUR TOUR DE FRANCE SPONSORS
We are very pleased to welcome Van Rysel as our sponsors for the first half of our Tour de France coverage. The Tour gets underway in Lille, the city where the company was founded and has its headquarters. The city is steeped in French cycling history and heritage, not least because the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix are on the doorstep.
Van Rysel supplies bikes and kit for the Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale World Tour team, who feature Felix Gall, Bruno Armirail and Aurélien Paret-Peintre in their line-up for the Tour.
If you are going to Lille for the opening weekend make sure to drop in at Van Rysel House, a pop-up venue and hub for cycling fans. It’s located at Hein Estaminet in Place Saint-Hubert a short walk from the Euralille train station. It’s a place to have a drink or something to eat and watch the race on TV and there’ll be lots going on over the weekend with a quiz night to test your cycling knowledge each night at 8pm. There’s also some group rides setting out from there. A chance to see the Van Rysel bikes and the innovation that goes into their design.
Visit www.vanryselcycling.com to find out more.
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This is part two of our bumper XL Tour de France Preview, with Lionel Birnie, Graham Willgoss, Rob Hatch and François Thomazeau.
We pick up where we left off with François' run-through of what to expect on the road in weeks two and three of the 2025 Tour de France, interspersed with some of the more intriguing sub-plots to look forward to.
There's also Whitey's Whiteboard – in which experienced sports director Matt White shares some of his tactical expertise and breaks down how a typical team goes about selecting its line-up for the Tour de France and how the daily strategy is decided and conveyed to the riders.
INTRODUCING VAN RYSEL, OUR TOUR DE FRANCE SPONSORS
We are very pleased to welcome Van Rysel as our sponsors for the first half of our Tour de France coverage. The Tour gets underway in Lille, the city where the company was founded and has its headquarters. The city is steeped in French cycling history and heritage, not least because the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix are on the doorstep.
Van Rysel supplies bikes and kit for the Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale World Tour team, who feature Felix Gall, Bruno Armirail and Aurélien Paret-Peintre in their line-up for the Tour.
If you are going to Lille for the opening weekend make sure to drop in at Van Rysel House, a pop-up venue and hub for cycling fans. It’s located at Hein Estaminet in Place Saint-Hubert a short walk from the Euralille train station. It’s a place to have a drink or something to eat and watch the race on TV and there’ll be lots going on over the weekend with a quiz night to test your cycling knowledge each night at 8pm. There’s also some group rides setting out from there. A chance to see the Van Rysel bikes and the innovation that goes into their design.
Visit www.vanryselcycling.com to find out more.
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Join Lionel Birnie, Graham Willgoss, Rob Hatch and François Thomazeau for the first part of The Cycling Podcast’s bumper Tour de France preview.
This episode focuses on the first half of the 112th Tour, which will take the riders from Lille in the north east, across to Normandy and Brittany before cutting down through the heart of France to the Massif Central.
The head-to-head battle between Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard is currently tied at 2-2, with the Slovenian winning in 2021 and 2024 and the Dane taking back-to-back victories in 2022 and 2023. But, as closely-matched as they often seem, none of those four clashes has been particularly close and, as we saw at the Dauphiné last month, Pogačar seems to have the upper hand at the moment.
So, will we see a battle royale between the Three Tenors – © Rob Hatch – with Remco Evenepoel one of the riders most suited to a punchy, scrappy opening week, especially with a time trial to contend with?
François breaks down the route and explains what we have to look forward to before the first rest day after ten stages.
Part two of The XL Tour de France Preview will be online soon...
INTRODUCING VAN RYSEL, OUR TOUR DE FRANCE SPONSORS
We are very pleased to welcome Van Rysel as our sponsors for the first half of our Tour de France coverage. The Tour gets underway in Lille, the city where the company was founded and has its headquarters. The city is steeped in French cycling history and heritage, not least because the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix are on the doorstep.
Van Rysel supplies bikes and kit for the Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale World Tour team, who feature Felix Gall, Bruno Armirail and Aurélien Paret-Peintre in their line-up for the Tour.
If you are going to Lille for the opening weekend make sure to drop in at Van Rysel House, a pop-up venue and hub for cycling fans. It’s located at Hein Estaminet in Place Saint-Hubert a short walk from the Euralille train station. It’s a place to have a drink or something to eat and watch the race on TV and there’ll be lots going on over the weekend with a quiz night to test your cycling knowledge each night at 8pm. There’s also some group rides setting out from there. A chance to see the Van Rysel bikes and the innovation that goes into their design.
Visit www.vanryselcycling.com to find out more.
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Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss for the final instalment of their pre-Tour de France 'attitude camp'. In this episode they recap the final major preparation race, the Tour de Suisse where UAE Team Emirates – who else? – took the overall honours.
But while João Almeida's overall victory had a feeling of inevitability about it as soon as he reached the midway checkpoint in the final time trial, the week was perhaps more revealing about the two riders who joined him on the podium.
We hear from third-placed Oscar Onley, who won a stage and put together the best stage race performance of his career as he prepares to head to the Tour for Picnic Post NL. And we discuss Kevin Vauquelin's credentials as a potential star for the home nation at the Tour. He won a stage during the opening weekend in Italy last week and he very nearly delivered a huge result for an Arkea-B&B Hotels team that has been struggling in the World Tour this season.
There's a recap of the other races, including two events on the calendar in Copenhagen and Andorra, a brush with the UCI rules and analysis of Tadej Pogačar's foray into the world of children's books with his partner Urška Žigart.
Next up – our XL Tour de France Preview episode will be out in the middle of next week.
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They may not have made it to their Swiss chalet, but spirits are still high on this month’s Cycling Podcast Féminin as the team tackle several weeks of lively racing. Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Rebecca Charlton set themselves the challenge of picking out some moments that made them say “Ooh!” from the Tour of Britain Women and the Tour de Suisse, which is no easy task after a number of memorable moments and breakthrough performances.
Plus this month’s mini feature offers up a sneak preview of an upcoming Friends of the Podcast special. Four time British national champion Lisa Brambani sits down with The Cycling Podcast producer Tom Whalley to talk about the first ever women’s Giro in 1988. Brambani offers some rare detail as she battled convent dormitories and cold water showers as well as the race itself, all diligently recorded in her diary.
We also look ahead to this year’s Giro d’Italia and explore the punchy eight stage course which includes three summit finishes.
Also on the agenda, Denny’s imaginary Toblerone-inventing grandfather, Rebecca’s 90s hip hop karaoke and a thousand ways of saying “ooh!”.
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Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they review the Critérium du Dauphiné and ask whether it was a full dress rehearsal for the Tour de France.
Get ready to check-in for another block of pre-Tour preparation at The Cycling Podcast’s ‘Attitude Camp’.
With Eddy Merckx about to celebrate his 80th birthday, Tadej Pogačar equalled The GOAT's tally of Dauphiné victories (one) and reminded everyone, including Jonas Vingegaard, he remains the number one favourite for next month's Tour de France. But what else did we learn from the Dauphiné?
Brian Nygaard is on hand to remind us that although it wasn’t a winning week for Vingegaard, the Dane and his Visma-Lease A Bike team need not press the panic button just yet.
We ask Rod Ellingworth of Bahrain Victorious about Lenny Martinez’s stage victory on the final day, as the long wait for a French Tour champion approaches 40 years.
And we make a quick visit to Coorevits Corner to find out what Hugo made of Remco Evenepoel’s Dauphiné.
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Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss kick-off The Cycling Podcast’s build-up to the Tour de France, which starts in Lille on July 5.
The Critérium du Dauphiné began in spectacular style with fireworks at the end of the opening stage on Sunday. The three riders who finished on the podium at last year’s Tour de France – Tadej Pogačar, Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel – lined up alongside each other for the first time since last July.
And they all came alive on the final climb of the race, breaking clear with Mathieu van der Poel and Santiago Buitrago, to hold off the sprinters in Montluçon.
It was a statement of intent from the three leading contenders for this summer’s Tour as they begin their final preparations for the grand départ.
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As the dust settles on a sensational 20th stage of the Giro d’Italia, Lionel Birnie is joined by Matt White – one of the people in cycling who knows Simon Yates best – to analyse how the race was won (and lost) on the Colle delle Finestre.
Until the eve of the Giro, Matt was head of performance at the Jayco-Alula team, having been with the Green Edge organisation since it was founded. Until this season, Yates had spent his whole professional career with the team and he and Matt shared many highs and one memorable low.
Matt was in the team car when Simon Yates lost the 2018 Giro on the Finestre following Chris Froome’s audacious long-range attack on stage 19, so he has a fascinating insight into the tactical and psychological issues that played out on the mountain on Saturday. Yates bounced back later that season to win the Vuelta a España.
But what else stood out to Matt as he watched the stage on Saturday? How did Visma-Lease A Bike pull it off, and could Isaac Del Toro, Richard Carapaz and their respective teams have done anything differently?
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Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse.
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Dvine Cellars 2025 Girovagando Wine Selection
As every year, Dvine Cellars and The Cycling Podcast have selected six wines that showcase the 'terroir' of the Giro d'Italia. Head to Dvine Cellars to make an order.
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Dvine Cellars 2025 Girovagando Wine Selection
As every year, Dvine Cellars and The Cycling Podcast have selected six wines that showcase the 'terroir' of the Giro d'Italia. Head to Dvine Cellars to make an order.
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On The Cycling Podcast Féminin this month, Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Rebecca Charlton head back to their virtual cabana to talk about everything that happened in the Spanish racing block.
With a win at Vuelta a Burgos, Marlen Reusser’s ascendency continues. The Movistar rider has put a difficult 2024 behind her to become one of the very best GC stage race contenders in the world. Plus we can’t agree on whether to put Team SD Worx’s lacklustre GC stage racing campaign in Burgos and Itzulia down to overreaching team orders or plain old bad luck. And there are some new names to look out for in the peloton, with riders like Mie Bjørndal Ottestad and Celia Géry enjoying breakthrough performances.
For this month’s mini feature, we speak to two Irish riders who have joined the World Tour this season - Lara Gillespie of UAE-ADQ and Mia Griffin of Roland. The pair formed half of the quartet that made history at the Paris Olympics as Ireland’s first ever female pursuit team, a feat all the more remarkable considering the country is yet to have an indoor velodrome. We hear from both riders as they turn their attentions to the road.
Also on the agenda, week-long Nienke Vinke Fan Club celebrations, Denny’s Union Jack bowler hat and how the TCP Féminin budget REALLY gets spent.
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The hardest stage of the Giro d’Italia, by general consensus, takes the race into the Valle d’Aosta two days before its conclusion. Italy’s smallest region has often played host to drama in the Giro - but exactly where is it and what does this mountainous & mysterious land represent.
In this episode, Daniel Friebe & Michele Pelacci ponder and answer these questions and look ahead to what could be this Giro’s most spectacular day.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse.
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Dvine Cellars 2025 Girovagando Wine Selection
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse.
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Dvine Cellars 2025 Girovagando Wine Selection
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse.
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Dvine Cellars 2025 Girovagando Wine Selection
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse.
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The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse.
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In this special Arrivée episode, Rose Manley and Rebecca Charlton look back at the first Grand Tour of the year for the women’s peloton, the Vuelta Femenina.
The race marks the first World Tour stage race to see top rivals Anna Van der Breggen and Demi Vollering go head-to-head. Vollering may have had the edge so far this season but Van der Breggen has found further form since her comeback. And then there’s fellow SD Worx alumnus Marlen Reusser who separated the two Dutch rivals on the podium at Setmana Valenciana earlier in the year. So where will the fabled red jersey land this time?
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse.
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The first Grand Tour of the 2025 season is also our tenth Giro d‘Italia on the ground with daily episodes. We kick things off here, with Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and Rob Hatch looking ahead to the next three weeks of action, first in Albania and then Italy.
First, we examine a route that may lack summit finishes but should deliver excitement from the middle of stage one. The riders on the startline should also see to that, particularly the stacked field of GC contenders led by pre-race favourites Primož Roglič and Juan Ayuso.
We also meet a new addition to the podcast team for the Giro, Michele Pelacci, and hear more about what we’ve got in store over the next few weeks.
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Dvine Cellars 2025 Girovagando Wine Selection
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The Giro d’Italia rolls out from Albania on Friday and in doing so will introduce cycling fans to one of the more mysterious and probably misunderstood countries on the continent of Europe.
We, too, knew very little about the 'Land of Eagles' but, in January this year, were invited on a remarkable treasure hunt that began with a listener’s enigmatic direct message into Daniel Friebe’s Twitter inbox. The story that then revealed itself - without giving too much away here - was one of an epic cycling journey that also turned into an astonishing voyage of self-discovery, into the so-called ‘Accursed Mountains’ of northern Albania.
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The episode was written and narrated by Daniel Friebe and produced by Adam Bowie.
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As per tradition, together with our friends at Dvine Cellars in London, we’re presenting a selection of six wines showcasing the same terroir that the 2025 Giro d’Italia will visit in May. And, as we’ve done in other years, we’ve asked Greg Andrews and Luciana Girotto of Dvine to talk us through the selection ahead of the race.
If you’re not into wine, this is NOT the podcast for you! We have our full XL race preview coming on Tuesday, so hold tight for that. If, however, you do want to hear what Luciana, Greg and Daniel have to say, stay tuned and head to https://dvinecellars.com/products/the-cycling-podcast-giro-ditalia-2025 to make an order.
The wines in the case are listed below. Unfortunately, Dvine’s cases are still only available to UK listeners but in many instances you will be able to find similar wines, from the same regions, wherever you are. Please also enjoy in moderation!
The wines (in Giro route order):Salice Salentino Il Pumo 2021, San Marzano, Puglia
Vigneti Tardis, Martedì Paestum Rosso, Campania
Lambrusco del Fondatore 2023, Cleto Chiarli, Emilia-Romagna
Incrocio Manzoni Costa degli Angeli 2022/23, Casa Paolin, Veneto
Selida Gewürztraminer 2023, Tramin, Alto-Adige
Coste delle Sesia 2022/23, Orbello, Tenute Sella, Piedmont
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Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are your guides through the latest headlines and talking points from the world of pro cycling, this week assisted by Tudor Pro Cycling ace Larry Warbasse, fresh from his successful week at the Tour of the Alps.
We look back at the latest Tadej Pogačar tour de force at Liège-Bastogne-Liège and invite Larry to speculate about the rest of Pogačar’s season. There’s also a trip to Coorevits Corner, where Remco Evenepoel’s underwhelming performance in La Doyenne gives Hugo food for thought.
In the final part of the episode, Larry takes us inside Michael Storer’s masterful performance at the Tour of the Alps. We also ask: how far can ‘Storerčar’ go at the Giro?
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Rose Manley and Rebecca Charlton dissect the final Classic of the 2025 Spring season, Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
With the first two Ardennes Classics - Amstel Gold Race and Flèche Wallonne - going to unexpected winners, all of the big contenders were looking for the victory in Liège. Puck Pieterse arrived looking to get her second win of the week, whilst Demi Vollering was hunting her first victory since Strade Bianche in March. Plus Anna van der Breggen returns from illness, looking to become the most decorated winner of the race having been victorious twice before. But with the stage racing season upon us, every rider will be vying for their last chance for a precious Spring Classics win.
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Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie as they wrap up the spring series of Arrivée episodes with La Doyenne, the oldest of the men's Monuments, Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
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Join Rose Manley and Denny Gray as they pick apart all the action from this year’s Flèche Wallonne Féminine. After a surprise result for a late breakaway at Amstel Gold Race, everything was to play for at the second race of the Ardennes Classics.
Despite a much-hyped expected comeback to the race, seven time winner Anna Van der Breggen didn’t take to the startline after suffering from illness last week. But with defending champion Kasia Niewiadoma and 2023 champion Demi Vollering already proving to be in top form this season, the race was set to be fiercely contested. Or could a new champion be announced at the top of the infamous Mur de Huy?
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Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie for their post-race analysis following the best three minutes of the cycling season (that takes place on a Wednesday afternoon, in spring, in Wallonia).
Yes, it’s the annual uphill cheeseroll competition (copyright Friebos). But just how far can we stretch the cheese analogies? What would win? A giant Camembert or 30 Mini Babybels? And what has New Year’s Eve in New York got to do with anything?
There’s serious tactical discussion and lots of nonsensical talk about sunglasses too. You wouldn’t expect anything else.
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Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are back to examine the latest headlines and talking points from the world of pro cycling, this week aided by TNT commentator Rob Hatch.
The Classics have migrated (slightly) south to the hills of Limburg and the Ardennes, with the Brabantse Pijl and Amstel Gold kicking off the final phase of the spring season last week. In the former, Remco Evenepoel completed a stunning return from injury to outsprint Wout Van Aert. Amstel saw an even more surprising denouement, with Mattias Skjelmose proving too quick - just - for Tadej Pogačar and Evenepoel.
We ponder what this all means for the remainder of the Ardennes Classics, with a detour via Coorevits Corner. There’s also a look back at the life and times of British cycling legend Barry Hoban.
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The Cicle Classic is England's answer to the spring classics. Paris-Roubaix is the Hell of the North so perhaps this ought to be known as the Beast in the East.
The race celebrates its 20th anniversary this month, with the 2025 edition taking place on Sunday, April 27. Held in the East Midlands, the race criss-crosses the countryside, taking in rough, rutted farm tracks. If it was created today it would be considered a gravel race. The Tour of Flanders has the Koppenberg, Gent-Wevelgem has the Kemmelberg, Paris-Roubaix has the Arenberg – the Cicle Classic has Somerberg.
Lionel Birnie explores the history and character of the UK's highest-ranked one-day race and hears from the founder Colin Clews who had the idea, Matt Stephens, who was third in the first edition two decades ago, Conor Dunne, who won in 2016 and James McCallum, who was on the podium in arguably the most dramatic and certainly the muddiest edition in 2012.
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Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie return to review the latest headlines and talking points from the world of pro cycling, this week in the company of Tudor Pro Cycling ace Larry Warbasse, aka ‘The Motown Maestro’.
While the Classics leave the flatlands of Flanders behind and head south towards hillier terrain, Larry has been getting ready for his big goal of the spring, the Giro d’Italia, in Spain’s Sierra Nevada. We hear what he’s made of the duel that has provided the central plot of the Classics so far, Pogačar versus Van der Poel, and also about high-altitude Giro prep.
There’s also Coorevits Corner and a look back at another remarkable week for team UAE Emirates, crowned by João Almeida’s victory in Itzulia.
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We are hitting the road for this month’s episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin. Join Rose Manley and Denny Gray in their little Bar Tabac just a stone’s throw from the famous Paris Roubaix cobbles. They’ll be calling up Rebecca Charlton to collectively cast an eye over this season’s early Classics.
Talk inevitably turns to SD Worx who have been the most successful of the teams so far, although they certainly haven’t had it all their way. Their stars Lotte Kopecky and Lorena Wiebes have managed some mighty solo wins, often without the powerful team support that we’ve come to expect.
Plus we transport our listeners to the pavé of Northern France in our mini feature. Follow along with Rose and Denny in a mad dash to the velodrome as they cover Paris-Roubaix Femmes. Soak up the atmosphere and hear from the likes of Paris-Roubaix debutant Imogen Wolff, former men’s champion Magnus Backstedt and former Pédaleuse de Charme Marthe Truyen.
We’ll also be looking ahead to what is set to be a thrilling Ardennes Classic season with the return of the gripping rivalry between Anna Van der Breggen and Demi Vollering.
Also on the agenda: good luck high fives, a mystery butterfly and Denny’s got his crystal balls out again.
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Join Lionel Birnie, who is in the André-Pétrieux velodrome in Roubaix, and Daniel Friebe as they recap the 122nd edition of Paris-Roubaix.
With Tadej Pogačar making his much-anticipated debut in the (senior) race, and Mathieu van der Poel aiming for a third consecutive victory – something that hasn’t been done since Francesco Moser ruled the pavé (1978-1980), the Hell of the North was billed as a showdown between these generational talents. But with half-a-dozen other genuine contenders, it also promised to be an open race.
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Join Rose Manley and Denny Gray in the André Pétrieux velodrome as they record their post-race reaction to the fifth edition of Paris-Roubaix Femmes Avec Zwift.
With world champion Lotte Kopecky aiming for a second consecutive Hell of the North win – which would also make her the first woman to do the Flanders-Roubaix double in the same season – can anyone stop Classics specialists SD Worx?
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Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie return to discuss the latest racing and news in professional cycling – this week with ace TNT commentator Rob Hatch.
We revisit some of the big talking points after the Ronde van Vlaanderen at the weekend, including Mathieu van der Poel’s disrupted preparation and what the result means for Eddy Merckx-Tadej Pogačar comparisons.
Of course on Sunday Pogačar could achieve a feat that no one since Merckx has managed – winning Paris-Roubaix as the reigning Tour de France champion. Can he do it? And if not, could the subject of another Coorevits Corner this week, Belgian sweetheart Wout Van Aert, be the man to thwart him?
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Rose Manley and Rebecca Charlton pick over what was set to be a fiercely contested Tour of Flanders.
Defending champion Elisa Longo Borghini heads up the top favourites for the race and arrives in fine form following her Dwars Door Vlaanderen victory. Meanwhile, World Champion Lotte Kopecky comes to the race without a win to her name this season but on the lookout for a historic third title in De Ronde. Or could a new Queen of the Cobbles be crowned in Flanders?
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Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie as they analyse the men’s edition of the Tour of Flanders. With the three big stars of the spring – Mathieu van der Poel, Tadej Pogačar and Mads Pedersen – set to go head to head, who else could force their way into the reckoning, and would Wout van Aert and his Visma-Lease A Bike team be able to play a part in the latter stages?
Sponsored by LakaThe Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the spring Classics is supported by Laka. Laka offers specialist bike insurance that goes further than you think. It’s powered by a collective of cyclists who all have each others’ backs. They won’t charge a fixed sum, instead, they calculate your monthly contributions – up to a maximum capped amount – based on the collective’s claims. There’s no excess so you won’t be penalised when it comes to making a claim. Laka is back as a proud sponsor of The Cycling Podcast. Listeners can get their first 30 days free by signing up with the code TCP30 at laka.co/tcp
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Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie return to discuss the latest racing and news in professional cycling - this week with top TNT commentator Rob Hatch.
We discuss an intense weekend of racing, with a pair of key appetizers before the Tour of Flanders: E3 Harelbeke and Gent-Wevelgem. The two semi-Classics saw Mathieu van der Poel and Mads Pedersen in superlative form, so who, besides Tadej Pogačar, could possibly stop them in Flanders on Sunday?
Wout Van Aert’s chances are the subject of this week’s Coorevits Corner. We also look back at the Volta a Catalunya and the latest tour de force by Primož Roglič. This week’s episode ends on a sombre note as we remember our late co-founder Richard Moore, who was the subject of a special tribute in Gent-Wevelgem on Sunday.
Sponsored by LakaThe Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the spring Classics is supported by Laka. Laka offers specialist bike insurance that goes further than you think. It’s powered by a collective of cyclists who all have each others’ backs. They won’t charge a fixed sum, instead, they calculate your monthly contributions – up to a maximum capped amount – based on the collective’s claims. There’s no excess so you won’t be penalised when it comes to making a claim. Laka is back as a proud sponsor of The Cycling Podcast. Listeners can get their first 30 days free by signing up with the code TCP30 at laka.co/tcp
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Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie return to discuss the latest racing and news in professional cycling - this week in the company of former CSC, Sky and GreenEDGE communications maestro Brian Nygaard.
After our Arrivée episode at the weekend, we discuss one or two talking points that we missed in the immediate wake of Sanremo - and the hot breaking news that Tadej Pogačar will ride Paris-Roubaix.
There’s also a look at the Volta a Catalunya, where Lennard Kämna is making his comeback after a career-threatening crash a year ago. The episode features an interview with Kämna and also our weekly trip to Coorevits Corner, where Hugo is expecting E3 Harelbeke to deliver a few home truths.
Sponsored by LakaThe Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the spring Classics is supported by Laka. Laka offers specialist bike insurance that goes further than you think. It’s powered by a collective of cyclists who all have each others’ backs. They won’t charge a fixed sum, instead, they calculate your monthly contributions – up to a maximum capped amount – based on the collective’s claims. There’s no excess so you won’t be penalised when it comes to making a claim. Laka is back as a proud sponsor of The Cycling Podcast. Listeners can get their first 30 days free by signing up with the code TCP30 at laka.co/tcp
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TRIBUTE TO RICHARD MOORE AT GENT-WEVELGEMFriend of the Podcast Charlotte Elton is raising money to pay tribute to our friend and co-founder Richard Moore at Gent-Wevelgem by painting his name on the road. She’s crowdfunding to pay for the paint and any additional funds will be donated to Sir Chris Hoy’s Tour de 4 charity. You can donate to the cause here.
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Arrivée is The Cycling Podcast’s quick-fire race analysis show offering a first take on the biggest races. Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie as they discuss their first impressions of the opening Monument of the spring, the longest one-day race on the World Tour calendar, Milan-Sanremo. Who will triumph on the Via Roma and how did they do it?
Sponsored by LakaThe Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the spring Classics is supported by Laka. Laka offers specialist bike insurance that goes further than you think. It’s powered by a collective of cyclists who all have each others’ backs. They won’t charge a fixed sum, instead, they calculate your monthly contributions – up to a maximum capped amount – based on the collective’s claims. There’s no excess so you won’t be penalised when it comes to making a claim. Laka is back as a proud sponsor of The Cycling Podcast. Listeners can get their first 30 days free by signing up with the code TCP30 at laka.co/tcp
TRIBUTE TO RICHARD MOORE AT GENT-WEVELGEMFriend of the Podcast Charlotte Elton is raising money to pay tribute to our friend and co-founder Richard Moore at Gent-Wevelgem by painting his name on the road. She’s crowdfunding to pay for the paint and any additional funds will be donated to Sir Chris Hoy’s Tour de 4 charity. You can donate to the cause here.
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Rose Manley and Jo Rowsell cast their eye over one of the most hotly anticipated races of the year, Milano-Sanremo Donne. The last time the race was staged for women was 20 years ago, leaving plenty of intrigue over how it would be approached by this current crop of riders.
This season’s battle of SD Worx versus Demi Vollering was expected to continue into this race. The Dutch team boasted both World Champion Lotte Kopecky and super sprinter Lorena Wiebes in their line-up, making them the team to beat. However, former alumnus Vollering – now of FDJ Suez – got the better of them at Strade Bianche and looked to do it again on the famous climbs of the Cipressa and Poggio.
There were plenty of contenders for the inaugural Milano Sanremo Donne title elsewhere too. Trofeo Binda champion Elisa Balsamo heads up Lidl-Trek, Elisa Longo Borghini looks to make a big impression as Italian champion and Kasia Niewiadoma races for the first time since her Strade Bianche crash.
Arrivée is The Cycling Podcast’s quick-fire race analysis show offering a first take on the biggest races. Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie as they discuss their first impressions of the opening Monument of the spring, the longest one-day race on the World Tour calendar, Milan-Sanremo. Who will triumph on the Via Roma and how did they do it?
Sponsored by LakaThe Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the spring Classics is supported by Laka. Laka offers specialist bike insurance that goes further than you think. It’s powered by a collective of cyclists who all have each others’ backs. They won’t charge a fixed sum, instead, they calculate your monthly contributions – up to a maximum capped amount – based on the collective’s claims. There’s no excess so you won’t be penalised when it comes to making a claim. Laka is back as a proud sponsor of The Cycling Podcast. Listeners can get their first 30 days free by signing up with the code TCP30 at laka.co/tcp
TRIBUTE TO RICHARD MOORE AT GENT-WEVELGEMFriend of the Podcast Charlotte Elton is raising money to pay tribute to our friend and co-founder Richard Moore at Gent-Wevelgem by painting his name on the road. She’s crowdfunding to pay for the paint and any additional funds will be donated to Sir Chris Hoy’s Tour de 4 charity. You can donate to the cause here.
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Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie return to discuss the latest racing and news in professional cycling - this week in the company of Tudor Pro Cycling ace Larry Warbasse aka ‘The Motown Maestro’.
Fresh(ish) from finishing Tirreno-Adriatico, Larry delivers his verdicts from The Race of the Two Seas. Who, if anyone, was hot in the often frigid weather conditions? And who still has work to do ahead of Milan-Sanremo on Saturday.
Daniel spent the week on the other side of the Med at an even soggier Paris-Nice. We discuss a successful title defence for Matteo Jorgenson there and other highlights. There’s also the latest instalment of ‘Coorevits Corner’, plus some pre-Sanremo speculation.
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TRIBUTE TO RICHARD MOORE AT GENT-WEVELGEMFriend of the Podcast Charlotte Elton is raising money to pay tribute to our friend and co-founder Richard Moore at Gent-Wevelgem by painting his name on the road. She’s crowdfunding to pay for the paint and any additional funds will be donated to Sir Chris Hoy’s Tour de 4 charity. You can donate to the cause here.
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With old grudges and new rivalries playing out on the gravel roads of Tuscany, Strade Bianche offered up plenty to talk about in this month’s episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin. Rose Manley and Denny Gray are joined by cycling broadcaster Rebecca Charlton to discuss all the juicy details, plus they look ahead to the return of Milan-Sanremo with a mini-feature about the race’s predecessor, the Primavera Rosa.
Ever since Demi Vollering's move to FDJ-Suez and Anna Van der Breggen announced her return to the peloton last year, anticipation of a fierce rivalry between the pair has been rising. After Strade Bianche and their first meeting at Setmana Valenciana, it is fair to say that the match-up has already more than exceeded expectations. Van der Breggen has proven to be the only rider in the peloton capable of matching Vollering for power and tactical nous, although Vollering has thus far always come away with the spoils.
Strade Bianche also saw former world champion Pauline Ferrand-Prevot take third place, in her first spring Classic since 2018. Plus the race was a welcome showcase for the top riders in the peloton after something of a stalemate at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad which saw a surprise victory for Lotte Claes.
In anticipation of the inaugural Milano-Sanremo Donne, we take a look back at the race’s precursor – the Primavera Rosa – which ran for seven editions from 1999 until 2005. The race took place on the last 118 kilometres of the men’s Milan-Sanremo, on the same day and included the same Poggio and Cipressa climbs and Via Roma finish. We offer up a potted history of those editions and hear some first-hand accounts from people that were there including Marion Clignet, podium finishers Chantal Beltman and Ina Teutenberg, 2005 champion Trixi Worrack and photographer Mario Prato.
Also on the agenda, hippopotamus races, bumping into your ex with 30 toilet rolls and the battle of the names: Nienke Vinke vs Lotte Claes.
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TRIBUTE TO RICHARD MOORE AT GENT-WEVELGEMFriend of the Podcast Charlotte Elton is raising money to pay tribute to our friend and co-founder Richard Moore at Gent-Wevelgem by painting his name on the road. She’s crowdfunding to pay for the paint and any additional funds will be donated to Sir Chris Hoy’s Tour de 4 charity. You can donate to the cause here.
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Lionel Birnie, Rob Hatch and Brian Nygaard recap Strade Bianche, where Tadej Pogačar recovered from a crash, picked himself up from the adjacent field and still managed to see off a spirited challenge from Tom Pidcock.
We ask whether Pidcock should have waited – and whether, indeed, waiting was what he did – and discuss what the rest of the peloton can do to stop Pogačar when he’s in such irrepressible mood.
With the peloton split between two week-long stage races, Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico, this week we keep an eye on the likely storylines, including an aggressive start to the Race to the Sun.
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TRIBUTE TO RICHARD MOORE AT GENT-WEVELGEMFriend of the Podcast Charlotte Elton is raising money to pay tribute to our friend and co-founder Richard Moore at Gent-Wevelgem by painting his name on the road. She’s crowdfunding to pay for the paint and any additional funds will be donated to Sir Chris Hoy’s Tour de 4 charity. You can donate to the cause here.
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Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are back to review the latest news and racing in the world of procycling, assisted this week by ace commentator Rob Hatch.
‘Opening Weekend’ may not have lived up to all the hype but both Omloop het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne did serve up some juicy talking points. Among the hottest topics in the Belgian media were Visma-Lease a Bike’s toils - and they’re also on the agenda in this week’s ‘Coorevits Corner’, our weekly check-in with Flandrian cycling oracle Hugo Coorevits.
In part three of the episode, we look ahead to Strade Bianche and Paris-Nice at the weekend. One of the favourites for overall victory on the Promenade des Anglais a week on Sunday, Pavel Sivakov, also shares some childhood memories of “The Race to the Sun” and discusses newfound confidence since joining UAE Team Emirates last year.
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TRIBUTE TO RICHARD MOORE AT GENT-WEVELGEMFriend of the Podcast Charlotte Elton is raising money to pay tribute to our friend and co-founder Richard Moore at Gent-Wevelgem by painting his name on the road. She’s crowdfunding to pay for the paint and any additional funds will be donated to Sir Chris Hoy’s Tour de 4 charity. You can donate to the cause here.
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It's the equivalent of Christmas Eve in Flanders, the night before Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, the opening cobbled classic of the spring season.
Join Lionel Birnie and Rob Hatch as they preview the race and wonder who can stop Visma-Lease A Bike winning four in a row.
There's a wistful meander down memory lane recalling past editions, an attempt to capture the elements that make Omloop such an eagerly-anticipated race, and a bit of light speculation ahead of Saturday's race.
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SEE AMARATERRA LIVE IN LONDONCozze, by Amaraterra, has been the theme tune for our Giro d’Italia coverage since we began daily coverage in 2016. They are playing live at Brixton Jamm on Saturday, March 15 and would like as many podcast listeners to join them. You can buy tickets here.
TRIBUTE TO RICHARD MOORE AT GENT-WEVELGEMFriend of the Podcast Charlotte Elton is raising money to pay tribute to our friend and co-founder Richard Moore at Gent-Wevelgem by painting his name on the road. She’s crowdfunding to pay for the paint and any additional funds will be donated to Sir Chris Hoy’s Tour de 4 charity. You can donate to the cause here.
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Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are back to review the latest news and racing in the world of procycling, assisted this week by Tudor Pro Cycling stalwart Larry Warbasse aka ‘The Motown Maestro’.
Tour de France rivals Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard both began their seasons last week - both with instant success. Pogačar’s GC win in the UAE Tour came thanks to stage victories in the two mountain stages to Jebel Jais and Jebel Hafeet, while Vingegaard left it late with his final-day TT triumph in Portugal.
In part three of the episode, Larry updates us on an encouraging start to his season. We then premiere a new feature for the Classics season – Coorevits Corner – starring veteran Belgian reporter Hugo Coorevits.
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Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie welcome Brian Nygaard for his first podcast appearance of 2025, as we look ahead to another prominent Dane’s return to action this week.
Jonas Vingegaard starts his bid to topple Tadej Pogačar at the Volta ao Algarve in Portugal, after a year and particularly a Tour de France that left them wondering what, if anything, they could do to dethrone the Slovenian. We ponder the question while also discussing what other impediments, besides his rivals, that Pog could encounter on his path to a fourth Tour win.
We also hear from one of Vingegaard’s key lieutenants, Matteo Jorgenson, and reflect on the weekend’s races in Portugal, Spain and France.
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In the February episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin, Rose Manley, Orla Chennaoui and Jo Rowsell pick over the UAE Tour, a race which often offers up some key insight for the season ahead. Plus we look at some of the junior world champions of the past in our mini feature.
There’s plenty to discuss from the UAE Tour, as Elisa Longo Borghini took a commanding overall victory while Lorena Wiebes went almost unchallenged as she swept up all three sprint stages. Some other big favourites didn’t fare so well though. Pauline Ferrand Prévot has made no secret of her Tour de France Femmes ambitions since her comeback but was noticeably absent among the first finishers on the top of Jebel Hafeet. While the new line-up at FDJ-Suez failed to take home a top ten on any stage.
In our mini feature we speak to former and present junior world champions and see how they’ve fared since hitting the elite ranks. We hear from Lucy Van der Haar nee Garner who retired five years ago, Canyon-SRAM rider Zoe Backstedt, current junior champion Cat Ferguson and Laura Stigger who was scouted by Anna van der Breggen to join SD Worx this year.
Also on the agenda… more baby news, some deserved gloating by Jo and reminiscing over Orla’s car sickness.
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Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and Rob Hatch return to recap all the latest stories and racing as the stars of the international peloton commence their 2025 campaigns. In Oman, there’s a battle royale between two Frenchmen and an Englishman – and, ultimately, the same final result as in another recent sporting contest. We also discuss an excellent week for Colombian riders, with Egan Bernal and Santiago Buitrago both flying high. Finally, in the last part of the episode, we sink our teeth into the most controversial issue of the week – the exodus of top teams from the Étoile des Bessèges amid fears for riders’ safety but also for the future of small races in the sport’s heartlands. To bring a little perspective on that issue, we hear from Lidl-Trek’s directeur sportif in Bessèges, Steven de Jongh.
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Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and Rob Hatch are back to recap all the latest stories and racing as the season swings into action in Europe. A little further afield, in the Middle East, Tom Pidcock was enjoying a rip-roaring start to life with his new team, Q36.5 – and we assess to what extent the Briton's victory there could set the tone for his season. We also look at the main takeaways from the GP Marseillaise, where teenage sensation Paul Seixas enjoyed a stunning debut for Décathlon-AG2R La Mondiale. And finally, at the other end of France, the world cyclo-cross championships took place in Liévin – and we hail a historic seventh rainbow jersey for Mathieu van der Poel.
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That's a wrap for the Challenge Mallorca. Lionel Birnie heads to Palma for the final race in the series hoping for dry weather and an incident-free race. Then he reconvenes with Rob Hatch in a soggy, Sunday evening Sóller to recap the day.
We hear from Michael Valgren of EF Education-Easy Post and Lotto sports director Dirk De Mol about the cancellation of Saturday's race.
And Lionel and Rob take a detour to Palma's two famous velodromes – one old, one new.
We play out with The Cycling Podcast's original punk, François Thomazeau. He was once a member of a punk band called Special Service and we hear their track Marseille ou Kingston.
Thanks for listening, the regular episodes will return this week to review the week's other racing.
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The fourth race in the Challenge Mallorca series was cancelled because of crashes on the opening circuit.
But that doesn't stop Lionel Birnie and Rob Hatch talking Balearics for twenty five minutes or so.
We discuss the safety issues and the impact of the cancellation on the race. Then we ask whether the Vuelta a España could return to the island of Mallorca for the first time since 1991*, and ponder whether innovative, alternative race formats might be the answer to the safety issues.
*Corrections Corner – the Vuelta also visited Mallorca in 1998 when Fabrizio Guidi won in Palma and Abraham Olano won a time trial in Alcúdia.
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In this third part of our series from the Challenge Mallorca, Lionel Birnie heads to the Col de Sóller to watch the race, then returns to catch up with Rob Hatch. They discuss the greatest grand tour rider Mallorca has produced and look ahead to the final two events in the series.
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The second race in the Challenge Mallorca series takes Lionel Birnie to the south east of the island and a glorious beach. But what is Ciro Scognamiglio's verdict?
We hear from man of the match George Radcliffe, Lionel predicts the winner (because of course he does) and we discuss the impact of tourism on the island.
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Lionel Birnie is in Mallorca for the five-day Challenge Mallorca, a stage race that's not a stage race. In this opening episode of KM0, recorded at the Trofeo Calvià, Lionel and Rob Hatch discuss the history of the race and Lionel sees two very different sides to the island.
The series title – Never Mind The Balearics, This Is The Cycling Podcast – is inspired by the classic 1977 Sex Pistols punk album of a similar name.
Now it's over to Lionel and Rob for the Hipster's Tour Down Under...
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Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and Rob Hatch return to reflect on the Tour Down Under, where the climb up Willunga Hill once again proved decisive and some familiar faces from previous editions shone. To Daniel’s delight, the trio also look ahead to this weekend's cyclocross world championships in France, where Mathieu van der Poel is aiming for his seventh rainbow jersey. Health-permitting, Thibau Nys will be among MVDP’s challengers – and we hear from the precocious Belgian about his past, present and future.
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We’re back! In the first episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin of 2025, Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Jo Rowsell are looking ahead to what promises to be an enticing road season.
We offer up our 'bold predictions' (thanks Denny!) for the coming months, sparking arguments galore as we work out which count as downright ‘fanciful’ and which are seemingly probable. Potential Grand Tour victors, Anna van der Breggen’s return and winning opportunities for some young pretenders are all up for debate.
Plus we discuss the first Women’s World Tour race of the season – the Tour Down Under – and reflect on what it might mean for the rest of the year. Noemi Rüegg was the overall winner in Australia, cementing her champion status after a breakthrough season last year. There were also stage wins for Daniek Hengeveld and Chloe Dygert, and a first peek at some new look teams.
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Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and Rob Hatch return to ring in the new season, which commenced this week with the Tour Down Under. After two stages and two emphatic wins for Redbull-Bora-hansgrohe’s “Flying Wombat” Sam Welsford, we look ahead to the weekend’s decisive stages.
There’s also a postscript to last week’s discussions about both the future of the sport and its business model - and also what 2025 has in store for INEOS Grenadiers.
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After a Christmas and New Year break, The Cycling Podcast returns with the now traditional early-season speculation episode.
With suggestions from some familiar voices, Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and Rob Hatch look at some of the stories and trends we think may shape the 2025 professional cycling season.
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The final Grand Tour of the season rolled out from Portugal in searing temperatures and with question marks over several of the contenders. We were there to witness and report on all of it, with Fran Reyes bringing his sultry presence to week one, Richard Abraham dropping in for week two and Rob Hatch helping to bring the ship in to Madrid. Once again, there were talking points, adventures and laughs aplenty.
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Journey back to the height of summer and the Grand Départ in Florence with our Tour de France team of Mitch Docker, Richard Abraham and Graham Willgoss. They were there to witness Tadej Pogačar’s domination, a record-breaking 35th stage win for Mark Cavendish, and a historic trio of stage wins for green jersey winner Biniam Girmay. They also endured the horror of ‘the kebab shop hotel’, soaked up the sights, sounds and flavours of France, and almost ran out of gas before the Tour concluded in Nice.
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Relive some of the highlights of the first Grand Tour of the season, the Giro d’Italia, with this compilation of some of our best moments from Italy in May. Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard were your guides, Tadej Pogačar the race winner and dominator. Along the way, an eclectic cast of characters also made memorable contributions - from Ciro Scognamiglio to Larry Warbasse, a professional truffle to Carlo Ancelotti’s childhood best friend.
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It’s beginning to look a lot like… a bumper Christmas episode from The Cycling Podcast Féminin. In the true style of an old Christmas TV special, this episode has a bit of everything: chat, music, cameos from a few familiar voices and of course the feared and revered Christmas quiz.
First up, Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Rebecca Charlton pull out their favourite moments from an exhilarating and sometimes contentious year of cycling. The hosts are spoilt for choice in a season which saw the closest ever finish to a Tour de France, an Olympic road race which came down to the final kilometre and a Classics season which saw the spoils divided among comeback queens and breakthrough stars. Add to that more than a few moments of team in-fighting playing out on the road and the result is one of the best racing seasons in memory.
Then Denny and Rebecca go head-to-head as we look to crown our 2024 Christmas quiz champion. There’s a brand new round this year - the 'What’s That Sound?' round to add to returning favourites 'Blankety Crank' and 'Cryptic Criterium'. And it wouldn’t be our Christmas quiz without some squabbling, upset and a deterioration in professionalism from all involved.
Also on the agenda: Mastermind board games, the Tour de Wandsworth and a Juliette Labous cocktail.
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For the penultimate instalment of our Review of 2024 series, we reprise and re-iterate on one of the most popular episodes of 2023, a long & very in-depth interview with Redbull-Bora-Hansgrohe Head Sports Director Rolf Aldag.
The venue is again Mallorca, the occasion is again the team‘s first training camp of the winter, & once again posing the questions is Daniel Friebe. Last year, Aldag was looking ahead to Primoz Roglič‘s first season with the team - & precisely that is the main topic of conversation here, with Roglič’s huge disappointment at the Tour de France & season-ending triumph at the Vuelta a España.
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On the eve of Time Magazine naming its ‘Person of the Year’ for 2024, we offer absolutely no surprises by naming Tadej Pogačar our man of the year just past.
‘Pog’ has been briefing the media on what to expect from him in 2025 - and Fran Reyes has been on the ground in Spain taking notes. In this episode, Fran tells Daniel Friebe and Richard Abraham what he’s heard from the Slovenian and some of those who either masterminded or assisted his all-conquering season.
Before all of that, we also discuss the two main news headlines of the week: Patrick Lefevere leaving his CEO position at Soudal-Quick Step and Tom Pidcock signing for Q36.5.
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We get into the festive spirit with an ‘Advent’ episode celebrating not the impending arrival of a king of kings…but the emergence of several would-be stars in the world of professional cycling in 2024.
Daniel Friebe is joined by award-winning commentator Rob Hatch and young Richard Abraham – plus there’s a début for ace ‘stato’ Cillian Kelly – as we review breakthrough seasons for the likes of Isaac del Toro, Oscar Onley and more. We also hear from Onley’s DSM Firmenich-PostNL directeur sportif Matt Winston and a man who has burst onto the scene in recent weeks…with the help of Strava.
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The Cycling Podcast’s kicked off 2024 in time-honoured fashion with our Speculation Episode - a chance for us and illustrious voices in the world of procycling to foretell the story of the approaching season.
Did we get everything or indeed anything right? Now, with the year drawing to a close, the three co-hosts for that first episode of the year - Daniel Friebe, Rob Hatch and Larry Warbasse - reconvene to reality-check what they and others said would happen in the season just gone.
Who could see a Pog triple crown written in the stars? Who didn’t think Mark Cavendish would take his 35th Tour de France stage win? And what other egg are we left licking off our faces, at the end of an at times eminently predictable, at times highly surprising campaign?
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It’s a bumper transfer special on The Cycling Podcast Féminin this month. In what is proving to be one of the busiest and most significant transfer markets in recent memory, Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Orla Chennaoui discuss all the major moves.
With so many of the peloton’s biggest champions making the switch, we pick out which transfers excite us and surprise us the most. We’ll be discussing the comebacks of former world champions Anna van der Breggen and Pauline Ferrand Prevot in detail as well as looking at the consequences of moves by the likes of Elisa Longo Borghini, Niamh Fisher-Black, Juliette Labous, Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig and of course Demi Vollering.
Our mini feature takes us back to the Tour de France Femmes where Rose and Denny explored why the Dutch always dominated the women’s road racing scene. We speak to Team SD Worx’s Lorena Wiebes and Mischa Bredewold and former pro Iris Slappendel, and get an outside perspective from British riders Lizzie Deignan and Becky Storrie.
Also on the agenda, we ask what would your grandma rather eat: a mint chocolate selection box or a chocolate orange?
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We continue our review of the men’s 2024 professional season, this week focussing on the riders who have called time on their career in recent months and weeks.
Daniel Friebe is joined by one still relatively new retiree, Joe Dombrowski, and a rider who is very much still an active member of the pro peloton, Larry Warbasse, as we reflect on the achievements and legacies of Mark Cavendish, Thomas De Gendt and others.
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We continue our review of the men’s 2024 professional season, this week focussing on the riders, teams and trends that had a year to forget.
After Daniel’s controversial suggestion last week that it was in fact such a bad year that it was a good one for INEOS Grenadiers, who will come under the spotlight this time around? Rob Hatch has at least one nomination for a team that fared worse than the Brits - while Richard Abraham is blowing raspberries at the whole, once great cycling nation of France after its lacklustre few months.
Cofidis certainly didn’t wow anyone in 2024 - and we hear from one of their departing riders, Harrison Wood, about why it became an annus horribilis for that team.
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On this month’s episode of Féminin, Orla Chennaoui joins Rose Manley and Denny Gray to look ahead to the Tour de France Femmes 2025. With the route announced by race organisers ASO last week, we offer up our thoughts and predictions on what should be a gripping nine days of racing.
We can also finally discuss one of the biggest transfers in women’s cycling. After months of speculation (and some acrimony), Demi Vollering has officially confirmed that she will be moving to FDJ-Suez on a two year contract. But with French GC hopefuls Juliette Labous and Evita Muzic already there, we explore whether FDJ’s co-leadership tactics are going to pay off.
Plus following the recent UCI Gravel World Championships won by Marianne Vos, this month’s mini feature is on the rapid rise of gravel racing. We hear from 2023 Gravel World Champion Kasia Niewiadoma and British gravel racer Danni Shrosbree about why more and more road racers are taking on the discipline.
In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is joined by Rob Hatch and Richard Abraham, as we kick off our series of 2024 season review episodes.
This year the boys’ task was simple: come up with a list of riders, teams, trends and concepts for whom 2024 was a memorable year, preferably without dwelling too much on the exploits of a certain Slovenian. The nominations were whimsical, surprising and in some cases provocative.
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In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is joined by François Thomazeau & Richard Abraham, as we deliver our verdict on the newly minted 2025 men’s & women’s Tour de France routes.
François is in Paris to catch up with old friends and familiarise himself with the new Tour parcours. We discuss whether it really is a Jean-Marie Leblanc tribute Tour, how delighted Tadej Pogačar should be this evening…& why François may soon have to learn to love La Plagne.
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In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is in Mallorca, at the home of ace commentator Rob Hatch, for a final check-in of the European road season - & a tired but already excited look ahead to 2025.
Daniel & Rob discuss the week’s news, a grand finale to the season at the Veneto Classic & the latest rumours regarding Tom Pidcock’s future. There’s also talk of anniversaries - particularly the one being celebrated this week by arguably cycling’s greatest ever talent nursery.
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In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is on Fran Reyes’s home turf - Granada in southern Spain - and that pair is joined by Richard Abraham for another week of analysis and reflection on, yes, yet another Tadej Pogačar masterpiece, this time at the Tour of Lombardy.
The build-up to the final Monument of the season had been enlivened or overshadowed - depending on your viewpoint - by Tom Pidcock’s shock exclusion from the INEOS line-up. We examine the likely consequences of that - and the possible reasons.
It’s then time for another attempt to contextualise arguably the finest cycling season of all time by a male rider, and certainly the most extraordinary since Eddy Merckx’s ‘cannibalistic’ reign.
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In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is joined by Larry Warbasse of Décathlon-AG2r La Mondiale and journalist Richard Abraham, as we review the action from a soggy Giro dell’Emilia last weekend in Bologna - home of the cured meat known there as ‘mortadella’ & in the USA as, ahem, baloney.
No surprise, it was the newly crowned world champion, Tadej Pogačar, who would bring home the, er, oversized bacon-like sausage - quite literally as a large lump of the stuff was among his prizes.
We discuss that, look forward to Saturday’s Il Lombardia & also hear from Taco van der Hoorn about his remarkable comeback victory at the Betcity Elfstedenrace last week.
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In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is joined by Larry Warbasse of Décathlon-AG2r La Mondiale and Team USA, plus Eurosport commentator Rob Hatch, as we look back at the men’s elite world championship road race that took place in Zürich last Sunday.
The build-up to the rainbow jersey showdown had been soured by the news of Swiss rider Muriel Furrer’s death after her crash in the junior women’s road race on Thursday. We start by paying tribute to Furrer and imagining what could be some of the learnings from the tragedy.
We then dissect Tadej Pogačar latest, superlative-defying performance on Sunday, examine some of those no-longer outlandish comparisons with Eddy Merckx and ponder what may be Pog’s next major goals.
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Join Rose Manley and Jo Rowsell as they discuss a thrilling Women’s Elite World Championships Road Race which took place over a punchy 154 kilometres, finishing in Zurich.
With an inter-team rivalry at SD Worx that has been building all year, the race was expected to be a showdown between defending World Champion Lotte Kopecky and all-conquering Demi Vollering. But also lining up were Tour de France Femmes champion Kasia Niewiadoma and Giro d’Italia champion Elisa Longo Borghini who come to the race with renewed confidence this year. Young stars like Puck Pieterse and Neve Bradbury also had the chance to prove themselves with a World Champion U23 title on the line in the same race. With the rainbow bands at stake, who will reign supreme?
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In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is joined by Richard Abraham & Eurosport commentator Rob Hatch, as we look back at the World TT champs last Sunday and ahead to the men’s elite road race at the weekend.
Remco Evenepoel’s victory sealed an historic Olympic-Worlds TT double…but the Belgian could yet achieve an even unlikelier feat if he adds Sunday’s road race title to the gold medal he earned in Paris in August. Tadej Pogačar nonetheless remains the favourite - and a first world title for him at the weekend would complete a remarkable sequence of his own: the same Giro-Tour-Worlds ‘Triple Crown’ that only Eddy Merckx and Stephen Roche have achieved before in men’s cycling.
The British team will hope that neither Pog nor Remco leaves Zürich with the (RR) rainbow jersey - and their head coach, Matt Brammeier, tells us what to expect on Sunday from the likes of Pidcock, the Yates brothers and Stephen Williams.
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The Cycling Podcast Féminin is back! Returning for the first time since the Tour de France Femmes, Rose Manley and Denny Gray are this month joined by double Olympic gold medallist Jo Rowsell.
We look back at the Tour de Romandie where Team SD Worx's Lotte Kopecky dramatically took the overall win at the expense of usual stage racing leader Demi Vollering, doing nothing to quell rumours of a shift at the team. We dig into some of the transfer speculation that has been rife among the women’s peloton and we look ahead to the World Championships at the end of September, picking out our top contenders for the relentlessly punchy parcours.
Our mini feature this month is on riders who grew up far from the traditional cycling heartlands. Kim Le Court of Mauritius, Antri Christoforou of Cyprus and Catalina Soto of Chile reveal their journeys to the professional ranks and what it is like to line up at most races as the sole representative for their nations.
Plus Jo faces the big question on everybody’s lips: is Belgium a cheese country?
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In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is joined by Richard Abraham & Swiss journalist Emil Bischofberger to look ahead to next week’s World Cycling & Para-cycling Championships in Emil’s home town, Zürich.
We discuss the city’s, ahem, generally lukewarm feelings about the Worlds & whether they may have changed in just over a week’s time. We also look at the courses & zero in on the home nation’s medal hopes, which rest mainly on the shoulders of Marc Hirschi.
Also - & perhaps most importantly - what’s Tina Turner got to do with it?
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Join Daniel Friebe and Rob Hatch as they take us on a journey from Lisbon, venue for this year’s ‘Gran Salida’, to the Vuelta’s traditional finish-line in Madrid.
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Join Daniel Friebe and Rob Hatch as they take us on a journey from Lisbon, venue for this year’s ‘Gran Salida’, to the Vuelta’s traditional finish-line in Madrid.
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Join Daniel Friebe and Richard Abraham as they take us on a journey from Lisbon, venue for this year’s ‘Gran Salida’, to the Vuelta’s traditional finish-line in Madrid.
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Join Daniel Friebe and Richard Abraham as they take us on a journey from Lisbon, venue for this year’s ‘Gran Salida’, to the Vuelta’s traditional finish-line in Madrid.
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Join Daniel Friebe and Richard Abraham as they take us on a journey from Lisbon, venue for this year’s ‘Gran Salida’, to the Vuelta’s traditional finish-line in Madrid.
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Join Daniel Friebe and Fran Reyes as they take us on a journey from Lisbon, venue for this year’s ‘Gran Salida’, to the Vuelta’s traditional finish-line in Madrid.
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Join Daniel Friebe and Fran Reyes as they take us on a journey from Lisbon, venue for this year’s ‘Gran Salida’, to the Vuelta’s traditional finish-line in Madrid.
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Join Daniel Friebe and Fran Reyes as they take us on a journey from Lisbon, venue for this year’s ‘Gran Salida’, to the Vuelta’s traditional finish-line in Madrid.
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Join Daniel Friebe and Fran Reyes as they take us on a journey from Lisbon, venue for this year’s ‘Gran Salida’, to the Vuelta’s traditional finish-line in Madrid.
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Join Daniel Friebe and Fran Reyes as they take us on a journey from Lisbon, venue for this year’s ‘Gran Salida’, to the Vuelta’s traditional finish-line in Madrid.
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Join Rose Manley and Denny Gray for a thrilling finale on the legendary Alpe d’Huez where this year’s Tour de France Femmes was decided by the smallest ever margin in Tour history.
Hear from some of the main protagonists in this year’s race: Kasia Niewiadoma, Demi Vollering and their teammates, as well as breakthrough riders like Pauliena Rooijakkers, Evita Muzic and Thalita de Jong.
And of course, find out which of the many cheeses we’ve tasted captured Denny’s heart (and stomach).
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Join Daniel Friebe and Fran Reyes as they take us on a journey from Lisbon, venue for this year’s ‘Gran Salida’, to the Vuelta’s traditional finish-line in Madrid.
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Join Daniel Friebe and Fran Reyes as they take us on a journey from Lisbon, venue for this year’s ‘Gran Salida’, to the Vuelta’s traditional finish-line in Madrid.
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Join Rose Manley and Denny Gray in Le Grand Bornand following the first - and penultimate - high mountain test at the Tour de France Femmes.
Coming into stage 7, the battle for the yellow jersey remained tight with a number of untested climbing talents among the top ten. Defending champion Demi Vollering also has time to make up on her closest rival Kasia Niewiadoma. So who reigned supreme with the final challenge of Alpe d’Huez just a day away?
Plus Denny and Rose take on a challenge of their own when faced with a large cheese platter and only 15 kilometres to left in the race.
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Join Rose Manley and Denny Gray at the Tour de France Femmes as they discuss a stage which saw several jerseys change hands. It was also a stage that brought up questions about the GC potential of several contenders ahead of the upcoming high mountain stages.
Plus we look ahead to the battle for the yellow jersey which comes to a head this weekend and of course, talk about that other important yellow thing, cheese.
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WARNING: EPISODE CONTAINS VERY LITTLE CYCLING CHAT!
Our Vuelta coverage started earlier this week with a pre-race KM0 very much inspired by this year’s Portuguese ‘Gran Salida’, plus our usual XL Preview episode - and the build-up continues with our now traditional wine-lover’s guide to the route.
As usual, Dvine Cellars have put together a case designed to take your taste buds where the peloton will ride over the next three weeks. On Thursday, before flying to Lisbon, Daniel also headed to Dvine's London HQ for some, ahem, vital last minute prep - and below you can hear his conversation with our and Dvine’s resident guru of the grapes (or maybe “Sultan of Smashability”??), Greg Andrews.
UK residents can order the Vuelta selection here -https://dvinecellars.com/products/the-cycling-podcast-la-vuelta-24 - while overseas listeners should glean enough from Daniel’s chat with Greg to assemble their own approximation. Please drink in moderation and ¡Salud! to all!
The wines:
Vale de Mata white 2022, Lisboa, Portugal
Amorro Tinto 2021, Bodega Vinificate-Mahara Viticultores, Cadiz, Andalucía Spain
Quinta Da Ladeira, Godello blend, Ribeiro, Galicia, Spain
Sernande So What Tinto, Adega Sernande, Ribeiro Galicia, Spain
Bodega Tandem, Inmácula 2021, Viognier Viura, Navarra, Spain
Bideona Las Parcelas 2020, Rioja Alavesa, La Rioja, Spain
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Join Rose Manley and Denny Gray as they unpick a drama filled Stage 5 at the Tour de France Femmes.
We find out what happened out on the road after the yellow jersey changed hands during a stage that had been originally classified as ‘flat’ and ponder on what this huge upset in the standings might mean for the final GC.
Plus we hear from the Swinkels sisters - Karlijn and Sylvie - who are racing together, or rather against each other at the Tour de France Femmes for the first time.
And even two closed fromageries can’t stop Denny on his quest to find more cheese at the race.
Join Rose Manley and Denny Gray as their European road-trip aka the Tour de France Femmes continues into Belgium.
In typical Belgian style stage 4 offered punchy hills, aggressive racing and pouring rain on a parcours that combined climbs from two Ardennes Classics - the Amstel Gold Race and Liege-Bastogne-Liege. With plenty of Classics specialists among the GC contenders the stage certainly offered much to talk about.
Plus, Denny’s adventures in fromage continued and so did the ongoing all-important debate over whether Belgium should be classed as a “cheese country”.
Join Rose Manley and Denny Gray at the conclusion of a rare double stage at the Tour de France Femmes which included a ferocious sprint and a vital individual time trial.
We speak to riders about how they dealt with the double stage - a feature which hasn’t occurred at the Tour de France since 1991. We also hear from the likes of Anna van der Breggen and Kasia Niewiadoma about the stage 3 time trial which might prove vital in the GC battle.
Plus of course, we continue Denny’s quest to find more delicious local cheese and discuss which riders are worthy of the ‘Big Cheese’ title.
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In this week’s special preview of the 2024 Vuelta a España, Daniel Friebe is joined by two of the guests who’ll also feature in our daily Vuelta podcasts over the next three weeks, Fran Reyes & Rob Hatch.
First, there’s a round-up of the major headlines since our last episode. It’s then time to slip into Vuelta mode, first as we discuss the riders, then the route on which they’ll do battle.
Three-time champion Primož Roglič has already won his race to get fit in time for the Gran Salida…& Daniel speaks to his DS, Rolf Aldag, about how he did it. We also discuss some of the other talking points, like Sepp Kuss’s chances of defending his 2023 crown & the UAE multi-headed monster.
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Join Rose Manley and Denny Gray on a sweltering stage 1 at the Tour de France Femmes as they bring you the first of their daily episodes from the race.
What looked like a straightforward sprint turned out to be anything but as the riders headed from Rotterdam to Den Haag. Emotions were as high as the temperatures as the riders battled it out for the first yellow jersey of 2024.
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The Cycling Podcast Féminin has everything you need to know about what has quickly become the biggest race in women’s cycling - the Tour de France Femmes. Rose Manley and Denny Gray take a close look at the eight stages that will take the riders from Rotterdam to the Alps across a week of racing.
Special attention is paid to the upcoming Queen stage in our mini feature on Alpe d’Huez. While the men’s peloton have visited the iconic climb 31 times at the Tour, the women last raced there over 30 years ago during the Tour Feminin. We investigate the origins of the Alpe’s legend and speak to some female racers who have competed there in the past.
Plus Rose and Denny weigh up who might be the biggest contenders for the fabled yellow jersey. While Demi Vollering has looked unbeatable across this year’s stage races, she lines up at the Tour with a somewhat depleted SD Worx team who are missing some of their strongest domestiques. Meanwhile Kasia Niewiadoma has enjoyed something of a resurgence this year, supported by a Canyon-SRAM squad which continues to discover new depths. Plus no-one can discount Giro d’Italia winner Elisa Longo Borghini, looking to make it a Giro-Tour double.
And while the racing is highly anticipated, so too are the cheese possibilities as Rose and Denny prepare to embark on their own Tour de France, where they will be doing daily podcasts on-the-ground, beginning on 12th August.
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In this Arrivée episode from The Cycling Podcast Féminin, Rose Manley and The British Continental’s Denny Gray take a closer look at the women’s Olympic road race.
With spectacular views, an iconic Eiffel Tower finish and a punchy parcours, the race promised to be one to remember. A number of hot favourites led the field. Lotte Kopecky, the Belgian superstar who has made no secret of her Olympic ambitions faced the likes of Team SD Worx teammates Demi Vollering and Lorena Wiebes - part of a Dutch team stacked with talent.
But this is the Olympics and riders would do well to remember Anna Kiesenhofer’s surprise win in Tokyo. The win really could come from anywhere.
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In this episode of Arrivée, Daniel Friebe and Décathlon-AG2R La Mondiale ace Larry Warbasse reflect on a memorable men’s Olympic road race in Paris.
A 272km race with just 90 starters promised to be a gruelling affair - and certainly a spectacular one with its three ascents of the Butte de Montmartre to one of Paris’s most famous landmarks, the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur. Could Mathieu van der Poel justify his favourite’s billing after a low-key Tour de France - or would his eternal rival, Wout Van Aert form a deadly duo with countryman and newly crowned Olympic TT champ Remco Evenepoel?
These and other questions were answered on Saturday afternoon - and Daniel and Larry review what we found out here.
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Join Graham Willgoss, Richard Abraham and Mitch Docker as they cover the Tour de France from Florence to Nice, providing daily episodes of the greatest race on earth.
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We’re dragging listeners back to Italy as The Cycling Podcast Féminin tackles the Giro d’Italia Women, which was won in spectacular fashion by Elisa Longo Borghini. Rose Manley is joined by Denny Gray and special guest ex-Olympian Joanna Rowsell to pull out all the biggest headlines from the race.
For our mini feature, we use the anticipated return of Anna van der Breggen to the women’s peloton as a springboard to find out what it takes to retire from racing and come back. Rose speaks to Ruth Edwards née Winder who retired in the same year as Van der Breggen only to return this season in flying form, already claiming a title in Thüringen and two podium finishes at the Giro.
Edwards’ breakthrough wasn’t the only story of the race as the second Grand Tour of the women’s calendar proved to be every bit as thrilling and hard-fought as it had promised. We witnessed the birth of a new rivalry between eventual winner Elisa Longo Borghini and all-round superstar Lotte Kopecky who trailed the Italian by only one second going into the final day. There was plenty of interest elsewhere as well with seven different teams sharing the stage victories at the race and the emergence of some new names to the roll of honour.
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The Tour de France is almost here. On Saturday the peloton will roll out of Florence kicking off the first grand départ on Italian soil in the Tour's history.
Graham Willgoss, Richard Abraham and Mitch Docker will be following the race to Nice, producing nightly episodes of The Cycling Podcast on the way.
Join our Tour de France trio for this XL Preview episode, in which they weigh up the likely rivals to Tadej Pogačar, the unmissable stages, Mark Cavendish's pursuit of a record-breaking 35th stage and everything else you need to know before the world's biggest race gets underway.
There's also details of DVine Cellars' Tour de France case of wines telling the story of the Tour from Greg Andrews. The 2024 Tour case is already on sale.
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In this month’s episode of Féminin, Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Orla Chennaoui cast their eyes over recent racing at the Tour de Suisse and come dangerously close to speculation as they ponder what it might mean for the year’s biggest races and beyond.
Demi Vollering’s winning run shows no signs of letting up after taking three stages and the overall win at the Tour de Suisse. But how much could her expected departure from SD Worx at the end of the season stifle her ambitions? And who are her likely rivals?
Plus, this month’s mini feature follows four riders and their changing fortunes at the Tour of Britain Women. We hand the microphone over to SD Worx super domestique Christine Majerus, DSM-firmenich road captain Pfeiffer Georgi, youngest rider in the race Eilidh Shaw and Lucy Harris, a full time meteorological data scientist competing at her first ever WWT race.
And lastly we look ahead to the forthcoming women’s Giro d’Italia which hasn’t been won by anyone other than Anna van der Breggen or Annemiek Van Vleuten since 2016. The route boasting time trials, sprints, hilly stages and a fearsome finish on Blockhaus, and with Demi Vollering not starting, we look at who might be capable of winning the maglia rosa. We discuss emerging talents Neve Bradbury and Kim Cadzow and Lidl-Trek’s joint leaders of Elisa Longo Borghini and Gaia Realini.
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The Tour de Suisse and the Tour of Slovenia were the final preparation races for the Tour de France. Now there’s a weekend of national championship events before the grand départ in Florence a week on Saturday.
So what did we learn? Join our Tour de France team of Graham Willgoss, Richard Abraham and Mitch Docker as they complete their final checks before next week’s XL Tour Preview episode.
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Our Tour de France team of Graham Willgoss, Richard Abraham and Mitch Docker look back at the Critérium du Dauphiné and ask what we’ve learned ahead of the Tour de France.
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With the Giro d’Italia now in the rear-view mirror Tadej Pogačar can afford to put his feet up (relatively-speaking) and watch how his likely rivals for the Tour de France fare in their final warm-up races.
Daniel Friebe is at the Critérium du Dauphiné having transformed into Television’s Daniel Friebe by entering the nearest telephone box before emerging with a slightly bigger microphone. He handed over the baton to Graham Willgoss, who will be part of our Tour de France team alongside Richard Abraham and Mitch Docker.
Graham, Richard and Mitch recap the opening couple of days of the Dauphiné and ask what to expect from the race in the French Alps over the rest of the week.
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The Giro d’Italia that ended last weekend was the ninth The Cycling Podcast has covered on the ground, in full, with daily episodes from every stage.
Over that near decade, it’s fair to say that our love of the ‘Corsa Rosa’ and its host nation has deepened and broadened with every edition.
Daniel Friebe was initially nonplussed with the route unveiled last autumn - thinking it lacked sporting uncertainty and both historical and topographical showpieces - but the journey from Turin to Rome ended up both reviving old loves, revealing new ones and providing a compelling canvas for the racing itself, for all that Tadej Pogačar robbed the General Classification contest of any suspense.
In this podcast, you’ll hear some of Daniel’s personal highlights from road trip he shared with Brian Nygaard - and to which you, as listeners were vicariously invited, down and up ‘The Bel Paese’, on and off-course, hopefully into the soul of the Giro d’Italia.
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Daniel Friebe & Brian Nygaard are following the Giro d’Italia from end to end, north to south, Turin to Rome, providing daily coverage - and today our dynamic duo report from the Stage 20 finish in Bassano Del Grappa.
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Daniel Friebe & Brian Nygaard are following the Giro d’Italia from end to end, north to south, Turin to Rome, providing daily coverage - and today our dynamic duo report from the Stage 19 finish in Sappada.
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In the May episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin, Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Rebecca Charlton look back over the recent Spanish stage racing from the comfort of their own cabaña.
Questions may have hung over Demi Vollering’s form after a consistent if lacklustre run in the Spring Classics, but the SD Worx rider answered in no uncertain manner with three dominant performances across the Vuelta Femenina, Itzulia Women and Vuelta a Burgos. Some unexpected rivals emerged though, most notably Evita Muzic who is priming herself to be France’s great hope at this year’s Tour de France Femmes. The team also discuss a huge comeback win for Lotta Henttala at the Vuelta a Burgos, her first victory in over five years after struggles with both her physical and mental health.
This month’s feature visits the topic of latecomers to the sport. These are riders who make the jump from regular jobs to elite racing careers in their late 20s and 30s. We hear from Jayco-Alula’s Mavi Garcia, Movistar’s Mareille Meijering and Coop-Repsol’s Monica Greenwood about their journeys into cycling and the peculiar life lessons they’ve learned along the way.
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Daniel Friebe & Brian Nygaard are following the Giro d’Italia from end to end, north to south, Turin to Rome, providing daily coverage - and today our dynamic duo report from Stage 15 and Livigno.
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For the past 10 months, Lizzy Banks has been fighting to clear her name after an anti-doping test taken in May 2023 returned an adverse analytical finding for two substances.
She was informed of the test result 79 days later. The two substances were formoterol, a medication she'd been using within the permitted level to treat asthma. The second, chlortalidone, was a diuretic she had never heard of. Unless she could prove contamination the twice Giro stage winner faced a two-year suspension.
Her investigation cost her career, her life savings and took a huge emotional toll on her and her family. When she could no longer afford full legal support, she investigated the case herself. Her medical training helped and the case she compiled led the UK Anti-Doping Agency (UKAD) to drop a scheduled tribunal and return a verdict of no fault, no negligence and no suspension.
Nevertheless, the rules state she has four anti-doping rule violations against her name, her career as a pro cyclist is over, and her reputation is harmed.
Lizzy has worked for The Cycling Podcast and so in the interests of transparency we asked Tom Cary, senior sports correspondent of The Telegraph, to conduct this independent interview. The episode is introduced by Rose Manley.
A warning, this podcast does contain references to suicide and suicidal thoughts.
A few abbreviations will come up, so just to give some clarity:
• WADA is the World Anti-Doping Agency
• UKAD is the UK Anti-Doping Agency, which is responsible for making sure that British athletes comply with the WADA code
• CAS is the Court of Arbitration for Sport, an independent institution involved in resolving legal disputes in the field of sport
• AAF is an Adverse Analytical Finding - commonly known as a positive doping test
• MRL stands for Minimum Reporting Limit. The concentration below which a substance will not trigger a positive test
• ADRV stands for Anti-Doping Rules Violation
Reference is also made to the cases of Shari Bossuyt and Toon Aerts. Both riders were given two year suspensions for testing positive for letrozole, which both claim is the result of food contamination.
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Daniel Friebe & Brian Nygaard are following the Giro d’Italia from end to end, north to south, Turin to Rome, providing daily coverage - and today our dynamic duo report from Stage 14 and Desanzano del Garda.
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We’re looking at the first ‘Grand Tour’ of the season in this Arrivée episode from The Cycling Podcast Féminin. Rose Manley and Denny Gray of The British Continental pick out the big stories from a week of varied and exhilarating racing.
SD Worx came to the race looking for redemption after being narrowly denied the Vuelta title in last year’s controversial edition, but their leader Demi Vollering had a lot to prove after a disappointing Spring campaign. Her closest rivals - Kasia Niewiadoma and Elisa Longo Borghini - had both already taken landmark wins this year and were on confident form.
There’s also plenty to discuss away from the GC race, in a course that offered up high mountains, a team time trial, breakaway success and chaos causing crosswinds.
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We’re looking at the first ‘Grand Tour’ of the season in this Arrivée episode from The Cycling Podcast Féminin. Rose Manley and Denny Gray of The British Continental pick out the big stories from a week of varied and exhilarating racing.
SD Worx came to the race looking for redemption after being narrowly denied the Vuelta title in last year’s controversial edition, but their leader Demi Vollering had a lot to prove after a disappointing Spring campaign. Her closest rivals - Kasia Niewiadoma and Elisa Longo Borghini - had both already taken landmark wins this year and were on confident form.
There’s also plenty to discuss away from the GC race, in a course that offered up high mountains, a team time trial, breakaway success and chaos causing crosswinds.
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Daniel Friebe & Brian Nygaard are following the Giro d’Italia from end to end, north to south, Turin to Rome, providing daily coverage - and today our dynamic duo report from stage 1 & Turin.
Our Girovagando podcasts feature race analysis, interviews and regular features such as Larranzando, our almost daily postcards from Italy with Décathlon-AG2r La Mondiale’s Larry Warbasse.
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Daniel Friebe & Brian Nygaard are following the Giro d’Italia from end to end, north to south, Turin to Rome, providing daily coverage - and today our dynamic duo report from stage 1 & Turin.
Our Girovagando podcasts feature race analysis, interviews and regular features such as Larranzando, our almost daily postcards from Italy with Décathlon-AG2r La Mondiale’s Larry Warbasse.
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As per tradition, in association with our friends at Dvine Cellars in London, we’re presenting a selection of six wines showcasing the same terroir that the Giro d’Italia will visit in May. And, as we’ve done in other years, we’ve asked Greg Andrews of Dvine to talk us through the selection on the eve of the race.
If you’re not into wine, this is NOT the podcast for you! If, however, you do want to hear what Greg and Daniel have to say, stay tuned and head to https://dvinecellars.com/products/the-cycling-podcast-giro-ditalia to make an order.
The wines in the case are listed below with links to the (all very informative) producers’ websites. Unfortunately, Dvine’s cases are still only available to UK listeners but in many instances you will be able to find similar wines, from the same regions, wherever you are. Please also enjoy in moderation!
The wines (in Giro route order):
STAGE 3: Summer Wolff, GioGio Freisa, Monferrato, Piedmonte (https://www.summerwolffwines.com/)
STAGE 6: Cosimo Maria Massini, Annick, Sauvignon Blanc/Vermentino, Tuscany (https://www.cosimomariamasini.com/en/)
STAGE 11: Caiaffa, Negroamaro, Puglia (https://www.caiaffavini.it/en/)
STAGE 11: Di Majo Norante, Sangiovese, Campomarino, Molise (https://www.dimajonorante.com/en)
STAGE 16: Cantina Adriano, Müller-Thurgau, Trentino Alto-Adige (https://www.kellerei-andrian.com/)
STAGE 18: Serafini & Vidotto, Bollicine Rosé NV, Veneto (https://www.serafinividotto.it/)
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The Giro d’Italia starts here! We begin Girovagando 2024 - our comprehensive coverage of the first Grand Tour of the 2024 season - with our now time-honoured XL preview, ahead of Saturday’s Grande Partenza in Turin.
Daniel Friebe is joined by Brian Nygaard and Rob Hatch for a thorough examination of riders, race route and the big questions ahead of an edition that Tadej Pogačar is widely expected to win. The episode features exclusive interviews with two men who have seen first-hand just how thoroughly Pogačar has prepared for his first appearance in ‘La Corsa Rosa’ - Team UAE Emirates’ Performance Coordinator Jeroen Swart and climbing lieutenant Rafał Majka.
We also discuss cultural highlights on the route, what to look forward to from our podcasts in the next month - and one terrifying threat that will loom over the whole race when we get to Naples.
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In this special episode of The Cycling Podcast - before our Girovagando coverage cranks up next week - we both revisit and preview six new KM0 episodes either released earlier in April or still to come before the Grande Partenza in Turin on May 4.
As ever, we’ll be serving up daily podcasts from on the ground in Italy, where the mood music in the run-up to the race has been dominated by Tadej Pogačar and his Giro-Tour bid. No surprise, then, that we’ll dedicate three KM0 episodes to ‘doubles’ of varying kinds - specifically, the last successful Giro-Tour slam by Marco Pantani, the football team that achieved Italy’s first Scudetto-Coppa Italia double and to whom the Grande Partenza is dedicated…and Pogačar’s own bid.
There are also extracts from our own ‘double-header’ - How to Become a Pro Cyclist and How to Become an Ex-Pro Cyclist featuring Jack Burke and Joe Dombrowski respectively. And, speaking of new roles, we also meet INEOS Grenadiers freshly appointed CEO, John Allert.
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In this final Arrivée episode from the Ardennes Classics, Rose Manley and Rebecca Charlton take a close look at this year’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes which was full of twists and turns both literally and figuratively.
The scene was set for something of a final grudge match between some of the biggest winners and unexpected losers of the Ardennes week. Team SD-Worx came in hoping to rebuild something of their ‘invincible’ status having not taken a win in the Ardennes. But with Elisa Longo-Borghini in flying form and Kasia Niewiadoma on a high after her Flèche Wallonne victory, last year’s triple crown winners could expect challenges from all sides. And after a week full of surprises, Liège-Bastogne-Liège promised more of the same.
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In this episode of Arrivée, Daniel Friebe and Richard Abraham reflect on a 2024 edition of Liège-Bastogne-Liège that had been billed as a clash of the Titans between the two outstanding riders of the season so far, world champion Mathieu van der Poel and 2021 Liège winner Tadej Pogačar.
With the Amstel Gold and Flèche Wallonne winners, Tom Pidcock and Stephen Williams, also on the starting grid, Pogačar and Van der Poel perhaps weren’t going to have it all their own way. Find out who ultimately prevailed and how they did it in this final Arrivée episode of the men’s Classics season.
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Rose Manley and Denny Gray of The British Continental offer up their ‘hot-takes’ on an ever explosive edition of Flèche Wallonne Feminine.
With SD Worx still smarting from a mis-step from Lorena Wiebes at the Amstel Gold Race, the team was looking for revenge at the second Ardennes race of the week, particularly with defending champion Demi Vollering in their ranks. But they’ll face a huge challenge from Lidl-Trek, buoyed by Elisa Longo Borghini’s win at Brabantse Pijl. And time is running out for Orla Chennaoui’s predicted Kasia Niewiadoma win in the Ardennes, so might it come true this time?
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In this episode of Arrivée, Daniel Friebe and Richard Abraham review a brutal edition of Flèche Wallonne, ridden in the rain and plummeting temperatures.
After his victory in Amstel Gold at the weekend, could the pre-race favourite Tom Pidcock live up to that billing and complete an historic double? Or would someone else - perhaps one of the many previous winners in the field, like Dylan Teuns or Marc Hirschi - conquer the Mur de Huy? buycycle
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In this week’s regular episode of the The Cycling Podcast, Richard Abraham and Rob Hatch join Daniel Friebe to look back on Sunday’s Amstel Gold Race - before Décathlon-AG2R Mondiale stalwart Larry Warbasse reports from his pre-Giro d’Italia altitude camp on Mount Etna.
After a challenging start to the season for INEOS Grenadiers, Tom Pidcock’s victory in Amstel on Sunday was balm for the British team’s morale and confidence. We ask whether it could also be a watershed moment in the Yorkshireman’s career - particularly with this year’s Tour de France in mind.
Larry’s eyes and focus are set firmly on the Giro - and, in the last part of the podcast, the “Motown Maestro” reveals how he and team leader Ben O’ Connor have built towards ‘La Corsa Rosa’.
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The Cycling Podcast Féminin team are looking back over a thrilling cobbled Classics season. Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Orla Chennaoui pick out their favourite moments, hero riders and big surprises from the cobbled races this year.
Catching the team’s attention are emotional moments for Pfeiffer Georgi and Kasia Niewiadoma, breakthrough moments for Puck Pieterse and Letizia Paternoster and heroic antics from Shirin van Anrooij and Lotte Kopecky. With so many exhilarating moments to choose from, will Rose, Denny and Orla agree on anything?
Our mini feature this month is on the women’s Ronde Van Vlaanderen which celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. With the help of journalists and riders who were there, we explore some of the stories and moments that came out of the early editions of the race. Oenone Wood, Loes Gunnewijk, Giorgia Bronzini and Marion Clignet all share their recollections of races that have been overlooked in recent history.
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In this week’s regular episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe visits top Eurosport commentator Rob Hatch at home - or is it vice versa - and they’re joined by the now-retired cobbles maestro Mitch Docker for a considered look back at the events of the last week.
After the usual round-up of the big stories, it’s back to last weekend and Paris-Roubaix. After the unique insight into British national champion Fred Wright’s preparation for the “Hell of the North” featured in our Arrivée episode on Sunday, there’s more of the same today. We also hear from two riders who made memories while missing the time-cut, before reflecting on Mathieu van der Poel’s latest masterclass.
The headlines away from Roubaix were dominated, regrettably, by a horrendous crash at the Tour of the Basque Country. We wade into the safety debate while pondering what last week could mean for the Tour de France.
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In our latest Arrivée episode of the Classics season, Daniel Friebe & Richard Abraham give their verdict on the 121st edition of Paris-Roubaix or the “Hell of the North”.
Fresh off his third victory in the Tour of Flanders last week, Mathieu van der Poel was the hot favourite to also land his second Roubaix title. Richard Abraham was in France to see whether MvdP could add a sixth Monument to his palmarès - or whether a cast of challengers headed by Mads Pedersen was able to thwart him.
The episode also features a unique insight into Bahrain Victorious leader Fred Wright’s recon of the Roubaix cobbles last week.
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In this latest Arrivée episode from The Cycling Podcast Féminin, Rose Manley and Rebecca Charlton take a closer look at one of the most anticipated races on the calendar, Paris-Roubaix Femmes.
After three explosive editions since the inaugural women’s race in 2021, expectations were high for the 2024 race. The odds were in Lidl-Trek’s favour having taken the win twice before. However, Team SD Worx were looking for revenge after being kept off the podium at last week’s Tour of Flanders with World Champion Lotte Kopecky hoping to continue her string of impressive results. Paris-Roubaix is Paris-Roubaix though and anything can happen on those unforgiving 148.5 kilometres and 17 cobbled sectors. Will a new Queen of the Cobbles be crowned?
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In this week’s regular episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is again joined by journalist Richard Abraham and former Classics maestro Mitch Docker, as we revisit the men’s Tour of Flanders on Sunday and review some of the more salient and controversial talking points from ‘Vlaanderens Mooiste’.
Mathieu van der Poel’s third Flanders victory was his most emphatic to date, but his triumphant solo move on the Koppenberg - while others floundered in his wake - also raised questions about whether that iconic climb should be removed from the Ronde course. We discuss this, Michael Matthews’ relegation in the sprint for the minor places, plus the accomplished performances of Movistar and runner-up Luca Mozzato.
In the last part of the episode, thoughts then turn to Paris-Roubaix next weekend and the Tour of the Basque Country - where the ‘home team’ is lining up with a surprising import.
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For our first Féminin Arrivée of the season, Rose Manley and Denny Gray pore over an explosive edition of the Tour of Flanders.
Team SD Worx start the race with World Champion and home favourite Lotte Kopecky looking to make it a hat-trick of Ronde Van Vlaanderen victories. But can Lidl-Trek, a team growing in confidence and tactical nous, finally reap their rewards? And what of the GOAT Marianne Vos, can she add a title here to her wins from Dwars door Vlaanderen and Omloop Het Nieuwsblad already this season?
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In our second Arrivée episode of the Classics season, Daniel Friebe & Richard Abraham deliver their verdict on the 108th edition of the Tour of Flanders or Ronde van Vlaanderen.
With Wout van Aert’s spring campaign ruined by a crash in Dwars door Vlaanderen on Wednesday, the Belgian’s long-time bête noire, Mathieu van der Poel, started the race as the hot favourite. Find out whether MvdP could become the first reigning world champion since Peter Sagan in 2016 to ride to Flanders glory in the rainbow jersey - or who among the cast of challengers, led by Mads Pedersen & Matteo Jorgenson, managed to thwart him.
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In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is joined by former Classics stalwart Mitch Docker and the journalist Richard Abraham, as we look back at last weekend’s pre-Ronde van Vlaanderen appetisers, the E3 Saxo Classic and Gent-Wevelgem.
Friday saw the latest masterclass from Mathieu van der Poel in E3, which underlined his status as the outstanding favourite for De Ronde. Forty-eight hours later, though, Mads Pedersen’s victory over Van der Poel in Gent-Wevelgem led some to wonder whether Lidl-Trek had happened upon the perfect blueprint for defeating the Dutchman - not that the strategy will be easy to implement on Sunday.
In the final part of the podcast, we hear from a rider for whom just being on the startline on Sunday will represent a personal triumph - the Dane Michael Valgren, whose career was almost ended by a horror crash in the 2022 Route Occitanie.
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Our mini-feature this month focuses on the final riders to complete Paris-Roubaix. Riders who have had to overcome difficult circumstances to reach the end of one of the most formidable races in cycling, even when they finished way outside of the time limit. We speak to Ilaria Sanguineti, Eluned King and Senne Knaven about what motivated them to push past crashes, injuries and calamitous conditions to reach the famed velodrome and what it is like to ride the famous cobbles once the race is already long gone.
We also have plenty of race analysis from the first few Classics of the season. Rose Manley is joined by Denny Gray and Rebecca Charlton to pick apart what could be a changing of the guard at the top of the women’s peloton.
Elisa Balsamo outsprinted rider-of-the-moment Lotte Kopecky to take the spoils at Trofeo Binda after a huge effort from her team. With Lidl-Trek finally taking the top spot after improving results and rising confidence, we ask: what gave Lidl-Trek the winning edge and could it finally end SD Worx’s winning dominance?
We also discuss Ellen Van Dijk’s victorious return from maternity leave, pick out rising stars Mareille Meijering and Puck Pieterse, and make a rare detour on to the track to reflect on Laura Kenny’s golden career following her retirement.
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This week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast comes from the latest stop on Daniel Friebe’s springtime Mediterranean tour, Mallorca, and precisely the home of Eurosport commentator Rob Hatch. That pair are joined by journalist Richard Abraham, as we revisit some of the most compelling storylines from Milan-Sanremo at the weekend.
Jasper Philipsen’s victory on Via Roma meant heartache for Tadej Pogačar and his UAE Team Emirates team - and prompted questions about their strategy. Will Pog now have to rethink his not-yet-winning formula in La Classicissima, particularly in light of his newly declared ambition to become the greatest rider in history?
Speaking of history, in a special investigation, Daniel sets off in search of a piece of Sanremo’s. And, speaking of the future, Mathieu van der Poel has just committed the next decade to one company, as Rob reports.
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We’re on the Ligurian Riviera for the first Monument of the season - almost live from the finish-line on Via Roma.
Join Daniel Friebe & Brian Nygaard to hear how the race was won & what some of the key protagonists said. There’s also a cameo from perhaps our most cherished friend - Ciro Scogamiglio of La Gazzetta dello Sport.
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This week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast is a special dispatch from the Côte d’Azur, partly recorded at the home of our own Captain America - better known to us as Décathlton-AG2r La Mondiale’s ‘Motown Maestro’ Larry Warbasse - and featuring an exclusive interview with Visma-Lease a Bike’s newly crowned Paris-Nice champion, Matteo Jorgenson, on the morning after his triumph on the Promenade des Anglais.
Larry and Daniel Friebe kick off with a recap of some of the week’s big stories, including Paris-Nice. Jorgenson’s victory was the most important in his flourishing career to date - and, over coffee in Nice’s Vieux Port, the Californian by birth, Idahoer by upbringing and Niçois by adoption tells Daniel how he overcame pre-race favourite Remco Evenepoel and childhood friend Brandon McNulty. After that, also in Nice, we hear journalist François Thomazeau’s reflections on what was due to be his final Race to the Sun.
In the last part, it’s back to Larry’s secluded hideaway in Èze to hear about his week in Italy at Tirreno-Adriatico. Larry will also be in action at Milano-Sanremo at the weekend - and he reveals some of the secrets of La Classicissima here, while also pondering what Tadej Pogačar has to do to win.
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In this week's episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe and journalist Richard Abraham are back in the bike race bubble at Paris-Nice, where two of the Big Four contenders for this year's Tour de France start to piece together their preparations for July.
Remco Evenepoel comes fresh from victory at the Volta ao Algarve but is taking on a stage race on French soil for the first time in his career. Meanwhile Primož Roglič looks to open his account for his new team, BORA-hansgrohe, at a race he won in 2022. We discuss the expectations of both riders and hear from experienced Australian Jack Haig on what makes Paris-Nice a race of singular difficulty.
Of course we also tackle the weekend's big talking point, namely the exploits of another one of the Big Four, or should that be the Super Six: Tadej Pogačar at Strade Bianche. Daniel and Richard hear from Pog's former teammate Matteo Trentin and digest an 81km solo victory that will undoubtedly go down as one of one of his greatest hits.
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We’re looking at motherhood in our February episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin. With Ellen Van Dijk’s much-anticipated return from maternity leave on the horizon, we explore the growing trend of racers returning to the peloton post-baby.
Rose Manley speaks to Lizzie Deignan, one of the first women to be supported by her team to a return to racing and her agent Emma Wade, as well as new mum and Uno-X rider Joss Lowden, former Trek-Segafredo rider Abi Van Twisk and former British champion Meg Backstedt (née Hughes).
Rose is also joined by Orla Chennaoui and Denny Gray to look at the recent racing, most notably a rare debut win for the GOAT Marianne Vos at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. Discussion descends into bickering as the team try to decide how well Lidl-Trek played their tactics at the race after finishing third and fourth. We also ponder Lotte Kopecky’s recent transformation after showing off her climbing legs on the UAE Tour’s Jebel Hafeet and wonder how that might affect a seemingly tense relationship with teammate Demi Vollering.
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In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is joined by the veteran French journalist François Thomazeau and the Aussie former Classics maestro Mitch Docker to recap Opening Weekend - the Belgian double-header dominated, as per the predictions, by the Visma-Lease a Bike team.
Wout Van Aert was the favourite for Saturday’s Omloop het Nieuwsblad and indeed looked to be zeroing in on victory until the peloton him down in the closing kilometres. It was left to Jan Tratnik to ‘save’ Visma-Lease a Bike and take the win…with Van Aert having to wait until the following day’s Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne to open his Classics account for 2024.
We discuss these and other notable performances from the two races, and also hear from Bahrain Victorious’s Fred Wright about what went…wrong for him at Omloop. Julian Alaphilippe, too, has had better weekends, and would have been hoping for a better response to his boss, Patrick Lefevere’s, recent criticism in the Belgian media. Nevertheless, we ask: what exactly was Lefevere playing at?
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In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is joined by the journalist Richard Abraham & top commentator Rob Hatch, as we look forward to a very eagerly anticipated Opening Weekend in Belgium.
Before thoughts turn to Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne,, we review some racing highlights from the last weekend, most notably from the Algarve in Portugal, where Remco Evenepoel passed the 50-victory mark in his still very young career. We then shift our attention to the Var in France, where our ‘own’ Larry Warbasse performed with some distinction on a fine weekend for his Décathlon-AG2r La Mondiale team..
In the final part of the episode, we focus on two upcoming races where Visma-Lease a Bike will be expected to pick up where they left off in 2023, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and O Gran Camiño in Galicia, Spain - start ramp for Jonas Vingegaard’s 2024 campaign. We hear from one rider who’ll be hoping to thwart the “killer bees” in Belgium, Fred Wright of Bahrain Victorious, before telling you why tall trees may fall hard in the not-too-distant future in Galicia - even if that doesn’t apply to Vingegaard this weekend.
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In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is joined by the journalist Richard Abraham & Décathlon-AG2r La Mondiale stalwart Larry Warbasse - a still slightly soggy Larry Warbasse after his season’s début at a very wet Tour de la Provence.
We discuss how Mads Pedersen whipped up a storm that blew the rest of the field away in the south of France - & ask whether the weather conditions themselves were even fit for racing. The Belgian whirlwind, Remco Evenepoel, also began his season at the weekend in Portugal, & did so with a trademark long range win. We hear from him, while turning our thoughts to the Tour de France; that race will also define everything Mark Cavendish does between now and July, and the Astana sprinter’s coach, Vasilis Anastopoulos, gives us a full debrief on a successful start to the year in Colombia.
Finally, we look ahead to one of the less ballyhooed races taking place in the coming days - The Tour of Rwanda - & hear from one rider for whom it will literally mean the end of the road.
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In this week’s regular episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is joined by top commentator Rob Hatch and the Danish former comms chief turned team manager turned journalist, Brian Nygaard.
We take a look back at a busy week of racing - including the cyclocross World Championships - and some of the biggest stories of the last week, including heartening news about the Tour of Britain. It’s then time to focus on some of the big talking points and performances at the AlUla Tour, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana and Étoile de Bessèges - including an excellent week for Brian’s countryman, the Lidl-Trek star Mads Pedersen.
In the final part of the podcast, we discuss the upcoming 20th anniversary of Marco Pantani’s death and - with the help of a couple of Italian friends - arrive at the conclusion that ‘il Pirata’s’ life and legacy still deserve to be revisited.
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In this week’s regular episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is joined by two of cycling’s most recognisable and beloved commentators - Renaat Schotte and Rob Hatch - to discuss to the start of the European road season and look ahead to the cyclocross Worlds in Tábor, Czechia.
The reigning ‘cross world champions, Mathieu van der Poel and Fem Van Empel, are both favourites to retain their titles at the weekend. Renaat tells us why a Van der Poel victory, in particular, looks a safe bet…but possibly not a foregone conclusion.
In the last part of the podcast, we switch our attention to the tarmac and examine some of the themes of the road season so far. After last week’s laurels for the 20-year-old Mexican wunderkind Isaac Del Toro, we’re treated to an even closer look at his journey to the top by some of the men and women who first brought him to Europe with the A.R. Monex team.
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We’re looking at life a little upside down in the first Cycling Podcast Feminin of the year. Special guest cycling journalist Rebecca Charlton joins Rose Manley and Denny Gray to look over the first Women’s World Tour race of the year – the Tour Down Under in Australia.
We analyse the veracity of overall winner Sarah Gigante’s claims that she was “washed up” at the age of 23 and all get into a hotly-fought argument over Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig’s prospects for the year.
We’re also introducing the first in our year-long series of mini features. In this month’s episode we look into the current crop of talented New Zealand racers and ask what’s behind the sudden rise in Kiwi riders. Rose speaks to World Tour talents Niamh Fisher-Black and Mikayla Harvey plus former TIBCO rider Jo Kiesanowski and Patrick Harvey, manager of the development team Black Magic Women.
The team also round-up the latest news on the future of the Women’s Tour following the liquidation of organisers Sweetspot.
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In this week’s regular episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is joined by former peloton stalwart Mitch Docker and former pressroom stalwart François Thomazeau to review the first WorldTour race of the 2024 season, the Santos Tour Down Under.
We discuss how Stevie Williams’ thrilling overall victory represents a return from the brink for the Welsh rider - and one tinged with controversy. The other two breakout stars of the race were BORA-Hansgrohe sprinter Sam Welsford and UAE Team Emirates’ 20-year-old Mexican prodigy Isaac del Toro. We investigate Del Toro’s roots - and look at phenoms of yesteryear who did or didn’t deliver on their early promise.
There’s also the usual round-up of the week’s news and a look at what INEOS Grenadiers are plotting - and trying to change - in 2024.
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When, midway through last year’s Tour de France, Caleb Ewan ‘celebrated’ his 29th birthday, in fact far from rejoicing, the Aussie sprinter was enduring some of the most difficult days of his career - out of form and out of favour with his Lotto-Dstny team, so much so that his boss, Stéphane Heulot, would respond to Ewan quitting La Grande Boucle by questioning his professionalism.
Ewan’s relationship with Lotto looked irredeemably broken - and indeed, three months later, Jayco-Alula announced that they and Ewan were to reunite in 2024. Another three months have now passed since that news broke - and Ewan is finally ready to set the record straight, as he did in this in-depth interview with The Cycling Podcast on the eve of The Tour Down Under: on why he and Heulot never hit it off; on whether, as reports suggested last summer, he even contemplated retirement; and, most importantly, on his new beginning with the team where for him it all started.
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This week’s regular episode of The Cycling Podcast is our annual Speculation episode, in which we ponder & prognosticate what will be the major stories of the coming season.
Daniel Friebe is joined by Décathlon-AG2r La Mondiale star Larry Warbasse & ace commentator Rob Hatch - & together they’ll scrutinise the 2024 predictions of assorted friends, colleagues & riders. Can Visma-Lease a Bike repeat their 2023 heroics? Will Mark Cavendish take his 35th Tour de France stage win? And will the year end with Patrick Lefevere & Mikel Landa BASE jumping in Venezuela? We discuss all of the above & more…
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In this special episode of The Cycling Podcast, as a festive treat, we serve up a Christmas selection box of highlights from the 2023 men's Grand Tours.
Proceeding in chronological order, we journey back in time first to May and the Giro d'Italia, where Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard saw lots of rain, a race that took its time to catch light, then a finale for the ages.
Next, Lionel Birnie took over at the steering wheel for the Tour de France - variously assisted and accompanied by François Thomazeau, Mitch Docker, Lizzy Banks, Ian Boswell and Richard Abraham.
Finally, it was on to Spain and the Vuelta - where Daniel and an assortment of familiar guests saw Jumbo-Visma continue their quest to make history by winning all three Grand Tours in a single season.
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In this special, end-of-year episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is joined by a star-studded ensemble of regular guests to relive and debate some of the highlights of the 2023 road season.
Mitch Docker, François Thomazeau, Larry Warbasse, Richard Abraham (fortunate to avoid inclusion in the episode artwork!), Ian Boswell, Rob Hatch and a certain Italian newshound all drop in to share in the festive fun - and give their nominations for the Ride of 2023, Person of 2023, Beef of 2023 and other accolades.
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Yes, it’s the most wonderful time of year… Christmas quiz time! Reigning champ (or so she claims) Orla Chennaoui pits herself against quiz debutant Denny Gray in Rose Manley’s fiendish Yuletide puzzler.
Let your brain be bamboozled by humdingers like, how many corners were there in the World Champs course? Did Demi Vollering really explain her teammate’s toilet habits in a post-race interview? And most crucially, which rider is “Orange Bumcrease”?
As is only appropriate at Christmas time, prepare for a whole load of sledging on all sides.
Before all that, Rose, Orla and Denny reveal their racing highlights of the year and in a Cycling Podcast first, Denny closes the show with his performance of “12 Days of SD Worx-mas”.
Merry Christmas to all our listeners!
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In this week’s regular episode of The Cycling Podcast, we visit Bora-Hansgrohe at their December billet in Mallorca for an in-depth interview with the team’s Head of Sports Rolf Aldag.
It turned out to be a timely conversation, coming as it did hot on the heels of news that Cian Uijtdebroeks had walked out on Bora-Hansgrohe to sign for Jumbo-Visma - his agent claimed after his Bora deal had been terminated, the team said a year before it was due to expire.
Here, Aldag talks to us about Uijtdebroeks’ shock exit and what it could mean for Bora, the rider and the sport. We also, of course, discuss the star signing who has recently moved the other way, from Jumbo to Bora, Primož Roglič. There’s much more besides – on Rolf’s own career, the winning formula he helped to create at HTC High Road, Jan Ullrich’s belated doping confession and Mark Cavendish’s hopes of another Tour de France stage win.
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In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, long-time Grand Tour diarist Pavel Sivakov joins us to reflect on his 2023 season and look ahead to his imminent move to the world’s number one-ranked team, UAE Team Emirates.
The winner of the Giro della Toscana in September and a top-10 finisher in six stage races, Sivakov enjoyed his best season ever in 2023 - and yet recognises that, in some pundits’ eyes, his Grand Tour results are still used as the single measure of his career trajectory. He and Daniel Friebe discuss why that is while also looking back at his time at INEOS, examining that team’s quest to build a new identity, dissecting his own issues with self-doubt - and casting thoughts ahead to the next phase of his career.
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In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is joined by ace Eurosport commentator Rob Hatch to discuss the latest headlines from the world of professional cycling and some of the burning issues of the week.
In Germany, the hot topic of the last few days has been the release of the new, multi-part Jan Ullrich documentary ‘Der Gejagte’. Daniel reports back on what we as viewers learn and also reflects on how the film in some ways acts as the perfect afterword to his Ullrich biography.
In the final part of the episode, there’s time for a bit more self-examination - in this case from Rob on the ever-evolving craft of the commentator.
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In this week’s regular episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe is joined by Brian Nygaard and Ian Boswell - both of them formerly of Team Sky as a press chief and rider respectively - as we chew over the shock news that Deputy Team Principal Rod Ellingworth is to leave the British outfit.
We analyse Ellingworth’s legacy and ask where the team goes next, having lost one of their founding fathers. Are they on the brink of a bright new era or contemplating a crisis of identity?
There’s also discussion of the news last week that GCN+ and the GCN App are to close – in addition to the usual round-up of the latest headlines.
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It’s an Annemiek Van Vleuten special on The Cycling Podcast Feminin. Rose Manley and Denny Gray reflect back on the racing career of one of the most successful and influential riders in the sport following her retirement in September.
Rose sits down with Van Vleuten herself to talk about the things that shaped her as a rider and how she’s finding post-retirement life. And Van Vleuten reveals what’s next for her both personally and professionally.
We also look back at the ways in which Van Vleuten shaped the cycling world: from her winning-against-the-odds mentality to her extreme training regime. To help us decipher this part of her legacy, Denny speaks to her Movistar teammate Katrine Aalerud who continues to be directly inspired by Van Vleuten's approach to racing. Aalerud also offers up her insight on what it is like riding in service of one of the greatest cyclists of this generation and what Van Vleuten is like off-the-bike too.
Plus, we dig back into the archives to hear Richard Moore's interview with Van Vleuten's coach from May 2020. Richard talks to Louis Delahaije about how his unique approach to training unlocked Van Vleuten's continual success. The nature of her training now being one of the most important parts of her ongoing legacy.
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In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, we take you inside one of the more dramatic and harrowing stories of the 2023 season - a crash that abruptly ended one rider’s realistic chance of winning the Giro d’Italia, his season and also his seven-year career with the team that, as a teenager, he had dreamed of one day joining.
That rider is Tao Geoghegan Hart - and he is also our guest and Daniel Friebe’s conversation partner this week. We hear about the initial trauma of the accident, the ordeal of the days that followed and the slow and sometimes tedious battle to regain fitness. In addition, Tao looks ahead to his new start with Lidl-Trek and nominates some of his heroes and heroines of 2023.
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In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe & Brian Nygaard delve deeper into one of the stories of a wild pro cycling autumn - the revelation that half a dozen World Tour teams want to launch their own league or series to help secure their (financial) future.
Brian was at the bleeding edge of two previous attempts to do precisely this - and he helps us understand why neither ultimately came to fruition.
There’s also the usual news round-up, including reports of a bleak outlook for the Tour of Britain.
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In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, we are joined by an old friend and confidant - AG2r-Citroën’s Larry Warbasse - for a full debrief on the former US road racing champion’s 2023 season.
Daniel Friebe quizzes Larry about personal landmarks, successes and disappointments in what was a long, tiring campaign for the 33-year-old. There’s also an honest analysis of AG2r’s fortunes over the past few months - and where they can and need to improve next year.
In addition, we round up the week’s news, including the latest attempt to bolster pro cycling’s income streams and the remarkable homecoming of a Colombian idol.
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Explore returns with Adam Bowie, one of The Cycling Podcast's producers, taking over the mic to document his ride at the 2023 Étape du Tour.
Each July, the Étape gives thousands of riders a chance to experience the thrill of riding the route of a Tour de France stage on closed roads. This time it was the course of stage 14 from Annemasse to Morzine in the Alps, taking in the Col de Cou, Col du Feu, Col de la Ramaz and Col de Joux Plane.
The Étape was celebrating its 30th anniversary – the first edition was held in 1993 and was 'won' by Christophe Rinero, who five years later won the king of the mountains. More recently, the fastest finisher in the 2018 Étape, Victor Lafay, won a stage of the 2023 Tour de France in San Sebastian.
But for the other 16,000 participants the challenge is completing the stage. Regular listeners will remember Adam's episode of Explore from 2021, in which he tackled the 350-kilometre King Alfred's Way route in south-west England.
This time, we join Adam in the Alps, as he takes on a reconnaissance ride a few days before the Étape...
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In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, we review two big gala events that took place in Paris this week - the Vélo d’Or awards ceremony and the presentation of the 2024 Tour de France routes.
Daniel Friebe is joined by veteran reporter and resident francophile François Thomazeau plus top commentator Rob Hatch to give our verdict on the Vélo d’Or voting panel’s decisions - and on two Tour de France routes, men’s and women’s, that pack an awful lot of ingredients into what look like a pair of exceedingly rich cakes.
Finally, we resume last week’s conversation about seasoned pros who find themselves jobless at the end of the 2023 campaign. After Tsgabu Grmay last week, it’s Joe Dombrowski’s turn to tell us about his fight to stay alive in the WorldTour.
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This October episode of The Cycling Podcast Feminin is full of our podcast’s most dreaded thing “speculation”. Rose Manley and Denny Gray look over some of the rumours around next year’s Tour de France Femmes route which will apparently include a showstopping final day on the Alpe d’Huez.
They also look ahead to some of how next season’s teams are shaping up, with Lidl-Trek and EF Education-Cannondale taking almost opposite approaches to their rosters.
We hear from young Brit Abi Smith about her first years in the pro cycling world as she prepares to take a step up to join Team DSM next season. She speaks about how she has used painting this year as a mental escape from life on (or perhaps more accurately, off) the bike.
And we cover the final races of the 2023 Women’s World Tour and hear from Tour of Guangxi winner Daria Pikulik. Plus, we stray ever so briefly on to the gravel to congratulate Kasia Niewiadoma on her World Championships win. We can hear Orla weeping happy tears all the way from Amsterdam!
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In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and ace commentator Rob Hatch examine one venerable Italian cycling institution’s latest iteration - the newly revealed 2024 Giro d’Italia route - and look at the brightest, most ambitious upstart on the same nation’s racing calendar: Filippo Pozzato and his races in the Veneto.
We deliver our own assessment of a noticeably less lofty-than-usual ‘Corsa Rosa’ route before hearing Jayco-AlUla head DS Matt White’s verdict. We, or rather Daniel, then literally travels to Italy to find out how Pozzato is trying to shake up an ageing, ailing Italian scene - and why he may need a bit more help from the Giro itself.
In the final part of the podcast, we reflect on the predicament of the many riders who find themselves jobless at the end of the 2023 season - and one in particular, the Ethiopian Tsgabu Grmay. He tells Daniel that, while his present plight looks bleak, his dreams and inner fire are very much still alive. The episode we mention featuring Mitch Docker speaking to Tsgabu Grmay on Life in the Peloton is here https://audioboom.com/posts/7878541-life-in-the-peloton-tsgabu-grmay
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This week’s episode features a comprehensive look back at the last monument of the season, Il Lombardia, and the latest example of Tadej Pogačar in just his latest annus mirabilis.
Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and Rob Hatch also reflect on Thibaut Pinot’s very noisy and memorable farewell, plus the full-stop on a few other notable careers last weekend. There’s also the latest on the merger that apparently will now never be, between Jumbo-Visma and Soudal-Quickstep. The former’s most decorated alumnus, Primož Roglič, is of course on his way to Bora-Hansgrohe, and their team boss, Ralph Denk tells us how he got his man.
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In this week’s bumper episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are joined by French press-pack doyen François Thomazeau to discuss some dramatic events over the last seven days - and look ahead to il Lombardia at the weekend.
There’s the usual news round-up, then the labyrinthine tale of how Daniel tried to establish the 2024 destination of Primož Roglič. We also ponder the latest twists and turns in the Soudal-Quickstep/Jumbo-Visma saga and what they may mean for Remco Evenepoel, among others.
In the final part, there’s a look ahead to il Lombardia and the end of the road for TCP favourite Thibaut Pinot. We also bid farewell to François’ dear friend and Induráin-whisperer Francis Lafargue, who passed away last week.
There’s also the usual round-up of the week’s other news, including the results of last weekend’s European Championships.
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The Cycling Podcast returns this week with an in-depth look at the news story that has rocked the sport over the past few days: the revelation by Dutch website Wielerflits that the existing Jumbo-Visma and Soudal-Quick Step teams may be about to join forces.
Daniel Friebe and ace Eurosport commentator Rob Hatch hear from the journalist who broke the story, Raymond Kerchoffs, and go on to discuss both the likelihood and the implications of any such move. Does it spell the end of the road for Primož Roglič at Jumbo-Visma ad the start of a new journey for Remco Evenepoel, perhaps alongside Jonas Vingegaard? We weigh up those possibilities and various permutations.
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In this month’s episode of The Cycling Podcast Feminin, Rose Manley and Denny Gray pour over what has been a packed racing schedule since the World Championships. They pick out the defining moments and big breakthroughs from this closing part of the season which has included a nail-biting Tour of Scandinavia, a lively Tour de Romandie and a Simac Ladies Tour that was full of surprises.
We also hear from Canyon-SRAM’s huge new talent Antonia Niedermaier who has already bagged a Giro stage win in her first year in the World Tour. The young German tells us about her double life as both an elite cyclist and an elite ski mountaineer and reveals her ambitions to compete in both the Summer and Winter Olympics.
Rose and Denny also – dare we say – “speculate” on where we can expect the new rivalries and new winners to come next year now that one of the sport’s leading lights Annemiek Van Vleuten has retired. Van Vleuten said goodbye to racing at the Simac Ladies Tour, having racked up an astounding 104 wins in her 15 year elite career.
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Join Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard as they recap stage 21 of the 2023 Vuelta a España.
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Join Daniel Friebe with Rob Hatch as they recap stage 14 of the 2023 Vuelta a España.
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Join Daniel Friebe with Brian Nygaard as they recap stage 13 of the 2023 Vuelta a España.
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Join Daniel Friebe with Lionel Birnie as they recap stage 11 of the 2023 Vuelta a España.
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Join Daniel Friebe with Lionel Birnie as they recap stage 9 of the 2023 Vuelta a España.
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Join Daniel Friebe with Fran Reyes as they recap stage 7 of the 2023 Vuelta a España.
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Join Daniel Friebe with Lionel Birnie as they recap stage 6 of the 2023 Vuelta a España.
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Join Daniel Friebe with Brian Nygaard as they recap stage 5 of the 2023 Vuelta a España.
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Join Daniel Friebe with Rob Hatch and Lionel Birnie as they recap stage 4 of the 2023 Vuelta a España.
We’ll get post-stage reaction from Daniel on the ground, rider interviews, Fran Reyes’s wistful gazing – plus a trip down musical memory lane with “El Ritmo de la Vuelta”. Over the course of the three weeks in Spain, we’ll also have regular input from our man in the peloton, AG2R Citroën’s Larry Warbasse, and much more.
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Join Daniel Friebe and Fran Reyes as they recap stage 3 of the 2023 Vuelta a España.
We’ll get post-stage reaction from Daniel on the ground, rider interviews, Fran Reyes’s wistful gazing – plus a trip down musical memory lane with “El Ritmo de la Vuelta”. Over the course of the three weeks in Spain, we’ll also have regular input from our man in the peloton, AG2R Citroën’s Larry Warbasse, and much more.
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Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie as they recap Stage 2 of the 2023 Vuelta a España.
We’ll get post-stage reaction from Daniel on the ground, rider interviews, Fran Reyes’s wistful gazing – plus a trip down musical memory lane with “El Ritmo de la Vuelta”. Over the course of the three weeks in Spain, we’ll also have regular input from our man in the peloton, AG2R Citroën’s Larry Warbasse, and much more.
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Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie as they recap stage 1 of the 2023 Vuelta a España.
We’ll get post-stage reaction from Daniel on the ground, rider interviews, Fran Reyes’s wistful gazing – plus a trip down musical memory lane with “El Ritmo de la Vuelta”. Over the course of the three weeks in Spain, we’ll also have regular input from our man in the peloton, AG2R Citroën’s Larry Warbasse, and much more.
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The third and final Grand Tour of the men’s cycling season, La Vuelta a España, rolls out of Barcelona on Saturday August 26, and in this XL race preview we look ahead to what we are already calling “El Clásico”.
After the usual weekly news round-up, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie first examine the route, then the riders and particularly the favourites for overall glory in Madrid. To help them, they enlist one of the voices of Belgian cycling, commentator Renaat Schotte, our resident great Dane, Brian Nygaard, and Eurosport’s eyes on the ground in Spain, Laura Meseguer.
We also hear from the Motown Maestro, Larry Warbasse, who’ll be lining up in Barcelona for his AG2r-Citroën team, plus there’s a trip down TCP memory lane, through our own daily coverage of the Vuelta since 2016.
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Ahead of our 2023 Vuelta a España race preview, in this episode we look forward to something else - the wines selected by our friends at DVine Cellars to celebrate the route, the spirit, the terroir of an edition that we are already calling El Clásico.
Daniel Friebe is joined by DVine's Spanish expert Angus McNab to present the wines that make up our El Clásico selection, and which can be ordered at https://dvinecellars.com/collections/the-cycling-podcast-cases. In order of appearance:
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Sumarroca Cava Brut Reserva Vintage, Penedès
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Celler Les Foes, L'Adolescent, Castellón
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Pieles Doradas, Bruno Murciano, Valencia / Las Blancas, Bruno Murciano, Valencia,**(upgrade)
-** Valdepila Milénico, Ribera del Duero
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Bodegas Frontonio, 'Microcosmico' Garnacha, Valdejalon, Aragón
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Godello 'Brezo', Gregory Perez, Bierzo
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In this week’s regular episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel and Lionel are joined by Team Jayco-AlUla Director of High Performance and Racing Matt White to reflect on the UCI ‘Superworlds’, Jayco’s Tour de France and the start of cycling’s transfer window - and look ahead to the Vuelta a España.
Before that, we recap a busy week of news, including the announcement that former British Cycling and Team Sky doctor Richard Freeman has been handed a four-year ban for possession of a banned substance and twice lying to UK Anti-Doping investigators. We ask the question - are some or even all of successes amassed on Freeman’s watch now tarnished?
The so-called ‘Super Worlds’ came to a conclusion with the women’s road race from Loch Lomond to Glasgow.
Six laps of the city centre circuit created another hell-for-leather battle between the best riders in the world, creating a race that seemed to defy the normal rules of road racing.
With the ‘A team’ of Rose, Orla and Lizzy unavailable for selection, Lionel Birnie is joined by Denny Gray to discuss the action on an afternoon when the race crowned a rider worthy of the world title and a year in the rainbow jersey.
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In this week’s regular episode, we revisit last Sunday’s Men’s World Championship Road Race in the company of AG2r-Citroën ace Larry Warbasse, who was making his senior début in USA national team colours at the weekend.
Despite Larry’s vital work early in the race, US team leader Neilson Powless couldn’t stop Mathieu van der Poel claiming the rainbow jersey - & we get Larry’s thoughts on a scintillating race & controversial Glasgow course.
There’s also a brief & for Daniel excruciating discussion about the Van der Poel pitstop which made the tabloid headlines in Scotland on Monday. We hear, too, where the other medals have gone so far in Glasgow & look ahead to the men’s TT.
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Arrivée returns with our on-the-whistle review of the world championship men’s road race in Glasgow - where the grumbles about the crit-like course were drowned out by a pulsating, heavy metal battle for the rainbow jersey.
Much of the pre-race speculation focused on the latest instalment of Mathieu van der Poel and Wout Van Aert’s age-old rivalry. Tadej Pogačar and Mads Pedersen were among the riders overshadow them and indeed defending champion Remco Evenpoel - and all of the aforementioned quintet would be in the thick of the action on Sunday.
Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss who came out on top and why on a memorable afternoon in Scotland.
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In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are joined by one of Belgium’s voices of cycling, TV commentator Renaat Schotte, to preview this weekend’s elite World Championship road race in Scotland.
After the usual news round-up and a summary of the early moves on this year’s transfer market, our thoughts turn to Sunday’s course - and particularly the 14.3km Glasgow city circuit which will decide who inherits Remco Evenepoel’s rainbow bands, or indeed whether The Baby Cannibal can retain his title.
In the last part of the episode, we change pace with some final reflections on the Tour de France - the drama of the yellow jersey battle, what will be our lasting memories of the 2023 edition and other salient talking points.
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In our final episode in our daily coverage, Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Lizzy Banks review Stage 8 time trial at the Tour de France Femmes and all the final standings.
We also speak to the entire GC podium and all of the jersey wearers. Kasia Niewiadoma, Demi Vollering, Annemiek van Vleuten, Lotte Kopecky, Cedrine Kerbaol and Juliette Labous all offer their input. And we hear how Denny gets on when he takes to his bike himself and does a recon of the final run-in.
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Join Rose Manley and Denny Gray as they take you through the highly-anticipated seventh stage of the Tour de France Femmes. They’re also joined by Lizzy Banks after the finish to dissect a day that featured both the Col d’Aspin and a summit finish on the Tourmalet.
We hear from Kasia Niewiadoma, Anna van der Breggen, Annemiek van Vleuten, Ashleigh Moolman Pasio and Claire Steels, to try to help explain it all.
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Join Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Lizzy Banks as they take a look at the sixth stage of the Tour de France Femmes.
Stage 6 was intended to be one for the fast finishers but with the strongest sprinter - Lorena Wiebes - already out, it had the potential to be a golden opportunity for a new winner at the race. We hear from Emma Norsgaard, Lucinda Brand, Susanne Andersen and Charlotte Kool.
Plus, the team look ahead to what will be the greatest challenge of the race, the ascent of the Tourmalet in the seventh stage. Francois Thomazeau gives us some more “French Flavour” and we hear how Denny got on in the Tour de France Fan Zone.
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Join Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Lizzy Banks as they take a look at the fifth stage of the Tour de France Femmes.
Francois Thomazeau gives us some more “French Flavour” and we hear how Denny got on when he spent the day in a team car for the first time.
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Join Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Lizzy Banks as they take a look at the fourth stage of the Tour de France Femmes.
On a stage with both breakaway and GC potential, there was plenty to discuss. Annemiek Van Vleuten, Marthe Truyen, Kasia Niewiadoma and Anouska Koster offer their insight. Francois Thomazeau is on hand with his “French Flavour” and we hear how Denny when he went to a Tour de France feed zone for the first time.
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Join Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Lizzy Banks as they analyse a thrilling third stage of the Tour de France Femmes.
The win was in the balance between the breakaway and the sprinter’s teams, which gave the Cycling Podcast team plenty to pour over. Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio, Mischa Bredewold, Pfeiffer Georgi and Kathrin Hammes offer their insight. Plus we take a look at how things stand in the youth and green jerseys. Francois Thomazeau is on hand with his “French Flavour” and we hear how Denny got on at his first sighting of the Tour de France Caravan.
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Join Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Lizzy Banks as they take a closer look at Stage 2 of the Tour de France Femmes.
The first hilly stage of the Tour threw up plenty of surprises for The Cycling Podcast Feminin team to dissect. We hear from the likes of Marlen Reusser, Kasia Niewiadoma and Mavi Garcia. Plus, Francois offers up some French Flavour and we see how Denny got on at his first ever press buffet.
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Join Lionel Birnie and Richard Abraham in Paris as they recap stage 21 of the Tour de France.
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Join Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Lizzy Banks as they recap the first stage of the Tour de France Femmes.
The team analyse a thrilling Stage 1 and pick out the winners and losers at this early stage. In true Cycling Podcast fashion, we leave the speculation to someone else - this time the riders themselves - including defending champion Annemiek Van Vleuten - as we hear what they expect from the week of racing. And we of course get a little French Flavour from Francois.
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Join Lionel Birnie and Richard Abraham at Le Markstein as they recap stage 20 of the Tour de France.
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Join Lionel Birnie and Richard Abraham in Poligny as they recap stage 19 of the Tour de France.
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In this episode of Kilometre 0, The Cycling Podcast Féminin team preview the forthcoming Tour de France Femmes. Rose Manley, Lizzy Banks and Denny Gray pick out the riders and stages to watch in what is expected to be a close and tenacious battle for the yellow jersey.
The team discuss what should be the pinnacle of the rivalry between the two greatest riders in the peloton – Demi Vollering and Annemiek Van Vleuten. With both following different preparations for the Tour, who will come out on top?
We also hear from other GC contender Elisa Longo Borghini, SD Worx domestique supremo Marlen Reusser, and Team DSM’s road captain Pfeiffer Georgi.
The Cycling Podcast will be bringing listeners nightly coverage from the ground at the Tour de France Femmes starting after Sunday's opening stage.
Tour de France Femmes 2023Sunday: Clermont-Ferrand – Clermont-Ferrand
Monday: Clermont-Ferrand – Mauriac
Tuesday: Collognes-la-Rouge – Montignac-Lascaux
Wednesday: Cahors – Rodez
Thursday: Onet-le-Château – Albi
Friday: Albi – Blagnac
Saturday: Lannemesan – Tourmalet
Sunday: Pau – Pau
Join Lionel Birnie and Richard Abraham in Bourg-en-Bresse as they recap stage 18 of the Tour de France.
There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, and hear from the voice of Radio Tour Sebastian Piquet and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage.
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Join Lionel Birnie and Richard Abraham in Courchevel as they recap stage 17 of the Tour de France.
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Join Lionel Birnie, Lizzy Banks and Richard Abraham in Combloux as they recap stage 16 of the Tour de France.
There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, and hear from the voice of Radio Tour Sebastian Piquet and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage.
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Join Lionel Birnie, Ian Boswell and Lizzy Banks in Saint-Gervais-Mont Blanc as they recap stage 15 of the Tour de France.
There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, and hear from the voice of Radio Tour Sebastian Piquet and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage.
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Join Lionel Birnie, Ian Boswell and Lizzy Banks in Morzine as they recap stage 14 of the Tour de France.
There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, and hear from the voice of Radio Tour Sebastian Piquet and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage.
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Join Lionel Birnie and Ian Boswell in Anglefort as they recap stage 13 of the Tour de France.
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Join Lionel Birnie and Ian Boswell in Moulins as they recap stage 11 of the Tour de France.
There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, catch up with Jayco-Alula rider Luke Durbridge, hear from the voice of Radio Tour Sebastian Piquet and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage.
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Join Lionel Birnie, Mitch Docker and Ian Boswell in Moulins as they recap stage 11 of the Tour de France.
There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, catch up with Jayco-Alula rider Luke Durbridge, hear from the voice of Radio Tour Sebastian Piquet and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage.
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Join Rose Manley, Lizzy Banks and new voice to the podcast – Denny Gray – as they review the second Grand Tour of the year, the Giro Donne.
The team take a closer look at which riders impressed and which fell short in the nine-stage battle for the maglia rosa. We hear from rising star Juliette Labous, plus Lizzy offers her unique view from inside the race.
Our coverage of the Tour de France Femmes, featuring Rose and Denny, kicks off on Sunday, July 23.
Join Lionel Birnie, Mitch Docker and Ian Boswell in Issoire as they recap stage ten of the Tour de France.
There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, catch up with Jayco-Alula rider Luke Durbridge, hear from the voice of Radio Tour Sebastian Piquet and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage.
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Join Lionel Birnie and Mitch Docker at Le Puy de Dôme as they recap stage nine of the Tour de France.
There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, catch up with Jayco-Alula rider Luke Durbridge, hear from the voice of Radio Tour Sebastian Piquet and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage.
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On Sunday, the Tour de France will return to Le Puy de Dôme for the first time in 35 years.
The volcano in the Massif Central was first visited by the race in 1952. Fausto Coppi, who had won the Tour's first-ever summit finish at Alpe d'Huez a couple of weeks earlier, took the stage.
In 1964, it was the scene of a famous duel between Jacques Anquetil and Raymond Poulidor as the two brushed shoulders in their battle for the yellow jersey.
Eleven years later, in 1975, a spectator punched Eddy Merckx which effectively ended the Belgian's long reign as the undisputed best rider in the world.
The final visit, in 1988, saw a win by Denmark's Johnny Weltz but after the stage there was chaos with tens of thousands of fans trying to get off the mountain.
A funicular railway was installed, narrowing the road and the climb was closed even to amateur cyclists making it very difficult for the Tour to return.
But race director, Christian Prudhomme has long harboured a dream to take the Tour back. Even though the climb will be closed to spectators, it promises to be a special day.
In this episode we hear from Prudhomme, local rider Remi Cavagna of Soudal-Quick Step, climber Dan Martin and the last man to win on the volcano, Johnny Weltz.
Join Lionel Birnie and Mitch Docker in Limoges as they recap stage eight of the Tour de France.
There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, catch up with Jayco-Alula rider Luke Durbridge, hear from the voice of Radio Tour Sebastian Piquet and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage.
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Join Lionel Birnie and Mitch Docker in Bordeaux as they recap stage seven of the Tour de France.
There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, catch up with Jayco-Alula rider Luke Durbridge, hear from the voice of Radio Tour Sebastian Piquet and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage.
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Join Lionel Birnie, François Thomazeau and Mitch Docker in Cauterets-Cambasque as they recap stage six of the Tour de France.
There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, catch up with Jayco-Alula rider Luke Durbridge, hear from the voice of Radio Tour and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage.
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Join Lionel Birnie, François Thomazeau and Mitch Docker in Laruns as they recap stage five of the Tour de France.
There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, catch up with Jayco-Alula rider Luke Durbridge, hear from the voice of Radio Tour and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage.
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Join Lionel Birnie, François Thomazeau and Mitch Docker in Nogaro as they recap stage four of the Tour de France.
There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, catch up with Jayco-Alula rider Luke Durbridge, hear from the voice of Radio Tour and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage.
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Join Lionel Birnie, François Thomazeau and Mitch Docker in Bayonne as they recap stage three of the Tour de France.
There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, catch up with Jayco-Alula rider Luke Durbridge, hear from the voice of Radio Tour and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage.
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Join Lionel Birnie, François Thomazeau and Mitch Docker in San Sebastian as they recap stage two of the Tour de France.
There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, catch up with Jayco-Alula rider Luke Durbridge, hear from the voice of Radio Tour and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage.
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Join Lionel Birnie, François Thomazeau and Mitch Docker in Bilbao as they recap stage one of the Tour de France.
There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, catch up with Jayco-Alula rider Luke Durbridge, hear from the voice of Radio Tour and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage.
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In this episode of Kilometre 0, we speak to three filmmakers who had the tricky task of making a film during the 2020 'Covid' Tour de France.
The result is Enter the Slipstream, which debuts on US streaming service Peacock, part of NBC Sports, tomorrow (Saturday, July 1).
Lionel Birnie spoke to director Ted Youngs, producer Matt Rogers and story producer Alexis Steinman about the filmmaking process, how Covid changed the story and how Enter the Slipstream is the ultimate tale of perseverance for the riders, the EF Pro Cycling team and the filmmakers themselves.
Kilometre 0 at the 2023 Tour de France will be for Friends of the Podcast subscribers. The next episode will be Laura Meseguer's interview with Joseba Beloki, the Basque rider who finished on the podium at the Tour de France three times and crashed in spectacular fashion on the run-in to Gap on Bastille Day during the 2003 Tour. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com
This is our XL Tour de France preview with Lionel Birnie, Daniel Friebe and François Thomazeau – a bumper episode looking ahead to the race, which starts on Saturday.
A few days before the grand départ, as the team line-ups and new jerseys are unveiled we look ahead to see what's in store at the biggest race in the world.
It's shaping up to be a clash between defending champion Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar – who have won the last three editions between them – but is there more to the race for the yellow jersey than that?
We weigh up the sprinters and the relatively few opportunities for them to shine and ask the big question – can Mark Cavendish win his 35th stage and claim the outright record?
Our Tour de France logo this year features the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the silhouette of the Puy de Dôme, which the Tour will visit for the first time in 35 years.
We also hear from Mitch Docker, Ian Boswell and Richard Abraham, who will be joining the podcast team at various points through the Tour.
The Cycling Podcast's daily coverage starts on Saturday evening, after stage one, but we are continuing our build-up by kicking off our Kilometre 0 series early. To mark the 10th anniversary of The Cycling Podcast we have created a mini series for Friends of the Podcast called The 100th Tour, 10 years On. It's the story of the 2013 Tour as told by the podcast and it will be released daily as we build up to the start of this year's race in Bilbao.
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Richie and Chris kicks off a seven-part mini series focusing on the 2013 Tour de France. To mark the 100th edition of the race, the Tour headed to Corsica for the grand départ.
Lionel Birnie spoke to former teammates Chris Froome and Richie Porte about the race. Froome led Team Sky for the first time having been runner-up to Bradley Wiggins the previous year. Wiggins was somewhat controversially – although perhaps not surprisingly – left out of the line-up a few weeks before the start.
There was drama from the start. On day one Froome crashed in the neutralised zone before the race had even started, then the Orica-GreenEdge team bus got stuck under the finish line gantry, almost bringing the entire Tour to a standstill. Froome laid down the gauntlet in the Pyrenees when, for 24 hours, everything looked to be going Sky's way. Then there was a date with Mont Ventoux, a double-ascent of Alpe d'Huez and some nervous moments in the final few days.
The rest of the series The 100th Tour, 10 years On is the story of that 2013 race as told by The Cycling Podcast. We've delved into our archive to revisit the first Tour the podcast covered. The remaining six episodes will be released for Friends of the Podcast subscribers from Tuesday to Thursday.
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With the SD Worx victory machine still rumbling on at the Tour de Suisse, Rose Manley, Orla Chennaoui and Lizzy Banks are faced with a few conundrums. Is Kasia Niewiadoma back to her best? Can SD Worx be beaten on strategy? And most pressingly of all, exactly who has the cutest dog in the peloton?
The Cycling Podcast Féminin team pick over some of the week’s impressive solo performances and hear from rising star Claire Steels who Zubeldia’d her way to sixth on GC. Steels was also involved in one of the crashes at the Tour Féminin des Pyrénées which was eventually called off over safety concerns.
We address some of the consternation over the forthcoming Giro Donne and look ahead to the race with Lizzy, our very own two-time stage winner. We also get the perspectives of Urška Žigart of Jayco-Alula, Soraya Paladin of Canyon-SRAM and Erica Magnaldi of UAE-ADQ ahead of the second Grand Tour of the year.
Plus we introduce the podcast to a new voice – Denny Gray – who will be joining Rose for our daily podcasts from the Tour de France Femmes next month.
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The world of professional cycling was rocked and devastated this week by the death of 26-year-old Bahrain Victorious rider Gino Mäder after a crash in his home race, the Tour de Suisse. The tragedy has completely overshadowed the build-up to the Tour de France - and, in turn, forced a change to our original plan for the episode, namely a review of the new Netflix docuseries, Tour de France: Unchained, after last week’s interview with execuitve producer James Gay-Rees.
You’ll still hear that review, for which we’re joined by another award-winning filmmaker, Finlay Pretsell, but the first part of the show is dedicated to Mäder, his short but already distinguished career and our interactions with one of the most thoughtful and admirable riders in the peloton.
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In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are joined by one of the brains behind what some have already called the event of the cycling season - not Christian Prudhomme or Mauro Vegni but James Gay-Rees, the Oscar-winning executive producer of the hotly anticipated docuseries released on Netflix last week, Tour de France: Unchained.
James lifts the lid on how project was devised, conceived and tweaked, until the thousands of hours of raw footage filmed before, during and after the Tour had been crafted into eight gripping episodes.
Before that, there’s the usual round-up of the week’s news, including a Dauphiné wrap, Arnaud Démare’s Tour snub and the shocking events at the Tour Féminin International des Pyrénées.
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This episode of Service Course comes from two far flung destinations. Firstly Lizzy takes you to Arkansas where she was competing in the Joe Martin Stage Race and then Tom, with the help of Oskar Scarsbrook takes you to Sierra Leone. More specifically the Lunsar region of Sierra Leone where the Tour de Lunsar was taking place. The most important race in the region, the Tour de Lunsar is not on the UCI’s calendar but it is supported by our sponsors Science In Sport. You’ll hear an incredible atmosphere from a race like no other as well as from the riders taking part, and you’ll find out how donations of kit from the European peloton play a key role in making the race possible.
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With the Giro d'Italia now in the rear-view mirror and the Tour de France on the horizon, The Cycling Podcast begins the countdown to the grand départ in Bilbao.
As the Critérium du Dauphiné reaches its halfway stage, Lionel Birnie is joined by François Thomazeau and Rob Hatch to discuss what it all means for the build-up to the world's biggest race.
Does his stage win mean Julian Alaphilippe is back? Is Jonas Vingegaard emerging as the pre-Tour favourite with Tadej Pogačar on the sidelines recovering from his fractured wrist? We tackle all the big questions from the Tour de France dress rehearsal.
We also get a view from the front row as the voice of Radio Tour, Seb Piquet, talks us through the opening few stages.
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The Cycling Podcast Feminin team are reunited once again following Lizzy Banks’ long anticipated return to racing. Lizzy shares her experience of helping her team to victory at the Joe Martin stage race earlier this month, after overcoming two and a half years of illness and injury.
There’s plenty to discuss in the World Tour, where the SD Worx winning streak has continued. Emphatic wins in Itzulia and at the Vuelta a Burgos for Marlen Reusser and Demi Vollering respectively have left the other teams desperately wondering how to beat them. And like the rest of the peloton, the Cycling Podcast Feminin team can’t agree on the best way to go about it either.
We also hear from Pfeiffer Georgi who can claim to be one of the few riders in the peloton to have overcome SD Worx at World Tour level this year. The De Panne champion speaks to the podcast fresh from her team’s success at the RideLondon Classique where they took two stage wins and the overall title. Pfeiffer speaks about her progress since her junior racing years and balancing her quiet, calm attitude with being an assertive road captain for Team DSM.
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On the Giro d'Italia's second rest day, Lionel Birnie headed west to Bath to meet two of the voices of cycling – Eurosport-GCN commentary duo Rob Hatch and Sean Kelly.
He joined them for a ride down the Bristol to Bath railway path. It was a ride that took a surprising and slightly surreal diversion once they reached Bristol...
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In this episode of Girovagando, we hear news, interviews and opinions from stage 21 of the Giro d’Italia, with Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard on the ground in Italy and Lionel Birnie back at base in the UK.
There’s the (almost) daily postcard from sometime host Larry Warbasse – who’s also riding the Giro for AG2r Citroën – plus our preview of tomorrow’s stage…and review of yesterday’s dinner!
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In this episode of Girovagando, we hear news, interviews and opinions from stage 20 of the Giro d’Italia, with Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard on the ground in Italy and Lionel Birnie back at base in the UK.
There’s the (almost) daily postcard from sometime host Larry Warbasse – who’s also riding the Giro for AG2r Citroën – plus our preview of tomorrow’s stage…and review of yesterday’s dinner!
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In this episode of Girovagando, we hear news, interviews and opinions from stage 19 of the Giro d’Italia, with Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard on the ground in Italy and Lionel Birnie back at base in the UK.
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In this episode of Girovagando, we hear news, interviews and opinions from stage 18 of the Giro d’Italia, with Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard on the ground in Italy and Lionel Birnie back at base in the UK.
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In this episode of Girovagando, we hear news, interviews and opinions from stage 17 of the Giro d’Italia, with Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard on the ground in Italy and Lionel Birnie back at base in the UK.
There’s the (almost) daily postcard from sometime host Larry Warbasse – who’s also riding the Giro for AG2r Citroën – plus our preview of tomorrow’s stage…and review of yesterday’s dinner!
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In this episode of Girovagando, we hear news, interviews and opinions from stage 16 of the Giro d’Italia, with Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard on the ground in Italy and Lionel Birnie back at base in the UK.
There’s the (almost) daily postcard from sometime host Larry Warbasse – who’s also riding the Giro for AG2r Citroën – plus our preview of tomorrow’s stage…and review of yesterday’s dinner!
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In this episode of Girovagando, we hear news, interviews and opinions from stage 15 of the Giro d’Italia, with Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard on the ground in Italy and Lionel Birnie back at base in the UK.
There’s the (almost) daily postcard from sometime host Larry Warbasse – who’s also riding the Giro for AG2r Citroën – plus our preview of tomorrow’s stage…and review of yesterday’s dinner!
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In this episode of Girovagando, we hear news, interviews and opinion from stage 14 of the Giro d’Italia, with Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard on the ground in Italy and Lionel Birnie back at base in the UK.
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In this episode of Girovagando, we hear news, interviews and opinion from stage 13 of the Giro d’Italia, with Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard on the ground in Italy and Lionel Birnie back at base in the UK.
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In this episode of Girovagando, we hear news, interviews and opinion from stage 12 of the Giro d’Italia, with Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard on the ground in Italy and Lionel Birnie back at base in the UK.
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In this episode of Girovagando, we hear news, interviews and opinion from stage 11 of the Giro d’Italia, with Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard on the ground in Italy and Lionel Birnie back at base in the UK.
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In this episode of Girovagando, we hear news, interviews and opinion from stage 10 of the Giro d’Italia, with Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard on the ground in Italy and Lionel Birnie back at base in the UK.
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In this episode of Kilometre 0 from the Giro d'Italia, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie called Tao Geoghegan Hart at his rest day hotel to get his verdict on the opening nine days of the race.
A brilliant time trial by Geoghegan Hart and his Ineos Grenadiers teammate Geraint Thomas kept them at the forefront of the pack stacked up behind leader Remco Evenepoel.
And then, on Sunday night, Evenepoel announced he'd be leaving the race having contracted Covid, which puts Thomas in the pink jersey and lifts Geoghegan Hart into third place and raises the possibility of him repeating his 2020 Giro win.
The Giro pauses for its first rest-day, and Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard answer listeners' questions in this episode.
Our Giro d'Italia coverage resumes with Stage 10 on Tuesday.
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In this episode of Girovagando, we hear news, interviews and opinion from stage 9 of the Giro d’Italia, with Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard on the ground in Italy and Lionel Birnie back at base in the UK.
There’s the (almost) daily postcard from sometime host Larry Warbasse – who’s also riding the Giro for AG2r Citroën – plus our preview of tomorrow’s stage…and review of yesterday’s dinner!
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In this episode of Girovagando, we hear news, interviews and opinion from stage 8 of the Giro d’Italia, with Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard on the ground in Italy and Lionel Birnie back at base in the UK.
There’s the (almost) daily postcard from sometime host Larry Warbasse – who’s also riding the Giro for AG2r Citroën – plus our preview of tomorrow’s stage…and review of yesterday’s dinner!
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In this episode of Girovagando, we hear news, interviews and opinion from stage 7 of the Giro d’Italia, with Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard on the ground in Italy and Lionel Birnie back at base in the UK.
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In this episode of Girovagando, we hear news, interviews and opinion from stage 6 of the Giro d’Italia, with Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard on the ground in Italy and Lionel Birnie back at base in the UK.
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In this episode of Girovagando, we hear news, interviews and opinion from stage 5 of the Giro d’Italia, with Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard on the ground in Italy and Lionel Birnie back at base in the UK.
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In this episode of Girovagando, we hear news, interviews and opinion from stage 4 of the Giro d’Italia, with Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard on the ground in Italy and Lionel Birnie back at base in the UK.
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In this episode of Girovagando, we hear news, interviews and opinion from stage 3 of the Giro d’Italia, with Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard on the ground in Italy and Lionel Birnie back at base in the UK.
There’s the (almost) daily postcard from sometime host Larry Warbasse – who’s also riding the Giro for AG2r Citroën – plus our preview of tomorrow’s stage…and review of yesterday’s dinner!
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Ask most people to think of Italy and what’s the first image that will come to their mind? For cycling fans it could be the Giro - but, generally, throughout the world, that picture in the mind’s eye is as likely to be of food as it is, say, the national flag, the Leaning Tower of Pisa or the Colosseum.
In recent years, it’s been noticeable for journalists on the race that the Giro has leaned further into the notion of Italy as a sort promised land of the finest food and wine on the planet – no longer just ‘the hardest race in the most beautiful place’, per the sales pitch, but also the one where you’ll eat the best meals.
Italian recipes are genuine, humble in origin but luxurious in taste – and also ancient. So at least we’re always told. And yet recently one professor in Italy, Alberto Grandi of the University of Parma, hit the headlines all over the world and caused outrage at home by claiming that a lot of it was lies, mythology, either a misremembering of the past or a deliberate attempt to distort the truth.
In this episode of KM0, Daniel Friebe speaks to, among others, Grandi and John Dickie, the author an acclaimed history of Italian food, Delizia!, to find out what Grandi has claimed and whether, indeed, we’ll ever look at pizza, pasta and cappuccino in the same way again.
In addition to this episode, we’ll also post Daniel’s full interview with Alberto Grandi (with subtitles) on the podcast’s YouTube channel.
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The Vuelta Femenina gave Rose Manley and Lizzy Banks plenty to talk about in this special Arrivée episode.
It was a packed seven days at the first women’s Grand Tour of the year. Rose and Lizzy cover the fall-out from a controversially timed pee stop, the return of a legend to winning ways and the emergence of a new climbing star.
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In this episode of Girovagando, we hear news, interviews and opinion from stage 2 of the Giro d’Italia, with Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard on the ground in Italy and Lionel Birnie back at base in the UK.
There’s an appearance from the one and only Ciro Scognamiglio – plus our preview of tomorrow’s stage…and review of yesterday’s dinner!
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In this episode of Girovagando, we hear news, interviews and opinion from stage 1 of the Giro d’Italia in Abruzzo, with Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard on the ground in Italy and Lionel Birnie back at base in the UK.
There’s the (almost) daily postcard from sometime host Larry Warbasse – who’s also riding the Giro for AG2r Citroën – plus our preview of tomorrow’s stage…and review of yesterday’s dinner!
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On Saturday the Giro d’Italia rolls out of Pescara on the Adriatic coast and, as ever, The Cycling Podcast will be there to document every stage, every polemica and every violation of the sacred codes of Italian gastronomy.
In this episode, Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and Brian Nygaard present our comprehensive preview of the first Grand Tour of 2023: who is riding, where the race is going and – if you’ll indulge our uncharacteristic speculation – who is likely to be in pink when the peloton arrives in Rome.
We hear, too, from our sometime Italian historical and cultural guru, John Foot, about the state of Il Bel Paese in 2023. There are also interviews with one of the men masterminding Remco Evenepoel’s Giro bid, Soudal-Quickstep coach Vasilis Anastopoulos, and the journalist who, whatever happens on the road, will, as ever, be the undisputed crowd favourite of the next month, Ciro Scognamiglio of La Gazzetta dello Sport.
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As per what is now an annual tradition, The Cycling Podcast and Dvine Cellars of London have indulged our mutual, overlapping passions and paid homage to the Giro d'Italia by selecting six wines to celebrate this year's race.
In this episode, Daniel Friebe is joined by Greg Andrews and Luciana Girotto of Dvine to discuss those wines. The wines are listed below and can be purchased via the Dvine Cellars website.
The six wines – the Girovagando selection discussed here – are as follows, in order of appearance on or adjacent to the race route:
– GIRA, Passerina d'Abruzzo 2019,
Cantina Rapino, Abruzzo
– Falanghina Del Sannio 2020,
Cantina Del Taburno, Campania
– Sincero 2021,
Cosimo Maria Masini, Tuscany
– Boca 2012,
Davide Carlone, Piedmont
– Recantina 2021,
Serafini & Vidotto, Veneto
– Frascati 2019,
Castel de Paolis, Lazio
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How do you beat SD Worx? That’s the question that Rose Manley, Orla Chennaoui and Lizzy Banks are looking to answer in this month’s episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin.
With the Spring Classics now at an end and with an Ardennes triple in the bag for Demi Vollering, SD Worx already have 13 victories from four different riders this season. What makes their dominance all the more impressive is the nature of those wins, coming from almost every racing scenario possible.
The Cycling Podcast team look then to explore what has made SD Worx almost unbeatable, taking into consideration the tactics, riders and peloton psychology that has secured their winning ways.
Of course, special mention is given to Paris-Roubaix, one of the few occasions where SD Worx were beaten. We hear from Lizzy’s day at the race as she followed the action on the cobbles and witnessed first-hand her teammate Alison Jackson take the pavé in spectacular style.
We also bring all the latest news from the professional peloton, including the fallout from the mass exodus from the Zaaf Cycling team.
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It was billed as a clash of the Titans but Liège-Bastogne-Liège turned into the latest episode of the Remco Evenepoel show after Tadej Pogačar’s early crash.
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are joined by former Liège winner and Pogačar team-mate Dan Martin to reflect on Sunday’s race. We also consider what may be the respective postscripts to La Doyenne - for Evenepoel and his Giro d’Italia bid and Pogačar’s chances of being fit for the Tour de France.
In the final part of the episode, we hear from the newly elected president of the Cyclistes Professionnels Associés, Adam Hansen. We also pay our respects to long-time friend of the pod and ex-Astana press chief Chris Baldwin, who sadly passed away last week.
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The spring classics draw to a close with the fourth Monument of the season, Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
After a spring dominated by the sport’s biggest names, La Doyenne, the oldest of the Monuments, was shaping up to be a showdown between Tadej Pogačar, winner of the Tour of Flanders, Amstel Gold Race and Flèche Wallonne, and reigning world champion and defending Liège champion, Remco Evenepoel.
But how did it pan out? Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie discuss the action.
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Rose Manley and Lizzy Banks serve up their takes on an edition of Liege-Bastogne-Liege that ranks highly on the Belgian waffle-o-meter.
SD Worx’s Demi Vollering comes into the race with an Ardennes Classics triple on her mind. But with more teams taking more risks as the Spring season comes to a close, her ascension is anything but a forgone conclusion. Could her closest opponent in fact come from her very own team?
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In the time it takes to climb the Mur de Huy half a dozen times, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie discuss the uphill cheese roll, aka Flèche Wallonne.
Is it the most predictable race on the calendar, or is there some hidden nuance to the final climb? We discuss how the race panned out and other associated Ardennes trivia before attention turns to the big one, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, on Sunday.
Arrivée will return then with Daniel and Lionel covering the men’s race and Rose Manley and Lizzy Banks tackling the women’s edition.
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In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie review the action from the first of the Limburg-Ardennes troika of Classics–- the Amstel Gold Race. To aid them in an ever more desperate scramble for superlatives to describe Tadej Pogačar’s spring, the boys are joined by AG2R Citroën stalwart Larry Warbasse – who’ll be among those trying to prevent a Pog clean sweep at Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
We also hear from and about one of the revelations of recent weeks and the rider who came closest to thwarting the Slovenian at the weekend - Ben Healy of EF Education First-EasyPost.
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This episode of Service Course was recorded on location at the Hell of the North.
Join Lizzy Banks and Tom Whalley for two breathtaking races at Paris-Roubaix and a closer look at some of the bikes being ridden. The pair hear about the rival adjustable tyre pressure systems being used by Team DSM and Jumbo-Visma at the race, Scope Atmoz and Gravaa Kaps respectively, as well as speaking to the creator of Gravaa Kaps, Gertjan van Ginderen. Despite both DSM and Jumbo-Visma having men’s and women’s teams, disappointingly the systems were absent from the women’s race, and Lizzy finds out exactly why that was.
Alongside that there are some other, literal, Easter Eggs, notably the one on John Degenkolb’s top tube, and seemingly an almost complete absence of suspension systems. Peter Sagan was using one, but he also had a gash in his tyre as Lizzy points out to his team before the start.
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As the dust settles on another cobbled Classics season – and some who made it to the Roubaix velodrome on Sunday are still wiping the grit and in one or two cases tears from their eyes – Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie take a last look back at the Hell of the North in the company of former WorldTour pro and cobblestone connoisseur Mitch Docker.
We hear Mitch’s thoughts on another superlative performance by Mathieu van der Poel and also speak to a rider who was making his debut in the race on Sunday – INEOS Grenadiers’ teen marvel Josh Tarling. After that, we take stock after another huge race that concluded last weekend – the Tour of the Basque Country – and look ahead to the second half of the Classics season, starting with Amstel Gold at the weekend.
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In our third round of Arrivée podcasts of the 2023 season, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe recap the action from a fast - historically fast - & frenetic Paris-Roubaix.
After his victory in Milan-Sanremo three weeks ago, Mathieu van der Poel looked like the hot favourite - but could his long-time rival Wout Van Aert turn it into a Sunday in Hell for the Dutchman? Lionel was on the ground to find out, & we discuss the main talking points here.
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Join Lionel Birnie and Lizzy Banks in the grandstand at the velodrome in Roubaix as they recap a thrilling third edition of Paris-Roubaix Femmes.
They spent the day hopping from cobble section to cobble section but made it to the finish in time to see the outcome.
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In this week’s regular episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are joined by long-time contributor François Thomazeau to reflect on Tadej Pogačar’s Tour of Flanders victory at the weekend and look ahead to Paris-Roubaix.
Since Flanders, debate has raged about whether Pog will one day complete cycling’s “Monument Slam”. We discuss how much prestige should in fact be associated with such an achievement - and also revisit a few minor controversies thrown up by Sunday’s race.
After that, it’s time to look forward to “The Hell of the North” and hear about a febrile backdrop of social unrest in France.
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In this episode of Arrivée, Rose Manley and Lizzy Banks dissect the women’s Tour of Flanders.
After an imperious start to the season which includes wins for Demi Vollering, Marlen Reusser and Lotte Kopecky, all eyes will be on SD Worx. But with former Flanders champion Elisa Longo Borghini returning to the Trek-Segafredo fold and World Champion Annemiek Van Vleuten racing her final Ronde Van Vlaanderen, who will come out on top?
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In our second round of Arrivée podcasts of the 2023 season, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe get together to serve up their hot takes after a memorable edition of the Tour of Flanders.
Could Mathieu van der Poel repeat his Milan-Sanremo heroics and thereby equal the career record of three Flanders wins? Would the home favourite Wout Van Aert finally add his name to the roll of honour of Vlaanderens Mooiste? What if Tadej Pogačar thwarted them both? Sunday afternoon would provide answers - and one the most entertaining races of recent years.
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In this week’s regular episode of The Cycling Podcast, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe are joined by Renaat Schotte, one of the voices of cycling in Belgium, to review a scintillating weekend of Classics racing - and one that reaffirmed Jumbo-Visma’s supremacy ahead of the Tour of Flanders.
We savour an E3 Saxo Bank Classic illuminated by three galáciticos of the pro peloton before going on to discuss an edition of Gent-Wevelgem that will be remembered for its hideous conditions, a stunning performance by one team and a remarkable act of generosity by their leader.
The episode ends on a sombre note as, on the anniversary of Richard Moore’s passing, Lionel and Daniel reflect on the legacy and the void left by their friend, colleague and inspiration.
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This month, The Cycling Podcast Féminin team get what they wished for: a fiercely fought battle between two teammates. Lotte Kopecky and Demi Vollering gunned it out at Strade Bianche with the Dutchwoman eventually crowned the victor after a tense photo finish. Despite being pipped into second, the Italian classic marked yet another chapter in Kopecky’s extraordinary early season in which she has never finished lower than runner-up.
Rose Manley, Orla Chennaoui and Lizzy Banks discuss the race and its fallout, including the controversial disqualification of Kristen Faulkner for the wearing of a continuous glucose monitor.
Rose also speaks to Puck Pieterse, one of the unlikely stars of Strade Bianche. Cyclo-cross racer Pieterse finished fifth in her first ever Women’s World Tour road race. She explains her approach to having fun on the bike and why we won’t be seeing her at any more road races this season.
The team also talk about a less acrimonious team one-two finish at Trofeo Alfredo Binda. Last month’s interviewee Shirin van Anrooij took the win there, followed by her Trek-Segafredo teammate Elisa Balsamo.
Orla closes the show with a beautiful tribute to our deeply missed friend Richard Moore, who passed away a year ago.
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In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, after our on-the-whistle analysis in Arrivée at the weekend, we revisit Milan-Sanremo in the company of Larry Warbasse of AG2r-Citroën, who was in the thick of the action right up until the moment of Mathieu van der Poel’s race-winning attack on the Poggio.
Larry takes Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie inside the peloton, dissecting and demystifying the wiles and vagaries of the first Monument of the season. We also hear the latest news from the Remco-Roglič battle in Catalonia - and look ahead to a weekend that signals the true start of the cobbled Classics season.
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In this year’s first episode of Arrivée, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe review the action from Milan-Sanremo aka La Classicissima.
Would Tadej Pogačar continue where he left off at Paris-Nice last weekend? Could Van Aert and Van der Poel thwart him? And would Lionel reprise the foccacia-in-cappuccino dunking ritual premiered at last year’s Giro d’Italia?
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In this month's episode of service course Tom Whalley and Lizzy Banks discuss Victor Campanaerts' secret weapon for the spring classics. Lizzy reveals what she's been up to on her secret mission to Girona and speaks to Cannondale's top nerds, Sam Ebert and Nathan Barry. Tom also set out to gain an insight into the process of kit design and spoke to Kate Wagner, Sam Morgan of Paria and our very own Lionel Birnie.
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In this week’s regular episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are joined by former Team CSC and Team Sky press chief and Leopard-Trek manager Brian Nygaard to review the two big WorldTour stage races that concluded at the weekend and look ahead to the first Monument of the 2023 season - Milan-Sanremo.
After the usual weekly news round-up, we discuss the latest Pogcineration of Paris-Nice and the Roglication of Tirreno-Adriatico. What do these two results mean for the Grand Tour season and, in particular, Jonas Vingegaard’s chances of retaining his Tour de France crown?
In the final part of the episode, we also look ahead to Milan-Sanremo, by many estimates the most boring Monument of the season and by Daniel’s the best.
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This episode of Explore was recorded in March 2022, when Lionel Birnie travelled to Berkshire to meet Phil Cavell.
Lionel fitted squarely into the demographic Phil was writing for in his book The Midlife Cyclist and, as one of the people behind Cyclefit, has spent years trying to make riders more comfortable, more efficient and more powerful on the bike.
As the years tick by and the likelihood of aches and pains on and off the bike rises, the middle aged cyclist has to pay more attention to their position, their pre- and post-ride regimes and their diet. But getting old does not mean slowing down. In fact, many riders in their 40s and 50s – and even older – are riding better than ever thanks to advances in our understanding of how to keep the body in good condition. Over a coffee Lionel and Phil chatted all things cycling.
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Lionel Birnie is joined by EF Education-Tibco rider Lizzy Banks and Edward Pickering, the editor of Rouleur magazine, to help see through the dust thrown up by Strade Bianche.
Saturday was a day when teamwork came under the microscope. In part one we examine the women’s race which was dominated by two SD Worx riders who had everything worked out except the ending. Demi Vollering seemed as surprised as anyone that her teammate Lotte Kopecky sprinted against her.
Then we turn attention to the men’s race, won in exhilarating fashion by Ineos Grenadiers rider Tom Pidcock who attacked almost 50 kilometres from home, overhauled the riders ahead of him and struck out on his own. Although his lead was barely ever more than a minute, and at one stage was down to a handful of seconds, the lack of cohesion in the chase and notably between the two Jumbo-Visma riders undoubtedly played into Pidcock’s hands.
In the final part, Lionel checks in with François Thomazeau, for an update on the opening couple of days at Paris-Nice and weighs up the brewing showdown between Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard.
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In this week’s regular episode, Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and Rob Hatch of GCN and Eurosport commentary fame reflect on two thrilling days of racing at Opening Weekend in Belgium.
On Saturday, a dominant Jumbo-Visma performance culminated in victory in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad for a rider whose winning moves typically display all the stealth, cunning and deftness of a gemstone heist. This was followed on Sunday by another Jumbo masterclass and success for one of the team’s less prolific yet most versatile stars.
As usual, there’s also a full round-up of the week’s news and we also look ahead to Strade Bianche next weekend.
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Comebacks, controversy and new rivalries, there’s plenty for Rose Manley, Orla Chennaoui and Lizzy Banks to discuss in this month’s episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin.
We hear from Charlotte Kool who caused a major upset in taking two stage wins over former teammate and sprinting superstar Lorena Wiebes at the UAE Tour. She tells us what it is like taking on the mantle of leadership in one of the world’s best sprinting teams and going head-to-head against a rider you used to lead out.
Newly crowned U23 cyclo-cross world champion Shirin van Anrooij talks to Orla about life at Trek-Segafredo and about enjoying some time off the bike before the Ardennes Classics.
Plus we discuss all the main headlines to come out of Setmana Valenciana and the UAE Tour, including the rejuvenation of Ashleigh Moolman and the polemic surrounding Elisa Longo-Borghini’s win on Jebel Hafeet.
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In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are joined by the young and ambitious chief of the Uno-X men’s and women’s teams, Jens Haugland, to discuss their unlikely journey towards the pinnacle of the sport - the Tour de France.
In a wide-ranging interview, Haugland explains why professional football and the priesthood could have been his alternative career paths - and revisits his team’s very humble beginnings.
Before all of that, we round up the week’s main headlines and zero in on key talking points from the Ruta del Sol and Volta ao Algarve, ahead of Belgium’s Opening Weekend.
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This is a trailer for La Marseillaise, a five-part series for Friends of The Cycling Podcast subscribers. Sign up as a Friend of the Podcast at thecyclingpodcast.comLionel Birnie and François Thomazeau tell the story of Marseille's cycling history and take in the opening race of the 2023 French season.
Lionel heads to Marseille in search of a mid-morning coffee, pre-lunch pastis and the perfect bouillabaisse. François tells the story of the city's rebellious history and its newspaper's Communist roots. There's a trip to the Vélodrome, the role of Bernard Tapie in revolutionising Olympique de Marseille and professional cycling in the 1980s and the origins of the French national anthem.
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In this week’s regular episode, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are joined by former Team Sky and Katusha ace turned gravel-racing maestro Ian Boswell.
After our usual round-up of the week’s news, it’s time to reflect on Tadej Pogačar’s 2023 racing début at the Clásica Jaén Paraíso Interior - and his scintillating victory on the white roads of what has already established itself as Spain’s answer to Strade Bianche.
The Pogcineration on the Andalusian farm tracks is also our cue to quiz Ian about what’s in store for him and the gravel scene generally in 2023. Then, in the last part of the episode, we hear from EF Education First - Easypost’s Esteban Chaves about his recent victory in the Colombian national road race championship and what made it so poignant.
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This week Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are back and joined by one of the most illustrious and recognisable voices in Belgian cycling, Sporza’s veteran commentator and reporter Renaat Schotte.
After the usual news round-up, we review the action from the cyclocross Worlds in Hoogerheide, where Fem Van Empel and Mathieu van der Poel went double Dutch by taking the women’s and men’s titles respectively.
Defeat for Wout van Aert meant disappointment for Belgium, although spirits there will have been buoyed by the latest evidence of Arnaud De Lie’s prodigious talent at the Étoile de Bessèges. With Renaat’s help, we find out more about a rider who is already being hailed as a Tom Boonen-Philippe Gilbert hybrid.
Neilson Powless took overall victory at Bessèges - and the American would be most people’s choice as the rider of the early season. We hear from the EF Education-Easypost man about his early-season success, why he’ll try his hand at the cobbled Classics and why his Native American ancestry is so important to him, especially when things are going well on the bike.
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Explore is about cycling with a sense of adventure, journeying into the unknown and setting off for a challenge not knowing quite what lies ahead.
This episode is no exception, although it features a slightly different type of journey.
Lionel Birnie talks to American cyclo-cross rider Ben Frederick, who made the trip of a lifetime to Belgium over the Christmas and New Year period. It was his first visit to Europe and he was there to take part in the big festive cyclo-cross races where he rubbed shoulders with Mathieu van der Poel, Wout van Aert and Tom Pidcock.
There's nothing especially amazing about that, you might think. After all, Frederick, who is 32, has talent. He was eighth in the US nationals in December and had earned his place on the start grid.
But Frederick's sojourn to Flanders was the culmination of an extraordinary journey. A few years ago, an innocuous crash while training on the trails caused a serious concussion. He had to re-learn how to do simple tasks, such as making coffee, and how to read before he could even contemplate getting back on the bike. It was almost two years before he could race again.
He set himself a goal – to experience something most cyclists can only dream of. To line up with the stars of modern cycling, the giants of the sport, amid the feverish party atmosphere of a Flandrian Christmas.
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In this week’s episode, Daniel Friebe is joined by Rob Hatch and Lionel Birnie, fresh back from his trip to the GP La Marseillaise for the start of the French season.
We round up a flurry of racing over recent days, including that curtain-raiser in Marseille, and exchange hot takes about what we’ve seen so far in Argentina, Saudi Arabia and Spain. We also reflect in greater detail on an emphatic start to the season by two teams, Intermarché Circus Wanty and Team DSM, with contrasting approaches to rider recruitment in particular.
In the final part of the episode, we ponder the news announced by Peter Sagan last week - that 2023 will be his final campaign in the sport’s biggest races. What was Sagan’s impact, what is his legacy and what chance is there of a Monumental swansong?
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In this episode of Service Course, Tom Whalley speaks to Ian Boswell about the upcoming gravel season, the rule changes made by Unbound, and his plans for a very podcast-y Cape Epic ride partnering Mitch Docker.
Boz also talks about his plans to transition from the pointy end of gravel races to the party end at the back. Beyond that, Tom and Lizzy Banks discuss the UCI rule changes for road bikes in 2023, Artificial Intelligence doing us all out of a job, and that Lab 71 bike that no one is confirming the existence of. Turns out there may or may not be one in Lizzy's kitchen.
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After their first appearance to look back on the 2022 season a few weeks ago, we reunite Joe Dombrowski of Astana-Qazaqstan and Larry Warbasse of AG2R Citroën and turn our gaze and thoughts forward to their respective 2023 campaigns.
We ponder their hopes, dreams and fears for the coming campaign, and reflect on a broader question: to what extent is the grunt work that goes into arriving at and staying in peak condition science, and to what extent is it art? At the heart of the discussion are some of the points raised by the trailblazing triathlon coach Olav Aleksander Bu in a recent appearance on the Rich Roll podcast, which you can access here. https://www.richroll.com/all-episodes/
As ever, we also review the week’s main news stories, including the shock non-retirement of Nairo Quintana. Colombian journalist Juan Carlos Berajano joins us to talk about how that plot twist has been greeted back in his and Quintana’s homeland.
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The Cycling Podcast Feminin kicks off 2023 with a look at the racing that is already in full swing in Australia. Rose Manley, Orla Chennaoui and Lizzy Banks discuss the first Women’s World Tour race of the season – the Tour Down Under – which returns to the calendar for the first time since 2020.
We also hear from brand new Australian National Champion Brodie Chapman about finally winning the race that kickstarted her cycling career. Back in 2018, Chapman had a full-time office job and was competing in her first ever UCI race when she made the final selection at the National Championships. Her sixth place finish saw her land a pro contract, a move to Europe and even victory in the Sun Tour of Annemiek Van Vleuten. Now she has joined one of the biggest teams in the world, Trek-Segafredo and is looking to both bolster their team of champions as well as pursue some of her own ambitions this year.
Fellow Trek-Segafredo recruit Amanda Spratt also had a stand out performance at the Tour Down Under. Her explosive climbing on stage three left The Cycling Podcast team speculating if she might not be taking a step down from race leadership after all.
Plus we have the latest news from the women’s professional cycling scene including an update on the collapse of the B&B Hotels team and the agreement of a new title sponsor for the former Drops Cycling squad.
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The 2023 men’s WorldTour kicked off with the Tour Down Under, and that race features heavily in this week’s regular episode, with our roving reporter on the ground in Adelaide, Mitch Docker, bringing us up to date with the latest action.
Mitch is joined by Daniel Friebe and multiple former Monument and Grand Tour stage winner Dan Martin to also discuss the rest of the week’s news. That includes the announcement that one of the most beloved riders in the pro peloton, Thibaut Pinot, will retire at the end of the 2023 season.
The existential void into which some riders disappear when their career ends is our big discussion point in the second half of the podcast. It is also a poignant one in the week when the former Astana rider, Lieuwe Westra, passed away at the age of just 40, after years of mental turmoil. In the episode we’ll hear about those from Westra’s friend and biographer, Thomas Sijtsma.
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After the presentation of the 2023 Vuelta a España route in Barcelona on Tuesday, The Cycling Podcast takes a closer look at the 21 stages that will make up the peloton’s journey from the Catalan capital to Madrid in the summer.
Daniel Friebe is joined by a pair of experts well known for their work on GCN and Eurosport - Rob Hatch and Laura Meseguer. We hear their thoughts on a route whose difficulty either impressed or appalled the riders present in Barcelona on Tuesday - but will happily leave a lighter carbon footprint than last year’s edition, hence the Woody Allen-inspired title of this week’s episode.
There’s also the usual round-up of the week’s main news, including an interview with Allan Peiper. The Aussie is returning to Tadej Pogačar’s side at UAE Team Emirates after a break due to illness.
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After our Big Predictions Pod last week, in this episode The Cycling Podcast continues to gaze into the crystal ball by taking a close look at a team that, we suspect, will continue to soar in 2023. That team is Bora-Hansgrohe, and one of the main brains behind their change of focus in recent months is head sports director Rolf Aldag, who joins Daniel Friebe for an in-depth conversation about the new, post-marginal gains age in professional cycling, how Bora-Hansgrohe are attacking it and some of the stars who could glitter in green and black in 2023.
Before that, Daniel reviews the week’s news with ace Eurosport commentator Rob Hatch, and we also cross to Scandinavia to hear how Uno-X’s invitation to the Tour de France has been celebrated there.
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The Cycling Podcast rings in the New Year by looking ahead to the 2023 season and some of the big storylines that may or may not play out on and off the road.
Daniel Friebe is joined by former pro team manager and spin doctor Brian Nygaard and current AG2R Citroën ace Larry Warbasse. Having discussed the main headlines of the festive period, our not-so-clairvoyant trio hears from various other Cycling Podcast regulars, who this week provide their 2023 predictions for our deliberation. Can one nation really win all three Grand Tours in 2023? Or one team? And will the revelation of the next twelve months be a rookie who calls himself “Il Bandito”? Find out which galaxy brains are behind these and several other fanciful prognostications in the episode.
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The Cycling Podcast Féminin's final episode of 2022 sees the return of the Christmas Quiz! But before their competitive sides kick in, Rose Manley, Orla Chennaoui and Lizzy Banks share their highlights of the season and are in agreement for once.
In a year when the inaugural Tour de France Femmes put women’s racing in the spotlight, they reminisce over some of the moments that captured their imagination at the race. Among them is the tightly-contested GC battle, Annemiek Van Vleuten’s eventual high mountain domination and getting to witness Marianne Vos – the greatest of all time – in yellow.
Honourable mention also goes to the finale of the Women’s Tour where Elisa Longo Borghini snatched overall victory by one second from Grace Brown, with practically the last pedal stroke of the whole race. The emergence of a potential new rivalry between Annemiek Van Vleuten and Lotte Kopecky also caught the attention, with the pair sharing the spoils across two of the most thrilling races of the year: Strade Bianche and the World Championship road race.
The Christmas Quiz returns with Rose setting some devilish questions for Orla and Lizzy, such as how many people did it take to open the winner’s Champagne at Le Samyn? And did someone really win 8kg of dry dog food at the Lotto Belgium Tour? Plus, there's a finishing round of the pun-tastic “Cryptic Criterium” that descends into exasperation as all good Christmas board games should.
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The Cycling Podcast completes its review of the 2022 season by electing our “Team of the Year”. In reality, it wasn't a difficult choice: Jumbo-Visma ruled the roost both in the terms of the quality and quantity of their victories, with Jonas Vingegaard's Tour de France title, Wout van Aert's July tour de force and Tobias Foss's rainbow jersey capping a sensational season. In an extended interview, the team's Managing Director Richard Plugge reminds us of his and their remarkable journey over the past decade, from the brink of oblivion to something akin to what Plugge calls "total cycling".
Before that, Daniel Friebe and Rob Hatch discuss the week's big stories, including Astana's sacking of Miguel Ángel López. There's also a cameo from Ned Boulting of ITV and The Road Book, who tells us about that publication's riders of 2022.
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In this episode Tom Whalley speaks to Paul Farrell, the founder of Leggera who now designs frames and other items for some of the biggest brands in cycling. His career has seen him live in 55 different countries, with 15 years spent living and working in a carbon factory in China. Prior to that he spent over a decade working in the oil business, during which time he was shot at with bows and arrows. He also survived in the world's worst hovercraft tragedy.
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The Cycling Podcast continues its review of the 2022 season by electing our “Comeback of the Year”. Egan Bernal and Milan Vader made miraculous recoveries from injuries that looked career-threatening, Jai Hindley successfully banished the memory of a wretched 2021…but it’s Geraint Thomas who takes the laurels thanks mainly to his third place in the Tour de France.
Before an extended interview with Thomas, Daniel is joined by Brian Nygaard to review the week's main news stories. We get the latest on B&B Hotels and Mark Cavendish, catch up on track and cyclocross news and also reflect on developments following the tragic death of Davide Rebellin.
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This episode of Kilometre 0 features François Thomazeau talking about The cyclist and his shadow by Olivier Haralambon, which was published by The Cycling Podcast earlier this year.
The book is a vivid exploration of what it is to ride a bike by Olivier, a philosopher and former racing cyclist.
At the end of the 2020 Tour de France, François described the book – published in its original French as Le coureur et son ombre – as his favourite cycling book, which piqued our interest. François translated the book into English and The Cycling Podcast published it.
Reading Olivier's book takes you into the very flesh of bike riding, it leads you straight into the noises, the sights, the smells, the urges involved in leaving the upward position for the stoop in the saddle. But it also takes you into the saddle itself, into the frame and the cogs and even the road, the tarmac, the rain and the sweat. It is more a book to feel than a book to read.
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In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, we continue our review of the 2022 season by looking at some of the biggest stories of the last eleven months - and a troubling year for certain sections of the cycling media itself.
Daniel Friebe is joined by AG2r-Citroën rider Larry Warbasse and Jeremy Whittle, the co-founder of Procycling Magazine and now The Guardian's Tour de France correspondent. We also review the week's news and reflect on the tragic death of former Italian rider Davide Rebellin.
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The Cycling Podcast continues its review of the 2022 season by electing our “Ride of the Year” - and courting controversy with that selection. You can keep your Remcos at Liège, your Pogs at Strade Bianche, we say - the finest single exploit of the men’s cycling year was Tobias Foss’s giantkilling act in the World TT championship in Wollongong. In this episode, to help account for our choice, Foss himself gives us a forensic description of how he turned an annus mirabilis into an annus…iridis or “rainbow year”.
Before that, Daniel is joined by Rob Hatch to review the week's main news stories. We get the latest on Nairo Quintana and Mark Cavendish, catch up on track and cyclocross news and also hear about the sad passing of a titan in the world of anti-doping.
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In this episode of Service Course, Lizzy Banks talks to Henry Furniss, who describes his mission as 'enhancing adventure with disruptive techonology'.
In 2019, he left WindyMilla, the company he co-founded, and the following year he hinted to Service Course what he planned to do next.
Now he can put more flesh on the bones of his new project, which combines two of our favourite things – new materials and 3D printing.
Lizzy met Henry on London's Brick Lane during the recent Rouleur Classic.
Also in this episode, Lizzy chats to Tom about his production and sound design work on the Tour d'Écosse series for The Cycling Podcast and hints that there are plans for a full equipment and kit debrief with Lionel and Simon – neither of whom could be described as technical experts – in next month's episode.
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How does a WorldTour professional evaluate his own performance? How does his team? What about his colleagues and training partners? In this week’s episode, regular guest Larry Warbasse of AG2R Citroën Team and his compatriot, Joe Dombrowski of Astana Qazaqstan, are invited to analyse and critique their respective 2022 seasons – and then to turn the spotlight on each other.
Daniel Friebe conducts proceedings as we also discuss the week’s main headlines, including news on Mark Cavendish’s future team and Lachlan Morton’s plans and latest adventures.
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The final episode of the Tour d’Écosse series covers the last three stages of the ride to visit each of Scotland’s Football League grounds.
Stage 13 of the trip takes Lionel and Simon from Montrose to Peterhead, via Aberdeen and a visit to Slains Castle, which inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula. At 128 kilometres it’s the longest stage of the entire tour too but, fortunately, it's somewhat tailwind-assisted.
The following day, however, they battle a fierce headwind on the way to Elgin City’s Borough Briggs, before the last leg takes them from Birnie to Dingwall, the home of the 42nd and final football club on their itinerary, Ross County.
This episode also features a chat with Scotland’s Commonwealth Games road race bronze medallist Finn Crockett, who supports Ross County.
In total, over 15 days of cycling, they covered more than 1,300 kilometres and spent almost 58 hours in the saddle.
The Tour d’Écosse was recorded by Lionel Birnie and Simon Gill.
Production and sound design by Tom Whalley.
Broomwagon support from Sam Slatter and Jon Heard.
Thank you to everyone we met along the way and a special thank you to everyone who has listened to the journey.
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The Angus stage of the Tour d’Écosse takes Lionel Birnie and Simon Gill from Dundee up to Forfar and Brechin before dropping down to the seaside in Arbroath and finally hugging the coastline to Montrose.
There are a couple of culinary delights on the way, the Forfar Bridie for brunch and the Arbroath smokies for lunch before heading to watch the Red Lichties, Arbroath, take on East Fife at Gayfield Park, which is apparently the closest football ground in Europe to the sea.
It’s a ride of almost 100 kilometres with more than 1,000 metres of climbing through the beautiful Angus countryside.
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Join Lionel Birnie and Simon Gill in Freuchie as they recap the first stage of the Tour d’Écosse following their return to Scotland for their journey around the country visiting all the football grounds.
First, though, an exploration of Freuchie’s cricketing exploits before they roll through the Lomond Hills to Perth, the home of St Johnstone, and then up to Dundee where the city’s two football clubs play in their own separate grounds that happen to be just across the street from each other.
On the way Lionel and Simon are joined by another couple of Dotwatchers who had been following their progress and joined them for a few kilometres.
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After just 165 rest days, the Tour d’Écosse resumed in Bonnyrigg in late September for the final stretch of the journey taking in the remaining Scottish Football League grounds. The route director had to re-draw the course over the summer because Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic became the newest members of the Scottish League after winning promotion at Cowdenbeath’s expense in May.
And so, instead of picking up where they left off in Alloa in April, Lionel and Simon head to Bonnyrigg, which is just south of Edinburgh for the first of six stages that would take them all the way north to Dingwall.
We find out what connects Bonnyrigg to James Bond 007, we cross through the Scottish capital and, with the Netflix Tour de France series currently in production, hear from filmmaker Finlay Pretsell about the challenges of making documentaries about professional cycling. Then it’s over the Forth Road Bridge again – no confusion about how to get across the water this time – picking up a dotwatcher or two on the way, before reaching East Fife.
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In the November episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin, Rose Manley, Orla Chennaoui and Lizzy Banks talk transfers. With a number of high profile riders swapping teams, The Cycling Podcast team discuss the mechanics behind the moves and how they might change the face of racing next year.
Drawing particular attention is the official arrival of Zoe Backstedt on to the Women’s World Tour. The 18 year old is the first rider to ever hold four World Championship titles across four different disciplines at the same time. She speaks to Orla about her imperious year and her goals for the forthcoming season when she’ll join Lizzy at EF Education-TIBCO-SVB.
Zoe will not only be racing against her sister Elynor (Trek-Segafredo) next year but will also be looking to beat her dad Magnus too. The former Paris-Roubaix champion will be taking up a place in the Canyon SRAM race car as their new directeur sportif Magnus chats to Orla about his ambitions to steer a competitive and popular Canyon SRAM team towards much needed winning ways.
We also hear from one of Canyon SRAM’s recent departures – Ella Harris – who gives an honest appraisal of her time with the team. The New Zealand rider speaks to Lizzy about her progression from the Zwift Academy and looks to the future with her move to Le Col Wahoo.
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All roads lead to Alloa as the first stretch of Tour d'Écosse stages come to a conclusion with a trip to see the Wasps take on Clyde in the shadow of the beautiful Ochil Hills.
The roll out is from the site of the West Lothian Cycle Circuit at Linlithgow. Lionel meets Matt Ball, one of the driving forces behind the creation of the circuit about how he hopes it will inspire generations of young cyclists and give riders of all abilities somewhere to meet, ride and race.
Then it's a short final stage via Falkirk, Stenhousemuir and Stirling before the last stretch to Alloa in time for kick-off and the pre-match specialty, a Scotch pie on a roll. Yes, you read that correctly – a pie in a bread roll.
The Tour d'Écosse resumes next time with the final run of stages taking Lionel and Simon all the way to Dingwall, home of Ross County.
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All roads lead to Alloa as the first stretch of Tour d'Écosse stages come to a conclusion with a trip to see the Wasps take on Clyde in the shadow of the beautiful Ochil Hills.
The roll out is from the site of the West Lothian Cycle Circuit at Linlithgow. Lionel meets Matt Ball, one of the driving forces behind the creation of the circuit about how he hopes it will inspire generations of young cyclists and give riders of all abilities somewhere to meet, ride and race.
Then it's a short final stage via Falkirk, Stenhousemuir and Stirling before the last stretch to Alloa in time for kick-off and the pre-match specialty, a Scotch pie on a roll. Yes, you read that correctly – a pie in a bread roll.
The Tour d'Écosse resumes next time with the final run of stages taking Lionel and Simon all the way to Dingwall, home of Ross County.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. Stay in your performance zone with Supersapiens. Find out more at supersapiens.com
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The Tour d'Écosse routes were created using the Hammerhead dashboard and Lionel and Simon followed the yellow line and the Karoo 2's turn-by-turn directions from Gretna to Dingwall. For a limited time, listeners to The Cycling Podcast can get a free heart-rate monitor with the purchase of a Hammerhead Karoo 2. Visit hammerhead.io and use promo code CYCLE at checkout when you've added both items to your cart.
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After some initial confusion about which bridge would take them from Edinburgh across to Fife, Lionel and Simon’s Tour d’Écosse journey continues with stage eight.
It’s a relatively short stage but there’s a deceptive amount of climbing on the course today and Simon is beginning to feel it. His efforts to slow Lionel down come to nothing.
Tired legs does not explain the sinking feeling the pair get when they reach Cowdenbeath…
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After some initial confusion about which bridge would take them from Edinburgh across to Fife, Lionel and Simon’s Tour d’Écosse journey continues with stage eight.
It’s a relatively short stage but there’s a deceptive amount of climbing on the course today and Simon is beginning to feel it. His efforts to slow Lionel down come to nothing.
Tired legs does not explain the sinking feeling the pair get when they reach Cowdenbeath…
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The Tour d'Écosse routes were created using the Hammerhead dashboard and Lionel and Simon followed the yellow line and the Karoo 2's turn-by-turn directions from Gretna to Dingwall. For a limited time, listeners to The Cycling Podcast can get a free heart-rate monitor with the purchase of a Hammerhead Karoo 2. Visit hammerhead.io and use promo code CYCLE at checkout when you've added both items to your cart.
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Stage seven of the Tour d’Écosse is as close to the traditional transitional stage as it’s possible to get. The route avoids the Bathgate Alps and takes the low route from Glasgow to Edinburgh.
In Lionel and Simon’s defence they have to go via Livingston Football Club’s Tony Macaroni Arena. It’s a beautiful, quiet ride offering time for reflection and reminiscence before they reach the outskirts of the Scottish capital, Edinburgh.
Simon visits the Caledonian Brewery before they reach the home of Heart of Midlothian and then it’s on to Hibernian and a glimpse of some Sunshine on Leith.
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Stage seven of the Tour d’Écosse is as close to the traditional transitional stage as it’s possible to get. The route avoids the Bathgate Alps and takes the low route from Glasgow to Edinburgh.
In Lionel and Simon’s defence they have to go via Livingston Football Club’s Tony Macaroni Arena. It’s a beautiful, quiet ride offering time for reflection and reminiscence before they reach the outskirts of the Scottish capital, Edinburgh.
Simon visits the Caledonian Brewery before they reach the home of Heart of Midlothian and then it’s on to Hibernian and a glimpse of some Sunshine on Leith.
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In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, one of the revelations of 2022, Fred Wright of Bahrain Victorious, meets Daniel Friebe to review his season and discuss his journey so far towards the upper echelons of the World Tour.
Before that, Daniel is joined by Rob Hatch to review the week's main news stories. We get the latest on Nairo Quintana, Jay Vine and Mark Cavendish - and also hear from new BikeExchange-Jayco signing Alessandro De Marchi.
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We’re still in Glasgow, and this is the big one, the Queen Stage of the Tour d’Écosse with seven current Scottish Football League grounds on the route, plus a couple of wild cards.
Lionel and Simon drop in on Cathkin Park, the so-called ‘ghost ground’ and former home to the long defunct Third Lanark club.
There are stops at Hampden Park, home of the Tartan Army, Parkhead – or Paradise to give it another name – Cumbernauld and Airdrie, the club with two second names Albion Rovers, Hamilton Academical and Motherwell. We also explore the sectarian divide which splits the city with Kenny Pryde.
The eyes of the cycling world will be on Glasgow, and other parts of the country as Scotland takes centre stage in August 2023 as hosts of the UCI World Championships. The first ‘Super Worlds’ as Lionel calls it, will see 190 rainbow jerseys awarded across multiple cycling disciplines. But what will the World Championships mean for the future of Scottish Cycling? We hear from Jimmy McCallum and Peter Ellen of The Cycling Academy about the work to create the champions of tomorrow.
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The Tour d'Écosse routes were created using the Hammerhead dashboard and Lionel and Simon followed the yellow line and the Karoo 2's turn-by-turn directions from Gretna to Dingwall. For a limited time, listeners to The Cycling Podcast can get a free heart-rate monitor with the purchase of a Hammerhead Karoo 2. Visit hammerhead.io and use promo code CYCLE at checkout when you've added both items to your cart.
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We’re still in Glasgow, and this is the big one, the Queen Stage of the Tour d’Écosse with seven current Scottish Football League grounds on the route, plus a couple of wild cards.
Lionel and Simon drop in on Cathkin Park, the so-called ‘ghost ground’ and former home to the long defunct Third Lanark club.
There are stops at Hampden Park, home of the Tartan Army, Parkhead – or Paradise to give it another name – Cumbernauld and Airdrie, the club with two second names Albion Rovers, Hamilton Academical and Motherwell. We also explore the sectarian divide which splits the city with Kenny Pryde.
The eyes of the cycling world will be on Glasgow, and other parts of the country as Scotland takes centre stage in August 2023 as hosts of the UCI World Championships. The first ‘Super Worlds’ as Lionel calls it, will see 190 rainbow jerseys awarded across multiple cycling disciplines. But what will the World Championships mean for the future of Scottish Cycling? We hear from Jimmy McCallum and Peter Ellen of The Cycling Academy about the work to create the champions of tomorrow.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. Stay in your performance zone with Supersapiens. Find out more at supersapiens.com
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The Tour d'Écosse routes were created using the Hammerhead dashboard and Lionel and Simon followed the yellow line and the Karoo 2's turn-by-turn directions from Gretna to Dingwall. For a limited time, listeners to The Cycling Podcast can get a free heart-rate monitor with the purchase of a Hammerhead Karoo 2. Visit hammerhead.io and use promo code CYCLE at checkout when you've added both items to your cart.
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We rejoin the Tour d’Écosse story midway through stage five, just as Lionel and Simon are about to cross back over the River Clyde and head into Glasgow.
Has Simon got any cash for the ferry crossing? Will the rain dampen their spirits before they reach Partick? And most importantly what's for dinner in Glasgow?
There are three more football grounds to visit, at St Mirren, Rangers and Partick Thistle, plus a visit to the cricket ground that hosted the world’s first football international match 150 years ago.
We hear from Simon Inglis, the author and authority on football ground construction, about how the work of Glasgow-born architect and engineer Archibald Leitch shaped the way we watch the sport today. His stadium designs dominated football during its boom period at the beginning of the 20th Century and one of the finest surviving examples of his work is at Ibrox, home of Rangers.
Then we catch up with Kenny Pryde, whose byline filled cycling magazines in the late 1980s and 1990s when Lionel was getting heavily into professional cycling and who later became a colleague. Kenny talks about the experience of covering Robert Millar’s career.
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The Tour d'Écosse routes were created using the Hammerhead dashboard and Lionel and Simon followed the yellow line and the Karoo 2's turn-by-turn directions from Gretna to Dingwall. For a limited time, listeners to The Cycling Podcast can get a free heart-rate monitor with the purchase of a Hammerhead Karoo 2. Visit hammerhead.io and use promo code CYCLE at checkout when you've added both items to your cart.
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With the rain hammering on the windows of their Clydeside loft apartment, Lionel and Simon decide to sit tight round the large dining table drinking coffee and eating porridge until the weather improves.
There's the Killie Pie taste test, talk of Simon's phobia of big spoons, and then discussion of his previous exploits on two wheels. Simon has ridden from Lands' End to John o' Groats, from Tring to Tromsø and tackled the Transatlantic Way in Ireland so he's much more experienced than Lionel at long-distance, self-supported cycling.
Finally, they can delay their departure no longer and the get on the road to Dumbarton via the Forth and Clyde canal. Dumbarton Football Club have a resident poet, Stephen Watt, who tells Lionel about the town and performs a poem he's written specially for The Cycling Podcast.
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The Cycling Podcast x MAAP collection is available now. Go to maap.cc to see the full MAAP range.
Hammerhead
The Tour d'Écosse routes were created using the Hammerhead dashboard and Lionel and Simon followed the yellow line and the Karoo 2's turn-by-turn directions from Gretna to Dingwall. For a limited time, listeners to The Cycling Podcast can get a free heart-rate monitor with the purchase of a Hammerhead Karoo 2. Visit hammerhead.io and use promo code CYCLE at checkout when you've added both items to your cart.
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With the rain hammering on the windows of their Clydeside loft apartment, Lionel and Simon decide to sit tight round the large dining table drinking coffee and eating porridge until the weather improves.
There's the Killie Pie taste test, talk of Simon's phobia of big spoons, and then discussion of his previous exploits on two wheels. Simon has ridden from Lands' End to John o' Groats, from Tring to Tromsø and tackled the Transatlantic Way in Ireland so he's much more experienced than Lionel at long-distance, self-supported cycling.
Finally, they can delay their departure no longer and the get on the road to Dumbarton via the Forth and Clyde canal. Dumbarton Football Club have a resident poet, Stephen Watt, who tells Lionel about the town and performs a poem he's written specially for The Cycling Podcast.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
Supersapiens
Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. Stay in your performance zone with Supersapiens. Find out more at supersapiens.com
Science in Sport
Lionel and Simon were fuelled by Science In Sport. Everything you need before, during and after your ride. For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.
MAAP
The Cycling Podcast x MAAP collection is available now. Go to maap.cc to see the full MAAP range.
Hammerhead
The Tour d'Écosse routes were created using the Hammerhead dashboard and Lionel and Simon followed the yellow line and the Karoo 2's turn-by-turn directions from Gretna to Dingwall. For a limited time, listeners to The Cycling Podcast can get a free heart-rate monitor with the purchase of a Hammerhead Karoo 2. Visit hammerhead.io and use promo code CYCLE at checkout when you've added both items to your cart.
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In this episode of The Cycling Podcast we discuss the burning issues of the week and continue to revisit some of the main themes and topics of the 2022 season.
Daniel Friebe is joined by Brian Nygaard and veteran Sporza reporter and commentator, Renaat Schotte. Renaat explains why 2022 was a vintage one for Belgian cycling - and also tries, for the second time in recent years, to open Daniel's eyes to allure of cyclocross. We also hear from UAE Team Emirates' latest and most improbable signing of the autumn.
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The Tour d'Écosse picks up where it left off, in Ayr, or more to the point in a pub in Ayr where Lionel and Simon have just ordered a dessert pizza that would horrify Ciro Scognamiglio and, for that matter, all Italians.
Then it's back on the road, past the golf courses that decorate the Ayrshire coast, on the roads that made the Girvan one of the toughest stage races in Britain, and via an extraordinary – if brief – Elvis impression by Simon. We sample the Killie Pie, talk Graeme Obree with Edward Pickering, author of the book The Race Against Time, and get our first glimpse of the Clyde as we arrive at Greenock Morton FC.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. Stay in your performance zone with Supersapiens. Find out more at supersapiens.com
Science in Sport
Lionel and Simon were fuelled by Science In Sport. Everything you need before, during and after your ride. For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.
MAAP
The Cycling Podcast x MAAP collection is available now. Go to maap.cc to see the full MAAP range.
Hammerhead
The Tour d'Écosse routes were created using the Hammerhead dashboard and Lionel and Simon followed the yellow line and the Karoo 2's turn-by-turn directions from Gretna to Dingwall. For a limited time, listeners to The Cycling Podcast can get a free heart-rate monitor with the purchase of a Hammerhead Karoo 2. Visit hammerhead.io and use promo code CYCLE at checkout when you've added both items to your cart.
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The Tour d'Écosse picks up where it left off, in Ayr, or more to the point in a pub in Ayr where Lionel and Simon have just ordered a dessert pizza that would horrify Ciro Scognamiglio and, for that matter, all Italians.
Then it's back on the road, past the golf courses that decorate the Ayrshire coast, on the roads that made the Girvan one of the toughest stage races in Britain, and via an extraordinary – if brief – Elvis impression by Simon. We sample the Killie Pie, talk Graeme Obree with Edward Pickering, author of the book The Race Against Time, and get our first glimpse of the Clyde as we arrive at Greenock Morton FC.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
Supersapiens
Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. Stay in your performance zone with Supersapiens. Find out more at supersapiens.com
Science in Sport
Lionel and Simon were fuelled by Science In Sport. Everything you need before, during and after your ride. For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.
MAAP
The Cycling Podcast x MAAP collection is available now. Go to maap.cc to see the full MAAP range.
Hammerhead
The Tour d'Écosse routes were created using the Hammerhead dashboard and Lionel and Simon followed the yellow line and the Karoo 2's turn-by-turn directions from Gretna to Dingwall. For a limited time, listeners to The Cycling Podcast can get a free heart-rate monitor with the purchase of a Hammerhead Karoo 2. Visit hammerhead.io and use promo code CYCLE at checkout when you've added both items to your cart.
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This is the Robert Burns stage, as Lionel and Simon head from Stranraer to Ayr to the Scottish poet's home town. The town's football team, Ayr United, are nicknamed the Honest Men – a reference to a line in one of Burns's most famous poems, Tam o' Shanter.
They're getting into their stride now, tackling the second of three consecutive stages of almost 100 kilometres. It's a day that focuses on the cycling, the glorious Scottish countryside, the nature of friendship, grief and cycling's role in the healing process. There's also fuelling tips and psychological tricks from Lizzy Banks, and a poetry reading from Sir Chris Hoy to round off the episode.
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Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. Stay in your performance zone with Supersapiens. Find out more at supersapiens.com
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MAAP
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Hammerhead
The Tour d'Écosse routes were created using the Hammerhead dashboard and Lionel and Simon followed the yellow line and the Karoo 2's turn-by-turn directions from Gretna to Dingwall. For a limited time, listeners to The Cycling Podcast can get a free heart-rate monitor with the purchase of a Hammerhead Karoo 2. Visit hammerhead.io and use promo code CYCLE at checkout when you've added both items to your cart.
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The clock is ticking today because Lionel and Simon want to make it to Stranraer's Stair Park ground in time for 3pm when the home side kick-off their match against visitors Forfar Athletic.
There's almost 100 kilometres to ride through the Dumfries and Galloway countryside offering plenty of time to reflect on the journey ahead and the nature of back-to-back days of riding.
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Lionel and Simon were fuelled by Science In Sport. Everything you need before, during and after your ride. For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.
MAAP
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Hammerhead
The Tour d'Écosse routes were created using the Hammerhead dashboard and Lionel and Simon followed the yellow line and the Karoo 2's turn-by-turn directions from Gretna to Dingwall. For a limited time, listeners to The Cycling Podcast can get a free heart-rate monitor with the purchase of a Hammerhead Karoo 2. Visit hammerhead.io and use promo code CYCLE at checkout when you've added both items to your cart.
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This is the Tour d'Écosse take two. Lionel Birnie and Simon Gill return to Gretna, the first town visitors to Scotland reach after crossing the border from north west England, to finally get their ride underway.
Starting from Gretna's Raydale Park ground, it's a ride of just over 75 kilometres to Castle Douglas. They tick off the first two football grounds – Annan Athletic's Galabank and Palmerston Park, the home of Queen of the South.
Lionel sets out alone because Simon has some last-minute mechanical issues that require professional assistance. On the way, they meet Giancarlo Rinaldi who explains the history of Scotland's Italian immigrants and that the bicycle was invented in Dumfries, and Lionel proves to be quite handy at curling... although Simon insists it's just beginner's luck.
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HammerheadThe Tour d'Écosse routes were created using the Hammerhead dashboard and Lionel and Simon followed the yellow line and the Karoo 2's turn-by-turn directions from Gretna to Dingwall. For a limited time, listeners to The Cycling Podcast can get a free heart-rate monitor with the purchase of a Hammerhead Karoo 2. Visit hammerhead.io and use promo code CYCLE at checkout when you've added both items to your cart.
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Explore returns with the Tour d'Écosse, a multi-part series telling the story of the beautiful game on two wheels. It was an idea dreamed up by Lionel Birnie and Simon Gill during lockdown, inspired by their childhood passions of cycling and football. The plan was to ride from Gretna to Dingwall visiting all 42 of the Scottish Football League grounds on the way.
There are so many questions to answer... Will Lionel and Simon make it to Forfar without falling out? Why are Cowdenbeath called The Blue Brazil? What actually is Irn Bru? And do Lionel's ancestors really hail from Birnie?
This episode is a prologue, of sorts. Lionel and Simon headed to Gretna in June 2021 ready to set off on their adventure but, as you'll hear, it turned out to be something of a false start...
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HammerheadThe Tour d'Écosse routes were created using the Hammerhead dashboard and Lionel and Simon followed the yellow line and the Karoo 2's turn-by-turn directions from Gretna to Dingwall. For a limited time, listeners to The Cycling Podcast can get a free heart-rate monitor with the purchase of a Hammerhead Karoo 2. Visit hammerhead.io and use promo code CYCLE at checkout when you've added both items to your cart.
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In this episode of The Cycling Podcast we review the 2023 Tour de France presentation, which took place in Paris on Thursday.
Daniel Friebe is joined by the voice of Tour de France race radio, Seb Piquet, and a veteran of 34 Tours, a handful of them with The Cycling Podcast, François Thomazeau. We also analyse the route of the second Tour de France Femmes with Lizzy Banks of EF Education–Tibco–SVB.
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In this episode of The Cycling Podcast we review the 2023 Giro d'Italia route presentation, which took place earlier this week.
Daniel Friebe is joined by ace commentator Rob Hatch and BikeExchange-Jayco Head Sports Director Matt White. We also take the opportunity to quiz Matt about his team's goals for next season, recruitment strategy and various other burning issues in the sport.
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In this episode of Service Course Tom spends time with the scientists, the artisans, the designers, the fabricators and the builders as he visits Bespoked 2022 to see some of the most beautiful hand-built bikes the world has to offer. At the show Tom speaks with the Namibian High Commissioner to Great Britain, Dan “Dan from Nam” Craven, and the man whose love for a specific chainring resulted in him buying and resurrecting the company that made it. Tom also hears from the people behind bike brands including Eastwood, Avalanche, BCB, Cybro and Aravis.
Back in the studio Tom and Lizzy take a look at the big tech news in cycling which this month has been dominated by Filippo Ganna’s extraordinary hour record attempt.
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In this episode The Cycling Podcast looks back at the final Monument of the season, il Lombardia, otherwise known as the “Race of the Falling Leaves”. Did Tadej Pogačar manage to emulate last year’s success or was his Tour de France bête noire Jonas Vingegaard able to confirm his status as the peloton’s new climbing virtuoso?
Daniel Friebe is joined by 2014 Lombardia winner Dan Martin and former team manager, communications chief & now journalist Brian Nygaard. We also hear, briefly, from Ciro Scognamiglio, who like Daniel was in Grenchen to see Filippo Ganna take aim at Dan Bigham’s recently established World Hour Record.
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Rose Manley, Orla Chennaoui and Lizzy Banks return to give their impressions of this year's thrilling World Championship road race, which saw Annemiek Van Vleuten snatch the rainbow jersey and gold medal in the final moments.
Van Vleuten took to the start line with a fractured elbow – sustained only a few days prior to the the race – and looked to be on super domestique duty for the Dutch team. But an opportunistic move when she rejoined the leading group within the last kilometre saw her take her second World Championships road race title.
Van Vleuten has ruled the world this season – adding the rainbow jersey to victories in the Giro, Tour and Vuelta, plus Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
In this episode, we hear from the newly crowned time trial champion Ellen van Dijk about taking her title, rooming with Van Vleuten and becoming a Netflix heroine. And the winner of the inaugural under 23 title Niamh Fisher-Black talks about an emotional race for her and her fight to even make it to the start line of the race.
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In this episode The Cycling Podcast looks ahead to the final Monument of the season, il Lombardia, otherwise known as the “Race of the Falling Leaves”. Will Tadej Pogačar repeat last year’s success or could Pog’s 2022 Tour de France nemesis Jonas Vingegaard again outclimb and outmanoeuvre him, this time on the roads of northern Italy?
Daniel Friebe is joined by 2014 Lombardia winner Dan Martin and former team manager, communications chief & now journalist Brian Nygaard. We also hear from the teenaged revelation of last week’s CRO Race, Oscar Onley of Scotland and Team DSM.
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The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the 2022 UCI World Championships in Wollongong, Australia, continues with an in-depth look back at the Men’s Elite Road Race. We review the key incidents - on & off the bike - & weigh up the challenges now facing the new World Champion.
Daniel Friebe is joined by AG2R-Citroën rider Larry Warbasse and former team manager, communications chief & now journalist Brian Nygaard.
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The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the 2022 UCI World Championships in Wollongong, Australia, continues with a look back at the men’s elite time trial and a glance ahead to the men’s elite road race at the weekend. We analyse the surprise new time trial world champ’s performance and also dig deeper into his life story, unearthing some startling biographical trivia. In the second half of the episode, we turn our attention to the men’s road race and ask who is and – equally important this year – who isn’t on the start-line and why.
Daniel Friebe is joined this week by AG2R-Citroën rider Larry Warbasse and ace Eurosport commentator Rob Hatch.
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In this month's episode of Service Course Tom Whalley and Lizzy Banks delve in to the world of custom painting. They speak to Tony Baumann at Made Rad by Tony and Tom Hunt from KustomFlow who take us through the process of custom painting bike frames and how to do it yourself.
Tom and Lizzy try to find out why the sport of cycling brings out creativity like no other sport and they ask whether there is a line between a bike as a tool and a bike as a piece of art.
In this episode, we also hear from Abi Smith of EF-Tibco-SVB about how art is an important part of her life as a professional cyclist.
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In a bumper edition of The Cycling Podcast Féminin, Rose Manley, Orla Chennaoui and Lizzy Banks not only preview the upcoming World Championships in Woolangong but also discuss some six weeks' worth of Women's World Tour racing. Topics up for discussion include Marianne Vos' disqualification in Vårgårda, Team DSM's sprint tactics, the value of the "three Grand Tours" and the young upstarts making an impression on the Women's World Tour.
Then New South Wales native Amanda Spratt offers her insight into the World Championships which return to Australia for the first time since 2010 as well as talking about her imminent move to Trek-Segafredo and her comeback from years of injury and illness.
We look in further depth at the race course and also hear from some of the other teams in contention for the Worlds title, including Elisa Longo Borghini of Italy, Marlen Reusser of Switzerland, Leah Thomas of the USA and Elynor Backstedt of Great Britain. And of course The Cycling Podcast Féminin team offer up their predictions for what looks set to be a thrilling race.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the 2022 Vuelta a España will follow the race from Utrecht in the Netherlands to the capital of Spain, Madrid, with daily episodes after each of the stages.
Join Daniel Friebe and friends as they analyse the race, catch up with the riders and capture the spirit of the Vuelta, the third and final grand tour of the pro cycling season.
In this episode, Daniel is joined by Larry Warbasse.
Daily features include El Ritmo de la Vuelta (The Rhythm of La Vuelta), El Encuentro del Día (The Meeting of the Day), El Resumen a Contrarreloj (The Stage Summary Time Trial) and La Etapa de Mañana, la Cena de Ayer (Tomorrow’s Stage, Yesterday’s Food).
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
Science in Sport
For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.
MAAP
The Cycling Podcast has joined forces with MAAP. The Cycling Podcast collection will be released soon, with the winning jersey design, Dot, taking centre stage. Go to maap.cc to see the full MAAP range.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the 2022 Vuelta a España will follow the race from Utrecht in the Netherlands to the capital of Spain, Madrid, with daily episodes after each of the stages.
Join Daniel Friebe and friends as they analyse the race, catch up with the riders and capture the spirit of the Vuelta, the third and final grand tour of the pro cycling season.
In this episode, Daniel is joined by Brian Nygaard and Fran Reyes
Daily features include El Ritmo de la Vuelta (The Rhythm of La Vuelta), El Encuentro del Día (The Meeting of the Day), El Resumen a Contrarreloj (The Stage Summary Time Trial) and La Etapa de Mañana, la Cena de Ayer (Tomorrow’s Stage, Yesterday’s Food).
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
Supersapiens
Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
Science in Sport
For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.
MAAP
The Cycling Podcast has joined forces with MAAP. The Cycling Podcast collection will be released soon, with the winning jersey design, Dot, taking centre stage. Go to maap.cc to see the full MAAP range.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the 2022 Vuelta a España will follow the race from Utrecht in the Netherlands to the capital of Spain, Madrid, with daily episodes after each of the stages.
Join Daniel Friebe and friends as they analyse the race, catch up with the riders and capture the spirit of the Vuelta, the third and final grand tour of the pro cycling season.
In this episode, Daniel is joined by Larry Warbasse of AG2R Citroën Team and Fran Reyes.
Daily features include El Ritmo de la Vuelta (The Rhythm of La Vuelta), El Encuentro del Día (The Meeting of the Day), El Resumen a Contrarreloj (The Stage Summary Time Trial) and La Etapa de Mañana, la Cena de Ayer (Tomorrow’s Stage, Yesterday’s Food).
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
Supersapiens
Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
Science in Sport
For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.
MAAP
The Cycling Podcast has joined forces with MAAP. The Cycling Podcast collection will be released soon, with the winning jersey design, Dot, taking centre stage. Go to maap.cc to see the full MAAP range.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the 2022 Vuelta a España will follow the race from Utrecht in the Netherlands to the capital of Spain, Madrid, with daily episodes after each of the stages.
Join Daniel Friebe and friends as they analyse the race, catch up with the riders and capture the spirit of the Vuelta, the third and final grand tour of the pro cycling season.
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Daily features include El Ritmo de la Vuelta (The Rhythm of La Vuelta), El Encuentro del Día (The Meeting of the Day), El Resumen a Contrarreloj (The Stage Summary Time Trial) and La Etapa de Mañana, la Cena de Ayer (Tomorrow’s Stage, Yesterday’s Food).
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
Supersapiens
Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
Science in Sport
For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.
MAAP
The Cycling Podcast has joined forces with MAAP. The Cycling Podcast collection will be released soon, with the winning jersey design, Dot, taking centre stage. Go to maap.cc to see the full MAAP range.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the 2022 Vuelta a España will follow the race from Utrecht in the Netherlands to the capital of Spain, Madrid, with daily episodes after each of the stages.
Join Daniel Friebe and friends as they analyse the race, catch up with the riders and capture the spirit of the Vuelta, the third and final grand tour of the pro cycling season.
In this episode, Daniel is joined by Brian Nygaard and Fran Reyes.
Daily features include El Ritmo de la Vuelta (The Rhythm of La Vuelta), El Encuentro del Día (The Meeting of the Day), El Resumen a Contrarreloj (The Stage Summary Time Trial) and La Etapa de Mañana, la Cena de Ayer (Tomorrow’s Stage, Yesterday’s Food).
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
Supersapiens
Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
Science in Sport
For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.
MAAP
The Cycling Podcast has joined forces with MAAP. The Cycling Podcast collection will be released soon, with the winning jersey design, Dot, taking centre stage. Go to maap.cc to see the full MAAP range.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the 2022 Vuelta a España will follow the race from Utrecht in the Netherlands to the capital of Spain, Madrid, with daily episodes after each of the stages.
Join Daniel Friebe and friends as they analyse the race, catch up with the riders and capture the spirit of the Vuelta, the third and final grand tour of the pro cycling season.
In this episode, Daniel is joined by Larry Warbasse.
Daily features include El Ritmo de la Vuelta (The Rhythm of La Vuelta), El Encuentro del Día (The Meeting of the Day), El Resumen a Contrarreloj (The Stage Summary Time Trial) and La Etapa de Mañana, la Cena de Ayer (Tomorrow’s Stage, Yesterday’s Food).
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
Supersapiens
Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
Science in Sport
For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.
MAAP
The Cycling Podcast has joined forces with MAAP. The Cycling Podcast collection will be released soon, with the winning jersey design, Dot, taking centre stage. Go to maap.cc to see the full MAAP range.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the 2022 Vuelta a España will follow the race from Utrecht in the Netherlands to the capital of Spain, Madrid, with daily episodes after each of the stages.
Join Daniel Friebe and friends as they analyse the race, catch up with the riders and capture the spirit of the Vuelta, the third and final grand tour of the pro cycling season.
In this episode, Daniel is joined by Brian Nygaard.
Daily features include El Ritmo de la Vuelta (The Rhythm of La Vuelta), El Encuentro del Día (The Meeting of the Day), El Resumen a Contrarreloj (The Stage Summary Time Trial) and La Etapa de Mañana, la Cena de Ayer (Tomorrow’s Stage, Yesterday’s Food).
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
Supersapiens
Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
Science in Sport
For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.
MAAP
The Cycling Podcast has joined forces with MAAP. The Cycling Podcast collection will be released soon, with the winning jersey design, Dot, taking centre stage. Go to maap.cc to see the full MAAP range.
Friends of the Podcast
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the 2022 Vuelta a España will follow the race from Utrecht in the Netherlands to the capital of Spain, Madrid, with daily episodes after each of the stages.
Join Daniel Friebe and friends as they analyse the race, catch up with the riders and capture the spirit of the Vuelta, the third and final grand tour of the pro cycling season.
In this episode, Daniel is joined by Larry Warbasse and Fran Reyes.
Daily features include El Ritmo de la Vuelta (The Rhythm of La Vuelta), El Encuentro del Día (The Meeting of the Day), El Resumen a Contrarreloj (The Stage Summary Time Trial) and La Etapa de Mañana, la Cena de Ayer (Tomorrow’s Stage, Yesterday’s Food).
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
Supersapiens
Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
Science in Sport
For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.
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The Cycling Podcast has joined forces with MAAP. The Cycling Podcast collection will be released soon, with the winning jersey design, Dot, taking centre stage. Go to maap.cc to see the full MAAP range.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the 2022 Vuelta a España will follow the race from Utrecht in the Netherlands to the capital of Spain, Madrid, with daily episodes after each of the stages.
Join Daniel Friebe and friends as they analyse the race, catch up with the riders and capture the spirit of the Vuelta, the third and final grand tour of the pro cycling season.
In this episode, Daniel is joined by Larry Warbasse .
Daily features include El Ritmo de la Vuelta (The Rhythm of La Vuelta), El Encuentro del Día (The Meeting of the Day), El Resumen a Contrarreloj (The Stage Summary Time Trial) and La Etapa de Mañana, la Cena de Ayer (Tomorrow’s Stage, Yesterday’s Food).
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
Supersapiens
Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
Science in Sport
For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.
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The Cycling Podcast has joined forces with MAAP. The Cycling Podcast collection will be released soon, with the winning jersey design, Dot, taking centre stage. Go to maap.cc to see the full MAAP range.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the 2022 Vuelta a España will follow the race from Utrecht in the Netherlands to the capital of Spain, Madrid, with daily episodes after each of the stages.
Join Daniel Friebe and friends as they analyse the race, catch up with the riders and capture the spirit of the Vuelta, the third and final grand tour of the pro cycling season.
In this episode, Daniel is joined by Dan Martin.
Daily features include El Ritmo de la Vuelta (The Rhythm of La Vuelta), El Encuentro del Día (The Meeting of the Day), El Resumen a Contrarreloj (The Stage Summary Time Trial) and La Etapa de Mañana, la Cena de Ayer (Tomorrow’s Stage, Yesterday’s Food).
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
Supersapiens
Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
Science in Sport
For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.
MAAP
The Cycling Podcast has joined forces with MAAP. The Cycling Podcast collection will be released soon, with the winning jersey design, Dot, taking centre stage. Go to maap.cc to see the full MAAP range.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the 2022 Vuelta a España will follow the race from Utrecht in the Netherlands to the capital of Spain, Madrid, with daily episodes after each of the stages.
Join Daniel Friebe and friends as they analyse the race, catch up with the riders and capture the spirit of the Vuelta, the third and final grand tour of the pro cycling season.
In this episode, Daniel is joined by Brian Nygaard and Fran Reyes
Daily features include El Ritmo de la Vuelta (The Rhythm of La Vuelta), El Encuentro del Día (The Meeting of the Day), El Resumen a Contrarreloj (The Stage Summary Time Trial) and La Etapa de Mañana, la Cena de Ayer (Tomorrow’s Stage, Yesterday’s Food).
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
Supersapiens
Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
Science in Sport
For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.
MAAP
The Cycling Podcast has joined forces with MAAP. The Cycling Podcast collection will be released soon, with the winning jersey design, Dot, taking centre stage. Go to maap.cc to see the full MAAP range.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the 2022 Vuelta a España will follow the race from Utrecht in the Netherlands to the capital of Spain, Madrid, with daily episodes after each of the stages.
Join Daniel Friebe and friends as they analyse the race, catch up with the riders and capture the spirit of the Vuelta, the third and final grand tour of the pro cycling season.
In this episode, Daniel is joined by Lucky Larry “The Ghost” Warbasse.
Daily features include El Ritmo de la Vuelta (The Rhythm of La Vuelta), El Encuentro del Día (The Meeting of the Day), El Resumen a Contrarreloj (The Stage Summary Time Trial) and La Etapa de Mañana, la Cena de Ayer (Tomorrow’s Stage, Yesterday’s Food).
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
Supersapiens
Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
Science in Sport
For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.
MAAP
The Cycling Podcast has joined forces with MAAP. The Cycling Podcast collection will be released soon, with the winning jersey design, Dot, taking centre stage. Go to maap.cc to see the full MAAP range.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the 2022 Vuelta a España will follow the race from Utrecht in the Netherlands to the capital of Spain, Madrid, with daily episodes after each of the stages.
Join Daniel Friebe and friends as they analyse the race, catch up with the riders and capture the spirit of the Vuelta, the third and final grand tour of the pro cycling season.
In this episode, Daniel is joined by Brian Nygaard.
Daily features include El Ritmo de la Vuelta (The Rhythm of La Vuelta), El Encuentro del Día (The Meeting of the Day), El Resumen a Contrarreloj (The Stage Summary Time Trial) and La Etapa de Mañana, la Cena de Ayer (Tomorrow’s Stage, Yesterday’s Food).
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
Supersapiens
Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
Science in Sport
For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.
MAAP
The Cycling Podcast has joined forces with MAAP. The Cycling Podcast collection will be released soon, with the winning jersey design, Dot, taking centre stage. Go to maap.cc to see the full MAAP range.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the 2022 Vuelta a España will follow the race from Utrecht in the Netherlands to the capital of Spain, Madrid, with daily episodes after each of the stages.
Join Daniel Friebe and friends as they analyse the race, catch up with the riders and capture the spirit of the Vuelta, the third and final grand tour of the pro cycling season.
In this episode, Daniel is joined by Dan Martin and Nicolás van Looy.
Daily features include El Ritmo de la Vuelta (The Rhythm of La Vuelta), El Encuentro del Día (The Meeting of the Day), El Resumen a Contrarreloj (The Stage Summary Time Trial) and La Etapa de Mañana, la Cena de Ayer (Tomorrow’s Stage, Yesterday’s Food).
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
Supersapiens
Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
Science in Sport
For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.
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The Cycling Podcast has joined forces with MAAP. The Cycling Podcast collection will be released soon, with the winning jersey design, Dot, taking centre stage. Go to maap.cc to see the full MAAP range.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the 2022 Vuelta a España will follow the race from Utrecht in the Netherlands to the capital of Spain, Madrid, with daily episodes after each of the stages.
Join Daniel Friebe and friends as they analyse the race, catch up with the riders and capture the spirit of the Vuelta, the third and final grand tour of the pro cycling season.
In this episode, Daniel is joined by Nicolás van Looy.
Daily features include El Ritmo de la Vuelta (The Rhythm of La Vuelta), El Encuentro del Día (The Meeting of the Day), El Resumen a Contrarreloj (The Stage Summary Time Trial) and La Etapa de Mañana, la Cena de Ayer (Tomorrow’s Stage, Yesterday’s Food).
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
Supersapiens
Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
Science in Sport
For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.
MAAP
The Cycling Podcast has joined forces with MAAP. The Cycling Podcast collection will be released soon, with the winning jersey design, Dot, taking centre stage. Go to maap.cc to see the full MAAP range.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the 2022 Vuelta a España will follow the race from Utrecht in the Netherlands to the capital of Spain, Madrid, with daily episodes after each of the stages.
Join Daniel Friebe and friends as they analyse the race, catch up with the riders and capture the spirit of the Vuelta, the third and final grand tour of the pro cycling season.
In this episode, Daniel is joined by Larry Warbasse and Rob Hatch.
Daily features include El Ritmo de la Vuelta (The Rhythm of La Vuelta), El Encuentro del Día (The Meeting of the Day), El Resumen a Contrarreloj (The Stage Summary Time Trial) and La Etapa de Mañana, la Cena de Ayer (Tomorrow’s Stage, Yesterday’s Food).
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
Supersapiens
Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
Science in Sport
For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.
MAAP
The Cycling Podcast has joined forces with MAAP. The Cycling Podcast collection will be released soon, with the winning jersey design, Dot, taking centre stage. Go to maap.cc to see the full MAAP range.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the 2022 Vuelta a España will follow the race from Utrecht in the Netherlands to the capital of Spain, Madrid, with daily episodes after each of the stages.
Join Daniel Friebe and friends as they analyse the race, catch up with the riders and capture the spirit of the Vuelta, the third and final grand tour of the pro cycling season.
In this episode, Daniel is joined by Larry "The Ghost" Warbasse.
Daily features include El Ritmo de la Vuelta (The Rhythm of La Vuelta), El Encuentro del Día (The Meeting of the Day), El Resumen a Contrarreloj (The Stage Summary Time Trial) and La Etapa de Mañana, la Cena de Ayer (Tomorrow’s Stage, Yesterday’s Food).
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
Supersapiens
Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
Science in Sport
For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.
MAAP
The Cycling Podcast has joined forces with MAAP. The Cycling Podcast collection will be released soon, with the winning jersey design, Dot, taking centre stage. Go to maap.cc to see the full MAAP range.
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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava
The Cycling Podcast was founded in 2013 by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the 2022 Vuelta a España will follow the race from Utrecht in the Netherlands to the capital of Spain, Madrid, with daily episodes after each of the stages.
Join Daniel Friebe and friends as they analyse the race, catch up with the riders and capture the spirit of the Vuelta, the third and final grand tour of the pro cycling season.
In this episode, Daniel is joined by Brian Nygaard.
Daily features include El Ritmo de la Vuelta (The Rhythm of La Vuelta), El Encuentro del Día (The Meeting of the Day), El Resumen a Contrarreloj (The Stage Summary Time Trial) and La Etapa de Mañana, la Cena de Ayer (Tomorrow’s Stage, Yesterday’s Food).
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
Supersapiens
Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
Science in Sport
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The third Grand Tour of the year is also our third opportunity to take listeners on a journey through one of Europe’s powerhouse nations not only in bike-racing but also wine-making.
As in previous years and ahead of this year’s Giro and Tour, we tasked Greg Andrews of Dvine Cellars with plotting our oenological odyssey – in this case with the help of Dvine’s Spanish expert in residence, their Canaries-born and raised Caledonian, Angus McNab.
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, we take a break from our daily Vuelta coverage to taste the wines and hear Greg and Angus justify and in some cases defend their choices. The selection itself can be ordered from Dvine Cellars.
The six wines are as follows, in the order that they ‘appear’ on the Vuelta route:
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Bat Gara, Uno Txakoli, Basque Country
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Bodegas Tobía, Reserva, Rioja (2014 Gran Reserva also available)
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Raúl Pérez, 'Ultreia Saint Jacques', Mencía, Bierzo
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Telmo Rodriguez, Al-Muvedre Tinto, Monastrell, Alicante
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Callejuela, Hacienda de Dona Francisca, Palomino de Flor, Sanlúcar de Barrameda
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Bodegas Bernabeleva, Camino de Navaherreros Blanco, Madrid
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The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the 2022 Vuelta a España will follow the race from Utrecht in the Netherlands to the capital of Spain, Madrid, with daily episodes after each of the stages.
Join Daniel Friebe and friends as they analyse the race, catch up with the riders and capture the spirit of the Vuelta, the third and final grand tour of the pro cycling season.
In this episode, Daniel is joined by Dan Martin.
Daily features include El Ritmo de la Vuelta (The Rhythm of La Vuelta), El Encuentro del Día (The Meeting of the Day), El Resumen a Contrarreloj (The Stage Summary Time Trial) and La Etapa de Mañana, la Cena de Ayer (Tomorrow’s Stage, Yesterday’s Food).
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The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the 2022 Vuelta a España will follow the race from Utrecht in the Netherlands to the capital of Spain, Madrid, with daily episodes after each of the stages.
Join Daniel Friebe and friends as they analyse the race, catch up with the riders and capture the spirit of the Vuelta, the third and final grand tour of the pro cycling season.
In this episode, Daniel is joined by Larry Warbasse of AG2R Citroën Team.
Daily features include El Ritmo de la Vuelta (The Rhythm of La Vuelta), El Encuentro del Día (The Meeting of the Day), El Resumen a Contrarreloj (The Stage Summary Time Trial) and La Etapa de Mañana, la Cena de Ayer (Tomorrow’s Stage, Yesterday’s Food).
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The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the 2022 Vuelta a España will follow the race from Utrecht in the Netherlands to the capital of Spain, Madrid, with daily episodes after each of the stages.
Join Daniel Friebe and friends as they analyse the race, catch up with the riders and capture the spirit of the Vuelta, the third and final grand tour of the pro cycling season.
In this episode, Daniel is joined by Ian Boswell and Nicolás van Looy.
Daily features include El Ritmo de la Vuelta (The Rhythm of La Vuelta), El Encuentro del Día (The Meeting of the Day), El Resumen a Contrarreloj (The Stage Summary Time Trial) and La Etapa de Mañana, la Cena de Ayer (Tomorrow’s Stage, Yesterday’s Food).
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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In this month’s episode of Service Course Tom Whalley goes on the Tour De Supply Chain, a ride that goes back through time to the start of the pandemic, through to the current supply chain crisis which is impacting everyone in the bike industry. Tom visits bike shops around his hometown Nottingham and speaks to supply chain expert Professor Richard Wilding OBE. Richard rides a Brompton by the way.
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In this episode, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe are reunited to discuss a vintage Tour de France.
Every year, Daniel gives the Tour de France a rating of one to five wine glasses according to how good the race has been. The precise formula is, as you'd expect, a closely guarded secret but in this episode Daniel explains his mark for the 2022 Tour.
We look back at the battle between Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar and ask whether it is the beginning of a long-running rivalry or whether the Slovenian will be back on top next year. We discuss why the racing was so intense – was it just the Wout van Aert factor or was there more to it? And while it was a classic edition of the race, we talk about why the Tour still lags behind the Giro in an aesthetic sense.
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Our Kilometre 0 from the Tour de France continues with this episode made by Kate Wagner, who was covering her second edition of the race as a journalist.
Kate sees the race at close quarters from the back of a motorbike, reflects on the battle between Vingegaard and Pogačar, and talks about the challenge of writing – and speaking – about the Tour.
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Rose Manley and Lizzy Banks dissect the final stage of the Tour de France Femmes as it happens. They discuss the imperious overall win by Annemiek Van Vleuten and the fall out for the rest of the contenders with the help of interviews from Marianne Vos, Anna van der Breggen, Silvia Persico and Juliet Labous. Plus the week’s Pedaleuse de Charme - Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig - is finally awarded for her cupworthy endeavours.
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Rose Manley and Lizzy Banks are once again joined by Anne-Marije Rook to discuss a day that saw a dominant performance from Annemiek van Vleuten.
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Rose Manley and Lizzy Banks are once again joined by Anne-Marije Rook the stage today.
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Rose Manley and Lizzy Banks are once again joined by Anne-Marije Rook to discuss a day that saw a controversial disqualification, a mass pile-up, and a second stage win for Lorena Wiebes.
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Rose Manley and Lizzy Banks are once again joined by Anne-Marije Rook to discuss the carnage as the Tour De France Femmes hit the gravel on the way to Bar-sur-Aube. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport. Supersapiens Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
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Rose Manley and Lizzy Banks are once again joined by Anne-Marije Rook to discuss the champagne stage of theTour de France Femmes with its testing finishing straight into Épernay. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport. Supersapiens Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
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Rose Manley and Lizzy Banks are joined by Anne-Marije Rook to discuss the chaotic second stage of the inaugural Tour de France Femmes. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport. Supersapiens Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
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Join Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau in Paris for the final stage of the Tour de France.
They review all of the teams and then catch up with Rose Manley to talk about the opening stage of the Tour de France Femmes.
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Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau recap the time trial to Rocamadour which crowned the Tour de France champion. We discuss cheese, time trialling, and the journey to Paris. Plus Lionel catches up with three friends of the podcast from the press room to talk about the 2022 Tour – Ciro Scognamiglio of La Gazzetta dello Sport, Edward Pickering of Rouleur, and Hans Ruggenberg who writes for the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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Rose Manley and Lizzy Banks preview the inaugural edition of the Tour de France Femmes, which starts in Paris on Sunday and finishes on La Super Planche des Belles Filles a week later.
What awaits the riders, and who are the favourites?
Follow the Tour de France Femmes with daily episodes. Stage one will be covered in our final Tour de France show from the Champs-Élysées on Sunday and then Rose hosts the stand-alone show from Monday.
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Join Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau in a town square in Cahors as they discuss the day Jumbo-Visma saved the Tour for France. After discussing the stage, we also catch up with very good friend of the podcast, and the voice of Radio Tour, Seb Piquet. Seb has a front row seat for the Tour de France and we get his perspective on what has been a great race. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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Has the Tour de France’s final mountain stage crowned the 2022 champion? Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau discuss the stage, the tactics and the historical context. We also hear from Tiesj Benoot and Grischa Niermann, teammate and sports director in Jonas Vingegaard’s Jumbo-Visma team, and from Fabio Jakobsen, who survived the time cut by the skin of his teeth yesterday and so can dream of finishing his Tour with a stage win in Paris.
Plus there’s fish chat, polka-dot conversation and an honest look at the charms of Lourdes. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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Although their teams are depleted to varying degrees it is clear which two riders are the strongest in the Tour de France. The question now is whether Thursday’s final stage in the Pyrenees can separate them and set up a thrilling time trial in Rocamadour on Saturday. Join Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau as they discuss stage 17, which saw some remarkable, self-less riding from one of Tadej Pogačar’s teammates. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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The Tour de France has reached the Pyrenees with an appetizer before the two big mountain stages to come. Join Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau in Foix as they dissect a thrilling 16th stage. We hear from the sports director and a teammate of the stage winner, and from the man who fell chasing the eventual winner hard downhill. In the final part, they are joined by former rider and man of the Pyrenees Dan Martin to ask what to expect over the next two stages. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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The Tour de France Femmes starts in Paris on Sunday but it is not the first Tour de France for women riders.
In 1984, the Tour de France organisers created the Tour Féminin – 18 stages held over part of the same course used by the men's race.
The race was won by the American rider Marianne Martin and in this episode she talks to Lionel Birnie about her incredible story.
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A hot day on the Tour de France with temperatures hitting 40 degrees and the racing equally frenetic, particularly over the final 50 kilometres. Lionel Birnie is back on the Tour to join François Thomazeau and Ian Boswell as the second week draws to a close. It saw a big win for one of the sprinters who was hoping to find a chink in Wout van Aert’s armour, and a difficult day for the yellow jersey’s team. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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After 192.5km from Saint-Etienne to Mende, Stage 14 of the 2022 Tour de France was won by Australian Michael Matthews, who produced a brilliant ride to win a tough and hilly stage.
Matthews duked it out with Alberto Bettiol on the final climb, but he was able to claim his fourth Tour stage win of his career.
And in tonight's Cycling Podcast, Rose, Francois and Ian discuss the winner and the almost winner as well as hearing from Matthews' bosses Matt White, David McPartland, our dear friend Ciro on Bettiol, Charly Wegelius, Alberto Bettiol himself and Louis Meintjes. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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On the road toSaint-Étienne it was not only love that could break your heart, if you were Fred Wright then it was Mads Pedersen who held that ability as he took the stage from the day’s breakaway, another great win for a Danish rider. This was one of the only stages between here and Paris that looked like ending in a conventional bunch sprint but that went out the window when Caleb Ewan’s heart was broken by a crash that left him nursing a knee injury and unable to regain touch with the bunch. On a harder than expected day, the absence of Caleb’s team at the front of the chase meant that the stage swung in favour of the powerhouse breakaway. Rose, Ian, and Francois are joined by Ed Pickering for this episode. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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Stage 12 and L'Alpe d'Huez was bouncing once again on Bastille Day. Tom Pidcock pointed to a future as a GC rider with his first stage win and Chris Froome took a huge leap forwards in his return from injury with third place on the stage.
Rose, Ian and Francois reflect on the action.
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Last Sunday, thousands of amateur riders rode L'Étape du Tour, a sportive organised by ASO over the route of Stage 12 of this year's Tour de France from Briançon to Alpe D'Huez, crossing the Col du Galibier and Col de la Croix de Fer en route to the finish. Two of The Cycling Podcast's producers, Adam Bowie and Huw Owen took part in this year's event, and this episode of KM0 records their day in the Alps ahead of the professionals in this year's race later today.
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Stage 11 was quite the stage with many of the GC contenders doing what they could to find an advantage and see if they could capatalise on it. Jonas Vingegaard won stage 11 to take yellow jersey off Tadej Pogacar.
Rose, Ian and Francois reflect on the action.
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As the Tour enters the Swiss Alps and the mountain stages start coming thick and fast the week two team of Rose Manley, Ian Boswell and the ever present François Thomazeau talk through everything that went on during the stage,
Mitch Docker and François Thomazeau are joined by Julien Prétot from Reuters to discuss stage nine of the Tour de France.
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Join Mitch Docker and François Thomazeau as they take the reins to discuss stage eight of the Tour de France.
We hear from Serge Niamké, Matt White, Michael Matthews, Fred Wright and Julien Pinot.
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Join Lionel Birnie, François Thomazeau and Mitch Docker amid the boy racers in Montbeliard – home of Peugeot – as they discuss stage seven of the Tour de France, which climbed La Super Planche des Belles Filles and tackled the gravel. There was heartbreak on the finish line and we discuss the race between the breakaway riders and the general classification contenders. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, join Lionel Birnie, François Thomazeau and Mitch Docker in their post-race feed zone as they unpick an incredibly fast sixth stage of the Tour de France. There’s Mitch’s favourite wine, Pierre Rolland as a receptionist at a B&B Hotel, and Total Energies’ service station toilet charging policy. On top of that, there’s lots of discussion about the stage and the yellow jersey’s past and new holders, and a look back at the chaos on the cobbles. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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In a bumper episode of The Cycling Podcast from the Tour de France, Lionel Birnie and Mitch Docker hit the pavé to capture the atmosphere and convey the chaos of the race as the riders hit the cobblestones. Mitch’s final race as a professional was Paris-Roubaix back in October but this is his first time watching a race on the cobblestones of the Hell of the North from the roadside. They are then reunited with François Thomazeau to unravel a dramatic day on the cobbles. Who were the winners, who were the losers and where does the Tour go from here? The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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After the Tour de France resumed after the Grand Départ in Denmark join Lionel Birnie, François Thomazeau and Mitch Docker in Calais after a stunning finish to the fourth stage. We unpick the tactics as the Tour burst into life on the northern coast of France and ask what it means ahead of the Tour’s date with the cobbles on Wednesday. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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This episode of Kilometre 0 is one of the last things Richard Moore recorded for The Cycling Podcast before he died unexpectedly at the end of March.
One day Richard noticed a couple of significant names on the start list for the Grand Prix Denain. It's not a particularly big race but this year it offered Primož Roglič, Jonas Vingegaard and a few other Tour de France hopefuls a chance to experience the cobbles in competition before the Tour's own date with the pavé.
Richard called Lionel when he spotted Roglič's name on the start list and said, 'It'll make a great episode of Kilometre 0.'
And so, here it is, the story of Jumbo-Visma's dry run on the cobbles at the Grand Prix Denain back in the spring.
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The second part of Danish Dynamite recaps the triumphant Grand Départ weekend as Denmark celebrated the Tour de France in style.
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The Cycling Podcast’s weekend break in Denmark comes to a close in Sønderborg where the locals have almost drunk the bars dry after a day celebrating the Tour de France. Join Lionel Birnie, François Thomazeau and Mitch Docker as they recap a sprint stage with a twist. We also catch up with Kate Wagner, who spent the day chasing the peloton on a motorbike, and we look at the logistics as the race transfers back to Lille. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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Lionel Birnie, François Thomazeau and Mitch Docker recap stage two of the Tour de France in Denmark. There’s local beers, an appearance by the fashion police, the first verdict from the Mitch-elin Guide and a never-to-be-repeated episode of The Cycling Podcast’s scandi-noir drama, The Bridge. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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Join Lionel Birnie, François Thomazeau and Mitch Docker in Copenhagen as they follow the opening stage of the 2022 Tour de France. The weather forecast was wrong, the time trial result was surprising and this episode features perhaps the biggest edition of Corrections Corner in the history of The Cycling Podcast. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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The long-awaited Grand Départ in Denmark gets underway with Friday's opening time trial and Copenhagen, a city that celebrates the bicycle, has never been more ready.
Danish cycling is enjoying another wave of success with the likes of Mads Pedersen, Jonas Vingegaard, Kasper Asgreen among the ten home riders on the start list.
But, like most cycling stories, the history of Danish cycling is complicated. This two-part episode of Kilometre 0 borrows its title from a brilliant book about Denmark's football team that took the world by storm in the 1980s, and tells the story of the rise, fall and rebirth of Danish cycling.
In this part, Lionel talks to Brian Nygaard, who worked closely with Denmark's only Tour de France champion, Bjarne Riis. Of course, there is a heavy asterisk against Riis's 1996 Tour win because it was fuelled by EPO and came in the middle of the sport's darkest days – although the depths of skulduggery were not truly brought to light until the Festina affair two years later. As CSC team manager Riis was then a key player in the next big doping scandal to blight Tour – the Operacion Puerto blood-doping investigation which forced his team leader Ivan Basso out of the 2006 Tour on the eve of the opening time trial. Brian had a front row seat for that.
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Join Lionel Birnie, François Thomazeau and Mitch Docker in Copenhagen for an eve-of-the-Tour de France scene-setter before Friday’s opening time trial. We ask Mitch if he would have picked Mark Cavendish if he’d been selecting the Quick Step team, we ponder how Tadej Pogačar can be toppled, and ask if Ineos Grenadiers have fashioned their own version of the Bora-Hansgrohe quartet. Thankfully, we stop short of naming all 176 riders in our preview episode as the speculation threatens to get out of hand. Join Lionel, François and Mitch for daily coverage of the world’s greatest bike race after the opening time trial on Friday evening. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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Part two of This Slovenian Life opens up on a rainy day in Ljubljana where Primož Roglič is waiting on the top floor of the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce. He'll (very colourfully) convey a few amusing anecdotes from his eventful past and the differences between coming up in ski jumping versus cycling. We then meet some of Slovenian cycling's youngest stars, the juniors racers in Tadej Pogačar's incubator Pogi Team. The Cycling Podcast joins them for two important races – a criterium in Italy and the Slovenian national road championships, one of their biggest tests of the season.
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A Frenchman, the poet Paul Claudel, once opined that “wine is a professor of taste, a liberator of the spirit and an illuminator of intelligence”. Far be in from us to make the same claim of The Cycling Podcast – though we can but try with our coverage of this year’s Grande Boucle, which starts from Copenhagen in Denmark on July 1.
To enhance your enjoyment – and, who knows, aid your enlightenment – we are once again teaming up with DVine Cellars of London to offer a selection of six wines celebrating the Tour route. As ever, from Alsace to the northern shore of Lac Léman in Switzerland, from the Valley of the Rhône to the Lot, the wines will surprise and hopefully delight.
In this episode, Daniel journeys to DVine Cellars HQ in South London to meet our resident wine guru and case curator, Greg Andrews, and discuss how Greg came up with this year’s selection.
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With no World Tour teams currently riding Bianchis, this time out Tom looks at the fascinating history of the world's oldest bicycle manufacturer. Not many brands inspire as much passion as Bianchi and so Tom seeks to understand why with the help of design historian and author Charlotte Fiell. He also speaks to Bianchi collectors and fans and learns the true origins of the brand's iconic celeste colour.
To many cycling viewers, the rise of Primož Roglič and Tadej Pogačar may feel like it came out of nowhere. Longer-term cycling fans might remember the years of Tadej Valjavec and Jani Brajkovič as the first time Slovenia registered for them on the world stage of cycling. But the reality is, Slovenian cycling has been around for a long time, as long as cycling itself. In this first part of a two-part series for The Cycling Podcast, Kate Wagner shares her travels to Slovenia where she tracked down recent stars like Matej Mohorič, Primož Roglič, and Jani Brajkovič, long-retired ex-riders you may have never heard of such as Cantino Tollo rider Martin Hvrastija; historians, journalists and more to find the answers to the question we're all asking: how did Slovenia get to the highest echelon of professional cycling? In addition, Wagner mixes this account with history, culture, travel writing, and literature in order to paint a rich picture of Slovenia, her second home.
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Rose Manley and Orla Chennaoui are joined by Lizzy Banks for a packed episode to discuss the 2022 edition of the Women's Tour.
Rose and Lizzy were in Oxford for the end of the race and after the final stage Rose caught up – literally – with the overall winner as she headed to get her train. Rose also headed to the podium herself to present the inaugural Richard Moore Award to Clara Copponi. This prize was created by the race organisers, Sweetspot, to recognise the rider who goes above and beyond in their dealings with the media during the race. Everyone at The Cycling Podcast would like to thank Sweetspot for remembering Richard. We end this episode with some of the Buffalo's highlights from his time covering the Women's Tour with Orla and Rose.
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This episode of The Cycling Podcast features Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie talking about Daniel’s biography of the German cyclist Jan Ullrich. Recorded over a glass of wine on the Giro d’Italia’s rest day in Abruzzo, Lionel starts by asking why Daniel wanted to write about the 1997 Tour de France champion. In a way it’s a classic tale of partially fulfilled talent – Ullrich burst onto the scene in 1996, finishing second in the Tour de France behind his Telekom teammate Bjarne Riis. The following year, while still aged only 23, Ullrich won the Tour by nine minutes. Cycling looked set for an era of total domination by the German. But it didn’t work out like that as Ullrich’s vulnerability was exposed partly by the pressure of being the focal point of an entire nation’s cycling hopes and dreams. Lance Armstrong came back from cancer and won the Tour seven years in a row and Ullrich was regularly his closest challenger. Then, after Armstrong’s retirement in 2005, Ullrich looked set to inherit the crown – until he was revealed to be a client of the blood doping doctor Eufemiano Fuentes. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport. Supersapiens Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
Science in Sport For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout. Noom If you want to transform your diet, undo some bad eating habits or just get a better handle on the amount and types of food you are eating, like Lionel, you might want to try Noom. It’s the psychological approach to losing weight in a healthy, sustained way. Go to noom.com/cycle to get started today. MAAP The Cycling Podcast has a new collaboration with MAAP. We will be launching a MAAP + The Cycling Podcast jersey later in the summer but before we reveal the details of that see: maap.cc
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The Cycling Podcast Féminin returns just as the Women’s World Tour peloton prepares to tackle three stage races in the space of a couple of months. First up it’s the Women’s Tour in Britain, then the Giro d’Italia Donne and finally, at the end of July, the inaugural Tour de France Femmes. In this episode Rose Manley, Orla Chennaoui and Lionel Birnie look ahead to the racing. Orla speaks to new World Hour Record holder Ellen van Dijk, who broke Joss Lowden’s distance which she set last year. How close – or far away – does the 50km barrier feel now? Lionel catches up with Lizzy Banks to discuss what’s in store for the Women’s Tour and finds it promises to be a much more dynamic battle for the general classification this year because of some tricky stages, not least the uphill finish at Black Mountain in Wales. And Rose speaks to SD Worx rider Ashleigh Moolman Pasio, who will spearhead her team’s challenge at the Women’s Tour in the absence of reigning champion Demi Vollering. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport. Supersapiens Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
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In this month's episode of Service Course, Tom Whalley and Lizzy Banks tackle the issue of concussion recognition head on. Tom and Lizzy investigate the technologies already out there that could transform concussion recognition in both professional and amateur cycling.
Lizzy speaks to HIT Recognition founder, Euan Bowen about their device which can be placed on the back of a helmet and which provides instant g-force data to assess the impact when a rider sustains a hit to the head. Dr David Stevens of Neuroflex tells us about their virtual reality headset that is already transforming concussion recognition pitchside in rugby. Could this have the potential to be a fast, accurate and independent method of assessing vestibular and ocular motor changes due to concussion roadside in cycling?
Lizzy speaks to physiotherapist and coach, Tom Fallon, who is providing a concussion education program to the Cycling Ireland junior programme and has also performed research on athlete attitudes to concussion. Service Course by The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport. Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
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Join Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard in Verona for the final podcast of the 2022 Giro d'Italia.
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The last mountain stage of the 2022 Giro d’Italia promised fireworks. Three giant Dolomite passes & two determined opponents, Mikel Landa & Jai Hindley, stood between Richard Carapaz & a repeat of his 2019 Giro triumph tomorrow in Verona.
In tonight’s episode, from the Passo Fedaia, we tell the story of a thrilling day made even more exciting by the preceding three weeks of mounting suspense.
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The penultimate mountain stage of the 2022 Giro d’Italia took the race into Slovenia, with the battle for the maglia rosa still delicately poised. Could Richard Carapaz consolidate his advantage - or might Mikel Landa and Jai Hindley attempt to finally break the deadlock that has turned this into one of the closest, most uncertain Giri in recent memory?
Breakaways have been consistently rewarded in recent days, and so it would prove again with Koen Bouwman taking his second stage win of the Giro. Meanwhile, despite numerous attempts from all three in the finale, Carapaz, Hindley and Landa still couldn’t be separated. In tonight’s episode, we discuss all the day’s action, welcome BikeExchange-Jayco directeur sportif Matt White for a drive-by cameo, and look ahead to tomorrow’s Dolomite blockbuster with some of the riders who’ll have to scale the San Pellegrino and Fedaia passes in just a few hours.
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The 2022 edition of the Giro d'Italia finishes in Verona – just as the 1984 edition did, and it is that race which has long fascinated Lionel Birnie. It took place towards the end of the second great era of rivalry in Italian cycling. Francesco Moser was heading towards the end of his career and had yet to win the Giro. Time was running out but all of Italy was willing him to do it, including the race director Vincenzo Torriani.
This episode tells the story of the 1984 Giro and features the journalist Herbie Sykes, author of Giro 100, but it also explains the city of Verona and its place in Italy through the eyes of another writer, Tim Parks, who in the 1990s spent a season discovering Italy while watching Hellas Verona home and away.
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Stage 18 of the Giro d’Italia took the riders from Borgo Valsugana to Treviso in the Veneto region. On paper, this looked like the last opportunity for the sprinter in this year’s Corsa Rosa. But a strong four-man breakaway group would upset the odds.
In tonight’s episode we are joined by the Acting American Ambassador to Italy, Thomas D. Smithham to discuss all the action, the dos and don’ts of ordering both apperitivo and desert in Treviso, the blockbuster weekend, and life as a foreigner in Italy.
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Stage 17 of the Giro took the peloton to Lavarone via two mighty climbs. With the battle for the pink still finely poised, here was another opportunity for Jai Hindley & Mikel Landa, in particular, to apply pressure to Richard Carapaz. As it transpired, the three tenors of this Giro still couldn‘t be separated. Meanwhile, we saw another surprise solo winner in Santiago Buitrago. In tonight’s episode, we hear from Hindley & a series of surprise guests and old friends.
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Professional cycling has until recently been slow to recognise the merits of sports psychologists and mental coaches, but that is changing in the age of marginal gains. Many riders now accept that brain power can add extra watts through the pedals – and the team leading the Giro hopes that it can help them carry the maglia rosa all the way to Verona. The Ineos Grenadiers’ sports psychologist Robbie Anderson has lived & consulted with his team’s riders through the Corsa Rosa. In this episode of Kilometre 0, he tells Daniel Friebe how he works, why cycling presents unique mental challenges – and why strange rituals involving props like salt cellars have gained such traction in cycling.
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The Giro made its way towards Aprica for what many have dubbed this year’s Queen Stage. Having set out from the western shore of Lake Garda, the peloton would scale the Mortirolo and the Valico di Santa Cristina – to name just two of the climbs on today’s route – before finishing in Aprica, the scene of many a famous Giro exploit. We hear from Valerio Piva, who helped steer Jan Hirt to a surprise stage win, and Pavel Sivakov, who helped steer Richard Carapaz through a stage that solidified his position in the maglia rosa. There’s also talk of citrons, Sforzato, pizzoccheri and – again – of local hero the Trout of Gavardo. AMARATERRA Amaraterra provide our theme song, Cozze, and other music for The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the Giro d’Italia. Their Bandcamp page is here: https://amaraterra.bandcamp.com/
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The Giro pauses for its third rest-day and Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard have traveled from the Valle d’Aosta to Lake Garda, where the race will resume with Richard Carapaz in the pink jersey on Tuesday. We hear from Brian on the fine art of choreographing real Grand Tour press conferences, before fielding questions sent in by listeners. We also hear the accounts of the second week of the Giro d’Italia from our three diarists in the peloton – Pavel Sivakov of Ineos Grenadiers, James Knox of Quick Step and Ben Zwiehoff of Bora-Hansgrohe. Our Giro d’Italia coverage resumes with stage 16 on Tuesday. AMARATERRA Amaraterra provide our theme song, Cozze, and other music for The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the Giro d’Italia. Their Bandcamp page is here: https://amaraterra.bandcamp.com/
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The Giro’s third rest day in Salò on Monday gives us pause to consider the curious intersection of the Lake Garda resort’s notorious history, one of the more scandalous films of the 20th century – and why the Corsa Rosa is as much epic journey as bike race.
What happened in Salò? Who was Pier Paolo Pasolini? And do the Giro riders of 2022 consider themselves adventures and explorers or just racers?
Featuring interviews with Giro director Mauro Vegni, Chris Juul-Jensen, Guillaume Martin and others. Today’s Kilometre 0 ponders all of this and the allure of perhaps cycling’s greatest road trip, in the country they call Il Bel Paese.
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The Giro finally journeyed into the Alps with Richard Carapaz in the maglia rosa and the peloton weary after Saturday’s blockbuster into Turin. Could Jai Hindley and Bora-Hansgrohe dethrone the Ecuadorian ahead of Monday’s rest day?
We hear from Hindley after a stage that elevated a great white hope of Italian cycling but saw the GC contenders cancel each other out. The episode also features a disappointed but hopeful Hugh Carthy, the inimitable Ciro Scognamiglio - and some very lively local fans.
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Last night Daniel Friebe longed for some action from the general classification contenders – today he got his wish with – as he described it – a ripsnorter of a stage in the hills around Turin. Daniel is joined by Lionel Birnie and Brian Nygaard to make sense of a crazy day which whittled the number of potential Giro champions down to a large handful. We’ll hear from the Bora-Hansgrohe management team about how they rode themselves into a strong position, we discuss the impact of the heat during this very warm edition of the Giro and we assess the likelihood of a close race for the pink jersey in the final week. AMARATERRA Amaraterra provide our theme song, Cozze, and other music for The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the Giro d’Italia. Their Bandcamp page is here: https://amaraterra.bandcamp.com/
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Join Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and Brian Nygaard in Barolo country for a discussion about the Giro d’Italia’s frantic chase between the break and bunch.
Expect some wine chat, general disgust at the idea of dipping focaccia into cappuccino, the merits of the Giro’s transitional stages, and a fierce debate about whether the overall race has been exciting enough. We hear from the riders, sports directors and there’s another installment of the Giro del Bufalo. AMARATERRA Amaraterra provide our theme song, Cozze, and other music for The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the Giro d’Italia. Their Bandcamp page is here: https://amaraterra.bandcamp.com/
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For most directeurs sportifs, especially one who spent his most important years as a cyclist in Italy, taking and defending the maglia rosa might be a euphoric experience. It is indeed for Trek-Segafredo’s Yaroslav Popovych, but, to him, Juan Pedro López’s pink jersey may also feel more like a welcome distraction. In February, Russia declared war on Popovych’s Ukraine, and three months on their bombs are still falling. Watching on from Italy, Popovych felt helpless – and yet soon swung into action. In this Kilometre 0, he tells Daniel about his extraordinary efforts to offer aid and in some cases salvation to his compatriots back home.
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Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and Brian Nygaard in a sunny square in Genoa after stage 12 of the Giro d’Italia. We go on the hunt for focaccia, break down the way the breakaway captured the stage and ask whether a win for a team’s established superstar is worth ‘more’ in terms of PR than a victory by a less well-known rider. Brian also talks about being team manager of Leopard-Trek when the Belgian rider Wouter Weylandt died in a crash at the 2011 Giro. Today’s stage went over the Passo del Bocco, where the accident happened. AMARATERRA Amaraterra provide our theme song, Cozze, and other music for The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the Giro d’Italia. Their Bandcamp page is here: https://amaraterra.bandcamp.com/
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Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are joined in Reggio Emilia by Brian Nygaard to assess stage 11 of the Giro d’Italia, which – as expected – ended in a sprint finish. Along the way there’s conversation about prosecco, parmesan cheese and legendary singers in leather trousers. AMARATERRA Amaraterra provide our theme song, Cozze, and other music for The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the Giro d’Italia. Their Bandcamp page is here: https://amaraterra.bandcamp.com/
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La Gazzetta dello Sport is much more than just a newspaper. Founded in 1896, ‘La Rosea’ or ‘The Pinky’ (or also just ‘La Gazza’), quickly became an Italian institution and some would argue a cultural icon. The paper also launched the Giro d’Italia in 1909 and gave the leader’s jersey its unmistakable pink colour. Coffee and Gazzetta remain synonymous fixtures in many Italians’ morning rituals, but the print media has, of course, fallen on hard times. In this episode of Kilometre 0, we examine the origins of La Gazzetta, its rise and fetishisation by both Italians and foreigners – and La Rosea’s dip in sales and influence more recently.
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The Giro d’Italia resumed after the rest day with an historic stage and an unfortunate moment on the podium. Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie discuss a stage that had all the hallmarks of an Italian one-day Classic. We hear from the winner’s teammates and sports director. Matt White explains why Simon Yates is determined to continue in the Giro despite his knee injury and time loss at Blockhaus. There’s musical pasta chat and sheepish wine talk plus a beautiful edition of the Giro del Bufalo. AMARATERRA Amaraterra provide our theme song, Cozze, and other music for The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the Giro d’Italia. Their Bandcamp page is here: https://amaraterra.bandcamp.com/
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It’s the rest day and Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie have been in Abruzzo staying at a vineyard with a pair of jacuzzi pools in the garden.
Rest assured, the press conference episode was not recorded in the jacuzzi. We tackle some of the questions sent in by listeners and we also hear the accounts of the opening week of the Giro d’Italia from our three diarists in the peloton – Pavel Sivakov of Ineos Grenadiers, James Knox of Quick Step and Ben Zwiehoff of Bora-Hansgrohe. Our Giro d’Italia coverage resumes with stage 10 on Tuesday. AMARATERRA Amaraterra provide our theme song, Cozze, and other music for The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the Giro d’Italia. Their Bandcamp page is here: https://amaraterra.bandcamp.com/
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We left the story of the 2012 Giro d'Italia on the eve of the Stelvio stage on the penultimate day of the race with the destiny of the maglia rosa still delicately poised.
Ryder Hesjedal had trimmed Joaquim Rodriguez's lead at Alpe de Pampeago and just needed to keep the Spaniard on a leash to stand a great chance of becoming the first Canadian grand tour winner in the final time trial in Milan.
In this episode we again here from the team's boss Jonathan Vaughters, rookie sports director Charly Wegelius and Hesjedal's right-hand man in the Garmin-Barracuda team Christian Vande Velde about a Giro decided by just a few seconds and the aftermath of the race.
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The first of the Giro d’Italia’s big mountain stages to Blockhaus shuffled the general classification but kept the race very much alive. Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie as they assess the winners and losers from stage nine. Who bounded up the stairs three at a time and who pressed the button for the basement in the elevator? Who scaled the ladders and who slipped down the snakes? We also visited a key sight in the 1860s unification of Italy, we heard from one of the stars from the breakaway and asked what the leading GC teams weigh up when deciding which riders should and shouldn’t be allowed to get up the road. AMARATERRA Amaraterra provide our theme song, Cozze, and other music for The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the Giro d’Italia. Their Bandcamp page is here: https://amaraterra.bandcamp.com/
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Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie in Napoli, the home of pizza and Ciro Scognamiglio, as they recap stage eight of the Giro d’Italia. We discuss a second Giro stage win for a breakaway specialist ten years after his first. Which rider is developing a reputation for riding grand tours as if they were a giant game of snakes and ladders. And can it ever be said that an aggressive, attacking rider performed poorly? Daniel and Lionel also visited the ancient city of Pompeii, sampled the perfect Neopolitan pizza and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage to Blockhaus. AMARATERRA Amaraterra provide our theme song, Cozze, and other music for The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the Giro d’Italia. Their Bandcamp page is here: https://amaraterra.bandcamp.com/
PRESS CONFERENCE Daniel and Lionel will be answering your Giro d’Italia questions during Monday’s Press Conference episode. Ask us anything by sending us a voice note to us at contact@thecyclingpodcast.com by Sunday night. Please keep your questions to 60 seconds so we can answer as many as possible. Giro dei Vini To order the Selezione Simpatica, head to DVine Cellars. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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The first of a trilogy of difficult stages in the Giro d’Italia took the riders from Diamante to Potenza. Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie outside the busy Barmacia as they unpick the stage and explain who the powerful diamond of the day was. We dissect the stage and look ahead to Saturday’s race in Napoli with Blockhaus looming on the horizon on Sunday. We hear from Hugh Carthy, the leader of the EF Education-EasyPost team about his Giro so far and what he expects from these three stages. Patrick Gamper of Bora-Hansgrohe explains how the team plans to support their quartet of potential general classification contenders. There’s a guest appearance from Ciro Scognamiglio about authentic Neopolitan pizza, the Giro del Bufalo, plus classification corner. AMARATERRA Amaraterra provide our theme song, Cozze, and other music for The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the Giro d’Italia. Their Bandcamp page is here: https://amaraterra.bandcamp.com/
PRESS CONFERENCE Daniel and Lionel will be answering your Giro d’Italia questions during Monday’s Press Conference episode. Ask us anything by sending us a voice note to us at contact@thecyclingpodcast.com by Sunday night. Please keep your questions to 60 seconds so we can answer as many as possible. Giro dei Vini To order the Selezione Simpatica, head to DVine Cellars. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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This is the tenth anniversary of one of the closest grand tours of all-time, decided by just 16 seconds after a two-week tussle between two very different riders.
The Canadian Ryder Hesjedal and the Spaniard Joaquim Rodriguez took turns wearing the maglia roas as if they were playing a game of pass the parcel. It was an intriguing clash of styles too – the patient diesel versus the jack-in-the-box.
In this two part Kilometre 0, Lionel Birnie speaks to the boss of the Garmin-Barracuda team Jonathan Vaughters, first-time sports director Charly Wegelius, and one of the key support riders Christian Vande Velde about how they pulled it off. Just a few months earlier the team had almost ceased to exist and yet after a steady start in Copenhagen and a great team time trial when the race reached Italy they found themselves in the mix.
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Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie made it to Scalea despite being stuck behind the e-Giro for more than 50 kilometres. Fortunately, the Giro d’Italia peloton was racing a lot less aggressively than yesterday and stage six finished well behind schedule.
We unpick the sprint finish and hear from two of the winner’s teammates after the finish. We also react to the news of Vincenzo Nibali’s impending retirement and hear from his Astana teammate Joe Dombrowski, Nibali’s fellow Sicilian Domenico Pozzovivo, the Giro race director Mauro Vegni and Dario Cataldo. Giro dei Vini To order the Selezione Simpatica, head to DVine Cellars. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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It’ll soon be safe to go back in the water – which is good news for Lionel after he lost his sunglasses to the Strait of Messina while recording this episode of The Cycling Podcast from Scilla. Lionel joins Daniel Friebe to discuss stage five which, as expected, went the way of the sprinters – although it wasn’t without drama along the way. The Giro d’Italia lost one superhero in powder blue yesterday when Miguel Angel Lopez pulled out of the race and another Astana man announced his impending retirement, which will leave a shark-shaped hole in Italian cycling. Vincenzo Nibali, twice a winner of the Giro, arrived in his home town of Messina and announced his plan to retire at the end of the season. We hear from Ciro Scognamiglio about that, we unpick Jumbo-Visma’s disappointing day on Etna yesterday with their sports director Addy Engels and ask if Richie Porte is right – is Romain Bardet a great outside bet for this Giro? Team DSM coach Matt Winston talks about how they are managing the great French hope.
There’s the light and shade of Sicily to discuss and much more. Giro dei Vini To order the Selezione Simpatica, head to DVine Cellars. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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The Giro d’Italia returned to Mount Etna and the climb crowned a first-time stage winner and a new wearer of the maglia rosa. Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie as they recap the fourth stage and the first on Italian soil since the Hungarian grande partenza. After successfully hunting the stuffed cabbage in Budapest, they are on the hunt for a Sicilian treat of a more therapeutic kind. On a day that did for the hopes of one superhero, we unpick a day that made the first significant selection of the general classification favourites and find out more about the new pink jersey holder. There’s an explanation of Alpecin-Fenix’s tactics from one of the riders in the break and the most extraordinary dream sequence since Dallas. Giro dei Vini To order the Selezione Simpatica, head to DVine Cellars. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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The Giro’s Grande Partenza in Budapest came two years after its intended date and hence was even more eagerly anticipated. Hungary had is venerable, beautiful capital, beguiling landscapes and a cycling scene beginning to soar on the wings of a new generation led by Attila Valter, the maglia rosa for three days last year.
But there were also questions. Politics. Doubts about why the Giro had chosen this particular launchpad. Over a few days last week, we gauged the mood on the ground, in and well away from the race. And came away with mixed feelings.
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The Giro d’Italia’s final stage in Hungary produced the expected sprint finish after a ride round Lake Balaton. In this episode, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie have found a German bar in Héviz to recap the stage and debrief on the performances of the sprinters. We hear from the lead-out men and the sports directors before the entire Giro entourage flies to Sicily for the resumption of the race on Tuesday. Giro dei Vini To order the Selezione Simpatica, head to DVine Cellars. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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The shortest stage of the 2022 Giro d’Italia promised to also be one of the most significant - the first of just two time trials in this year’s Corsa Rosa and a truth serum for the many pretenders to the maglia rosa. In the latest installment of our post-stage Girovagando podcasts, we hear about a time trial result that few predicted but perhaps should have anticipated. We also discuss the other winners and losers of a stage before which Mathieu van der Poel held a slender lead on general classification. There are interviews with Bun Tulett, Rod Ellingworth and Richie Porte of Ineos Grenadiers, Matteo Sobrero and Damian Howson of Team BikeExchange, and, once again, the hometown hero Attila Valter. And we provide an update on the already mythical ‘Quest for the Stuffed Cabbage’. Giro dei Vini To order the Selezione Simpatica, head to DVine Cellars. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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The Giro d’Italia rolled out of Budapest on Friday morning and we were on the ground in Hungary to see it. An uphill finish at Visegrád castle promised drama and the stage certainly delivered. In the opening instalment of our post-stage Girovagando podcasts, we dissect the action with Hans Ruggenberg of De Telegraaf, hear from hometown hero Attila Valter, clairvoyant Giro ringmaster Gianni Savio and various other protagonists - and also update listeners on our bumbling “Quest for the Stuffed Cabbage”. There’s, of course, plenty of talk about the flying Dutchman in pink - and why he began the day in a curious shade of another colour. We also hear from two of our three audio diarists for the Giro - Pavel Sivakov and James Knox - and reveal the identity of our third. Giro dei Vini To order the Selezione Simpatica, head to DVine Cellars. Stacy Snyder's cups Stacy Snyder’s Giro d’Italia mugs, cappuccino sets and whisky cups go on sale tomorrow (Saturday May 7) at 10am Eastern US time, 3pm UK time, 4pm CET. Go to Stacy's Etsy page. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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Attila Valter is one of three Hungarian riders lining up at this year’s Giro d’Italia. The other two, Erik Fetter of Eolo-Kometa and Barnabás Peák of Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert, will also enjoy rapturous support over the weekend – but there is no doubt that Valter is the prodigious son of Hungarian cycling. At last year’s Corsa Rosa, he became the first Hungarian to ever lead a major tour, wearing the maglia rosa for three days. In 2020, when Budapest’s Grande Partenza was cancelled due to Covid, Attila told us he feared that a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity had dissolved before his eyes. Now, two years on, whatever the outcome, his dream will finally become reality – as will the intoxicating pressure of the being the hometown hero, as Valter himself tells Daniel Friebe in our first Kilometre 0 of this year’s Giro.
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The Cycling Podcast Féminin returns to review the spring Classics campaign. Rose Manley and Orla Chennaoui are joined by Lionel Birnie as they each select their outstanding moments of the spring.
Annemiek van Vleuten bookended her spring with victories in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Liège-Bastogne-Liège but she was outfoxed in several of the other classics. It was a spring of two halves for SD Worx, Trek-Segafredo found ways to win with Elisa Balsamo and Elisa Longo Borghini and Paris-Roubaix has evolved from a fledgling event to a full-blown Classic in the space of six months and two editions.
Plus, we discuss the possibility of a women's edition of Milan-Sanremo being added to the calendar – although that should actually be re-added...
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The opening bars of our theme tune – Cozze by Amaraterra – can mean only one thing. The 2022 Giro d'Italia is nearly here. Join us for Girovagando as we cover the race from Budapest to Verona.
Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are joined by Danish journalist Brian Nygaard – who featured in last year's coverage – for this bumper Giro preview, in which we look at the route, weigh up the potential winners and anticipate the culinary and cultural highlights along the way.
We hear from Simon Yates of Team Bike Exchange, who is riding his fifth consecutive Giro and who has unfinished business with the race after coming within a couple of days of winning in 2018 and ended up on the podium last year. His sports director Matt White also gives his verdict on a very open GC race.
Laura Meseguer of our Spanish cousin El Cycling Podcast assesses the hopes of Alejandro Valverde, Pello Bilbao, Mikel Landa, Richard Carapaz and Miguel Angel Lopez among others and there's a cameo from La Gazzetta dello Sport's Ciro Scognamiglio too.
This will be the seventh Giro d'Italia The Cycling Podcast has covered daily from start to finish – the eighth if you also count Our Giro, our virtual journey round Italy during the COVID lockdown. However, it will be our first without our leader Richard Moore, although Daniel and Lionel have vowed to channel their inner Spirito di Bufalo.Our coverage kicks off on Friday (May 6) with – appropriately enough – the first of nine episodes of Kilometre 0, followed by nightly recaps of the race action. Join Daniel and Lionel in Hungary on Friday.
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Ever since 2020, The Cycling Podcast and Dvine Cellars of London have joined forces and united passions to offer a liquid accompaniment to our listeners’ Grand Tour experience. This year – after months of discussions and a highly contentious tasting session in March – we again settled on six bottles that hopefully represent the geography and the spirit of the upcoming Giro d’Italia. The name of the case – the Selezione Simpatica – is a nod to our great leader, Richard Moore. The wines themselves are surprising, unconventional and – with apologies to Richard and his time-honoured tasting notes – a little more than 'nice'. In this episode Daniel dives deeper with Greg Andrews and Luciana Girotto of Dvine Cellars.
To order the Selezione Simpatica, head to DVine Cellars.(Please enjoy in moderation). A percentage of the proceeds from every sale will go to a cause chosen by Richard’s family. The full line-up of wines (in Giro route order), with tasting notes from Dvine Cellars, is as follows:
Chateau Megyer Dry Furmint 2020, Tokaj, Hungary FurmintHungary's most popular white grape for dry wines with a long, cool, flint minerality. Aged for six months in new oak barrels, rounding the acidity. Pair with fish and buttery, creamy sauces with mushrooms.
Le Vigne Di Eli Etna Rosso 2019/2020, Sicily, ItalyThe 'pinot' of Mount Etna. Bright fresh summer fruits are tempered with a volcanic mineral influence making this a delightful savoury wine.
Cantina Rapino GIRA 2015 Montepulciano d'Abruzzo DOC, Italy100% Montepulciano, 100% guts, blood, sweat and tears. Intense aromas of game and hoisin sauce carry to the supple, polished, full-bodied palate. This is a rich red.
Poderi Fiorini Lambrusco Becco Rosso 2021, Emilia Romagna, ItalyA sparkling purply-red wine with hints of raspberry. It is dry, fresh and savoury, with a pleasant effervescence on the palate. Grab some mortadella and charcuterie!
Russolo Doi Raps 2019, Friuli Venezia-Giulia, ItalyPacked with surprisingly ripe fruit flavours of lychee, white peach and candied lemon, the enchanting Doi Raps has so much character. The ripe fruit is joined by white flowers in bloom and a tingling, mineral finish. It's not very often you find such ripe flavours in this cool growing area of North-East Italy
Marion 2020, Valpolicella Borgomarcellise, Veneto, Italy All red fruits, flowers and soft sweet spices, this is one of the most enjoyable and smashable reds you will see from this region. And it's great value to boot.
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In this episode of Service Course, Tom speaks to Dan Craven, better known as Dan from Nam. Dan's career began in 2009 with the Rapha Condor team and he finished up in 2017 after a spell with Israel Cycling Academy, but that's probably less than ten per cent of the story.
He memorably represented Namibia at the 2016 Olympics in Rio where he managed to live tweet his ride in the individual time trial. As a Namibian Dan has been at the forefront of the development of cycling in Africa and for his latest project he's packing his bags, leaving Girona and returning to Namibia where he will be building bikes.
Dan's bike brand, Onguza, is not the typical bike brand you might expect from an ex-pro. He's not putting his name on a carbon frame built in a factory thousands of miles away, he's getting his blow torch out and producing handmade, steel-framed bikes. There are also words from Ian Boswell who pays tribute to our friend Richard Moore.
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Spoiler alert: This is our post-race analysis of Liège-Bastogne-Liège so if you’re yet to watch the races and don’t want to know the results save this episode until you’ve seen the action. In a podcast of two halves, we discuss the 2022 editions of Liège-Bastogme-Liège. In part one, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the men's race and then Lizzy Banks joins Lionel to analyse the women's race. Who won and more importantly how did they do it? We unpick the major moments of the monument. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport. Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
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Spoiler alert: This is our post-race analysis of Flèche Wallonne so if you’re yet to watch the races and don’t want to know the results save this episode until you’ve seen the action. In a podcast of two halves, we discuss the 2022 editions of Flèche Wallonne. In part one, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the men's race and then Lizzy Banks joins Lionel to analyse the women's race. Who won and more importantly how did they do it? We unpick the major incidents. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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Spoiler alert: This is our post-race analysis of Paris-Roubaix so if you’re yet to watch the race and don’t want to know the result save this episode until you’ve seen the action.
Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the 2022 edition of Paris-Roubaix. Who won it and more importantly how did they do it? We unpick the major incidents.
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Spoiler alert: This is our post-race analysis of Paris-Roubaix Femmes so if you’re yet to watch the race and don’t want to know the result save this episode until you’ve seen the action. Arrivée returns with analysis of the second edition of Paris-Roubaix Femmes. Lionel Birnie has travelled to northern France and is joined by Lizzy Banks to discuss the race. Who won it and more importantly how did they do it? We unpick the major incidents. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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This episode of The Cycling Podcast is a tribute to Richard Moore, who passed away last month aged 48.
Richard founded The Cycling Podcast in 2013 with Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe and with his passing we have lost our directeur sportif, team leader, road captain and super domestique deluxe all in one. But more than that, we have lost our very dear friend.
We would like to thank Seb Piquet, the voice of Radio Tour at the Tour de France, for hosting this conversation between Lionel and Daniel as they talk about their friendship with Richard and the years spent working together. Orla Chennaoui and Rose Manley, Richard's co-hosts on The Cycling Podcast Féminin, also share their memories. Other members of The Cycling Podcast's family that Richard was instrumental in building – Ciro Scognamiglio, François Thomazeau, Tom Whalley, Lizzy Banks, Kate Wagner, Mitch Docker and Brian Nygaard – also pay their tributes.
We would like to thank all our listeners, friends and colleagues who have sent messages over the past two weeks, as well as our sponsors Supersapiens, Science in Sport and MAAP for their support and understanding.
In this month's episode of Service Course Tom and Lizzy tackle a press conference question from friend of the podcast, Dave Owen, which was a bit too complicated for them to answer so they pull in the experts.
Lizzy speaks to Niamh Fisher-Black, Team SD Worx rider and the UCI WWT best young rider in 2021, about her experiences sourcing well fitting equipment as a petite woman.
James Roberts from Fit 2 Ride Bike Fit helps Lizzy understand the method behind the magic of a bike fit and finally Tom speaks to former British Cycling physio and author of Bike Fit Phil Burt. Phil tells us why crank length both really matters and makes no difference at all and delves deeper in to some of the issues around what make us comfortable on a bike.
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Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe are back to discuss the racing in Spain and Belgium.
At the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya – or should that be Volta Down Under – Australian riders took the opening three stages and in Belgium we saw the World Cycle Path Championships, otherwise known as the Minerva Classic Brugge-De Panne.
Daniel asks the key question – would you prioritise watching the race that takes place amid the gently rolling hills and verdant beauty of Catalonia, or on the semi-urban Belgian coastline? That might not be the exact wording but it was certainly a loaded question.
We also look back at Milan-Sanremo and Matej Mohorič's use of mountain bike tech – the dropper seat post – to help him tackle the descent of the Poggio.
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Spoiler alert: This is our post-race analysis of Milan-Sanremo so if you’re yet to watch the race and don’t want to know the result save this episode until you’ve seen the action. This is the first episode of Arrivée, our new post-race analysis show covering the Classics season. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the 113th edition of Milan-Sanremo, the first Monument of the 2022 season.
Who won it and more importantly how did they do it? We unpick the major incidents from the longest one-day race on the World Tour calendar. We’ll follow up with any unresolved storylines and take a deeper dive, cover the opening days of the Volta a Catalunya and Classic Brugge De Panne, and look ahead to the E3 Saxo Bank Classic and Gent-Wevelgem in our regular episode later this week.
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The second of this week's episodes looks ahead to Milan-Sanremo and asks whether Tadej Pogačar can become the first grand tour champion since Vincenzo Nibali to win La Primavera.
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss dominance and whether Pogačar is on course to 'complete' cycling. Winning Milan-Sanremo, a race that can be won by sprinters, climbers and attackers, would be his third Monument victory in under a year but other teams, notably Jumbo-Visma and Quick Step-Alpha Vinyl, will have plenty to say about that.
Get ready for the longest Classic of the season with our in-depth look ahead at the race.
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Starting this Saturday: ArrivéeOur Classics review and analysis show Arrivée kicks off with Milan-Sanremo on Saturday. Richard, Lionel and Daniel will record their instant reaction to the first Monument of the season shortly after the winner crosses the line. From Kilometre 0 to Arrivée, we've got cycling covered.
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In the first of two episodes this week, Richard, Lionel and Daniel look back at Paris-Nice and Tirreno Adriatico, the stage races in France and Italy respectively won by the Slovenian superstars, Primož Roglič and Tadej Pogačar. Roglič’s performance in the ‘Race to the Sun’ ended up throwing up as many questions as answers, though in the end he did win – and that, as Lionel points out, is the crucial fact. In Italy, Pogačar continued his utterly dominant start to the season with a performance that only really suggested one question – what can Pogačar not win? Whether he will win Milan-Sanremo is the question we will turn to in the other episode due out later this week as we preview the first monument of the season. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport. Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
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In the second of this week's two episodes Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe report from Paris-Nice, with Richard then linking up with Lionel Birnie to discuss the other World Tour stage race currently on, Tirreno Adriatico.
With the recent races dominated by two teams, we ask whether Jumbo-Visma and UAE-Team Emirates are now on a different level to their rivals. And we look ahead to a Netflix documentary series that will focus on eight teams at the Tour de France.
We hear from Frans Maassen of Jumbo-Visma and Matteo Trentin of UAE-Team Emirates, as well as , Ben O'Connor of Ag2r-Citroen and Owain Doull and Tom Southam of EF Education-EasyPost.
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JOIN RICHARD FOR FLANDERS WEEKENDRichard Moore will be hosting a Tour of Flanders Experience at the Flandrien Hotel over the weekend of April 2-3. Visit the Flandrien Hotel's website for more details.
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Join Lionel Birnie and Simon Gill in Tuscany as they explore the white roads of Strade Bianche.
At the start in Siena Lionel meets Ciro Scognamiglio of La Gazzetta dello Sport, Brent Copeland of Bike Exchange and the 'SuperTuscan' Max Sciandri of Movistar. Then it's out on the course to see what they can see through the white dust. The Pogi Club fans were optimistic their man could launch a long-range solo move and back in the Piazza del Campo we hear from Groupama-FDJ's Lewis Askey, who was on Julian Alaphilippe's wheel when 'the crash' happened.
The Cycling Podcast will return later this week with race analysis and discussion of Strade Bianche, Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico.
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In this month’s TCP Féminin we consider the rise of Movistar, the women’s team that has slowly established itself as a formidable force and, as of the beginning of March, the best in the world.
In Annemiek van Vleuten and Emma Norsgaard they are capable of winning most, if not all, races. And their talents complement each other’s: Van Vleuten is aggressive and can go from a long way, while Norsgaard is a fast finisher – though far more than a pure sprinter.
We hear from both Van Vleuten and Norsgaard in this episode, as well as from Sebastián Unzué, who runs the women’s team and is the son of Eusebio, who has run the men’s team for more than four decades.
There are also interviews with Demi Vollering, Grace Brown and two newly appointed sports directors, Tim Harris at EF-Tibco-SVB and Jolien D’hoore, who retired at the end of last season and is now in the car for NXTG.
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Wout van Aert started his road racing season in emphatic style at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, finishing off a Jumbo-Visma one-two started by Tiesj Benoot. Richard Moore was in Gent for 'Opening Weekend' and he joins Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe to discuss the beginning of the classics campaign.
We also dissect Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, which ended in the predictable sprint showdown between Fabio Jakobsen and Caleb Ewan but got there in far more surprising fashion.
Daniel describes the concept of the 'cassoulet Taco' as the worst fusion cuisine imaginable, we highlight some of the other stars of the cobbles, and wrap up the rest of the week's racing action, which has been dominated by a handful of teams.
In the final part, we discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine and how it relates to professional cycling after Gazprom, the team sponsored by the Russian state-owned energy company, starred at the UAE Tour.
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In this episode of Service Course, Tom jacks into the metaverse for a closer look at Bike Club, a new cycling club based around NFTs and run using block chain technology. Tom also looks at the wider ways in which sports are embracing NFTS, and with them cryptocurrencies, and how those technologies might alter the way we interact with online cycling platforms like Zwift. Along the way we hear from Rich Mitch and Tyler Benedict from Bike Club, Wes Salmon from Zwift, host of Welcome To The Metaverse Luke Franks, Capital Block CEO Tim Magnall, as well as The Cycling Podcast’s own Lionel Birnie and Kate Wagner.
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In this week’s episode we discuss the smorgasbord of races over the past week, including the ongoing UAE Tour, and also look ahead to Opening Weekend in Belgium. Tadej Pogačar won the first mountain top finish at the UAE Tour, confirming that he is the man to beat in that race – and in many others this season. He is said to be targeting Milan-Sanremo and Daniel says that he can see a pogcineration on the Poggio. We hear from two of the young riders who’ve impressed in the stage races in Spain and Portugal over the past week, Magnus Sheffield of Ineos Grenadiers and Johannes Staune-Mittet of Jumbo-Visma. And we catch up with Primoz Roglič at his altitude training camp in Tenerife ahead of his 2022 racing debut later this week. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport. Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
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The early season action continues to come thick and fast with races in the south of France, the Middle East and southern Spain.
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the Tour de la Provence, Tour of Oman and the new gravel race in Spain as the focus starts to switch to the 'holiday swing' as we're dubbing it, with the start of the Ruta del Sol in Andalusia and the Tour of the Algarve. The sun is shining and you can almost smell the sardines and sangria. It won't be long now until focus shifts to the grit and cobbles of Belgium.
It was a week of Covid cases, sprint relegations and a disqualification and in part one we delve into the racing to ask whether Nairo Quintana's win in Provence means there's still hope for the 32-year-old Colombian in the grand tours. We discuss Filippo Ganna's bike change and the continuing Cofidis revival. Then we discuss the new Clasica Jaen Paraiso won by the current gravel king, Alexey Lutsenko. Does this mean there's a new leader in The Cycling Podcast's Performance of the Year powered by Cassoulet classification?
We also discuss Chris Froome's recent comments questioning whether time trial bikes have a place in road cycling and in the final part we hear from Jumbo-Visma's manager Richard Plugge about Primoz Roglic and from George Bennett, the Kiwi climber who has swapped the Dutch squad and a role supporting Roglic for UAE Team Emirates where he'll ride with Pogacar.
There's also some droning on about drones, a terrible Smiths joke and an inaccurate football analogy. If UAE Team Emirates are the Manchester City of cycling, what does that make Jumbo-Visma? All this and more in a bumper episode.
Cycling Podcast history was made because, with Richard making a brief visit from northern France, this was the first episode recorded in Lionel's spiritual home town, Watford.
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In this week's episode we discuss last week's stage racing in Saudi Arabia, the south of France and southern Spain.
Dylan Groenewegen and Fabio Jakobsen each won two stages at their respective races, and, although these are very early days, we wonder if the two Dutchmen may emerge as the world's top sprinters this season.
We hear from the young Norwegian Tobias Johannessen, who finished third at Étoile de Bessèges. He is an identical twin whose brother, Anders, also rides for Uno-X, the ambitious Norwegian team eyeing a wild card for the Tour de France.
And ahead of his season debut at the Tour of Oman, we speak to Mark Cavendish's coach, Vasilis Anastopoulos.
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This is a trailer for our latest series of episodes for Friends of the Podcast. To subscribe, go to thecyclingpodcast.comThe Story of The Cycling Podcast is a trilogy of episodes commissioned and edited by three of our subscribers.
In part one, How It Started, Jack Mckillop asks Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe about the origins of the podcast and how it has developed over the past nine years.
Part two, by Scott Emmons, is called How the Sausage is Made, and goes behind the scenes to ask our audio producers how the podcast is put together.
Finally, part three by Nick Busca is A Day on the Road and tells the story of a typical day at the grand tours through the prism of one of the most dramatic days in recent Tour de France history. Richard and Lionel recall the stage of the 2016 Tour when Chris Froome was seen running up Mont Ventoux without his bike.
Is Miguel Angel Lopez's crown as cycling's Superman under threat? Who's already looking al dente just a week into the season? Does the new Cofidis jersey look as good on the bike as off it? And just what should we make of the Astana rap?
All these questions and more are covered in a bumper episode. With the road racing season well underway in Europe and the Middle East Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss what we've seen so far.
The season was almost a week old and Quick Step were still waiting for their first win of the season until Remco Evenepoel took flight on stage one of the Vuelta Valenciana. We hear from Evenepoel about his thwarted attempts to check out the gravel finish to Friday's third stage in Spain.
We also recap the rest of the racing, including Tom Pidcock's win in the cyclo-cross World Championships, and on the road at the Challenge Majorca, Grand Prix La Marseillaise and Saudi Tour.
UAE Team Emirates head coach Iñigo San Millan tells us about ketones and, at the end of the show, Lionel looks at the history of cycling's world rankings and delves into the prospect of promotion and relegation in the World Tour.
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The Cycling Podcast Féminin returned for 2022 with Rose Manley back in the host’s seat and joined by Orla Chennaoui and Richard Moore.
They look ahead to the season and there are interviews with Linda Jackson, founder of the new-look EF Education Tibco SVB team, and Hannah Barnes, who has moved from Canyon-SRAM to the new Uno-X team.
There’s also the much anticipated return of Rose’s quiz, Motto or Notto.
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In this episode, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe react to Egan Bernal's terrible crash while training in Colombia which left Ineos Grenadiers' reigning Giro d'Italia champion needing surgery on his back and right leg.
Then we turn our attention back to previewing the 2022 season looking at the men's one-day Classics and asking who will challenge Wout van Aert while Mathieu van der Poel regains full fitness, how Ineos Grenadiers will deploy Tom Pidcock to greatest effect and where Remco Evenepoel fits into Quick Step's Classics line-up. We also hear from Bora-Hansgrohe's sports director Rolf Aldag about Milan-Sanremo.
Finally, there's more from Richard on the early season form of Scotland's Mark Stewart.
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“Whatever people say I am, that’s what I’m not”. In this episode Tom Whalley channels his inner Arthur Seaton as he looks at the history and legacy of the Raleigh brand, 20 years after they closed their final factory in Nottingham. Local historian Chris Matthews takes us on a walk of some of the key Raleigh sites in the city, and digital story teller James Walker talks about author Arthur Sillitoe’s classic novel, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, and its protagonist Arthur Seaton who worked in the Raleigh factory. We also hear from Julian Hopkins who collects Raleigh Burners and Ken Price who has one of the world’s most impressive collections of Raleigh Choppers.
James Walker’s work includes Dawn of the Unread, an online graphic novel series celebrating Nottingham's literary history, and The Sillitoe Trail, which explores the enduring relevance of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. More recently he has created the Sillitoe-inspired Instagram story The Loneliness of the Lockdown Runner and the D.H. Lawrence Memory Theatre.
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In our first regular episode of 2022 we anticipate the Grand Tours and ask whether it will be the third year of Pog – Tadej Pogačar.
Daniel Friebe has spoken to Pogačar's coach, Iñigo San Millán, who describes him (Pogačar, not Daniel) as "the perfect athlete." We also hear from Pogačar himself.
And we hear from Egan Bernal, who Richard spoke to in between training rides in Colombia (Bernal, not Richard). Bernal tells us that while the Tour de France is his main focus he would like to ride Liège-Basgogne-Liège and Flèche Wallonne as well.
Rolf Aldag, meanwhile, tells us about Bora-Hansgrohe's ambitions as they transition into a team with a focus on general classification in stage races.
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In our first episode of 2022 we meet the World Tour’s youngest rider, Cian Uijtdebroeks. The 18-year-old Belgian has signed for Bora-Hansgrohe and will make his professional debut in Mallorca at the end of the month. Already dubbed “the next Remco,” Uijtdebroeks came to wide attention when he won the junior edition of Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne in 2020 with a 50km solo breakaway. But who is he, and how does an 18-year-old deal with the expectation and hype that comes with being a talented young rider in Belgium? Before Christmas, Richard went to meet him at the Uijtdebroeks family home close to the border between Flanders and Wallonia. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport. Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
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Merry Christmas from Richard, Daniel, Lionel and everyone at The Cycling Podcast.
Cast your mind back to the summer's three grand tours in this mini episode. We'll be back in mid-January to see what the 2022 season has in store.
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Welcome to The Cesares, also known as The Moonies, or to put it more simply The Cycling Podcast's alternative awards 2021.
Our virtual ceremony hosted by Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe has none of the glitz or glamour of The Oscars or, indeed, any of the world's well-known awards nights.
But it can only be a matter of time before The Cesares, or The Moonies, or whatever we're calling it is, matches the same prestige as the Velo d'Or or the Flandrien of the Year prize.
So, without further ado, let's reach for The Cycling Podcast's pile of brown envelopes to see who the lucky winners are this year. Which race will claim the Definitely Not Flèche Wallonne Race of the Year prize? Who is in line for the Sex and the City Comeback of the Year gong? Who can stand in the way of Primož Roglič and the Primož Roglič Defeat from the Jaws of Victory award?
Drum roll, please... let's welcome to the stage, in a virtual tuxedo and bow tie, your host Richard Moore...
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Explore usually takes riders a little further afield than just a few kilometres from their home but in this episode Lionel Birnie sets out on his familiar festive route in the eastern edge of the Chilterns.
On the route are 12 hills and so this is the 12 hills of Christmas, a 90-kilometre route peppered with short climbs.
While Christmas is a time for celebrations, lightheartedness and joy it's also a time for reflection on the year almost passed. Regular listeners will know Lionel missed a big chunk of the season and cancelled his Tour d'Écosse series for Explore at very short notice. While the roads may be reassuringly familiar, he also takes the time to explore less comfortable territory as he talks about his mental health and what happened this year.
GPX file: If you want to ride The 12 hills of Christmas route, you can download the GPX file from Dropbox here.
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In this press conference episode of Service Course, Tom Whalley and Lizzy Banks open the floor to your questions. We discuss whether time is up for the front derailleur thanks to Classified's revolutionary two-speed hub, we try to unmuddy the waters when it comes to picking that perfect winter tyre and Richard from France asks Tom and Lizzy to describe their dream builds.
Finally, we talk about increasing the accessibility of cycling and hear from the creator of The School of Rocks, Eleanor Jaskowska, about how to build your confidence and develop a skillset for off-road riding. Her partner, Liam Glen, winner of the Highland Trail 550 also tells us about building a race winning bike on a budget and making your own bike packing bags.
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In this week's episode, it's over to you, our listeners, to ask the questions of Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe.
Is Patrick Lefevere's belief in Remco Evenepoel misplaced? Is it right for the whole cycling circus to fly to Australia for the World Championships considering the environmental impact? How have the peloton and the press room changed since we started The Cycling Podcast in 2013? Are the crowds at the Tour of Britain bigger than at the Dauphiné? Which race route would make the best one-day Classic? Can anyone win the triple crown again? And more...
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Our review of the 2021 men’s road racing season continues with a deep look at the three grand tours. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe weigh up the era of the galacticos in a year when the three outstanding stage racers – Egan Bernal, Tadej Pogačar and Primož Roglič – each won a grand tour. Transport yourself back to Italy, France and Spain with our greatest hits compilations, a selection of audio highlights from our travels this year, before we discuss each of the races in turn. We look back at the best days of racing, ask whether the Vuelta really is overtaking the Giro as the ’second’ grand tour, revisit Mark Cavendish’s record-equalling stage wins at the Tour and ask which of Bernal and Roglic is best placed to challenge Pogačar next season. We hear from Joe Dombrowski, Pavel Sivakov and Jonathan Vaughters on the Pog-nomenon and ask what threats there are to his dominance. And we speak to Toms Skujiņš about arguably the best day’s racing from the grand tours – or at least the day which provided the least expected thrills. The Giro d’Italia – 12 minutes 28 seconds The Tour de France – 37 minutes 49 seconds Vuelta a España – 1 hour 36 minutes 27 seconds The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport. Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
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The final episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin of 2021 is one of two halves.
In the first, Lizzy Banks and Richard Moore argue over who should win our end-of-year awards, and Lizzy tells us all about her new team, EF Education-Tibco-SVB.
In the second, Orla Chennaoui is interviewed by one of our listeners, Jack Mckillop, about the origins and first five years of The Cycling Podcast Féminin.
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In the second part of our look back at the one-day races of 2021, we pick up the story by asking whether Peter Sagan can return to his best to challenge the current crop of Galácticos.
We hear from Jonathan Vaughters about the ways racing has changed and why a 'boring' race to watch does not mean an easy race to ride.
Toms Skujiņš of Trek-Segafredo tells us which of the current riders are most likely to win all five one-day Monuments in their career.
And we hear from Ineos Grenadiers rider Tom Pidcock, who was the breakthrough rider of the spring.
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In the first part of our look back at the 2021 road racing season, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discussed the cobbled Classics.
The Latin title of our series, Annus galaxicus, was Daniel's idea, naturally, and it refers to Julian Alaphilippe, Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel, who looked set to dominate the one-day races. However, while all of them had outstanding moments, none of them managed to win one of the five Monuments. We ask why.
And what was the outstanding Classic performance of the year? Tadej Pogacar's sports director Allan Peiper didn't hesitate when we asked him the question.
We also hear from Tour of Flanders winner Kasper Asgreen and Lionel designs his five-course Monuments meal.
Next week, we'll move on the Ardennes Classics and other eyecatching one-day races as well as ask whether any of the current generation of stellar stars can complete the career grand slam by winning all five Monuments.
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In this fourth and final episode in our mini-series of Explore we look at the gravel scene.
Gravel at a crossroads is partly inspired by some of the reaction to our feature on the so-called "first professional gravel race" in Veneto in episode one. Some took exception to the description, with one listener advising us that if we want to talk about gravel we should speak to some Americans!
So we have. In this episode we hear from Caley Fretz, editor of Cycling Tips and "groad" pioneer, and Ian Boswell, the former World Tour pro who won Unbound, arguably the world's biggest gravel race, this year.
We also speak to two riders at a crossroads in their careers: Tiffany Cromwell, who is combining Women's World Tour racing with gravel races, and Finley Newmark, a promising young rider who is turning full-time to gravel in 2022.
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In this episode of Service Course, Tom Whalley looks back on the fixed gear phenomenon, which peaked around a decade ago, and asks what happened to fixie culture.
He speaks with Max Leonard, co-author of Fixed, former bike messenger Emily Chappell, and Tibco-SVB’s Tanja Erath.
Tanja came into pro-cycling through the Zwift academy, but before that she started making waves racing in fixed gear criteriums, notably the much missed Red Hook series. Tanja talks about the benefits of riding fixed and how she hopes to be able to ride fixie crits as part of next year’s race calendar.
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This week's episode comes from the Six Days of Ghent, which is back this week after a year's absence.
Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie report from a familiarly busy and raucous 't Kuipke on the opening night and speak to some of the star names, including Olympic Madison champion Michael Mørkøv and local favourite Iljo Keisse.
We also hear from Maikel Zijlaard, riding his first senior Ghent Six and remembering his grandfather, who was one of track cycling's legendary derny riders. The director of the race, Christophe Sercu – son of the late Patrick – also tells us about this year's race and his hopes for six day racing.
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For this episode of Explore one of our audio producers, Adam Bowie, takes over on the mic as he sets off to ride the King Alfred's Way in the south west of England.
The 350-kilometre circular, mostly off-road, bikepacking route features a mix of gravel tracks, woodland trails, canal towpaths and rural lanes as it takes in parts of the Ridgeway, South Downs Way, Shipwrights Way and Sussex Border Path.
The route is named after Alfred the Great, who ruled the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex in the ninth century. The route passes King Alfred's statue in Winchester, where he is buried.
This is not just a multi-day bikepacking adventure. Adam had a specific reason for undertaking the trip, because it marked an important point in an inspirational and transformative journey he'd been on over the course of more than a year as the country locked down during the pandemic.
Find out more about King Alfred's Way here.
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In this episode Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the final unveiling of the 2022 Giro d'Italia route. The Giro stages have been revealed bit by bit this time in batches, rather than chronologically. Has this robbed the Giro route of some of its mystery and majesty or does it not really matter? And what are the other terrible innovations in recent grand tour history?
It's track season, cyclo-cross season and silly season. We discuss the controversy of riders taking part in events on their new team's bikes before their contracts have expired in the light of EF Education First's threat to terminate Sergio Higuita and Lawson Craddock's contracts for doing just that. We ask whether Adam Yates's Barcelona marathon time was impressive for a professional cyclist.
Richard's show and tell segment discusses a new show on GCN featuring EF Education First sports director Tom Southam teaching a bunch of fourth-category riders how to ride as a team, and we hear from Southam himself.
And in the final part we speak to Tony Moffa, a Friend of the Podcast who has recently secured a job in the World Tour with Team DSM as a mechanic – a move which came about after he listened to our Friends of the Podcast special episode A Team Apart.
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In the latest episode of Explore we hear Mark Beaumont’s audio diary from GBDuro, the on- and off-road race the length of Britain, from Land's End to John o’ Groats.
Amazingly this was Mark’s first ever organised race — though GBDuro is not a race in the traditional sense.
Or perhaps it is? As well as being a test of endurance, it is an event that seeks to put cycle racing back in touch with its roots. With four ultra long stages, and with the riders unsupported and self sufficient, it arguably has more in common with the early Tours de France than the modern incarnation.
As well as Mark — who told us all about his round the world record in our first ever episode of Explore — we hear from some of the other competitors.
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In this month's episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin Orla Chennaoui and Richard Moore are joined by Lizzy Banks to discuss the British national championships and the Ronde van Drenthe, and we hear from Susanne Andersen who is leaving Team DSM to join Uno-X. We also look back on the first women's Paris-Roubaix and ahead to next year's inaugural Tour de France Femmes. The Cycling Podcast Féminin is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport. Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
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In this week's episode Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss Alex Dowsett's Hour record attempt.
Dowsett held the record back in 2015, before Bradley Wiggins broke it, and he aimed to win it back from the current holder Victor Campenaerts in Mexico this week.
He fell just short but he won a lot of admirers for raising awareness of haemophilia, a condition he has overcome to reach the top of his sport, and for putting together the team for his record attempt himself. What does his near-miss mean for the record and who will go for it next?
In part two, we talk about the 2022 Giro d'Italia grande partenza in Hungary. Postponed from 2020 because of the pandemic, Budapest will finally host the start of the Giro next May and the three stages unveiled this week by the organisers look more promising than the original plans. With the Giro route being unveiled bit-by-bit over the course of a week has the race lost something without a 'big reveal'? And what else might Italy's grand tour have in store?
Finally, Lionel talks about his weekend trip to Belgium to see the Koppenbergcross. We hear from 'cross legend Sven Nys to take the current temperature of the scene and the possibility of Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert returning later in the season.
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Explore returns for a mini series this month and in this opening episode we cover the pavé and gravel experiencing the old and new of road racing.
The day before the women's Paris-Roubaix, Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie, joined by Simon Gill, sampled some of the sectors. Lionel once rode the full 260-kilometre Paris-Roubaix cyclo-sportive but Richard had never ridden on the cobblestones of north-eastern France and was in for a shock.
Then Richard headed to Veneto in northern Italy for a week of racing and riding put together by former Milan-Sanremo winner and Italian champion Filippo Pozzato. As well as a series of one-day races, there was a Granfondo, which Richard rode, and the first edition of the Serenissima gravel race, which was won by Alexey Lutsenko.
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In this episode, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss some of the latest stories from the world of professional cycling. After saving the team at the last minute a year ago, is this the end of the road for the Qhubeka-NextHash World Tour team? What’s behind the latest shake-up at Movistar, and does Tiesj Benoot really want out of Team DSM? And if he leaves, where might he end up?
In part two, we discuss Ineos Grenadiers. Geraint Thomas appears to be staying for another year, there are changes in the coaching and management department with Tim Kerrison leaving after 12 years and Roger Hammond considering an offer to join. And could one of the team’s brightest young stars be lured away by another team?
Finally, we discuss two doping stories. We’ll try to make sense of the WADA report into British Cycling running a private testing programme for nandrolone a decade ago in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics, and get to the bottom of the substance found in some Bahrain-Victorious riders’ hair samples.
Plus, which men’s World Tour rider had the most race days in 2021 – and how far towards the moon would that have taken him?
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This is a trailer for a new episode available to Friends of the Podcast.The latest in our series featuring The Cycling Podcast's hosts features Lionel Birnie facing the questions from Orla Chennaoui. Lionel talks about his route into cycling journalism, from a childhood spent making football magazines to learning the ropes at his local newspaper.
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In this episode of Service Course, Lizzy and Tom speak to two holders of prestigious cycling world records. First up is Ashton Lambie, who at the time of recording is the current holder of the individual pursuit world record, and the first person to go under four minutes in that event. Ashton talks about living in an RV, not wanting to ride for a road team, bench pressing over 300lbs, coffee, bikes, and what to watch on Netflix.
Next is Joss Lowden, the new hour record holder. Lizzy caught up with her at the British National Championships, she tells us that she actually broke that record riding one of Ashton’s old frames.
Finally Tom chats to Anna Lawson, an ironman athlete, about the weird world of bikes used in those competitions, but more importantly her ride to COP26 in Glasgow and the ways that cycling can have a positive impact on climate change.
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So, this is it, retirement. Or, to put it another way, the longest off-season of my life. I've ridden my final race and in a few short weeks I will be officially retired from the professional peloton.
When I made the decision that this would be my final season as a rider, I wanted to prepare myself for what comes next. And so, over the course of the year, as my mindset has changed and I've got closer to my final race, I spoke to some friends and former teammates about what to expect.
In this episode, I speak to eight people who have all adjusted to retirement – some very recently, such as Tejay van Garderen, some longer ago like David Millar. Brett Lancaster, Andreas Klier and Robert Wagner have all stayed in the sport in some way, whereas Dom Rollin has gone in a completely different direction. I also speak to Gracie Elvin and my good buddy Svein Tuft about the ups and downs of no longer being a pro athlete. What's it like to no longer be the best at something? How do we adjust to regular life? What can those who have gone before me tell me that can help me prepare for my own retirement?
This is the final episode of Life in the Peloton for 2021. I hope you've enjoyed our season of shows. Thank you for all your support and kind comments and I'll see you on the road. I'm really looking forward to finding out what life outside the peloton has in store...
Cheers,
Mitch
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Richard Moore has been in the Veneto region of northern Italy experiencing the rebirth of racing in an area that is rich in cycling heritage.
Richard joins Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe to talk about the week's racing and riding.
Filippo Pozzato, former Milan-Sanremo winner and Italian national champion, has created a new one-day race in his own image.
The Giro del Veneto, first held in the 1920s but absent from the calendar for more than a decade, has returned and has been joined by the Veneto Classic and a gravel one-day race, the Serenissima.
The Veneto region is also home to some of Italian cycling's most storied manufacturers, including Campagnolo and Sidi. But how does a new race fit into an already crowded Italian race calendar, what is the true potential for gravel racing, and what does it say about the current state of the sport in Italy?
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The routes for the 2022 Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes were revealed in Paris so now the riders know what awaits them next July.
The 109th edition of the men’s Tour will start on Friday, July 1 with a time trial in Copenhagen, followed by two stages in Denmark before a transfer back to France where the cobbles of the Hell of the North await. The serious climbing starts with La Super Planche des Belles Filles before Alpe d’Huez returns for the first time since 2018. The Tour will visit Hautacam in the Pyrenees before a time trial at Rocamadour.
The first edition of the Tour de France Femmes will kick off with a stage in Paris on the same day the men’s Tour reaches the Champs-Élysées. Over the course of eight stages, the women will tackle gravel and climbs before the yellow jersey is decided on La Super Planche des Belles Filles.
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe dissect the routes, assess some of the culinary highlights and ask whether the sprinters will be forced to look elsewhere for opportunities.
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In the first of two episodes this week, Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss Tadej Pogacar's victory at Il Lombardia, the fifth and final Monument of the season.
There's also all the most recent cycling news, including Arnaud Demare's win at the end of a thrilling Paris-Tours, the latest transfers and the appointment of Marion Rousse as the director of the new Tour de France Femmes, which is launching in 2022.
The podcast will return with Lionel Birnie later in the week to discuss the 2022 Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes routes, which will be unveiled on Thursday.
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That’s a wrap from the 2021 Women’s Tour. Join Rose Manley, Lionel Birnie and Lizzy Banks as they witness the conclusion of the final stage – the longest of the race – to Felixstowe. The sun was shining, the crowds were cheering and although there wasn’t a drop of rain in the air in the finishing straight the rainbow shone too. Elisa Balsamo, the recently-crowned world champion, finally grabbed a stage win for her Valcar team after going so close yesterday. We hear the reaction from Balsamo and her teammates. Lizzy’s recon included a trip on a ferry, we wrap up the stories from the day’s breakaway and the crash which marred the run-in before focussing on overall winner Demi Vollering. We hear from her SD Worx sports director Danny Stam. We also reveal who has won the Pédaleuse de Charme and Stacy Snyder’s beautiful hand-made cup and hear from Trixi Worrack, who brought down the curtain on a long career today. We hope you have enjoyed this week’s coverage. Thanks to our producers Will Jones, Adam Bowie and Huw Owen. Also to Simon Gill, to Lionel’s mystery researcher and to Alasdair Lloyd-Jones and the social media team. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport. Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout. This episode is sponsored by NordVPN. Get up to 73% off a two-year plan: go to NordVPN.com/TCP
Oh we do like to be beside the seaside… For the second day in a row the Women’s Tour finished beside the sea, this time in Clacton and for the second day in a row Lorena Wiebes won the stage.
Join Rose Manley, Lionel Birnie and Lizzy Banks on the sea front as they recap the stage. We hear from Mark Cavendish, who stopped to watch the race yesterday and was at the finish today.
Lizzy heads out on her bike to give the lowdown on the course, we hear post-race reaction from Wiebes and her Team DSM teammate Pfeiffer Georgi. Plus there’s Hayley Simmonds, who earned the biggest lead over the peloton so far this week, from Chloe Hosking about Trek-Segafredo’s search for a stage win and focus on a couple of the riders who have had difficult days in the race.
There’s a discussion about what constitutes a podium finish and – Clacton Klaxon – some fascinating facts about Clacton.
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It’s another packed podcast from the Women’s Tour. Join Rose Manley, Lionel Birnie and Lizzy Banks at the famous Rossi’s ice cream parlour on the seafront in Southend-on-Sea as they recap stage four. The stage was won by Lorena Wiebes of Team DSM and we hear her finish line reaction and get the thoughts of sports director Albert Timmer. Lizzy checked out the course, we hear reaction from the riders after a fast, furious run-in, and in the final part we ask race director Mick Bennett why there is no live coverage of the race – something that is a World Tour requirement. Lizzy also gives her thoughts on the fact fans cannot watch the race as it unfolds. Finally, we learn about Southend and a debate rages about ice cream flavours. The Cycling Podcast Féminin is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport. Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout. This episode is also sponsored by the Hammerhead Karoo 2. For a limited time only get a free Hammerhead heart-rate monitor with the purchase of a Karoo 2. Go to hammerhead.io and use the promo code CYCLE at check-out.
So, this is it, my final race as a professional cyclist. When I announced I'd be retiring at the end of this season I didn't know what my last race would be, but then fate stepped in. Paris-Roubaix – a race I've truly loved over the years, was rescheduled from its usual April spot to an end-of-season Sunday in October. It seemed fitting to ride this brutal race to close my career.
It's been quite a journey to get here, especially after fracturing my elbow in a crash at the Benelux Tour in early September. With so many high-calibre Classics riders in our team I wasn't guaranteed a start.
It was touch-and-go whether I'd be on the start line in Compiègne for the Hell of the North and there were even moments in my final preparation race when I had my doubts.
This episode tells the story of my final week as a professional cyclist. Join me along the way as I get ready for the race with my current teammates – Tom Scully, Michael Valgren and Stefan Bisseger, catch up with some of my best friends in the peloton, Bert de Backer, Luke Durbridge, Sam Bewley, Jack Bauer and Mathew Hayman, followed by the aftermath of one of the legendary wet editions of Paris-Roubaix.
I've always said I wanted to do at least one wet Paris-Roubaix before I retired but as the rain fell on the morning of the race and everyone retreated into their own thoughts I began to have second thoughts.
I won't spoil how the race turned out – you'll have to listen for that – but as one of my old teammates said, very few people in sport get to bow out with a fairytale finish. Having said that, the way my Paris-Roubaix ended turned out to be the perfect send-off.
I've loved my professional career but I've learned this year that when it's time, you know it's time.
I hope you enjoy this episode – thank you for all the support whether you were there cheering in the rain or watching at home. If you want to get your hands on a Final Sunday in Hell cap as a memento check out my Etsy store in the links below on Friday.
Cheers,
Mitch
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The Women’s Tour had the first time trial stage in its eight-year history as the riders tackled a 16.6-kilometre circuit round Atherstone. But this was about as far from the traditional out-and-back British 10-mile time trial as you could get. Join Rose Manley, Lionel Birnie and Lizzy Banks in the New Swan in Atherstone as they recap a stage that has turned the race on its head – and possibly put the leader’s jersey out of the reach of all the riders. Hear how the time trial unfolded with our focus on the riders who sat in the hot seat – or the giant deckchair of destiny – over the course of the afternoon. We spoke to the riders who led the time trial and to Demi Vollering, who won the stage and took what could be an unassailable lead overall. Lizzy was out on the course checking out the technical aspects of a demanding course and we hear from Clara Copponi, who put up a spirited defence of the race lead she took yesterday. We also hear from World Hour record breaker Jos Lowden, Women’s Tour ever-present Leah Kirchmann and Lionel finds out about the Atherstone ball game. The Cycling Podcast Féminin is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport. Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
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Join Rose Manley, Lionel Birnie and Lizzy Banks as they recap stage two of the Women’s Tour, which tackled ten climbs on a tough circuit in grim weather.
A break of 10 riders got clear to deny a second bunch sprint and at the finish we saw Amy Pieters of SD Worx win her fourth Women’s Tour stage, while Clara Copponi of France took the race lead from Marta Bastianelli.
In this episode, we hear from Pfeiffer Georgi and Juliette Labous of Team DSM, who were both in the break, Pieters’ teammate Demi Vollering and new queen of the mountains Elise Chabbey.
Lionel investigates the link between Walsall and Brooks saddles and in the final part there’s an exclusive interview by Orla Chennaoui with Olympic silver medallist Elinor Barker, who shared some big news today…
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Join Rose Manley, Lionel Birnie and Lizzy Banks as our nightly coverage of The Women’s Tour kicks off following the opening stage to Banbury. Hear from Sophie Wright, teammate of stage winner Marta Bastianelli, and Anna Christian, who launched one of the most persistent attacks of the opening stage. Plus there’s Lizzie Deignan, who lines up as defending champion and newly-crowned Paris-Roubaix winner, Christine Majerus, Amy Pieters and Elisa Longo Borghini. Lizzy outlines what we can expect to see over the coming five days after a number of potential winners were ruled out. Will this be a race won by the sprinter who can time trial best or can someone gain enough time against the clock to hold off the time bonus chasers? We also ask what the impact of a brutal debut edition of Paris-Roubaix may have on the six-day stage race. Plus, we discuss Banbury Cakes and ask what the nursery rhyme is all about. The Cycling Podcast Féminin is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport.
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In this feature length episode from Paris-Roubaix Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie take us on a journey from Compiègne to Roubaix via some of the famous cobbles.
From Saturday's first ever women's race we report from the first sector of pavé and hear from riders including Audrey Cordon-Ragot, Marlen Reusser and Lisa Brennauer.
From Sunday's men's race we hear from Mitch Docker, riding his last race as a professional, and Florian Vermeersch, the revelation of the race who finished second in the Roubaix Velodrome. And we also speak to Roger Hammond and Tim Harris, Bahrain Victorious sports directors of the winner, Sonny Colbrelli, as well as his teammate Fred Wright.
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Orla Chennaoui, Rose Manley and Richard Moore look back at the world road race championships in Flanders and ahead to the first ever women's Paris-Roubaix.
We hear from Elisa Longo Borghini, who led her Italian teammate Elisa Balsamo out to victory in Flanders, and from the British riders Lizzie Deignan and Anna Henderson.
There are also interviews with two riders who were retiring after the road race: Ruth Winder and Anna van der Breggen, who exits with her legacy secured as one of the all-time greats.
And we hear from the chief executive of Flanders Classics, Tomas Van Den Spiegel, about his vision for women's racing in Flanders.
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In this week's episode we dissect a thrilling men's road race at the world championships in Flanders: a race hailed by some as the greatest world championship road race in history, played out in front of a crowd estimated at a million.
We hear from some of the riders who contributed to the drama and excitement: Belgium's Yves Lampaert, Neilson Powless of the USA, Tom Pidcock of Great Britain and Remi Cavagna, a French teammate of the winner, Julian Alaphilippe.
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It's hill-climb season once again in the UK. In this episode Tom Whalley and Lizzy Banks discuss what could be the UK's steepest climb. Could it even be the steepest climb in the world? Simon Warren, author of 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs, and Ben Lowe, the creator of Veloviewer, talk us through their attempts to climb and measure the gradiant of Bamford Clough. Lizzy also speaks to Rebecca Richardson, one of the UK's top hill-climbers, about the balancing act of life and how she still manages to get to the top. Lizzy and Rebecca take on Winnats Pass where the national hill climb championships will take place on October 31.
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I’m back this week with one of the more experienced riders in the Women’s Pro Peloton, British rider Hannah Barnes.
After turning pro with United Healthcare in 2014, Hannah has ridden for Canyon-SRAM for the past six seasons and is set to move on to the new Uno-X team next year. As a youngster she was multiple national champion across several cycling disciplines, and most recently won the British national individual time trial in 2018. She’s also a Giro d’Italia stage winner and has finished top six in both Gent-Wevelgem and Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
I was keen to hear Hannah’s story and how she came into cycling and the pro peloton. I loved hearing about her early years; watching her Dad race 24hr mountain bike events on the weekend, lying about her age when she was 12 so she could join one of the MTB relay teams and joining the local club at age 10 to start weekly racing.
She’s had a colourful career, across multiple continents and as you’ll hear, her fair share of ups and downs.
I hope you enjoy the chat with Hannah, I know I did.
Stay tuned next week for more on our episode of Talking Luft!
Cheers,
Mitch
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In the first of two episodes of The Cycling Podcast Féminin this month, Rose Manley, Orla Chennaoui and Richard Moore, in Bruges for the UCI world championships, look back on Monday's time trial, won by Ellen van Dijk, and ahead to the road race at the weekend.
We hear from the time trial silver medallist Marlen Reusser as well as from Leah Thomas and Joss Lowden.
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Richard Moore is in Bruges for the World Championship time trials and he checks in with Lionel Birnie to discuss Sunday's elite men's race.
It was a neck-and-neck battle between defending champion Filippo Ganna and home favourite Wout van Aert.
We hear from four-time world champion Tony Martin, who confirmed his intention to retire after this week's races, from Ireland's Marcus Christie, whose story we featured in a Friends of the Podcast episode earlier this year, and from Dan Bigham.
Looking ahead to Sunday's men's road race we speak to Kasper Asgreen about the star-studded Danish team and wonder how they will take on the Belgians and Italians and from Tim Declercq, who was born in Leuven, about racing a World Championships in his home town.
Finally, following the tragic death of Danish rider Chris Anker Sorensen, a former Giro d'Italia stage winner who in retirement became an integral part of Danish TV's Tour de France coverage, his friend and colleague Brian Nygaard pays tribute.
Coming later this week are an episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin, Mitch Docker meets Hannah Barnes in Life in the Peloton and Service Course returns too.
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In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the Tour of Britain, the European Championships and some of the latest transfers in the World Tour.
Lionel reports back on his stint at the Tour of Britain, celebrates the Classic-esque quality of the Great Orme, and asks if there's a way to Wout van Aert-proof a week-long stage race.
Plus we hear from Dan Martin, who announced his retirement on the eve of the race, and look back at his legacy of grand tour stage wins and Monument victories.
We also discuss the European Championships, won in impressive fashion by Sonny Colbrelli. Where does that put the Italian on the list of favourites for the World Championships next month? And what does his second-place finish say about Remco Evenepoel?
Finally, we talk about Miguel Angel Lopez and weigh up the likelihood of the Colombian switching back Astana after his remarkable withdrawal from the Vuelta a España as a podium place slipped away from him on the penultimate day.
Friends of the Podcast: listen out for Lionel's Tour of Britain episode (which currently does not have the working title Notes from a Small Island). It will be released next month, after the conclusion of the World Tour season.
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In this episode Tom Whalley virtually heads off to Eurobike for a catch up with friends of the podcast, New Motion Labs, about the launch of their new Enduo chain.
Lizzy Banks immerses herself in the world of ultra-endurance racing as she follows the riders at All Points North as they take on a 1,000-kilometre ride around the north of England.
A weekend of dotwatching prefaced a nailbiting run in to Sheffield for the 1,000-kilometre sprint between the first two riders.
Finally, Tom and Lizzy look back at the Paralympic and Olympic games and speak to Italian track rider Martina Alzini about that team pursuit final and what's next for the Italian women's team.
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Life in the Peloton is back after the Vuelta a España and for this episode I spoke to two young Kiwi champions who are going to have very big futures. If you don't know the name Fisher-Black yet, I reckon you're going to hear it a lot in the coming months and years.
Niamh and Finn Fisher-Black are brother and sister who are both racing at World Tour level. Niamh is 21 and in her first year with the SD Worx team after a couple of seasons with Bigla Pro Cycling. This season she was ninth overall at the Giro and won the best young rider classification.
Her younger brother Finn is still only 19 and he started the season with the Jumbo-Visma development team. As you'll hear, he was starting to be integrated in the senior Jumbo-Visma team and he rode the Baloise Belgium Tour for them in June, finishing fourth overall in a race won by Remco Evenepoel. That turned out to be his final race for Jumbo-Visma because in July he made a mid-season switch to UAE-Team Emirates.
I wanted to find out more about Niamh and Finn and listening to them speak about their journeys into the pro ranks from New Zealand reminded me of the commitment it takes to move to the other side of the road and try to make it in the sport.
Cheers,
Mitch
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In our final episode of Kilometre 0 from the Vuelta a España we hear for the last time from our three audio diarists, James Knox of Deceuninck-Quickstep, Pavel Sivakov of Ineos Grenadiers and Joan Bou of Euskaltel-Euskadi.
While Sivakov finished the Vuelta in good shape, and able, he said, to carry on for another week, for Knox and Bou the final week was about survival.
Bou crashed heavily and, having been in several breakaways in the first two weeks, he was reduced in the last stages to merely hoping to finish with the gruppetto.
With characteristic candour, Knox admits that he is struggling for motivation as the Vuelta draws to a close. He appreciates the places and the sights, and can reflect with satisfaction on his team's four stage wins, but wrestles with his own feelings of fatigue and low morale.
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The Vuelta a España completed its three week pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela with Primoz Roglic the winner, and The Cycling Podcast was there to witness it.
The theme of this final episode from the Vuelta is pilgrims and we tell the story of the 2021 race in six parts, including the Movistar story – with an update on Miguel Angel Lopez's sensational withdrawal on the penultimate stage – Roglic, Jack Haig, Fabio Jakobsen and Egan Bernal.
We hear from some of the thousands who make the pilgrimage to this city, as well as riders including Bernal, Haig, Jakobsen, Joe Dombrowski and Scott Thwaites.
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The penultimate stage of the 2021 Vuelta a España served up a feast of exciting and dramatic racing and The Cycling Podcast was there to see it.
In this episode we hear from two of the day's winners, Jack Haig and Gino Mader of the Bahrain Victorious team, while Patxi Vila and Enric Mas of Movistar reflect on the shocking withdrawal of a rider who started the day sitting third overall, "Superman" Miguel Ángel López.
Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss Ineos Grenadier's disruptive tactics and Bahrain's decisiveness in taking advantage of the disruption. And we toast the day's unlikely stage winner, Clément Champoussin of the French Ag2r team.
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There was another humdinger of a stage at the Vuelta a España and The Cycling Podcast was on the ground in Monforte de Lemos to speak to Lawson Craddock, who helped set up his teammate, Magnus Cort, for the win, as well as their sports director, Juanma Garate. We also hear from the second- and third-placed riders, Rui Oliveira and Quinn Simmons. And we consider the different plights and fortunes of two teams, DSM and Bike Exchange, and hear from Nick Schultz of the latter. We also get to the bottom of double stage winner Michael Storer's Scottish connection, and meet a man riding his 15th grand tour – a record for a Japanese cyclist – Yukiya Arashiro. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
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For two riders at the Vuelta a España the journey from Burgos to Santiago de Compostela represents something much bigger than a three-week Grand Tour.
A year ago the Bora-Hansgrohe pair, Anton Palzer and Ben Zwiehoff, were both pro sportsmen but in completely different disciplines and indeed Palzer had never participated in a bike race.
In this episode of Kilometre 0, we find out how they got here, how they’ve survived the mountains and above all the plains, and wonder what their respective futures may hold.
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The Vuelta a España tackled a new mountain, Alto d'El Gamoniteiru, at the end of stage 18 and Daniel Friebe and Richard Moore were at the summit to witness the riders coming across the line.
In this episode we hear from Gino Mader, who had an important role looking after his team leader, Jack Haig, while also cementing his own position in the top ten on general classification. We hear from Haig, too, as well as the overall leader, Primoz Roglic.
At the other end of the race, Matt Holmes crossed the line alone and over 48 minutes down, outside the time limit and out of the race. We hear from Holmes at the start of the stage, where he talks about being unwell and his daily battle just to stay in the Vuelta.
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It was arguably the performance of his career. Primoz Roglic won the seventeenth stage of the Vuelta a España to take a commanding overall lead into the final few days of the Spanish tour, and The Cycling Podcast was roadside to witness it.
We hear from some of the fans – from Spain and Slovenia – as well as the atmosphere of the roadside experience as Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe watch and analyse a defining stage.
Although Roglic was the winner, Egan Bernal was the other protagonist and the rider who lit the touchpaper – we hear from him and from Roglic in this episode.
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The Vuelta a España resumed after the second rest day in Cantabria in the north of Spain with a final stage for the sprinters, won by the man in the green jersey, Fabio Jakobsen.
In tonight's episode we hear from Jakobsen's leadout man, Bert Van Lerberghe, and from Joe Dombrowski, whose team tried to distance Jakobsen on a climb.
We look ahead to Wednesday's crucial stage to Lagos de Covadonga, one of the Vuelta's iconic climbs, with Alberto Contador, Robert Gesink, David de la Cruz, Ion Izagirre and Luis Ángel Maté.
And we meet Florian Vermeersch, who, as well as studying for a history degree at university is riding the Vuelta for Lotto-Soudal.
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In our latest episode of Kilometre 0 we hear about the second week of the Vuelta a España from two of our audio diarists, Pavel Sivakov of Ineos Grenadiers and Joan Bou of Euskaltel-Euskadi.
Sivakov talks about getting his confidence back after the low of crashing out of the Giro d'Italia, while Bou tells us about how he is coping with his first grand tour and the longest race of his career.
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In The Cycling Podcast's first press conference episode of the Vuelta a España Daniel Friebe and Richard Moore answer listeners' questions, which ranged from Romain Bardet's English, Team Bike Exchange's woes, the possibility of a fourth grand tour in the Southern Hemisphere, podcasters' use of language and the recruitment process of our audio diarists.
In this episode we also hear from Team DSM sports director Matt Winston.
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In the latest episode of Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast we hear from one of our audio diarists at the Vuelta a España, James Knox of Deceuninck-Quick-Step.
James tells us about his rest day tumble, awkward Anglo-French relations with his roommate, Florian Sénéchal, and getting his heart rate up to 206 beats per minute, in his raw, insightful and entertaining account of the second week of the Vuelta.
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The Vuelta a España reached its second rest day but the much-anticipated sort out failed to materialise meaning that there’s a surprising wearer of the red jersey as the race goes into its final week.
Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie check in with Daniel Friebe in Spain once again to recap stage 15, which saw a long pursuit match between eventual winner Rafal Majka and Steven Kruijswijk, who chased hard but failed to make any dent in the Pole’s advantage.
We hear from Kruijswijk, weigh up whether there are any cracks in Primoz Roglic’s armour – asking for an eyewitness opinion from Jack Haig and Egan Bernal – and get the low down on Odd Christian Eiking, who continues to hold the race lead. We also hear from Movistar boss Eusebio Unzue, who has been in charge of the team for more than 40 years.
Richard heads to Spain tomorrow to join Daniel for the final week of the race.
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The first of two very challenging weekend stages was a bit of a stalemate as far as the race between the overall contenders was concerned but there was an intriguing battle for the stage win. RIchard Moore and Lionel Birnie check in with our man in Spain, Daniel Friebe, to recap stage 14, which was won by Romain Bardet. The Frenchman was arguably the most dangerous of the riders in the 18-man break and we’ll hear from another man in the lead group, Lotto-Soudal’s Matt Holmes, who wanted to get away without Bardet but suffered two untimely punctures. We also clear yesterday’s little local difficulty between Deceuninck-Quick Step’s sprinter Fabio Jakobsen and his lead-out man, and eventual stage winner, Florian Senechal. Finally, we learn about Jose Maria Jimenez, who lit up the Vuelta around the turn of the century and was one of three high-profile tragic figures in professional cycling in the early 2000s. Tomorrow’s stage visits Jimenez’s home town and will pay tribute to El Chava. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
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It was back to work for the sprinters on stage 13 of the Vuelta a España and in The Cycling Podcast we discuss a lead-out that appeared to go wrong for Deceuninck-Quick-step before going spectacularly right, with Florian Sénéchal taking the win.
Tom Pidcock tells us what happened to split the bunch in the closing stages, with Matteo Trentin and Bert Van Lerberghe describing how the sprint unfolded.
And we discuss Jack Haig, the Australian who sits sixth overall, within two minutes of the two time winner and favourite, Primož Roglič. Ahead of a mountainous final week, and leading a strong Bahrain Victorious team, Haig and others tell us about his chances of finishing on the podium, perhaps even going for the win.
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Tim Moore's new book, Vuelta Skelter, sees him retrace the journey of the 1941 Vuelta a España in the wheel-marks of the winner, Julián Berrendero.
Berrendero was a Republican who had spoken out against Franco. He spent 18 months in a concentration camp but was released in time to ride the 1941 Vuelta, or "the tour of a nation reborn," as it was branded by Franco and his followers.
Vuelta Skelter completes Moore's grand tour trilogy after French Revolutions and Gironimo, his books about his exploits riding the routes of the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia.
In this episode of Kilometre 0 Moore tells us about the complex, frequently rude Berrendero, why this book might not have happened without a global pandemic, and sneaking off to Spain to complete his Vuelta in between lockdowns.
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It was another dynamic and surprising stage at the Vuelta a España and so Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie dial up The Cycling Podcast’s man in Spain Daniel Friebe to recap the action.
Are we witnessing the Three Days of Magnus Cort? Away in the big break two days ago, caught in sight of the line yesterday, the Great Dane won a brilliant sprint finish in Córdoba after a brilliant lead-out from his EF Education-Nippo teammate Jens Keukeleire.
One of the teams of the day was UAE-Team Emirates, who worked hard to set up Matteo Trentin. We hear from Trentin about what happened at the finish. We also hear from Movistar’s sports director Patxi Vila about one of their two hopes for overall victory, Enric Mas.
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When Fabio Aru won the 2015 Vuelta a España at age 25 it was easy to foresee the Sardinian assembling an extensive Grand Tour collection before he even reached his thirties.
Instead, the trajectory of Aru’s career changed dramatically, so much so that he would not finish on the podium of a three-week race again. Not only that, but Aru decided before this year’s Tour of Spain that it would be his final race.
In this episode of Kilometre 0, Daniel speaks to Aru about the relief of moving on, and we assess the extent to which his early exit from the sport is a sign of ever more mentally exhausting times in the pro peloton.
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It was déjà-vu – or should that be Dane ja vu? – at the Vuelta a España as the race reached Valdepeñas de Jaén and a very steep climb past the Andalucian whitewashed buildings to the finish.
Lionel Birnie dials up Daniel Friebe in Spain and they initially ponder the Buffalo, Richard Moore’s whereabouts. Don’t worry, Richard joins us midway through.
We recap a second stage win for Primoz Roglic, who won on a climb that was tailor-made for him. But there was heartbreak for the Dane Magnus Cort, who nearly pulled off the impossible for the second time in the space of a week. He managed to evade capture to win the stage at Cullera but lightning didn’t strike twice for him. We also hear from Tom Pidcock about how his debut grand tour has been going.
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It was another day when the Vuelta a España was turned on its head by a big break, which led to a change of leadership and a second stage win for one of the revelations of the first week. Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie dial up to speak to Daniel Friebe to discuss the tenth stage of the race. Daniel is on the south coast of Spain, the most southerly point of this year’s race, and Norway’s Odd Christian Eiking, who is in the red jersey tonight, is the rider in this Vuelta from the most northerly place in Europe. We discuss the shake-up to the overall classification and ask whether Intermarché will keep the race lead a bit longer this time. We weigh up Guillaume Martin’s chances after he climbed up to second overall and we assess Primoz Roglic’s attack, which led to him falling on the descent to the finish. Was the risk worth the reward? We hear from Max Schachmann, King Kenny, Jack Haig, Chris Hamilton, Guillaume Martin and others in a packed podcast. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
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Scott Thwaites is at the Vuelta a España as part of one of the most successful Grand Tour teams, Alpecin-Fenix. But it's something of a miracle that he's here at all, after a crash in 2018 left him with a broken spine, neck, ribs and sternum.
He raced domestically in the UK in 2019 before returning to the big time last year. In this episode he tells us about his crash and comeback.
He’s 31 now and out of contract at the end of the year, but in the meantime he is relishing the experience of being back at his first Grand Tour since his accident and in a team that – even without its star, Mathieu van der Poel – has continued its winning ways at the Vuelta.
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In the August episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin we have an in-depth interview with the surprise Olympic road race champion, Anna Kiesenhofer.
Kiesenhofer tells us how she approached the race and started the early break, how much – or how little – she knew about what was happening behind, how she is adjusting to life as Olympic champion, and what she will do next.
Rose Manley, Orla Chennaoui and Richard Moore also discuss the recent Tour of Norway and there’s an interview with one of the stars of that race, Rachel Neylan. Finally we hear from Lotte Kopecky, looking ahead to the world championships in Flanders in September.
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In the second instalment of our riders’ diaries from the Vuelta a España we hear from James Knox of Deceuninck-Quick-Step, Pavel Sivakov of Ineos Grenadiers and Joan Bou of Euskaltel-Euskadi.
Bou is from Valencia and when the Vuelta reached some of his local roads at the end of the first week he shone, figuring in a couple of breakaways, including the strong break on stage six, from which Magnus Cort held on to win.
Knox has been part of a team that’s won two stages with Fabio Jakobsen, whose return has given the Vuelta one of its feel good stories. On stage seven Knox also achieved his highest average heart rate for an hour – 186 beats per minute.
And Sivakov went close to the win on stage seven, finishing third behind Michael Storer, who incurred the wrath of El Siv by apparently attacking when Sivakov dropped his chain.
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Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie dial up our man in Spain, Daniel Friebe, to discuss stage nine of the Vuelta a España, the final test in the mountains before the first rest day of the race. A couple of days ago we were hoping to learn more about the likely shape of the battle for the red jersey only for a number of riders to gain time in the break and muddy the picture at the top of the overall standings. Today we did get a sort out and with two weeks still to go the question for Movistar is, how do they crack Primoz Roglic? We discuss a thrilling stage, won by the Italian Damiano Caruso, whose Bahrain Victorious team was also celebrating the fact their rider Jack Haig moved up to fourth overall today. We hear from Caruso, Haig and their sports director Gorazd Stangelj too. Ineos Grenadiers, and Adam Yates in particular, tried to unsettle Roglic but succeeded only in putting their own rider Egan Bernal on the back foot. Meanwhile Roglic was left with only one Jumbo-Visma teammate, Sepp Kuss, for company at the crucial moment. We hear from Pavel Sivakov of Ineos and Kuss on the brewing tactical battle between the teams. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport
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Although it was a quiet day on the Vuelta a España there’s plenty for Daniel Friebe, Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie to talk about. They discuss the sprint finish and a second victory for Fabio Jakobsen before reflecting on some comments from EF Education-Nippo sports director Juanma Garate about Hugh Carthy, who withdrew from the race yesterday. We ponder the impact of pressure and leadership responsibility following an excellent result – Carthy was third in last year’s Vuelta – and whether general classification contenders sometimes have to take a step back before moving forwards. The finish town of Mar Menor has been battling ecological disaster over the past couple of years and there were some protests from people hoping the Vuelta’s visit would shed some light on the issue. While it’s understandable the Grand Tours want to show off the best of the areas they pass through we discuss whether the sport also has a responsibility to help publicise important issues. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport
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The Vuelta a España burst into life with the toughest stage so far, to Balcón de Alicante. There was a desperate escape from the last chance saloon by Team DSM, a crash for one member of Movistar’s trident and a clutch of dangerous riders climbed back into contention. Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie dial up Daniel Friebe in Spain to discuss the action. Richard wastes no time claiming the stage winner Michael Storer for Scotland. We discuss the impact Alejandro Valverde’s crash and departure from the Vuelta will have on Movistar’s other two leaders, Enric Mas and Miguel Angel Lopez. We hear from Pavel Sivakov about the timing of one of Storer’s attacks, from Chris Hamilton about his victorious teammate and ask Roglic the burning question of the day – have you seen the Netflix documentary about Movistar? The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport
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Mark Padun’s back-to-back stage wins at the Critérium du Dauphiné in June shocked the cycling world. Long touted as a future star, the Ukrainian had seemed to stagnate in his second and third seasons as a pro - only to bounce back spectacularly in the Alps over that remarkable weekend in the late spring.
Having missed out on selection for the Tour - to the surprise of many - Padun is now aiming to shepherd his Bahrain Victorious leader Mikel Landa to victory at the Vuelta, while also scoring a stage win himself.
Meanwhile, Padun’s origins and career trajectory remain a mystery to many - one that Daniel tries to unpick in this episode of Kilometre 0.
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The wind may not have blown particularly hard but it took only a gentle sea breeze and some narrow roads to create some Classic-style racing at the Vuelta a España. In this episode, Daniel Friebe has descended the Alto de la Montaña de Cullera in order to check in with Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie to recap stage six of the race which saw another change of leadership. But which Classic did the race resemble? Would Magnus be Cort or Not Cort at the finish? And what next for Movistar now they have manoeuvered their trident into position behind Primoz Roglic? We try to provide the answers. We also hear from King Kenny, Jack Haig and Jens Keukeleire. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport
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The peloton spent most of the fifth stage anticipating crosswinds which never blew but there was still late drama on the approach to Albacete.
Daniel Friebe is still in Spain following the Vuelta a España, and he is joined by Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie to discuss the day’s racing.
We hear from Kenny Elissonde, who was talking down his chances of taking the red jersey before the stage, and discuss the crash which cost Rein Taaramae another day in the overall lead. We also hear from Pavel Sivakov about the crosswinds and Matt Winston on DSM’s hopes after Romain Bardet was caught in the crash and lost more than 12 minutes. We also discuss Jasper Philipsen’s second stage win and the brewing battle for the green jersey with Fabio Jakobsen.
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In this episode of Kilometre 0 we meet some of the other Slovenians.
The small country has two of cycling's superstars, Primož Roglič and Tadej Pogačar. But beneath them there are a lot of other good riders, three of whom are riding the Vuelta a España.
We speak to Jan Tratnik of Bahrain Victorious, Jan Polanc of UAE-Team Emirates and Luka Mezgec of Team Bike Exchange. We also hear from Gorazd Štangelj, a former professional who's now a sports director at Bahrain, and Marko Dzalo, a soigneur with Ineos Grenadiers.
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Stage 4 of the Vuelta a España saw an emotional win for Fabio Jakobsen, just over a year after his terrible crash at the Tour of Poland, and in tonight's podcast we hear from his teammate and good friend, Florian Senechal.
Rein Taaramae held on to the leader's red jersey despite a late fall and we have an interview with him and his Intermarché team's sports director, Valerio Piva.
Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss the stage and look ahead to Wednesday's fifth stage as the Vuelta continues to head south.
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The first mountain stage of the Vuelta a España was contested by the breakaway, with the stage and red jersey of overall leader going to Rein Taaramae, the Estonian on the Intermarché team.
Daniel Friebe and Richard Moore discuss the stage and what we learned, and we hear from Kenny Elissonde, who was third on the stage, and Primoz Roglic, the deposed leader.
Daniel speaks to Hugh Carthy and Robert Gesink about the art of positioning in the bunch and we hear from Gino Mader about his initiative to raise money for an environmental organisation by donating a Euro for every rider he beats on each stage.
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In our first episode of Kilometre 0 from the 2021 Vuelta a España we meet our audio diarists, James Knox, Pavel Sivakov and Joan Bou.
Knox, riding for Deceuninck-Quickstep, is riding for GC in his second grand tour of the year. Sivakov, of Ineos Grenadiers, is in a supporting role in a team that includes Egan Bernal, Richard Carapaz and Adam Yates. And Bou is riding for one of the Spanish wild card teams, Euskaltel-Euskadi, fighting to get in breaks and looking ahead to some of the hilly stages.
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In our stage 2 episode from the Vuelta a España we discuss the first bunch sprint of the 2021 race, won by Jasper Philipsen of Alpecin-Fenix, completing their clean sweep of stage wins in the three Grand Tours.
We hear from their sports director, Michel Cornelisse, and from the rider who was second, Fabio Jakobsen. There was a crash with 4.5km to go and we hear from Max Schachmann, the biggest name rider to be caught up in it.
Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe continue to enjoy Burgos's many delights and look ahead to Monday's first mountain and summit finish.
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The Vuelta a España opened in Burgos on Saturday evening and Daniel Friebe and Richard Moore were there for The Cycling Podcast to capture the sounds, sights and smells of stage one.
In tonight's episode we hear from Jack Haig of Bahrain Victorious, Joe Dombrowksi of UAE-Team Emirates, Johan Jacobs of Movistar and Fabio Jakobsen of Deceuninck-Quick Step. And we discuss Primoz Roglic's win and ask whether it means that the Vuelta will be "Roglified" for the third year in a row.
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In this episode Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe look ahead to the third and final grand tour of the season, the Vuelta a España.
Will it be another showdown between the two newly-crowned Olympic champions Primoz Roglic and Richard Carapaz or will Egan Bernal get the Ineos Grenadiers leadership role and aim to add the Vuelta to the Giro title he won earlier this season. Which teams are in the grand tour last chance saloon and who can complete the grand slam? And what does Vueltas y revueltas mean?
We also discuss a busy week in the transfer market for UAE-Team Emirates and Bora-Hansgrohe as they collect riders like Panini stickers.
**OUR VUELTA COVERAGE
Join us from Saturday for daily coverage of the Vuelta from Spain.**
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In this episode, I caught up with multiple South African champion Ashleigh Moolman Pasio. We talked about her route into professional cycling, her QOM Strava record on the famous Rocacorba climb near Girona, and the challenge she set herself to get the best women's time below 30 minutes.
Then, in the final part, we talked about the women's road race at the Tokyo Olympics. It was a very surprising race from a tactical point of view and I wanted to hear Ashleigh's account of how it played out. I found her insight into all the different factors at play really interesting, and I hope you do too.
Cheers,
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The final grand tour of the 2021 cycling season also completes our viticultural triple crown, after our collaboration with Dvine Cellars to bring you the wines of the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France.
In this episode, Daniel Friebe discusses The Cycling Podcast’s Vuelta selection with Greg Andrews of Dvine Cellars and Greg’s resident aficionado and maestro of Spanish wine, Angus McNabb.
You can purchase the six-bottle The Cycling Podcast Vuelta selection for £98 (plus delivery) at Dvine Cellars.
The wines are as follows:
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Tobía 'Cuvée' multi-vintage, Oscar Tobía, Cuxcurrita del Río Tirón, Rioja
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2018 Quintaluna, Verdejo, Bodegas Ossian, Segovia
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2015 Membrillera, Bobál, Bodegas Carres, Utiel-Requena, Valencia
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2018 Cadalso, Garnacha, Sierra de Gredos
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2019 Flores de Callejo, Bodegas Felix Callejo, Ribera del Duero
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2020 Abadia de San Campio, Albariño, Rías Baixas, Galicia
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It's a bit of a different episode of Life in the Peloton this week because instead of chatting to someone in the world of professional cycling, I decided to document a bikepacking ride I went on a few weeks ago.
As many of you will know, my team – EF Education-Nippo – has embraced all sorts of cycling events in the past couple of years. You might have followed Lachlan Morton's Alternative Tour de France, for example.
My adventure in Sweden came about partly thanks to our team's helmet and glasses sponsor POC. They heard I was interested in taking on a different sort of challenge and they suggested an self-supported event that takes riders the length of Sweden. It's called the Sverigetempot, a road ride of more than 2,000 kilometres from Riksgränsen in the north to Smygehuk in the south. I joined up with Magnus and Damien for the ride, which took us seven days, and I documented the journey along the way, so I hope you enjoy listening to our adventures.
Cheers,
Mitch
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This episode of The Cycling Podcast covers the Olympic Games time trial, won by Primoz Roglic, and the resumption of the World Tour with the San Sebastian Classic, won by Neilson Powless.
Roglic – a former ski jumper, in case you didn't know – began his sporting career dreaming of gold at the winter Games. Now he is Lord of the Rings in the time trial.
In the Basque Country, Powless secured the biggest win of his career, and one that has finally rewarded the attacking instincts we saw particularly at last year's Tour de France.
There's also a wrap-up of some of the early transfer and contract news confirmed since the August 1 deadline passed, including Tadej Pogacar extending his contract again. What does this say about the development of the World Tour and are we witnessing a concentration of talent among a handful of the top teams?
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In this month's episode of Service Course, Lizzy and Tom turn their eyes on Japan. Yes they talk about some of the tech that helped win the men's and women's road races (hello Core temperature sensors), as well as some of the kit that's going to be unveiled at the track cycling events, but the main focus is not the Olympics.
For this edition Tom has a long conversation with Justin McCurry, if that name is familiar to you, it's probably because Justin is The Guardian's Japan correspondent and so he's a very busy man right now. Justin is also an author, his new book War On Wheels takes you deep into the strange and thrilling world of Japanese Keirin racing.
It's a fascinating chat that looks into all aspects of Keirin culture, including the design of the bikes which still have to be made from steel. In fact every part of a Keirin bike has to conform to certain standards in order for it to be approved for use and to get the NJS stamp, something that was much coveted by anyone riding around on a fixed gear in London in the noughties. Since speaking to Justin, Tom has come one step closer to starting his own NJS build...
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Lizzy Banks and Tom Whalley take a close look at the new HB.T track bike that Team GB will be riding at the Olympics in Tokyo in this episode.
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In the July episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin Rose Manley and Richard Moore discuss the Olympic Games and the huge upset in the road race, won by Austria's Anna Kiesenhofer ahead of the favourite, Annemiek van Vleuten.
Orla Chennaoui, who is in Tokyo for the Olympics, gives us a blow-by-blow account of a race that we'll be discussing for years.
We also hear from Ashleigh Moolman Pasio about her stage win and second place finish at the Giro d'Italia Donne. And we speak to two young cyclists who switched sports during – and as a direct result of – the coronavirus pandemic and who have now been selected to be part of the Skoda Cycling Academy.
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Who would succeed Golden Greg Van Avermaet and Golden Anna van der Breggen as the Olympic road race champions?
Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the opening weekend's action from the Tokyo Games, focusing on the way Richard Carapaz managed to escape the stranglehold of Wout van Aert and Tadej Pogacar to win the gold medal. The big question, though, was why didn't the others lend Van Aert a bit more of a hand when it came to chasing the Ecuadorian rider in the final stages of the race.
We then hear from Lizzy Banks – who may have been in Japan as part of Team GB but for the repercussions of the concussion she suffered following at crash at Strade Bianche earlier this season – about an extraordinary women's road race. Who is the new Olympic champon Anna Kiesenhofer and how did she pull of the tape-to-tape win against the might of the Dutch team? And, with earpiece radios banned, did the peloton have enough information in order to race effectively?
In the final part we look at the cross-country mountain bike race won by Tom Pidcock, one of the sensations of the spring classics, and ask where next for the Ineos Grenadiers rider?
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In a bumper episode Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe give their thoughts on the 2021 Tour de France.
How many did this year's vintage score on Daniel's wine glass scale? Is this the beginning of the Era of Pog? What did we make of the Team Ineos tactics? And where does Mark Cavendish's comeback rank in the sport's greatest of all-time?
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Life in the Peloton is back with a chat with my teammate Magnus Cort Nielsen, who talks through his journey from growing up on one of Denmark's islands to winning stages in the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España.
Magnus had another great Tour, finishing strongly with a top ten in the time trial on the final Saturday of the race, and that was a stage I was able to witness in the flesh.
It was great to join The Cycling Podcast for the final week of their Tour coverage because it gave me a chance to see what life is like outside the peloton and on the other side of the fence, so to speak. I learned a lot about what goes on at the grand tours outside our riders' bubble and I have to say covering the race was a lot more tiring than I thought it would be. I really enjoyed my week and hopefully it's something I'll get the chance to do again soon.
I'll be returning to racing myself soon as I head towards the final events of my pro career. Next time out on Life in the Peloton I'll be sharing my thoughts on a recent bikepacking ride I did in Sweden before I headed to France to join Richard and François.
But before all that, though, sit back and enjoy my conversation with Magnus. Cheers,
Mitch
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In our final episode from the 2021 Tour de France we have lots of interviews and reaction from Mitch Docker, Richard Moore, François Thomazeau and Kate Wagner.
We hear from our audio diarist, Ben O'Connor, who finished fourth overall, from Mark Cavendish's mentor, Brian Holm, Sepp Kuss, Luke Durbridge, Harry Sweeny, Fred Wright, Geraint Thomas and others.
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In our stage 20 podcast from the Tour de France we discuss the time trial in wine country and hear from Mark Cavendish, Julian Alaphilippe, Dan Martin, Luke Durbridge and Stefan Kung.
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Stage 19 of the Tour de France produced another thrilling and surprising day's racing and as well as analysis from Richard Moore, Mitch Docker and François Thomazeau, in tonight's episode we hear from the stage winner, Matej Mohoric.
There are also interviews with Chris Juul-Jensen, Luka Mezgec, Mads Pedersen, Casper Pedersen and the four-time Tour winner, Chris Froome.
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In this, our final episode of Kilometre 0 from the 2021 Tour de France, Lionel Birnie looks back at Mark Cavendish's career with a series of memories from the last 13 years covering the Manx sprinter's career.
From an interview in a two-star hotel in the south of France after his third stage win in 2008, to a game of chess in London later that year, to an unfortunate incident with cramp in an Essex restaurant Lionel recalls some of his meetings with Cavendish, telling the story of his career as he closed in on Eddy Merckx's record of 34 stage wins.
With thanks to Ian Boswell, Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe, Orla Chennaoui and Edward Pickering for additional material. Photo by Simon Gill.
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On the final day in the mountains of the 2021 Tour de France, Tadej Pogacar more or less sealed his overall win with victory at the summit of Luz Ardiden, though it was a day that began beneath a cloud with news of a police raid on the hotel of the Bahrain Victorious team.
We hear in tonight's episode from Richard Moore, François Thomazeau and Mitch Docker, who discuss the stage, the winner of the unofficial "A La Zubeldia" award, and the Bahrain story, with an interview with Matej Mohoric.
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In this episode of Kilometre 0, we tell the story of one of the longest-running teams in the peloton. The AG2R-Citroën team is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.
Vincent Lavenu's team started life as Chazal, sponsored by a charcuterie producer, in 1992 and rode the Tour de France for the first time in 1993, with former Vuelta winner Eric Caritoux and future Tour stage winner Jaan Kirsipuu in the line-up.
Later the team was sponsored by the supermarket chain Casino and insurance firm AG2R came on board as a co-sponsor in 1998 before taking over as title sponsors in 2000.
Arguably the team's most successful years, certainly in the Tour de France, were when Romain Bardet was riding in their colours. In this episode we hear from AG2R riders past and present, including Simon Gerrans, Larry Warbasse, Oliver Naesen and Aurelien Paret-Peintre, and discover there's more to the team than their now trademark brown shorts.
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In our stage 17 Tour de France podcast we hear from Mitch Docker, Richard Moore and François Thomazeau as they discuss a day that more or less sealed Tadej Pogacar's second victory.
Mitch speaks to Rigoberto Uran, his team leader, and to Simon Geschke and Luke Durbridge. We also hear from Jumbo-Visma sports director Merijn Zeeman, who has some harsh words for Pogacar's coach.
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Kate Wagner is a classical violinist, artist and architecture critic who discovered professional cycling less than a year ago and has immersed herself in the sport, spending hours watching every grand tour and classic from the past decade.
Having started a blog, which is well worth reading, and after interviewing Primoz Roglic, she set herself the goal of getting to the Tour de France and three weeks ago she found herself in Brest ready to document her first bike race. This is the third instalment of her Tour de France diary.
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In our stage 16 Tour de France podcast Mitch Docker makes his debut as a mixed zone journalist, interviewing Andre Greipel, Michael Morkov, Magnus Cort and fellow Australian Harry Sweeny.
With Richard Moore and François Thomazeau, Mitch also discusses a stage won by Patrick Konrad, and which felt a little like a prelude to the next two big days in the Pyrenees.
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And then there were three. In this episode of our Tour de France diaries from inside the peloton, we hear from Victor Campenaerts, who was forced to pull out of the race on Mont Ventoux.
There are also updates from Tim Declercq, who crashed heavily on the stage to Carcassonne on the day Mark Cavendish equalled Eddy Merckx's record for Tour stage wins, from Ben O'Connor, who is still fifth overall as the race enters its final week, and from Connor Swift.
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In our second rest day press conference we are joined by Mitch Docker, who will be part of The Cycling Podcast team, alongside Richard Moore and François Thomazeau, for the final week of the Tour de France.
We answer listeners' questions about how the gruppetto works, Alejandro Valverde, the biological passport, the temperature of bidons, who would win historical head-to-heads, and lots more besides.
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In this episode of Kilometre 0, Richard Moore and François Thomazeau talk to Robert Eden, winemaker and owner of Château-Maris in La Livinière in the Minervois region of Languedoc.
Robert bought Château-Maris in 1997 and it has been described as one of the five most environmentally-friendly wineries in the world by the Wine Spectator.
His vines are all farmed organically and biodynamically and the relationship between the environment and the community – and particularly the need to reduce the wine industry's impact on the environment – is at the heart of Robert's winemaking ethos.
And, as you'll hear from his conversation with Richard and François, Robert's passion for the wines he makes is immediately apparent.
To find out more about his methods and the wines Château-Maris produces, go to chateaumaris.com
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In our Tour de France stage 15 podcast Richard Moore and François Thomazeau are joined again by Kate Wagner before Mitch Docker joins us for the final week.
We discuss Jumbo-Visma's curious, but ultimately successful, tactics, and hear from their young Dane, Jonas Vingegaard, who is now third overall. We also have interviews with Mark Donovan, the British rider who was in the day's break, Neilson Powless and the new King of the Mountains, Wout Poels.
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A classic Tour de France transition stage took the riders from Carcassonne to the Pyrenees with Bauke Mollema winning in Quillan. In tonight's episode, with Richard Moore, François Thomazeau and Kate Wagner, we hear from Mike Woods, who, despite crashing during the stage, is the new King of the Mountains.
We have a preview of Sunday's tough stage to Andorra from Joe Laverick, and we also hear from Lionel Birnie before his departure from the Tour.
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The Tour de France reaches Carcassonne in the south west – not a town that has been kind to the sprinters in the past. But, after yesterday’s breakaway stage Deceuninck-Quick Step worked to keep the breakaway on a tight leash to ensure a sprint finish.
Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau at the Grand Café Occitan in Félines-Minervois, owned by Robert Eden – more of him next week – where they discuss Mark Cavendish’s record-equalling 34th Tour de France stage win.
We hear from Patrick Lefevere, Davide Ballerini and Michael Mørkøv and attempt to put Cavendish’s achievement into context.
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We are living in a golden age for television and in this episode of Kilometre 0 we look at how cycling is and could be conveyed on the small screen.
We hear from Luke Durbridge and Matt White of Team Bike Exchange, Dirk Van Nijverseel, who is one of the people behind the Tour of Flanders documentaries, and Marc Pons, who directed The Least Expected Day, the Netflix series on Movistar.
With thanks to Rob Hatch, who interviewed Pons. The full interview will appear in a forthcoming episode of El Cycling Podcast, our Spanish sibling.
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In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau in a bustling square in Nîmes to recap the 12th stage of the Tour de France.
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’s bid to equal Eddy Merckx’s record of 34 Tour de France stage wins will have to wait for another day.
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.
We hear from Sagan, Pollit’s former teammate Ian Boswell, our audio diarist Connor Swift and Michael Mørkøv on Deceuninck-Quick Step’s decision not to chase.
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This is the second instalment of Kate Wagner's Tour de France diary. Kate is a classical violinist and architecture critic and is in France covering her first bike race. In this episode she gives her impressions of Tadej Pogacar and talks about her quest to interview him.
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For the first time in Tour de France history, a stage took the riders over Mont Ventoux twice in the same day.
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau were in Malaucène to see Wout Van Aert win the fourth Tour de France stage of his career.
Giddy at rejoining the Tour bubble (or perhaps he spent too long in the sun), Lionel indulges in some wild speculation.
The day was also notable for an attack by Jonas Vingegaard as they reached Mont Ventoux for the second time which led to the yellow jersey Tadej Pogacar faltering for the first time.
We also discuss the wisdom of the Ineos Grenadiers tactics. Were they making the pace hard for Pogacar or doing UAE Team Emirates’s job for them?
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On the day the Tour de France returns to Mont Ventoux we look back at the last visit, in 2016, when chaos ensued and Chris Froome, in the yellow jersey, ended up running up the climb.
Helping us piece together what happened on Bastille Day, 2016, are Froome, Richie Porte, Serge Pauwels, Seb Piquet and the stage winner who few would remember, Thomas De Gendt.
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The Mark Cavendish comeback tour continued after the rest day with a sprint stage to Valence which saw the Manxman take his third victory of the race and another giant step towards equalling the record we dare not mention.
Richard Moore and François Thomazeau are joined by Lionel Birnie, who took the TGV to Valence and enjoyed as comfortable a train ride as Cavendish on the back of the Deceuninck-Quick Step lead-out.
We hear from Matt White, sports director of Team Bike Exchange about Michael Matthews’s hopes of challenging Cavendish for the green jersey. There’s a wealth of Provençal knowledge from François and we look ahead to tomorrow’s double ascent of Mont Ventoux.
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Apologies for the technical issues with the sound in this episode. Our mechanics are working hard to fix the issue in time for the next stage.
It's been an action-packed few days for our audio diarists as the Tour de France hit the Alps and reached its first rest day.
Our quartet have been documenting the race each day, letting listeners hear their thoughts as the Tour unfolds.
For Ben O'Connor of AG2R-Citroën there was a phenomenal stage win at Tignes which put him in the virtuel maillot jaune for a while on the final climb and eventually lifted him to second place overall behind Tadej Pogacar.
At the other end of the peloton was Tim Declercq of Deceuninck-Quick Step, who was part of the gruppetto riding to make it to the finish inside the time limit and keep their sprinter Mark Cavendish in the race.
Victor Campenaerts of Qhubeka-Next Hash talks about making the astonishing breakaway on Friday's stage to Le Creusot only to realise that Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel had made it too.
But we start with Connor Swift, the Yorkshireman riding for Arkéa-Samsic, who talks about his time trial effort to Laval and how he realised why the crowd cheered him by name in the race against the clock...
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In our rest day press conference episode Richard Moore, François Thomazeau and Kate Wagner answer some of our listeners’ questions.
We also hear from Wout van Aert, who Richard spoke to on the rest day, and Grischa Niermann, the Jumbo-Visma sports director.
The Tour des Flâneurs takes a gentle deviation from the race route to visit L'Auberge du Père Bise where former pro rider Clément Chevrier works as a sommelier.
Chevrier, who rode for IAM Cycling and then AG2R, retired last year at the age of 28 having completed the Vuelta a España three times and the Giro d'Italia twice.
The transition from the pro peloton to life after cycling can be a difficult one, especially at an age when many riders are just approaching their peak.
But Chevrier has swapped one passion for another and now shares his interest and knowledge of wine with the customers at the smart restaurant overloooking Lake Annecy. Does he miss the peloton? On days like this, when the rain falls persistently all day, his expression says it all.
Thank you to Clément and chef Jean Sulpice for making The Cycling Podcast so welcome at L'Auberge du Père Bise, which you can find in Talloires.
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In our stage nine podcast from the Tour de France we discuss a day in which the winner was one of the riders keeping an audio diary for The Cycling Podcast, Ben O'Connor of Australia and Ag2r-Citroen.
It was also a stage that confirmed the superiority of the rider in yellow, Tadej Pogacar, and we discuss some of the suspicions and doubts that swirl around his performances. We also hear from Michael Woods, Tao Geoghegan Hart and Jonas Vingegaard.
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Our stage 8 Tour de France podcast opens with an extraordinary musical performance from François Thomazeau and Kate Wagner as we discuss a stage won by Belgian Dylan Teuns and in which Tadej Pogacar, the defending champion, stamped his authority on the race as he took over the yellow jersey.
We discuss whether, with two weeks remaining, the battle for overall victory is effectively over. And we hear from Teuns' sports director, Rolf Aldag, who can reflect on two stage wins on consecutive days.
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A thrilling seventh stage of the Tour de France, the longest of the race, saw a 29-man breakaway and a difficult day for the UAE-Team Emirates team of Tadej Pogacar, the defending champion.
In tonight's episode Kate Wagner gives us the Tale of Etape and we hear from two riders who were in the breakaway, Brent Van Moer, our audio diarist Victor Campenaerts and Geraint Thomas. We also speak to Marc Hirschi, Pogacar's teammate, who admits that they "were sleeping" when the break went away and that they made a mistake in allowing such a big group to go clear.
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Jean-François Quenet is a journalist, race organiser, mentor to young riders from all over the world and a fixture at most of the major races.
In his native Brittany he sat down with our own François Thomazeau to discuss his life and career in cycling.
Quenet is a Breton, born in Brest where the Tour started. His name will be familiar to those who read his monthly column in Cycle Sport magazine in the 1990s, offering a window into the world of French cycling. His voice will be familiar too, because he conducts many of the post-race interviews for television at the grand tours.
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In our stage six podcast from the 2021 Tour de France we discuss Mark Cavendish's 32nd stage win at the Tour de France as he gets closer to the record of stage wins held by Eddy Merckx, even if Cavendish resists references to this.
In this episode Richard Moore, François Thomazeau and Kate Wagner discuss the stage and we hear from Kasper Asgreen, Michael Morkov and Roger Kluge, as well as our audio diarist, Connor Swift. And there are some birthday messages for Lionel Birnie, including from the "Flying Black Pudding," Simon Yates.
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Kate Wagner, who in former lives was a classical violinist and architecture critic, is covering her first bike race – the Tour de France – and keeping an audio diary about the experience for The Cycling Podcast.
In this first of three instalments of her audio diaries, all to feature as part of the Kilometre 0 series, she talks about the art of packing for a month on the road, the French hotels, her first face-to-face meeting with a rider she has been thinking about and writing about for the past five months, Primoz Roglič. And she records her emotional response to the crashes that marred stage three.
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In our stage 5 Tour de France podcast, Richard Moore, François Thomazeau and Kate Wagner discuss a time trial that had two winners, Tadej Pogačar and Mathieu van der Poel.
In tonight’s episode we hear from the second and third place finishers, Stefan Küng and Jonas Vingegaard.
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In our third episode of Kilometre 0 we meet our four audio diarists, Victor Campenaerts (Qhubeka NextHash), Connor Swift (Arkea-Samsic), Ben O'Connor (Ag2r-Citroën) and Tim Declercq (Deceuninck-Quick-Step).
Campenaerts and O'Connor are debutants, Swift is riding his second Tour, with the Grand Départ in his team's home region, and Declercq, "The Tractor", is doing his usual job of spending many kilometres on the front of the bunch, helping his teammates Julian Alaphilippe and Mark Cavendish to two stage wins so far.
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Stage four of the Tour de France was all about Mark Cavendish's 31st win at the Tour de France and his first in five years. In tonight's episode we hear from his "poisson pilote," Michael Morkov, and another two Deceuninck-Quick-step teammates, Tim Declercq and the world champion Julian Alaphilippe. We also hear from Fred Wright, Thomas De Gendt and, speaking about the crashes that marred stage three, Cedric Vasseur and Mitch Docker, who will be co-presenting The Cycling Podcast in the third week of the Tour.
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In episode two of Kilometre 0 at the 2021 Tour de France we look back to the last La Course, the women's one day race, and ahead to the new Tour de France Femmes, launching next year.
We speak to one of the driving forces behind La Course, Kathryn Bertine, and to the Tour de France director, Christian Prudhomme, and hear from some of the leading figures in the current peloton, including Marianne Vos, Lizzie Deignan, Ashleigh Moolman Pasio, Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig and Alexis Ryan.
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It was another day on the Tour de France that was marred by terrible crashes and in our podcast from stage three Richard Moore, Kate Wagner and François Thomazeau talk about their impact on the race.
Chris Juul-Jensen explains why he thinks the crashes have been more serious, and our audio diarist Connor Swift talks us through an eventful day. We also hear from Ide Schelling, the Dutchman who's in the King of the Mountains jersey and who has been in the breakaway each day.
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In our first episode of Kilometre 0 from the 2021 Tour de France we look at the region where the race is spending its first few days: Brittany, or Bretagne.
It's France's cycling heartland, with a rich tradition that is still evident with no fewer than ten Bretons riding this year's Tour. We hear from the region's great hope, David Gaudu, as well as from a British rider who rides for a Breton team, Connor Swift.
And we speak to another Breton, perhaps the rider who perhaps best resembles Bernard Hinault, the region's most famous cyclist: Audrey Cordon-Ragot.
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Stage two of the Tour de France saw another hilltop finish, another devastating attack by one of the stage favourites, and an emotional win on the line, but this time it was Mathieu van der Poel, who also took over the yellow jersey, dedicating it to his late grandfather, Raymond Poulidor.
In tonight's podcast Richard Moore, François Thomazeau and Kate Wagner pick over the stage and the rivalry between Tadej Pogacar and Primoz Roglic, the Slovenians who finished first and second last year. We also hear from our audio diarist, Victor Campenaerts.
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The Tour de France got underway in Brittany and in our first nightly episode Richard Moore, François Thomazeau and Kate Wagner discuss an eventful day, with two dreadful crashes and a stunning win for Julian Alaphilippe.
We hear from our diarist, Tim Declercq, a teammate of the winner, and from Richie Porte of Ineos Grenadiers. François tells us about the cultural highlights of the area and Kate talks about her first day on the Tour de France and her recent feature article on Primoz Roglic.
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In this extra episode, on the eve of the Tour de France, Daniel Friebe speaks to Greg Andrews of D Vine Cellars about The Cycling Podcast Tour de France wine collection.
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In part one of this episode of Service Course, Lizzy Banks returns to the mic to tell Tom Whalley about her recent concussion, and the long road she has been taking to recovery.
After a crash at Strade Bianchi, Lizzy initially believed she was fine until the symptoms of her concussion started to become apparent, even then a few weeks later she thought she was fine and resumed training, but a series of setbacks and some debilitating symptoms have meant the path to a full recovery has not been straightforward.
With the Olympics out of the question, Lizzy has now set her sights on a return to racing before the end of the season. In part 2 Tom chats to Jason Smith, the creator of Driven, formerly known as Ceramic Speed Driven, a revolutionary and eye-catching redesign of the entire drive train that Jason believes could make the chain redundant.
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In this bonus episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin, Orla Chennaoui speaks to Annemiek van Vleuten, the former world champion and one of the favourites for the Olympics.
Van Vleuten got in touch after our last episode, taking issue with something that was said. Here, she sets the record straight on the Women's World Tour and discusses missing some of the upcoming races to focus on the Olympic Games, her new team, Movistar, and much else besides.
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In our final episode before the Tour de France Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and François Thomazeau preview the race before the Grand Départ in Brittany this weekend.
Mark Cavendish is one of several surprise selections – we discuss his late inclusion in the Deceuninck-Quick-step team at the expense of Sam Bennett.
We also look ahead to stage one, asking who that will suit – Daniel picks 18 candidates. We unveil our four audio diarists – two Belgians, a Brit and an Australian, riding for Belgian, South African and French teams.
And we look back at some of last weekend's national road race championships.
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For this episode of Life in the Peloton, I chatted to Simon Mottram, who founded Rapha back in 2004. I was really interested to hear what drove him to start the company and particularly his comment that Rapha is not a clothing company, it's a cycling company.
Simon's passion for cycling shines through and it's fair to say that Rapha has changed the way we think about style on the bike. As you probably know my team, EF Education-Nippo, wears Rapha kit and so I wanted to find out more about the man who puts the jerseys on our backs.
Cheers,
Mitch
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We are looking ahead to the Tour de France in this week's episode as we review the recent racing in Switzerland, Slovenia and Belgium.
The Tour is set to be a fascinating battle between the collective strength of Ineos Grenadiers and the individual talents of Tadej Pogačar, the defending champion, and Primoz Roglič.
This week we also hear from Pavel Sivakov, the young Franco-Russian who returned to racing in Switzerland after crashing out of the Giro d'Italia.
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In June's episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin Rose Manley, Orla Chennaoui and Richard Moore discuss all the recent racing, and we hear from Tour de Suisse stage winner Elise Chabbey of Canyon/SRAM.
There's also an interview with one of the strongest performers of the season, Pauliena Rooijakkers of Liv Racing.
And we meet the winner of the world's biggest gravel race, Unbound. Lauren De Crescenzo is a former professional who suffered a terrible crash in 2016, then last year broke the Everesting world record, and meanwhile works as an epidemiologist.
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Film club returns to The Cycling Podcast as Daniel Friebe and Richard Moore review The Least Expected Day, series two of Netflix's fly-on-the-wall Movistar documentary.
We discuss the latest racing, including Richie Porte's victory at the Critérium du Dauphiné and what it means for the Tour de France.
And we hear from Ian Boswell, last week's guest host and winner at the weekend of Unbound, arguably the world's most important gravel race.
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Richard Moore is joined by former professional Ian Boswell and François Thomazeau for this week's episode as we discuss the Critérium du Dauphiné, look back on the Giro d'Italia and discuss the implications for cycling of the week's biggest story in sport, tennis player Naomi Osaka's decision not to participate in press conferences and to withdraw from the French Open. Is the Dauphiné a little "decaffeinated" in the absence of Primoz Roglič and Tadej Pogačar? Would a "mystery time trial" at the Tour de France work? And could Geraint Thomas bounce back from his disappointing performance on stage 4. The answer to this last question was yes, because while we were recording he won stage 5. Ian and François talk about the stories that grabbed them at the Giro and in the final part we discuss athletes' obligations, press conferences and mental health. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport. Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com
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Life in the Peloton is back after taking a break while the Giro d'Italia was on, which gave me a chance to sit down with someone I've wanted to get on the podcast for a long time.
Tsgabu Grmay rides for my old team, now called Team Bike Exchange, and he's racing his tenth season in the pro peloton. He was born and brought up in the Tigray region of Ethiopia and comes from a sporty family. I was really interested to hear the story of how he got into cycling and made it to the Tour de France, which has ridden three times and completed twice. But I was most inspired by his goal-setting and his attitude to getting the most out of himself.
But as inspirational as I found talking to Tsgabu, it wasn't quite enough to persuade me to reconsider the big decision I announced a few weeks ago. I've decided this will be my final season and, all being well, I'll end my pro career at Paris-Roubaix in October. It's time to find out what life has in store for me outside the peloton...
Don't worry, though, there's still plenty more podcasts to come, and I hope you enjoy this one.
Cheers,
Mitch
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Explore returns with Lionel Birnie travelling to the south coast of England to meet photographer and journalist Roff Smith, whose lockdown project was published in the New York Times as A Cyclist on the English Landscape.
The series of self-portraits feature Roff cycling in and around his adopted home town, St Leonards-on-Sea in Sussex. Roff is not used to staying in one place for long. Born in the US and having spent time working in Australia, his career as a photographer and writer for National Geographic has kept him almost permanently on the move – until the coronavirus crisis hit in spring 2020.
While tethered to home, Roff started getting up before dawn to capture photographs of himself riding through the early morning light and found that each day gave him a different perspective on the familiar.
To see more of Roff's work follow him on Instagram @roffsmith where he has published more of his self-portraits and his website The Art of the Ride.
The Tour d'Écosse
On Thursday (June 3), Lionel and Simon Gill are setting off on the Tour d'Écosse, a 13-day, 1,300-kilometre ride from Gretna to Dingwall in Scotland, visiting each of the 42 Scottish football grounds on the way. Follow their adventures with nightly episodes of Explore and by following the (slow-moving) dot at thecyclingpodcast.com
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In our final episode from the 2021 Giro d'Italia Richard Moore and Brian Nygaard soak up the atmosphere in Milan and look back on the past three weeks of racing and travelling around Italy.
We hear from some of the stars and unsung heroes of the race, including Alberto Bettiol, Jan Tratnik, Salvatore Puccio, Dries De Bondt and Gianni Savio. There's a final instalment from our diarist, James Knox, and Daniel Friebe discusses breakaways with Italian journalists, and podcast hosts, Filippo Cauz and Leonardo Piccione.
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In our penultimate episode from the Giro d'Italia we reflect on the final mountain stage, won by the rider in second place, Damiano Caruso.
Richard Moore and Brian Nygaard discuss the stage ahead of Egan Bernal's likely coronation as Giro winner in Milan on Sunday.
We hear from Chris Juul-Jensen of Team Bike Exchange, Matt Winston, sports director of Team DSM, and Larry Warbasse of Ag2r, as well as our audio diarist James Knox of Deceuninck-Quick-Step.
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On the penultimate mountain stage of the Giro d’Italia Simon Yates claimed victory to set up a thrilling final weekend.
In our stage 19 podcast we hear from Yates’s sports director, Matt White, and also from a rider who was in the breakaway, Larry Warbasse.
There’s another instalment of James Knox’s audio diary and a final entry from our other diarist, Gino Mader.
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One day before stage 20 of the Giro d'Italia begins in his home town, we take a look at a rider upon whose broad shoulders the hopes of Italian cycling seem to rest.
Filippo Ganna is the world champion who on Sunday in Milan will be the favourite to win his fifth Giro time trial in a row. In this episode we speak to some of his rivals, including Edoardo Affini of Jumbo-Visma, to Rod Ellingworth, who works with Ganna at Ineos Grenadiers, and to Luca Gialanella of Gazzetta dello Sport.
And we hear from Victor Campenaerts, the world hour record holder, on how the emergence of Ganna forced him to abandon time trialling. Finally, we hear from the man himself – Filippo Ganna.
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A rider we’ve been tipping all Giro, Alberto Bettiol, finally got his stage win on a day when the other big news was the withdrawal of Remco Evenepoel.
In our stage 18 podcast we discuss Evenepoel and the decision to throw him into the Giro and hear from a couple of other young riders, Tobias Foss and Attila Valter. We’ve also got an interview with the previous day’s winner, Dan Martin.
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The Giro d'Italia may have some twists and turns left after a seventeenth stage that saw the first sign of weakness from the overall leader, Egan Bernal, while Dan Martin took a well deserved win.
In the podcast we hear from Rod Ellingworth on Bernal, there's more from our diarist, James Knox, we solve the mystery of George Bennett's "double ascent" of the Zoncolan, and we have an interview with the former pink jersey Alessandro De Marchi.
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Eleven of the sixteen stages so far at this Giro d’Italia have been won by first time grand tour stage winners.
Some – Egan Bernal, Giacomo Nizzolo – have not been much of a surprise. But some certainly have, and yet there have been days when the stage winner has been overshadowed by the GC battle.
In this episode of Kilometre 0 we revisit their stages with some of the winners, including Joe Dombrowski, Taco van der Hoorn and Victor Lafay. And we hear from a rider agent, Gary McQuaid, about the value of a stage win in a Grand Tour.
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On the second rest day of the Giro d'Italia Richard and Daniel sit down in Canazei in the Dolomites to answer some listeners' questions.
Topics include downhill time trials, littering, Italy and the Giro's place in its cultural landscape, and why there is no cycling equivalent of Sam Allardyce, the football manager.
For a couple of questions we turn to James Knox, of Deceuninck-Quick-Step, and Eurosport GCN commentator Rob Hatch for their insights.
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With the queen stage of the Giro d'Italia shortened by 60km, two major climbs removed and no TV pictures, the job of The Cycling Podcast after stage 16 was to piece together what happened.
Richard and Daniel were at the finish in Cortina to speak to some of the protagonists and make sense of a stage that cemented Egan Bernal's status as the favourite to win the Giro in Milan on Sunday.
In tonight's episode we hear from our diarist, James Knox, the EF sports director Charly Wegelius and his rider Tejay van Garderen, Trek-Segafredo general manager Luca Guercilena, a resurgent Romain Bardet and the Bahrain Victorious pair of Damiano Caruso and Pello Bilbao.
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The Giro d'Italia crossed into Slovenia on stage 15 and The Cycling Podcast was there to see Victor Campenaerts win Qhubeka Assos's third stage in five days.
The start of the stage was marred by an enormous crash with our audio diarist, James Knox, one of the fallers. Thankfully he wasn't too badly hurt, as he tells us in tonight's instalment. We also hear from Simon Yates, who is Egan Bernal's closest challenger, ahead of Monday's key stage in the Dolomites.
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After its ascent of the Zoncolan on stage 14, the Giro d'Italia remains in Italy’s far northeast on Sunday – and even dips into Slovenia – for a stage that reflects many of the region’s textures and contradictions.
The local hero as far as the Giro is concerned was Alessandro De Marchi – but the former maglia rosa crashed out en route to Bagno di Romagna.
In his absence, there will still be much for the home crowds to enjoy – and for the rest of us to discover about a corner of Il Bel Paese that remains a mystery even to many Italians.
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No day is the same at the Giro d'Italia but very few start, for Richard and Daniel at least, with a meeting with the US Acting Ambassador to Italy. We hear from Ambassador Tom Smitham – a keen cyclist and friend of the podcast – in tonight's episode and we have all the reaction from a crucial stage that finished at Monte Zoncolan, including interviews with Simon Yates's sports director, Matt White, and Egan Bernal's, Dario Cioni. There's another instalment from our audio diarist, James Knox, and we hear from Mark Christian, whose teammate, Lorenzo Fortunato, was the surprise winner at the summit of the Zoncolan.
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Stage 13 and as the Giro d'Italia reached Verona we discuss a first grand tour stage win for Giacomo Nizzolo and hear from his teammate and lead-out man, Max Walscheid.
We've got an interview with Deceuninck-Quick-step supremo Patrick Lefevere and another audio diary from one of his riders, James Knox.
And at the start in Ravenna we meet Marina Romoli, whose foundation The Cycling Podcast is supporting at this year's Giro through the sales of Stacy Snyder's cups, mugs and gelato bowls. Marina tells us about her life in cycling and pays tribute to the day's winner, Nizzolo, a good friend and supporter of her foundation to help fund research into spinal injuries and to support athletes – like Marina – whose careers are cut short by spinal or brain injuries.
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Thursday’s twelfth stage of the Giro d'Italia was a paean not only to one of Italy’s cycling heartlands – the verdant hills and mountains of Tuscany – but also two legends of Italian cycling in Gino Bartali and Alfredo Martini.
Martini is the lesser known of the pair but there is no doubting his status as a national sporting treasure, less for the six rainbow jerseys he amassed as the Italian team coach from 1975 to 1997 than for who he was and how he led his life.
Just a couple of hours before the Giro passed, we made our own pilgrimage to his home – and the house in which he lived – in Sesto Fiorentino.
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As our Girovagando pushes past its half-way point our stage twelve episode from the Giro d'Italia includes our audio diarist, James Knox, on the emotional departure of a valued teammate, there are interviews with two of the stage's main protagonists, George Bennett and Chris Hamilton, and we hear from the previous day's winner, Mauro Schmid.
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Stage 11 of the Giro d'Italia was the eagerly awaited day of the strade bianche, taking the riders from Umbria into Tuscany and over its famous white dirt roads.
We start the episode in Perugia, hearing what Matt White of Team Bike Exchange and Matt Winston of Team DSM, were thinking ahead of this crucial stage. Then, in Montelcino at the finish, we hear from one of the day's animators, Dries De Bondt, and also from a rider who climbed to third overall, Damiano Caruso.
One of the big losers of the day was Remco Evenepoel, the young Belgian who started the stage second overall. We get a very honest appraisal of their day from his Deceuninck-Quick-Step teammate, James Knox, who is keeping an audio diary for The Cycling Podcast.
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At Strade Bianche in March there was a leading group containing cycling's biggest stars – the world champion, the last two Tour de France winners, stars of cyclocross and the classics – and Michael Gogl.
The 27-year-old Austrian, who rides for Qhubeka Assos, was the big surprise in one of the best races of the year – although his performance on the white dirt roads of Tuscany did not come as such a surprise to him and his team.
As the Giro prepares to tackle the white dirt roads on stage 11, we relive Strade Bianche with Gogl.
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As the Giro d'Italia paused for its first rest day The Cycling Podcast does its now traditional rest day episode – the press conference.
Answering some of our listeners' questions, Richard and Daniel discuss subjects including the Giro's apparent "bias" against the south, rider safety, the vogue for gravel and even a non-Giro question concerning Julian Alaphilippe's decision to miss the Olympics.
We put some of your questions to our diarist, James Knox of Deceuninck-Quick-Step, and there's an update from our other diarist, Gino Mader of Bahrain Victorious. We also hear from Simon Yates on the subject of Wednesday's gravel stage.
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Peter Sagan won stage 10 of the Giro d'Italia as the race headed north and entered Umbria for Tuesday's rest day. In tonight's podcast we get reaction from Sagan's sports director, Jens Zemke, and also hear from the rider who was second, Fernando Gaviria.
There's another instalment from our audio diarist, James Knox, and we speak to a rider with a special connection to this part of the world – if only by name. We also catch up with two riders who are struggling with ill health at this Giro – Jai Hindley, who was second last year, and the young American, Matteo Jorgenson.
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In Italian, unlike in English, ‘prima donna’ is certainly no insult, meaning literally ‘first woman’ or first female voice in a company of singers. If the Giro often resembles an opera, though, only this year has the chorus of race narrators acquired such a figure - at least on Italian television.
Giada Borgato was a professional rider & Italian champion herself but has traded the peloton for the commentary box, where this year she is making history as Italian state broadcaster Rai’s first lead female co-commentator. Over the weekend, Daniel met Giada & others who know her to piece together her trailblazing journey.
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The first mountain stage of this year's Giro d'Italia saw a commanding win for Egan Bernal, who took over the pink jersey, after a thrilling day's racing in the Abruzzo mountains.
In our stage nine episode we hear from Bernal, as well as Giulio Ciccone, who was second on the stage. There's an interview with Natnael Tesfatsion, the Eritrean on the Androni team, and Richard and Daniel go on a pilgrimage in Castel di Sangro, where the stage started and which was the setting for a great sports book, The Miracle of Castel di Sangro, by American author Joe McGinniss.
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Stage 8 of the Giro d'Italia was won from a breakaway by the Frenchman Victory Lafay, while behind there was no great sort out of the overall contenders ahead of a testing stage in the Abruzzo mountains on Sunday.
In tonight's episode we hear from Team DSM's Nikias Arndt, who was third on the stage, and Nicholas Roche, as well as Hugh Carthy. of EF Education Nippo We have an interview with the adopted local boy, Einer Rubio, a Colombian who rides for Movistar, and also his sports director, Max Sciandri.
And in his continuing quest to find the Giro rider most in tune with his surroundings, Daniel speaks to Simon Pellaud of Androni.
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Stage 7 of the Giro d'Italia took the riders down the Adriatic coast to the southernmost point of this year's race, with Caleb Ewan winning the bunch sprint to take his second stage.
Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss Ewan's qualities as a leader and we hear from his Lotto-Soudal teammate, Roger Kluge, as well as the rider who was third, Tim Merlier.
We discuss geography with Bauke Mollema and Dan Martin, wine with Elisa Pepe and – returning briefly to cycling – how he is getting on in his first Grand Tour with a very confident sounding Remco Evenepoel.
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In our third episode of Kilometre 0 from the Giro d'Italia we revisit a classic sports book, The Miracle of Castel di Sangro.
Stage 9 of the Giro will roll out of a small town in the Abruzzo mountains: the scene in 1996 of the "miracle" of Castel di Sangro winning promotion to Italy's second top division, Serie B.
When he read about this unlikely story, Joe McGinniss, a celebrated American writer, decided to go and live in Castel di Sangro to document life in Serie B.
Little could McGinniss have known the tumult, drama and tragedy he would witness. And little could Castel di Sangro have known how involved the American writer would become in the town and its football club.
McGinniss died in 2014 but in this episode we hear from his widow, Nancy Doherty.
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Another cold and wet day at the Giro d'Italia saw a win for one of our audio diarists, Gino Mader, only 24 hours after losing his team leader, Mikel Landa, who crashed out on Wednesday.
In the latest episode Richard and Daniel discuss the stage and the new man in pink, Attila Valter, who we hear from. There's another audio diary from James Knox, Gianni Savio is back discussing tactics and Caleb Ewan confesses his ignorance of Italian geography.
On the day he lost the pink jersey, we also hear from Alessandro De Marchi's teammate and roommate, Alex Dowsett, and talk about the imminent return of Tom Dumoulin with George Bennett and Addy Engels.
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Stage five of the Giro d'Italia was one for the sprinters but it was marred by a series of nasty crashes that saw one of the favourites, Mikel Landa, have to pull out of the race – we hear from his sports director, Franco Pellizotti.
In this episode we speak to another of the crash victims and the previous day's winner, Joe Dombrowski, and to Simon Yates' director, Matt White. There's another instalment from our diarist, James Knox, and Daniel and Richard pay a visit to another Marco Pantani memorial, the marble near Imola.
Finally, we explore the myth of Italy's most popular rock star, Vasco Rossi, in the company of Daniel Oss and Giovanni Aleotti.
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Remco Evenepoel returned to racing at the Giro d'Italia, after nine months out with injury, and finished 7th in the opening time trial.
What can we expect from Evenepoel, the 21-year-old Belgian phenomenon? Nobody seems to know, not even his Deceuninck-Quick-Step teammate Pieter Serry. We hear from Serry, from Jan-Pieter De Vlieger of Het Nieuwsblad and Renaat Schotte of Sporza.
We also ask whether the top riders need racing to prepare for their major targets, speaking to Joe Dombrowski, Larry Warbasse, Pavel Sivakov, Team Bike Exchange sports director Matt White and Egan Bernal's coach, Xabier Artetxe.
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Joe Dombrowski took the win at Sestola on stage four of the Giro d'Italia and The Cycling Podcast were there to witness a career best performance by a rider we've followed since our (and his) early days.
On this first day in the mountains there were some skirmishes among the overall contenders, too. We hear in tonight's episode from Nicki Sorensen, sports director at Israel Start-up Nation whose Italian veteran, Alessandro De Marchi, was second on the stage to take over the pink jersey of race leader.
There's an interview with Matt Winston, sports director at Team DSM, and Hugh Carthy, who had a good day in his fight for the overall. And there are updates from our two audio diarists, James Knox and Gino Mader.
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There was an upset at the Giro d'Italia for the second successive day, with Taco van der Hoorn outwitting the peloton, and we continue our coverage of the race with an interview with his sports director, Valerio Piva.
We also hear from Matt White, the Team Bike Exchange sports director whose leader, Simon Yates, is one of the race favourites. Will we see him at the front on stage four? It's a tough, hilly day, and White expects a cagey stage for the overall contenders, though he can see a different rider in the pink jersey of leader, which is currently worn by Filippo Ganna.
Finally, and with The Cycling Podcast having stayed overnight at the sight of a memorial to Marco Pantani, Daniel runs through his top 10 Pantani monuments.
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The start of stage three of the Giro d'Italia in Biella will be a homecoming for one individual with an awe-inspiring palmarès and huge influence in professional cycling.
Giuseppe Acquadro is the town‘s prodigal son – and he is an agent, not a rider. In fact, some have called the man whose client portfolio includes Egan Bernal, Nairo Quintana and Richard Carapaz cycling‘s first ‘super-agent’.
But much about Acquadro remains largely unknown – his background, his methods, the relationships that he has made, sometimes broken and often repaired.
Daniel talked to the man himself – and others who know him – to hopefully peel back some of the intrigue surrounding ‘The Baron of Biella’.
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In our second instalment of Girovagando – our coverage of the Giro d'Italia – we talk about the first sprint stage, the return of Dylan Groenewegen and conclude our tour of Turin in the company of Herbie Sykes.
There are interviews with Groenewegen, Patrick Lefevere, Jos van Emden, Caleb Ewan and Elia Viviani, and we hear again from our audio diarist James Knox.
Richard and Daniel are also joined by journalist Hans Ruggenberg of Holland's biggest newspaper, De Telegraaf.
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In our first episode from the 2021 Giro d'Italia Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe are joined in Turin by Brian Nygaard, Italophile and former pro team manager turned wine maker.
We discuss the stage one time trial and look ahead to the next three weeks, hearing from Egan Bernal, Tobias Foss, Max Walscheid and our audio diarist, James Knox.
Daniel also gets a tour of Turin with local resident and celebrated author Herbie Sykes, who tells us all about the real Torino and the legacy of Fausto Coppi and his brother, Serse.
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For the second year, The Cycling Podcast is embarking on a viticultural Giro d’Italia alongside the 3,488km journey that rolls out from Turin on May 8.
As in 2020, Greg Andrews of DVine Cellars is our guide for the trip. Greg recently sat down with Daniel Friebe to talk through the six bottles that make up The Cycling Podcast Girovagando selection and all things Italian wine.
You can order the Girovagando case by contacting Greg on 020 3609 1331 or at sales@dvinecellars.com – or directly on his website Dvinecellars.com/cycling-podcast-cases
In this month's episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin, with Orla Chennaoui, Rose Manley and Richard Moore, we rank the teams' classics campaigns, coming up with a top 10 and speaking to a member of each team to get their assessment and a mark out of ten for their performance.
Among the riders we hear from are Audrey Cordon-Ragot, Elise Chabbey, Brodie Chapman, Leah Thomas and Floortje Mackaij. We also have an interview with Anna Shackely, the 19-year-old Glaswegian who has joined the world's best team, SD Worx. And Riejanne Markus subjects herself to our quick fire "Questions and Féminin-swers" round.
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In this week's episode we look ahead to the Giro d'Italia and back at the Tour de Romandie, won by Geraint Thomas after a crash in the rain on Saturday and then a strong time trial in the final stage on Sunday.
Previewing Girovagando – as we will be calling our daily coverage of the Giro – Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss the first Grand Tour of the season: the riders, the route and other highlights along the way, including Daniel's "18 things to look forward to."
And we hear from Ciro Scognamiglio and François Thomazeau as well as authority on all things Italian John Foot.
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This episode of Service Course starts out at the Finsbury Park Road Race in 2015 where Tom is up against a rider who is using a dangerous position on the bike, said rider would be ejected from the Tour of Turkey some five years later for using that very same position. For this episode, loosely themed around positioning, Tom rides solo as Lizzy continues her recovery from a concussion sustained in Strade Bianche.
Tom speaks to some of the smartest people in the business, starting with Dr Xavier Disley, the man behind Aero Coach. Xavier is an aerodynamicist who works with World Tour teams through to amateurs, basically anyone who wants to get faster on two wheels. As well as supplying some very slippery hardware, Xavier also publishes a lot of data, and his latest data dump is a study into the most effective aero positions on a bike.
With a couple of them now banned, it's some pretty important info. Following Xavier is the one and only Dan Bigham who speaks to Tom from his car, parked outside the velodrome in Copenhagen, from where he has been masterminding the Danish team's assault on the gold medal in the team pursuit. Dan's new book, Start At The End, is a great insight into his thinking, and the way he uses reverse engineering and the socratic method to take apart cycling, and then put it back together again, but faster. To top it off, Tom also speaks to Michael "Dr Hutch" Hutchinson, who talks about his quest for the fastest position on the bike and confesses to never having seen Rocky IV.
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The first grand tour of the season, the Giro d'Italia, is just around the corner so I wanted to speak to Dr Kevin Sprouse about his role as a team doctor at one of the great stage races.
Kevin is my team doctor at the EF Education-Nippo team and he's part of the medical team that looks after the riders all season round.
For this podcast I wanted to ask him about how the doctors look after the riders during a three-week stage race like the Giro. There are crashes, injuries, illness and other ailments that need treating on the road and sometimes on the move.
I wanted to know how he helps the riders stay healthy or remain in the race when they have a problem. From fuelling and making sure the body is ready for the day ahead to the importance of sleep to treating the common problems that riders face during a race we covered a lot of ground.
I learn a lot every time I speak to Kevin, especially because he explains everything in a way that it easy to take on board, so I hope you guys all find it as interesting as I did.
Cheers,
Mitch
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In this week's episode Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the last of the spring classics, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, won by Tour de France winner Tadej Pogačar.
There's also an interview with one of the race's main protagonists, Michael Woods, who tells us that he was proud of his performance in a race in which he has a good record.
Woods also gives us his verdict on Pogačar, a rider who can apparently do everything.
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In this week's second episode we review Flèche Wallonne, or as Daniel calls it, cycling's annual "uphill cheese rolling competition."
Quickest to the top of the Mur de Huy was Julian Alaphilippe, the world champion, who took his third win in this race. But he was pushed close by Primož Roglič, making his Flèche debut, who attacked early, with around 350 metres to go.
Anna van der Breggen won the women's race, her seventh in a row, though she was given a real battle by Kasia Niewiadoma, with the two going shoulder-to-shoulder as they climbed to the finish.
We also look ahead to Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the other Ardennes classic, which is on Sunday.
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In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the photo finish to the Amstel Gold Race.
After losing Brabantse Pijl to the young British rider in a close sprint, Wout van Aert turned the tables on Tom Pidcock by an even closer margin in the finishing straight named after 2019 winner Mathieu van der Poel.
Lionel tries to explain how the photo finish camera actually works, Daniel debuts Grievance Grotto and we look ahead to Wednesday's Flèche Wallonne. Will the race end in a sprint on the Mur de Huy or are we in for a surprise?
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In this week's episode we discuss a busy week of racing, with Mark Cavendish returning to winning form, Tom Pidcock announcing himself on the world stage and everyone's favourite Pog Rog band reuniting in the Basque Country.
We have an interview with Cavendish's new coach, Vasilis Anastopoulos, and try to put the veteran sprinter's three stage wins at the Tour of Turkey into context.
In the Basque Country Primož Roglič and Tadej Pogačar went head to head, with the Pog-Rog swingometer swinging in Roglic's favour. What does that mean, and what lessons will both riders and their teams have learned?
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This is a trailer for episode four of El Cycling Podcast, a podcast for Spanish speakers hosted by Laura Meseguer and Rob Hatch. Follow El Cycling Podcast on Audioboom or your favourite podcast app to listen to every episode.Laura Meseguer y Rob Hatch repasan la Vuelta al País Vasco (y la historia tras ESA canción) junto a Joseba Beloki. Mikel Landa y Alex Aranburu también atienden a los micrófonos de El Cycling Podcast para analizar su carrera de casa mientras Luís Ángel Maté, nuevo fichaje del Euskaltel-Euskadi cuenta su experiencia como sureño en el norte.
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This week's guest is a young man who has made a big splash in his first couple of months racing in the World Tour.
I knew the name Tom Pidcock because he's been racing on the coat tails of Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert in cyclo-cross for a couple of winters now, but I'd never actually met him or spoken to him before.
But when I got a message to say Tom would love to come on the podcast I was really keen to find out more about a man whose reputation preceded him.
We've all seen how well he's fitted in right at the top level in some of the Classics this season. Third place in Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, fifth at Strade Bianche and right up there in Milan-Sanremo are results that pretty much anyone would be happy with but Tom is a 21-year-old neo pro.
I must admit I probably had a preconceived idea of what Tom would be like. I thought his swagger off the bike would match his swagger on it. He's a confident guy, no doubt, but he was also really down to earth and a pleasure to chat to so I hope you all enjoy finding out a bit more about him.
Cheers,
Mitch
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If ever a rider was built for Paris-Roubaix it was Magnus Bäckstedt. Since turning professional and seeing the cobblestones for the first time, he dreamed of conquering the Hell of the North.
But, like the journey from Compiègne to the velodrome, Bäckstedt's journey was far from smooth. There were a couple of years when he and his team didn't even make it to the start line of his favourite race. But in 2004, everything came together perfectly on the day when Bäckstedt won a four-man sprint to fulfil his dream.
There's more to Bäckstedt's career than Paris-Roubaix, though, and in this conversation with Lionel Birnie he talks about his early days as a downhill skier, his stage win at the 1998 Tour de France, the ups and downs of his career and how he feels about the possibility of his daughters riding Paris-Roubaix one day.
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The latest episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin focuses on the Tour of Flanders and Ghent-Wevelgem with interviews with Elisa Longo Borghini, Anna Henderson, Demi Vollering, Lotte Kopecky and Grace Brown.
Orla Chennaoui, Rose Manley and Richard Moore discuss how the races were won and we also have a long interview with a new name, Kristen Faulkner.
Faulkner has a remarkable story: she grew up in Alaska, is a Harvard graduate, and was a venture capitalist until January. She turned professional with Tibco-SVB last year, won a stage in her first race in Europe in September, and this season finished 7th in Wevelgem and 10th at Flanders.
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Richard Moore heads to Oudenaarde for the Tour of Flanders and then reviews the men's race with Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe.
The biggest question pre-race was whether Deceuninck, sorry, Elegant-Quick-Step could topple defending champion Mathieu van der Poel and his big rival Wout van Aert.
And the answer was, yes, thanks to another brilliant display by their Great Dane, Kasper Asgreen. After his solo heroics at the Grand Prix E3 Saxo Bank in Harelbeke last week, the Danish champion gambled on going all the way to the line with Van der Poel. The odds looked stacked against him in the sprint, but he pulled off a fantastic victory.
But what were the factors that contributed to Asgreen's win? Did Jumbo-Visma miss a trick leaving Van Aert isolated? And what about the three disqualifications from the race? Were the judges right?
All this and more in our Tour of Flanders recap.
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The cobbled Classics in Belgium are such an exciting time of year and it's become a tradition for me to check in with my good buddy Luke Durbridge to talk about what makes these races so special.
Luke is up in Belgium at the moment and has been riding all the Classics that lead up to the big one on Sunday – the Tour of Flanders – and Paris-Roubaix just over the border in France a week later.
In this episode, we talk about how the races each have a character of their own and how the Grand Prix E3 is very different to Gent-Wevelgem. We talk positioning, fuelling and how to bounce back from a disappointing day as we answer some of your questions.
I hope it gives everyone a bit of insight into what these unique races are like to ride.
Until next time,
Mitch
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The path to a career as a professional cyclist is a road less travelled and also a notoriously gruelling one. For many, moreover, it can become a search for the self, the pursuit of an identity, which raises the stakes way beyond the promise or reality of whatever material rewards come with success.
Rerouted into cycling by a running injury at age 17, Northern Irish rider Marcus Christie found himself on a fast track towards the pro peloton that soon turned into a white-knuckle ride. Over the next decade, Christie faced debilitating injuries, crippling insecurities, an eating disorder and – parallel to, or maybe underlying all of this – the key existential question of how to live within cycling or whether to try, as the years ticked by, to contemplate living without it.
Inspired by the soul-bearing first-person account that he shared with us in 2020, Supersonic is Marcus Christie’s story.
In this episode Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the week's racing in Belgium and Catalonia.
First, the cobbled Classics where Deceuninck-Quick Step got off to a flyer with victory for Sam Bennett at the Oxyclean Brugge-De Panne Classic before winning the numbers game at the E3 Saxo Bank Classic, where Kasper Asgreen got the better of everyone, including Mathieu Van der Poel and Wout Van Aert.
On Sunday, though, Van Aert bounced back to win Gent-Wevelgem. But where does all this leave us with The Big One on Sunday? And can Deceuninck-Quick Step's wolfpack repeat what they did in Harelbeke?
Meanwhile, the stage racers were in Catalonia, where Adam Yates led a clean sweep of the podium for Ineos Grenadiers.
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In this episode of Service Course Ian Boswell stands in for Lizzy. Ian talks about his continuing recovery from the concussions that forced his early retirement, and gives his reaction to the way the new concussion protocols are impacting racing this season. On the new tech side of things Tom speaks with Chris Blomfield-Brown from CORE about their new core temperature sensor, which is being used by a number of men's and women's teams this year. Tom also speaks with Jonathan Lee from TrainerRoad about their rollout of adaptive training which uses machine learning and AI to give you a much improved and more effective training programme.
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This is a trailer for a five-part series available for Friends of the Podcast.
Four years ago, Lionel and Simon went to Flanders to see the traditional preparation races that lead up to the Tour of Flanders. The result was a five-part series for Friends of the Podcast called The Lionel of Flanders. (Thanks to producer Tom Whalley for coming up with the title).
The order of the races may have changed since but with the Classics approaching again we've decided to add the series to the Friends of the Podcast feed this week, starting on Wednesday morning.
Join them as they explore Flanders, discovering the culture of the region and the history of the races as well as heading over the border to Roubaix to the famous velodrome.
Wednesday: Episode 1 – Dwars Door Vlaanderen
After checking-in to their floating hotel in Kortrijk, Lionel and Simon head from Roeselare to Waregem to watch the 72nd edition of Dwars Door Vlaanderen. We learn about Flandrian cycling from a man who has lived there for more than 40 years after moving from Australia to chase his professional racing dream, and from a former winner of the race. They also find out why Zulte Waregem FC play at the Regenboogstadion (the Rainbow Stadium).
Run time: 37mins
Thursday: Episode 2 – The Road to Roubaix
With a day off between races, Lionel and Simon head over the border into France to the André Pétrieux velodrome in Roubaix. On the way, they stop in the Rue du Dronckaert, an anonymous stretch of the road on the border and scene of one of the most seismic events in cycling history. After a couple of laps of the bumpy concrete track, Lionel has a look round the famous stone showers.
Run time: 20 mins
Friday: Episode 3 – Harelbeke
It's time for a race that's come to be thought of as the Little Tour of Flanders, using as it does many of the same roads and cobbled hills as De Ronde. Criss-crossing the Flandrian countryside in Simon's VW Transporter, they try to keep up with the riders.
Run time: 30 mins
Saturday: Episode 4 – Literary Flanders
Lionel meets up with two authors who have got under the skin of Flandrian cycling culture. Harry Pearson, who bears more than a passing resemblance to the two-time Tour of Flanders winner Edwig Van Hooydonck, has written about Belgium before in a book called A Tall Man in a Low Land. He's spent the spring in Gent researching a book about the region and its relationship with cycling. Then it's time for a delicious Belgian beer and a chat with Edward Pickering about his book De Ronde, a vivid history of the Tour of Flanders.
Run time: 26 mins
Sunday: Episode 5 – In Flanders Fields
The final part of our series takes Lionel and Simon to the cobbled Kemmelberg, for so long a feature of Gent-Wevelgem, and the Plugstreets – gravelled farm tracks in the battlefields that saw so much conflict during World War One.
Run time: 24 mins
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the first Monument of the season, Milan-Sanremo, and ask how Jasper Stuyven was able to stun the Galácticos.
The other questions answered include, why did Filippo Ganna lead Team Ineos into the Poggio, should Caleb Ewan have attacked on the Poggio, what should Wout Van Aert, Matthieu Van der Poel and Julian Alaphilippe done differently, would Stuyven have won without Søren Kragh Andersen's contribution in the finishing straight, and was it worth watching all six hours and 38 minutes?
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This is a trailer for a new four-part series available now for Friends of the Podcast. It's called Covering Team Sky and it's been written and read by Lionel Birnie.
Part one is called The Founding Principles and covers the period leading up to the launch of Team Sky in 2010. Part two is A Difficult Debut Season, focusing on the team's first year in the peloton. Part three, TUEs and The Jiffy Bag, looks at the 2011 Critérium du Dauphiné, won by Bradley Wiggins but which is now famous for the infamous delivery of a package to Team Sky's doctor on the race Richard Freeman. And part four looks at the 2012 season, when Wiggins became the first British rider to win the Tour de France, but when it also emerged that Dr Geert Leinders was working for the team. It was also a season when several members of staff left following the publication of the US Anti-Doping Agency's investigation into Lance Armstrong.
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Our second episode of the week recaps a remarkable edition of Tirreno-Adriatico and looks ahead to Saturday's opening Monument of the season, Milan-Sanremo.
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe analyse Tirreno-Adriatico – where Wout Van Aert outsprinted the sprinters and out time trialled the time triallists; Matthieu Van der Poel also won a sprint and a hilly stage and Tadej Pogacar was better than both of them on the big climb and won the race overall.
But where does this leave us before the weekend's near 300-kilometre Classic? Will Van der Poel and Van Aert take lumps out of each other on the Poggio? Will the world champion Julian Alaphilippe try to go from further out? Will the sprinters sit tight and wait for their chance in the finishing straight? Or will, as Daniel predicts, Filippo Ganna take a flyer in the final kilometre?
We discuss all that and ask whether this is the age of the Galácticos?
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Robbie McEwen doesn't do many podcasts so I was really happy when he said yes to coming on Life in the Peloton.
As one of the best sprinters of his generation – a generation that overlapped with the likes of Mario Cipollini, Erik Zabel, Thor Hushovd, Tom Boonen and Alessandro Petacchi – Robbie won 12 stages of the Tour de France. He also won the green jersey three times.
Now retired, Robbie has stayed connected with the sport because he is Matt Keenan's co-commentator at the Tour de France and viewers in Australia and round the world hear his insight and analysis every day in July.
For this podcast, I wanted to tap into that knowledge and experience of racing. We talked about sprinting and the difference between the sprint trains and the riders who made their through the final kilometres with perhaps only one or two teammates to help, relying on their own instincts to get to the front, as Robbie did. Robbie talked about tactics, about how the sprinters can save effort at crucial times, how to ride in the crosswinds and also about the unwritten rules which govern the peloton.
I really enjoyed hearing the perspective of one of the best in the business and I hope you do too.
Until next time,
Mitch
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Theme musicThe theme music for Life in the Peloton was composed by Pete Shelley, who was lead singer of the punk band Buzzcocks. It was commissioned by the production company behind Channel 4’s coverage of the Tour de France in the 1980s and was used as the theme music for the nightly highlights show. Pete died in December 2018. We were given permission by Pete’s widow and his manager to continue using the music for the theme tune to Life in the Peloton. To hear more about the music, listen to the Andre Greipel episode of Life in the Peloton.
In the first of two episodes of The Cycling Podcast this week, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss Paris-Nice and another defeat snatched from the jaws of victory by Primoz Roglic.
Roglic lost the Tour de France to his Slovenian compatriot Tadej Pogacar in the most dramatic fashion in the final time trial. And with victory all but certain in Paris-Nice, he crashed twice on the same descent on the final day of the race and was unable to claw his way back into the leading group.
We discuss Roglic's misfortune and ask whether his Jumbo-Visma teammates did enough to help him on the final day. We also look at the previous day's stage, when he overtook Gino Mäder right on the line to take the victory and the time bonus. At the time there was plenty of debate about whether Roglic should have let Mäder have his moment of glory but given how the race turned out is it not the case that the riders have to take every chance they get?
In the final part, which starts at the 45:00 mark, we discuss the news that a Medical Practioners Tribunal had found former Team Sky and British Cycling doctor Richard Freeman guilty of the charges against him, saying that Freeman had ordered a consignment of testosterone gel knowing or believing it was for a rider. We hear from The Guardian's Sean Ingle, who has covered the long-running case since the start, and ask where this leaves the architects of British cycling's golden era, and Dave Brailsford of Team Ineos, in particular now.
Our analysis of a sensational edition of Tirreno-Adriatico and our look ahead to Milan-Sanremo, the first monument of the season, will be in our second episode of the week, which will be released on Wednesday.
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In this month's episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin Rose Manley, Richard Moore and Orla Chennaoui discuss the first races of the new season, in which a familiar team with a new name, SD Worx, have so far been dominant.
There's an interview with Emma Norsgaard, the Dane who has made a great start to her Movistar career with second at both Het Nieuwsblad and Le Samyn. And we meet Teniel Campbell, the Trinidadian who has joined Team Bike Exchange.
There's also a quick fire interview with one of our audio diarists, Hannah Ludwig of Canyon-SRAM.
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In this week's episode we look back at Mathieu van der Poel's phenomenal victory at Strade Bianche and there's a report from the race to the sun, Paris-Nice.
First, Lionel Birnie, Daniel Friebe and Richard Moore discuss Strade Bianche, a race that grows in prestige, and in fans' affections, each year. Was this edition the best yet?
And from Paris-Nice, Richard and François Thomazeau convene over a beer in Gien to review the stage three time trial and to look ahead to the rest of the race. There are interviews with stage winner Stefan Bissegger, race favourite Primoz Roglic and lead-out man par excellence, Michael Morkov.
Our slow radio segment comes from the white roads of Tuscany, thanks to Lizzy Banks.
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This is a trailer for a new episode available now for Friends of the Podcast called Paris-Nice and The King.
It tells the story of Paris-Nice, its place in French cycling heritage and the seven consecutive victories by Irish rider Sean Kelly in the 1980s.
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This is episode one of a new Spanish language podcast, El Cycling Podcast, hosted by Laura Meseguer and Rob Hatch. Episode one is being launched here before the whole series moves to a designated Spanish language feed, which you can subscribe to here.
¡Bienvenidos al primer episodio del Cycling Podcast!
Somos Laura Meseguer (presentadora en Eurosport España y autora de ‘Metiendo Codos’) y Rob Hatch (voz del ciclismo en Eurosport UK, GCN y BBC), y aquí estamos para ofrecerles historias y análisis desde dentro del pelotón profesional, siguiendo los pasos de nuestro hermano mayor, The Cycling Podcast pero ahora para hispanohablantes.
En este primer capítulo hacemos previa general de la nueva temporada, hablando de Chris Froome con su nuevo director en el Israel Start-Up Nation, Óscar Guerrero. Luís Barbosa nos explica cómo va la cosa en Latinoamérica y Saúl Miguel nos acompaña para dejarlo muy claro quién hay que seguir este año en el pelotón femenino.
Esperamos que les guste y nos encantaría que todos ustedes nos acompañaran en cada cita. Para poder seguir los próximos capítulos, por favor, abran este enlace donde podrán suscribirse a nuestro canal.
It was time to hit the cobbles for the first time this year with Opening Weekend up in Belgium. That's Omloop Het Nieuwsblad on Saturday and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne on Sunday.
I was planning to travel from Girona to Belgium with my EF Education-Nippo teammate Tom Scully so I thought it would be a great idea to take all of you on a road trip with us asa we headed to the first classics of the season.
As you'll hear, we had a bit of a false start because our COVID-19 tests were a couple of hours out of date for the Belgian regulations so we had to go back home, get another test and do our Omloop Het Nieuwsblad recon ride on Spanish roads instead.
The journey gave me a chance to find out more about Tom and particularly his career path, which has taken him the long way round, from New Zealand to the US, to Britain then to the Drapac team which merged with Cannondale and eventually became EF.
Listening to him talk was a real reminder of what it takes just to get to World Tour level for some guys and what Tom said about embracing the lifestyle of a pro rider off the bike, being organised, coping with the travel, dealing with your plans being changed at short notice and not letting it eat into your mental and physical energy really resonated with me – especially this weekend!
So, hope you all enjoy the pod. I'm off to Strade Bianche this weekend for what will be a very different appointment with the white roads to the one we had last summer. Until next time, take care,
Mitch
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Theme musicThe theme music for Life in the Peloton was composed by Pete Shelley, who was lead singer of the punk band Buzzcocks. It was commissioned by the production company behind Channel 4’s coverage of the Tour de France in the 1980s and was used as the theme music for the nightly highlights show. Pete died in December 2018. We were given permission by Pete’s widow and his manager to continue using the music for the theme tune to Life in the Peloton. To hear more about the music, listen to the Andre Greipel episode of Life in the Peloton.
In this week’s episode Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe review opening weekend in Flanders and the first cobbled classics of the spring, Het Nieuwsblad on Saturday and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne on Sunday.
We hear from Jake Stewart, the 21-year-old from Coventry who was second at Het Nieuwsblad – the youngest podium finisher since Eddy Merckx in 1966 – and rides for the French team, Groupama-FDJ.
We also look ahead to Paris-Nice and speak to Matteo Jorgenson, an American who rides for Movistar: another 21-year-old tipped for great things. And we hear from Laura Meseguer about El Cycling Podcast, our new Spanish-language podcast.
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In this episode of Service Course, Lizzy Banks and Tom Whalley take a deep dive into the world of online cycling, something that we've all become even more accustomed to over the last 12 months thanks to a global pandemic.
Tom speaks to Zwift's lead game designer Wes Salmon, Hustle City creator Marcus Cheek, cyclist and CEO of Die Gute Fabrik Hannah Nicklin, Mike Rose from No More Robots, and Stuart Ruecroft. If you played Milk Race on your Spectrum or Commodore 64 in the 1980s then you'll have seen some of Stuart's work.
In the episode Tom asks how platforms such as Zwift have been so successful in combining the language of cycling with that of video games. Tom also peaks into the future to see what new platforms are emerging, platforms such as SOL cycling and Hustle City, and looks at how they are going to utilise your smart turbo trainer to create new ways to enjoy online cycling. Plus Lizzy takes a look at a sub-5kg disc-brake bike build.
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The 2021 World Tour season is underway with the UAE Tour and in this episode Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the opening three days of racing in the dessert.
There was a stage win for Mathieu van der Poel before his Alpecin-Fenix team had to withdraw after a staff member tested positive for Covid-19. As expected, Filippo Ganna won the time trial with Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar taking the leader's jersey before strengthening his position by winning the stage to Jabel Hafeet ahead of Adam Yates.
But what colour is the leader's jersey? That's the burning question posed by Daniel.
We also discuss the curious case of Marc Hirschi's transfer and the NDA and in the final part there's a subject that is sure to divide people. No, not Slow Radio (although there is that too), but an look at the impact Brexit is having on the careers of British cyclists, and particularly young riders, now freedom of movement is no longer a right for UK citizens.
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This is the first ten minutes of an episode that's just been released for Friends of the Podcast called A Team Apart.
It's a study of a team that punched above its weight last season, Team Sunweb. They won three Tour de France stages, Flèche Wallonne, Paris-Tours and nearly the Giro d'Italia too. A new sponsor DSM has perhaps given the team greater security, considering Sunweb is in the fragile holiday market, although the team lost its new star, Marc Hirschi on the eve of the season. This episode gets under the skin of how the team often shuns the conventional approach.
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This episode of The Cycling Podcast starts with the most significant corrections corner ever following Daniel's assertion last week that Ineos Grenadiers rider Pavel Sivakov had climbed the equivalent of the distance to the moon...
We also discuss the early races of the season, the big stories in the news and look ahead to Chris Froome's debut for his new team, Israel Start-Up Nation. Can he win a fifth Tour de France after his long recovery from injury? Or will age and the emergence of so many other grand tour contenders count against him.
We also hear from Doug Ryder, the boss of the Qhubeka-Assos team which nearly collapsed at the end of last year. Having saved the team from extinction he was celebrating at the weekend as Giacomo Nizzolo got their first victory of the season at the Clasica Almeria.
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I was travelling back to Girona from the first team training near Marseille at the start of the year with our trainer Nate Wilson and I was asking him a whole bunch of questions about coaching and it suddenly struck me that the conversation we were having would make a great a great podcast.
So I got my recorder out of my backpack and asked Nate about his methods and philosophy but also the mental side of a relationship between a coach and an athlete.
Nate is a young guy – younger than some of the athletes he coaches – and he's raced at a good amateur level himself so I was really interested to know if there are any differences between coaching a keen amateur who wants to get the best out of themselves and a pro rider whose living depends on their performance.
It made me think about my own training and relationship with my coach as well, so I hope that you take something interesting from it no matter what level of riding you do.
I've got a block of back-to-back racing coming up which I'm really looking forward to. I'm back to the south of France to race Haut Var this weekend, then it's up to Belgium for Opening Weekend and then I'll be at Strade Bianche again, which I'm really looking forward to.
Listen out for Talking Luft with Nate over on the original Life in the Peloton feed next week and I'll be back with another episode here on The Cycling Podcast in a couple of weeks.
Hope you all enjoy the pod. Until next time, take care,
Mitch
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Theme musicThe theme music for Life in the Peloton was composed by Pete Shelley, who was lead singer of the punk band Buzzcocks. It was commissioned by the production company behind Channel 4’s coverage of the Tour de France in the 1980s and was used as the theme music for the nightly highlights show. Pete died in December 2018. We were given permission by Pete’s widow and his manager to continue using the music for the theme tune to Life in the Peloton. To hear more about the music, listen to the Andre Greipel episode of Life in the Peloton.
This is the first ten minutes of an episode that's just been released for Friends of the Podcast. It's an in-depth conversation with Ineos Grenadiers director of racing Rod Ellingworth about his early days in cycling. The full episode is available now. To sign up as a Friend of the Podcast go to thecyclingpodcast.com/friends
The first episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin of 2021 includes a report from the new Jumbo-Visma women's team training camp in Alicante and a conversation with Ella Harris, the Canyon-SRAM rider, from her home in New Zealand.
With Rose Manley taking over in the host's chair, and Orla Chennaoui and Richard Moore in domestique roles, there's a fresh look and sound to the monthly podcast that focuses on women's racing.
We hear from Nancy van der Burg, who has gone from nutritionist to the Jumbo-Visma WorldTour team to professional rider with the new women's team in two years.
There's also a new, as yet unnamed feature: a quick fire Q&A with a rider. Marjolein Van 't Geloof of Drops-Le Col, supported by Tempur, is the first victim.
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In this episode Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the Ineos Grenadiers strategy for this season's three grand tours.
With Geraint Thomas, Egan Bernal, Richard Carapaz and Tao Geoghegan Hart in their squad they have four grand tour champions to divide between three races – and that's before considering the ambitions of Pavel Sivakov, Adam Yates and others.
So how will they manage it? And will Dave Brailsford's suggestion that he wants his team to rip up the established tactical handbook and race more freely be possible? Can they 'prepare like Germany, play like Brazil' as he put it?
We also discuss the latest UCI rule changes which bans the so-called 'super tuck' descending position and seriously increases fines for littering.
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It's a bit of a departure from the norm this week because my guest is Jack Thompson – aka Jack Ultra – who is not a professional cyclist but whose adventures on two wheels have demonstrated to me the power of the bike.
When I first heard about the type of riding Jack does I was impressed by the sheer scale of the targets he sets himself. From Everesting three mountains, one in Italy, one in France, one in Spain, back to back to attempting to ride further in a week than anyone else has done, these solo rides are very different to the shoulder-to-shoulder intensity of life in the pro peloton.
And yet I thought there'd be some similarities and when I learned that for Jack cycling is something of a therapeutic pursuit for him I was fascinated to find out more about him and why he does what he does.
I hope you enjoy the episode.
Cheers,
Mitch.
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Theme musicThe theme music for Life in the Peloton was composed by Pete Shelley, who was lead singer of the punk band Buzzcocks. It was commissioned by the production company behind Channel 4’s coverage of the Tour de France in the 1980s and was used as the theme music for the nightly highlights show. Pete died in December 2018. We were given permission by Pete’s widow and his manager to continue using the music for the theme tune to Life in the Peloton. To hear more about the music, listen to the Andre Greipel episode of Life in the Peloton.
Road racing is back with the traditional curtain-raiser to the European season, the Grand Prix La Marseillaise, taking place in the south of France on Sunday.
In this episode we assess the latest instalment in the ongoing duel between Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel. It's a rivalry that spans the mud (and sand) of cyclo-cross, the cobbles and hills of the Classics and could flare up in the heat of July at the Tour de France this year.
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the significance of this latest showdown and whether sand has any place in cycling...
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In this episode of Service Course Lizzy Banks and Tom Whalley look at the latest trends in cyclocross bikes.
With riders like Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert tearing things up both on the road and in the mud, they ask whether the two disciplines of road and cx are now having much more of an influence on each other.
Lizzy speaks to Anna Kay, one of the most promising young CX riders out there, and Tom chats to the team from Canyon about the new look Inflite, the bike ridden by the defending CX world champions Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado and Mathieu van der Poel.
The 2021 road season is also upon us, and so Lizzy and Tom take a look at some of the new tech in the peloton, with Lizzy doing some top level sleuthing on the roads around Girona.
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The cycling world has been rocked by the decision of one of the sport’s stars, Tom Dumoulin, to hit the pause button on his career.
The Dutchman is taking time out, with the blessing of his team, Jumbo-Visma, to decide whether he wants to continue or not.
The news broke 24 hours after the release of last week’s episode, a special with Jumbo-Visma from their training camp in Spain, including an interview with Dumoulin in which he discussed his goals for 2021.
What led to the decision, and what are the chances of Dumoulin returning? Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the 2017 Giro d’Italia winner’s decision and share their memories of a rider who is elegant on the bike and charming off it.
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This week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast comes from the Team Jumbo-Visma training camp in Alicante, Spain. Richard Moore and Orla Chennaoui spent a few days with the world’s number one ranked team as they prepared for and looked ahead to the 2021 season. We hear from Marianne Vos, who will lead the new women’s team, Wout van Aert, Tom Dumoulin, Steven Kruijswijk, Sepp Kuss, Tobias Foss and Primoz Roglic, as well as team boss Richard Plugge and sporting director Merijn Zeeman. Van Aert explains why he has agreed to three more years with the team, Dumoulin discusses his Classics ambitions, and we hear who will lead Jumbo-Visma at the three Grand Tours. We also look back on 2020 and a Tour de France that looked to be theirs until Roglic’s defeat to Tadej Pogacar on the penultimate day. What happened at La Planche des Belles Filles, did Jumbo-Visma make any mistakes over the three weeks of a Tour in which they were the strongest team, and how can they try and ensure it doesn’t happen again? The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science in Sport For 25% off all your Science in Sport products go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout This episode is sponsored by Babbel, the language learning app. With Babbel you can choose from 14 different languages, including, Spanish, French, Italian, and German. Babbel is offering our listeners six months free with a purchase of a six month subscription. Go to: Babbel and enter the code CYCLE
It's great to be back for another season of Life in the Peloton and for my first episode of the new year I caught up with someone I've been wanting to get on the pod for a long time.
It's the German Aussie Heinrich Haussler. Even though I've known him a long time, there were so many things I wanted to talk to Heino about. For a start, is he German or is he Australian? He won the Aussie champs and has ridden for Australia but he moved to Germany in his early teens and much of his development in cycling was thanks to the German system.
We also talked about some of his biggest wins, particularly his stage win in the 2009 Tour de France and towards the end of the pod I asked him why, in his mid-30s, he's started racing cyclo-cross.
This is the first podcast of 2021 and the plan is very much the same as last year. Life in the Peloton will be released fortnightly here on The Cycling Podcast feed and in between there'll be an episode of Talking Luft over on the original Life in the Peloton feed.
If you missed any of last year's episodes and need to catch up, there's a link to the 2020 playlist below.
In the meantime, sit back and listen to Heino and I hope you enjoy it.
Cheers,
Mitch
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What does 2021 have in store? In this first episode of the new year Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe gaze into their crystal ball, and we hear from François Thomazeau, Ian Boswell, Lizzy Banks, Ciro Scognamiglio, Mitch Docker, Harry Tanfield and Ben Lowe of VeloViewer, with their predictions for the upcoming cycling season. Will young riders continue to dominate, or will the oldies have their revenge? Will ultra-narrow handlebars begin to proliferate in the professional peloton, and – less likely – will Daniel get his wish and see crosswinds “banned”? There’s also an interview with Hugh Carthy, looking back on his third place at last year’s Vuelta a España and ahead to a new season in which he is looking forward to an enhanced role at his team, EF Education-Nippo. The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science in Sport. For 25% off your Science in Sport products go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout. In our last regular episode of 2020 we spoke to Amaraterra, the band that provides our Giro d’Italia music. If you would like to support Amaraterra’s efforts to make a new album: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/malvasia-amaraterra-s-first-full-length-album#/
In the final Service Course of 2020 Lizzy Banks and Tom Whalley answer your tech questions, from tyre pressures and choice of glove to race radios and pro hacks.
When the questions prove too much, Tom and Lizzy turn to a selection of genuine experts, including Niamh Fisher-Black (the current New Zealand national road race champion), Alan Sheldon (Lizzy's team mechanic for the past two years) and up and coming cyclocross star, Cameron Mason.
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Since 2016, when The Cycling Podcast first covered the Giro d'Italia on the ground, the soundtrack has been provided by Amaraterra, a London-based band that plays the southern Italian pizzica music. They were in the news recently after it was reported that a Strictly Come Dancing spin-off show offered a free lunch rather than a payment to perform. It was a story that provoked a big response from many of our listeners, for whom Amaraterra's music has become synonymous with the Giro and Italy. In this bonus episode we enjoy the music of Amaraterra and speak to three members of the band, Alfredo Gianni, Mark Glanville and Cassandre Balosso-Bardin, as they tell us about some of the tracks that accompany our Giro coverage. It is a challenging time for those who work in the performing arts. Denied the chance to perform live – as they have been doing at least once a month since 2012 – Amaraterra have had a difficult year. In this episode there are also details about how to support the band as they try to finish their first full-length album: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/malvasia-amaraterra-s-first-full-length-album/x/25413806#/
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In our final regular episode of 2020, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe pick their moments of the COVID-19 season.
We hear from young British rider Joe Laverick, who has been riding for the AG2R development squad but is moving to Girona next season to take up another opportunity about the implications Brexit may have on his fledgling career.
And in the final part, Richard tests Lionel and Daniel with his end-of-year quiz.
Next week's episode is Strictly Amaraterra.
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In the final episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin of 2020 we have news on the future of the Drops Cycling Team, who in 2021 will become Drops Le Col supported by Tempur.
We hear from Bob Varney, the man behind the team, and his new sponsors, as well as two Drops riders, Joss Lowden and Marjolein van 't Geloof. There are also interviews with Ashleigh Moolman Pasio, the new UCI Esports world champion, who tells us about her hope of helping more African riders to come and race in Europe, and with Gracie Elvin, who retired at the end of the 2020 season.
And there’s Rose’s Christmas quiz, with Rose Manley putting her fiendishly difficult questions to fellow presenters Orla Chennaoui and Richard Moore.
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This episode of Explore, introduced by Lionel Birnie and Hannah Troop, features a man who was a fixture on British children's television in the late 1980s and 1990s – Timmy Mallett.
The host of Wacaday, the Wide Awake Club and Mallett's Mallet, Timmy was never seen without his trademark colourful glasses and trusty sidekick, a large foam mallett.
In 2018, he rode the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela and he wrote about the very personal reason for making the trip in his book Utterly Brilliant, which is part travelogue, part memoir.
Lionel caught up with him to ask him about his journey, what cycling means to him and why his brother Martin was one of the biggest inspirations in his life.
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In this week's episode we look at two high profile figures who are returning to old haunts. Mark Cavendish is going back to Deceuninck-Quick Step, the team with which he spent three successful seasons earlier in his career, while in an even more surprising move, his old mentor, Rod Ellingworth, is returning to Team Ineos after just a year in charge at Bahrain-McLaren.
In a week full of major news stories, Lionel Birnie, Daniel Friebe and Richard Moore discuss the moves by Cavendish and Ellingworth, as well as Team Sunweb's rebranding as Team DSM for 2021. The new sponsorship took everybody by surprise but we hear from the man who did the deal, team boss Iwan Spekenbrink, as well as the team's veteran Irishman, Nicolas Roche.
We also have an interview with Cherie Pridham, who will be the first female sports director at a World Tour team when she takes the reins at Israel Startup Nation, a team that in 2021 will include Chris Froome, Michael Woods and Sep Vanmarcke as well as Dan Martin and Alex Dowsett.
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In this week's episode Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe talk about cycling's transfer market and the eleventh hour rescue of World Tour team NTT, which will race in 2021 as Qhubeka Assos.
As well as discussing the eclectic roster being put together by the African team, we hear from rider agent Gary McQuaid, who looks after Bob Jungels, Adam Yates, Jai Hindley and others, and from one rider who's been left high and dry, James Shaw.
Shaw spent two years with Lotto-Soudal and has been trying to get back into the World Tour but is finding it tough. Still just 24, he feels he has a lot to offer and hopes to continue his professional career, but he also has a mortgage to pay and dogs to feed and worries that he is running out of time.
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In this episode of Service Course, Tom Whalley and Lizzy Banks continue in their pursuit to track down the makers of the world's first 3D printed carbon bike. They talk to Henry Furniss who co-founded WyndyMilla but has now moved on to create his own R&D business for 3D printed technologies. They discuss Henry's current project creating 3D printed lugs, that feeling when you wake up having realised you accidentally pressed print on a carbon superbike, and whether the crowd-funded Superstrata really is the world's first rideable 3D printed carbon bike.
They also speak to Marcel Fowler from New Motion Labs about how they have reinvented the chain, creating a completely new chain design that reduces friction and distributes the load more evenly over the chainring and sprockets. Is this a technology that will mean we will see plastic chainrings and sprockets in the future?
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Allan Peiper was in the UAE Team Emirates car behind Tadej Pogacar during the dramatic time trial on La Planche des Belles Filles.
The 60-year-old Australian describes the young Slovenian's victory over this compatriot Primoz Roglic as the pinnacle of his life and in this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Lionel talks to him about this year's Tour de France.
It was a particularly poignant race for Peiper, who was diagnosed with cancer last year and was unsure whether he'd be able to work at the Tour de France.
In this conversation, he talks about how he helped manage Pogacar through his sensational debut Tour, how management techniques have changed since his own racing days and what winning the yellow jersey meant to him.
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Explore returns with Escape From Lockdown, an episode celebrating the simple joy of riding a bike.
The coronavirus pandemic has made it difficult to explore the world on two wheels. Most of the world has experienced lockdown or travel restrictions of some sort and we've all been tethered to home more than usual.
For this episode, four riders took advantage of loosening restrictions to go cycling and they ended up enjoying four very different adventures. The result is an hour or so of pure escapism.
We'll travel from coast to coast in northern England with Felicity Cloake, join Richard Moore as he tackles his first 100-mile ride in years, go bikepacking and outdoor camping with Ian Boswell and his wife Gretchen, and scale the 1,909m ascent of Mont Ventoux with Hannah Troop and her friend Ollie.
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**HANNAH TROOP'S VOYAGE TO VENTOUX
Where was your ride?**Montpellier train station to the top of Mont Ventoux and back again... more or less
How long was it?Day one: 160km
Day two: 70km
Day three: 93km
When was it?October 8-10
Who were you riding with?My friend Ollie
What bike were you riding?My Cannondale Evo
What was the terrain like?Mainly road but Komoot took us over some amazing gravel too
**What are you most glad you took with you?
Hannah:** A pair of Vibram-soled trainers that could be rolled up easily, and so fit into my handlebar bag without taking up too much room. Also the Rapha Explore down jacket, which packs down into a small bag so doesn't take up a lot of room, but it's so nice to have warm and comfy clothing to change into at the end of a long day on the bike
Ollie: Backpack
Hannah: I will not accept this answer, I said to Ollie that if he ever came cycling with me again while wearing that backpack, I'd take it off him and burn it. This was explained to him about 155km into the first day of riding, while I was carrying it up a 3km climb that was ramping up to 12%!
**What do you wish you'd not left behind?
Hannah:** The outbound route for my Garmin...LOL! And the Garmin mount for the other bike. If there's more than one of you it's great if you can both see the route. It's a huge help having someone else share the navigation. It just lessens the load on your brain once you become fatigued, and it's always good to have two pairs of eyes checking that you're heading in the right direction
Ollie: Chamois cream
Hannah: Can I add another question? What do you wish you'd left behind? Ollie's 8kg rucksack. Frame bags are definitely the way to go. Cycling with that much weight on your back just makes things so much more hard work. It also means you get a lot more saddlesore.
**Highlight?
Hannah:** Has to be ascending Mont Ventoux and reaching the top of a mountain that has so much cycling history encapsulated within its slopes. Taking it all in, while having two hours of being inside your mind and body, experiencing your body go through moments of feeling strong and then moments of struggle. It's a wonderful moment that holds many parallels to life, especially after this year. It was a lovely, albeit hard, moment for reflection
Ollie: Descending Mont Ventoux with my partner in crime
**Lowlight?
Hannah:** Spectacularly bonking on the third day, while carrying Ollie's 8kg rucksack...
Ollie: The nappy rash
Hannah and Ollie stayed at La Ferme des Belugues courtesy of Friends of the Podcast Karen and Spencer Martin.
**RICHARD MOORE'S RIDE PICARDIE
Where was your ride?**The ride was to Contalmaison from Croissy-sur-Celle via Saint-Just-en-Chaussée, Montdidier and Albert
How long was it?167.96km
When was it?August 15
Who were you riding with?It was a solo ride
What bike were you riding?Canyon Endurance CF SL Disc 8.0 Pro
What was the terrain like?Rolling terrain. No serious climbs but 1,452m elevation
What are you most glad you took with you?A face mask
What do you wish you'd left behind?About 5kg* of blubber
Highlight?Welcome party and picnic in Contalmaison
Lowlight?Within five minutes of setting off after lunch a wasp flew into my helmet and stung my head
*conservative estimate
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**IAN BOSWELL'S BIKEPACKING AND CAMPING
Where was your ride?**We started at our house in Peacham, Vermont, and stayed the night at Ricker Pond in Groton State forest.
How long was it?Only 40 miles, 20 each way
When was it?Mid-July
Who were you riding with?My wife, Gretchen
What bike were you riding?I was on my Specialized Diverge gravel bike, Gretchen was on the Creo e-bike from Specialized
What are you most glad you took with you?The s'mores!
What do you wish you'd not left behind?I could have used a sleeping bag and sleeping pad. We shared one sleeping pad and I slept using a quick dry towel as my blanket
**FELICITY CLOAKE'S WAY OF THE ROSES
Where was your ride?The Way of the Roses from Morecambe to Bridlington How long was it?**Day 1 (Thursday afternoon): 63.6km (Lancaster-Morecambe-Settle)
Day 2 (Friday): 72.4km (Settle-Ripon)
Day 3 (Saturday): 83.7km (Ripon-Pocklington)
Day 4 (Sunday morning): 73.8km (Pocklington-Bridlington)
When was it?Early October
Who were you riding with?My friend, (annoyingly fit Strava addict) Gemma
What bike were you riding?A Condor Fratello by the name of Eddy
What was the terrain like?In general, undulating terrain – day two across the Dales was relentlessly hilly, while day three near York was very flat. Some “fun” cross country stuff through muddy fields en route, but mostly on road
What are you most glad you took with you?Wet wipes – it was ridiculously wet and muddy on day three and we had to clean ourselves down next to York minster before we could even contemplate going inside for lunch
What do you wish you'd not left behind?While I didn’t use my new winter tights (legs dry quicker than Lycra) I do regret not getting waterproof shoe covers. My feet were VERY soggy for three days straight
Highlight?Swooping majestically through the Fountains Abbey estate on the way into Ripon after a hard day in the Dales. Or possibly a large fish and chips in Bridlington
Lowlight?Arriving at the B&B just outside Pocklington in the dark absolutely soaked through to find nowhere to dry our stuff and nowhere nearby to eat. Pretty dispiriting getting back into the soggy gear and on to the bikes in the storm
In the final episode of the Life in the Peloton for this year, Mitch Docker is back on the other side of the mic with his friend and former Orica-Scott teammate Svein Tuft asking the questions.
Find out about Mitch's school days and how he completed a year's worth of art coursework in a couple of days, his early racing days and how he got started on the road to the World Tour with the Drapac development team.
We started working with Mitch at the start of the year, when Lionel Birnie interviewed him outside a busy bar in Girona for The Cycling Podcast. That episode can be found here and together with this one provide the perfect bookends to the season.
We're delighted to confirm that Life in the Peloton will return to The Cycling Podcast in 2021.
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Theme musicThe theme music for Life in the Peloton was composed by Pete Shelley, who was lead singer of the punk band Buzzcocks. It was commissioned by the production company behind Channel 4’s coverage of the Tour de France in the 1980s and was used as the theme music for the nightly highlights show. Pete died in December 2018. We were given permission by Pete’s widow and his manager to continue using the music for the theme tune to Life in the Peloton. To hear more about the music, listen to the Andre Greipel episode of Life in the Peloton.
After listeners sent in a flood of questions we split our post-Grandest Tour press conference over two episodes. This is part two.
Next question please...
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We received so many questions for the press conference that we have decided to split it across two episodes. Part two will be out next week.
In this episode, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe tackle questions sent in by listeners. We also put your questions to our Grandest Tour guest hosts François Thomazeau, Lizzy Banks and Ian Boswell.
So, without further ado, first question please...
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The November episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin, with Orla Chennaoui, Rose Manley and Richard Moore, takes a look back at the recent races, discusses a controversial finish at Driedaagse De Panne, some interesting tactics at the Tour of Flanders and the late, late show at the Ceratizit Madrid Challenge, which finally ended the season.
There are interviews with the winner in Madrid, Lisa Brennauer, Italian champion Elisa Longo Borghini and Leah Thomas, who discusses her move to Movistar. Lizzy Banks, a former teammate of Thomas's at the ill-fated Équipe Paule-Ka, has also moved, to Ceratizit-WNT, and we hear from her.
Finally, Hannah Ludwig, of Canyon-SRAM, tells us about her 1,000km ride from Brittany back home to Germany after the Tour de Bretagne was cancelled.
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After five weeks, spanning the Giro d’Italia, classics and Vuelta a España, our daily coverage of ‘The Grandest Tour’ comes to an end with Ian Boswell, Lionel Birnie and Richard Moore discussing the final stage of the Vuelta in Madrid and the efforts made by organisers, teams and riders to successfully stage so many races in the middle of a global pandemic.
We hear from our audio diarists Mitch Docker and Nick Schultz and check in with Daniel Friebe, our man in Madrid, who argues that for sustained interest and drama this year’s Vuelta edged the Tour de France and Giro d’Italia.
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Ian Boswell joins Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie to talk about the penultimate and decisive stage of the Vuelta a España, and a thrilling finale that almost re-enacted the finish to the Tour de France – but not quite.
The team discuss whether Primoz Roglic was in any real danger as Richard Carapaz launched a late bid to claim the race lead. It was high drama but in the end Roglic did enough as the young Frenchman, David Gaudu, rode away to his second stage win.
We also hear from our audio diarist, Nick Schultz, the Mitchelton-Scott rider who was once again in the main break of the day.
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Ian Boswell rejoins the team for stage 31 of The Grandest Tour, looking back at stage 16 of the Vuelta a España, ahead to Saturday’s decisive one, and also back at the Giro d’Italia.
Boswell tells us what to expect on the final climb of the Vuelta, to Alto de la Covatilla, which he rode himself when the race was last there in 2018 and the stage was won by his friend, Ben King.
We hear from our audio diarist, Scott Davies of Bahrain-McLaren, whose young British teammate Fred Wright managed a strong result on Thursday. And there’s an interview with Fran Reyes, who tells us about Equipo Kern Pharma, the new Spanish ProTeam that will launch in 2021.
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s the Vuelta a España reached stage 15, and The Grandest Tour reached stage 30, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau recap a day that had breakaway written all over it, but ended in a bunch sprint.
We check in with Daniel Friebe and hear from our audio diarist, Nick Schultz, who was in the break that looked like it would stay away, and from Harry Tanfield, whose Vuelta ended thanks to a persistent injury. There’s also an interview with promising young British rider Mark Donovan of Team Sunweb. And we discuss the news that Ian Stannard, a stalwart of Team Sky and Ineos, has announced his retirement.
If you have a question for next week’s press conference episode – for Richard, Lionel, Daniel, Ian Boswell, Lizzy Banks or François – please email an audio file to contact@thecyclingpodcast.com
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The latest episode of The Grandest Tour looks at two Grand Tours, with the latest from the Vuelta a España, with stage 14 won by Tim Wellens, and a look ahead to next year’s Tour de France, with the 2021 route announced on Sunday evening.
Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are joined by François Thomazeau, who picks out the most interesting stages of next year’s Tour and describes the route as the most traditional in fifteen years.
From the Vuelta we hear from our audio diarist, Nick Schultz, who also weighs into the debate on bike changes in time trials.
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Mitch Docker sits down with his EF Pro Cycling teammate Hugh Carthy on the Vuelta a España's second rest day to talk about his stage win on the fearsome Angliru climb.
Hugh talks about climbing, gearing, the World Tour's toughest mountains, team bus playlists, staying calm in the heat of the moment, pots of tea, butter pies, crumbly Lancashire cheese, the Birdy Brow KOM and much more...
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Theme musicThe theme music for Life in the Peloton was composed by Pete Shelley, who was lead singer of the punk band Buzzcocks. It was commissioned by the production company behind Channel 4’s coverage of the Tour de France in the 1980s and was used as the theme music for the nightly highlights show. Pete died in December 2018. We were given permission by Pete’s widow and his manager to continue using the music for the theme tune to Life in the Peloton. To hear more about the music, listen to the Andre Greipel episode of Life in the Peloton.
The time trial stage of the Vuelta a España was always going to be important and it caused a re-shuffle at the top of general classification with Primoz Roglic taking the red jersey of race leader back from Richard Carapaz.
Lizzy Banks joins Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie to discuss the stage and its implications for the race. They also debate the “gimmick” of the steep climb at the end that saw the riders change bikes mid-stage.
We hear from Hugh Carthy, George Bennett and Will Barta, who looked like winning the stage until Roglic beat his time by just one second. With his team, CCC, folding at the end of the year, Barta doesn’t have a contract for 2021, but is in talks with one or two teams and hopes this result “gets it across the line.”
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Our final episode of Kilometre 0 from The Grandest Tour is a look back at the Giro d’Italia and how it was won in the company of the winner, Tao Geoghegan Hart, and the runner-up, Jai Hindley.
We also hear from Sunweb sports director Luke Roberts about what happened at the critical point in the race, when they tackled the Stelvio, and members of The Cycling Podcast team select their key moments.
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The Vuelta a España tackled the fearsome Angliru and in this episode Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Lizzy Banks review a thrilling final five kilometres that again changed the complexion of the overall race.
The Angliru belonged to Preston's Hugh Carthy of EF Pro Cycling, who attacked twice on the climb to clinch his first Grand Tour stage victory.
Behind that, Primoz Roglic was unable to respond the attacks and although he was looked after brilliantly by his Jumbo-Visma teammate Sepp Kuss lost the red jersey to Richard Carapaz again. Where does this leave the Vuelta now, with the time trial to come on Tuesday?
We also hear from AG2R's Harry Tanfield, who was the last man over the line at the Angliru, about a difficult couple of stages in the mountains.
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As the Grandest Tour reaches stage 26 – and the Vuelta a España reaches stage 11 – Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Lizzy Banks look back on a day in the mountains that was won by the Frenchman David Gaudu while the overall favourites appeared to keep their powder dry for Sunday’s finish at the Angliru.
We hear from our audio diarist, Nick Schultz of Mitchelton-Scott, whose team leader, Esteban Chaves, had a tough day. Lizzy asks what has happened to Team Ineos, and why aren’t Jumbo-Visma capitalising on their weakness. And we return to the controversy of stage 10, when the race jury couldn’t decide whether Richard Carapaz or Primoz Roglic should wear the race leader’s red jersey.
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Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are again joined by guest host Lizzy Banks to recap stage 10 of the Vuelta a España.
For the second successive day, the stage was largely unremarkable until after the finish.
Confusion over the time gaps meant there was a while to wait until it was confirmed stage winner Primoz Roglic had reclaimed the leader's red jersey from Richard Carapaz even though the pair are tied on time. (Tied on time in a Grand Tour? Where have we heard that before?)
How do the timings work and why are uphill finishes like today's so perilous for the GC riders? With two big mountain stages coming, we weigh up the support Carapaz is likely to get from his Ineos Grenadiers teammates.
We also check in with Daniel Friebe in Asturias as he contemplates finding an alternative to the local specialty cachopo for dinner.
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In this episode of Service Course, Lizzy Banks and Tom Whalley look at the increasingly important role that 3D printing is playing in bike design.
They discuss the 3D printed bars that Filippo Ganna used to win 3 stages at the Giro and the World TT Championships. We also hear from Dimitris Katsanis who designs and builds the 3D printed bars for the Ineos Grenadiers.
Finally, we meet James Cook, whose company Hexr have created a revolutionary 3D printed helmet. Tom also does his best to find out which team Lizzy will be riding for in 2021.
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In this episode, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau recap what would have been the quietest, least eventful Grand Tour stage of the season but for a late intervention by the race jury that relegated the race winner from first place.
Did the jury make the correct decision? We discuss that and get the thoughts of Daniel Friebe from Spain.
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Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are again joined by François Thomazeau to discuss the eighth stage of the Vuelta a España, which offered some more clues as to who is going to be the strongest over three weeks.
If Primoz Roglic seemed to falter in recent days as Richard Carapaz took over the leader’s jersey the Slovenian struck back on the Alto de Moncavillo to win the stage and reduce the Ecuadorian’s overall lead. Before that Preston’s Hugh Carthy put his second place on the line with an attack.
In this episode we hear from Carthy’s EF Pro Cycling teammate Mitch Docker and from Nic Dlamini, one of our other audio diarists at the Vuelta.
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The Vuelta a España resumed on Tuesday and Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau discuss an exciting stage won by the Canadian Mike Woods of EF Pro Cycling.
We also hear from Woods as he is driven from the finish to the team hotel, and he tells us how he managed to outfox Alejandro Valverde and his other breakaway companions.
There's an interview with Harry Tanfield, making his Grand Tour debut at the Vuelta, and we look back on the Giro d'Italia, won by Tao Geoghegan Hart, with Ciro Scognamiglio of Gazzetta dello Sport.
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In this, this instalment of the Grandest Tour Diaries, we hear the thoughts and reflections of our team on a thrilling edition of the pink race, as well as the reaction to the first six stages of the Vuelta a España.
Thanks to Nathan Haas (Cofidis), Joe Dombrowski (UAE Team Emirates), Rick Zabel (Israel Start-Up Nation), James Knox (Deceuninck-Quick-Step), Cesare Benedetti (Bora-hansgrohe), Jacopo Guarnieri (Groupama-FDJ) for joining us at the Giro
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The Giro d’Italia concluded with the final time trial into Milan and an already simmering Vuelta a España bubbled into life in the freezing rain. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Lizzy Banks recap all the racing, starting with analysis of the time trial which gave Tao Geoghegan Hart overall victory in the Giro ahead of Jai Hindley. We also hear from Daniel Friebe at the Vuelta on a day when Ineos Grenadiers took the red jersey as Richard Carapaz and Hugh Carthy gained an advantage on Primoz Roglic. The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science in Sport. FURTHER LISTENING: Tao Geoghegan Hart with Mitch Docker on Life in the Peloton https://audioboom.com/posts/7488184-from-the-life-in-the-peloton-archive-tao-geoghegan-hart Tao’s first appearance on The Cycling Podcast in October 2013
https://audioboom.com/posts/1693523-humans-invent-cycling-29th-october-2013 In Conversation with Tao Geoghegan Hart from 2014 https://audioboom.com/posts/2623521-in-conversation-with-tao-geoghegan-hart
Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Lizzy Banks as they discuss a stage which means two riders go into the Giro d'Italia's final time trial on Sunday level on time. It's the closest finish to a grand tour in history. Who will come out on top?
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Richard and Lionel are joined by professional rider Lizzy Banks as they discuss stage 19 at the Giro d'Italia and stage 4 at the Vuelta a España, though the main talking points were in Italy, where the riders staged a protest over the length of the stage and ended up covering much of the distance in their team buses.
We hear from our audio diarists, James Knox, Rick Zabel, Joe Dombrowski and Cesare Benedetti, who describe the circumstances surrounding the protest and whether they think it was justified. We also check in with Daniel Friebe, who is at the Vuelta, where there was a second Irish win in as many days. After Dan Martin's success on Thursday, Sam Bennett sprinted to the victory on Friday.
Finally we look ahead to Saturday's penultimate and potentially decisive stage of the Giro, where Wilco Kelderman, Jai Hindley and Tao Geoghegan Hart take on three ascents of the Sestriere climb.
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In this episode Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are again joined by François Thomazeau to review stage 18 of the Giro d'Italia, which tackled the legendary Stelvio before the finish at Laghi di Cancano.
We discuss the World Jacket Putting-On Championships and Team Sunweb's tactics and ask why the mood in the camp might not be ecstatic tonight considering they took the stage victory and the pink jersey. We reflect on João Almeida's incredible run as race leader, which came to an end on the Stelvio, and wonder whether Tao Geogheghan Hart can win this Giro over the weekend.
And there's an unmissable entry in James Knox's Giro diary.
Then we discuss the third stage of the Vuelta a España, which was won by Ireland's Dan Martin.
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In this episode of Kilometre 0 we hear more from our diarists in the Giro d'Italia peloton.
They are Nathan Haas (Cofidis), Joe Dombrowski (UAE Team Emirates), Rick Zabel (Israel Start-Up Nation), James Knox (Deceuninck-Quick-Step), Cesare Benedetti (Bora-hansgrohe), Jacopo Guarnieri (Groupama-FDJ).
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For the second day in a row there are three races in three countries to discuss. Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are joined by the star of our Tour de France coverage, François Thomazeau.
In the first part we review stage 17 of the Giro d’Italia, where Aussie Ben O’Connor went one better than yesterday and took a vital victory for NTT Pro Cycling.
Then we recap the men’s Three Days of De Panne, where the wind caused havoc, Mathieu Van der Poel ran off the road and ended up in a ditch and Yves Lampaert took victory on a day for the hard men.
Finally we talk about Movistar’s Least Expected Win – only their second of the year – by Marc Soler at the Vuelta a España, plus we check in with Daniel Friebe in Spain.
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Meet The Commissaire.
In this episode of Life in the Peloton, Mitch Docker talks to one of the team of UCI officials who enforce the rules, dish out the penalties, and keep the peloton on the straight and narrow.
Greg Griffiths is from Mitch's neck of the woods, in Melbourne, Australia, and every year he travels round the world working as a commissaire – or judge – in professional cycling.
But what does a commissiare do? What are they looking out for, when do they decide to enfore the rules and what is their relationship with the riders like?
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Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are joined by guest host and former Team Sky and Katusha-Alpecin professional Ian Boswell to discuss today's racing in three countries. It was a day to celebrate for Slovenia and one to commiserate for Jolien D’Hoore. We start in northern Spain, the Basque Country to be precise, where the Vuelta a España got underway. Primoz Roglic picked up where he left off in Madrid last year – in the leader's red jersey – after he won the opening stage. It was a brutal start to the Vuelta, with the overall battle already reduced to a dozen or so contenders. We know for certain that former Vuelta winner Chris Froome and French hope Thibaut Pinot are out of the overall picture already. Then it’s the the Belgian coast for the Driedaagse Brugge-De Panne which is, logically enough, a pair of one-day races held on consecutive days now. Today it was the turn of the women and there was a controversial relegation for Jolien D’Hoore, who won the sprint finish only to be relegated for an illegal move in the finish straight. Was it the right decision or was she hard done-by? Finally, we pick up the Giro d’Italia, which resumed after its rest day with the news of a couple of positive coronavirus tests – one for Fernando Gaviria, a teammate of our diarist Joe Dombrowski. We unpick another Slovenian victory and Ian weighs up the overall hopes of his former teammate Tao Geoghegan Hart. The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science in Sport. We’ve also agreed a collaboration with Laka – a community of cyclists co-operating to provide insurance cover for their bikes and insurance. Listen to the episode to find out more or go to laka.co.uk
"As long as I've been a good bike racer, I've had this problem."
George Bennett has suffered from a long term health issue since the beginning of his career as a professional cyclist. Last winter he underwent surgery in attempt to correct it.
He had a fantastic start to the season restart, winning Gran Piemonte and coming second to Jakob Fuglsang at Il Lombardia, in addition to playing a vital role for Primoz Roglic at the Tour de France.
Bennett will be a key lieutenant for Roglic once again, at the Vuelta a España - we caught up with the Kiwi ahead of the race.
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Africa's premier cycling team has been around in various guises since 2007. Initially, as continental team MTN, which became pro-continental team MTN-Qhubeka, before joining the WorldTour as Dimension Data and now NTT.
Gerald Ciolek took their first win at Milan Sanremo back in 2013. Shortly afterwards, the team was riding and winning stages at the Tour de France.
They made a splash in 2015 when Daniel Teklehaimanot took the polkadot jersey on stage six, and again on stage 14 where Steve Cummings won at Mende.
The addition of riders like Edvald Boasson Hagen and Mark Cavendish to the roster made them a formidable force in the sprints and they took a total of six Tour de France stages between 2016 and 2017.
However, things have since taken a downturn for the team. Marred by illness and injury, the wins began to dissipate and on the eve of the Giro d'Italia, NTT announced that they would not be renewing their sponsorship.
What does the future hold for them?
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In this episode we join Richard Moore and a good friend of the podcast in Belgium to review the Tour of Flanders, which featured a showdown between two riders whose rivalry began in cyclo-cross and are now destined to clash in the cobbled classics for years to come.
Then it’s over to Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe to recap the first serious mountain stage of the Giro d’Italia, which saw a first grand tour stage win for Tao Geoghegan Hart, while João Almeida just about hung onto the pink jersey after a brilliant effort by Team Sunweb. But the question is, who’s the favourite for the Giro title now?
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With Daniel serving a one podcast ban (not really) for defaming an entire nation’s pronunciation of the words ‘pasta’ and ‘risotto’ it’s left to Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Ian Boswell to recap the Giro d’Italia’s time trial to Valdobbiadene in Prosecco country.
Ineos Grenadiers will have plenty of reason to pop the cork on a bottle of the fizzy wine after Filippo Ganna and Rohan Dennis took first and second place in the stage. For the world time trial champion Ganna it was his third stage win of the Giro.
Then came the battle for the pink jersey and Portugal’s young contender João Almeida extended his lead to Wilco Kelderman to almost a minute. But what does this mean for the Giro now and does it mean the other favourites, including Kelderman, Pello Bilbao, Vinceno Nibali and the rest have to consider being more aggressive in tomorrow’s mountain stage to Piancavallo?
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For stage 13 of The Grandest Tour we are joined again by former professional Ian Boswell, who discusses the Giro d'Italia in the company of Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie.
There are audio diaries from Jacopo Guarnieri, the lead-out man for sprinter Arnaud Démare, and James Knox, an important teammate for Joao Almeida, who still holds the pink jersey of race leader and increased his advantage on Friday by finishing second on the stage.
Who will be in pink after Saturday's crucial time trial? That was the question we asked in the final part. Most agreed that Almeida should keep it, but the stage itself is finely balanced and will set the tone for the final, mountainous week of the Giro.
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In our latest episode, discussing stage 12 of the Giro d'Italia, Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are joined by guest presenter Ian Boswell, the former professional rider with Team Sky and Katusha-Alpecin.
It was a tough day in Italy, with heavy rain and cold weather turning a hilly stage into a battle for survival. We hear from James Knox of Deceuninck-Quickstep who describes himself as "an emotional and physical wreck after one of the worst experiences of my life – it was truly awful." Nevertheless, he rode strongly, as did his team, to defend Joao Almeida's pink jersey of race leader.
The stage winner was Jhonatan Narvaez of Ecuador and Team Ineos, another graduate – like Almeida and indeed Boswell – of Axel Merckx's Hagens Berman Axeon development team. Boswell tells us about his time on that team, including the day he spent at the Merckx family home in Belgium eating chocolate mousse...
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Our Giro Diaries series continues and this episode kicks off with Jacopo Guarnieri recapping a day's racing while having his post-race massage.
We also hear from James Knox as he continues to defend his teammate João Almeida's maglia rosa and from Cesare Benedetti on Peter Sagan's first Giro stage win and first race victory since the 2019 Tour de France.
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The Giro d’Italia had a transitional stage for the sprinters and we had a transitional podcast too, with Lionel Birnie joining Richard Moore to recap stage 11. With sprint finishes in Rimini and in Schoten at the Scheldeprijs, the question is, who’s the fastest? Arnaud Démare – who took his fourth stage victory of this Giro – or Caleb Ewan, who won in Belgium? We hear from Jacopo Guarnieri of Groupama-FDJ after another seamless leadout for Démare, and from Elia Viviani, who was knocked off by a motorbike, a moment of misfortune that sums up his season. We also hear from stage eight’s victor, Alex Dowsett, who has settled back into support duties for his Israel Start-Up Nation team, and from Atilla Valter, the Hungarian riding his first grand tour. With Daniel Friebe absent, no one was available to remind Lionel of the incident at last year’s Giro when they recorded an entire episode of the podcast only to discover that the recording equipment had been on the wrong setting, meaning they had to start from scratch, which in turn meant they missed out on a sumptuous dinner and had to settle for a rushed pizza. Oh, the memories! Tomorrow night we introduce the first of our guest co-hosts for The Grandest Tour, with former pro Ian Boswell picking up the mic. The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science in Sport.
In this episode of Kilometre 0 we hear from three of our diarists in the Giro d'Italia peloton.
With Mitchelton-Scott and Jumbo-Visma having to pull out of the race because of a spate of coronavirus positive tests, Joe Dombrowski of UAE Team Emirates reacts to the news, talks about the difficulty of keeping the bubble secure and asks whether the race will make it to Milan.
Israel Start-Up Nation's Rick Zabel talks about the highs of his teammate Alex Dowsett's stage win but is wrestling with fact the race is continuing following several COVID positive tests.
And Nathan Haas's pasta odyssey continues.
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The Giro d’Italia resumed after its rest day with the news that two high profile riders, Steven Kruijswijk and Michael Matthews, had tested positive for Covid and were out of the race.
The race limped on and served up a thrilling stage, won by Peter Sagan with one of the performances of his career.
In this episode we hear from Ben Swift and Brandon McNulty, as well as our audio diarist James Knox, and the sports directors of two of the Covid-affected teams, Luke Roberts of Team Sunweb and Addy Engels of Jumbo-Visma.
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Stretching over 1200 kilometres, from the knee of Italy’s boot to the tip of its toe, the Apennines are ‘il Bel Paese’s’ defining geographical feature - & yet many would struggle to point to them on a map.
Similarly, the range’s place in Giro folklore is underplayed or even ignored, despite glorious dramas on fearsome climbs like Blockhaus, Monte Carpegna, San Pellegrino in Alpe & l’Abetone.
With the dual threats of Covid & an autumn freeze looming over the Alps & Dolomites, could the Apennines of the Giro’s second week become the race’s kingmakers - & finally bring Italy’s ‘other’ mountains some overdue recognition?
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The first rest day of the Giro d'Italia sees Daniel and Richard answer your questions with the first press conference of The Cycling Podcast's Grandest Tour.
There are questions about asterisks, the dates of the Ardennes classics and whether they should be moved, Team Ineos and Peter Sagan – and many more. There were also questions for Joe Dombrowski and James Knox, who are both keeping audio diaries for The Cycling Podcast, so they answer these listeners' questions directly.
And there's a special, albeit muted, celebration to mark a special occasion – The Cycling Podcast's 1,000th episode.
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There were races in Belgium, France and Italy, with Ghent-Wevelgem, Paris-Tours and the Giro d'Italia, and we have reaction to each of them in our latest episode.
From Italy, we hear from Wilco Kelderman, who moved up to second overall at the Giro, and his Sunweb teammate Sam Oomen. We also have interviews with Larry Warbasse, who makes some pointed comments about Ruben Guerrero, the stage nine winner, and Guerrero's teammate, Lawson Craddock.
We also speak to Joao Correia, who manages Gueirrero and the winners of both Paris-Tours and Ghent-Wevelgem, Casper Pedersen and Mads Pedersen, as well as the rider who held on to the pink jersey of overall leader at the Giro, Joao Almeida.
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As Alex Dowsett won his second stage of the Giro d’Italia, and his first in seven years, The Cycling Podcast was there to witness an emotional victory for the rider from Essex.
The Giro had woken up to the concerning news of one of the favourites, Simon Yates, testing positive for Covid-19. His Mitchelton-Scott teammates all tested negative and so continue in the race, but Yates was taken by ambulance to the team’s HQ in Varese where he will quarantine for fourteen days. We hear in this episode from his team doctor, Matteo Beltemacchi.
There are also interviews with Dowsett’s teammate, and companion in the breakaway, Matthias Brändle, and his sports director, Nicki Sørensen. We hear from Rod Ellingworth, the Bahrain-McLaren boss, and from our audio diarist, James Knox of Deceuninck-Quickstep.
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We lingered in Matera, the beautiful city where stage 6 of the Giro d'Italia finished and stage 7 started, with crosswinds forecast. They duly came, and, predictably, it was Deceuninck-Quickstep and Jumbo-Visma who went to the front and tore the race into pieces.
In tonight's episode we hear from our diarist, James Knox of Deceuninck, about his sense of trepidation ahead of the stage. We also hear from another diarist, Jacopo Guarnieri, who once again delivered his Groupama-FDJ teammate Arnaud Démare to the win – Démare's third of this Giro.
There are interviews with the young Belgian Harm Vanhoucke, who is riding high but crashed and found himself in the third group for a while, Matt White, the sports director of Mitchelton-Scott, who could be two men down after crashes, and Steven Kruijswijk and Addy Engels of Jumbo-Visma. And of course there's more from Gianni Savio, with his tactical masterplan for the day.
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In episode two of Kilometre 0 from The Grandest Tour we hear once again from our team of audio diarists, including pasta with Nathan Haas, defending the pink jersey with James Knox, and hearing about the life less glamorous with Rick Zabel.
Our audio diarists at the Giro d'Italia are Haas (Cofidis), Joe Dombrowski (UAE Team Emirates), Zabel (Israel Start-Up Nation), Knox (Deceuninck-Quick-Step), Cesare Benedetti (Bora-hansgrohe), Jacopo Guarnieri (Groupama-FDJ).
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From the beautiful city of Matera, the third oldest in the world, Richard and Daniel report from a stage of the Giro d'Italia won in impressive style by French champion Arnaud Démare. We hear from his Groupama-FDJ leadout man, Jacopo Guarnieri, who is keeping an audio diary for The Cycling Podcast, and also from another of our diarists, James Knox, whose Deceuninck-Quickstep team defended the pink jersey of overall leader.
There are interviews with Bjarne Riis and Beppe Martinelli, the men in charge at NTT and Astana respectively, and with Wilco Kelderman, the Dutchman who is a serious contender for overall victory, and his Sunweb teammate, Jai Hindley.
And we learn about a new coffee, the espressino.
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A mountainous stage 5 of the Giro d’Italia was won by the heaviest man in the race, Filippo Ganna, after an apparent row between his breakaway companions, Thomas De Gendt and Einer Rubio.
We hear from both De Gendt and Rubio, with each having a different view of what went on.
In this episode we also hear from Simon Yates, who still hopes to win overall, from Jakob Fuglsang and our old friend Ciro Scognamiglio of Gazzetta dello Sport.
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Mitch Docker is back to talk about Life in the Peloton with a man who is critical to the health and wellbeing of the riders on and off the bike.
Dr Kevin Sprouse is the medical director of Mitch's team, EF Pro Cycling, and in a fascinating conversation he talks about the daily routine for a team doctor working in professional cycling.
What does a team doctor do day-to-day? How does a doctor decide when to encourage a rider to push on despite an ailment, when it's safe to push on with the pain and when to decide it's time to call it a day?
Those of a squeamish disposition should be warned there's some quite detailed discussion of an injury that all cyclists, from pros to amateurs, can succumb to – saddle sores.
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Theme musicThe theme music for Life in the Peloton was composed by Pete Shelley, who was lead singer of the punk band Buzzcocks. It was commissioned by the production company behind Channel 4’s coverage of the Tour de France in the 1980s and was used as the theme music for the nightly highlights show. Pete died in December 2018. We were given permission by Pete’s widow and his manager to continue using the music for the theme tune to Life in the Peloton. To hear more about the music, listen to the Andre Greipel episode of Life in the Peloton.
The Giro d'Italia spent a fourth day on the island of Sicliy and Richard and Daniel went shark hunting in Messina, visiting the shop owned by Vincenzo Nibali's family.
With the stage won in a close sprint by Arnaud Démare of Groupama-FDJ, we get an eyewitness account from our audio diarist, and Démare's leadout man, Jacopo Guarnieri. We speak to Pello Bilbao, who is sitting third overall after also riding the Tour de France. The Basque climber tells us how the decision was made to go from the Tour to the Giro, what he did in the two weeks between the two Grand Tours, and how he expects his body to respond as he gets deeper into the race.
We also hear from Lizzy Banks, whose team, Équipe Paule Ka, is in trouble after it emerged that the sponsor has not met its financial obligations.
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Episode 1: We have signed up six riders to keep audio diaries for us throughout the 103rd edition of the Giro d'Italia.
They are Nathan Haas (Cofidis), Joe Dombrowski (UAE Team Emirates), Rick Zabel (Israel Start-Up Nation), James Knox (Deceuninck-Quick-Step), Cesare Benedetti (Bora-hansgrohe), Jacopo Guarnieri (Groupama-FDJ).
Meet the team in this first episode of Kilometre 0.
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Stage 3 of the Giro d’Italia saw drama even before the race properly started when Geraint Thomas, one of the favourites, crashed heavily in the neutralised zone.
Thomas’s challenge is over, and Simon Yates’s took a dent as he was dropped on the slopes of Mount Etna. We hear from the sports directors of their respective teams and also from Fabrizio Guidi, whose EF Pro Cycling team won the stage with Jonathan Caicedo.
We also hear from our audio diarists Joe Dombrowski and James Knox, whose teammate Joao Almeida took over the pink jersey of overall leader.
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In stage two of The Cycling Podcast’s Grandest Tour we are divided between Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Giro d’Italia.
In Liège there was a victory for Primoz Roglic, and we have the reaction of the boss of his Jumbo-Visma team, Richard Plugge.
In Italy, Diego Ulissi won his seventh Giro stage and we hear from his teammate, Joe Dombrowski. We also have a dispatch from another of our audio diarists, James Knox, an interview with Matt White and the White Feather; Gianni Savio.
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In the first episode from the Giro d’Italia — and the first of The Grandest Tour by The Cycling Podcast — Richard and Daniel review stage one, won by Filippo Ganna of Team Ineos Grenadiers.
We hear from Geraint Thomas and Simon Yates, the big winners among the overall contenders, and from our new diarists, Joe Dombrowski, James Knox, Jacopo Guarnieri, Nathan Haas, Cesare Benedetti and Rick Zabel, who tells us how he targeted — and won — the King of the Mountains jersey.
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In this episode of Service Course Tom and Lizzy react to EF Pro-Cycling's new kit for the Giro, speak with Alberto Contador and Ivan Basso about the Aurum Magma, the first bike to be produced by their new brand, and chat with Absolute Black's Borut Fonda about his lab work with Tadej Pogačar.
Service Course is supported by Science In Sport. If you would like to get 25% off all Science In Sport's range of energy bars, gels and drinks to help fuel your ride and aid your recovery use the code SISCP25.
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In this episode, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe recap the World Championship road race won by Julian Alaphilippe. How did the Frenchman win it? What could the others have done to stop him? And should Primoz Roglic have put national rivalry aside to help his Jumbo-Visma teammate Wout Van Aert of Belgium, who worked so tirelessly for him in the recent Tour de France?
Plus find out about Daniel's dance-off with the new world champion.
The Grandest Tour starts on Saturday. We will be discussing the Giro d'Italia, Classics and Vuelta a España during cycling's unprecedented awesome autumn. That's more than a month of great cycling coverage from The Cycling Podcast.
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This month’s episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin includes Lizzy Banks’ unmissable audio diary from the Giro Rosa.
Banks, who won a stage for the second year in a row, takes listeners inside the race, interviewing her Équipe Paule Ka teammates, Emma Norsgaard, Elise Chabbey and Mikayla Harvey, as they discuss rough roads and even rougher hotel beds, supportive grandfathers and stealing Annemiek van Vleuten's podium champagne.
In the rest of the episode, Orla Chennaoui, Rose Manley and Richard Moore discuss the world road championships, including Anna van der Breggen’s second road race victory and first time trial title, and also look back at the Giro Rosa with Ashleigh Moolman Pasio.
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In this week's podcast Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss the time trials at the UCI world championships in Imola and look back at the Tour de France, won by Tadej Pogacar a week ago in Paris.
Daniel justifies his "four wine glass" rating for this year's delayed Tour, and asks whether this is the start of the Pog dynasty, or a one off, when he was able to ride on the coat-tails of Jumbo-Visma, pipping his fellow Slovenian just 48 hours from the end.
We hear from Richie Porte, voted the Tour's Pédaleur de Charme by our listeners, and also from his Trek-Segafredo teammate Mads Pedersen, whose spell in the rainbow jersey of world champion will come to an end in Imola on Sunday. Due to the pause in racing, thanks to coronavirus, Pedersen hasn't worn the jersey in as many races as he would have liked but he is sanguine about that and preferred to reflect on the honour of being able to wear it at all.
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In this episode of Life in the Peloton, Mitch Docker catches up with another of his sports directors, Juanma Garate.
Garate is a former Spanish national road race champion who also won stages of all three grand tours, including the Mont Ventoux stage of the 2009 Tour de France.
In this episode, Mitch and Juanma talk about life on the road as a rider, as a sports director and much more.
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In a final episode of The Cycling Podcast from close to the Champs-Élysées Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau recap the last stage of the 2020 Tour de France.
Still digesting yesterday’s time trial we review a stage victory for Sam Bennett before hearing from Connor Swift, who was in the break, Alexander Kristoff, who won the opening stage of the race and is a teammate of Tadej Pogacar, and Guillaume Martin, the best Frenchman in the Tour who François has been trying to speak to for a few days. Then we ask Bahrain-McLaren and Mitchelton-Scott sports directors Rod Ellingworth and Matt White about Jumbo-Visma could have done differently to set up Primoz Roglic. We also find out more about the 2020 Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar from his team doctor Jeroen Swart and Slovenian journalist Toni Gruden. OUR SPONSORS
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In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau recap an incredible stage of the Tour de France which turned the race on its head. A Slovenian will wear the yellow jersey in Paris tomorrow but the Tour champion elect is not Primoz Roglic, who has led the race since the Pyrenees but Tadej Pogacar, who produced a stunning performance in the time trial to La Planche des Belles Filles. OUR SPONSORS
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In this episode of The Cycling Podcast from the Tour de France, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau are enjoying an early glass of Champagne and a game of table tennis before recapping stage 19. They discuss another stage win for Sunweb and the tactics that led to it, then hear from yesterday’s stage winner Michal Kwiatkowski before looking ahead to tomorrow’s time trial to the Planche des Belles Filles and in particular the equipment choices the riders face. OUR SPONSORS
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Science in Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
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Tune into Kilometre 0, our weekday morning show, every Monday to Friday during the Tour.
Episode 15: In recent months some sports, notably soccer and NBA basketball but others too, have raised the profile of the Black Lives Matter movement highlighting professional cycling's silence on the issue.
Kévin Reza is the only black rider in the 2020 Tour de France peloton. While there have been initiatives to develop riders in Africa and Guadeloupe what is the pathway like for young black athletes in cycling's established territories?
As well as hearing from Reza, in this episode we speak to Mani Arthur of the Black Cyclists Network, set up to show black and minority ethnic riders that there is a cycling community for them. @BCNTweet
And Tejay van Garderen and Jonathan Vaughters of EF Pro Cycling consider the obstacles in the way of black athletes and what can be done to make cycling more inclusive.
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Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau in La Roche-sur-Yoron as they recap the final Alpine stage of the Tour de France. There was a one-two for Ineos-Grenadiers, a worrying time for Richie Porte, who punctured on the gravel at the top of the Plateau des Glières and another big move by Bahrain-McLaren that came to nothing. Hear from Sepp Kuss of Jumbo-Visma on helping Primoz Roglic to take another big step towards clinching the yellow jersey and from Ryan Gibbons of NTT Pro Cycling who hope to win a stage before the Tour finishes on Sunday. OUR SPONSORS
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Episode 14: With Primoz Roglic and Jumbo-Visma closing in on their first Tour de France title we look back at the journey they've been on to reach this point.
This episode of Kilometre 0 is a sequel to a Friends of the Podcast episode called Chasing Sky that Richard Moore made a couple of winters ago. It told the story of how the Dutch team had its sights on Team Sky (now Ineos Grenadiers) and were seeking to replicate their success in grand tours.
Since Roglic's emergence in 2016 he and the team have made steady progress towards their goal, using stage races and then the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España to hone their tactics. Smart recruitment, including the signing of former Giro champion Tom Dumoulin, has strengthened the team and has helped them close in on Ineos.
In this episode, we hear from Richard Plugge, who helped rejuvenate a team that was struggling after Rabobank pulled out as the team's long term sponsor. Plugge addressed and changed the culture within the team and set his sights on Tour success. Sepp Kuss, one of the stars who has shone in support of Roglic, also talks about the team's progression.
Plus we hear from Dave Brailsford, who built success upon success at Team Sky and has now seen the first serious, sustained challenge to their supremacy at the Tour.Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is supported by Zwift, the app for riding, training and racing at home. Kilometre 0 is a 15-part series published on weekday mornings during the Tour de France.
The Tour de France reached Méribel and a new climb, the Col de la Loze, taking the riders to more than 2,300 metres of altitude. But did it settle the general classification once and for all? On the steep final climb it was Superman Miguel Angel Lopez who soared away from the rest to win his first Tour de France stage. Behind, Primoz Roglic tightened his grip on the yellow jersey. Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau at their mountain hideaway as they recap a great stage of the Tour. We ask whether Roglic has done enough, whether anyone else can deny Pogacar and Lopez a place on the podium and finally what were Bahrain-McLaren hoping to achieve? OUR SPONSORS
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Tune into Kilometre 0, our weekday morning show, every Monday to Friday during the Tour.
Episode 13: It's time to hear from our Tour de France diarists again. In this update, we hear from Simon Geschke of CCC who has featured in several breaks and is also helping his teammate Matteo Trentin close the gap in the green jersey competition. But what is the tactic? Geschke explains.
Michael Mørkøv of Deceuninck-Quick Step is leadout man for Sam Bennett, who currently has the green jersey, so how concerned are they about Trentin's threat?
We also hear from Ineos Grenadiers rider Pavel Sivakov and Connor Swift of Arkéa-Samsic.
Despatches from our team of audio diarists will appear throughout our Tour de France coverage as well as in Kilometre 0. The full line-up is Nikias Arndt, Sam Bewley, Simon Geschke, Ryan Gibbons, Jens Keukeleire, Michael Mørkøv, Lukas Pöstlberger, Pavel Sivakov, Connor Swift and sports director Tom Southam.
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In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau are in a bustling square in Grenoble.
They recap a stage to Villard-de-Lans which was won by the Bora-Hansgrohe rider Lennard Kamna, who succeeded where he and his teammate failed last week when they were outfought by Dani Martinez. We hear from Team Ineos Grenadiers boss Dave Brailsford about how they are recalibrating after defending champion Egan Bernal faltered at the weekend. And from Rod Ellingworth, enjoying his first Tour as the big boss of Bahrain-McLaren and hoping Mikel Landa can still make a run for the podium. STACY SNYDER’S CUPS The second batch of the Tour mugs, cappuccino & espresso sets and beer cups (new!) go on sale tomorrow, Wednesday September 18th at 9:00am US east coast time, 3:00pm French time and 2:00pm UK time. https://www.etsy.com/shop/SnyderCeramics OUR SPONSORS
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Science in Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
The next generation Wattbike Atom is supporting all our Tour de France coverage this year. The new Wattbike Atom is available from £90 per month at wattbike.com
DVinecellars has curated a selection of wines matched to the Tour de France for us. Choose from the green jersey, polka-dot jersey, yellow jersey or Grand Tour cases at https://www.dvinecellars.com/ Tune into Kilometre 0, our weekday morning show, every Monday to Friday during the Tour.
Episode 12: This episode of Kilometre 0 is a prequel to a deeper discussion of professional cycling and the environment in a future episode of The Cycling Podcast later this year.
Slowly the focus on the sport's impact on the environment and the measures race organisers, teams and individuals can take to reduce the carbon footprint has intensified. Race organisers have taken steps to reduce littering, at least one team has stated an intention to work towards being carbon neutral and there is a gradual switch to hybrid vehicles.
But what more can be done?
And what about the environment's impact on pro cycling? Will an increasing frequency of 'freak' weather events affect races, will the heat and humidity of summer become too intense for the riders' safety? Could a Tour de France held in September actually be the future rather than a one-off forced by the coronavirus pandemic?
In this episode we hear from our audio diarists and also from climate experts about the two sides of the environmental story.
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It’s the second rest day of the Tour de France and before the race resumes with its final block of stages, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau answer another batch of questions from listeners. OUR SPONSORS
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Science in Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
The next generation Wattbike Atom is supporting all our Tour de France coverage this year. The new Wattbike Atom is available from £90 per month at wattbike.com
DVinecellars has curated a selection of wines matched to the Tour de France for us. Choose from the green jersey, polka-dot jersey, yellow jersey or Grand Tour cases at https://www.dvinecellars.com/
Tune into Kilometre 0, our weekday morning show, every Monday to Friday during the Tour.
Episode 11: Our diarists return with contributions from NTT Pro Cycling's South African champion Ryan Gibbons, CCC's Simon Geschke on getting in the breaks, Connor Swift on climbing and Pavel Sivakov, who continues to improve after his crashes on stage one.
Despatches from our team of audio diarists will appear throughout our Tour de France coverage as well as in Kilometre 0. The full line-up is Nikias Arndt, Sam Bewley, Simon Geschke, Ryan Gibbons, Jens Keukeleire, Michael Mørkøv, Lukas Pöstlberger, Pavel Sivakov, Connor Swift and sports director Tom Southam.
Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is supported by Zwift, the app for riding, training and racing at home. Kilometre 0 is a 15-part series published on weekday mornings during the Tour de France.
In this episode Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau recap a thrilling stage in the mountains. Team Jumbo-Visma dominated on the final climb and yet Primoz Roglic saw his overall lead trimmed by a handful of seconds by stage winner Tadej Pogacar. The day turned out badly for Ineos Grenadiers, whose leader and defending champion Egan Bernal cracked early on the final climb to Grand Colombier and lost more than seven minutes and any chance of winning the Tour. Going into the second rest day the Tour looks beautifully poised between the two Slovenians Roglic and Pogacar but what happens next? OUR SPONSORS
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Science in Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
The next generation Wattbike Atom is supporting all our Tour de France coverage this year. The new Wattbike Atom is available from £90 per month at wattbike.com
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Tune into Kilometre 0, our weekday morning show, every Monday to Friday during the Tour.
In this episode of Service Course Lizzy Banks and Tom Whalley discuss some of the new tech being ridden at this year’s Tour De France, Tom channels his inner Raymond Chandler as he starts his hunt for a rare cycling item, Lizzy delves deep into the world of saddles and finds out why you’re probably riding the wrong one.
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In this episode of The Cycling Podcast from the Tour de France, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau recap another stage win for one of the surprise packages of the race. The stage was won in brilliant fashion by Soren Kragh Andersen of Sunweb, who played the finale into Lyon brilliantly. We discuss the stage finish and also hear from Richie Porte, who is riding with a sense of freedom in his final Tour as a team leader. Then we discuss the issue of concussion, which forced Romain Bardet to pull out of the race after his crash yesterday. OUR SPONSORS
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Science in Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
The next generation Wattbike Atom is supporting all our Tour de France coverage this year. The new Wattbike Atom is available from £90 per month at wattbike.com
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Tune into Kilometre 0, our weekday morning show, every Monday to Friday during the Tour.
Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau in Clermont-Ferrand as they recap stage 13 of the Tour de France. It was an aggressive stage from the gun and turned into a twin battle for the stage and the overall classification.
The race for the stage win was fascinating with EF Pro Cycling and Bora-Hansgrohe going head-to-head on the final climb before Dani Martinez got the better of Lennard Kamna and Max Schachmann.
Behind, Tadej Pogacar instigated hostilities again and was marked by Primoz Roglic, who put Egan Bernal on the defensive. We discuss what this means for the overall battle as the race heads towards the Alps. OUR SPONSORS
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The next generation Wattbike Atom is supporting all our Tour de France coverage this year. The new Wattbike Atom is available from £90 per month at wattbike.com
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Tune into Kilometre 0, our weekday morning show, every Monday to Friday during the Tour.
Episode 4: Our Tour de France diarists return to explain what's going on inside the race. In this episode we hear from Mitchelton-Scott's Sam Bewley, who crashed out the other day and has made it home to recover from a broken wrist and rib, from Sunweb's Nikias Arndt, teammate of stage winner Marc Hirschi, and from Connor Swift of Arkéa-Samsic about looking after Nairo Quintana.
Despatches from our team of audio diarists will appear throughout our Tour de France coverage as well as in Kilometre 0. The full line-up is Nikias Arndt, Sam Bewley, Simon Geschke, Ryan Gibbons, Jens Keukeleire, Michael Mørkøv, Lukas Pöstlberger, Pavel Sivakov, Connor Swift and sports director Tom Southam.
Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is supported by Zwift, the app for riding, training and racing at home. Kilometre 0 is a 15-part series published on weekday mornings during the Tour de France.
It was Jacques Chirac and Raymond Poulidor day on the Tour de France, as the stage finished in the former French president’s home town as well as through the Eternal Second’s home town of St Léonard-de-Noblat. But the day belonged to Marc Hirschi, nicknamed Baby Spartacus by François after his exploits in the opening week of the race. The Sunweb rider became the first Swiss rider to win a stage of the Tour since his mentor Fabian Cancellara in 2012. Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau in Clermont-Ferrand as they recap a ferocious transitional stage. We also hear from Dave Brailsford of Ineos Grenadiers on the eve of the resumption of hostilities in the overall battle. OUR SPONSORS
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DVinecellars has curated a selection of wines matched to the Tour de France for us. Choose from the green jersey, polka-dot jersey, yellow jersey or Grand Tour cases at https://www.dvinecellars.com/ Tune into Kilometre 0, our weekday morning show, every Monday to Friday during the Tour.
Episode 9: In this episode of Kilometre 0, Richard Moore speaks to American historian Christopher Thompson, author of Tour de France, a cultural history of the race which starts by examining how the race’s origins are rooted in a national crisis of confidence and masculinity in the wake of the Franco-Prussian war. The book also looks at the ways the Tour explains France itself.
Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is supported by Zwift, the app for riding, training and racing at home. Kilometre 0 is a 15-part series published on weekday mornings during the Tour de France.
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast from the Tour de France, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau are in Chauvigny to reflect on a routine sprint stage that had a moment of drama after the riders had crossed the line. Victory went to Australia’s Caleb Ewan, who claimed the fifth stage win of his career and the second of this race ahead of Peter Sagan and Sam Bennett. However, Sagan was later disqualified for a couple of aggressive and illegal nudges of the head towards Wout Van Aert in the sprint. That has opened the door for Ireland’s Sam Bennett, stage winner yesterday, to stake a serious claim to the green jersey. We also recap the recent meals France has to offer, hear from our audio diarist Lukas Pöstlberger and, finally, talk to Dutch rider Hennie Kuiper, twice a winner on Alpe d’Huez, a runner-up in the Tour and champion at Paris-Roubaix. To find out more about Hennie Kuiper’s book Champion Willpower, which the publishers hope to release in English, visit: https://championwillpower.com/
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In this episode of Life in the Peloton, it's time for Mitch Docker to answer the questions.
Recorded on the Tour de France rest day, Mitch answers a range of questions sent in by listeners. What food does he miss most when on a grand tour? Who'll be in yellow in Paris, Pog or Rog? What metrics does he display on his bike computer during a race? And are matching shorts with leader's jerseys genius or a crime against fashion? That and much more in this Tour de France themed episode.
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Episode 8: With back-to-back sprints coming up after the rest day and no win on the board yet, the pressure was beginning to mount on Deceuninck-Quick Step's Irish champion Sam Bennett.
Being the designated sprinter for the Belgian squad at the Tour de France brings with it responsibility. The long line of sprinters who have shouldered that expectation includes Tom Boonen, Mark Cavendish, Marcel Kittel and more recently Fernando Gaviria and Elia Viviani.
In this episode we tell the story of stage 10 to Îl de Ré, a day fraught with uncertainty over the coronavirus test results and the threat of crosswinds.
But, as it turned out, it went perfectly for Bennett and his leadout man Michael Mørkøv. We also hear from Sunweb's Nikias Arndt and Life in the Peloton host Mitch Docker – who has experience as both a sprinter and leadout man – gives his tactical breakdown of the finish.
Despatches from our team of audio diarists will appear throughout our Tour de France coverage as well as in Kilometre 0. The full line-up is Nikias Arndt, Sam Bewley, Simon Geschke, Ryan Gibbons, Jens Keukeleire, Michael Mørkøv, Lukas Pöstlberger, Pavel Sivakov, Connor Swift and sports director Tom Southam.
Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is supported by Zwift, the app for riding, training and racing at home. Kilometre 0 is a 15-part series published on weekday mornings during the Tour de France.
Everyone on the Tour de France woke up nervous after the rest day, and not just because the racing was due to resume. The results of the COVID-19 tests could have altered the race but, although there were four positives among team staff all the riders were negative and no teams have had to leave the race. The Tour director Christian Prudhomme did test positive however. Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau in La Rochelle after a sprint finish in Îl de Ré that saw Irish champion Sam Bennett win his first Tour de France stage and become the first man from his country since Shay Elliott in the 1960s to win stages in all three grand tours. We discuss a tense stage that, thankfully, never descended into chaos, although there were inevitably crashes along the way. OUR SPONSORS
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DVinecellars has curated a selection of wines matched to the Tour de France for us. Choose from the green jersey, polka-dot jersey, yellow jersey or Grand Tour cases at https://www.dvinecellars.com/ Tune into Kilometre 0, our weekday morning show, every Monday to Friday during the Tour.
Episode 7: Our team of diarists take us inside the Tour de France bubble again. We hear from Simon Geschke of CCC Team about being in the thick of the action in the Pyrenees and from Connor Swift of Nairo Quintana's Arkéa-Samsic team about what it's like to ride in the peloton in the mountains. We also hear from Ineos Grenadiers rider Pavel Sivakov about the Tour stage that went three kilometres from the home where he grew up and from Nikias Arndt of Sunweb about the spectactors who were – and weren't – wearing masks on the roadside.Despatches from our team of audio diarists will appear throughout our Tour de France coverage as well as in Kilometre 0. The full line-up is Nikias Arndt, Sam Bewley, Simon Geschke, Ryan Gibbons, Jens Keukeleire, Michael Mørkøv, Lukas Pöstlberger, Pavel Sivakov, Connor Swift and sports director Tom Southam.
Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is supported by Zwift, the app for riding, training and racing at home. Kilometre 0 is a 15-part series published on weekday mornings during the Tour de France.
It’s the first rest day of the Tour de France, which can mean only one thing – the rest day press conference, in which Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau answer questions about the race sent in by listeners. OUR SPONSORS
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Science in Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
The next generation Wattbike Atom is supporting all our Tour de France coverage this year. The new Wattbike Atom is available from £90 per month at wattbike.com
DVinecellars has curated a selection of wines matched to the Tour de France for us. Choose from the green jersey, polka-dot jersey, yellow jersey or Grand Tour cases at https://www.dvinecellars.com/
Tune into Kilometre 0, our weekday morning show, every Monday to Friday during the Tour.
Episode 6: On Sunday The Tour de France stage started in Pau, home town of Nicolas Portal, who passed away suddenly in March aged just 40.
This episode of Kilometre 0 remembers Portal with Vincent Lavenu, the AG2R sports director who helped him switch from mountain biking to road racing. We also hear from Team Ineos principal Dave Brailsford and CEO Fran Millar, who talk about the kind, sensitive person who leaves a big void in the team, and from Pavel Sivakov who Portal persuaded to join the team.
Despatches from our team of audio diarists will appear throughout our Tour de France coverage as well as in Kilometre 0.
Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is supported by Zwift, the app for riding, training and racing at home. Kilometre 0 is a 15-part series published on weekday mornings during the Tour de France.
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast from the Tour de France Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau recap the second and final stage in the Pyrenees. It was the most absorbing stage of an intriguing first week and leaves the Tour beautifully poised going into the first rest day. We recap stage nine, which was brought to life by Team Sunweb’s Marc Hirschi, who went so close against Julian Alaphilippe a weeks ago. We also discuss how the overall battle is turning into a race between two Slovenians, stage winner Tadej Pogacar and the new yellow jersey Primoz Roglic, and Colombia’s Egan Bernal, with Guillaume Martin and Romain Bardet still in the mix for France. OUR SPONSORS
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Science in Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
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The 2020 Tour de France reached the Pyrenees and an absorbing day of racing further sorted the overall standings and perhaps suggested for the first time that this race will be more complex than just anticipated battle between Jumbo-Visma and Ineos Grenadiers. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau are in Luchon, at the foot of the Peyresourde where the race burst into life. In this episode we recap Nans Peters’s first Tour de France stage win, ask whether Tadej Pogacar would have attacked had he not lost time yesterday, pick over the bones of Thibaut Pinot’s overall challenge and ask what Jumbo-Visma were up to. There are also contributions from our audio diarists from inside the peloton and François remembers his first day on the Tour in 1986 when he came face to face with Bernard Hinault. OUR SPONSORS
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Science in Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
The next generation Wattbike Atom is supporting all our Tour de France coverage this year. The new Wattbike Atom is available from £90 per month at wattbike.com
DVinecellars has curated a selection of wines matched to the Tour de France for us. Choose from the green jersey, polka-dot jersey, yellow jersey or Grand Tour cases at https://www.dvinecellars.com/ Tune into Kilometre 0, our weekday morning show, every Monday to Friday during the Tour.
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast from the Tour de France, we recap a seventh stage that had everything. There was an aggressive pace set by Bora-Hansgrohe to drop all the sprinters at the start of the stage, then crosswinds caused havoc at the end of the stage. There was even time for a breakaway by Thomas De Gendt. Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau in Lavaur for all the reaction to the stage, and news of Lionel’s bike ride to the start in Millau which, as Richard points out, was sponsored by gravity. The stage was won by Wout Van Aert – it was his second victory of this Tour, following hot on the heels of wins at Strade Bianche, Milan-Sanremo, a stage at the Dauphiné and the Belgian time trial championships.
We hear from Stefan Küng of Groupama-FDJ and our audio diarist Tom Southam, sports director of EF Pro Cycling, about how they turned the tables. Last year they were the losers in the crosswinds on the stage to Albi but this year they stayed safe.
There were losers, though, and we assess the changes to the overall classification. We also hear from our other diarists, Ryan Gibbons, Lukas Pöstlberger and Michael Mørkøv. OUR SPONSORS
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Science in Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
The next generation Wattbike Atom is supporting all our Tour de France coverage this year. The new Wattbike Atom is available from £90 per month at wattbike.com
DVinecellars has curated a selection of wines matched to the Tour de France for us. Choose from the green jersey, polka-dot jersey, yellow jersey or Grand Tour cases at https://www.dvinecellars.com/
Tune into Kilometre 0, our weekday morning show, every Monday to Friday during the Tour.
Episode 5: We hand the mic to our Tour de France diarists again to get inside the race bubble.
In this episode we hear from Connor Swift of Arkéa-Samsic who is riding his first Tour de France – in fact, his first Grand Tour – and has the job of looking after their leader Nairo Quintana. Swift gives us his first impressions of the race and talks about how he's settling into the rhythm.
The coronavirus crisis has affected the Tour in many ways, some obvious, some less so. Riders are used to sharing rooms but on this Tour many are in separate rooms. There are fewer media demands – at least face-to-face ones with journalists, and a greater sense of being cut off from the rest of the world. So how are they passing the time away from the race? Jens Keukeleire of EF Pro Cycling talks about the books he's reading while away from home.
We also hear from Ryan Gibbons of NTT Pro Cycling and Nikias Arndt of Sunweb, who have had a particularly good opening week. And there are updates from Pavel Sivakov, who crashed twice on the opening day and has been battling to regain his strength so he can contribute fully for Ineos Grenadiers later in the race.
Despatches from our team of audio diarists will appear throughout our Tour de France coverage as well as in Kilometre 0.
Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is supported by Zwift, the app for riding, training and racing at home. Kilometre 0 is a 15-part series published on weekday mornings during the Tour de France.
The Tour de France’s second summit finish of the opening week didn’t shake up the overall standings but it did see a barnstorming breakaway and a very fast pace from Kilometre 0. Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau outside a busy restaurant in Meyrueis in the Cévennes to recap a stage win by Alexey Lutsenko – the first for a Kazakh for a decade. One of our audio diarists, Simon Geschke, a teammate of Greg Van Avermaet’s on the CCC Team, sends in a despatch to explain how the stellar eight-man break formed. We ask whether Ineos Grenadiers are back to their best or whether Jumbo-Visma decided to throttle back a bit after consecutive stage wins and we talk about Adam Yates’s first day in the yellow jersey. OUR SPONSORS
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Science in Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
The next generation Wattbike Atom is supporting all our Tour de France coverage this year. The new Wattbike Atom is available from £90 per month at wattbike.com
DVinecellars has curated a selection of wines matched to the Tour de France for us. Choose from the green jersey, polka-dot jersey, yellow jersey or Grand Tour cases at https://www.dvinecellars.com/
Tune into Kilometre 0, our weekday morning show, every Monday to Friday during the Tour.
Episode 4: The Rider by Tim Krabbé is one of the finest books ever written about cycling and it is features the Tour de Mont Aigoual in the Cevennes, where the Tour de France goes today.
In this episode we hear from the author and from former professional Laurens Ten Dam, who has made a film inspired by the book, plus cycling writer Max Leonard, who has traced the route from the book, and from Tom Southam the EF Pro Cycling sports director.
If you'd like to watch the documentary His Twenty-Two Was Still Clean it's on YouTube.
Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is supported by Zwift, the app for riding, training and racing at home. Kilometre 0 is a 15-part series published on weekday mornings during the Tour de France.
The quietest day in modern Tour de France history had an unexpected twist in the tail and Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau were on hand to discuss the stage. It was expected to be a sprint but it was surprising that there was no breakaway all day. We ask why the stage turned out the way it did and hear from Deceuninck-Quick Step’s Michael Mørkøv and NTT Pro Cycling’s Ryan Gibbons. The stage was won by Wout Van Aert, last seen setting a searing pace on the climb to Orcières-Merlette in support of his team leader Primoz Roglic. But what impact will it have on Jumbo-Visma allowing Van Aert to ride for himself today? The twist in the tail came after the finish when race leader Julian Alaphilippe was found to have taken a drinks bottle within the last 20 kilometres, which is not allowed under the rules. It means Adam Yates of Mitchelton-Scott takes the yellow jersey. We hear from his teammate Sam Bewley and sports director Matt White. OUR SPONSORS
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The next generation Wattbike Atom is supporting all our Tour de France coverage this year. The new Wattbike Atom is available from £90 per month at wattbike.com
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Tune into Kilometre 0, our weekday morning show, every Monday to Friday during the Tour.
Episode 3: La Course started in 2014 as a criterium race on the Champs-Élysées before the final stage of the Tour de France. Since then the race has been a two-day event with stages on the Col d'Izoard and in Marseille, before reverting to a one-day race. This year, La Course kicked off the Tour, preceding the opening stage on Saturday.
In the 1980s there was a two-week Tour de France Féminin, held alongside the Tour and so the question of why there is not an equivalent race for women now is ever-present, especially since the demise of the Grande Boucle in 2009.
There are moves to create an event worthy of the name Tour de France. The ideaa is for a week-long stage race starting in Paris at the conclusion of the 2022 Tour, a sort of Paris-Nice in reverse.
But how do the latest plans shape up?
In this episode we hear from Lizzy Banks of Équipe Paule Ka, who was recently second in the GP Plouay, plus Louise Gibson of the Internationelles and Caroline Soubayroux of the Donnons des Elles au Vélo who have been pushing for a proper women's Tour de France by riding the full route ahead of the race to raise awareness for the cause.
Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is supported by Zwift, the app for riding, training and racing at home. Kilometre 0 is a 15-part series published on weekday mornings during the Tour de France.
The riders tackled the first summit finish of the 2020 Tour de France earlier than normal but the fourth stage to Orcières-Merlette provided the first shake-up among the overall contenders. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau convene at a restaurant in the mountain resort, which has a very distinct out of season feel. With few holidaymakers around, the open air disco felt a bit incongruous. Nevertheless the Tour remains the Tour and after the first serious test of climbing there’s little doubt that Vuelta a España champion Primoz Roglic is the strongest rider and his team, Jumbo-Visma, are the strongest team – for now, at least. It was a day for Slovenia to celebrate – a one-two at the finish with their young talent Tadej Pogacar also hinting that he will be a feature in the big mountains to come. But what about Ineos Grenadiers, who appeared to be marching somewhat out of step at this early stage of the race, although defending champion Egan Bernal is right in the thick of things at the top of the overall standings. OUR SPONSORS
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Science in Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
The next generation Wattbike Atom is supporting all our Tour de France coverage this year. The new Wattbike Atom is available from £90 per month at wattbike.com
DVinecellars has curated a selection of wines matched to the Tour de France for us. Choose from the green jersey, polka-dot jersey, yellow jersey or Grand Tour cases at https://www.dvinecellars.com/ Tune into Kilometre 0, our weekday morning show, every Monday to Friday during the Tour.
Episode 2: We have signed up nine riders and a sports director to keep audio diaries for us throughout the Tour de France and in this second episode of our Kilometre 0 series we'll hear from some of them.
Debutant Pavel Sivakov had an eventful opening weekend and in this episode we hear his anticipation at the prospect of riding the Tour de France for the first time, followed by two falls during the opening stage which have turned the opening week of the race into a battle to recover.
The full line-up is, Nikias Arndt (Team Sunweb), Sam Bewley (Mitchelton-Scott), Simon Geschke (CCC), Ryan Gibbons (NTT Pro Cycling), Jens Keukeleire (EF Pro Cycling), Michael Mørkøv (Deceuninck-Quick Step), Lukas Pöstlberger (Bora-Hansgrohe), Pavel Sivakov (Ineos Grenadiers), Connor Swift (Arkéa-Samsic) and Tom Southam (EF Pro Cycling).
Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is supported by Zwift, the app for riding, training and racing at home. Kilometre 0 is a 15-part series published on weekday mornings during the Tour de France.
The third stage of the Tour de France was expected to end in a sprint, and so it proved, but in this episode of our race coverage from France find out why the finish was like the race to find the quickest queue at the supermarket checkout. After leaving Nice, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau recorded the podcast in the centre of Sisteron. The crowds may be smaller but one thing is for sure, the Tour is still the Tour. We recap an incredible finish by Australia’s Caleb Ewan and discuss the dynamics of the sprint. Is this the Dr Beeching Tour, confirming the death of the lead-out train? We also look ahead to tomorrow’s first summit finish and ask whether the emergence of Jumbo-Visma as a credible threat to Team Ineos has got Dave Brailsford rattled. OUR SPONSORS
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Episode 1: The Col d'Èze is not the hardest climb in the world. It's not particularly long, or steep, but it is steeped in cycling's history because for many years it was the final battleground for Paris-Nice.
The race used to conclude with a Sunday afternoon time trial on the hill and in the 1980s the Irish dominated, with Stephen Roche and Sean Kelly sharing the victories between 1981 and 1989.
In this episode, we hear from Kelly, who also gives Lionel some tips on how to ride the hill.
And, with the Tour starting in the south east of France for the first time since 2009, we look back at the race with Bradley Wiggins, who made his breakthrough as a grand tour challenger that summer.
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The Tour de France’s opening weekend in Nice sent the peloton into the hills. With so many riders having crashed on Saturday there were some bruised and tender bodies dreading a difficult day with four tricky climbs to tackle. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau recap a day that went some way to restoring normality to this unique Tour de France.
Julian Alaphilippe, who held the race lead for a fortnight last year, is back in yellow tonight after outsprinting young Swiss Tour debutant Marc Hirschi and Britain’s Adam Yates. We review the stage, talk about why the result suited Jumbo-Visma and Ineos Grenadiers down to the ground and wonder what this means for the rest of the Tour’s opening week. We hear from our Tour diarists Sam Bewley, teammate of Yates at Mitchelton-Scott, and from Michael Mørkøv, whose Deceuninck-Quick Step team now has the twin jobs of defending Alaphilippe’s yellow jersey and trying to set up Sam Bennett for the stage win in Sisteron tomorrow. OUR SPONSORS
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The opening stage of this most unusual Tour de France turned out to be a strange day, befitting this most peculiar year. Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau in Nice to recap a stage won by the veteran Norwegian Alexander Kristoff, who last won a stage on the Champs-Élysées a couple of years ago. With rain falling in Nice for the first time in a couple of months the roads were like glass and a number of crashes led to some of the riders calling for a truce – a truce that Astana briefly ignored. In this episode we hear from some of the audio diarists who will be taking us inside the Tour de France bubble. Pavel Sivakov of Ineos Grenadiers talks about his brutal introduction to the race, Lukas Pöstlberger reacts to the conditions on the road, EF Pro Cycling sports director Tom Southam on the Covid-19 protocols and Michael Mørkøv about tomorrow’s stage two. Plus we play out with Doctor Octave’s song Giants of the Road.
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Trailer: Get into the Tour de France mood with My First Tour, a four four-part series for Friends of the Podcast.
In episode one, François Thomazeau recalls the first time as a six-year-old boy that he took full notice of the Tour on the fateful day Tom Simpson died on Mont Ventoux in 1967. Then he fast forwards 19 years to the first Tour he covered as a journalist.
Then Richard Moore looks back at the summer of 1990 and his first trip abroad to the Alps to see Thierry Claveyrolat in full flight in the Alps.
Daniel focuses on 1996 and the emergence of a certain Jan Ullrich before talking about the 2001 race, when he was one of the youngest journalists in the press room.
And in episode four Lionel Birnie goes back to the scandal-hit 2006 Grand Départ in Strasbourg and the summer he spent following the Tour in a camper van.
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In this episode of Life in the Peloton, Mitch Docker talks to his boss at EF Pro Cycling Jonathan Vaughters to find out what a team manager does.
Vaughters founded the team and has steered it through two mergers and kept it afloat when the organisation's future looked to be in jeopardy a couple of seasons ago.
But what does the role entail? Vaughters talks about team building, the constant battle to find the finance to keep the wheels turning and how he believes every World Tour rider is underpaid.
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With the Grand Départ in Nice just a few days away, the countdown to the start of the 2020 Tour de France is on. It will be a Tour like no other and in this episode, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe look forward to the race.
We weigh up the Ineos Grenadiers team selection, which saw Chris Froome's bid for a fifth Tour victory put on hold and Geraint Thomas also left out. Ineos will still go into the race with the reigning Tour de France and Giro d'Italia champions, Egan Bernal and Richard Carapaz.
There's a look at the route, which appears to be full of semi-hidden traps to punish a moment's inattention. And we hear from Marianne Vos about La Course, which will be held on Saturday morning, NTT Pro Cycling's boss Doug Ryder about being the first to confirm their eight-man line up for the Tour, Britain's Tour debutant Connor Swift about lining up alongside Nairo Quintana and Larry Warbasse on his recent positive test for coronavirus.
OUR TOUR DE FRANCE COVERAGEJoin Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau on the road in France for nightly episodes recapping the day's stage and big stories. Kilometre 0 will air every weekday morning (Monday to Friday).
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In a bumper episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe recap a thrilling and incident-packed week of racing and try to work out the implications for the Tour de France.
The Critérium du Dauphiné is always an important warm-up race for the Tour but with the Grand Départ in Nice just two weeks away it was an even bigger indicator of form.
Daniel was in France and reports back on the race, while Richard draws up his list of the week's 18 winners and losers.
Jumbo-Visma started and ended the week brilliantly but suffered setbacks too. Primoz Roglic pulled out while leading the race following a crash and key helper Steven Kruijswijk also crashed out of the race.
Meanwhile, it was far from plain sailing for Team Ineos. Egan Bernal also pulled out with a back issue and Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas were off the pace all week. Their only bright spot was Pavel Sivakov, who finished the race strongly. We hear from him in this episode.
We then switch our attention to Italy and il Lombardia, where Jakob Fuglsang took his second monument victory following Liège-Bastogne-Liège last year.
The Dane saw off George Bennett, who again shone for Jumbo-Visma, but there were questions for Trek-Segafredo, who got three riders into the final six man selection only to finish fourth, fifth and sixth.
However, the race was marred by another serious crash, this time for Remco Evenepoel, and an incident where an public car got onto the course near the finish. Is it time for responsibility for race safety to be taken over by an independent body?
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My first Tour de FranceOur four-part series, My First Tour, is available for Friends of the Podcast. Sign up on ourwebsite. In the series, Richard, Lionel, Daniel and François take turns to recall their first Tours – whether it be the first they saw on television or from the roadside, the first they covered or, in Lionel's case, the first they covered in a camper van.
Also, with the peloton set to return to the Giant of Provence this week, we've made the 2016 Friends Special about Mont Ventoux – Heat, Wind and Fear – available for current Friends of the Podcast.
OUR NEW CLOTHING RANGEWe have teamed up with Katusha to produce The Cycling Podcast Collection. The launch range is a cycling jersey and a t-shirt in both men's and women's cuts. To check out the range go to our website.
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iwoca became The Cycling Podcast’s title sponsors in March 2020. iwoca specialises in supporting small businesses and can lend between £1,000 and £250,000. iwoca have been accredited by the British Business Bank to offer CBILS (Coronavirus Business Interruption Loans Scheme) – the scheme is now open, so businesses can apply for a loan rather than just register interest. To find out more, go to iwoca.co.uk
Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25This episode is also supported by Laka, a community of cyclists co-operating to provide insurance cover for your bikes and equpment. And by Harry's, who are offering a trial set to give you a smooth, comfortable shave, for just £3.95. Go to harrys.com/cycling for details.
In the August episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin we speak to Lizzie Deignan, the former world champion who rides for Trek-Segafredo and returned to racing with the rest of the women's peloton last month. Deignan discusses the races to come, picking out La Course by Le Tour de France at the end of August as a highlight, and she talks about the world's best rider, Annemiek van Vleuten, who is unbeaten this season. "I'm not training to that level," says Deignan of Van Vleuten, "most of the male pros I know are not training to the same level. I'd probably be in a box, six feet under, if I tried to emulate her training." Orla Chennaoui, Rose Manley and Richard Moore look ahead to the races to come, picking a race, a rider and a team to look out for. And we also hear from Bob Varney of Drops Cycling Team about their search for a new sponsor and the impact of winning the Virtual Tour de France. The Cycling Podcast Féminin is supported by iwoca and Science in Sport
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Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
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Racing is back and so it was time for Mitch Docker to get on the road for two Italian Classics – one old, one relatively new.
This is Mitch's audio diary from the week he rejoined his EF Pro Cycling teammates and pinned on a number for the first time since the Aussie summer.
We follow the team as they tackle the white roads of Strade Bianche and an edition of Milan-Sanremo like no other.
Join Mitch as he takes a taxi to Barcelona airport with Lawson Craddock and Mike Woods for their flight to Italy and follow their journey like a fly on the wall.
We go inside the team bus and the Tuscan villa that was their base for the first part of the week to hear how the peloton has adapted to racing again. And we find out what the new reality is like as the sport adapts to the coronavirus crisis.
Along the way we meet his sports directors, mechanics, soigneurs, the team's bus driver and some riders from other teams to gain an insight into what it's like to be back in the peloton.
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Theme musicThe theme music for Life in the Peloton was composed by Pete Shelley, who was lead singer of the punk band Buzzcocks. It was commissioned by the production company behind Channel 4’s coverage of the Tour de France in the 1980s and was used as the theme music for the nightly highlights show. Pete died in December 2018. We were given permission by Pete’s widow and his manager to continue using the music for the theme tune to Life in the Peloton. To hear more about the music, listen to the Andre Greipel episode of Life in the Peloton.
The music in this episode is by Amaraterra, who also feature in The Cycling Podcast's Giro d'Italia coverage each year.
This episode was produced by Will Jones.
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss a week packed with racing as the Classics riders tackled the first, and longest, Monument of the season while the stage racers continued their build-up to the Tour de France.
In part one: We review Milan-Sanremo and Wout Van Aert's incredible Italian double. Last week he won Strade Bianche, this week the Jumbo-Visma man took La Classicissima, outsprinting defending champion Julian Alaphilippe, who had launched a searing attack on the Poggio.
But what did we make of the new route, and will it be only temporary? It seemeed to shed most of the sprinters but set up the thrilling finale – will the organisers be tempted to mix up the course in future years as a result?
In part two: We discuss the French stage races, particularly the Tour de l'Ain, which Daniel described as being like open mic night at the local pub turning into Live Aid. We witnessed a showdown betweeen Jumbo-Visma and Team Ineos. Does this hint at what we should expect when the Tour de France starts at the end of the month?
We also hear from Team Ineos sports director Gabriel Rasch about how things are shaping up for the Tour.
In part three: We turn our attention to the Tour of Poland, which started with a terrible crash in the finishing straight that caused serious injury to Dutch champion Fabio Jakobsen. Sprinting has always carried an element of danger and cannot be made entirely safe but what can be done to minimize the risks to riders?
And what of Remco Evenepoel, the overall winner, who continued his 100 per cent record in stage races this year?
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My first Tour de FranceOur four-part series, My First Tour, is available for Friends of the Podcast. Sign up on ourwebsite. In the series, Richard, Lionel, Daniel and François take turns to recall their first Tours – whether it be the first they saw on television or from the roadside, the first they covered or, in Lionel's case, the first they covered in a camper van.
Also, with the peloton set to return to the Giant of Provence this week, we've made the 2016 Friends Special about Mont Ventoux – Heat, Wind and Fear – available for current Friends of the Podcast.
OUR NEW CLOTHING RANGEWe have teamed up with Katusha to produce The Cycling Podcast Collection. The launch range is a cycling jersey and a t-shirt in both men's and women's cuts. To check out the range go to our website.
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Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25This episode is also supported by Beer52.com To get a case of eight craft beers delivered for just the price of postage (£5.95) go to beer52.com/cycle
We return to racing in the latest episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin with reaction to and analysis of Strade Bianche, the first Women's World Tour race of the resumed season.
We held back the July episode so Orla Chennaoui, Rose Manley and Richard Moore could discuss the race, which was won by the world champion Annemiek van Vleuten but was also notable for the performances of the other two riders on the podium, Mavi Garcia and Leah Thomas.
We hear from Spanish journalist Yolanda Álvarez, who tells us about Garcia's late start in road racing and the giant strides she has taken. There's an interview with Thomas, whose gutsy ride owed something to the support of her team's new sponsor, Paule Ka. And Ellen van Dijk tells us about some of the COVID-19 protocols around the Spanish races that saw the women's peloton back in action in the week before Strade Bianche.
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Temperatures soared in Tuscany on Saturday and the riders occasionally disappeared in clouds of pale dust as they crossed the dirt roads.
Strade Bianche was a brutal return to the World Tour for the riders and in this episode we assess Wout Van Aert's victory. The Belgian made his breakthrough at the same race two years ago, finishing third behind Tiesj Benoot and Romain Bardet. He was third again last year but this time he made it onto the top step of the podium.
We also hear from Van Aert about the long road back from his crash during the time trial in Pau at last year's Tour de France. Richard spoke to him in Gent in late February before the start of Omloop Het Nieuwsblad.
Who were the other hits at Strade Bianche and did the race tell us anything about what to expect now competition has resumed?
We also wrap up Remco Evenepoel's win at the Vuelta a Burgos and look forward to what could be a very different edition of Milan-Sanremo with smaller teams, a different route and possibly very different weather to contend with.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science in Sport.
My first Tour de FranceOur four-part series, My First Tour, is available for Friends of the Podcast. Sign up on ourwebsite. In the series, Richard, Lionel, Daniel and François take turns to recall their first Tours – whether it be the first they saw on television or from the roadside, the first they covered or, in Lionel's case, the first they covered in a camper van.
Also, with the peloton set to return to the Giant of Provence this week, we've made the 2016 Friends Special about Mont Ventoux – Heat, Wind and Fear – available for current Friends of the Podcast.
OUR NEW CLOTHING RANGEWe have teamed up with Katusha to produce The Cycling Podcast Collection. The launch range is a cycling jersey and a t-shirt in both men's and women's cuts. To check out the range go to our website.
OUR SPONSORS
iwoca became The Cycling Podcast’s title sponsors in March 2020. iwoca specialises in supporting small businesses and can lend between £1,000 and £250,000. iwoca have been accredited by the British Business Bank to offer CBILS (Coronavirus Business Interruption Loans Scheme) – the scheme is now open, so businesses can apply for a loan rather than just register interest. To find out more, go to iwoca.co.uk
Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25This episode is also supported by WHOOP, the fitness wearable that helps you understand how much stress you're putting on your body and how well you recover so you can tweak your training to help avoid injury and maximise your improvements. WHOOP is offering 15% off with the code CYCLE at checkout. Go to whoop.com for details.
After a break of almost five months, racing is back.
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe review the opening three days of the Vuelta a Burgos and look ahead to the first World Tour race following the resumption, Strade Bianche.
Twenty-year-old Remco Evenepoel picked up where he left off in the spring. After winning both stages he rode before the season was interrupted (the Vuelta a San Juan and Volta ao Algarve), the Deceuninck-Quick Step rider won the first uphill finish in Burgos at Picón Blanco ahead of a string of top climbers.
What should we make of Evenepoel's victory celebration – brushing the dust off his shoulders, seemingly suggesting it was an easy win?
We hear from three riders about what it's like to be back in action after so long – Team CCC's Paddy Bevin and Attila Valter and Trek-Segafredo's Charlie Quarterman.
Then we look ahead to Strade Bianche, where the dust from the white roads of Tuscany will fly on Saturday. Excitement is building for a race which started off in an autumn slot before becoming a spring classic and will this year be held in the height of the Italian summer.
Mitch Docker of EF Pro Cycling, and host of Life in the Peloton, looks ahead to his first race since the spring and his debut at Strade Bianche.
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Science in Sport are also supporting and helping to distribute the Diversity in Cycling report, written by Andy Edwards and mentioned in this week's podcast. You can read the report: https://www.scienceinsport.com/media/pdfs/Diversity%20In%20Cycling.pdf or see the Diversity in Cycling website: http://www.diversityincycling.com/
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In this episode of Service Course Lizzy and Tom speak to an ethical hacker about the ransomware attack on Garmin, and ask what the repercussions are for those of us who use Garmin devices.
They also consider the wider issues of data security in cycling and find out why Strava became a problem for Area 51 and GCHQ.
Tom also finds out about a prototype wheel that cleans up air pollution as it spins. There's more too as Tom and Lizzy take a look at the various different systems that helmets use to protect you from head injuries, and catch up with Ian Boswell to find out how his recovery from a career ending concussion is going.
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Back in March, Mitch Docker was planning to travel to Tuscany to race on the white roads for the first time. But the coronavirus pandemic meant Strade Bianche was postponed and for the best part of five months the peloton has been in suspended animation – training, racing indoors and waiting for the resumption.
This week, Mitch heads to Italy for his first race but before he travelled he got together with his good friend Luke Durbridge of Mitchelton-Scott to preview the race and answer listeners' questions.
In this episode find out why Strade Bianche can suit both the Classics specialists and the climbers, why climbing on the white roads is similar to climbing on the cobbles, and get some insight into how Luke maintains his focus during time trials.
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Theme musicThe theme music for Life in the Peloton was composed by Pete Shelley, who was lead singer of the punk band Buzzcocks. It was commissioned by the production company behind Channel 4’s coverage of the Tour de France in the 1980s and was used as the theme music for the nightly highlights show. Pete died in December 2018. We were given permission by Pete’s widow and his manager to continue using the music for the theme tune to Life in the Peloton. To hear more about the music, listen to the Andre Greipel episode of Life in the Peloton.
Racing is about to re-start. The Vuelta a Burgos gets underway next Tuesday and the first major stage race on the calendar in more than four months features a high quality field, including Nairo Quintana, Remco Evenepoel, Richard Carapaz and the Yates brothers, Simon and Adam.
Lionel Birnie, Daniel Friebe and Richard Moore look ahead to Burgos and pick out one thing each that fascinates them about the resumption of racing.
For Daniel, it's whether Quintana can maintain the form that he showed early in 2020, when he appeared re-born with his new team, Arkéa-Samsic. For Richard, it's the Ineos intrigue with Chris Froome and Egan Bernal potentially in the same Tour de France team. And for Lionel it's the fact that almost an entire season is crammed into a little more than three months – how will it all work and what patterns might emerge?
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Our mini-series for Friends of the Podcast, My First Tour de France, reached virtual Paris with Lionel reminiscing about the first Tour he covered in full in 2006 – in a camper van. Become a Friend of the Podcast: https://thecyclingpodcast.supportingcast.fm/join
Ride London
Richard was due to do Ride London in aid of their charity of the year, Pancreatic Cancer UK, having lost his mum to pancreatic cancer in 2005. With the event cancelled, this charity has lost a major source of funding. An alternative event, MyRideLondon (https://myridelondon.co.uk), aims to get as many people as possible riding on the same weekend, 15 and 16 August, and raising money for a charity of their choice. Richard will be trying to ride 100 miles in aid of Pancreatic Cancer UK. To support him, and PCUK: https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-display/showROFundraiserPage?userUrl=RichardMoore1&pageUrl=2
Following confirmation that Chris Froome is to leave Team Ineos for Israel Start-Up Nation, we discuss the implications for the upcoming Tour de France.
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe speculate on who Team Ineos will select as the team looks for an eighth Tour de France title in nine years. Will Froome make the final eight or not?
We also hear from Freddy Ovett, son of former Olympic champion middle-distance runner Steve, about his recent results on Zwift, including a stage win in the virtual Tour de France, we respond to a listener's letter about Greg LeMond's legacy and his reputation for innovation following our recent Friends of the Podcast episode about the 1990 Tour, and we briefly discuss the Everesting phenomenon.
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My first Tour de FranceIn the third episode of a four-part series for Friends of the Podcast, Daniel Friebe looks back at the end of Miguel Indurain's reign in 1996 (the first Tour he watched on television) and the 2001 race, which was the first he covered as a journalist. To sign up as a Friend of the Podcast go to our website.
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Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25This episode is also supported by Beer52. To join the world's most popular craft beer club go to beer52.com/cycle.
Everesting is a simple concept but a difficult challenge.
To complete a successful Everesting challenge, a rider must climb and descend the same hill multiple times until they have reached the magic 8,848 metres of vertical gain – the equivalent height to Everest.
Although Everesting may seem to be the antithesis of exploration on two wheels, during the coronavirus lockdown it has come into its own. Cyclists the world over have been prevented from travelling far and so the idea of hill reps has resonated with cyclists of all abilities.
In this episode, we examine the phenomenon with two (recently deposed) record holders and the man who can lay a claim to turning a quirky idea into a mainstream one.
After we'd recorded this episode and while preparing it for release, both the women's and men's records were broken by Emma Pooley and Alberto Contador. That the records rest with riders who between them have world and Olympic medals, Grand Tour titles and Classics wins to their name takes Everesting to the next level.
But at its heart Everesting is an egalitarian concept. It's not really about the records-breaking. Anyone can have a go, even if it will mean many hours in the saddle for most riders. And (more or less) any hill will do.
In this episode of Explore, we hear from Andy Van Bergen, the man who can stake a claim to creating the Everesting challenge which has captured the imagination over the past couple of months (although he's actually too modest to).
We hear how the idea stems from the grandson of the legendary mountaineer George Mallory, who died while climbing Everest in 1924... and we hear from a Frenchman called François Siohan who completed the first known Everesting on two wheels in 1984.
Plus Hannah Rhodes and Lachlan Morton talk about their own record-breaking rides, perhaps not realising their times would be broken quite so soon. Morton, of course, had to make two attempts in quick succession because the first did not meet Van Bergen and his Hells500 group's exacting criteria.
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LINKS**To find out more about Everesting, the criteria and the hall of fame, go to everesting.cc. You can also read the account of François Siohan's 'first known' Everesting.
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In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast we speak to Rod Ellingworth, the man in charge at WorldTour team Bahrain-McLaren, about the uncertainty of the last few months and the imminent resumption of racing.
Ellingworth admits that the pay cuts imposed on his team have made his job difficult, but he also reveals that he spoke to Chris Froome, who is set to leave Team Ineos, about joining Bahrain-McLaren for 2021. In this episode we reveal that Froome has agreed to join Israel Start-Up Nation.
Lionel Birnie, Daniel Friebe and Richard Moore also discuss the first unofficial race in Belgium and the protocals put in place by cycling’s governing body, the UCI, to manage health and safety before major racing resumes at the end of the month.
And we hear from Greg LeMond, the three-time Tour de France winner, in an excerpt from the latest Friends mini-series, ‘My first Tour de France’, looking back at the 1990 Tour.
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My first Tour de FranceIn the second episode of a four-part series for friends of the podcast, Richard Moore remembers the first Tour he watched from the roadside, in 1990, in the company of Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe. We hear from the winner of the race-defining first stage, Frans Maassen, and three-time Tour winner Greg LeMond. To sign up as a Friend of the Podcast go to our website.
BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDSLast month we were named as a finalist in the British Podcast Awards for the fourth consecutive year. This week we heard that our latest book The Grand Tour Diaries is a finalist in the cycling category at the British Sports Book Awards. The winners of both awards will be announced next month. Go to our online shop to buy a copy of our book.
OUR NEW CLOTHING RANGEWe have teamed up with Katusha to produce The Cycling Podcast Collection. The launch range is a cycling jersey and a t-shirt in both men's and women's cuts. To check out the range go to our website.
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In this week's episode Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the strange case of Mitchelton-Scott and its on-off takeover, and we hear from the team's lead sports director, Matt White, about the challenges of planning for the season when it resumes later this month.
There has been a lot of speculation about Chris Froome, the four-time Tour de France winner, and his relationship with his team, Ineos, and last year's Tour winner, Egan Bernal. We speak to Bernal's coach, Xabier Artetxe, about how the young Colombian is preparing to defend his title.
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My first Tour de FranceIn the first episode of a four-part series for friends of the podcast, François Thomazeau remembers the first Tour he watched, in 1967, and the first one he worked at, in 1986, in conversation with Richard, Lionel and Daniel. Both were dramatic Tours: 1967 for the tragic death of Tom Simpson on the upper slopes of Mont Ventoux, 1986 for the intra-team rivalry between Bernard Hinault and Greg LeMond. To sign up as a Friend of the Podcast go to our website.
BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDSLast month we were named as a finalist in the British Podcast Awards for the fourth consecutive year. This week we heard that our latest book The Grand Tour Diaries is a finalist in the cycling category at the British Sports Book Awards. The winners of both awards will be announced next month. Go to our online shop to buy a copy of our book.
OUR NEW CLOTHING RANGEWe have teamed up with Katusha to produce The Cycling Podcast Collection. The launch range is a cycling jersey and a t-shirt in both men's and women's cuts. To check out the range go to our website.
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Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
This week, Mitch Docker interviews his former manager, Paul De Geyter, to get the lowdown on the mechanics of rider contracts, who are the best and worst team managers to work with, and how the coronavirus crisis might be affecting the transfer market.
Now retired, De Geyter, who was also general manager at WorldTour team Lotto-Soudal, was one of the first rider managers, with the late Frank Vandenbroucke one of his early clients.
De Geyter talks freely about how the UCI regulations affect the way agents and managers work and the process of agreeing deals for a wide range of riders, from domestiques to team leaders.
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Theme musicThe theme music for Life in the Peloton was composed by Pete Shelley, who was lead singer of the punk band Buzzcocks. It was commissioned by the production company behind Channel 4’s coverage of the Tour de France in the 1980s and was used as the theme music for the nightly highlights show. Pete died in December 2018. We were given permission by Pete’s widow and his manager to continue using the music for the theme tune to Life in the Peloton. To hear more about the music, listen to the Andre Greipel episode of Life in the Peloton.
In the June episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin there are interviews with the world’s number one ranked rider and the fashion house that’s taken over one of the world's best teams.
Lorena Wiebes is the world number one and she recently joined Team Sunweb – we speak to her and one of the team’s sports directors, Hans Timmermans. And we hear from Matthias Thoma, the owner of Paule Ka, the French fashion house that’s taken over the Bigla-Katusha team.
There are also interviews with Leah Dixon, the Tibco Silicon Valley Bank rider who won the first V-Women’s Tour, and with Hannah Rhodes-Patterson, who set a new Everesting record, and also Shanaze Reade, the now retired BMX and track rider, who talks about her battle with alcohol addiction and, as one of the few black riders to win at the highest level, shares her thoughts about the Black Lives Matter movement.
The Cycling Podcast Féminin is presented by Orla Chennaoui, Rose Manley and Richard Moore.
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Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe answer listeners questions as our press conference episode returns.
Listeners have recorded their questions about all aspects of professional cycling and sent them in and now it's over to us to answer them.
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INTRODUCING RICHARD MOOREContinuing our series in which we interview each other about our routes in journalism, careers and The Cycling Podcast, it's time to meet Richard Moore, available imminently for Friends of the Podcast. To sign up as a Friend of the Podcast go to our website.
BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDSLast month we were named as a finalist in the British Podcast Awards for the fourth consecutive year. This week we heard that our latest book The Grand Tour Diaries is a finalist in the cycling category at the British Sports Book Awards. The winners of both awards will be announced next month. Go to our online shop to buy a copy of our book.
OUR NEW CLOTHING RANGEWe have teamed up with Katusha to produce The Cycling Podcast Collection. The launch range is a cycling jersey and a t-shirt in both men's and women's cuts. To check out the range go to our website.
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Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25This episode is also sponsored by Babbel. Learn the new language you've always wanted to with the app that's designed by experts to help you start speaking naturally and conversationally straight away. Go to babbel.co.uk or download the App.
In this episode of Service Course Tom Whalley and Lizzy Banks delve into the world of bespoke bikes. We speak to Phil Taylor, one of the founders of the UK’s handmade bike festival, Bespoked, which had been due to take place in May. Phil tells us the story of how he set up Bespoked while holding down his other day job as a psychotherapist.
We also speak with custom bike builders Liz Coleman and Duncan Crossley about the challenges of keeping building during the lockdown period.
Finally we hear from Rick Bailey and Dan Smith of Cycles in Motion about the intricacies of selecting the right tubing for the right job and how to get the perfect custom fit.
Graphene Nanodiamonds make an appearance in our news round-up and Adrian Nixon also updates us on the progress of the Space Elevator.
Service Course is supported by Science In Sport. If you would like to get 25% off all Science In Sport's range of energy bars, gels and drinks to help fuel your ride and aid your recovery use the code SISCP25.
This episode is also supported by Gymshark, who have created a range of clothing for all sorts of workout and relaxation. To check out the range go to gymshark.com
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To coincide with the general release of Cycling Podcast Productions' first film, And So We Rode, we are releasing the original audio diary by Conor Dunne and Larry Warbasse which inspired it.
In 2018, The Cycling Podcast asked Conor to keep a diary at the Tour of Britain, which he and Larry were due to ride for the Aqua Blue Sport team.
But shortly before the race, the team folded. It didn't just announce it would be stopping at the end of the season, it ground to an immediate halt leaving the riders without any races to ride and a fight to salvage their careers.
Instead of feeling sorry for themselves, Conor and Larry decided to do something that had long been in the back of their minds. They decided to go on a bikepacking adventure in the French and Italian Alps, setting off from their homes in Nice.
We produced their audio diary for Friends of the Podcast and then began work on a film created using footage filmed on a Go Pro and their phones. Having been released initially for Friends of the Podcast to watch free, And So We Rode is now available to buy or rent for the first time on Vimeo.
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are joined by the film's director Orla Chennaoui to discuss the week's cycling news and the making of the film before we pick up Conor and Larry's adventure as they are about to get on the road.
**RUNNING ORDER
0:00** Introduction and a ramble through the news round-up
26:30 The making of And So We Rode
33:30 Conor Dunne and Larry Warbasse's audio diary from their No Go Tour bikepacking tripThe Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science In Sport.
PRESS CONFERENCEIn the finest traditions of cycling press conferences, we're late getting started. We wanted to release Conor and Larry's audio diary this week to coincide with the release of the film so we have postponed our press conference to next week. This gives you more time to record your question as a voice memo and email it to **contact@thecyclingpodcast.com
INTRODUCING RICHARD MOORE**Continuing our series in which we interview each other about our routes in journalism, careers and The Cycling Podcast, it's time to meet Richard Moore, available imminently for Friends of the Podcast. To sign up as a Friend of the Podcast go to our website.
BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDSLast month we were named as a finalist in the British Podcast Awards for the fourth consecutive year. This week we heard that our latest book The Grand Tour Diaries is a finalist in the cycling category at the British Sports Book Awards. The winners of both awards will be announced next month. Go to our online shop to buy a copy of our book.
OUR NEW CLOTHING RANGEWe have teamed up with Katusha to produce The Cycling Podcast Collection. The launch range is a cycling jersey and a t-shirt in both men's and women's cuts. To check out the range go to our website.
LIFE IN THE PELOTONMitch Docker has caught up with his teammate Jens Keukeleire to talk about being brought up in Flanders, his first win as a pro, coronavirus and also look ahead to the 'spring' Classics, which will be held in late summer and autumn this year. All this season's episodes of Mitch's excellent Life in the Peloton podcast are on our feed. OUR SPONSORS
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Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25This week's episode is also sponsored by Laka, a community of cyclists all co-operating to provide the best value and fairest insurance for their bikes and equipment. If you'd like to find out more, go to laka.co.uk
This week, Mitch Docker catches up with Flandrian Jens Keukeleire. The pair were teammates at Orica-GreenEdge for several years and have been reunited at EF Pro Cycling this season.
Mitch takes Jens right back to the beginning, ten years ago, when he was a neo-pro with the Cofidis team.
Within a month of joining the pro ranks, Keukeleire won his first big race, Le Samyn, with a spectacular sprint from deep. Mitch and Jens talk in depth about the finish to that race and you may like to watch highlights on YouTube.
Le Samyn has all the characteristics of a Flandrian Classic but it actually takes place in Wallonia, but Mitch and Jens talk about how riders brought up in the region absorb so much Flandrian local knowledge before they even turn pro.
Conversation then turns to coronavirus before they look ahead to the 2020 spring Classic campaign, which will be held in the late summer and autumn, of course.
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Theme musicThe theme music for Life in the Peloton was composed by Pete Shelley, who was lead singer of the punk band Buzzcocks. It was commissioned by the production company behind Channel 4’s coverage of the Tour de France in the 1980s and was used as the theme music for the nightly highlights show. Pete died in December 2018. We were given permission by Pete’s widow and his manager to continue using the music for the theme tune to Life in the Peloton. To hear more about the music, listen to the Andre Greipel episode of Life in the Peloton.
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe return for the first time since the conclusion of Our Giro.
A couple of months ago we reviewed the Netflix documentary about the Movistar team, The Least Expected Day. Grab the popcorn because in this episode, we discuss the new ESPN 30 for 30 film directed by Marina Zenovich, Lance.
Is this another step on the path to redemption for Lance Armstrong? Or is it an attempt by him to cast his doping in a more favourable light?
Everyone is familiar with the story of Armstrong's doping and the seven Tour de France titles he was stripped of after his confession to Oprah. So is there anything new to learn from the film?
We also speak to Zenovich herself about making the film and hear from Bob Hamman, owner of a company called SCA Promotions which played a key role in the rise and fall of Armstrong.
PRESS CONFERENCEIn the next couple of weeks we will do a press conference episode where we answer your questions. To ask us anything you like about Our Giro or professional cycling, record a voice memo on your phone and then send it to us by email to contact@thecyclingpodcast.com
OUR NEW CLOTHING RANGEWe have teamed up with Katusha to produce The Cycling Podcast Collection. The launch range is a cycling jersey and a t-shirt in both men's and women's cuts. To check out the range go to our website.
LIFE IN THE PELOTONThe latest episode of Mitch Docker's series features his EF Education First sports director Tom Southam.
WATCH OUR FIRST FILM
Our first film, And So We Rode… is available for Friends of the Podcast to watch now. This is the story of Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne packing their bags and going on a bikepacking trip in the French and Italian Alps after their pro team Aqua Blue Sport folded mid-season. It costs £15 to sign up as a Friend of the Podcast and you will be able to watch the film as well as listen to all our special episodes. thecyclingpodcast.com/join
OUR SPONSORS
iwoca became The Cycling Podcast’s title sponsors in March 2020. Iwoca specialises in supporting small businesses and can lend between £1,000 and £250,000. Applications can take only a few minutes to complete and they promise a fast and fair decision. To find out more, go to iwoca.co.uk
Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
This episode of Explore by The Cycling Podcast features Hannah Troop in conversation with Emily Chappell, who used to criss-cross London delivering and picking up parcels as a bike courier before discovering long-distance and endurance cycling.
Chappell was the first woman to finish the 2016 Transcontinental race and her latest book, Where There's A Will, tells the story of how she won the race across Europe at the second attempt. The previous year she made it halfway before abandoning.
In the second part of this episode, Ian Boswell talks to another rider who has crossed a continent by bike, albeit without leaving home. Timothy Rugg, a three-time stage winner at the Tour of Rwanda, set out to race across the United States on his turbo trainer.
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The Cycling Podcast, brought to you by iwoca and supported by Science in Sport
iwoca is title sponsor to The Cycling Podcast. Over the past seven years iwoca has grown from a small start-up to one of the fastest-growing business lenders in Europe. Now they’re a team of more than 300 in London and Frankfurt working towards the goal of funding one million small businesses, including cafes, spin studios and bike shops. Iwoca has just launched iwocaPay, which helps suppliers get paid immediately while giving small business customers more time to pay. To find out more go to iwoca's website: iwoca: Fast, fair and flexible business funding
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport. For a 25% discount on all your Science in Sport sports nutrition products use the code SISCP25 on www.scienceinsport.com
In this episode of Service Course join Lizzy Banks and Tom Whalley as they take a look back at the track team from Derbados that took on the world and turned the track scene upside down.
Team Huub Wattbike have been the leaders in technical innovation in the world of track cycling since they burst on to the scene as Team KGF back in the 2017 British National Track Championships.
Since then, they've pushed the UCI rules to tipping point and watched the UCI push back with many different rule changes, ultimately leading to the banning of trade teams from track World Cup events.
Being down but not out, Huub Wattbike simply decided to end on a high. May should have seen them attempting to break multiple track world records at altitude in Bolivia but that dream was also scuppered when they found themselves stranded in Tenerife during their final preparations.
We also take a look at some of the latest emerging tech and speak to Callum Skinner about his Hindsight glasses just launched on Kickstarter.
Service Course is supported by Science In Sport.
Music is courtesy of epidemic sound. This episode was produced by Tom Whalley.
In this episode of Life in the Peloton, Mitch Docker talks to Tom Southam, one of his sports directors on the EF Education First team, and answers some listeners' questions from the postbag.
Southam was born in Cornwall, England, and raced in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Italy as an amateur before turning pro for the Amore e Vita team in 2003. He also rode for Barloworld, Drapac-Porsche and Halfords-Bikehut before ending his racing career with Rapha Condor, where he also began working as a sports director.
Check out Mitch's back catalogue as well as his new series Talking Luft, in which you can hear more from his regular guests, on the Life in the Peloton feed.
Episode sponsorThis episode is supported by Beer52, the craft beer club. All our UK-based listeners can get a case of eight beers for the price of delivery (£5.95) by going to beer52.com/cycle
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Theme musicThe theme music for Life in the Peloton was composed by Pete Shelley, who was lead singer of the punk band Buzzcocks. It was commissioned by the production company behind Channel 4’s coverage of the Tour de France in the 1980s and was used as the theme music for the nightly highlights show. Pete died in December 2018. We were given permission by Pete’s widow and his manager to continue using the music for the theme tune to Life in the Peloton. To hear more about the music, listen to the Andre Greipel episode of Life in the Peloton.
Our Giro reaches Milan after three weeks on the virtual road. We set out from Budapest in Hungary, then spent a few days in Sicily before making the familiar journey the length of Italy, visiting the Dolomites and the Alps and now it's the last leg.
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe look back to the 2017 Giro, won by Tom Dumoulin, who famously had to stop to answer the call of nature by the roadside on the stage to Bormio.
We speak to Dumoulin about that day and his Giro victory in general.
There's also the final member of Ciro Scognamiglio's Giro Dream Team, the last visit to the kitchen for Lionel and finally we remember some of our favourite memories from the four editions of the Giro The Cycling Podcast has covered from start to finish.
Thank you to everyone who has joined us on the journey – we hope you've enjoyed listening to Our Giro as much as we have making it.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science In Sport.
OUR THANKSWe'd like to say a few thank yous to those who have helped us make Our Giro.
• Our title sponsors Iwoca and longest-standing supporters Science In Sport
• Our producers Adam Bowie, Will Jones, Jon Moonie and Tom Whalley and Jonathan Rowe
• Amaraterra for providing the soundtrack to Our Giro
• Graham Watson and Simon Gill for the wonderful Giro photographs that have graced social media
• Our voice artist Flavia Cappellini, who tells us where we are each day
• Ben Lowe of Veloviewer and everyone at RGT Cycling who plotted and created the route for Our Giro so you could ride along. Was it the first digital Grand Tour?
• Stacy Snyder for her beautiful mugs and cappuccino sets, which sold out in a combined 18 minutes and to Marco Pinotti for connecting us with the cycling school near Bergamo, which will receive a donation from every Giro cup and mug sold
• Greg Andrews of DVineCellars for curating the Giro d'Italia and Baby Giro cases of wine
• Felicity Cloake, The Guardian's award-winning food writer and author of One More Croissant for the Road, for casting a forensic eye over Lionel's cookery efforts
• François Thomazeau for playing us out in such fine style at the end of episodes
• Seb Piquet, for lending us the Voice of Radio Tour once again
• Andy Storey of Prendas for assisting with the Coppa Italia of cycling jerseys
• Ciro Scognamiglio for being Ciro
• David Luxton and everyone at David Luxton Associates
• The shadowy figure of race director Daniele Frieberincini, the toughest Giro taskmaster since Vincenzo Torriani, for devising the route and setting the rules
• And most importantly, to you, our listeners for tuning in and for all your feedback. Thanks for joining us on our journey.
COMING TOMORROWThere won't be a stage of Our Giro tomorrow and the regular podcast will take a week off but we will have a new episode of Explore, our show about adventure riding and bikepacking, Lizzy Banks and Tom Whalley return with an episode of Service Course, and Mitch Docker's Life in the Peloton will feature EF Education First sports director Tom Southam.
PRESS CONFERENCEIn the next couple of weeks we will do a press conference episode where we answer your questions. To ask us anything you like about Our Giro or professional cycling, record a voice memo on your phone and then send it to us by email to contact@thecyclingpodcast.com
OUR NEW CLOTHING RANGEWe have teamed up with Katusha to produce The Cycling Podcast Collection. The launch range is a cycling jersey and a t-shirt in both men's and women's cuts. To check out the range go to our website.
LIFE IN THE PELOTONWhile we've been doing Our Giro, Mitch Docker and his old Orica-GreenEdge teammates have been remembering Their Giro when they won the opening team time trial of the 2014 race in Belfast.
WATCH OUR FIRST FILM
Our first film, And So We Rode… is available for Friends of the Podcast to watch now. This is the story of Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne packing their bags and going on a bikepacking trip in the French and Italian Alps after their pro team Aqua Blue Sport folded mid-season. It costs £15 to sign up as a Friend of the Podcast and you will be able to watch the film as well as listen to all our special episodes. thecyclingpodcast.com/join
OUR SPONSORS
iwoca became The Cycling Podcast’s title sponsors in March 2020. Iwoca specialises in supporting small businesses and can lend between £1,000 and £250,000. Applications can take only a few minutes to complete and they promise a fast and fair decision. To find out more, go to iwoca.co.uk
Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
RIDE OUR GIRO There's still time to ride the final few stages of Our Giro on the RGT digital platform. Each stage is around 30 kilometres long and will be online for three days. Go to RGTcycling.com/our-giro for details of how to download the app and sign up. Thanks to RGT and Veloviewer.com for helping us create Our Giro. GIRO WINE CLUB Our friends at Dvinecellars.com have put together a ‘Selezione Our Giro’ case of 12 wines from around Italy. There’s also a ‘Baby Giro’ case of six bottles. Use the code ‘Our Giro’ when ordering. Cases can be delivered in the UK, excluding the Highlands and Northern Ireland, and a donation from each case will be made to the Scuola Ciclismo in Cene.
Is stage 20 of Our Giro the 'queen stage'? Well, that's a matter of debate but we have got a bumper episode looking back to the final Friday of the 2018 edition when Chris Froome turned the race on its head.
Simon Yates had looked so good for two and a half weeks, winning stages in pink and with panache. Froome had endured crashes and stuttering form in the first half of the race and his victory on Monte Zoncalon over the penultimate weekend looked at the time to be like a consolation prize.
As the race reached its decisive final mountain stages, Froome decided to go all in and launched a long-range attack that put not just Yates but all the other general classification contenders on the back foot.
Yates cracked definitively, Froome ended the day in pink but as we'll hear in this episode there was much more to it than that.
Froome, Yates, Dave Brailsford, Tom Dumoulin, Matt White and Yates's teammate Chris Juul Jensen are among those who reflect on that remarkable day.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science In Sport.
COMING TOMORROWThe final stage of Our Giro takes us to Milan but it will be far from processional. We'll look back to Tom Dumoulin's overall victory in 2017 and reflect on our favourite Giro memories.
OUR NEW CLOTHING RANGEWe have teamed up with Katusha to produce The Cycling Podcast Collection. The launch range is a cycling jersey and a t-shirt in both men's and women's cuts. To check out the range go to our website.
LIFE IN THE PELOTONWhile we've been doing Our Giro, Mitch Docker and his old Orica-GreenEdge teammates have been remembering Their Giro when they won the opening team time trial of the 2014 race in Belfast.
WATCH OUR FIRST FILM
Our first film, And So We Rode… is available for Friends of the Podcast to watch now. This is the story of Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne packing their bags and going on a bikepacking trip in the French and Italian Alps after their pro team Aqua Blue Sport folded mid-season. It costs £15 to sign up as a Friend of the Podcast and you will be able to watch the film as well as listen to all our special episodes. thecyclingpodcast.com/join
OUR SPONSORS
iwoca became The Cycling Podcast’s title sponsors in March 2020. Iwoca specialises in supporting small businesses and can lend between £1,000 and £250,000. Applications can take only a few minutes to complete and they promise a fast and fair decision. To find out more, go to iwoca.co.uk
Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25This episode is also supported by Laka, a community of cyclists all working together to provide insurance cover for their bikes and equipment. To find out more, go to laka.co.uk
RIDE OUR GIRO If you have a smart turbo trainer, you can ride Our Giro on the RGT digital platform. Each stage is around 30 kilometres long and will be online for three days. Go to RGTcycling.com/our-giro for details of how to download the app and sign up. Thanks to RGT and Veloviewer.com for helping us create Our Giro. GIRO WINE CLUB Our friends at Dvinecellars.com have put together a ‘Selezione Our Giro’ case of 12 wines from around Italy. There’s also a ‘Baby Giro’ case of six bottles. Use the code ‘Our Giro’ when ordering. Cases can be delivered in the UK, excluding the Highlands and Northern Ireland, and a donation from each case will be made to the Scuola Ciclismo in Cene.
This episode of Our Giro looks at the relationship between the Giro d'Italia and the literary tradition of journalists, writers and poets covering the race.
We look at the 1949 Giro and the continuing rivalry between Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali through the pages of a collection of writing by novellist and poet Dino Buzzati.
Daniel speaks to Filippo Cauz and Leonardo Piccione, two young writers who are seeking to capture the poetry and emotion of the Giro in their collection of writing, Bidon.
We also revisit the work of Gianni Mura and some of the other great writers who have added a literary flourish to their coverage of the race.
Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe for Tales of the Tappe.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science In Sport.
READING LISTFallen Angel: The Passion of Fausto Coppi, by William Fotheringham
The 1949 Giro d'Italia, by Dino Buzzati
Catastrophe and other stories, by Dino Buzzati
Road to Valour: Gino Bartali – Tour de France Legend And World War Two Hero
Across the River and Into the Trees, by Ernest Hemingway
Bidon – bidonmagazine.org (In Italian)
COMING TOMORROWWe look back at the sensational final Friday of the 2018 Giro d'Italia when Chris Froome launched a long-range attack, cracking an already faltering Simon Yates and setting himself up to win the race overall. We speak to Froome, Yates, Dumoulin and the other chief protagonists.
COPPA ITALIA OF CYCLING JERSEYSWhat is the best-looking Italian cycling jersey of all-time? You decide. Starting tomorrow on our Twitter page is the Coppa Italia of Italian cycling jerseys. We've reached the knockout stages so get voting for your favourites.
LIFE IN THE PELOTONWhile we've been doing Our Giro, Mitch Docker and his old Orica-GreenEdge teammates have been remembering Their Giro when they won the opening team time trial of the 2014 race in Belfast.
WATCH OUR FIRST FILM
Our first film, And So We Rode… is available for Friends of the Podcast to watch now. This is the story of Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne packing their bags and going on a bikepacking trip in the French and Italian Alps after their pro team Aqua Blue Sport folded mid-season. It costs £15 to sign up as a Friend of the Podcast and you will be able to watch the film as well as listen to all our special episodes. thecyclingpodcast.com/join
OUR SPONSORS
iwoca became The Cycling Podcast’s title sponsors in March 2020. Iwoca specialises in supporting small businesses and can lend between £1,000 and £250,000. Applications can take only a few minutes to complete and they promise a fast and fair decision. To find out more, go to iwoca.co.uk
Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
RIDE OUR GIRO If you have a smart turbo trainer, you can ride Our Giro on the RGT digital platform. Each stage is around 30 kilometres long and will be online for three days. Go to RGTcycling.com/our-giro for details of how to download the app and sign up. Thanks to RGT and Veloviewer.com for helping us create Our Giro. GIRO WINE CLUB Our friends at Dvinecellars.com have put together a ‘Selezione Our Giro’ case of 12 wines from around Italy. There’s also a ‘Baby Giro’ case of six bottles. Use the code ‘Our Giro’ when ordering. Cases can be delivered in the UK, excluding the Highlands and Northern Ireland, and a donation from each case will be made to the Scuola Ciclismo in Cene.
Stage 18 of Our Giro reunites us with Brian Nygaard, who stood in for Lionel during his brief trip home from the race to watch his football team get walloped in the FA Cup final.
Continuing the Giro's recent tradition, this episode is our 'wine stage' featuring Daniel's conversation with Nygaard, whose career in cycling has taken him from press officer to team manager to journalist.
The Dane has worked as press officer for Bjarne Riis's CSC team, Team Sky and Orica-GreenEdge, was part of the management at Leopard-Trek and recently has written and commentated on cycling.
Other than cycling, Nygaard's passions are Italy, food and wine. He now runs a wine-making business in California. Pour yourself a glass of something nice and sit back for a conversation about the joys of Italy.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science In Sport.
COMING TOMORROWThe literary Giro. We look at the 1949 Giro d'Italia and the continuing rivalry between Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali through the prism of Dino Buzzati's reports.
COPPA ITALIA OF CYCLING JERSEYSWhat is the best-looking Italian cycling jersey of all-time? You decide. Starting tomorrow on our Twitter page is the Coppa Italia of Italian cycling jerseys. We've reached the knockout stages so get voting for your favourites.
LIFE IN THE PELOTONWhile we've been doing Our Giro, Mitch Docker and his old Orica-GreenEdge teammates have been remembering Their Giro when they won the opening team time trial of the 2014 race in Belfast.
WATCH OUR FIRST FILM
Our first film, And So We Rode… is available for Friends of the Podcast to watch now. This is the story of Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne packing their bags and going on a bikepacking trip in the French and Italian Alps after their pro team Aqua Blue Sport folded mid-season. It costs £15 to sign up as a Friend of the Podcast and you will be able to watch the film as well as listen to all our special episodes. thecyclingpodcast.com/join
OUR SPONSORS
iwoca became The Cycling Podcast’s title sponsors in March 2020. Iwoca specialises in supporting small businesses and can lend between £1,000 and £250,000. Applications can take only a few minutes to complete and they promise a fast and fair decision. To find out more, go to iwoca.co.uk
Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
RIDE OUR GIRO If you have a smart turbo trainer, you can ride Our Giro on the RGT digital platform. Each stage is around 30 kilometres long and will be online for three days. Go to RGTcycling.com/our-giro for details of how to download the app and sign up. Thanks to RGT and Veloviewer.com for helping us create Our Giro. GIRO WINE CLUB Our friends at Dvinecellars.com have put together a ‘Selezione Our Giro’ case of 12 wines from around Italy. There’s also a ‘Baby Giro’ case of six bottles. Use the code ‘Our Giro’ when ordering. Cases can be delivered in the UK, excluding the Highlands and Northern Ireland, and a donation from each case will be made to the Scuola Ciclismo in Cene.
In this episode of Our Giro, we meet Trek-Segafredo general manager Luca Guercilena and learn about his career in professional cycling.
Guercilena was not a pro rider but a sports scientist, whose career began with the Mapei team – where he tested a certain Daniel Friebe and, according to some observers, failed to spot the talent in front of his eyes(!)
Later on, he was part of the Leopard-Trek team which has evolved through several identities to become the Trek-Segafredo team today. In this episode, Guercilena talks about some of the riders he has worked with over the years.
We also hear from Ciro Scognamiglio, whose Giro Dream Team is nearing completion, and Lionel makes the Lombardy favourite, polenta with sausage ragù.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science In Sport.
COMING TOMORROWFrom press officer to team manager to journalist, we meet the Dane Brian Nygaard, who has moved to California to run a vineyard and wine production business. We talk about his love of cycling and Italy, how one waned briefly but the other definitely did not.
STACY SNYDER'S SECOND BATCH OF MUGS ON SALE TOMORROWA second batch of Stacy Snyder's mugs and cappuccino sets will go on sale on Wednesday (May 27) at 5.30pm UK time (12.30pm east coast). Etsy site: https://www.etsy.com/shop/SnyderCeramics
COPPA ITALIA OF CYCLING JERSEYSWhat is the best-looking Italian cycling jersey of all-time? You decide. Starting tomorrow on our Twitter page is the Coppa Italia of Italian cycling jerseys. We've reached the knockout stages so get voting for your favourites.
LIFE IN THE PELOTONWhile we've been doing Our Giro, Mitch Docker and his old Orica-GreenEdge teammates have been remembering Their Giro when they won the opening team time trial of the 2014 race in Belfast.
WATCH OUR FIRST FILM
Our first film, And So We Rode… is available for Friends of the Podcast to watch now. This is the story of Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne packing their bags and going on a bikepacking trip in the French and Italian Alps after their pro team Aqua Blue Sport folded mid-season. It costs £15 to sign up as a Friend of the Podcast and you will be able to watch the film as well as listen to all our special episodes. thecyclingpodcast.com/join
OUR SPONSORS
iwoca became The Cycling Podcast’s title sponsors in March 2020. Iwoca specialises in supporting small businesses and can lend between £1,000 and £250,000. Applications can take only a few minutes to complete and they promise a fast and fair decision. To find out more, go to iwoca.co.uk
Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
RIDE OUR GIRO If you have a smart turbo trainer, you can ride Our Giro on the RGT digital platform. Each stage is around 30 kilometres long and will be online for three days. Go to RGTcycling.com/our-giro for details of how to download the app and sign up. Thanks to RGT and Veloviewer.com for helping us create Our Giro. GIRO WINE CLUB Our friends at Dvinecellars.com have put together a ‘Selezione Our Giro’ case of 12 wines from around Italy. There’s also a ‘Baby Giro’ case of six bottles. Use the code ‘Our Giro’ when ordering. Cases can be delivered in the UK, excluding the Highlands and Northern Ireland, and a donation from each case will be made to the Scuola Ciclismo in Cene.
In this episode of Our Giro we hear from 1988 Giro d'Italia champion Andy Hampsten, the only American to win the race.
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe look back at the 1988 Giro which was shaped by terrible whether on the stage to Bormio, which went over the Gavia.
Snowy conditions made for a cold, miserable day in the saddle for the riders but there was no question as far as the riders were concerned that such a prestigious stage would go ahead. It would never happen today but it has gone down in Giro history as one of the most incredible stages of any grand tour.
Hampsten was not first to the top of the Gavia that day (that was Dutchman Johan Van de Velde); and he did not win the stage either (that was another Dutchman, Erik Breukink) but the American did take the pink jersey from Franco Chioccioli (who lost more than five minutes) to take control of the Giro.
Over to Hampsten, who usually lives for part of the year in Tuscany, to tell the story...
The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science In Sport.
COMING TOMORROWWe meet Trek-Segafredo general manager Luca Guercilena, who did not have a career as a professional rider but came through the management ranks at the Mapei team.
STACY SNYDER'S SECOND BATCH OF MUGS ON SALE TOMORROWA second batch of Stacy Snyder's mugs and cappuccino sets will go on sale on Wednesday (May 27) at 5.30pm UK time (12.30pm east coast). Etsy site: https://www.etsy.com/shop/SnyderCeramics
COPPA ITALIA OF CYCLING JERSEYSWhat is the best-looking Italian cycling jersey of all-time? You decide. Starting tomorrow on our Twitter page is the Coppa Italia of Italian cycling jerseys. Vote for your favourites in the group stage now.
LIFE IN THE PELOTONWhile we've been doing Our Giro, Mitch Docker and his old Orica-GreenEdge teammates have been remembering Their Giro when they won the opening team time trial of the 2014 race in Belfast.
WATCH OUR FIRST FILM
Our first film, And So We Rode… is available for Friends of the Podcast to watch now. This is the story of Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne packing their bags and going on a bikepacking trip in the French and Italian Alps after their pro team Aqua Blue Sport folded mid-season. It costs £15 to sign up as a Friend of the Podcast and you will be able to watch the film as well as listen to all our special episodes. thecyclingpodcast.com/join
OUR SPONSORS
iwoca became The Cycling Podcast’s title sponsors in March 2020. Iwoca specialises in supporting small businesses and can lend between £1,000 and £250,000. Applications can take only a few minutes to complete and they promise a fast and fair decision. To find out more, go to iwoca.co.uk
Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
RIDE OUR GIRO If you have a smart turbo trainer, you can ride Our Giro on the RGT digital platform. Each stage is around 30 kilometres long and will be online for three days. Go to RGTcycling.com/our-giro for details of how to download the app and sign up. Thanks to RGT and Veloviewer.com for helping us create Our Giro. GIRO WINE CLUB Our friends at Dvinecellars.com have put together a ‘Selezione Our Giro’ case of 12 wines from around Italy. There’s also a ‘Baby Giro’ case of six bottles. Use the code ‘Our Giro’ when ordering. Cases can be delivered in the UK, excluding the Highlands and Northern Ireland, and a donation from each case will be made to the Scuola Ciclismo in Cene.
Andy Hampsten is the only American to win the Giro d'Italia but in the first of two episodes with him we look at the 1985 race when he switched mid-season from a small domestic team in the US to the 7-Eleven squad that had been invited to ride the race.
Two days from the end, Hampsten won a stage at Gran Paradiso – a short, explosive road race – which earned him a contract for 1986 with the La Vie Claire team of Bernard Hinault and Greg LeMond.
Continuing the American theme, we also hear from Robin Morton, who was the first woman to work as a team manager and follow the Giro in a team car, when the Linea-Gianni Motta team rode the race in 1984. The predominantly American squad had the 1966 Giro winner Motta as their lead sports director. Morton talks to Orla Chennaoui about her experiences working at the Giro.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science In Sport.
LINKIf you want to see Hampsten's attack, as mentioned by Richard in this episode, the original RAI footage is on YouTube.
The episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin featuring Orla's interview with Robin Morton is here.
The website Bikeraceinfo.com by Bill and Carol McGann has a host of great stories about the grand tours taken from their books, which are also available digitally and in print.
COMING TOMORROWOur interview with Andy Hampsten continues as we look at the 1988 Giro d'Italia, which he won, and focus on the stage that went over the Gavia in the snow. Epic is an over-used word in professional cycling but it certainly applies to that day.
COPPA ITALIA OF CYCLING JERSEYSWhat is the best-looking Italian cycling jersey of all-time? You decide. Starting tomorrow on our Twitter page is the Coppa Italia of Italian cycling jerseys. Vote for your favourites in the group stage now.
LIFE IN THE PELOTONWhile we've been doing Our Giro, Mitch Docker and his old Orica-GreenEdge teammates have been remembering Their Giro when they won the opening team time trial of the 2014 race in Belfast.
WATCH OUR FIRST FILM
Our first film, And So We Rode… is available for Friends of the Podcast to watch now. This is the story of Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne packing their bags and going on a bikepacking trip in the French and Italian Alps after their pro team Aqua Blue Sport folded mid-season. It costs £15 to sign up as a Friend of the Podcast and you will be able to watch the film as well as listen to all our special episodes. thecyclingpodcast.com/join
OUR SPONSORS
iwoca became The Cycling Podcast’s title sponsors in March 2020. Iwoca specialises in supporting small businesses and can lend between £1,000 and £250,000. Applications can take only a few minutes to complete and they promise a fast and fair decision. To find out more, go to iwoca.co.uk
Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
RIDE OUR GIRO If you have a smart turbo trainer, you can ride Our Giro on the RGT digital platform. Each stage is around 30 kilometres long and will be online for three days. Go to RGTcycling.com/our-giro for details of how to download the app and sign up. Thanks to RGT and Veloviewer.com for helping us create Our Giro. GIRO WINE CLUB Our friends at Dvinecellars.com have put together a ‘Selezione Our Giro’ case of 12 wines from around Italy. There’s also a ‘Baby Giro’ case of six bottles. Use the code ‘Our Giro’ when ordering. Cases can be delivered in the UK, excluding the Highlands and Northern Ireland, and a donation from each case will be made to the Scuola Ciclismo in Cene.
Every year, the Giro d'Italia shows off the best countryside Italy has to offer. It's not to say that France and Spain are not blessed with great scenery but Italy seems to provide the most consistently beautiful backdrop for the racing.
The Giro's slogan – the toughest race in the most beautiful place – might have a touch of hype but it's probably fair to say it is the most photogenic of the three grand tours.
In this episode of Our Giro, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe look at the visual aspect of the Giro. We meet legendary photographer Graham Watson, who witnessed the drama of the Giro more more than three decades before retiring to New Zealand. Graham explains why the Giro was his favourite race to photograph and watch and looks back at some of the most memorable moments – from the duel between Stephen Roche and Roberto Visentini in 1987, to Marco Pantani's brilliance in 1998 and downfall in 99, to Alberto Contador coming straight from the beach to win a decade later.
We also talk Italy's sense of style on and off the bike with Sir Paul Smith, who designed the maglia rosa in 2013, and Andy Storey, who runs through some of the most memorable Italian jerseys. Plus author and cultural historian Kassia St Clair talks about the power and charm of the colour pink. There's also the latest rider added to Ciro Scognamiglio's increasingly eclectic Giro Dream Team and François Thomazeau plays us out with La Vie En Rose.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science In Sport.
LINKSYou can check out some of Graham Watson's finest photographs on his website. You can also buy his books, prints and posters.
Andy Storey's book on the history of cycling jerseys is called The Art of the Jersey. You can buy some great retro remakes at prendas.co.uk
Kassia St Clair's book is called The Secret Lives of Colour.
COMING TOMORROWWe meet the only American to win the Giro, Andy Hampsten. This is the first of a two-part interview with the 1988 champion. In part one, we talk about his breakthrough stage win during the 1985 race.
COPPA ITALIA OF CYCLING JERSEYSWhat is the best-looking Italian cycling jersey of all-time? You decide. Starting tomorrow on our Twitter page is the Coppa Italia of Italian cycling jerseys. Vote for your favourites in the group stage from Sunday.
LIFE IN THE PELOTONWhile we've been doing Our Giro, Mitch Docker and his old Orica-GreenEdge teammates have been remembering Their Giro when they won the opening team time trial of the 2014 race in Belfast.
WATCH OUR FIRST FILM
Our first film, And So We Rode… is available for Friends of the Podcast to watch now. This is the story of Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne packing their bags and going on a bikepacking trip in the French and Italian Alps after their pro team Aqua Blue Sport folded mid-season. It costs £15 to sign up as a Friend of the Podcast and you will be able to watch the film as well as listen to all our special episodes. thecyclingpodcast.com/join
OUR SPONSORS
iwoca became The Cycling Podcast’s title sponsors in March 2020. Iwoca specialises in supporting small businesses and can lend between £1,000 and £250,000. Applications can take only a few minutes to complete and they promise a fast and fair decision. To find out more, go to iwoca.co.uk
Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25This episode is also supported by Beer52. You can try a case of eight great beers for just the cost of delivery by going to beer52.com/cycle
RIDE OUR GIRO If you have a smart turbo trainer, you can ride Our Giro on the RGT digital platform. Each stage is around 30 kilometres long and will be online for three days. Go to RGTcycling.com/our-giro for details of how to download the app and sign up. Thanks to RGT and Veloviewer.com for helping us create Our Giro. GIRO WINE CLUB Our friends at Dvinecellars.com have put together a ‘Selezione Our Giro’ case of 12 wines from around Italy. There’s also a ‘Baby Giro’ case of six bottles. Use the code ‘Our Giro’ when ordering. Cases can be delivered in the UK, excluding the Highlands and Northern Ireland, and a donation from each case will be made to the Scuola Ciclismo in Cene.
In this episode we look at the art and psychology of descending the big mountains.
As Our Giro approaches the big mountain stages, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe we talk about some editions of the Giro d'Italia that have been decided going down hill.
We hear from American rider Christian Vande Velde, who suffered a bad crash on a descent early on in the 2009 Giro d'Italia. Vande Velde struggled with the mental aspect of descending in races and Daniel speaks to him about how he worked to conquer those fears.
We also speak to Steven Kruijswijk, the Dutchman who arguably could have won the Giro but for crashing into a snow wall on a descent in the 2016 Giro.
There's also a reminder of the Tiramisù World Cup and Lionel's efforts at making the coffee-infused dessert are judged by Felicity Cloake. There's also controversy from the turbo trainer in Our Giro.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science In Sport.
FURTHER READINGThe Outside magazine article about downhill skiing by Jennifer Kahn that Daniel mentioned is here.
COMING TOMORROWThe Visual Giro. We speak to legendary photographer Graham Watson about seeing the race through the lens of his camera. We also hear from Sir Paul Smith, who designed the maglia rosa in 2013, and Andy Storey, author of the Art of the Jersey, about Italian style on the bike, plus we learn about the colour pink.
COPPA ITALIA OF CYCLING JERSEYSWhat is the best-looking Italian cycling jersey of all-time? You decide. Starting tomorrow on our Twitter page is the Coppa Italia of Italian cycling jerseys. Vote for your favourites in the group stage from Sunday.
LIFE IN THE PELOTONWhile we've been doing Our Giro, Mitch Docker and his old Orica-GreenEdge teammates have been remembering Their Giro when they won the opening team time trial of the 2014 race in Belfast.
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Our first film, And So We Rode… is available for Friends of the Podcast to watch now. This is the story of Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne packing their bags and going on a bikepacking trip in the French and Italian Alps after their pro team Aqua Blue Sport folded mid-season. It costs £15 to sign up as a Friend of the Podcast and you will be able to watch the film as well as listen to all our special episodes. thecyclingpodcast.com/join
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Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25This episode is also supported by StitchFix. If you want to update your wardrobe while the clothes shops are shut why not let one of StitchFix's stylists do the work for you. Five items are delivered to your door. Keep the ones you want and send back anything that doesn't suit you. RIDE OUR GIRO If you have a smart turbo trainer, you can ride Our Giro on the RGT digital platform. Each stage is around 30 kilometres long and will be online for three days. Go to RGTcycling.com/our-giro for details of how to download the app and sign up. Thanks to RGT and Veloviewer.com for helping us create Our Giro. GIRO WINE CLUB Our friends at Dvinecellars.com have put together a ‘Selezione Our Giro’ case of 12 wines from around Italy. There’s also a ‘Baby Giro’ case of six bottles. Use the code ‘Our Giro’ when ordering. Cases can be delivered in the UK, excluding the Highlands and Northern Ireland, and a donation from each case will be made to the Scuola Ciclismo in Cene.
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe look back at Paris-Nice, the last World Tour stage race before coronavirus brought the world to a halt.
In stage 13 of Our Giro we hear from Max Schachmann of Bora-Hansgrohe who was in sparkling form this spring, finishing second at the Volta ao Algarve before winning Paris-Nice, which made its way to the French Riviera as Europe was on the verge of lockdown. The race continued in surreal circumstances, as Daniel describes in this episode, and was curtailed a day short.
Schachmann – who won a stage of the 2018 Giro at Prato Nevoso the day before Chris Froome attacked and cracked Simon Yates – talks about Paris-Nice, how he hoped to capitalise on his excellent spring form and what the future holds when racing returns.
We also hear from Andrea Agostini, chief operating officer of UAE Team Emirates, who was in the UAE as the virus began to spread among riders and people working on the race. Agostini was hospitalised in the UAE before recovering enough to return home.
This episode also reveals the next member of Ciro Scognamiglio’s Giro Dream Team, and there’ll be few surprises about who he has chosen as team leader.
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COMING TOMORROWWe look at the art and psychology of descending and talk about editions of the Giro d'Italia that have been won by going downhill fast.
LIFE IN THE PELOTONWhile we've been doing Our Giro, Mitch Docker and his old Orica-GreenEdge teammates have been remembering Their Giro when they won the opening team time trial of the 2014 race in Belfast.
WATCH OUR FIRST FILM
Our first film, And So We Rode… is available for Friends of the Podcast to watch now. This is the story of Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne packing their bags and going on a bikepacking trip in the French and Italian Alps after their pro team Aqua Blue Sport folded mid-season. It costs £15 to sign up as a Friend of the Podcast and you will be able to watch the film as well as listen to all our special episodes. thecyclingpodcast.com/join
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Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
RIDE OUR GIRO If you have a smart turbo trainer, you can ride Our Giro on the RGT digital platform. Each stage is around 30 kilometres long and will be online for three days. Go to RGTcycling.com/our-giro for details of how to download the app and sign up. Thanks to RGT and Veloviewer.com for helping us create Our Giro. GIRO WINE CLUB Our friends at Dvinecellars.com have put together a ‘Selezione Our Giro’ case of 12 wines from around Italy. There’s also a ‘Baby Giro’ case of six bottles. Use the code ‘Our Giro’ when ordering. Cases can be delivered in the UK, excluding the Highlands and Northern Ireland, and a donation from each case will be made to the Scuola Ciclismo in Cene.
Stage 12 of Our Giro picks up the Max Sciandri story at the point where he decided to switch nationalities and swap his Italian racing licence for a British one.
Sciandri also recalls riding the 2000 Giro d'Italia for the vegetarian Linda McCartney Foods team and we hear from the team's press officer John Deering about a remarkable stage win for David McKenzie.
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe remember that 2000 race and Marco Pantani's comeback after being kicked out of the previous year's Giro while just a couple of days from clinching victory.
As we are in Cesenatico, Pantani's home town, we look back 12 months to the day Daniel and Lionel dropped in on the family-owned piadineria and Lionel's attempt to make the traditional Italian flatbread sandwiches is scrutinised by food writer Felicity Cloake. There's also wine of the day and another appropriate song to play us out from François Thomazeau.
The full, unedited Max Sciandri interview will be available for Friends of the Podcast in a couple of days.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science In Sport.
COMING TOMORROWWe look back a couple of months to life before lockdown, speaking to Max Schachmann, who won Paris-Nice, the last major race before coronavirus brought professional sport, and much of the world, to a standstill.
LIFE IN THE PELOTONWhile we've been doing Our Giro, Mitch Docker and his old Orica-GreenEdge teammates have been remembering Their Giro when they won the opening team time trial of the 2014 race in Belfast.
WATCH OUR FIRST FILM
Our first film, And So We Rode… is available for Friends of the Podcast to watch now. This is the story of Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne packing their bags and going on a bikepacking trip in the French and Italian Alps after their pro team Aqua Blue Sport folded mid-season. It costs £15 to sign up as a Friend of the Podcast and you will be able to watch the film as well as listen to all our special episodes. thecyclingpodcast.com/join
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Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
RIDE OUR GIRO If you have a smart turbo trainer, you can ride Our Giro on the RGT digital platform. Each stage is around 30 kilometres long and will be online for three days. Go to RGTcycling.com/our-giro for details of how to download the app and sign up. Thanks to RGT and Veloviewer.com for helping us create Our Giro. GIRO WINE CLUB Our friends at Dvinecellars.com have put together a ‘Selezione Our Giro’ case of 12 wines from around Italy. There’s also a ‘Baby Giro’ case of six bottles. Use the code ‘Our Giro’ when ordering. Cases can be delivered in the UK, excluding the Highlands and Northern Ireland, and a donation from each case will be made to the Scuola Ciclismo in Cene.
There's a Giro d'Italia flavour to a very special episode of Life in the Peloton.
Mitch Docker gets the Orica-GreenEdge band back together to tell the story of an unforgettable Giro for the team.
Orica-GreenEdge won the team time trial in Belfast to put Svein Tuft into the maglia rosa. The following day the jersey swapped to the shoulders of his teammate Michael Matthews and the Orica riders spent the next week defending the lead.
Later came a stage win in pink for Matthews at Montecassino and another for Pieter Weening at Sestola.
For this episode, Mitch has spoken to his old teammates plus sports director Matt White about the build-up to the Irish Grande Partenza and the pressure of going into the first stage as one of the favourites. Together they piece together the story of a band of brothers battling together to do the best for their team.
This episode was recorded remotely during lockdown. The producer was Will Jones.
So, without further ado let Mitch introduce you to Luke Durbridge, Michael Hepburn, Brett Lancaster, Michael Matthews, Cameron Meyer, Svein Tuft, Pieter Weening and Matt White.
Or, as he knows them, Durbo, Heppy, Burt, Bling, Kamikaze Cam, Sveino, WeenDog and Whitey.
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Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe as Our Giro reaches Tuscany.
We interview Max Sciandri about his journey from Derby to the Tuscan hills via Los Angeles.
Sciandri was one of the Movistar sports directors who helped guide Richard Carapaz to victory in last year's Giro and he's a familiar voice to podcast listeners.
We thought we'd talk to Max about his early years in Britain, how he discovered cycling, his father's link to Robert De Niro, and his Giro d'Italia stage wins.
As Our Giro reaches the halfway mark we also explain how the Intergiro competition worked with the help of Magnus Backstedt, who won the classification's blue jersey in 2003.
We look back at the day Lionel and Daniel went in search of Riccardo Riccò, there's a classic wine of the day and François Thomazeau plays us out with an appropriate song.
The full, unedited Max Sciandri interview will be available for Friends of the Podcast in a couple of days.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science In Sport.
COMING TOMORROW:Our interview with Max Sciandri continues, and we look at the 2000 Giro when Marco Pantani returned to racing 11 months after being expelled from the race when on the verge of winning.
WATCH OUR FIRST FILM
Our first film, And So We Rode… is available for Friends of the Podcast to watch now. This is the story of Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne packing their bags and going on a bikepacking trip in the French and Italian Alps after their pro team Aqua Blue Sport folded mid-season. It costs £15 to sign up as a Friend of the Podcast and you will be able to watch the film as well as listen to all our special episodes. thecyclingpodcast.com/join
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Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
RIDE OUR GIRO If you have a smart turbo trainer, you can ride Our Giro on the RGT digital platform. Each stage is around 30 kilometres long and will be online for three days. Go to RGTcycling.com/our-giro for details of how to download the app and sign up. Thanks to RGT and Veloviewer.com for helping us create Our Giro. GIRO WINE CLUB Our friends at Dvinecellars.com have put together a ‘Selezione Our Giro’ case of 12 wines from around Italy. There’s also a ‘Baby Giro’ case of six bottles. Use the code ‘Our Giro’ when ordering. Cases can be delivered in the UK, excluding the Highlands and Northern Ireland, and a donation from each case will be made to the Scuola Ciclismo in Cene.
It's time trial day for Our Giro and we look back to the 2013 race and remember the day Alex Dowsett gave Great Britain a stage win they perhaps expected Bradley Wiggins to deliver.
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe return refreshed after a virtual rest day with another packed episode.
After two years with Team Sky, Dowsett switched to Movistar and the 2013 Giro gave him his first taste of grand tour racing. A tough opening week (is there any other sort at the Giro?) concluded with a 54.8-kilometre time trial.
Bradley Wiggins, Team Sky's leader and the reigning Tour de France champion, was the pre-race favourite and the expectation was that he'd get a faltering Giro campaign back on track with a blistering ride against the clock.
But Dowsett, one of the earlier starters, set a time that would prove to be untouchable – despite a few nervous moments watching in the hot seat.
Hear how he and Movistar prepared for the stage and get under the skin of what it's really like on time trial day at the Giro.
In this episode, there's also a Roman pasta cook-off, judged by Felicity Cloake. Are you Team Carbonara or Team Amatriciana? And what goes in an authentic carbonara. (Hint: not cream, ham or mushrooms).
The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science In Sport.
COMING TOMORROW:We meet The Supertuscan, Max Sciandri, and talk about his journey from Derby to Tuscany via Los Angeles, his career as a rider, and what the Giro means to him.
WATCH OUR FIRST FILM
Our first film, And So We Rode… is available for Friends of the Podcast to watch now. This is the story of Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne packing their bags and going on a bikepacking trip in the French and Italian Alps after their pro team Aqua Blue Sport folded mid-season. It costs £15 to sign up as a Friend of the Podcast and you will be able to watch the film as well as listen to all our special episodes. thecyclingpodcast.com/join
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iwoca became The Cycling Podcast’s title sponsors in March 2020. Iwoca specialises in supporting small businesses and can lend between £1,000 and £250,000. Applications can take only a few minutes to complete and they promise a fast and fair decision. To find out more, go to iwoca.co.uk
Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
RIDE OUR GIRO If you have a smart turbo trainer, you can ride Our Giro on the RGT digital platform. Each stage is around 30 kilometres long and will be online for three days. Go to RGTcycling.com/our-giro for details of how to download the app and sign up. Thanks to RGT and Veloviewer.com for helping us create Our Giro. GIRO WINE CLUB Our friends at Dvinecellars.com have put together a ‘Selezione Our Giro’ case of 12 wines from around Italy. There’s also a ‘Baby Giro’ case of six bottles. Use the code ‘Our Giro’ when ordering. Cases can be delivered in the UK, excluding the Highlands and Northern Ireland, and a donation from each case will be made to the Scuola Ciclismo in Cene.
In 2010, Richie Porte was a first-year professional and rode the Giro d'Italia for Saxo Bank. After a promising sixth place in the opening time trial in Amsterdam he spent the first half of the race comfortably inside the top ten.
Then came the stage to L'Aquila, which had been hit by a terrible earthquake the previous year.
A huge break got away and gained a lot of time. Porte was in it and ended the day in the pink jersey.
We hear from Porte about that Giro and the stage to L'Aquila in particular.
Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe for a rest day. There's no stage to ride but this episode features a look back at last year's rest day when Richard and Daniel were beseiged by cats seeking to steal their pre-podcast crisps, Lionel cooks the traditional Abruzzese lunch of arrosticini (lamb skewers) and Ciro Scognamiglio adds another rider to his Giro dream team.
The full Richie Porte interview will be available for Friends of the Podcast soon.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science In Sport.
COMING TOMORROW:We look back to the 2013 Giro d'Italia when Alex Dowsett won the individual time trial on a day when everyone expected another British rider, Bradley Wiggins, to take the honours.
WATCH OUR FIRST FILM
Our first film, And So We Rode… is available for Friends of the Podcast to watch now. This is the story of Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne packing their bags and going on a bikepacking trip in the French and Italian Alps after their pro team Aqua Blue Sport folded mid-season. It costs £15 to sign up as a Friend of the Podcast and you will be able to watch the film as well as listen to all our special episodes. thecyclingpodcast.com/join
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Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
RIDE OUR GIRO If you have a smart turbo trainer, you can ride Our Giro on the RGT digital platform. Each stage is around 30 kilometres long and will be online for three days. Go to RGTcycling.com/our-giro for details of how to download the app and sign up. Thanks to RGT and Veloviewer.com for helping us create Our Giro. GIRO WINE CLUB Our friends at Dvinecellars.com have put together a ‘Selezione Our Giro’ case of 12 wines from around Italy. There’s also a ‘Baby Giro’ case of six bottles. Use the code ‘Our Giro’ when ordering. Cases can be delivered in the UK, excluding the Highlands and Northern Ireland, and a donation from each case will be made to the Scuola Ciclismo in Cene.
Italy was full of confidence in 1990. The country was alive, at the cutting edge of sport and fashion and with a booming economy. About to host the World Cup, the nation's cyclists were on the cusp of a resurgence too.
After three years of foreign victors at the Giro, an Italian led from start to finish. Gianni Bugno took the pink jersey in the opening time trial in Bari and defended it all the way to Milan – only the fourth man to lead the race all the way through, and only the second after Eddy Merckx in 1973 to actually do it in the maglia rosa.
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe look back at those heady days of 1990 and remember the song that defined the summer. No, not Nessun Dorma, the BBC's World Cup theme, Notte Magiche, or Magic Nights.
We break down Bugno's victory, compare and contrast him to football's poster boy Roberto Baggio, assess the state of the Giro at the time, look at Italian cycling's re-emergence and ask how important a role the discovery of EPO as a performance-enhancing drug played in Italy's early Nineties renaissance.
We hear from author, historian and expert on all things Italian, John Foot, and from Bugno himself. There's another delve into The Cycling Podcast's back catalogue to discuss the so-called 'Zoncolan of the South', wine of the day, plus musical contributions from Amaraterra (who perform our Giro theme song, Cozze), and François Thomazeau.
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COMING TOMORROW...
A rest day at a grand tour usually means a trip to the launderette and a round of press conferences for The Cycling Podcast but tomorrow we look back to an incredible day in 2010 when almost a third of the peloton got in a big break to L'Aquila and Richie Porte announced his arrival as a stage race contender.
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Our first film, And So We Rode… is available for Friends of the Podcast to watch now. This is the story of Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne packing their bags and going on a bikepacking trip in the French and Italian Alps after their pro team Aqua Blue Sport folded mid-season. It costs £15 to sign up as a Friend of the Podcast and you will be able to watch the film as well as listen to all our special episodes. thecyclingpodcast.com/join
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iwoca became The Cycling Podcast’s title sponsors in March 2020. Iwoca specialises in supporting small businesses and can lend between £1,000 and £250,000. Applications can take only a few minutes to complete and they promise a fast and fair decision. To find out more, go to iwoca.co.uk
Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
RIDE OUR GIRO If you have a smart turbo trainer, you can ride Our Giro on the RGT digital platform. Each stage is around 30 kilometres long and will be online for three days. Go to RGTcycling.com/our-giro for details of how to download the app and sign up. Thanks to RGT and Veloviewer.com for helping us create Our Giro. GIRO WINE CLUB Our friends at Dvinecellars.com have put together a ‘Selezione Our Giro’ case of 12 wines from around Italy. There’s also a ‘Baby Giro’ case of six bottles. Use the code ‘Our Giro’ when ordering. Cases can be delivered in the UK, excluding the Highlands and Northern Ireland, and a donation from each case will be made to the Scuola Ciclismo in Cene.
Part two of our look at the life and times of the Giro d'Italia's record stage winner Mario Cipollini picks up the story in 2002, as he has just won the rainbow jersey at the World Championships.
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe look at the final seasons before his eventual retirement, which he had threatened a couple of times previously. The ceremonial skinsuits were a reflection of his flamboyance and marketing power but the doping allegations and darker accusations since retirement have all complicated the Lion King's legacy.
We also hear Mark Cavendish's verdict on who was the greatest sprinter.
And there's the latest selection from Ciro for his Giro d'Italia dream team.
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COMING TOMORROW...
We look back at Italia '90. Not the football World Cup or Nessun Dorma, although both feature, but the Giro led from start to finish by Gianni Bugno, who gave Italy her first victory for four years at a time when the country's confidence was sky high.
WATCH OUR FIRST FILM
Our first film, And So We Rode… is available for Friends of the Podcast to watch now. This is the story of Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne packing their bags and going on a bikepacking trip in the French and Italian Alps after their pro team Aqua Blue Sport folded mid-season. It costs £15 to sign up as a Friend of the Podcast and you will be able to watch the film as well as listen to all our special episodes. thecyclingpodcast.com/join
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iwoca became The Cycling Podcast’s title sponsors in March 2020. Iwoca specialises in supporting small businesses and can lend between £1,000 and £250,000. Applications can take only a few minutes to complete and they promise a fast and fair decision. To find out more, go to iwoca.co.uk
Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
RIDE OUR GIRO If you have a smart turbo trainer, you can ride Our Giro on the RGT digital platform. Each stage is around 30 kilometres long and will be online for three days. Go to RGTcycling.com/our-giro for details of how to download the app and sign up. Thanks to RGT and Veloviewer.com for helping us create Our Giro. GIRO WINE CLUB Our friends at Dvinecellars.com have put together a ‘Selezione Our Giro’ case of 12 wines from around Italy. There’s also a ‘Baby Giro’ case of six bottles. Use the code ‘Our Giro’ when ordering. Cases can be delivered in the UK, excluding the Highlands and Northern Ireland, and a donation from each case will be made to the Scuola Ciclismo in Cene.
Mario Cipollini holds the record for the most Giro d’Italia stage wins and so we are going to spend the next two stages of Our Giro looking at his career and life, which has been as turbulent as it’s been flamboyant. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe take a broadly chronological look at the career of the man who was nicknamed the Lion King and Super Mario, who marketing men wanted to use to sell their products and who was the undisputed fastest man in the world for a period in the 1990s. This part takes us to the peak of his career, the 2002 season when he threatened to retire and yet won Milan-Sanremo and the World Championship title. We hear from two of his contemporaries in the bunch sprints, Tom Steels and Ivan Quaranta, from Matt White and from photographer Graham Watson, who saw the Lion King up close. There’s also wine of the day, a delicious simple lunch that combines carbs to brilliant effect, and the regular amacord feature delving into The Cycling Podcast’s back catalogue. As Daniel points out, at the start of the 2000s, the five biggest names in professional cycling were Lance Armstrong, Marco Pantani, Jan Ullrich, Frank Vandenbroucke and Mario Cipollini… All achieved greatness as well as notoriety and could be seen as poster boys for an era when the professionals rode as close to the sun as they could. Strap yourselves in to see if we can tame the Lion King. The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science In Sport.
COMING TOMORROW...Our two-part look at the life and career of Mario Cipollini concludes, covering the end of his racing days and a life away from the sport that has been turbulent.
WATCH OUR FIRST FILM
Our first film, And So We Rode… is available for Friends of the Podcast to watch now. This is the story of Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne packing their bags and going on a bikepacking trip in the French and Italian Alps after their pro team Aqua Blue Sport folded mid-season. It costs £15 to sign up as a Friend of the Podcast and you will be able to watch the film as well as listen to all our special episodes. thecyclingpodcast.com/join
OUR SPONSORS
iwoca became The Cycling Podcast’s title sponsors in March 2020. Iwoca specialises in supporting small businesses and can lend between £1,000 and £250,000. Applications can take only a few minutes to complete and they promise a fast and fair decision. To find out more, go to iwoca.co.uk
Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
This episode is also supported by Laka, a community of cyclists all working together to provide insurance cover for their bikes and equipment. To find out more, go to laka.co.uk
RIDE OUR GIRO If you have a smart turbo trainer, you can ride Our Giro on the RGT digital platform. Each stage is around 30 kilometres long and will be online for three days. Go to RGTcycling.com/our-giro for details of how to download the app and sign up. Thanks to RGT and Veloviewer.com for helping us create Our Giro. GIRO WINE CLUB Our friends at Dvinecellars.com have put together a ‘Selezione Our Giro’ case of 12 wines from around Italy. There’s also a ‘Baby Giro’ case of six bottles. Use the code ‘Our Giro’ when ordering. Cases can be delivered in the UK, excluding the Highlands and Northern Ireland, and a donation from each case will be made to the Scuola Ciclismo in Cene.
Our Giro reaches Mount Etna for its first summit finish and, appropriately enough, the story of one of the Giro’s most famous explosions. Call it a capitulation, a hunger flat, a bonk – cycling has as many terms for running out of fuel and hitting the wall as Eskimos have for ice. In 2002 Cadel Evans, the Australian former mountain biker taking part in his first Grand Tour, was in the pink jersey and only had one mountain to hang on. Evans was riding for Mapei, the world’s best team, in what was, as we discussed in our stage 4 episode, a controversial, scandal-ridden Giro. In this episode we speak to Evans about his baptism of fire and about the stage when his body said ‘enough’ – he tells us what it was like to ride for Mapei, to have a teammate expelled after testing positive and to find himself in the lead so close to the finish. Although Evans didn’t win, the experience did provide an important building block in a career that would see him win the Tour de France nine years later. Amarcord is our daily visit to the vaults and in today’s we revisit Giromondo, an episode of Kilometre 0 from the first Giro we covered in full as The Cycling Podcast in 2016.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science In Sport.
FURTHER READING OR WATCHING... To see the stage where it all fell apart for Cadel Evans (with Italian commentary) go here on YouTube. COMING TOMORROW... In stage seven of Our Giro we’ll be embarking on the first of a two-part special on the life and times of Mario Cipollini, the most colourful, flamboyant and controversial sprinter in Giro history – as well as the holder of the record for most stage wins. WATCH OUR FIRST FILM Our first film, And So We Rode… is available for Friends of the Podcast to watch now. This is the story of Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne packing their bags and going on a bikepacking trip in the French and Italian Alps after their pro team Aqua Blue Sport folded mid-season. It costs £15 to sign up as a Friend of the Podcast and you will be able to watch the film as well as listen to all our special episodes. thecyclingpodcast.com/join
OUR SPONSORS
iwoca became The Cycling Podcast’s title sponsors in March 2020. Iwoca specialises in supporting small businesses and can lend between £1,000 and £250,000. Applications can take only a few minutes to complete and they promise a fast and fair decision. To find out more, go to iwoca.co.uk
Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
This episode is also supported by Laka, a community of cyclists all working together to provide insurance cover for their bikes and equipment. To find out more, go to laka.co.uk
RIDE OUR GIRO If you have a smart turbo trainer, you can ride Our Giro on the RGT digital platform. Each stage is around 30 kilometres long and will be online for three days. Go to RGTcycling.com/our-giro for details of how to download the app and sign up. Thanks to RGT and Veloviewer.com for helping us create Our Giro. GIRO WINE CLUB Our friends at Dvinecellars.com have put together a ‘Selezione Our Giro’ case of 12 wines from around Italy. There’s also a ‘Baby Giro’ case of six bottles. Use the code ‘Our Giro’ when ordering. Cases can be delivered in the UK, excluding the Highlands and Northern Ireland, and a donation from each case will be made to the Scuola Ciclismo in Cene.
Our Giro is still on the island of Sicily and Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe turn their attention to the ‘Prosecco Supernovas’, or one-hit wonders: riders who burnt brightly but briefly at the Giro d’Italia. They include Ivan Quaranta, the sprinter who upstaged Mario Cipollini at the 1999 Giro. Twenty-one years later, Daniel caught up with Quaranta to find out where – or, indeed, if – it all went wrong. We look at the strange case of the Swedes at the Giro, recalling Gosta Pettersson’s surprise win in 1971 and speaking to Tommy Prim who, a decade later, twice finished second overall. Then there is Damiano Cunego, who was just 22 when he won the 2004 race. Cunego looked set to become Italian cycling’s next big star but, in a career that continued another 14 years, he never again went close – we investigate why. Amarcord is our regular look back at The Cycling Podcast’s previous experiences at the Giro and in this one we join Lionel and Daniel in the midst of a casino in the Dolomites.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science In Sport. COMING TOMORROW... In stage six of Our Giro we’ll be looking at the 2002 race and Cadel Evans’ doomed attempt to win his debut Grand Tour. In Bonk! we speak to Evans about his time with the Mapei team, the controversial 2002 Giro and his infamous collapse while wearing the pink jersey. WATCH OUR FIRST FILM Our first film, And So We Rode… is available for Friends of the Podcast to watch now. This is the story of Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne packing their bags and going on a bikepacking trip in the French and Italian Alps after their pro team Aqua Blue Sport folded mid-season. It costs £15 to sign up as a Friend of the Podcast and you will be able to watch the film as well as listen to all our special episodes. thecyclingpodcast.com/join
OUR SPONSORS
iwoca became The Cycling Podcast’s title sponsors in March 2020. Iwoca specialises in supporting small businesses and can lend between £1,000 and £250,000. Applications can take only a few minutes to complete and they promise a fast and fair decision. To find out more, go to iwoca.co.uk
Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
RIDE OUR GIRO If you have a smart turbo trainer, you can ride Our Giro on the RGT digital platform. Each stage is around 30 kilometres long and will be online for three days. Go to RGTcycling.com/our-giro for details of how to download the app and sign up. Thanks to RGT and Veloviewer.com for helping us create Our Giro. GIRO WINE CLUB Our friends at Dvinecellars.com have put together a ‘Selezione Our Giro’ case of 12 wines from around Italy. There’s also a ‘Baby Giro’ case of six bottles. Use the code ‘Our Giro’ when ordering. Cases can be delivered in the UK, excluding the Highlands and Northern Ireland, and a donation from each case will be made to the Scuola Ciclismo in Cene.
Our Giro arrives in Sicily and Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the race’s rich history of controversy, tactical ruthlessness and downright cheating. From police raids to outlandish excuses for positive doping tests to Richard’s shocking wine-tasting notes, we cover it all. We talk about Eddy Merckx’s positive test at Savona in 1969, the day a rampant Marco Pantani was stopped in his tracks and kicked out of the race, the stage that pushed the legendary race director Vincenzo Torriani to the limit, and the internal rivalry between Carerra teammates Roberto Visentini (the defending champion) and Stephen Roche in 1987. Plus there’s arguably the first social media controversy.
Having visited Sicily with the Giro twice in recent years, our coverage of the mafia has been perhaps superficial so we get the lowdown on the organised crime network from an expert, author and historian John Dickie. And Lionel cooks a delightful summery dish of pasta alla norma with the expert guidance of award-winning food writer Felicity Cloake.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science In Sport.
The title music for Our Giro coverage is called Cozze by Amaraterra.
FURTHER READINGThe Eagle of the Canavese by Herbie Sykes Mountain High by Daniel Friebe Mountain Higher by Daniel Friebe The Cannibal by Daniel Friebe
Cosa Nostra by John Dickie
Mafia Botherhoods by John Dickie
Mafia Republic: Italy's Criminal Curse. Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta and Camorra from 1946 to the Present by John Dickie Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia
COMING TOMORROW...In our stage five episode we will look at some of The Supernovas – riders who burned brightly, some of them only briefly, at the Giro but failed to replicate that sort of form at other races. The Prosecco Supernovas, if you will.
WATCH OUR FIRST FILM
Our first film, And So We Rode… is available for Friends of the Podcast to watch now. This is the story of Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne packing their bags and going on a bikepacking trip in the French and Italian Alps after their pro team Aqua Blue Sport folded mid-season. It costs £15 to sign up as a Friend of the Podcast and you will be able to watch the film as well as listen to all our special episodes. thecyclingpodcast.com/join
OUR SPONSORS
iwoca became The Cycling Podcast’s title sponsors in March 2020. Iwoca specialises in supporting small businesses and can lend between £1,000 and £250,000. Applications can take only a few minutes to complete and they promise a fast and fair decision. To find out more, go to iwoca.co.uk
Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code **SISCP25
RIDE OUR GIRO**
If you have a smart turbo trainer, you can ride Our Giro on the RGT digital platform. Each stage is around 30 kilometres long and will be online for three days. Go to RGTcycling.com/our-giro for details of how to download the app and sign up. Thanks to RGT and Veloviewer.com for helping us create Our Giro.
GIRO WINE CLUB
Our friends at Dvinecellars.com have put together a ‘Selezione Our Giro’ case of 12 wines from around Italy. There’s also a ‘Baby Giro’ case of six bottles. Use the code ‘Our Giro’ when ordering. Cases can be delivered in the UK, excluding the Highlands and Northern Ireland, and a donation from each case will be made to the Scuola Ciclismo in Cene.
It’s movie night for The Cycling Podcast as we look back at Stars and Watercarriers, Jørgen Leth’s film made at the 1973 Giro d’Italia.
Richard Moore speaks to the filmmaker Leth about how the film came about and about the story he was trying to tell. The 1973 Giro was dominated by Eddy Merckx, who wore the pink jersey from start to finish. The race began in Verviers in Belgium and made its way through Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland, not reaching Italian soil until the seventh day. The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science In Sport.
The title music for Our Giro coverage is called Cozze by Amaraterra.
FURTHER WATCHING & READING
Jørgen Leth: http://www.lethfilm.dk
Films: Stars and Watercarriers, La Course en Tête, The Greatest Show on Earth, Time Trial, Sunday in Hell Books: The Cannibal, a biography of Eddy Merckx by Daniel Friebe
COMING TOMORROW...
In stage four of Our Giro we’ll be looking at skulduggery. We talk double-crossing tactics on the road, drugs raids and Richard’s wine-tasting notes. WATCH OUR FIRST FILM Our first film, And So We Rode… is available for Friends of the Podcast to watch now. This is the story of Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne packing their bags and going on a bikepacking trip in the French and Italian Alps after their pro team Aqua Blue Sport folded mid-season. It costs £15 to sign up as a Friend of the Podcast and you will be able to watch the film as well as listen to all our special episodes. thecyclingpodcast.com/join
OUR SPONSORS
iwoca became The Cycling Podcast’s title sponsors in March 2020. Iwoca specialises in supporting small businesses and can lend between £1,000 and £250,000. Applications can take only a few minutes to complete and they promise a fast and fair decision. To find out more, go to iwoca.co.uk
Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code **SISCP25
RIDE OUR GIRO**
If you have a smart turbo trainer, you can ride Our Giro on the RGT digital platform. Each stage is around 30 kilometres long and will be online for three days. Go to RGTcycling.com/our-giro for details of how to download the app and sign up. Thanks to RGT and Veloviewer.com for helping us create Our Giro.
GIRO WINE CLUB
Our friends at Dvinecellars.com have put together a ‘Selezione Our Giro’ case of 12 wines from around Italy. There’s also a ‘Baby Giro’ case of six bottles. Use the code ‘Our Giro’ when ordering. Cases can be delivered in the UK, excluding the Highlands and Northern Ireland, and a donation from each case will be made to the Scuola Ciclismo in Cene.
The second stage of Our Giro focuses on Hungary, which was to be the host of the Grande Partenza this year.
Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe as they ask why Hungary has not produced as many international class riders as comparable nations. Only one Hungarian – László Bodrogi, a contemporary of Fabian Cancellara and Filippo Pozzato in the Mapei development squad at the start of this century – has taken part in the Tour de France. No Hungarian has won the Peace Race. But that might change because two promising 21-year-olds turned professional for World Tour teams this season. We hear from both – Mitchelton-Scott’s Barnabás Peák and Team CCC’s Atilla Valter. Could they develop a rivalry similar to Pog and Rog in Slovenia in future? The biggest name in Hungarian cycling in recent years is also one of the most controversial. Istvan Varjas occupies a space where e-bike technology meets motor ‘doping’. We hear from the subject of documentaries and articles as he expresses scepticism at the UCI’s battery detection methods. It’s also ironic that Varjas’s e-racing team won the e-Giro a couple of years ago. We introduce a couple of semi-regular features for this Giro – Ciro Scognamiglio of La Gazzetta dello Sport picks the first rider for his Dream Team. Who is it? Who else could it be but his Soul Sister? And in il Ristorante, Lionel discusses Hungary’s national dish, goulash, with award-winning food writer Felicity Cloake. Is it a soup, or is it a stew? He then cooks it for Felicity to run her forensic eye over. The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science In Sport. The title music for Our Giro coverage is called Cozze by Amaraterra. COMING TOMORROW... It’s film night on The Cycling Podcast so check out Stars and Watercarriers on YouTube before Monday’s stage three goes live. We speak to filmmaker Jørgen Leth about the documentary which followed the 1973 Giro from its start in Verviers, Belgium. OUR SPONSORS
iwoca became The Cycling Podcast’s title sponsors in March 2020. Iwoca specialises in supporting small businesses and can lend between £1,000 and £250,000. Applications can take only a few minutes to complete and they promise a fast and fair decision. To find out more, go to iwoca.co.uk
Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25This episode is also supported by Beer52. You can get a case of eight craft beers delivered to your home for £5 by going to beer52.com/cycle
RIDE OUR GIRO If you have a smart turbo trainer, you can ride Our Giro on the RGT digital platform. Each stage is around 30 kilometres long and will be online for three days. Go to RGTcycling.com/our-giro for details of how to download the app and sign up. Thanks to RGT and Veloviewer.com for helping us create Our Giro.
STACY SNYDER’S MUGSStacy's mugs sold out within 12 minutes of going on sale yesterday. Another batch will go on sale later on during Our Giro. GIRO WINE CLUB Our friends at Dvinecellars.com have put together a ‘Selezione Our Giro’ case of 12 wines from around Italy. There’s also a ‘Baby Giro’ case of six bottles. Use the code ‘Our Giro’ when ordering. Cases can be delivered in the UK, excluding the Highlands and Northern Ireland, and a donation from each case will be made to the Scuola Ciclismo in Cene.
Welcome to the first stage of Our Giro, a series of podcasts by Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe celebrating the best the Giro d’Italia and Italy have to offer. With the Giro d’Italia postponed because of the coronavirus crisis, The Cycling Podcast is embarking on a virtual grand tour instead. Starting in Budapest and finishing in Milan, our route will more or less follow that of the real 2020 Giro but with a few diversions thrown in along the way. Over the course of three weeks we will tell stories old and new about the Giro. We’ll have interviews and familiar voices and we’ll capture the flavour and sounds of Italy without leaving home. We hope it’ll have all the elements of our usual grand tour coverage, just without the racing. In this first episode, we look back at the 1946 Giro, the first after the Second World War which saw the rivalry between Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi intensify, to see if there are any parallels between that race and the one that follows this coronavirus crisis. We speak to authors and historians John Dickie and John Foot, who also happened to be Daniel’s Italian professors. There’s also the introduction of some of the regular features we’ll be bringing to you over the next few weeks. We hope you join us on this virtual journey and enjoy the ride. The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science In Sport. The title music for Our Giro coverage is called Cozze by Amaraterra. FURTHER READING Pedalare! Pedalare! by John Foot and Disastro! by John Dickie and John Foot Dino Buzzati's The Giro d'Italia: Coppi versus Bartali at the 1949 Tour of Italy (VeloPress) COMING TOMORROW...
The Hungarians. Who is the only Hungarian to take part in the Tour de France? Meet two youngsters from the country who are hoping to make a splash in the World Tour and hear a rare interview with Istvan Varjas, one of the most controversial people in cycling. OUR SPONSORS
iwoca became The Cycling Podcast’s title sponsors in March 2020. Iwoca specialises in supporting small businesses and can lend between £1,000 and £250,000. Applications can take only a few minutes to complete and they promise a fast and fair decision. To find out more, go to iwoca.co.uk
Science In Sport is The Cycling Podcast’s longest-standing supporter. It’s a relationship that stretches back to the 2016 Giro d’Italia. Listeners can get 25% off Science In Sport’s range of energy drinks, bars, gels and cakes at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
RIDE OUR GIRO If you have a smart turbo trainer, you can ride Our Giro on the RGT digital platform. Each stage is around 30 kilometres long and will be online for three days. Go to RGTcycling.com/our-giro for details of how to download the app and sign up. Thanks to RGT and Veloviewer.com for helping us create Our Giro. STACY SNYDER’S MUGS ON SALE You may have to be quick but the first batch of Stacy Snyder’s Giro d’Italia mugs and cappuccino cups go on sale as soon as this episode finishes (assuming you started listening when it was first uploaded). This year, we are raising money for the Scuola Ciclismo in Cene, near Bergamo. This is a cycling school in one of the areas worst hit by the coronavirus crisis and a cause suggested by Team CCC’s performance coach Marco Pinotti in a recent episode. Go to Stacy’s Etsy page to buy the cups. https://www.etsy.com/shop/SnyderCeramics
GIRO WINE CLUB Our friends at Dvinecellars.com have put together a ‘Selezione Our Giro’ case of 12 wines from around Italy. There’s also a ‘Baby Giro’ case of six bottles. Use the code ‘Our Giro’ when ordering. Cases can be delivered in the UK, excluding the Highlands and Northern Ireland, and a donation from each case will be made to the Scuola Ciclismo in Cene.
In this episode of Life in the Peloton, Mitch Docker catches up with five-time world points race champion Cameron Meyer.
Meyer won back-to-back points race – or the points score, as the Aussies call it – titles in 2009 and 2010 and more or less made the discipline his own.
Heralded as a potential stage race contender, he turned professional for the Garmin-Slipstream team and in this episode he tells the story of how his first European stage race as a pro was the Giro d'Italia.
In a revealing conversation, he also talks about the moment he decided to walk away from the sport mid-season to re-evaluate what life was all about for him before returning to the Mitchelton-Scott team a little over a year later.
Theme musicThe theme music for Life in the Peloton was composed by Pete Shelley, who was lead singer of the punk band Buzzcocks. It was commissioned by the production company behind Channel 4’s coverage of the Tour de France in the 1980s and was used as the theme music for the nightly highlights show. Pete died in December 2018. We were given permission by Pete’s widow and his manager to continue using the music for the theme tune to Life in the Peloton. To hear more about the music, listen to the Andre Greipel episode of Life in the Peloton.
Our Giro starts on Saturday and in this episode we look ahead to what's in store during our three-week virtual journey round Italy.
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe will be celebrating the best the Giro and Italy have to offer. The classic races, the riders, the food and wine, the culture, countryside and history.
We'll look back at some memorable moments from our time covering the Giro d'Italia and hear from some familiar voices.
Before that, we discuss the impact of the coronavirus-related lockdown on the riders and races, hear from Mitchelton-Scott sports director Matt White and former Giro winner Tom Dumoulin. There's also another update from Larry Warbasse and the first details of how our Friends of the Podcast can watch our first film, And So We Rode...
The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science In Sport.
STARTING ON SATURDAY... OUR GIRO
The Giro d'Italia may not be taking place in May this season but The Cycling Podcast will be releasing daily episodes telling the story of Our Giro. Race director Daniel Friebe has designed the route and we'll delve into our memory banks to celebrate the great race. There'll be the usual flavour of Italy along the way too... Here's our teaser.
RIDE OUR GIRO ON RGTEveryone can ride sections of Our Giro on the digital cycling platform RGT. Around 30 kilometres of each stage will be available to ride for a few days. Ride as much or as little as you like. RGT's platform is free for the duration of Our Giro. Download the apps from rgtcycling.com now so you are ready for stage one – a short time trial in Budapest – on Saturday. Alternatively, check out thecyclingpodcast.com/ourgiro
HOW TO BUY STACY SNYDER'S GIRO CUPS ON SATURDAYStacy Snyder's handmade cups will go on sale on Saturday. Check our Twitter feed for details. The cups will be available from Stacy's Etsy store. Check out Stacy's website too.
OUR SUPPORTERS
iwoca is title sponsor to The Cycling Podcast. Over the past seven years iwoca has grown from a small start-up to one of the fastest-growing business lenders in Europe. Now they’re a team of more than 300 in London and Frankfurt working towards the goal of funding one million small businesses, including cafes, spin studios and bike shops. They can lend between £1,000 and £250,000 and make it quick and easy to get a decision. If you are interested in finding out more about what iwoca can do for small businesses go to: iwoca: Fast, fair and flexible business funding
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport. For a 25% discount on all your Science in Sport sports nutrition products use the code SISCP25 on www.scienceinsport.com
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BECOME A FRIEND OF THE PODCASTSigning up as a Friend of the Podcast has never been easier. Our new system will get you connected in just a few clicks. Why sign up? Apart from getting access to our special episodes throughout the year – there are five online already – you will be helping us to keep The Cycling Podcast's team car on the road to provide daily Grand Tour coverage. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com/subscribe. We've frozen the price again – it's just £15, which will work out at less than £1 per special episode. If you want to pay more we'll send you a copy of our new book, The Grand Tour Diaries.
THE GRAND TOUR DIARIESAvailable now at thecyclingpodcast.com/book. All Friends of the Podcast can get a 20% discount.
The May episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin is an in-depth look at the career of the world’s top female cyclist, Annemiek van Vleuten. We hear from Van Vleuten herself, her longtime coach Louis Delahaije, her Mitchelton-Scott teammate Lucy Kennedy and one of her rivals, Lizzy Banks of Bigla-Katusha. Van Vleuten is well known for her commitment to training and long hours in the saddle, but she tells Orla Chennaoui that she doesn’t consider this a sacrifice since she enjoys it so much. Orla, Rose Manley and Richard Moore also discuss Van Vleuten’s progression, from an early win at the Tour of Flanders in 2011 to her long solo ride to win the world race title in Yorkshire last year. The Cycling Podcast Féminin is supported by iwoca and Science in Sport
For 25% off all your Science in Sport products to go www.scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25. This episode is sponsored by Stitch Fix, an online personal styling service for men and women, where an expert stylist picks clothes just for you based on your taste, size and price preferences, and sends them straight to your door. Traditional clothes shopping isn’t an option for any of us at the moment, but Stitch Fix are here to help you treat yourself without needing to leave the house. Stitch Fix personal stylists (who all work safely from home) are ready to select you five surprise items to hopefully put a smile on your face when we all need it the most. How does Stitch Fix work? It’s easy and actually really fun – you go to their website and complete a style profile about your clothing preferences, shapes, sizes and what you like to wear. Then it’s over to your stylist who’ll hand select and send to you 5 items of clothing and accessories, which you discover when they arrive at your front door along with a nice card including outfit inspiration and style tips. Try everything on, keep and pay for what you like, send back the rest. Delivery and returns are free, and includes an option free home courier pick up (particularly ideal at the moment). Stitch Fix have also extended their try-on window from one week to six weeks, so you’ve got extra time to send anything back, which, again, is pretty handy at the moment. And the best bit, you pay just £10 for your stylist’s time, which is redeemable against anything you keep. If you fancy giving yourself a treat, go to http://www.Stitchfix.co.uk/cycling
In this week's episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe reveal a few more details of the upcoming coverage of Our Giro d'Italia.
Our virtual journey round Italy kicks off in Budapest on Saturday, May 9 and over the course of three weeks we will delve into the history and culture of the Giro d'Italia, capturing the sounds and flavour of the first grand tour of the season.
There'll also be an opportunity to ride part of our virtual Giro every day, but stay tuned for the fine details on that.
In this week's episode we hear from Dave Brailsford, the boss of Team Ineos, as he marks the first anniversary of his working relationship with the chemical company owned by Jim Ratcliffe. Brailsford also talks about the impact of the coronavirus on professional cycling.
There's François Thomazeau's latest song and Larry Warbasse talks about e-racing, having taken part in the Digital Swiss stage race.
DONATE TO RYSZARD SZURKOWSKI
We heard from Herbie Sykes about Ryszard Szurkowski, who won the first edition of the Peace Race 50 years ago and, aged 72, was paralysed in a crash during a race in Cologne a couple of year ago. The Lions Club of Poznan has set up a crowdfunding page to raise money to buy a customised vehicle for Ryszard. If you'd like to donate, you can do so here: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/herbiesykes
COMING SOON... OUR GIRO
The Giro d'Italia may not be taking place in May this season but The Cycling Podcast will be releasing daily episodes telling the story of Our Giro. Race director Daniel Friebe has designed the route and we'll delve into our memory banks to celebrate the great race. There'll be the usual flavour of Italy along the way too... Here's our teaser.
OUR SUPPORTERS
iwoca is title sponsor to The Cycling Podcast. Over the past seven years iwoca has grown from a small start-up to one of the fastest-growing business lenders in Europe. Now they’re a team of more than 300 in London and Frankfurt working towards the goal of funding one million small businesses, including cafes, spin studios and bike shops. They can lend between £1,000 and £250,000 and make it quick and easy to get a decision. If you are interested in finding out more about what iwoca can do for small businesses go to: iwoca: Fast, fair and flexible business funding
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport. For a 25% discount on all your Science in Sport sports nutrition products use the code SISCP25 on www.scienceinsport.com
This episode is also supported by Laka, a community of cyclists all joining forces to provide each cover for bikes and equipment in order to keep premiums low and ensure pay-outs in the event of a claim are swift. Check out laka.co.uk
KEEP UP TO DATESign up for The Cycling Podcast's weekly email newsletter to keep up with what's going on behind the scenes. This week, Lionel writes about the return of Explore. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com
BECOME A FRIEND OF THE PODCASTSigning up as a Friend of the Podcast has never been easier. Our new system will get you connected in just a few clicks. Why sign up? Apart from getting access to our special episodes throughout the year – there are five online already – you will be helping us to keep The Cycling Podcast's team car on the road to provide daily Grand Tour coverage. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com/subscribe. We've frozen the price again – it's just £15, which will work out at less than £1 per special episode. If you want to pay more we'll send you a copy of our new book, The Grand Tour Diaries.
THE GRAND TOUR DIARIESAvailable now at thecyclingpodcast.com/book. All Friends of the Podcast can get a 20% discount.
Despite the absence of a cobbled season, Lizzy Banks and Tom Whalley talk about the ways in which cycling technology has attempted to tame the cobbles. There’s a look at some retro editions of Roubaix, particularly those in the early 90s, where it looked as if road bikes equipped with front and rear suspension were going to be the dominant force on the cobbles. This begs the question, what happened to full suspension road bikes?
Lizzy also chats to Tommaso Cappella from Vittoria, about the ways in which tyre choice for the cobbled classics has evolved over the years.
And Neil Shirley talks about the equipment testing that NTT Pro-Cycling did on the cobbles back in February.
There’s also an excerpt of Cycling Podcast Race Radio from the inaugural “No Drop Cappuccino Ride.”
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Mitch Docker is back with the Lotto-Soudal pro rider Adam Hansen.
In this conversation, recorded at the start of the year during the Tour Down Under, Mitch had three key questions for Adam, and his answers were fascinating.
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Keep up to date with everything that’s going on with Life in the Peloton at my website lifeinthepeloton.com
Don't miss the bonus episode – Talking Luft – in which Mitch talks style and stuff over on his original Life in the Peloton podcast feed.
Check out my range of Life in the Peloton merchandise on our Etsy store too, from beanies and caps to embroidered tees, logo tees and much more. Visit the Etsy store.
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Theme musicThe theme music for Life in the Peloton was composed by Pete Shelley, who was lead singer of the punk band Buzzcocks. It was commissioned by the production company behind Channel 4’s coverage of the Tour de France in the 1980s and was used as the theme music for the nightly highlights show. Pete died in December 2018. We were given permission by Pete’s widow and his manager to continue using the music for the theme tune to Life in the Peloton. To hear more about the music, listen to the Andre Greipel episode of Life in the Peloton.
To mark the anniversary of the death of Michele Scarponi, we're revisiting this special episode of Kilometre 0 from 2017, in which his friends and colleagues pay tribute.
The episode was recorded on the eve of the 16th Stage of the 2017 Giro d'Italia in which the peloton rode from Rovetta to Bormio, ascending the Mortirolo, the scene of one of Scarponi's finest hours.
Scarponi was sadly killed in a road traffic collision on 22 April 2017 while training a few kilometres from his home of Filottrano in the Italian region of Le Marche.
In another bumper edition of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe enjoy a ramble through the Ardennes, recalling memorable editions of Liège-Bastogne-Liège and also discuss ASO's plans to hold the Tour de France at the end of August.
**00:00 Introduction
07:50 François Thomazeau sings...**This week, in honour of Bernard Hinault's win in the 1980 Liège-Bastogne-Liège, when the weather was so bad the race was nicknamed Neige-Bastogne-Neige, François sings Snow by Randy Newman.
13:00 Part one – A ramble through the ArdennesWe set out from Liège, turn at Bastogne and head back to the industrial heart of Wallonia in a potted trip down memory lane. Daniel compares Flèche Wallonne to Lana del Rey and calls it the uphill cheese roll. 34:00 Mike WoodsHear from Canadian Mike Woods, who broke his leg in a crash at Paris-Nice and ended up in a French hospital just as the coronavirus crisis was taking hold. He has enjoyed a couple of excellent editions of Liège-Bastogne-Liège, including second place two years ago.
51:00 Lockdown LarryAnother despatch from AG2R-La Mondiale pro Larry Warbasse.
1:00:05 The coronavirus partWhat's behind the Tour de France's decision to announce new dates for the race – and is it a realistic prospect? Plus we hear from Geraint Thomas, who recently rode three 12-hour shifts on Zwift to raise money for the NHS.
WILLIE SMIT EPISODEThe episode featuring Willie Smit that Richard mentioned is here.
JOIN OUR NON-DROP CAPPUCCINO RIDE ON ZWIFT THIS SUNDAYOn Sunday we hosted a meet-up for 50 riders on Zwift. In time for this Sunday, Zwift has raised the meet-up limit to 100, so if you'd like to join Lionel and the rest the ride will be one-hour, starting at 10am (BST).
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WATCH ON YOUTUBE1980 Liège-Bastogne-Liège – Hinault in the snow (short)
1987 Liège-Bastogne-Liège – Roche and Criquielion caught by Argentin
COMING SOON... OUR GIRO
The Giro d'Italia may not be taking place in May this season but The Cycling Podcast will be releasing daily episodes telling the story of Our Giro. Race director Daniel Friebe has designed the route and we'll delve into our memory banks to celebrate the great race. There'll be the usual flavour of Italy along the way too... Here's our teaser.
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iwoca is title sponsor to The Cycling Podcast. Over the past seven years iwoca has grown from a small start-up to one of the fastest-growing business lenders in Europe. Now they’re a team of more than 300 in London and Frankfurt working towards the goal of funding one million small businesses, including cafes, spin studios and bike shops. They can lend between £1,000 and £250,000 and make it quick and easy to get a decision. If you are interested in finding out more about what iwoca can do for small businesses go to: iwoca: Fast, fair and flexible business funding
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport. For a 25% discount on all your Science in Sport sports nutrition products use the code SISCP25 on www.scienceinsport.com
This episode is also supported by Laka, a community of cyclists all joining forces to provide each cover for bikes and equipment in order to keep premiums low and ensure pay-outs in the event of a claim are swift. Check out laka.co.uk
KEEP UP TO DATESign up for The Cycling Podcast's weekly email newsletter to keep up with what's going on behind the scenes. This week, Lionel writes about the return of Explore. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com
BECOME A FRIEND OF THE PODCASTSigning up as a Friend of the Podcast has never been easier. Our new system will get you connected in just a few clicks. Why sign up? Apart from getting access to our special episodes throughout the year – there are five online already – you will be helping us to keep The Cycling Podcast's team car on the road to provide daily Grand Tour coverage. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com/subscribe. We've frozen the price again – it's just £15, which will work out at less than £1 per special episode. If you want to pay more we'll send you a copy of our new book, The Grand Tour Diaries.
THE GRAND TOUR DIARIESAvailable now at thecyclingpodcast.com/book. All Friends of the Podcast can get a 20% discount.
This week's episode is a Netherlands-themed ramble to go alongside our latest special for Friends of the Podcast, which is called Van der Poel.
Introduction 00:00
Francois's song 8:16This week François Thomazeau sings In the Dutch Mountains by the Nits – an homage to the Amstel Gold Race.
Part one – An Amstel Gold Race ramble 11:48
In an extended ramble, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe talk about the Amstel Gold Race, focusing on last year's victory by Mathieu van der Poel. We hear a snippet of Richard's special episode, which feature's Mathieu's dad, Adri. And we discuss Van der Poel Snr's career and the similarities between the two. We also weigh up the Amstel Gold Race, the youngest of the main spring Classics. Plus, hear from Dutch journalist Raymond Kerckhoffs about Van der Poel, the rivalry between Jan Raas and Peter Post and Tom Dumoulin and Jumbo-Visma.
Lockdown Larry – 1:05:00The latest bulletin from AG2R-La Mondiale rider Larry Warbasse corrects Daniel's geography.
Part two – The coronavirus part 1:09:00The latest news from the world of pro cycling plus hear from Mitchelton-Scott pro Jack Haig about the difficulty of maintaining focus and motivation for training during these extraordinary times.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science in Sport.
WATCH ON YOUTUBEThe 2019 Amstel Gold Race, won by Mathieu van der Poel.
The 1990 Amstel Gold Race, won by Mathieu's dad Adri.
The 1987 Amstel Gold Race, Malcolm Elliott v the Dutch.
COMING SOON... OUR GIRO
The Giro d'Italia may not be taking place in May this season but The Cycling Podcast will be releasing daily episodes telling the story of Our Giro. Race director Daniel Friebe has designed the route and we'll delve into our memory banks to celebrate the great race. There'll be the usual flavour of Italy along the way too... Here's our teaser.
OUR SUPPORTERS
iwoca is title sponsor to The Cycling Podcast. Over the past seven years iwoca has grown from a small start-up to one of the fastest-growing business lenders in Europe. Now they’re a team of more than 300 in London and Frankfurt working towards the goal of funding one million small businesses, including cafes, spin studios and bike shops. They can lend between £1,000 and £250,000 and make it quick and easy to get a decision. If you are interested in finding out more about what iwoca can do for small businesses go to: iwoca: Fast, fair and flexible business funding
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport. For a 25% discount on all your Science in Sport sports nutrition products use the code SISCP25 on www.scienceinsport.com
This episode is also supported by Laka, a community of cyclists all joining forces to provide each cover for bikes and equipment in order to keep premiums low and ensure pay-outs in the event of a claim are swift. Check out laka.co.uk
KEEP UP TO DATESign up for The Cycling Podcast's weekly email newsletter to keep up with what's going on behind the scenes. This week, Lionel writes about the return of Explore. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com
BECOME A FRIEND OF THE PODCASTSigning up as a Friend of the Podcast has never been easier. Our new system will get you connected in just a few clicks. Why sign up? Apart from getting access to our special episodes throughout the year – there are five online already – you will be helping us to keep The Cycling Podcast's team car on the road to provide daily Grand Tour coverage. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com/subscribe. We've frozen the price again – it's just £15, which will work out at less than £1 per special episode. If you want to pay more we'll send you a copy of our new book, The Grand Tour Diaries.
THE GRAND TOUR DIARIESAvailable now at thecyclingpodcast.com/book. All Friends of the Podcast can get a 20% discount.
Join Lionel Birnie, Hannah Troop and Ian Boswell for an episode of Explore, looking at the world of adventure riding and bikepacking.
It's the first of who-knows-how-many lockdown editions of Explore and although we can't travel the world on two wheels at the moment, the series will continue with stories celebrating the freedom, friendship and spirit of adventure cycling can provide.
**IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 Introduction
04:00 Le Tour de Flat**Meet Jacob Hill-Gowing who decided, on something of a whim, to ride the distance of the Tour de France on his exercise bike in his flat to raise money for the vendors of the Big Issue who currently cannot sell the magazine because of the coronavirus crisis. It was only after he'd committed to the challenge that it occured to him to check how long the Tour de France route is...
If you want to follow Jacob's progress he is on Twitter and Instagram. And if you want to chip in as he seeks to raise £5,000, this is his Just Giving page.
13:00 Ian BoswellMany of our listeners will know Ian as the former Team Sky and Katusha pro rider who retired at the end of last season and was looking ahead to a very different cycling challenge. The coronavirus has changed his plans but he too has plenty of stories to tell. This segment, recorded before the restrictions on our movement began, about fat-biking in the snow, is a warming story of friendship and freedom.
31:00 The Three PeaksOur main feature this month is on the legendary Three Peaks cyclo-cross race, held every September in Yorkshire. It's part cyclo-cross, part-fell-running event. We hear from three-time winner Nick Craig, a veteran of 21 editions Simon Scarsbrook, and EF Procycling rider Lachlan Morton, who took on the event for the first time last year.
If you want to watch the films mentioned in this section, Benedict Campbell's excellent For the Love of Mud is here; and the story of Lachlan Morton's ride was the subject of one of the EF & Rapha Gone Racing films.
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The Cycling Podcast, brought to you by iwoca and supported by Science in Sport
iwoca is title sponsor to The Cycling Podcast. Over the past seven years iwoca has grown from a small start-up to one of the fastest-growing business lenders in Europe. Now they’re a team of more than 300 in London and Frankfurt working towards the goal of funding one million small businesses, including cafes, spin studios and bike shops. They can lend between £1,000 and £250,000 and make it quick and easy to get a decision. If you are interested in finding out more about what iwoca can do for small businesses go to: iwoca: Fast, fair and flexible business funding
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport. For a 25% discount on all your Science in Sport sports nutrition products use the code SISCP25 on www.scienceinsport.com
In the April episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin we hear from riders living in lockdown, from Jip van den Bos, the Boels-Dolmans rider who took off backpacking, to Elise Chabbey, the Bigla-Katusha professional, a trained doctor who has returned to medicine to help people suffering with coronavirus in her native Switzerland. Chabbey only qualified at the end of last year and was looking forward to her first season of being able to focus full time on cycling, with the Olympic Games her big target. Now she is working up to 60 hours a week in a hospital in Geneva while still training for a return to racing. Orla Chennaoui, Rose Manley and Richard Moore discuss how coronavirus might affect women's cycling, with races and teams facing a difficult a few months. The riders, too, are coping with the uncertainty in different ways. We hear from Louis Delahaije, who coaches Annemiek van Vleuten and Marianne Vos, about how his charges are training – he tells us that the biggest challenge is not knowing what they are training for. Finally there is an interview with Molly Weaver, the retired road professional who had hoped to do some gravel races this year. She had hoped to do the Dirty Reiver but in its absence has come up with the Dirty Weaver, which will see her take on 1,111 laps (130km) of her garden in 12 hours to raise money for Women’s Aid. The Cycling Podcast Féminin is supported by iwoca and Science in Sport
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This episode is sponsored by Stitch Fix, an online personal styling service for men and women, where an expert stylist picks clothes just for you based on your taste, size and price preferences, and sends them straight to your door. Traditional clothes shopping isn’t an option for any of us at the moment, but Stitch Fix are here to help you treat yourself without needing to leave the house. Stitch Fix personal stylists (who all work safely from home) are ready to select you five surprise items to hopefully put a smile on your face when we all need it the most. How does Stitch Fix work? It’s easy and actually really fun – you go to their website and complete a style profile about your clothing preferences, shapes, sizes and what you like to wear. Then it’s over to your stylist who’ll hand select and send to you 5 items of clothing and accessories, which you discover when they arrive at your front door along with a nice card including outfit inspiration and style tips. Try everything on, keep and pay for what you like, send back the rest. Delivery and returns are free, and includes an option free home courier pick up (particularly ideal at the moment). Stitch Fix have also extended their try-on window from one week to six weeks, so you’ve got extra time to send anything back, which, again, is pretty handy at the moment. And the best bit, you pay just £10 for your stylist’s time, which is redeemable against anything you keep. If you fancy giving yourself a treat, go to Stitchfix.co.uk/cycling
In this episode of Life in the Peloton, Mitch Docker catches up with Ella Harris to talk about her journey from virtual world to the World Tour.
The 21-year-old New Zealander won the Zwift Academy in 2018 and earned a pro contract with the Canyon-SRAM team.
Harris enjoyed a promising start to the 2020 season – winning a stage of the Herald Sun Tour and the New Zealand time trial title – and is now back home while the world of cycling is on pause because of the coronavirus crisis.
Mitch and Ella talk about transferring the power from the indoor trainer to the peloton.
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Theme musicThe theme music for Life in the Peloton was composed by Pete Shelley, who was lead singer of the punk band Buzzcocks. It was commissioned by the production company behind Channel 4’s coverage of the Tour de France in the 1980s and was used as the theme music for the nightly highlights show. Pete died in December 2018. We were given permission by Pete’s widow and his manager to continue using the music for the theme tune to Life in the Peloton. To hear more about the music, listen to the Andre Greipel episode of Life in the Peloton.
It's another bumper episode of The Cycling Podcast with plenty to pick and choose from if that's what you wish to do. The main focus is Paris-Roubaix, the Queen of the Classics, the Hell of the North, so let's run through what's in the show.
00:00 IntroductionJoin Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe as they catch up with each other after a week of self-distancing. And hear from Team CCC's Greg Van Avermaet, winner of the virtual Lockdown Tour of Flanders.
17:28 Francois' songThis week it's an homage to Paris-Roubaix and Australian winner Mat Hayman with a cover of AC-DC's Highway to Hell from François Thomazeau, performing live in Marseille.
21:10 Part one (Duration 43:50) Roubaix memoriesWe take a meandering journey across the cobblestones of north-eastern France with an assortment of memories from the pavé. There's the man of many nationalities, 1994 winner Andrei Tchmil and his legendary directeur sportif Jef Braeckevelt. But who was the Little Mouse? We recall some modern editions and ask who is the best Paris-Roubaix rider of all-time. Trek-Segafredo's Luca Guercilena makes a case for Fabian Cancellara being the best modern-day rider and Lionel remembers stuffing his face with savoury treats (of course he did) at the final feed station when he rode the cyclo-sportive in 2008.
1:05:00 Part two (Duration 35:00) The closest* ever Paris-RoubaixWe catch up with Team CCC's sports director Steve Bauer, who was second in one of the closest editions ever, when he was beaten by around a centimetre by Belgian Eddy Planckaert in the Roubaix velodrome in 1990. But, cycling being cycling, the closest ever finish might actually be the second closest...
1:40:00 Lockdown LarryA sleepy edition of Lockdown Larry with AG2R-La Mondiale rider Larry Warbasse.
1:43:13 Part three (Duration 31:15) The coronavirus sectionWhat's the latest in the world of cycling? We recap the news and also hear from Trek-Segafredo's young rider Charlie Quarterman, whose debut season had got off to a promising start before racing ground to a halt. If you want to hear the full interview with Charlie, we'll post it on our website thecyclingpodcast.com
WATCH ON YOUTUBE1990 Paris-Roubaix, the closest* ever1994 Paris-Roubaix, won by Andrei Tchmil
2016 Paris-Roubaix, won by Mat Hayman
The Cycling Podcast, brought to you by iwoca and supported by Science in Sport
iwoca is title sponsor to The Cycling Podcast. Over the past seven years iwoca has grown from a small start-up to one of the fastest-growing business lenders in Europe. Now they’re a team of more than 300 in London and Frankfurt working towards the goal of funding one million small businesses, including cafes, spin studios and bike shops. They can lend between £1,000 and £250,000 and make it quick and easy to get a decision. If you are interested in finding out more about what iwoca can do for small businesses go to: iwoca: Fast, fair and flexible business funding
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport. For a 25% discount on all your Science in Sport sports nutrition products use the code SISCP25 on www.scienceinsport.com
KEEP UP TO DATESign up for The Cycling Podcast's weekly email newsletter to keep up with what's going on behind the scenes. This week, Lionel writes about the return of Explore. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com
BECOME A FRIEND OF THE PODCASTSigning up as a Friend of the Podcast has never been easier. Our new system will get you connected in just a few clicks. Why sign up? Apart from getting access to our special episodes throughout the year – there are five online already – you will be helping us to keep The Cycling Podcast's team car on the road to provide daily Grand Tour coverage. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com/subscribe. We've frozen the price again – it's just £15, which will work out at less than £1 per special episode. If you want to pay more we'll send you a copy of our new book, The Grand Tour Diaries.
THE GRAND TOUR DIARIESAvailable now at thecyclingpodcast.com/book. All Friends of the Podcast can get a 20% discount.
Alberto Bettiol's Tour of Flanders, the Movistar documentary on Netflix and the latest on the coronavirus crisis and cycling – this week’s bumper episode of The Cycling Podcast is really three shows in one and this description can help you find the talking points you are interested in.
00:00 Introduction
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe get together on the phone from their separate isolated offices to discuss how they are coping with lockdown. There’s also a staggering anecdote from Daniel that includes Pavel Tonkov and American actor Mark Wahlberg.
11:25 Part one (Duration 27:45) – Alberto Bettiol’s Tour of Flanders
We look back to last year’s Tour of Flanders and Richard talks to EF Pro Cycling’s Alberto Bettiol, who pulled off something of a shock when he won the race. It was Bettiol’s first pro win and it changed everything for him.
39:10 François’ Song
This week, to honour the Tour of Flanders, François channels his inner Jacques Brel and sings Le Plat Pays Qui Est Le Mien. It’s an homage to the flat lands and North Sea. Find out more here.
42:35 Part two (Duration 31:40) – Movistar and Chill
We channel our inner Barry Norman (that’s a reference for British viewers who remember his legendary BBC Film programme) to review the new six-part Netflix documentary series The Least Expected Day: Inside the Movistar Team 2019. The series takes us on the road at the three grand tours to get to know Nairo Quintana, Mikel Landa, Alejandro Valverde, Eusebio Unzue and the rest of the Movistar team. We discuss Landa’s sad eyes to the tune playing in Marc Soler’s head during tactical briefings. But how many cinema hot dogs out of five does the film deserve?
1:14:15 Lockdown Larry (Duration: 12:33)
The latest despatch from AG2R-La Mondiale rider Larry Warbasse in which he talks about coping with no racing and a very different training regime.
1:26:48 Part three (Duration 40:22) – The coronavirus part
We’ve quarantined our coronavirus coverage for people who want to take a total break from the news. We update on the latest impact the virus is having on professional cycling. We hear from Paola Santini of the Bergamo-based Santini clothing company, which has swapped manufacturing rainbow jerseys for face masks and protective clothing. Mick Bennett, organiser of the Women’s Tour and Tour of Britain talks about the effect the uncertainty is having. And we hear reassuring news about Ciro Scognamiglio, in response to listeners asking whether he’s been eating properly while locked down in Milan.
2:07:10 François’ tribute to Gianni Mura
François Thomazeau with his memory of the Italian sportswriter Gianni Mura, who passed away last week.
WATCH ON YOUTUBE
2019 Tour of Flanders, race highlights
2017 Tour of Flanders, Behind the Scenes documentary
Available from 14.00 April 1
2017 Tour of Flanders, race highlights
Flanders Classics channel
The Cycling Podcast, brought to you by iwoca and supported by Science in Sport
iwoca is title sponsor to The Cycling Podcast. Over the past seven years iwoca has grown from a small start-up to one of the fastest-growing business lenders in Europe. Now they’re a team of more than 300 in London and Frankfurt working towards the goal of funding one million small businesses, including cafes, spin studios and bike shops. They can lend between £1,000 and £250,000 and make it quick and easy to get a decision. If you are interested in finding out more about what iwoca can do for small businesses go to: iwoca: Fast, fair and flexible business funding
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport. For a 25% discount on all your Science in Sport sports nutrition products use the code SISCP25 on www.scienceinsport.com
KEEP UP TO DATESign up for The Cycling Podcast's weekly email newsletter to keep up with what's going on behind the scenes. This week, Lionel writes about the return of Explore. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com
BECOME A FRIEND OF THE PODCASTSigning up as a Friend of the Podcast has never been easier. Our new system will get you connected in just a few clicks. Why sign up? Apart from getting access to our special episodes throughout the year – there are five online already – you will be helping us to keep The Cycling Podcast's team car on the road to provide daily Grand Tour coverage. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com/subscribe. We've frozen the price again – it's just £15, which will work out at less than £1 per special episode. If you want to pay more we'll send you a copy of our new book, The Grand Tour Diaries.
THE GRAND TOUR DIARIESAvailable now at thecyclingpodcast.com/book. All Friends of the Podcast can get a 20% discount.
In this month's episode of Service Course, Lizzy Banks and Tom Whalley dive behind the scenes of some of the leading kit manufactures, designers and technology companies that are driving innovation in technical clothing.
They speak to Angelo Trofa, designer of the only kit in the pro peloton from another Universe, the Canyon//SRAM kit from Rapha. Marie Cortal from Katusha Sport breaks down the processes of outfitting two world tour teams who come in all shapes and sizes.
Photophysical chemistry and volcanic sand make an unconventional appearance in the cycling world as Dr Greg Haggquist from 37.5 discusses his innovative methodologies for developing technical yarns to enable the best possible moisture management in clothing.
Finally, with talk of staying dry, we asked Anne Weir from Gore Wear, is it really just dreaming to have a rain jacket as breathable as a base layer? Find out in the show!
Service Course is supported by Science in Sport. Get 25% off your next order by using the code SISCP25 scienceinsport.com
This episode is sponsored by Harry’s razors. If you’d like to get the Harry’s trial set for £3.95 go to harrys.com/cycling
The Economist returns to The Cycling Podcast with a new offer for our listeners at a time when facts matter most in the reporting of global affairs. Get your first 12 issues for just £12. Get the magazines delivered to your door plus access to economist.com and the new app. Text CP12 to 78070
With so many cyclists now confined to training indoors, Mitch Docker talks to his coach Kevin Poulton about the virtual cycling software Zwift.
Back in 2016, Mat Hayman crashed out of Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and fractured his arm. It looked like his Classics campaign was over but within days he was back training indoors, using Zwift, and less than six weeks later he crossed the line first in the velodrome to clinch victory in Paris-Roubaix.
Poulton was Hayman's coach then but Zwift was still relatively new to him. Since then, Zwift has become an additional tool for professional and amateur riders alike.
This is a podcast Mitch wanted to do anyway, but with so many cyclists restricted to riding indoors because of the coronavirus crisis it seemed like the perfect time to call Kevin and get under the skin of the training tool that combines athletic effort with video gaming.
If you want to know more about Zwift, how the pros use it and how it can help your training, this is the podcast for you.
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Keep up to date with everything that’s going on with Life in the Peloton at my website lifeinthepeloton.com
Check out my range of Life in the Peloton merchandise on our Etsy store too, from beanies and caps to embroidered tees, logo tees and much more. Visit the Etsy store.
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Theme musicThe theme music for Life in the Peloton was composed by Pete Shelley, who was lead singer of the punk band Buzzcocks. It was commissioned by the production company behind Channel 4’s coverage of the Tour de France in the 1980s and was used as the theme music for the nightly highlights show. Pete died in December 2018. We were given permission by Pete’s widow and his manager to continue using the music for the theme tune to Life in the Peloton. To hear more about the music, listen to the Andre Greipel episode of Life in the Peloton.
In this second part of this week's Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe speaks to Marco Pinotti, head of performance at Team CCC, and a resident of Bergamo, one of the cities in Italy that has been worst hit by coronavirus.
In the second part we hear from Jonathan Vaughters, boss of the EF Pro Cycling team, who were the first to pull out of the Strade Bianche race a couple of weeks ago, about what the future might hold for the sport once the crisis is over.
The Cycling Podcast, brought to you by iwoca and supported by Science in Sport
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This week, we have divided the podcast into two parts, enabling those who want to avoid discussion of the coronavirus pandemic to self-isolate from the subject and enjoy a diverting hour or so listening to us talk about cycling.
In this part one, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe pay tribute to the veteran Italian sportswriter Gianni Mura, who died last week, and talk about Milan-Sanremo.
We hear from Julian Alaphilippe’s Deceuninck-QuickStep teammates Tim Declercq and Zdenek Stybar about how the Frenchman won the race, then go back in time 38 years to 1982 and a stunning surprise victory for a much less well-known French rider.
Lionel remembers Sean Kelly’s descent of the Poggio in pursuit of Moreno Argentin in 1992 and Richard mentions the victory by Italian Maurizio Fondriest the following year.
Finally in this part, we hear from AG2R’s American rider Larry Warbasse in Lockdown Larry.
WATCH ON YOUTUBEIf you want to watch footage of any of the races we talked about this week you can find them on YouTube.
2019 – Alaphilippe’s victory
1982 – Marc Gomez’s surprise (French)
1992 – Sean Kelly’s pursuit of Moreno Argentin on the Poggio
1993 – Maurizio Fondriest’s win
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The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport. For a 25% discount on all your Science in Sport sports nutrition products use the cod SISCP25 on www.scienceinsport.com
This episode is also sponsored by Laka, a community of cyclists who play fair and take good care to save each other money on insurance. If you want to find out more about bicycle insurance powered by you at laka.co.uk
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In the March episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin there's lots of racing, with Orla Chennaoui, Rose Manley and Richard Moore picking out their moments of the early season – until it was stopped in its tracks by coronavirus. There's a report from Richard's day in the Drops team car, with Bob Varney and Julian Winn, at Het Nieuwsblad, and we hear from Lizzy Banks, the Bigla-Katusha rider who rode strongly to 6th, Esra Tromp, manager of the Parkhotel-Valkenburg team, and also Rolf Aldag, making one of his first appearances as a sports director in the Canyon-SRAM car. And there's an interview with Italian rider Martina Alzini, who tells us about living and training in locked down Italy, where the coronavirus crisis is most serious. The Cycling Podcast Féminin is supported by iwoca and Science in Sport.
iwoca is title sponsor to The Cycling Podcast. Over the past seven years iwoca has grown from a small start-up to one of the fastest-growing business lenders in Europe. Now they’re a team of more than 300 in London and Frankfurt working towards the goal of funding one million small businesses, including cafes, spin studios and bike shops. They can lend between £1,000 and £250,000 and make it quick and easy to get a decision. If you are interested in finding out more about what iwoca can do for small businesses go to: iwoca: Fast, fair and flexible business funding
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The world of professional cycling is not immune to the effects of the coronavirus and so the season has been put on hold after Paris-Nice.
From their separate studios, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe recap what will be the final race for a while. Daniel was on the road covering a surreal edition of the Race to the Sun and he reports on the decision by organisers ASO to push on to Nice and what it was like as the effects of the virus spread across Europe.
We also reflect on what was an attacking and entertaining edition of the race and discuss whether the 'three-kilometre rule' should have applied to Max Schachmann after his crash on the run-in to the finish of the penultimate stage in Apt.
What now for cycling? With the spring classics and the Giro d'Italia already postponed the sport faces a set of circumstances unprecedented in peacetime.
We also hear from Italian Martina Alzini, who is currently locked down at home, and Mitch Docker – host of Life in the Peloton – from Girona about what these new restrictions mean for pro riders.
It's too early to say when or how the racing programme will resume but The Cycling Podcast show will go on. You can find out more details about that in our weekly newsletter. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com
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iwoca is title sponsor to The Cycling Podcast. Over the past seven years iwoca has grown from a small start-up to one of the fastest-growing business lenders in Europe. Now they’re a team of more than 300 in London and Frankfurt working towards the goal of funding one million small businesses, including cafes, spin studios and bike shops. They can lend between £1,000 and £250,000 and make it quick and easy to get a decision. If you are interested in finding out more about what iwoca can do for small businesses go to: iwoca: Fast, fair and flexible business funding
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Life in the Peloton is a packed episode of two halves this time as Mitch Docker and his good mate Luke Durbridge look back at the first Belgian Classics of the season before answering some great listeners' questions.
Mitch and Luke used to be teammates at Orica-GreenEdge, now they live not too far from each other in Girona, and they caught up after Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne to talk about 'opening weekend'.
They explain how pro riders choose the right clothing for the bad weather, Mitch reveals his favourite Belgian beer and they give their take on Gianni Moscon's latest rush of blood to the head.
Then Mitch delves into the email bag to answer some cracking questions. They talk Classics, cobbles and climbs, the importance of upper body strength and double bar tape... How noisy are disc brakes and who would win a two-up between them on the velodrome in Roubaix?
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Strade Bianche may have been cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak in Italy but Paris-Nice got underway and the opening two stages turned out to be more like mini Classics.
Crosswinds caused chaos and whittled down the number of riders likely to contend for overall victory as the race heads towards the hills and, hopefully, the sun at the end of the week.
Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie discuss the racing and the impact coronavirus is having on professional cycling before Daniel Friebe dials in from France to talk about the opening days of Paris-Nice. Ciro Scognamiglio also updates on the situation in Italy following the cancellation of Strade Bianche, Tirreno-Adriatico, Milan-Sanremo and a host of other spring races.
We also hear from Tiesj Benoot about his winter transfer from Lotto-Soudal and his objectives for the season.
In the final part, there's a moving tribute to Team Ineos sports director Nicolas Portal by Tao Geoghegan Hart.
The Cycling Podcast, brought to you by iwoca and supported by Science in Sport
iwoca is title sponsor to The Cycling Podcast. Over the past seven years iwoca has grown from a small start-up to one of the fastest-growing business lenders in Europe. Now they’re a team of more than 300 in London and Frankfurt working towards the goal of funding one million small businesses, including cafes, spin studios and bike shops. They can lend between £1,000 and £250,000 and make it quick and easy to get a decision. If you are interested in finding out more about what iwoca can do for small businesses go to: iwoca: Fast, fair and flexible business funding
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport. For a 25% discount on all your Science in Sport sports nutrition products go to www.scienceinsport.com
This episode is also sponsored by Laka, a community of cyclists who play fair and take good care to save each other money on insurance. If you want to find out more about bicycle insurance powered by you at laka.co.uk
KEEP UP TO DATESign up for The Cycling Podcast's weekly email newsletter to keep up with what's going on behind the scenes. This week, Lionel writes about the return of Explore. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com
BECOME A FRIEND OF THE PODCASTSigning up as a Friend of the Podcast has never been easier. Our new system will get you connected in just a few clicks. Why sign up? Apart from getting access to our special episodes throughout the year – there are five online already – you will be helping us to keep The Cycling Podcast's team car on the road to provide daily Grand Tour coverage. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com/subscribe. We've frozen the price again – it's just £15, which will work out at less than £1 per special episode. If you want to pay more we'll send you a copy of our new book, The Grand Tour Diaries.
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Explore returns to The Cycling Podcast as a monthly show following the seven-part debut series, which was release at the end of 2018.
Lionel Birnie and Hannah Troop introduce the show, which will also feature regular contributions from former World Tour professional rider Ian Boswell.
In this episode we meet Felicity Cloake, award-winning food writer for The Guardian and author of the excellent One More Croissant for the Road, to talk about cycle touring and the search for culinary perfection in France.
After spending July covering the Tour de France for the past couple of decades, the highs and lows of French cuisine is a subject close to Lionel's heart so he was interested to hear how Felicity decided which route to take, which dishes to seek out and understand why touring a country by bicycle offers a deeper perspective on the changing cultures and landscape as a journey unfolds.
Combining the spirit of Henri Desgrange with the essence of Elizabeth David, Felicity went in search of the French Classics but, this being cycling, she also went to sleep hungry and (slightly) demoralised in a tent.
We also hear from Ian Boswell, who rode for Team Sky and Katusha-Alpecin before retiring at the end of last year after suffering successive concussions sustained in crashes. Ian who will explore the world of gravel and self-supported racing this year will be filing a monthly despatch for our series. In this first instalment, we catch up with him in the depths of winter in Vermont to find out what he has planned for 2020.
Show notes0:00 Lionel and Hannah introduce Explore
8:26 Coffee with Felicity Cloake, part one
38:20 Welcome to Explore, Ian Boswell
1:03:40 Back to Felicity for part two
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The season finally started, according to Lionel Birnie, with Belgium’s “Opening Weekend” comprising Het Nieuwsblad on Saturday followed by Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne on Sunday. The racing was thrilling, but there has been a lot of other news in the cycling world, from coronavirus and its possible effects on the upcoming races, not to mention the four teams still in quarantine in Abu Dhabi, to Gianni Moscon’s latest transgression and disqualification at Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne. Lionel, Daniel Friebe and Richard Moore discuss all this and there are interviews with Moscon’s Team Ineos sports director, Gabriel Rasch, as well as Allan Peiper of UAE-Team Emirates and Rik Van Slycke, whose Deceuninck-Quickstep team managed a win and a second place at the two Belgian races. We hear from young riders Fred Wright and Quinn Simmons, making their debuts in the Belgian races. And we have exciting news of our own – a new title sponsor, iwoca, who we warmly welcome to The Cycling Podcast.
News of the sudden and tragic death of Nicolas Portal, the Team Ineos sports director, broke after we recorded this episode. We will have a full appreciation of Portal in next week’s podcast.
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iwoca is title sponsor to The Cycling Podcast. Over the past seven years iwoca has grown from a small start-up to one of the fastest-growing business lenders in Europe. Now they’re a team of more than 300 in London and Frankfurt working towards the goal of funding one million small businesses, including cafes, spin studios and bike shops. They can lend between £1,000 and £250,000 and make it quick and easy to get a decision. If you are interested in finding out more about what iwoca can do for small businesses go to: iwoca: Fast, fair and flexible business funding
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This week’s episode is supported by Hello Fresh. HelloFresh makes cooking from scratch easy and convenient. As well as delivering fresh, quality pre-portioned ingredients to your door, they now have 21 different recipes to choose from each week. From Family Favourites and Balanced recipes under 600 calories to recipes that are on the table in ten-minutes flat, there’s something for everyone to try. And to make mealtimes even more memorable, you can also add extras like desserts and artisan bread for extra convenience. For the simple way to cook fresh, HelloFresh is offering you 50% off your first box and 35% off your next three boxes. Head to hellofresh.co.uk and use the code CYCLING to receive 50% off your first box and 35% off your next three today.
In this month’s episode of Service Course, Lizzy Banks and Tom Whalley take a look at the new kit that's arrived in the peloton for 2020. They hear from young riders, Mikkel Bjerg, Katrine Aalerud, Niamh Fisher-Black and her brother Finn, all of whom have recently stepped up to bigger teams, and talk about the challenges of using totally new equipment.
There’s also a conversation with Cannondale’s Global Director of Sports Marketing, Jonathan Geran, about how the brand have expanded its presence in the women’s side of the sport, by being the bike sponsor for 3 professional teams. He talks about the feedback that the pros give to the brand and the way it influences design, and also the changing nature of what pros demand from a bike supplier. The answer to that one seems to be gravel bikes.
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Our theme music is Beyond The Black Veil by Moscow Youth Cult
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Additional music in this episode by Orange, King Masa, Beat Me, Ekans, From Indigo, Once Upon and Before Chill. All licensed through Epidemic Sound.
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Mitch Docker meets a man whose voice will be familiar to cycling fans throughout the world. For many, Matt Keenan is the voice of the Tour de France thanks to his lead commentary work which is heard by viewers in the US, Australia and anywhere that takes the world feed from race organiser ASO.
Matt grew up in the same neighbourhood as Mitch and also dreamed of being a professional cyclist. When he realised he didn't have the engine for Life in the Peloton he switched his sights to a job in the commentary booth.
Mitch gets to the heart of the commentator's job – the difficulty of identifying riders, explaining a complex sport to a broad audience and striking up a rapport with a co-commentator. Sit back, relax and enjoy a conversation with one of the most recognised voices of cycling.
Episode sponsorHello Fresh delivers fresh, healthy meal boxes with pre-portioned ingredients to take the hassle out of shopping and cooking. Saving you time and money and ensuring you eat well, Hello Fresh offers a choice of 21 different recipes each week. Listeners to The Cycling Podcast can get 50% off their first meal box and 35% off the next three with the code CYCLING at hellofresh.co.uk
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Theme musicThe theme music for Life in the Peloton was composed by Pete Shelley, who was lead singer of the punk band Buzzcocks. It was commissioned by the production company behind Channel 4’s coverage of the Tour de France in the 1980s and was used as the theme music for the nightly highlights show. Pete died in December 2018. We were given permission by Pete’s widow and his manager to continue using the music for the theme tune to Life in the Peloton. To hear more about the music, listen to the Andre Greipel episode of Life in the Peloton.
Is Remco Evenepoel the new Eddy Merckx? He's Belgian, he's 20 years old and he's won both stage races he's taken part in so far this season.
Following up victory at the Vuelta a San Juan, the Deceuninck-Quick Step sensation won the Tour of the Algarve with a strong performance in the hills and an impressive time trial.
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Freibe discuss Evenepoel's potential and ask how he will fare in his debut Grand Tour, the Giro d'Italia, later this season.
Of course, Lionel is on hand with his fire extinguisher to dampen down the excitement around Evenepoel, cautioning against getting carried away and reminding everyone that Merckx won Milan-Sanremo in his first full season as a professional in 1966.
We also discuss the resurgence of Nairo Quintana, who added the Tour des Alpes Maritimes et du Var title to the Tour de La Provence he won last week.
And with coronavirus cancelling sporting events in Italy we ask whether Strade Bianche, Tirreno-Adriatico, Milan-Sanremo and possibly even the Giro might be affected by the spread of the virus.
Plus there's news of Daniel's impromptu lamb lunch with John Degenkolb in Majorca and some joking about unusual race names and some nonsense about a stage race named after a German airport.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport.
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SPONSORSThis episode is also sponsored by Stitch Fix. If you want to update your wardrobe with the help of a personal stylist sign up at stitchfix.co.uk now. For a £10 monthly styling fee, you can get a delivery of five items of clothing selected for you, which takes the hassle out of clothes shopping. Keep and pay for the items you love and send the others back.We are also supported by Laka, a community of cyclists all operating together to insure their bikes and equipment while keeping premiums down and ensuring claims are settled quickly by staff who understand cycling. Check out Laka at laka.co.uk.
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**2020 FRIENDS OF THE PODCAST EPISODES SO FAR...
- The Stage That Didn't End** –Stage 19 of the 2019 Tour de France
2. The Cycling Podcast On Tour – The best bits from Belfast and Edinburgh
3. The Grand Tour Diaries Audiobook – Part one, 2019 Giro d'Italia
Bonus from the archive: The Rise and Demise of HTC-Highroad
Bonus from the archive: The Revenants
4. The Grand Tour Diaries Audiobook – Part two, 2019 Tour de France
Bonus from the archive: Meeting Jean Bobet
THE GRAND TOUR DIARIESAvailable now at thecyclingpodcast.com/book. All Friends of the Podcast can get a 20% discount.
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe recap a great week of racing for Colombian riders and the EF Education First team.
The outstanding performance of the week was by Nairo Quintana, who grabbed his first victories for the French Arkéa-Samsic by winning the stage to Chalet-Reynard, halfway up Mont Ventoux, to clinch the Tour de La Provence. Meanwhile, EF Education First dominated the Tour Colombia by winning the team time trial to set up a clean sweep of the overall podium, topped by Sergio Higuita.
We also hear from EF Education First sports director Juan Manuel Gárate and rider Lawson Craddock about the experience of racing in Colombia and coping with the effects of consistently high altitude during the race.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport.
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BECOME A FRIEND OF THE PODCASTSigning up as a Friend of the Podcast has never been easier. Our new system will get you connected in just a few clicks. Why sign up? Apart from getting access to our special episodes throughout the year – there are five online already – you will be helping us to keep The Cycling Podcast's team car on the road to provide daily Grand Tour coverage. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com/subscribe. We've frozen the price again – it's just £15, which will work out at less than £1 per special episode. If you want to pay more we'll send you a copy of our new book, The Grand Tour Diaries.
**2020 FRIENDS OF THE PODCAST EPISODES SO FAR...
- The Stage That Didn't End** –Stage 19 of the 2019 Tour de France
2. The Cycling Podcast On Tour – The best bits from Belfast and Edinburgh
3. The Grand Tour Diaries Audiobook – Part one, 2019 Giro d'Italia
Bonus from the archive: The Rise and Demise of HTC-Highroad
Bonus from the archive: The Revenants
4. The Grand Tour Diaries Audiobook – Part two, 2019 Tour de France
THE GRAND TOUR DIARIESAvailable now at thecyclingpodcast.com/book. All Friends of the Podcast can get a 20% discount.
In the February episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin we hear from the new cyclocross world champion Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado and also from Danny Stam, who tells us how his team, Boels-Dolmans, has managed to attract a new sponsor, SD Worx.
The new sponsor has signed up for four years, ensuring the future of a team that has set the benchmark for women’s teams.
Orla Chennaoui, Rose Manley and Richard Moore discuss the early season racing and there is also an interview with Canyon-SRAM rider Hannah Barnes and an update on the Cyclists’ Alliance including an interview with board member Rhian Ravenscroft.
The Cycling Podcast Féminin is supported by Science in Sport
Listeners to The Cycling Podcast can get 25% off all their Science in Sport products by going to scienceinsport.com and entering the code SISCP25 at the checkout.
BECOME A FRIEND OF THE PODCASTSigning up as a Friend of the Podcast has never been easier. Our new system will get you connected in just a few clicks. Why sign up? Apart from getting access to our special episodes throughout the year – there are five online already – you will be helping us to keep The Cycling Podcast's team car on the road to provide daily Grand Tour coverage. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com/subscribe. We've frozen the price again – it's just £15, which will work out at less than £1 per special episode. If you want to pay more we'll send you a copy of our new book, The Grand Tour Diaries.
**2020 FRIENDS OF THE PODCAST EPISODES SO FAR...
- The Stage That Didn't End** –Stage 19 of the 2019 Tour de France
2. The Cycling Podcast On Tour – The best bits from Belfast and Edinburgh
3. The Grand Tour Diaries Audiobook – Part one, 2019 Giro d'Italia
Bonus from the archive: The Rise and Demise of HTC-Highroad
Bonus from the archive: The Revenants
4. The Grand Tour Diaries Audiobook – Part two, 2019 Tour de France
THE GRAND TOUR DIARIESAvailable now at thecyclingpodcast.com/book. All Friends of the Podcast can get a 20% discount.
In this week's episode Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe recap the early season races and ask what the 2020 season has in store for Slovenian sensation Tadej Pogacar's after his victory at the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana.
We also hear from Cameron Wurf, the former World Tour pro-turned-triathlete who has returned to the top ranks of professional cycling with Team Ineos.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport.
Listeners to The Cycling Podcast can get 25% off all their Science in Sport products by going to scienceinsport.com and entering the code SISCP25 at the checkout.
BECOME A FRIEND OF THE PODCASTSigning up as a Friend of the Podcast has never been easier. Our new system will get you connected in just a few clicks. Why sign up? Apart from getting access to our special episodes throughout the year – there are five online already – you will be helping us to keep The Cycling Podcast's team car on the road to provide daily Grand Tour coverage. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com/subscribe. We've frozen the price again – it's just £15, which will work out at less than £1 per special episode. If you want to pay more we'll send you a copy of our new book, The Grand Tour Diaries.
**2020 FRIENDS OF THE PODCAST EPISODES SO FAR...
- The Stage That Didn't End** –Stage 19 of the 2019 Tour de France
2. The Cycling Podcast On Tour – The best bits from Belfast and Edinburgh
3. The Grand Tour Diaries Audiobook – Part one, 2019 Giro d'Italia
Bonus from the archive: The Rise and Demise of HTC-Highroad
Bonus from the archive: The Revenants
4. The Grand Tour Diaries Audiobook – Part two, 2019 Tour de France
THE GRAND TOUR DIARIESAvailable now at thecyclingpodcast.com/book. All Friends of the Podcast can get a 20% discount.
In this episode of Life in the Peloton Mitch Docker meets Andre Greipel, the German sprinter who won 11 stages of the Tour de France between 2011 and 2016.
The pair sat down to talk during the Tour Down Under and Mitch reveals that Andre has been a long-time listener to the Life in the Peloton podcast and asked when he would be invited to be a guest on the show.
Mitch starts by asking Andre about an unusual race victory – his only pro win that came from a breakaway – and then the pair talk about his early days in East Germany, his rise to become one of the fastest men in the world, his internal team rivalry with Mark Cavendish and what has kept him at the top for so long.
Keep in touch with Life in the Peloton
Keep up to date with everything that’s going on with Life in the Peloton at my website lifeinthepeloton.com
Check out my range of Life in the Peloton merchandise on our Etsy store too, from beanies and caps to embroidered tees, logo tees and much more. Visit the Etsy store.
Or follow on social media:
Instagram: @lifeinthepeloton
Twitter: @lifeinthepelo
Theme musicThe theme music for Life in the Peloton was composed by Pete Shelley, who was lead singer of the punk band Buzzcocks. It was commissioned by the production company behind Channel 4’s coverage of the Tour de France in the 1980s and was used as the theme music for the nightly highlights show. Pete died in December 2018. We were given permission by Pete’s widow and his manager to continue using the music for the theme tune to Life in the Peloton.
In this week’s podcast Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss all the latest racing and news and there’s an in-depth look at a team that’s been reinvented for 2020.
Apart from all the racing, Jakob Fuglsang, the Danish rider on Astana, has been subject to the allegation that he has been working with the banned doctor, Michele Ferrari. Any such association would constitute an anti-doping offence but media outlets in Denmark and Norway report that the authorities are investigating Fuglsang and his Astana teammate Alexey Lutsenko on the basis of tip-offs from whistleblowers. Fuglsang, Lutsenko and Ferrari have all denied the allegations. In the second part we turn our attention to Movistar, the Spanish team with 14 new riders, and a more international mix, in 2020. We hear from Eusebio Unzué, the man who’s been at the helm for its entire 40-year existence, from his son, Sebastián, and from one of the new signings, British rider Gabriel Cullaigh.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport.
Listeners to The Cycling Podcast can get 25% off all their Science in Sport products by going to scienceinsport.com and entering the code SISCP25 at the checkout.
This episode is supported by Stitch Fix, an online personal styling service that takes the work out of dressing well. It’s a fun and light-touch. To get started, go to stitchfix.co.uk/cycling, fill in a Style Quiz and tell us about your personal style and aesthetic, budget, size and shape, fit challenges, clothing needs and wants.
A personal stylist will send you five items of clothing, each hand-picked for you from our selection of 100 of the best European Brands, including established names, cool emerging designers, and exclusive brands.
Try on everything at home. Mix and match with other items in your wardrobe. Buy what you love, send back the rest. Go to stitchfix.co.uk/cycling
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the early season news and recap the Tour Down Under.
There's also Luca Scinto's ban on power meters, the news that the UCI is considering a world championship for gravel racing and we discuss Peter Sagan's latest milestone – his 30th birthday.
It was at the Tour Down Under a decade ago that Sagan first made a splash as a professional. As he begins his fourth decade, we ask whether the three-time world champion has fulfilled his potential – so far, at least.
And find out which team's grand tour contenders are like the cast of Last of the Summer Wine...
**SPONSORS
Science In Sport:** The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science In Sport. All our listeners can get 25% off SIS products at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
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BECOME A FRIEND OF THE PODCASTSigning up as a Friend of the Podcast has never been easier. Our new system will get you connected in just a few clicks. Why sign up? Apart from getting access to our special episodes throughout the year – there are five online already – you will be helping us to keep The Cycling Podcast's team car on the road to provide daily Grand Tour coverage. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com/subscribe. We've frozen the price again – it's just £15, which will work out at less than £1 per special episode. If you want to pay more we'll send you a copy of our new book, The Grand Tour Diaries.
**2020 FRIENDS OF THE PODCAST EPISODES SO FAR...
- The Stage That Didn't End** –Stage 19 of the 2019 Tour de France
2. The Cycling Podcast On Tour – The best bits from Belfast and Edinburgh
3. The Grand Tour Diaries Audiobook – Part one, 2019 Giro d'Italia
Bonus from the archive: The Rise and Demise of HTC-Highroad
Bonus from the archive: The Revenants
THE GRAND TOUR DIARIESAvailable now at thecyclingpodcast.com/book. All Friends of the Podcast can get a 20% discount.
Welcome to The Cycling Podcast presents Life in the Peloton, with Mitch Docker.
The Cycling Podcast is delighted to welcome Mitch Docker and his excellent Life in the Peloton series to the fold for 2020. This is the first episode of a fortnightly series presented by the EF Education First rider Mitch Docker.
Let’s hand over to Mitch to find out more…
“Life in the Peloton started in 2016 and if you are a regular listener you’ll know the drill by now, but if you’ve just discovered the podcast let me fill you in on how it works.
“Every fortnight, I sit down for a chat with someone from the world of professional cycling to discuss what life is like inside the sport. From teammates to rivals, to some people who may not be as well known, but who have a fascinating story to tell, I’ll introduce you to some of the people I’ve rubbed shoulders with in the bunch and met on my travels as part of a World Tour team.
“In this episode, meet my EF Education First teammate Jimmy Whelan, or ‘Half-Whelan’ as we nicknamed him after last year’s pre-season training camp because of his eagerness to get stuck in having just turned pro.
“I was keen to catch up with Jimmy on the eve of his second season in the World Tour to find out what he learned from his debut year. I hope you agree it’s a really interesting listen.
“By joining up with The Cycling Podcast I’m hoping to develop some of the ideas I’ve got for the future of the podcast. If you’re a long-time listener to the podcast it’s great you’ve joined me for another season of podcasts. If you’re listening for the first time, welcome along, I hope you enjoy the ride.
“Cheers, Mitch.”
Keep in touch with Life in the Peloton
Keep up to date with everything that’s going on with Life in the Peloton at my website lifeinthepeloton.com
Check out my range of Life in the Peloton merchandise on our Etsy store too, from beanies and caps to embroidered tees, logo tees and much more. Visit the Etsy store.
Or follow on social media:
Instagram: @lifeinthepeloton
Twitter: @lifeinthepelo
Theme musicThe theme music for Life in the Peloton was composed by Pete Shelley, who was lead singer of the punk band Buzzcocks. It was commissioned by the production company behind Channel 4’s coverage of the Tour de France in the 1980s and was used as the theme music for the nightly highlights show. Pete died in December 2018. We were given permission by Pete’s widow and his manager to continue using the music for the theme tune to Life in the Peloton. To hear more about the music, listen to the Andre Greipel episode of Life in the Peloton.
Welcome to The Cycling Podcast presents Life in the Peloton with Mitch Docker.
We're delighted to welcome Mitch to the team for 2020 and ahead of the release of his first new episode on January 29 we thought we'd delve into his back catalogue to present six edited versions of some of his greatest hits.
This is the final episode of our mini series and it features Tao Geoghegan Hart, who Mitch caught up with shortly before the Giro d'Italia. Before the podcast, they were just acquaintances in the peloton so this was an opportunity for them both to learn a bit about each other and their lives in pro cycling so far.
Life in the Peloton comes to The Cycling Podcast's channel in 2020 with the first 'new' episode featuring EF Education First rider Jimmy Whelan. If you've never heard Mitch's podcasts before, this is a taste of what's to come.
Check out Mitch Docker's complete back catalogue and merchandise at lifeinthepeloton.com
Welcome to The Cycling Podcast presents Life in the Peloton with Mitch Docker.
We're delighted to welcome Mitch to the team for 2020 and ahead of the release of his first new episode on January 29 we thought we'd delve into his back catalogue to present six edited versions of some of his greatest hits.
The penultimate episode of our mini series introducing our listeners to Life in the Peloton features another Canadian, Svein Tuft. In this episode Mitch and Svein hike up into the mountains for a chat about life, cycling, the great outdoors and more...
Life in the Peloton comes to The Cycling Podcast's channel in 2020 with the first 'new' episode featuring EF Education First rider Jimmy Whelan. If you've never heard Mitch's podcasts before, this is a taste of what's to come.
Check out Mitch Docker's complete back catalogue and merchandise at lifeinthepeloton.com
Welcome to The Cycling Podcast presents Life in the Peloton with Mitch Docker.
We're delighted to welcome Mitch to the team for 2020 and ahead of the release of his first new episode on January 29 we thought we'd delve into his back catalogue to present six edited versions of some of his greatest hits.
This conversation with Mike Woods, the EF Education First climber, took place shortly after the 2018 Vuelta a España when the Canadian sealed his first grand tour stage win.
Life in the Peloton comes to The Cycling Podcast's channel in 2020 with the first 'new' episode featuring EF Education First rider Jimmy Whelan. If you've never heard Mitch's podcasts before, this is a taste of what's to come.
Check out Mitch Docker's complete back catalogue and merchandise at lifeinthepeloton.com
In this episode of Service Course, Lizzy Banks and Tom Whalley take a close look at the new HB.T track bike that Team GB will be riding at the Olympics in Tokyo. A collaboration between Hope Technology and Lotus Engineering, the bike’s striking looks are certain to divide opinion. To find out more about the design, Lizzy spoke with Tony Purnell, the head of development at British Cycling. He believes that, in a few years time, we will see road bikes emulating the design of the HB.T
We also hear from Lizzy’s Bigla - Katusha teammate Martina Alzini, who is part of a very exciting, Italian team pursuit squad. Martina talks about the beautiful new Pinarello that the Italians will be riding in Tokyo, and gives her thoughts on GB’s new machine.
Service Course is supported by Science In Sport (https://scienceinsport.com). Listeners can get 25% off their Science in Sport orders with the code SISCP25.
This episode is also sponsored by Alzheimer's Society, which helps support the 850,000 people in the UK who are living with dementia while working to find a cure. Alzheimer’s Society has a series of charity events for riders of all abilities in 2020 so check out Alzheimers.org.uk/cycle if you’re looking to set yourself a challenge.
Our theme music is Beyond The Black Veil by Moscow Youth Cult
https://moscowyouthcult.bandcamp.com/track/beyond-the-black-veil
Additional music comes from Jon Dix
https://nosheetmusic.tv/artists/jonathan-dix
All other music courtesy of Epidemic Sound
https://epidemicsound.com
Welcome to The Cycling Podcast presents Life in the Peloton with Mitch Docker.
We're delighted to welcome Mitch to the team for 2020 and ahead of the release of his first new episode on January 29 we thought we'd delve into his back catalogue to present six edited versions of some of his greatest hits.
Mitch's friend and former teammate Luke Durbridge is a regular guest on Life in the Peloton and, as you'd expect, the pair have a great rapport.
Life in the Peloton comes to The Cycling Podcast's channel in 2020 with the first 'new' episode featuring EF Education First rider Jimmy Whelan. If you've never heard Mitch's podcasts before, this is a taste of what's to come.
Check out Mitch Docker's complete back catalogue and merchandise at lifeinthepeloton.com
Welcome to The Cycling Podcast presents Life in the Peloton with Mitch Docker.
We're delighted to welcome Mitch to the team for 2020 and ahead of the release of his first new episode on January 29 we thought we'd delve into his back catalogue to present six edited versions of some of his greatest hits.
This time, let's hear Mitch's conversation with Marcel Kittel. They were teammates together at Skil-Shimano in 2010 but this chat is from 2017, when Kittel was at the peak of his sprinting powers.
Life in the Peloton comes to The Cycling Podcast's channel in 2020 with the first 'new' episode featuring EF Education First rider Jimmy Whelan. If you've never heard Mitch's podcasts before, this is a taste of what's to come.
Check out Mitch Docker's complete back catalogue and merchandise at lifeinthepeloton.com
Welcome to The Cycling Podcast presents Life in the Peloton with Mitch Docker.
We're delighted to welcome Mitch to the team for 2020 and ahead of the release of his first new episode on January 29 we thought we'd delve into his back catalogue to present six edited versions of some of his greatest hits.
First up it's Daryl Impey, the Mitchelton-Scott rider who has experienced the highs and lows of professional cycling over a career that has spanned more than a decade.
Life in the Peloton comes to The Cycling Podcast's channel in 2020 with the first 'new' episode featuring EF Education First rider Jimmy Whelan. If you've never heard Mitch's podcasts before, this is a taste of what's to come.
Check out Mitch Docker's complete back catalogue and merchandise at lifeinthepeloton.com
For this episode of The Cycling Podcast Lionel Birnie travelled to Girona to meet Mitch Docker.
Melbourne-born Docker rides for EF Education First and is about to embark on his 12th season in the elite pro peloton. He came to Europe in 2009 when he got a contract with the Skil-Shimano team, then moved to Orica-GreenEdge, where he spent six years, before heading to EF Education First.
In that time he's evolved from sprinter to lead-out man to Classics specialist to road captain.
He's also the host of his own podcast, Life in the Peloton, but we thought it was time to turn the mic on Mitch and ask him the questions for a change...
Coming soon: The Cycling Podcast and Life in the Peloton are joining forces for 2020 and Mitch's series of podcasts will be published on our channel from January 29. In the meantime, look out for edited versions of some of his favourite episodes from the archives on our channel.
**SPONSORS
Science In Sport:** The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science In Sport. All our listeners can get 25% off SIS products at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
Wattbike Atom: This episode is sponsored by the Wattbike Atom. If you want to take your winter training up a bit with an indoor bike that gets you connected easily to all the best training apps, check out wattbike.com. The Wattbike Atom is available from £76 per month.
HelloFresh: HelloFresh makes it easy for you to cook delicious home-cooked meals from scratch. Choose your favourite recipes from a changing weekly menu, and they’ll deliver all the fresh, pre-portioned ingredients you need to cook them, straight to your door. No planning, no shopping, no food waste. The helping hand you need to cook fresh at home.
HelloFresh is offering listeners to The Cycling Podcast Féminin 50% off their first box and 35% off the next three boxes. Go to hellofresh.co.uk and use the code CYCLING to take advantage of this offer.
BECOME A FRIEND OF THE PODCASTSigning up as a Friend of the Podcast has never been easier. Our new system will get you connected in just a few clicks. Why sign up? Apart from getting access to our special episodes throughout the year – there are five online already – you will be helping us to keep The Cycling Podcast's team car on the road to provide daily Grand Tour coverage. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com/subscribe. We've frozen the price again – it's just £15, which will work out at less than £1 per special episode. If you want to pay more we'll send you a copy of our new book, The Grand Tour Diaries.
**2020 FRIENDS OF THE PODCAST EPISODES SO FAR...
- The Stage That Didn't End** –Stage 19 of the 2019 Tour de France
2. The Cycling Podcast On Tour – The best bits from Belfast and Edinburgh
3. The Grand Tour Diaries Audiobook – Part one, 2019 Giro d'Italia
Bonus from the archive: The Rise and Demise of HTC-Highroad
Bonus from the archive: The Revenants
THE GRAND TOUR DIARIESAvailable now at thecyclingpodcast.com/book. All Friends of the Podcast can get a 20% discount.
The Cycling Podcast Féminin returns for 2020 with a look ahead to the new season and interviews with Morgane Gaultier, the UCI's women's cycling coordinator, and two talented young riders, Sarah Gigante and Pfeiffer Georgi. Gigante is the youngster who shocked her rivals by winning the senior Australian national road race title last year at the age of just 18. Now 19, she backed that up this year by winning the time trial title. Rose Manley caught up with her a few days after the championships. Georgi, also 19, combined riding for Sunweb with her school exams in 2019. With those behind her, she tells Orla Chennaoui that she will be fully focused on cycling in 2020 as she continues with the Dutch team, one of the eight now with World Tour status. Orla, Rose and Richard Moore also discuss Annemiek van Vleuten's huge training rides and pick out things to look forward to in 2020, including the revamped Women's World Tour, the Olympic Games and the appointment of Rolf Aldag as a sports director at the Canyon/SRAM team. The Cycling Podcast Féminin is supported by Science in Sport SPONSORS
Science In Sport: The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science In Sport. All our listeners can get 25% off SIS products at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25 HelloFresh: HelloFresh makes it easy for you to cook delicious home-cooked meals from scratch. Choose your favourite recipes from a changing weekly menu, and they’ll deliver all the fresh, pre-portioned ingredients you need to cook them, straight to your door. No planning, no shopping, no food waste. The helping hand you need to cook fresh at home.
HelloFresh is offering listeners to The Cycling Podcast Féminin 50% off their first box and 35% off the next three boxes. Go to hellofresh.co.uk and use the code CYCLING1 to take advantage of this offer. BECOME A FRIEND OF THE PODCAST Signing up as a Friend of the Podcast has never been easier. Our new system will get you connected in just a few clicks. Why sign up? Apart from getting access to our special episodes throughout the year – there are five online already – you will be helping us to keep The Cycling Podcast's team car on the road to provide daily Grand Tour coverage. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com/subscribe. We've frozen the price again – it's just £15, which will work out at less than £1 per special episode. If you want to pay more we'll send you a copy of our new book, The Grand Tour Diaries. 2020 FRIENDS OF THE PODCAST EPISODES SO FAR... 1. The Stage That Didn't End – Stage 19 of the 2019 Tour de France 2. The Cycling Podcast On Tour – The best bits from Belfast and Edinburgh 3. The Grand Tour Diaries Audiobook – Part one, 2019 Giro d'Italia Bonus from the archive: The Rise and Demise of HTC-Highroad Bonus from the archive: The Revenants THE GRAND TOUR DIARIES Available now at thecyclingpodcast.com/book. All Friends of the Podcast can get a 20% discount.
Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe for a look at the week’s cycling news, including Bernie Eisel’s retirement and Bjarne Riis’s return to the World Tour as part of Team NTT’s management. This episode features an extensive interview with Ian Boswell, the American who spent seven seasons in the World Tour with Team Sky and Katusha-Alpecin. Boswell has been forced to retire from racing at the age of just 28 because of a series of concussions suffered in crashes – the most recent and most serious being sustained during the Italian stage race Tirreno-Adriatico last March. Boswell talks about the lasting after-effects of the crash, his determination to resume training against doctor’s orders, why he has had to bring the curtain down on his professional racing career and what he plans to do next. He also discusses the difficulty professional cycling has in developing an effective concussion protocol when races are fast moving and the riders want to rejoin the peloton as soon as they can. We also reveal a new collaboration for 2020 with another excellent podcast… Tune in to find out more.
SPONSORSScience In Sport: The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science In Sport. All our listeners can get 25% off SIS products at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
Wattbike Atom: This episode is sponsored by the Wattbike Atom. If you want to take your winter training up a bit with an indoor bike that gets you connected easily to all the best training apps, check out wattbike.com. The Wattbike Atom is available from £76 per month. Alzheimer’s Society: We are also sponsored by Alzheimer's Society, which helps support the 850,000 people in the UK who are living with dementia while working to find a cure. Alzheimer’s Society has a series of charity events for riders of all abilities in 2020 so check out Alzheimers.org.uk/cycle if you’re looking to set yourself a challenge.
BECOME A FRIEND OF THE PODCASTSigning up as a Friend of the Podcast has never been easier. Our new system will get you connected in just a few clicks. Why sign up? Apart from getting access to our special episodes throughout the year – there are five online already – you will be helping us to keep The Cycling Podcast's team car on the road to provide daily Grand Tour coverage. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com/subscribe. We've frozen the price again – it's just £15, which will work out at less than £1 per special episode. If you want to pay more we'll send you a copy of our new book, The Grand Tour Diaries.
**2020 FRIENDS OF THE PODCAST EPISODES SO FAR...
- The Stage That Didn't End** –Stage 19 of the 2019 Tour de France
2. The Cycling Podcast On Tour – The best bits from Belfast and Edinburgh
3. The Grand Tour Diaries Audiobook – Part one, 2019 Giro d'Italia
Bonus from the archive: The Rise and Demise of HTC-Highroad
Bonus from the archive: The Revenants
THE GRAND TOUR DIARIESAvailable now at thecyclingpodcast.com/book. All Friends of the Podcast can get a 20% discount.
The Cycling Podcast returns after the Christmas and New Year break with our first episode of 2020.
Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe as they each pick three things they're looking forward to in professional cycling in the coming year. From new teams to riders facing new challenges, big-name transfers and leadership dynamics, new places to visit and, yes, the prospect of goulash.
We discuss the likely fortunes of Bahrain-McLaren, Israel Start-Up Nation, Sam Bennett at Deceuninck-Quick Step, the Hungarian Grande Partenza and much more.
As for Nice-Paris, well, everything will be explained...
SPONSORSThe Cycling Podcast is supported by Science In Sport. All our listeners can get 25% off SIS products at scienceinsport.com with the code SISCP25
This episode is sponsored by the Wattbike Atom. If you want to take your winter training up a bit with an indoor bike that gets you connected easily to all the best training apps, check out wattbike.com. The Wattbike Atom is available from £76 per month.
BECOME A FRIEND OF THE PODCASTSigning up as a Friend of the Podcast has never been easier. Our new system will get you connected in just a few clicks. Why sign up? Apart from getting access to our special episodes throughout the year – there are four online already – you will be helping us to keep The Cycling Podcast's team car on the road to provide daily Grand Tour coverage. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com/subscribe. We've frozen the price again – it's just £15, which will work out at less than £1 per special episode. If you want to pay more we'll send you a copy of our new book, The Grand Tour Diaries.
**2020 FRIENDS OF THE PODCAST EPISODES SO FAR...
- The Stage That Didn't End** –Stage 19 of the 2019 Tour de France
2. The Cycling Podcast On Tour – The best bits from Belfast and Edinburgh
3. The Grand Tour Diaries Audiobook – Part one, 2019 Giro d'Italia
Bonus from the archive: The Rise and Demise of HTC-Highroad
THE GRAND TOUR DIARIESAvailable now at thecyclingpodcast.com/book. All Friends of the Podcast can get a 20% discount.
It’s Christmas, traditionally a time for people to come together and enjoy the simple pleasure of playing a friendly board game and a glass of eggnog. Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and special guest Ned Boulting for The Cycling Podcast’s Christmas Cycling Scrabble Challenge. This is Scrabble, but not as you know it. Only words that have a clear and obvious link to the world of professional cycling are permitted. And with that wonderfully vague rule, let the arguments begin. In honour of professional cycling, the rest of the rules of the game are unwritten… So tune in and see if Lionel can get Zakarin down on a triple word score... The Cycling Podcast is supported by Rapha and Science In Sport.
SPONSORSAfter three-and-a-half years, our title sponsorship arrangement with Rapha is coming to an end. We'd like to thank everyone at Rapha, and particularly Simon Mottram, for their support.
Science In Sport have been sponsoring us for even longer than Rapha and we're delighted that will continue in 2020. All listeners can get 25% off their Science In Sport goodies at scienceinsport.com by using the code SISCP25
FRIENDS OF THE PODCAST
We’ve launched our new Friends of the Podcast system and it’s much easier to get the episodes on your phone now. Episode one, telling the story of Stage 19 of the Tour de France and featuring Egan Bernal, is online now.
We’ve frozen the price at £15 for a year’s access and have two episodes to add over the Christmas and New Year period.
To sign up you need only an email address and credit or debit card. You do not need your existing Friends of the Podcast login details. Go to thecyclingpodcast.com/subscribe for all the details.
Anyone who chooses to pay more and become a Very Good or Best Friend of the Podcast will also get a signed copy of our new book The Grand Tour Diaries. Everyone else who signs up as a Friend will be eligible for a 20% discount. Go to thecyclingpodcast.com/book for details.
LAST MINUTE CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEAYou can buy a gift subscription to our Friends of the Podcast series for the pro cycling fan in your life at thecyclingpodcast.com/gifts and it will be kept a surprise until the big day. CHRISTMAS BREAKThis is our final episode of 2019. We'd like to wish all our listeners a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and thank you for listening this year. We hope you'll be with us when we return in early January.
In the meantime, we do have a couple of Friends of the Podcast episodes scheduled to go out over Christmas.
Imagine a world without potholes. Imagine a bike frame that is stiffer than one made from carbon fibre yet 20% lighter. Imagine a bike that transmits a potentially endless amount of data, without any wires, and with all the sensors built into the components (and also your clothing). Imagine an elevator that could take you from the earth to the stars.
Lizzy and Tom imagine all of those things and find that they are closer to reality than you may think, and the key is Graphene. Remember Graphene? That wonder material that we were all told would revolutionise the way bikes are designed and built? So far we’ve mainly seen it in our tyres and none of the big brands are making their components with it. In this month’s Service Course we ask what happened to Graphene and hear how brands like Dassi are using it to push the limits of what is possible in bike design. We also visit the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre to hear about the science behind the material and find out how scientists are working to make the Graphene revolution a reality.
Find out more about...
Dassi bikes (https://dassi.com)
The Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre
(https://graphene.manchester.ac.uk/about/geic/)
Music
Service Course’s theme music is Beyond The Black Veil by Moscow Youth Cult. (https://moscowyouthcult.bandcamp.com/track/beyond-the-black-veil)
Additional music in this episode by Cody Butler, Experia, August Wilhelmson, From Now On, Emil Axelsson, Nicky Dowling, Mochas, By Lotus and Silver Maple.
All additional music and effects licensed through epidemic sound.
(https://epidemicsound.com)
Service Course is produced by Tom Whalley
Thanks to our sponsors.
Rapha (https://Rapha.cc) and Science In Sport (https://scienceinsport.com)
FRIENDS OF THE PODCAST
We’ve launched our new Friends of the Podcast system and it’s much easier to get the episodes on your phone now. Episode one, telling the story of Stage 19 of the Tour de France and featuring Egan Bernal, is online now.
We’ve frozen the price at £15 for a year’s access and have two episodes to add over the Christmas and New Year period.
To sign up you need only an email address and credit or debit card. You do not need your existing Friends of the Podcast login details. Go to thecyclingpodcast.com/subscribe for all the details.
Anyone who chooses to pay more and become a Very Good or Best Friend of the Podcast will also get a signed copy of our new book The Grand Tour Diaries. Everyone else who signs up as a Friend will be eligible for a 20% discount. Go to thecyclingpodcast.com/book for details
In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Lionel Birnie travels to Bicester Village retail outlet, not to do his Christmas shopping but to meet former Italian pro rider Flavio Zappi.
After a calamitously clumsy introduction at the Rapha cafe (sorry again, chaps!), Lionel talks to Flavio about his career as a rider in the early 1980s when he finished second in the king of the mountains competition at the 1984 Giro d’Italia - a race he acknowledges as one of the flattest grand tours in modern history.
In the second half the conversation turns to why he moved to Oxfordshire 25 years ago, rediscovered his love of cycling to help kick a smoking habit and how he established a development team to set young riders on the path to the World Tour.
The best known graduate from Zappi’s team so far is James Knox who went via Team Wiggins to Quick Step and had a stunning breakthrough performance at the Vuelta a España this year.
We are also joined by Paul Quarterman, who is heavily involved in Zappi’s team and whose son Charlie will ride for Trek-Segafredo with Vincenzo Nibali and new world champion Mads Pedersen next year.
The YouTube clip of the 1984 Milan-Sanremo Flavio referenced can be viewed here (Italian commentary).
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In a follow up to a Friends Special from 2016, Richard Moore travels to Nice to meet up with American professionals Ian Boswell, Joe Dombrowski and Larry Warbasse, and also a couple of younger riders, Will Barta and Matteo Jorgenson. Boswell, Dombrowski and Warbasse are all at different points in their careers. After a serious crash in March, Boswell didn't race again in 2019 and is starting to look beyond cycling. Dombrowski is about to change teams, from EF-Education First to UAE-Team Emirates. Warbasse can reflect on his first year in a French team, Ag2r. They talk commitment and balance, the folly of youth and the benefit of experience, unfulfilled ambitions and strange dreams. We also meet Barta, who has just finished his first season with CCC, and Jorgenson, who will ride for Movistar in 2020.
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In the final Cycling Podcast Féminin of the year the team look back on their standout moments of 2019 with Kasia Niewiadoma, Lizzy Banks, Maria Martins and Bob Varney.
It’s been a difficult few weeks for one of the teams of the year, Parkhotel Valkenburg. Their world number one, Lorena Wiebes, is the subject of offers from bigger teams and another rider, Sofie De Vuyst, announced that she has tested positive for a steroid. We speak to the team’s general manager, Esra Tromp, about a successful season followed by a turbulent few weeks.
Finally, Orla Chennaoui speaks to Kelsey Erickson about her work leading SafeSport at USA Cycling and Rose Manley talks to Christine Majerus about her cyclocross campaign.
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The Cycling Podcast's 11-date Grand Tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland has reached its conclusion and Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are back with an episode recapping the cycling news.
Former British national champion Adam Blythe joined us for two of our live shows – at London's Arts Theatre and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester – and in this episode he speaks about the decision to retire from professional racing at the age of just 30.
Blythe talks about the moment he made the decision to retire and, having hosted a series of interviews for The Cycling Podcast in the spring, now sees opportunities in the media having also appeared on Eurosport's grand tour coverage.
We also have an extract from our first Friends of the Podcast special episode of 2020 – which tells the story of stage 19 of the Tour de France, when a hailstorm and landslide halted the race. We hear from Egan Bernal, who took the yellow jersey that day.
There's also a clip from our live show featuring Richard reading an entry from our new book The Grand Tour Diaries, also telling the story of the Tour's dramatic 19th stage.
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MUSICWe are often asked about the music in our shows. The title music in our regular episodes is called This Is The Last Day Of Your Life by Glass Pear. There's a Spotify playlist featuring some of the music heard in The Cycling Podcast here.
This week's episode finds Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe in the green room backstage at the Y Theatre, Leicester, before the ninth stage of their Grand Tour.
We recap the theatre tour so far and answer some of the questions posed by the audience that we didn't have time to get to on stage.
We also meet Stacy Snyder, the ceramist who has been making the beautiful cups for The Cycling Podcast during the grand tours. Stacy travelled over from Virginia to see the live event in London's Leicester Square and to meet the podcast team.
There's an appearance by Giro stage winner and co-host of our Service Course show Lizzy Banks and finally, we catch up with Colin Sturgess, former world professional pursuit champion, who joined us on stage at the Y Theatre in his home city, Leicester.
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This month Lizzy Banks takes Service Course back to the place where it all began for her, Hill Climbs.
It was the Sheffield University Hill Climb at Curbar Edge in Derbyshire where Lizzy first started to believe that she may have a serious future in the sport and so for this episode she goes back to her roots to look at hill climbing bikes in all their glorious eccentricities.
The show features Lizzy’s season closing event, the Mam Nick Hill Climb, as well as an interview with a man who seems to spend all his time riding uphill, Phil Gaimon. We also visit Zed Wheels to find out about super lightweight wheels built with string, and Rebecca Richardson talks about hacking (sometimes literally) weight off your bike on a budget.
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The November episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin includes a feature on arguably the greatest team in the history of women's racing, Boels-Dolmans.
With both sponsors giving notice of their intention to quit, the Dutch squad faces an uncertain future. We speak to the team director, Danny Stam, its longest-serving rider, Christine Majerus, and former riders Lucy Martin and Nikki Brammeier.
Orla Chennaoui, Rose Manley and Richard Moore also discuss the news concerning rider quotas for next year's Olympic Games road races, with the men once more far outnumbering the women.
And there's an interview with Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig about her switch of teams, from Bigla to FDJ, and how she intends to find the improvements necessary to land a big win.
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After travelling from Bristol to Belfast and reaching London on Monday night, The Cycling Podcast's Grand Tour has reached its halfway point.
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the week's news – double Tour de France stage winner Steve Cummings' retirement, the latest from Dr Richard Freeman's General Medical Council hearing and we hear from Matt White about how he sits down to plan the race programme for Mitchelton-Scott's riders.
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On Monday, November 25 we'll be back in London with special guests Rod Ellingworth – the new boss of Bahrain-Merida – and former British champion Adam Blythe. Tickets are selling fast for this show.
We then go to Cambridge (Nov 26), Edinburgh (Nov 27), Leicester (Nov 28) and Manchester (Nov 30).
The Cycling Podcast is currently on a theatre tour but Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie, François Thomazeau and Orla Chennaoui recorded this week's episode a few hours before taking to the stage at Worcester's Huntingdon Hall.
They discuss the latest developments in the General Medical Council's hearing into former Team Sky and British Cycling doctor Richard Freeman, and Shane Sutton's extraordinary appearance before he stormed out. We also hear from The Telegraph's Tom Cary, who has been at the hearing.
François reflects on the death of Raymond Poulidor, who finished on the podium at the Tour de France eight times without ever winning the race or even pulling on the yellow jersey. Poulidor's grandson is Mathieu van der Poel and so his legacy lives on in the peloton but how will France remember the man they nicknamed the Eternal Second?
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In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe review some of the biggest stories from the past week in professional cycling.
After 14 years, the Tour of California – the biggest stage race in the USA – is taking a hiatus. What does this mean for racing in America – and does Peter Stetina's decision to quit the World Tour in favour of gravel events such as Dirty Kanza suggest the sport is heading in a different direction?
Richard reports back on his trip to McLaren HQ in Woking, where he met Bahrain-Merida's new boss Rod Ellingworth and asks him about signing Mark Cavendish and reluctantly seeing world time trial champion Rohan Dennis leave.
We also discuss Filippo Ganna's world record-breaking four-kilometre individual pursuit ride in Minsk.
And as the medical hearing into the conduct of Dr Richard Freeman – former doctor for both Team Sky and British Cycling resumes – we discuss the implications of Dr Freeman's admission that he'd lied about the delivery of testosterone to British Cycling HQ.
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The Cycling Podcast's Grand TourThere's still time to get tickets for our Grand Tour – and get 20% off our new book, The Grand Tour Diaries at thecyclingpodcast.com
Nov 11 - Bristol
Nov 12 - Cardiff
Nov 13 - Worcester
Nov 14 - Dublin
Nov 15 - Belfast
Nov 18 - London
Nov 25 - London
Nov 26 - Cambridge
Nov 27 - Edinburgh
Nov 28 - Leicester
Nov 30 - Manchester
In the latest episode of The Cycling Podcast we hear from Tom Pidcock, the versatile young rider who explains his decision not to step up to a World Tour team in 2020.
Lionel Birnie, Daniel Friebe and Richard Moore also discuss Mark Cavendish’s move to Bahrain-Merida. Can he and Rod Ellingworth roll back the years and have the kind of success they enjoyed together at British Cycling and Team Sky?
We also discuss the politics of the UCI’s conflicts with the teams and even with the anti-doping body that they established.
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In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe give their first reaction to the 2020 Giro d'Italia route as it is unveiled in Milan.
The Grande Partenza in Budapest, Hungary, will be followed by a transfer to Sicily – without a rest day – and a journey that hugs the southern and Adriatic coastlines before a very difficult final week in the Alps.
We weigh up the time trials, a stage in Marco Pantani's home town Cesenatico, and ask whether the route is tempted fate with the weather.
Before that, we discuss the retirement of Taylor Phinney, a rider who looked to be a once-in-a-generation talent when he first turned professional but whose career was compromised by a horrendous crash at the US Championships in 2014.
We also hear from British riders James Knox and Tao Geoghegan Hart as their seasons wind up at Il Lombardia.
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Inspired by Caroline Criado Perez’s book Invisible Women, Tom Whalley and new co-host Lizzy Banks (Bigla Pro Cycling) ask how data bias is present in cycling.
They hear from Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio about a fundamental UCI rule that she believes is based on data solely from male riders, and Liz Colebrook, one of the few female frame builders in the UK, who says that cycling design not only ignores women but other “outliers” too.
Also on the show is Ben Watson, a para-cyclist with Team GB, who won gold at his race at the World Championships in Harrogate. He tells us about the adaptations that help him get the best out of his performance and the other innovative ways that equipment is modified by para-athletes.
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In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe react to the route of the 2020 Tour de France, which was unveiled in Paris earlier in the day.
There are new start and finish towns, new summit finishes and only one time trial – on the climb of La Planche des Belles Filles on the penultimate day – but what else is in store and who does it suit? This inevitably leads to a speculation-heavy conversation about a race that is still more than eight months away.
Daniel describes the route as being more Biggie Smalls than Tupac, or is it more Tupac than Biggie? Lionel calls it the Tour de Tension, with something to challenge and unsettle more or less every day. Or is this a case of the Vueltafication of the Tour?
We also discuss the weekend's two big races – il Lombardia, the final Monument of the season, and Paris-Tours, which has shed its reputation as a slightly dull, formulaic race for the sprinters with the controversial inclusion of the off-road tracks through the vineyards.
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The World Tour season is beginning to wind down with the race of the falling leaves – il Lombardia – at the weekend but in this episode of The Cycling Podcast Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe reflect on three big stories from the world of cycling.
In part one, Daniel remembers Giorgio Squinzi, the boss of the Mapei company who elevated the brand from the humble world of industrial grouts and adhesives to the position as one of the greatest cycling teams of all time. Dr Squinzi passed away last week aged 76 and Daniel reflects on his legacy.
In part two, we have an exclusive interview with Graham Bartlett, the CEO of Velon, which is owned by 11 of the World Tour teams. Velon also operates the Hammer Series and it has just filed a complaint against the UCI with the European Commission. Is this the latest development in the same, decades-long dispute between the teams, the governing body and other race organisers?
In part three, we discuss e-racing after the winner of the inaugural British eracing championships was stripped of his title for cheating the system to unlock a faster virtual bike. What does this mean for esports and cycling and are we dealing with athletic endeavour or computer gaming here?
Finally, we look ahead to il Lombardia and speculate on who will come out on top in the final one-day World Tour race of 2019.
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The latest episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin comes from Harrogate, where Saturday's women's road race was won with an astonishing performance by Annemiek van Vleuten.
Richard Moore and Rose Manley report from Yorkshire and assess Van Vleuten's victory and the manner in which it was achieved, while Orla Chennaoui files a 'dispatch from the desert,' since she is covering the world athletics championships in Doha.
There are interviews with Lizzy Banks, Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig, Alice Barnes, Leah Thomas, Chloe Dygert Owen and defending champion and silver medalist this time Anna van der Breggen.
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The UCI road world championships concluded in Harrogate on Sunday with the men’s elite road race.
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau discuss a race run off in terrible weather and with a surprising winner in Denmark’s Mads Pedersen.
There are interviews with Pedersen’s good friend and fellow Dane Michael Valgren, who was 6th, and with Mathieu van der Poel, Philippe Gilbert and French coach Thomas Voeckler.
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The Cycling Podcast returns to Bettys to discuss the penultimate day of the World Championships in Harrogate.
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau discuss the women’s road race, won with an astonishing 104-kilometre solo break by Dutch rider Annemiek van Vleuten, before recapping the controversial disqualification of another Dutch rider, Nils Eekhoff, for drafting a team car after a crash.
There’s also a look ahead to the next time the World Championships are to be held on British soil, in Scotland in 2023. Finally there’s another despatch from Irish rider Conor Dunne.
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In this episode of The Cycling Podcast from Harrogate, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie, Daniel Friebe and François Thomazeau are joined by Mitchelton-Scott sports director Matt White.
They talk about Sunday's men’s road race, and also the importance of the junior and under-23 races in the development of the stars of tomorrow.
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Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie, Daniel Friebe and François Thomazeau and an audience at the Wold Top Brewery for a live version of the World Championship podcasts. They discuss the prospects for the road races at the weekend.
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In this episode of The Cycling Podcast Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are joined in Betty's tearooms by François Thomazeau to discuss the men’s elite time trial.
The gold medal and rainbow jersey was won for the second year in a row by Australia’s Rohan Dennis, who pulled out of the Tour de France midway through, reportedly because he was dissatisfied with his team’s equipment and kit. We discuss what this means for Dennis and also weigh up the significance of Remco Evenepoel’s silver medal. A year ago he was a junior world champion, now he’s a runner-up at elite level.
Plus, hear from Great Britain’s Alex Dowsett and learn about the UCI’s junior conference, where the stars of tomorrow learn about the future career that awaits them.
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The latest episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin comes from the world championships in Yorkshire, where Richard Moore reports on the women’s time trial, William Fotheringham tells us about his new biography of Beryl Burton and Rose Manley looks ahead to Saturday’s road race.
There are also interviews with Chloe Dygert Owen, Annemiek van Vleuten, Ashleigh Moolman Pasio, Hayley Simmons and Audrey Cordon-Ragot.
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The rain fell almost all day, making the under-23 and women’s time trials extremely challenging for the riders in Yorkshire.
Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Rob Hatch in the Rapha cafe in Harrogate as they dissect the two races and reflect on an astonishing gold medal-winning performance by a young American rider.
We hear from Dean Downing, who is driving the commissaires all week, about just how tough the conditions were and how the organisers manage to improve the state of the roads for the women’s race in the afternoon.
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After a day of time trial action in Harrogate, Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are joined for tea in Bettys by Seb Piquet.
Both gold medallists suffered minor mishaps on their way to victory. We discuss how Harrogate is warming up for the races to come and hear from Elynor Backstedt, bronze medallist in the junior women’s time trial and daughter of former Paris-Roubaix champion Magnus Backstedt and former Welsh international rider Megan Hughes.
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The Cycling Podcast has arrived in Harrogate for the World Championships – the first time they’ve been held in Great Britain since 1982.
Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Rob Hatch in Bettys tearoom in the finishing straight in Harrogate town centre as they discuss the first mixed relay team time trial in World Championships history.
They also find out about the history of Bettys tea rooms and look ahead to the rest of the week’s racing.
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The latest episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin comes from Madrid where La Madrid Challenge was won by Lisa Brennauer after Chloe Hosking took the second and final stage in the city centre. We hear from Brennauer and Hosking and also Christine Majerus, the recent winner of the Boels Ladies Tour.
Orla Chennaoui and Richard Moore discuss Orla's recent article for Rouleur magazine on sexual abuse in professional cycling. Orla explains the background to the investigation, and the research and interviews conducted over several months, as well as the reaction to the publication of her article.
We also meet the young riders selected to be part of the Skoda Cycling Academy and preview next week's UCI world road championships in Yorkshire.
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In the final episode from the Vuelta a España we hear reactions to the race from a range of riders, from debutants Carl Fredrik Hagen and Will Barta, to Sepp Kuss, a stage winner and teammate to the overall winner, Sam Bewley, Willie Smit, Tim Declercq, Ben O’Connor, Dylan Teuns, Lawson Craddock and Kiel Reijnen. Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Orla Chennaoui discuss the three weeks of the race and pick out their highlights and we have the final instalments from our two audio diarists, Nick Schultz and James Knox. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Rapha and Science in Sport
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The penultimate stage and last in the mountains of the Vuelta a España saw a fierce battle among the main contenders with 20-year-old Tadej Pogacar winning his third stage to move up to third overall. It means he will finish on the podium in Madrid on Sunday, with his fellow Slovenian Primoz Roglic on the top step and Alejandro Valverde in second. Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Orla Chennaoui discuss the stage and also the controversy of the previous day. There are interviews with Philippe Gilbert and Rémi Cavagna of Deceuninck-Quickstep and with Pogacar’s manager at UAE-Team Emirates, Joxean Fernández Matxin. And there are the latest instalments of our rider diaries from Nick Schultz and James Knox. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Rapha and Science in Sport OUR SPONSORS Rapha has launched its new custom kit giving you the chance to design your own Rapha kit. Begin your journey now. Choose from the varied set of templates, pick your colours and add your logos. Make your mark with Rapha Custom at https://www.rapha.cc/gb/en/custom/
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There was controversy at the Vuelta a España just two days from the end when a crash took out Primoz Roglic, the race leader, and the Movistar team appeared to try to take advantage. Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss this “beef” and we hear from Deceuninck-Quick Step workhorse Tim Declercq, whose team was triumphant once again. There’s also an interview with Willie Smit, a South African on the Katusha-Alpecin team with an extraordinary life story – and an uncertain future. And there are the latest audio diaries from James Knox and Nick Schultz. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Rapha and Science in Sport OUR SPONSORS Rapha has launched its new custom kit giving you the chance to design your own Rapha kit. Begin your journey now. Choose from the varied set of templates, pick your colours and add your logos. Make your mark with Rapha Custom at https://www.rapha.cc/gb/en/custom/
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On the penultimate mountain state of the Vuelta a España there was a win for a team who lost not one, not two, but three leaders, and a shuffling of the pack behind race leader Primoz Roglic. Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss the stage and Orla Chennaoui joins Richard to debrief yesterday’s thrilling crosswinds stage. We hear from Roglic’s sports director Addy Engels and two of revelations of the race, Tadej Pogacar and Carl Frederik Hagen. There are also interviews with Lawson Craddock, Wout Poels, Rafal Majka and the latest audio diaries from James Knox and Nick Schultz. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Rapha and Science in Sport OUR SPONSORS Rapha has launched its new custom kit giving you the chance to design your own Rapha kit. Begin your journey now. Choose from the varied set of templates, pick your colours and add your logos. Make your mark with Rapha Custom at https://www.rapha.cc/gb/en/custom/
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Laka is bicycle insurance powered by you. The Laka community works together to provide cover for your bikes and equipment and save you money. To find out more go to https://www.laka.co.uk The Cycling Podcast's Grand Tour 2019 In November, we will be going on a Grand Tour, with live events scheduled in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland. We still have a couple of dates to confirm but the schedule so far will take us to Bristol, Cardiff, Worcester, Dublin, Belfast, London, Edinburgh, Leicester and Manchester. For tickets to any of these shows – or our event in Harrogate during the World Championships – go to https://thecyclingpodcast.com/live-events
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The longest stage of the Vuelta a España produced a masterclass from Deceuninck-QuickStep in racing in crosswinds. The Belgian team attacked almost from the gun and placed all but one of their eight riders in a forty-strong front group. Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss a thrilling stage that had serious ramifications for the general classification. We hear from Sepp Kuss of race leader Primoz Roglic’s Jumbo-Visma team, from Tim Declercq of Deceuninck, Dario Cataldo of Astana and Owain Doull, the Grand Tour debutant from Team Ineos who made the front group. And there are the latest instalments from our two diarists, Nick Schultz of Mitchelton-Scott and one of the days main beneficiaries, James Knox of Deceuninck. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Rapha and Science in Sport OUR SPONSORS Rapha has launched its new custom kit giving you the chance to design your own Rapha kit. Begin your journey now. Choose from the varied set of templates, pick your colours and add your logos. Make your mark with Rapha Custom at https://www.rapha.cc/gb/en/custom/
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Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe answer your questions on the first rest day of the 2019 Vuelta a España. We also hear from Orla Chennaoui along with our Vuelta diarists, James Knox of Deceuninck Quick Step and Nick Schultz of Mitchelton-Scott. Send us your questions for the final Press Conference via WhatsApp voice memo to +44 7971338205. The Cycling Podcast is sponsored by Rapha and Science in Sport.
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It was another first ascent for the Vuelta a España as the riders tackled La Cubilla, the so-called “Galibier of Asturias.” We hear what some of them made of it once they’d reached the summit as Jakob Fuglsang won the stage ahead of Tao Geoghegan Hart, who was on the attack for the second day in a row. Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss the action and we hear from yesterday’s stage winner Sepp Kuss, his Jumbo-Visma teammate George Bennett, and our diarists, James Knox and Nick Schultz. Knox had a particularly successful day, featuring in the break and moving up to 11th overall. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Rapha and Science in Sport OUR SPONSORS Rapha has launched its new custom kit giving you the chance to design your own Rapha kit. Begin your journey now. Choose from the varied set of templates, pick your colours and add your logos. Make your mark with Rapha Custom at https://www.rapha.cc/gb/en/custom/
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Sepp Kuss, a young American on the Jumbo-Visma team, won the 15th stage of the Vuelta a España at the summit of Santuario Del Acebo while his teammate Primoz Roglic tightened his grip on the red jersey of race leader. Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss the stage, and we also hear from Orla Chennaoui and Adam Blythe, who are in Spain covering the race for Eurosport. There are interviews with Kuss’s teammate and countryman Neilson Powless and with Willie Smit, the South African who started the stage – and finished it – despite a deep gash in his knee having been at the bottom of the big crash at the end of Saturday’s stage. There are also the latest instalments of audio diaries from James Knox and Nick Schultz. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Rapha and Science in Sport OUR SPONSORS Rapha has launched its new custom kit giving you the chance to design your own Rapha kit. Begin your journey now. Choose from the varied set of templates, pick your colours and add your logos. Make your mark with Rapha Custom at https://www.rapha.cc/gb/en/custom/
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It was a rare treat for the sprinters: a flattish stage that was duly controlled by the sprinters’ teams and won by Ireland’s Sam Bennett, his second stage win at this year’s Vuelta a España. Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie discuss the stage and we hear once again from our audio diarists, James Knox and Nick Schultz. There’s also an interview with Deceuninck-Quick Step domestique Tim Declercq and with one of the riders who featured in the breakaway, Harm Vanhoucke. Vanhoucke was a good friend and Lotto-Soudal teammate of Bjorg Lambrecht, who tragically died after crashing at last month’s Tour of Poland. He replaced Lambrecht in the Vuelta team and tells us what it means to him to race in honour of his late friend. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Rapha and Science in Sport OUR SPONSORS Rapha has launched its new custom kit giving you the chance to design your own Rapha kit. Begin your journey now. Choose from the varied set of templates, pick your colours and add your logos. Make your mark with Rapha Custom at https://www.rapha.cc/gb/en/custom/
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Los Machucos, the toughest climb so far of the Vuelta a España, saw the two Slovenians, Primoz Roglic and Tadej Pogacar, ride away from their rivals. At the summit it was 20-year-old Pogecar who took his second stage win. Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe were there and they discuss the stage and its implications on the battle for the red jersey, which currently Roglic is winning. We hear from his young American teammate, Neilson Powless, there are the latest instalments from our audio diarists James Knox and Nick Schultz, and, with Knox finishing 13th on the stage, we get an assessment of his performance so far from his sports director, Wilfried Peeters. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Rapha and Science in Sport
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Philippe Gilbert claimed his sixth Vuelta a España stage win as the race reached Bilbao, the biggest city in the Basque Country, while Primoz Roglic held on to the red jersey of overall leader. Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie discuss Gilbert’s win and ask whether he should be considered one of the favourites for the world road race championships in Yorkshire at the end of the month. There’s an interview with Frenchman Clement Chevrier, the latest instalments of the audio diaries being kept by James Knox and Nick Schultz, and an extended chat with Mitchelton-Scott sports director Matt White, who talks us through how Simon Yates won last year’s Vuelta. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Rapha and Science in Sport OUR SPONSORS Rapha has launched its new custom kit giving you the chance to design your own Rapha kit. Begin your journey now. Choose from the varied set of templates, pick your colours and add your logos. Make your mark with Rapha Custom at https://www.rapha.cc/gb/en/custom/
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The Vuelta a España re-entered Spain after its sojourn in France with a stage in the Basque Country won by a local rider, Mikel Iturria, on a local team, Euskadi-Murias. Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss the stage and we hear from Damien Howson, who was in the breakaway, as well as one of the revelations of the race, Carl Fredrik Hagen, riding his first Grand Tour and currently sitting sixth overall. There’s also an interview with Lennard Hofstede, a teammate of overall leader Primoz Roglic, about the job of defending the red jersey, and there are the latest instalments of the audio diaries being kept by James Knox and Nick Schultz. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Rapha and Science in Sport OUR SPONSORS Rapha has launched its new custom kit giving you the chance to design your own Rapha kit. Begin your journey now. Choose from the varied set of templates, pick your colours and add your logos. Make your mark with Rapha Custom at https://www.rapha.cc/gb/en/custom/
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Science In Sport are offering all listeners 25 per cent off their range of energy bars, drinks and gels at https://scienceinsport.com. Use the code SISCP25 when you reach the check-out. The Cycling Podcast's Grand Tour 2019 In November, we will be going on a Grand Tour, with live events scheduled in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland. We still have a couple of dates to confirm but the schedule so far will take us to Bristol, Cardiff, Worcester, Dublin, Belfast, London, Edinburgh, Leicester and Manchester. For tickets to any of these shows – or our event in Harrogate during the World Championships – go to https://thecyclingpodcast.com/live-events
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Primoz Roglic took a commanding lead at the Vuelta a España, winning the stage 10 time trial to take over the red jersey from Nairo Quintana. Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe report from Pau and ask whether the race is now Roglic’s to lose. We hear from another Slovenian, the 20-year-old winner of Sunday’s mountain stage, Tadej Pogačar. Pogačar put in another strong ride and remains fifth overall, but at such a young age, will he finish the three-week race? We hear from his sports director Neil Stephens and Jeroen Swart, head of medicine at his team, UAE-Emirates. There are the latest instalments from our audio diarists, Nick Schultz and James Knox, who was 15th on the stage and moved into the top 20 on general classification. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Rapha and Science in Sport OUR SPONSORS Rapha has launched its new custom kit giving you the chance to design your own Rapha kit. Begin your journey now. Choose from the varied set of templates, pick your colours and add your logos. Make your mark with Rapha Custom at https://www.rapha.cc/gb/en/custom/
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Tonight’s episode is sponsored by Roka sunglasses, as worn by Miguel Angel Lopez (and Lionel Birnie). If you would like to get 20% off, go to Roka.com/vuelta
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Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe answer your questions on the first rest day of the 2019 Vuelta a España.
We also hear from our Vuelta diarists, James Knox of Deceuninck Quick Step and Nick Schultz of Mitchelton-Scott. Send us your questions for the next Press Conference via WhatsApp voice memo to +44 7971338205. The Cycling Podcast is sponsored by Rapha and Science in Sport.
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You can nominate a rider for the Pédaleur de Charme award throughout the Vuelta a España.
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The shortest road stage of the Vuelta a España produced a fascinating day's racing in Andorra. There were mountains, sunshine and hailstones as the pack was shuffled once again and Nairo Quintana ended the day in the race leader's red jersey. Richard Moore reports from Cortal d'Encamp where Tadej Pogačar, the 20-year-old Slovenian, stunned the favourites by attacking to win the stage alone. Lionel Birnie is also on hand to discuss the implications of the stage ahead of Monday's rest day. We hear from our audio diarists James Knox, who stayed with the favourites for most of the stage, and Nick Schultz. And there are interviews with Tao Geoghegan Hart, who was also on the attack, Sepp Kuss and Neilson Powless. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Rapha and Science in Sport OUR SPONSORS Rapha has launched its new custom kit giving you the chance to design your own Rapha kit. Begin your journey now. Choose from the varied set of templates, pick your colours and add your logos. Make your mark with Rapha Custom at https://www.rapha.cc/gb/en/custom/
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Science In Sport are offering all listeners 25 per cent off their range of energy bars, drinks and gels at https://scienceinsport.com. Use the code SISCP25 when you reach the check-out. The Cycling Podcast's Grand Tour 2019 In November, we will be going on a Grand Tour, with live events scheduled in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland. We still have a couple of dates to confirm but the schedule so far will take us to Bristol, Cardiff, Worcester, Dublin, Belfast, London, Edinburgh, Leicester and Manchester. For tickets to any of these shows – or our event in Harrogate during the World Championships – go to https://thecyclingpodcast.com/live-events
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It was another day for the breakaway at the Vuelta a España and in this episode Lionel Birnie and Richard Moore meet in Barcelona to discuss the stage. The leader’s red jersey is proving to be the reluctant prize in a game of pass the parcel as Miguel Angel Lopez once again relinquished his grip on it. We also catch up with Orla Chennaoui and also hear from our two diarists in the peloton. If you’d like to ask either James Knox or Nick Schultz a question, send it to us on Twitter @cycling_podcast The Cycling Podcast is supported by Rapha and Science In Sport. OUR SPONSORS Rapha has launched its new custom kit giving you the chance to design your own Rapha kit. Begin your journey now. Choose from the varied set of templates, pick your colours and add your logos. Make your mark with Rapha Custom at https://www.rapha.cc/gb/en/custom/
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You can nominate a rider for the Pédaleur de Charme award throughout the Vuelta a España.
Science In Sport are offering all listeners 25 per cent off their range of energy bars, drinks and gels at https://scienceinsport.com. Use the code SISCP25 when you reach the check-out. The Cycling Podcast's Grand Tour 2019 In November, we will be going on a Grand Tour, with live events scheduled in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland. We still have a couple of dates to confirm but the schedule so far will take us to Bristol, Cardiff, Worcester, Dublin, Belfast, London, Edinburgh, Leicester and Manchester. For tickets to any of these shows – or our event in Harrogate during the World Championships – go to https://thecyclingpodcast.com/live-events
Tonight’s episode is sponsored by Roka sunglasses, as worn by Miguel Angel Lopez (and Lionel Birnie). If you would like to get 20% off, go to Roka.com/vuelta
The music in this episode is by Más y Más.
The steep uphill finish to Mas de la Costa whittled down the number of genuine contenders for the Vuelta a España to four riders. Lionel Birnie and Richard Moore discuss stage seven of the race and ask whether this is as significant a day in the race as the results might suggest. We ask which of the four men is now in the driving seat before hearing from our diarists James Knox and Nick Schultz, who both had eventful days. If you’d like to ask either James Knox or Nick Schultz a question, send it to us on Twitter @cycling_podcast The Cycling Podcast is supported by Rapha and Science In Sport.
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You can nominate a rider for the Pédaleur de Charme award throughout the Vuelta a España.
Science In Sport are offering all listeners 25 per cent off their range of energy bars, drinks and gels at https://scienceinsport.com. Use the code SISCP25 when you reach the check-out. The Cycling Podcast's Grand Tour 2019 In November, we will be going on a Grand Tour, with live events scheduled in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland. We still have a couple of dates to confirm but the schedule so far will take us to Bristol, Cardiff, Worcester, Dublin, Belfast, London, Edinburgh, Leicester and Manchester. For tickets to any of these shows – or our event in Harrogate during the World Championships – go to https://thecyclingpodcast.com/live-events
Tonight’s episode is sponsored by Roka sunglasses, as worn by Miguel Angel Lopez (and Lionel Birnie). If you would like to get 20% off, go to Roka.com/vuelta
The music in this episode is by Más y Más.
Join Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe in Spain as they discuss an action-packed stage of the Vuelta a España, which saw the red jersey change hands and several high profile riders crash out. They talk about the race for the stage, which saw Jesus Herrada succeed where his brother Jose fell short yesterday, and the red jersey switch across to Dylan Teuns.
We have further despatches from our two diarists, Nick Schultz and James Knox, and hear from Addy Engels about how Jumbo-Visma’s race is shaping up. If you’d like to ask either James Knox or Nick Schultz a question, send it to us on Twitter @cycling_podcast The Cycling Podcast is supported by Rapha and Science In Sport. OUR SPONSORS Rapha has launched its new custom kit giving you the chance to design your own Rapha kit. Begin your journey now. Choose from the varied set of templates, pick your colours and add your logos. Make your mark with Rapha Custom at https://www.rapha.cc/gb/en/custom/
Pédaleur de Charme Pédaleur and pédaleuse de charme t-shirts, caps, and jerseys are in stock in all sizes on the Rapha website https://www.rapha.cc/fr/en/stories/the-cycling-podcast-rapha
You can nominate a rider for the Pédaleur de Charme award throughout the Vuelta a España.
Science In Sport are offering all listeners 25 per cent off their range of energy bars, drinks and gels at https://scienceinsport.com. Use the code SISCP25 when you reach the check-out. The Cycling Podcast's Grand Tour 2019 In November, we will be going on a Grand Tour, with live events scheduled in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland. We still have a couple of dates to confirm but the schedule so far will take us to Bristol, Cardiff, Worcester, Dublin, Belfast, London, Edinburgh, Leicester and Manchester. For tickets to any of these shows – or our event in Harrogate during the World Championships – go to https://thecyclingpodcast.com/live-events
Tonight’s episode is sponsored by Roka sunglasses, as worn by Miguel Angel Lopez (and Lionel Birnie). If you would like to get 20% off, go to Roka.com/vuelta
The music in this episode is by Más y Más.