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The Cycling Podcast

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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 To support The Cycling Podcast, subscribe as a Friend of the Podcast and listen to more than 50 episodes. Subscribe at thecyclingpodcast.com (https://thecyclingpodcast.supportingcast.fm/)
Wed, 05 Jul 2023 21:19:34 +0000
S11 Ep75: Stage 5 | Pau – Laruns | Tour de France 2023
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.

The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport.

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Wed, 05 Jul 2023 21:18:11 +0000
S11 Ep74: Stage 4 | Dax – Nogaro | Tour de France 2023
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.

The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport.

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Tue, 04 Jul 2023 19:27:36 +0000
S11 Ep73: Stage 3 | Amorebieta-Etxano – Bayonne | Tour de France 2023
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.

The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport.

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Mon, 03 Jul 2023 19:58:22 +0000
S11 Ep72: Stage 2 | Vitoria-Gasteiz – San Sebastian | Tour de France 2023
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.

The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport.

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Sun, 02 Jul 2023 19:47:28 +0000
S11 Ep71: Stage 1 | Bilbao – Bilbao | Tour de France 2023
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.

The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport.

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The Tour de France will be live and uninterrupted with GCN’s ad-free coverage so what better time to take out a subscription than at the start of the season’s first grand tour. Join Rob Hatch, Carlton Kirby, Sean Kelly, Orla Chennaoui, Dan Lloyd, Adam Blythe and the rest of the team from Saturday. Go to globalcyclingnetwork.com or download the GCN app on your device to make sure you never miss a moment. All UK listeners can save 15% on an annual subscription at gcn.eu/cycling15

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Sat, 01 Jul 2023 19:53:33 +0000
S11 Ep70: Kilometre 0 – Shooting the Tour: Enter the Slipstream
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
Fri, 30 Jun 2023 18:22:47 +0000
S11 Ep69: The XL Tour de France preview
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.

The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport.

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Science in Sport
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MAAP
The Cycling Podcast x MAAP collection is available now. Go to maap.cc to see the full MAAP range.

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The Cycling Podcast is on Strava

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Tue, 27 Jun 2023 08:00:00 +0000
S11 Ep68: Richie and Chris: The 100th Tour, 10 years on
Kilometre 0

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.

Our Kilometre 0 series for the 2023 Tour de France will be available to Friends of the Podcast subscribers. Sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com. The Friends of the Podcast feed can be added to most major podcast apps in a few easy clicks after signing up.
Mon, 26 Jun 2023 07:30:00 +0000
S11 Ep67: Steelsy determination
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.

The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport.

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Sat, 24 Jun 2023 10:08:38 +0000
S11 Ep66: Boy Gino – Remembering Gino Mäder
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.

The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport.

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Fri, 23 Jun 2023 08:06:21 +0000
S11 Ep65: Unchained Malady - Cycling’s Netflix Fever
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.

The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport.

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Thu, 15 Jun 2023 09:04:55 +0000
S11 Ep64: Service Course | Lunsar to Arkansas
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.

For more information on the Tour De Lunsar and to find out how you can support the race visit https://www.lunsarcycling.com/.

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Fri, 09 Jun 2023 07:00:00 +0000
S11 Ep63: Le Demi-Dauphiné
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.

The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport.

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Wed, 07 Jun 2023 20:17:54 +0000
S11 Ep62: The Reign in Spain
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.

The Cycling Podcast Féminin is supported by Science in Sport.

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Fri, 02 Jun 2023 09:37:30 +0000
S11 Ep61: Explore | Only Fools and Cyclists
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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Wed, 31 May 2023 15:18:43 +0000
S11 Ep60: Stage 21 | Roma – Roma | Giro d’Italia 2023
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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Sun, 28 May 2023 19:40:57 +0000
S11 Ep59: Stage 20 | Tarvisio – Monte Lussari | Giro d’Italia 2023
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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Sat, 27 May 2023 20:16:07 +0000
S11 Ep58: Stage 19 | Longarone – Tre Cime di Lavaredo | Giro d’Italia 2023
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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Fri, 26 May 2023 20:14:37 +0000
S11 Ep57: Stage 18 | Oderzo – Val di Zoldo | Giro d’Italia 2023
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.

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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Thu, 25 May 2023 19:29:44 +0000
S11 Ep56: Stage 17 | Pergine Valsugana – Caorle | Giro d’Italia 2023
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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Wed, 24 May 2023 19:20:57 +0000
S11 Ep55: Stage 16 | Sabbio Chiese – Monte Bondone | Giro d’Italia 2023
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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Tue, 23 May 2023 19:28:21 +0000
S11 Ep54: Stage 15 | Seregno – Bergamo | Giro d’Italia 2023
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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Sun, 21 May 2023 18:57:50 +0000
S11 Ep53: Stage 14 | Sierre – Cassano Magnago | Giro d’Italia 2023
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.

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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Sat, 20 May 2023 19:44:50 +0000
S11 Ep52: Stage 13 | Borgofranco d’Ivrea – Crans Montana | Giro d’Italia 2023
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.

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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Fri, 19 May 2023 19:32:58 +0000
S11 Ep51: Stage 12 | Bra – Rivoli | Giro d’Italia 2023
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.

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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Thu, 18 May 2023 19:07:29 +0000
S11 Ep50: Stage 11 | Camaiore – Tortona | Giro d’Italia 2023
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.

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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Wed, 17 May 2023 19:21:01 +0000
S11 Ep49: Stage 10 | Scandiano – Viareggio | Giro d’Italia 2023
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.

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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Tue, 16 May 2023 19:27:02 +0000
S11 Ep48: Kilometre 0 – Tao in the hunt
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.
Tue, 16 May 2023 06:00:00 +0000
S11 Ep47: Press Conference | Giro d’Italia 2023
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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Mon, 15 May 2023 18:40:28 +0000
S11 Ep46: Stage 9 | Savignano sul Rubicone – Cesena | Giro d’Italia 2023
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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Sun, 14 May 2023 19:24:16 +0000
S11 Ep45: Stage 8 | Terni – Fossombrone | Giro d’Italia 2023
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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Sat, 13 May 2023 19:11:57 +0000
S11 Ep44: Stage 7 | Capua – Gran Sasso d’Italia | Giro d’Italia 2023
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.

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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Fri, 12 May 2023 18:55:08 +0000
S11 Ep43: Stage 6 | Napoli – Napoli | Giro d’Italia 2023
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.

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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Thu, 11 May 2023 19:16:16 +0000
S11 Ep42: Stage 5 | Atripalda – Salerno | Giro d’Italia 2023
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.

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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Wed, 10 May 2023 19:37:50 +0000
S11 Ep41: Stage 4 | Venosa – Lago Laceno | Giro d’Italia 2023
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.

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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Tue, 09 May 2023 18:47:08 +0000
S11 Ep40: Stage 3 | Vasto – Melfi | Giro d’Italia 2023
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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Mon, 08 May 2023 18:41:02 +0000
S11 Ep39: Kilometre 0 - Imbroglio! The Big Italian Food Lie
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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Mon, 08 May 2023 08:30:19 +0000
S11 Ep39: Arrivée | La Vuelta Femenina | Controversies and crosswinds
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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Mon, 08 May 2023 08:27:40 +0000
S11 Ep38: Stage 2 | Teramo – San Salvo | Giro d’Italia 2023
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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Sun, 07 May 2023 18:56:43 +0000
S11 Ep37: Stage 1 | Fossacesia Marina – Ortona | Giro d’Italia 2023
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.

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Sat, 06 May 2023 19:50:20 +0000
S11 Ep36: Girovagando – The XL Giro d’Italia Preview
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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Wed, 03 May 2023 18:37:00 +0000
S11 Ep35: Vinovagando – The Wines of the 2023 Giro d'Italia
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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Mon, 01 May 2023 10:53:01 +0000
S11 Ep34: Total Demi-lition
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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Thu, 27 Apr 2023 14:39:56 +0000
S11 Ep33: Mighty White
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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Tue, 25 Apr 2023 22:20:09 +0000
S11 Ep32: Arrivée | Liège-Bastogne-Liège | men’s race
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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Sun, 23 Apr 2023 17:48:07 +0000
S11 Ep31: Arrivée | Liège-Bastogne-Liège | women's race
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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Sun, 23 Apr 2023 14:50:59 +0000
S11 Ep30: Arrivée | Flèche Wallonne
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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Wed, 19 Apr 2023 17:07:43 +0000
S11 Ep29: Amstel Gold Ace
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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Mon, 17 Apr 2023 20:05:13 +0000
S11 Ep28: Service Course | Tech Heaven in Hell
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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Thu, 13 Apr 2023 08:00:00 +0000
S11 Ep27: Like a Mat Out of Hell
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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Wed, 12 Apr 2023 14:38:32 +0000
S11 Ep26: Arrivée | Paris-Roubaix
In our third round of Arrivée podcasts of the 2023 season, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe recap the action from a fast – historically fast – and 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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Sun, 09 Apr 2023 19:33:11 +0000
S11 Ep25: Arrivée | Paris-Roubaix Femmes
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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Sat, 08 Apr 2023 19:25:21 +0000
S11 Ep24: Men who stare at GOATS
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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Wed, 05 Apr 2023 14:22:31 +0000
S11 Ep22: Arrivée | Tour of Flanders | men’s race
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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Sun, 02 Apr 2023 19:33:00 +0000
S11 Ep23: Arrivée | Tour of Flanders | women’s race
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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Sun, 02 Apr 2023 19:24:44 +0000
S11 Ep21: A Perfect Gent
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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Wed, 29 Mar 2023 10:33:40 +0000
S11 Ep20: Whole Lotte Love
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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Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:50:53 +0000
S11 Ep19: The Phonebox, the Ibex & Eight Bowls of Linguine
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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Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:00:42 +0000
S11 Ep18: Arrivée | Milan-Sanremo 2023
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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Sat, 18 Mar 2023 19:52:05 +0000
S11 Ep17: Service Course | The Worst Kept Secret
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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Fri, 17 Mar 2023 07:15:07 +0000
S11 Ep16: Jam Tadej
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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Wed, 15 Mar 2023 21:08:21 +0000
S11 Ep15: Explore | The Midlife Cyclist
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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Thu, 09 Mar 2023 09:32:59 +0000
S11 Ep14: The Incredulity of Thomas
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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Mon, 06 Mar 2023 21:05:38 +0000
S11 Ep13: A Diamond Thief in the Hornets’ Nest
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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Mon, 27 Feb 2023 20:32:19 +0000
S11 Ep12: Kool and the Gang
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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Fri, 24 Feb 2023 09:51:47 +0000
S11 Ep11: Chasing the X Factor
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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Mon, 20 Feb 2023 20:05:38 +0000
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Lionel 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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Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:18:29 +0000
S11 Ep10: The Pog Days Aren’t Over
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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Tue, 14 Feb 2023 20:21:53 +0000
S11 Ep9: Admirable Lord Neilson & The Battle of Hoogerheide

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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Wed, 08 Feb 2023 21:57:21 +0000
S11 Ep8: Explore | Rubbing shoulders with giants
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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Mon, 06 Feb 2023 18:33:02 +0000
S11 Ep7: Inter-stellar Domination
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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Thu, 02 Feb 2023 19:20:15 +0000
S11 Ep6: Service Course | The wisdom of Boz
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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Thu, 02 Feb 2023 14:55:22 +0000
S11 Ep5: The Joe & Larry Show, Volume II
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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Fri, 27 Jan 2023 12:03:38 +0000
S11 Ep4: The Women's World Tour is back
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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Fri, 27 Jan 2023 08:06:38 +0000
S11 Ep3: Touching the Void or (Down) Under Pressure
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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Thu, 19 Jan 2023 22:46:48 +0000
S11 Ep2: Tricky, It’s Greener, Barcelona
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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Thu, 12 Jan 2023 11:20:42 +0000
S11 Ep1: Flaming Bora
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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S10 Ep167: The Big Predictions Pod
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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Fri, 30 Dec 2022 22:30:27 +0000
S10 Ep166: Merry Quizmas Everyone!
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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Sat, 17 Dec 2022 10:28:02 +0000
S10 Ep165: Team of the Year 2022: Jumbo-Visma
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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Thu, 15 Dec 2022 16:29:06 +0000
S10 Ep164: Service Course | The man in the shadows
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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Sat, 10 Dec 2022 17:13:54 +0000
S10 Ep163: Comeback of the Year 2022: Geraint Thomas
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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Tue, 06 Dec 2022 17:42:22 +0000
S10 Ep162: Kilometre 0 – The cyclist and his shadow
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.
– François Thomazeau

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Mon, 05 Dec 2022 08:59:48 +0000
S10 Ep161: 2022 – The Year Through The Media Lens
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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Thu, 01 Dec 2022 22:46:44 +0000
S10 Ep160: Ride of 2022: Tobias Foss, Worlds TT
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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Thu, 24 Nov 2022 16:15:51 +0000
S10 Ep159: Service Course | The master of disruption
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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Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:52:13 +0000
S10 Ep158: Men in the Mirror
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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Thu, 17 Nov 2022 11:24:08 +0000
S10 Ep157: Explore | Tour d'Écosse stages 13-15: Montrose – Peterhead – Elgin – Birnie – Dingwall
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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Thu, 17 Nov 2022 08:30:00 +0000
S10 Ep156: Explore | Tour d'Écosse stage 12: Dundee – Montrose
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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Wed, 16 Nov 2022 08:30:00 +0000
S10 Ep155: Explore | Tour d'Écosse stage 11: Freuchie – Dundee
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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Tue, 15 Nov 2022 08:30:00 +0000
S10 Ep154: Explore | Tour d'Écosse stage 10: Bonnyrigg – Freuchie
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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Mon, 14 Nov 2022 08:30:00 +0000
S10 Ep153: Movers and shakers
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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Sun, 13 Nov 2022 10:04:27 +0000
S10 Ep152: Explore | Tour d'Écosse stage 9: Linlithgow – Alloa
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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Fri, 11 Nov 2022 08:30:00 +0000
S10 Ep150: Explore | Tour d'Écosse stage 8: Leith – Dunfermline
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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Thu, 10 Nov 2022 08:30:00 +0000
S10 Ep149: Explore | Tour d'Écosse stage 7: Strathclyde Country Park – Leith
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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Wed, 09 Nov 2022 08:30:00 +0000
S10 Ep151: Wright said Fred
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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Tue, 08 Nov 2022 20:27:19 +0000
S10 Ep148: Explore | Tour d'Écosse stage 6: Glasgow – Strathclyde Country Park
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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Tue, 08 Nov 2022 08:30:00 +0000
S10 Ep147: Explore | Tour d'Écosse stage 5, part two: Dumbarton – Partick
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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Mon, 07 Nov 2022 08:30:00 +0000
S10 Ep146: Explore | Tour d'Écosse stage 5, part one: Port Glasgow – Dumbarton
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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Fri, 04 Nov 2022 08:30:00 +0000
S10 Ep145: Blooming Belgium
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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Thu, 03 Nov 2022 10:02:52 +0000
S10 Ep144: Explore | Tour d'Écosse stage 4: Ayr – Greenock
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 also 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.

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Thu, 03 Nov 2022 08:30:00 +0000
S10 Ep143: Explore | Tour d'Écosse stage 3: Stranraer – Ayr
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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Wed, 02 Nov 2022 08:30:00 +0000
S10 Ep142: Explore | Tour d'Écosse stage 2: Castle Douglas – Stranraer
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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Tue, 01 Nov 2022 08:30:00 +0000
S10 Ep141: Explore | Tour d'Écosse stage 1: Gretna – Castle Douglas
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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Mon, 31 Oct 2022 08:32:00 +0000
S10 Ep140: Explore | Tour d'Écosse prologue: Gretna 2021
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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Mon, 31 Oct 2022 08:30:00 +0000
S10 Ep139: Welcome to The Pleasure-Dôme
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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Thu, 27 Oct 2022 21:10:55 +0000
S10 Ep138: Thinking Pink
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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Wed, 19 Oct 2022 21:15:30 +0000
S10 Ep137: Service Course | Bespoked
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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Sun, 16 Oct 2022 13:36:28 +0000
S10 Ep136: Time Has Come Tadej
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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Mon, 10 Oct 2022 18:51:42 +0000
S10 Ep135: Van Vleuten rules the world
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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Thu, 06 Oct 2022 08:30:50 +0000
S10 Ep134: Causing a Como-tion
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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Mon, 03 Oct 2022 18:20:09 +0000
S10 Ep133: The New Giant
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 and off the bike – and 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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Sun, 25 Sep 2022 19:01:41 +0000
S10 Ep132: Paid Tha Cost to Be da Foss
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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Tue, 20 Sep 2022 17:34:55 +0000
S10 Ep131: Service Course | The Art of Cycling
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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Tue, 20 Sep 2022 07:13:08 +0000
S10 Ep130: The Worlds Is Not Enough
In a bumper edition of The Cycling Podcast Féminin, Rose Manley, Orla Chennaoui and Lizzy Banks not only preview the upcoming World Championships in Wollongong 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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Thu, 15 Sep 2022 18:50:10 +0000
S10 Ep129: Stage 21 | Las Rozas – Madrid | Vuelta a España 2022
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).

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Sun, 11 Sep 2022 20:42:19 +0000
S10 Ep128: Stage 20 | Moralzarzal – Puerto de Navacerrada | Vuelta a España 2022
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.

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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).

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Sat, 10 Sep 2022 20:01:37 +0000
S10 Ep127: Stage 19 | Talavera de la Reina – Talavera de la Reina | Vuelta a España 2022
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.

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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).

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Fri, 09 Sep 2022 20:45:50 +0000
S10 Ep126: Stage 18 | Trujillo – Alto de Piornal | Vuelta a España 2022
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.

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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).

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Thu, 08 Sep 2022 20:33:28 +0000
S10 Ep125: Stage 17 | Aracena – Monasterio de Tentudía | Vuelta a España 2022
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).

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Wed, 07 Sep 2022 19:53:58 +0000
S10 Ep124: Stage 16 | Sanlúcar de Barrameda – Tomares | Vuelta a España 2022
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.

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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).

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Tue, 06 Sep 2022 20:20:34 +0000
S10 Ep123: Stage 15 | Martos – Sierra Nevada | Vuelta a España 2022
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.

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Sun, 04 Sep 2022 20:23:20 +0000
S10 Ep122: Stage 14 | Montoro – Sierra de la Pandera | Vuelta a España 2022
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.

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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).

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Sat, 03 Sep 2022 19:35:38 +0000
S10 Ep121: Stage 13 | Ronda – Montilla | Vuelta a España 2022
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).

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Fri, 02 Sep 2022 20:01:46 +0000
S10 Ep120: Stage 12 | Salobreña – Peñas Blancas | Vuelta a España 2022
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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Thu, 01 Sep 2022 20:36:10 +0000
S10 Ep119: Stage 11 | El Pozo Alimentación – Cabo de Gata | Vuelta a España 2022
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.
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Wed, 31 Aug 2022 19:31:00 +0000
S10 Ep118: Stage 10 | Elche – Alicante | Vuelta a España 2022
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).

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Tue, 30 Aug 2022 19:47:32 +0000
S10 Ep117: Stage 9 | Villaviciosa – Les Praeres | Vuelta a España 2022
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).

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Sun, 28 Aug 2022 20:06:33 +0000
S10 Ep116: Stage 8 | Pola de Laviana – Colláu Fancuaya | Vuelta a España 2022
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.

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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).

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Sat, 27 Aug 2022 20:16:21 +0000
S10 Ep115: Stage 7 | Camargo – Cistierna | Vuelta a España 2022
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.

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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).

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Fri, 26 Aug 2022 19:50:22 +0000
S10 Ep114: Stage 6 | Bilbao – Ascencíon al Pico Jano | Vuelta a España 2022
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.

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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).

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Thu, 25 Aug 2022 19:30:27 +0000
S10 Ep113: Stage 5 | Irun – Bilbao | Vuelta a España 2022
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).

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Wed, 24 Aug 2022 19:22:40 +0000
S10 Ep112: Stage 4 | Vitoria-Gasteiz – Laguardia | Vuelta a España 2022
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.

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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).

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Tue, 23 Aug 2022 20:05:47 +0000
S10 Ep110: Vinos de la Vuelta
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:

- Bat Gara, Uno Txakoli, Basque Country

- Bodegas Tobía, Reserva, Rioja (2014 Gran Reserva also available)

- Raúl Pérez, 'Ultreia Saint Jacques', Mencía, Bierzo

- Telmo Rodriguez, Al-Muvedre Tinto, Monastrell, Alicante

- Callejuela, Hacienda de Dona Francisca, Palomino de Flor, Sanlúcar de Barrameda

- Bodegas Bernabeleva, Camino de Navaherreros Blanco, Madrid

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Mon, 22 Aug 2022 08:30:00 +0000
S10 Ep111: Stage 3 | Breda – Breda | Vuelta a España 2022
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.

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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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Sun, 21 Aug 2022 19:07:37 +0000
S10 Ep109: Stage 2 | ’s-Hertogenbosch – Utrecht | Vuelta a España 2022
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.

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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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Sat, 20 Aug 2022 19:46:35 +0000
S10 Ep108: Stage 1 | Utrecht team time trial | Vuelta a España 2022
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).

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Fri, 19 Aug 2022 22:25:42 +0000
S10 Ep107: Service Course | The supply chainset crisis
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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Sat, 06 Aug 2022 09:30:00 +0000
S10 Ep106: The grand cru Tour
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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Fri, 05 Aug 2022 18:05:53 +0000
S10 Ep105: Kilometre 0 – Kate's Tour
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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Tue, 02 Aug 2022 08:00:00 +0000
S10 Ep104: Stage 8 | Lure - Le Super Planche des Belles Filles
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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Sun, 31 Jul 2022 21:08:48 +0000
S10 Ep103: Stage 7 | Sélestat - Le Markstein | Tour de France Femmes 2022
Rose Manley, Lizzy Banks and Anne-Marije Rook reflect on a phenomenal ride by Annemiek Van Vleuten which sees her take the yellow jersey in emphatic fashion.

Hear from Rose’s adventures out on the decisive climb - Petit Ballon, plus interviews from Anna van der Breggen, Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig and Kasia Niewiadoma

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Sat, 30 Jul 2022 21:05:19 +0000
S10 Ep102: Stage 6 | Saint-Dié-des-Vosges - Rosheim | Tour de France Femmes 2022
Rose Manley and Lizzy Banks are once again joined by Anne-Marije Rook for the stage today.

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Fri, 29 Jul 2022 20:59:28 +0000
S10 Ep101: Stage 5 | Bar-Le-Duc - Saint-Dié-des-Vosges | Tour de France Femmes 2022
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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Thu, 28 Jul 2022 20:24:20 +0000
S10 Ep100: Stage 4 | Troyes - Bar-sur-Aube | Tour de France Femmes 2022
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.
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Wed, 27 Jul 2022 21:02:07 +0000
S10 Ep99: Stage 3 | Reims - Épernay | Tour de France Femmes 2022
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.
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Tue, 26 Jul 2022 21:23:02 +0000
S10 Ep98: Stage 2 | Meaux – Provins | Tour de France Femmes 2022
Rose Manley and Lizzy Banks are joined by Anne-Marije Rook to discuss the chaotic second stage of the inaugural Tour de France Femmes.
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Mon, 25 Jul 2022 21:21:24 +0000
S10 Ep97: Stage 21 | Paris La Defense – Paris Champs-Élysées | Tour de France 2022
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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Sun, 24 Jul 2022 20:22:00 +0000
S10 Ep96: Stage 20 | Lacapelle-Marival – Rocamadour | Tour de France 2022
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.
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Sat, 23 Jul 2022 18:57:42 +0000
S10 Ep95: Kilometre 0 – The Tour de France Femmes preview
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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Sat, 23 Jul 2022 07:54:46 +0000
S10 Ep94: Stage 19 | Castelnau-Magnoac – Cahors | Tour de France 2022
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.
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Fri, 22 Jul 2022 19:13:49 +0000
S10 Ep93: Stage 18 | Lourdes – Hautacam | Tour de France 2022
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.
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Thu, 21 Jul 2022 20:23:08 +0000
S10 Ep92: Stage 17 | Saint-Gaudens – Peyragudes | Tour de France 2022
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.
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Wed, 20 Jul 2022 20:04:57 +0000
S10 Ep91: Stage 16 | Carcassonne – Foix | Tour de France 2022
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.
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Tue, 19 Jul 2022 20:14:11 +0000
S10 Ep90: Kilometre 0 – 1984
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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Mon, 18 Jul 2022 08:00:00 +0000
S10 Ep89: Stage 15 | Rodez – Carcassonne | Tour de France 2022
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.
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Sun, 17 Jul 2022 21:27:10 +0000
S10 Ep88: Stage 14 | Saint-Étienne – Mende | Tour de France 2022
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.
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Sat, 16 Jul 2022 21:17:08 +0000
S10 Ep87: Stage 13 | Le Bourg d’Oisans – Saint-Étienne | Tour de France 2022
On the road to Saint-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.


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Fri, 15 Jul 2022 20:37:16 +0000
S10 Ep86: Stage 12 | Briançon – L'Alpe d'Huez | Tour de France 2022
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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Thu, 14 Jul 2022 20:38:53 +0000
S10 Ep85: Kilometre 0 – Tale of the Étape
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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Thu, 14 Jul 2022 05:30:00 +0000
S10 Ep84: Stage 11 | Albertville – Col du Granon | Tour de France 2022
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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Wed, 13 Jul 2022 21:51:07 +0000
S10 Ep83: Stage 10 | Morzine – Megève | Tour de France 2022
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.

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Tue, 12 Jul 2022 20:39:22 +0000
S10 Ep82: Stage 9 | Aigle – Châtel Les Portes du Soleil | Tour de France 2022
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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Sun, 10 Jul 2022 20:30:12 +0000
S10 Ep81: Stage 8 | Dole – Lausanne | Tour de France 2022
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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Sat, 09 Jul 2022 19:44:57 +0000
S10 Ep80: Stage 7 | Tomblaine – La Super Planche des Belles Filles | Tour de France 2022
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.
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Fri, 08 Jul 2022 20:34:48 +0000
S10 Ep79: Stage 6 | Binche – Longwy | Tour de France 2022
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.
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Thu, 07 Jul 2022 20:07:38 +0000
S10 Ep78: Stage 5 | Lille – Arenberg | Tour de France 2022
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?
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Wed, 06 Jul 2022 20:11:56 +0000
S10 Ep76: Stage 4 | Dunkirk – Calais | Tour de France 2022
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.
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Tue, 05 Jul 2022 19:29:00 +0000
S10 Ep77: Kilometre 0 – Rog's cobbles rehearsal
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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Tue, 05 Jul 2022 07:00:00 +0000
S10 Ep75: Kilometre 0 – Danish Dynamite, part two
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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Mon, 04 Jul 2022 14:09:56 +0000
S10 Ep74: Stage 3 | Vejle – Sønderborg | Tour de France 2022
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.
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Sun, 03 Jul 2022 20:18:41 +0000
S10 Ep73: Stage 2 | Roskilde – Nyborg | Tour de France 2022
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.
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Sat, 02 Jul 2022 20:38:38 +0000
S10 Ep72: Stage 1 | Copenhagen time trial | Tour de France 2022
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.
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Fri, 01 Jul 2022 19:20:27 +0000
S10 Ep71: Kilometre 0 – Danish Dynamite, part one
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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Fri, 01 Jul 2022 10:10:38 +0000
S10 Ep70: The Tour de France 2022 preview
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.
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Thu, 30 Jun 2022 19:38:32 +0000
S10 Ep69: This Slovenian Life: part two
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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Wed, 29 Jun 2022 06:43:27 +0000
S10 Ep68: Les crus des flâneurs
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 it for 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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The Crus des Flâneurs
• Domaine Weinbach, Cuvée gentil, Alsace
• Cave de la Côte, Doral, Switzerland
• Stéphane Ogier, Le Temps Est Venu, Côtes du Rhône
• Olivier Coste, Rare, Carignan blanc, Languedoc
• Domaine Gayrard, Braucol, Gaillac
• De-Combel-la-Serre, Le Pur Fruit du Causse, Cahors

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Mon, 27 Jun 2022 17:21:34 +0000
S10 Ep67: Service Course | Where's Bianchi?
With no World Tour teams currently riding Bianchi bicycles, Tom looks at the fascinating history of one 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.

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Sun, 26 Jun 2022 07:48:30 +0000
S10 Ep66: This Slovenian Life: part one
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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Wed, 22 Jun 2022 14:08:06 +0000
S10 Ep65: The Women's Tour 2022
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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Sat, 18 Jun 2022 07:51:46 +0000
S10 Ep64: The Best There Never Was
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.
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Mon, 06 Jun 2022 06:00:00 +0000
S10 Ep63: The stage race trilogy approaches
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.
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Thu, 02 Jun 2022 16:32:23 +0000
S10 Ep62: Service Course | The concussion protocol
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.
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Wed, 01 Jun 2022 08:00:00 +0000
S10 Ep61: Stage 21 | Verona time trial | Giro d’Italia 2022
Join Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard in Verona for the final podcast of the 2022 Giro d'Italia.

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Sun, 29 May 2022 20:45:05 +0000
S10 Ep60: Stage 20 | Belluno – Marmolada | Giro d’Italia 2022
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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Sat, 28 May 2022 19:56:31 +0000
S10 Ep59: Stage 19 | Marano Lagunare – Santuario di Castelmonte | Giro d’Italia 2022
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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Fri, 27 May 2022 19:34:26 +0000
S10 Ep58: Kilometre 0 – In fair Verona
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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Fri, 27 May 2022 11:34:11 +0000
S10 Ep57: Stage 18 | Borgo Valsugana – Treviso | Giro d’Italia 2022
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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Thu, 26 May 2022 19:00:54 +0000
S10 Ep56: Stage 17 | Ponte Di Legno – Lavarone | Giro d’Italia 2022
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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Wed, 25 May 2022 19:57:15 +0000
S10 Ep55: Kilometre 0 – Thinking pink
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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Wed, 25 May 2022 09:47:57 +0000
S10 Ep54: Stage 16 | Salò – Aprica | Giro d’Italia 2022
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.
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Tue, 24 May 2022 19:59:34 +0000
S10 Ep53: Press Conference | Giro d’Italia 2022
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.
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Mon, 23 May 2022 21:03:04 +0000
S10 Ep52: Kilometre 0 – Poetry and motion
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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Mon, 23 May 2022 08:58:31 +0000
S10 Ep51: Stage 15 | Rivarolo Canavese – Cogne | Giro d’Italia 2022
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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Sun, 22 May 2022 19:31:37 +0000
S10 Ep50: Stage 14 | Santena – Torino | Giro d’Italia 2022
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.
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Sat, 21 May 2022 19:44:46 +0000
S10 Ep49: Stage 13 | Sanremo – Cuneo | Giro d’Italia 2022
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.
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Fri, 20 May 2022 19:43:40 +0000
S10 Ep48: Kilometre 0 – Popo's mission
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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Fri, 20 May 2022 07:21:49 +0000
S10 Ep47: Stage 12 | Parma – Genoa | Giro d’Italia 2022
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.
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Thu, 19 May 2022 19:58:47 +0000
S10 Ep46: Stage 11 | Santarcangelo di Romagna – Reggio Emilia | Giro d’Italia 2022
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.
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Wed, 18 May 2022 20:08:16 +0000
S10 Ep45: Kilometre 0 – La Rosea / The Pinky
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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Wed, 18 May 2022 07:00:36 +0000
S10 Ep44: Stage 10 | Pescara – Jesi | Giro d’Italia 2022
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.
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Tue, 17 May 2022 20:27:41 +0000
S10 Ep43: Press Conference | Giro d’Italia 2022
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.
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Mon, 16 May 2022 18:29:47 +0000
S10 Ep42: Kilometre 0 – The duel, part 2
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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Mon, 16 May 2022 06:58:35 +0000
S10 Ep41: Stage 9 | Isernia – Blockhaus | Giro d’Italia 2022
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.
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Sun, 15 May 2022 20:01:43 +0000
S10 Ep40: Stage 8 | Napoli – Napoli | Giro d’Italia 2022
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.
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Sat, 14 May 2022 19:25:07 +0000
S10 Ep39: Stage 7 | Diamante – Potenza | Giro d’Italia 2022
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.
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Fri, 13 May 2022 19:47:36 +0000
S10 Ep38: Kilometre 0 – The duel, part 1
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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Fri, 13 May 2022 06:29:56 +0000
S10 Ep37: Stage 6 | Palmi – Scalea | Giro d’Italia 2022
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.
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Thu, 12 May 2022 20:13:14 +0000
S10 Ep36: Stage 5 | Catania – Messina | Giro d’Italia 2022
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.
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Wed, 11 May 2022 19:32:42 +0000
S10 Ep35: Stage 4 | Avola – Etna | Giro d’Italia 2022
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.
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Tue, 10 May 2022 21:10:33 +0000
S10 Ep34: Kilometre 0 – Hungary eyes
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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Tue, 10 May 2022 05:59:42 +0000
S10 Ep33: Stage 3 | Kaposvár – Balatonfüred | Giro d’Italia 2022
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.
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Sun, 08 May 2022 20:34:31 +0000
S10 Ep32: Stage 2 | Budapest – Budapest | Giro d’Italia 2022
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’.
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Sat, 07 May 2022 19:36:45 +0000
S10 Ep31: Stage 1 | Budapest – Visegrád | Giro d’Italia 2022
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.
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Fri, 06 May 2022 20:11:54 +0000
S10 Ep30: Kilometre 0 – The prodigious son
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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Fri, 06 May 2022 07:09:00 +0000
S10 Ep29: Classic Springwatch
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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Thu, 05 May 2022 09:39:36 +0000
S10 Ep28: The Giro d'Italia preview
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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Mon, 02 May 2022 16:50:42 +0000
S10 Ep27: Il Giro dei Vini
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.
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(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 Furmint
Hungary'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, Italy
The '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, Italy
100% 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, Italy
A 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, Italy
Packed 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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Wed, 27 Apr 2022 10:36:51 +0000
S10 Ep26: Service Course | Bikes from Nam
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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Mon, 25 Apr 2022 14:39:21 +0000
S10 Ep25: Arrivée – Liège-Bastogne-Liège
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.
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Sun, 24 Apr 2022 19:11:51 +0000
S10 Ep24: Arrivée – Flèche Wallonne
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.
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Wed, 20 Apr 2022 19:08:03 +0000
S10 Ep23: Arrivée – Paris-Roubaix
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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Sun, 17 Apr 2022 19:29:14 +0000
S10 Ep22: Arrivée – Paris-Roubaix Femmes
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.
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Sat, 16 Apr 2022 18:16:16 +0000
S10 Ep21: Our friend, Richard Moore
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.
Thu, 14 Apr 2022 09:19:11 +0000
S10 Ep20: Service Course | Drop it like it's hot
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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Fri, 25 Mar 2022 15:42:16 +0000
S10 Ep19: The Volta Down Under
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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Thu, 24 Mar 2022 07:55:12 +0000
S10 Ep18: Arrivée – Milan-Sanremo
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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Sat, 19 Mar 2022 18:54:31 +0000
S10 Ep17: Countdown to Milan-Sanremo
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: Arrivée
Our 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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Wed, 16 Mar 2022 18:26:29 +0000
S10 Ep16: Rogačar
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.
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Tue, 15 Mar 2022 20:46:05 +0000
S10 Ep15: A tale of two teams
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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Wed, 09 Mar 2022 22:06:38 +0000
S10 Ep14: A postcard from Strade Bianche
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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Mon, 07 Mar 2022 20:11:59 +0000
S10 Ep13: Movistar on top of the world
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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Fri, 04 Mar 2022 11:01:59 +0000
S10 Ep12: Wout the artist
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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Mon, 28 Feb 2022 16:33:50 +0000
S10 Ep11: Service Course | Cycling in the metaverse
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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Fri, 25 Feb 2022 12:54:47 +0000
S10 Ep10: The quadruple bill
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.
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Wed, 23 Feb 2022 22:45:13 +0000
S10 Ep9: Sardines, Sangria and sprint relegations
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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Fri, 18 Feb 2022 08:02:19 +0000
S10 Ep8: We have Vlasov!
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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Tue, 08 Feb 2022 21:03:55 +0000
S10 Ep7: Trailer: The Story of The Cycling Podcast
This is a trailer for our latest series of episodes for Friends of the Podcast. To subscribe, go to thecyclingpodcast.com

The 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.
Mon, 07 Feb 2022 11:53:50 +0000
S10 Ep6: Remco off to a flyer
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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Thu, 03 Feb 2022 09:45:37 +0000
S10 Ep5: The season preview
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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Fri, 28 Jan 2022 16:31:53 +0000
S10 Ep4: Bernal's terrible crash
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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Thu, 27 Jan 2022 11:16:20 +0000
S10 Ep3: Service Course | All The Rest Is Propaganda
“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.

Find more about James here

Chris Matthews is a historian, author and graphic designer. You can see more of Chris’ work here

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Fri, 21 Jan 2022 11:30:57 +0000
S10 Ep2: Pogačar and the perfect carbonara
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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Thu, 20 Jan 2022 13:20:50 +0000
S10 Ep1: Meet the World Tour's youngest rider
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.
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Tue, 11 Jan 2022 18:17:16 +0000
S9 Ep211: Merry Christmas
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.

In the meantime, Friends of the Podcast subscribers can listen to our Christmas Selection Box, starting on Christmas Day. We'll release seven episodes over the festive season starting with a love letter to cycling magazines.

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Fri, 24 Dec 2021 06:00:00 +0000
S9 Ep210: The Cesares aka The Moonies: Our alternative awards 2021
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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Thu, 23 Dec 2021 06:00:00 +0000
S9 Ep209: Explore | The 12 hills of Christmas
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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Mon, 20 Dec 2021 12:00:00 +0000
S9 Ep208: Service Course | Press conference
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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Fri, 17 Dec 2021 13:41:55 +0000
S9 Ep207: Annus galaxicus: Press conference
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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Thu, 16 Dec 2021 12:11:32 +0000
S9 Ep206: Annus galaxicus: The grand tours
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
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Fri, 10 Dec 2021 12:40:22 +0000
S9 Ep205: Five years of Féminin
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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Mon, 06 Dec 2021 18:37:30 +0000
S9 Ep204: Annus galaxicus: The Classics, part two
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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Tue, 30 Nov 2021 12:34:21 +0000
S9 Ep203: Annus galaxicus: The Classics, part one
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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Fri, 26 Nov 2021 15:40:57 +0000
S9 Ep202: Explore | Gravel at a crossroads
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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Wed, 24 Nov 2021 17:30:43 +0000
S9 Ep201: Service Course | Fix up
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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Sat, 20 Nov 2021 14:17:31 +0000
S9 Ep200: The Ghent Six
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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Thu, 18 Nov 2021 15:35:08 +0000
S9 Ep199: Explore | On the trail of Alfred the Great
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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Wed, 17 Nov 2021 18:59:39 +0000
S9 Ep198: The Giro's slow striptease
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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Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:25:27 +0000
S9 Ep197: Explore | Mark Beaumont's GBDuro diary
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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Wed, 10 Nov 2021 16:30:00 +0000
S9 Ep196: Lizzy Banks joins...The Cycling Podcast Féminin
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.
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Fri, 05 Nov 2021 20:08:59 +0000
S9 Ep195: Man of the Hour
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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Thu, 04 Nov 2021 21:26:56 +0000
S9 Ep194: Explore | Pavé, Pozzato and gravel
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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Wed, 03 Nov 2021 17:09:01 +0000
S9 Ep193: The €18million question
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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Thu, 28 Oct 2021 18:58:03 +0000
S9 Ep192: Trailer: Introducing Lionel Birnie
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.

To sign up as a Friend of the Podcast go to thecyclingpodcast.com.

There are currently almost 50 episodes available to Friends of the Podcast subscribers.
Thu, 28 Oct 2021 08:42:05 +0000
S9 Ep191: Service Course | One hour, three minutes and 59 seconds in the life of...
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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Fri, 22 Oct 2021 16:25:16 +0000
S9 Ep190: Life in the Peloton – The retirement episode
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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Thu, 21 Oct 2021 07:19:34 +0000
S9 Ep189: The four days of Pozzato
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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Mon, 18 Oct 2021 18:22:16 +0000
S9 Ep188: The 2022 Tour de France routes
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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Fri, 15 Oct 2021 06:25:51 +0000
S9 Ep187: Podcast of the falling leaves
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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Mon, 11 Oct 2021 17:49:22 +0000
S9 Ep186: Women’s Tour 2021: Stage 6 – Haverhill to Felixstowe
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.
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Sat, 09 Oct 2021 19:42:38 +0000
S9 Ep185: Women’s Tour 2021: Stage 5 – Colchester to Clacton-on-Sea
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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Fri, 08 Oct 2021 19:19:25 +0000
S9 Ep184: Women’s Tour 2021: Stage 4 – Shoeburyness to Southend-on-Sea
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.
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Thu, 07 Oct 2021 19:28:43 +0000
S9 Ep183: Life in the Peloton – My last Sunday in Hell
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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Thu, 07 Oct 2021 08:35:10 +0000
S9 Ep182: Women’s Tour 2021: Stage 3 – Atherstone time trial
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.
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Wed, 06 Oct 2021 18:41:16 +0000
S9 Ep181: Women’s Tour 2021: Stage 2 – Walsall
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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Tue, 05 Oct 2021 19:24:49 +0000
S9 Ep180: Women’s Tour 2021: Stage 1 – Bicester to Banbury
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.
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Mon, 04 Oct 2021 21:24:55 +0000
S9 Ep179: Paris-Roubaix
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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Sun, 03 Oct 2021 21:08:06 +0000
S9 Ep178: Look back at worlds, forward to Roubaix
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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Thu, 30 Sep 2021 10:35:45 +0000
S9 Ep177: End of the worlds
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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Tue, 28 Sep 2021 19:11:01 +0000
S9 Ep176: Service Course | Running up that hill
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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Fri, 24 Sep 2021 13:57:03 +0000
S9 Ep175: Life in the Peloton – Hannah Barnes
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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Wed, 22 Sep 2021 09:08:23 +0000
S9 Ep174: The worlds get started
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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Tue, 21 Sep 2021 19:48:41 +0000
S9 Ep173: In Bruges
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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Mon, 20 Sep 2021 18:19:50 +0000
S9 Ep172: Tour of Britain
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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Tue, 14 Sep 2021 09:31:33 +0000
S9 Ep171: Service Course | The 1,000-kilometre sprint
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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Mon, 13 Sep 2021 11:30:54 +0000
S9 Ep170: Life in the Peloton – Niamh and Finn Fisher-Black
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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Wed, 08 Sep 2021 17:28:03 +0000
S9 Ep169: Kilometre 0 – The final diaries
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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Tue, 07 Sep 2021 10:16:57 +0000
S9 Ep168: Stage 21 | Padron - Santiago de Compostela | Vuelta a España 2021
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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Sun, 05 Sep 2021 21:54:46 +0000
S9 Ep167: Stage 20 | Sanxenxo - Mos | Vuelta a España 2021
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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Sat, 04 Sep 2021 19:40:17 +0000
S9 Ep166: Stage 19 | Tapia - Monforte de Lemos | Vuelta a España 2021
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.
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Fri, 03 Sep 2021 18:59:19 +0000
S9 Ep165: Anton Palzer and Ben Zwiehoff: Masters of reinvention
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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Fri, 03 Sep 2021 09:33:53 +0000
S9 Ep164: Stage 18 | Salas - Altu d’El Gamoniteiru | Vuelta a España 2021
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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Thu, 02 Sep 2021 19:40:55 +0000
S9 Ep163: Stage 17 | Unquera - Lagos de Covadonga | Vuelta a España 2021
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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Wed, 01 Sep 2021 19:54:13 +0000
S9 Ep162: Stage 16 | Laredo - Santa Cruz de Bezana | Vuelta a España 2021
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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Tue, 31 Aug 2021 20:11:52 +0000
S9 Ep161: Kilometre 0 – The Sivakov diaries
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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Tue, 31 Aug 2021 08:25:23 +0000
S9 Ep160: The Press Conference | Rest Day 2 | Vuelta a España 2021
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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Mon, 30 Aug 2021 20:13:38 +0000
S9 Ep159: Kilometre 0 – 206 beats per minute
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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Mon, 30 Aug 2021 06:43:22 +0000
S9 Ep158: Stage 15 | Navalmoral de la Mata – El Barraco | Vuelta a España 2021
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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Sun, 29 Aug 2021 18:55:32 +0000
S9 Ep157: Stage 14 | Don Benito – Pico Villuercas | Vuelta a España 2021
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.
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Sat, 28 Aug 2021 20:36:10 +0000
S9 Ep156: Stage 13 | Belmez - Villanueva de la Serena | Vuelta a España 2021
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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Fri, 27 Aug 2021 19:51:14 +0000
S9 Ep155: Kilometre 0 – Vuelta Skelter
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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Fri, 27 Aug 2021 11:19:38 +0000
S9 Ep154: Stage 12 | Jaén – Córdoba | Vuelta a España 2021
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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Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:48:31 +0000
S9 Ep153: Kilometre 0 – Aru-vederci
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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Thu, 26 Aug 2021 07:13:04 +0000
S9 Ep152: Stage 11 | Antequera – Valdepeñas de Jaén | Vuelta a España 2021
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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Wed, 25 Aug 2021 19:52:08 +0000
S9 Ep151: Stage 10 | Roquetas de Mar – Rincón de la Victoria | Vuelta a España 2021
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.
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Tue, 24 Aug 2021 19:49:33 +0000
S9 Ep150: Kilometre 0 – Scott's second act
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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Tue, 24 Aug 2021 10:12:14 +0000
S9 Ep149: Anna Kiesenhofer
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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Mon, 23 Aug 2021 14:57:01 +0000
S9 Ep148: Kilometre 0 – An hour at 186bpm
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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Mon, 23 Aug 2021 12:02:15 +0000
S9 Ep147: Stage 9 | Puerto Lumbreras – Alto de Velefique | Vuelta a España 2021
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.
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Sun, 22 Aug 2021 20:01:00 +0000
S9 Ep146: Stage 8 | Santa Pola – La Manga del Mar Menor | Vuelta a España 2021
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.
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Sat, 21 Aug 2021 19:57:39 +0000
S9 Ep145: Stage 7 | Gandia – Balcón de Alicante | Vuelta a España 2021
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?
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Fri, 20 Aug 2021 20:34:56 +0000
S9 Ep144: Kilometre 0 – Padun of a Kind
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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Fri, 20 Aug 2021 09:36:51 +0000
S9 Ep143: Stage 6 | Requena – Alto de la Montaña de Cullera | Vuelta a España 2021
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.
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Thu, 19 Aug 2021 19:20:26 +0000
S9 Ep142: Stage 5 | Tarancón – Albacete | Vuelta a España 2021
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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Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:02:46 +0000
S9 Ep141: Kilometre 0 – The Other Slovenians
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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Wed, 18 Aug 2021 09:21:16 +0000
S9 Ep140: Stage 4 | El Burgo de Osma - Molina de Aragón | Vuelta a España 2021
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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Tue, 17 Aug 2021 18:51:16 +0000
S9 Ep139: Stage 3 | Santo Domingo de Silos - Espinosa de los Monteros | Vuelta a España 2021
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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Mon, 16 Aug 2021 19:53:25 +0000
S9 Ep138: Kilometre 0 – Meet our audio diarists
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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Mon, 16 Aug 2021 11:12:46 +0000
S9 Ep137: Stage 2 | Caleruega - Burgos | Vuelta a España 2021
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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Sun, 15 Aug 2021 21:04:06 +0000
S9 Ep136: Stage 1 | Burgos | Vuelta a España 2021
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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Sat, 14 Aug 2021 20:18:23 +0000
S9 Ep135: Vueltas y revueltas | 2021 Vuelta a España preview
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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Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:00:00 +0000
S9 Ep134: Life in the Peloton – Ashleigh Moolman Pasio
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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Wed, 11 Aug 2021 12:39:02 +0000
S9 Ep133: Vinos de la Vuelta
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:

- Tobía 'Cuvée' multi-vintage, Oscar Tobía, Cuxcurrita del Río Tirón, Rioja
- 2018 Quintaluna, Verdejo, Bodegas Ossian, Segovia
- 2015 Membrillera, Bobál, Bodegas Carres, Utiel-Requena, Valencia
- 2018 Cadalso, Garnacha, Sierra de Gredos
- 2019 Flores de Callejo, Bodegas Felix Callejo, Ribera del Duero
- 2020 Abadia de San Campio, Albariño, Rías Baixas, Galicia

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Tue, 10 Aug 2021 19:04:40 +0000
S9 Ep132: Life in the Peloton – A Swedish odyssey
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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Wed, 04 Aug 2021 18:49:54 +0000
S9 Ep131: Lord of the Rings
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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Tue, 03 Aug 2021 06:16:06 +0000
S9 Ep130: Service Course | Keirin and culture
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...

Chris Blomfield-Brown from CORE appears in this episode.

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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Sat, 31 Jul 2021 14:44:00 +0000
S9 Ep129: An Olympian upset
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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Fri, 30 Jul 2021 11:32:03 +0000
S9 Ep128: Golden Richard, Anna and Tom
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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Mon, 26 Jul 2021 17:37:13 +0000
S9 Ep127: Post-Tour musings
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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Thu, 22 Jul 2021 07:00:00 +0000
S9 Ep126: Life in the Peloton – Magnus Cort Nielsen
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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Wed, 21 Jul 2021 13:52:22 +0000
S9 Ep125: Stage 21 | Chatou – Paris Champs-Elysees | Tour de France 2021
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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Sun, 18 Jul 2021 21:15:15 +0000
S9 Ep124: Stage 20 | Libourne - Saint-Emilion | Tour de France 2021
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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Sat, 17 Jul 2021 20:40:25 +0000
S9 Ep123: Stage 19 | Mourenx - Libourne | Tour de France 2021
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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Fri, 16 Jul 2021 20:37:07 +0000
S9 Ep122: Kilometre 0 – Don't mention the record
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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Fri, 16 Jul 2021 09:35:00 +0000
S9 Ep121: Stage 18 | Pau – Luz Ardiden | Tour de France 2021
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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Thu, 15 Jul 2021 20:55:16 +0000
S9 Ep120: Kilometre 0 – A family affair
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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Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:03:10 +0000
S9 Ep119: Stage 17 | Muret – Saint-Lary-Soulan Col du Portet | Tour de France 2021
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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Wed, 14 Jul 2021 20:45:54 +0000
S9 Ep118: Kilometre 0 – Too much and not enough
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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Wed, 14 Jul 2021 13:08:12 +0000
S9 Ep117: Stage 16 | Pas de la Case – Saint-Gaudens | Tour de France 2021
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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Tue, 13 Jul 2021 21:15:23 +0000
S9 Ep116: Kilometre 0 – Audio diaries, part 3
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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Tue, 13 Jul 2021 09:20:59 +0000
S9 Ep115: The Press Conference | Rest Day 2 | Tour de France 2021
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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Mon, 12 Jul 2021 19:15:27 +0000
S9 Ep114: Kilometre 0 – A very British winemaker
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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Mon, 12 Jul 2021 08:16:22 +0000
S9 Ep113: Stage 15 | Ceret – Andorra la Vella | Tour de France 2021
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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Sun, 11 Jul 2021 23:12:18 +0000
S9 Ep112: Stage 14 | Carcassonne - Quillan | Tour de France 2021
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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Sat, 10 Jul 2021 19:44:38 +0000
S9 Ep111: Stage 13 | Nîmes – Carcassonne | Tour de France 2021
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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Fri, 09 Jul 2021 21:05:32 +0000
S9 Ep110: Kilometre 0 – Cycling on film
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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Fri, 09 Jul 2021 08:20:02 +0000
S9 Ep109: Stage 12 | Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux – Nîmes | Tour de France 2021
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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Thu, 08 Jul 2021 20:54:00 +0000
S9 Ep108: Kilometre 0 – Don't call me
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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Thu, 08 Jul 2021 11:41:00 +0000
S9 Ep107: Stage 11 | Sorgues – Malaucène | Tour de France 2021
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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Wed, 07 Jul 2021 20:06:37 +0000
S9 Ep106: Kilometre 0 – Running up that hill
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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Wed, 07 Jul 2021 07:34:19 +0000
S9 Ep105: Stage 10 | Albertville - Valence | Tour de France 2021
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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Tue, 06 Jul 2021 21:43:24 +0000
S9 Ep104: Kilometre 0 – Audio diaries, part 2
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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Tue, 06 Jul 2021 10:48:50 +0000
S9 Ep103: The Press Conference | Rest Day 1 | Tour de France 2021
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.
Mon, 05 Jul 2021 19:54:15 +0000
S9 Ep102: Kilometre 0 – From cyclist to sommelier
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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Mon, 05 Jul 2021 07:42:29 +0000
S9 Ep101: Stage 9 | Cluses - Tignes | Tour de France 2021
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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Sun, 04 Jul 2021 21:24:44 +0000
S9 Ep100: Stage 8 | Oyonnax - Le Grand-Bornand | Tour de France
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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Sat, 03 Jul 2021 20:26:13 +0000
S9 Ep99: Stage 7 | Vierzon > Le Creusot | Tour de France
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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Fri, 02 Jul 2021 20:49:32 +0000
S9 Ep98: Kilometre 0 – Jeff of all trades
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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Fri, 02 Jul 2021 08:05:32 +0000
S9 Ep97: Stage 6 | Tours - Châteauroux | Tour de France 2021
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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Thu, 01 Jul 2021 20:23:37 +0000
S9 Ep96: Kilometre 0 – Bring me Wilco Kelderman
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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Thu, 01 Jul 2021 07:15:19 +0000
S9 Ep95: Stage 5 | Changé - Laval | Tour de France 2021
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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Wed, 30 Jun 2021 20:03:42 +0000
S9 Ep94: Kilometre 0 – Audio diaries, part 1
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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Wed, 30 Jun 2021 08:21:05 +0000
S9 Ep93: Stage 4 | Redon - Fougères | Tour de France 2021
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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Tue, 29 Jun 2021 20:24:30 +0000
S9 Ep92: Kilometre 0 – Tour de France Femmes
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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Tue, 29 Jun 2021 08:46:04 +0000
S9 Ep91: Stage 3 | Lorient - Pontivy | Tour de France 2021
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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Mon, 28 Jun 2021 20:43:46 +0000
S9 Ep90: Kilometre 0 – Bretagne
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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Mon, 28 Jun 2021 09:49:23 +0000
S9 Ep89: Stage 2 | Perros-Guirec - Mûr-de-bretagne Guerlédan | Tour de France 2021
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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Sun, 27 Jun 2021 20:14:35 +0000
S9 Ep88: Stage 1 | Brest-Landerneau | Tour de France 2021
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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Sat, 26 Jun 2021 19:21:36 +0000
S9 Ep87: Tour de France wines
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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Fri, 25 Jun 2021 14:53:31 +0000
S9 Ep86: Service Course | Lizzy's return
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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Thu, 24 Jun 2021 16:04:00 +0000
S9 Ep85: Annemiek van Vleuten
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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Wed, 23 Jun 2021 17:00:55 +0000
S9 Ep84: Tour de France preview
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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Tue, 22 Jun 2021 10:19:38 +0000
S9 Ep83: Life in the Peloton – Simon Mottram
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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Wed, 16 Jun 2021 16:30:00 +0000
S9 Ep82: An eye on the Tour de France
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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Tue, 15 Jun 2021 17:25:33 +0000
S9 Ep81: Not too Chabbey
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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Thu, 10 Jun 2021 20:01:38 +0000
S9 Ep80: Movie Stars
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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Tue, 08 Jun 2021 19:00:39 +0000
S9 Ep79: Doubting Thomas
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.
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To listen to Ian's interview with Peter Kennaugh, which Richard mentions in the episode, it is episode 31 in his Breakfast with Boz series.
Thu, 03 Jun 2021 18:23:19 +0000
S9 Ep78: Life in the Peloton – Tsgabu Grmay
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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The 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.
Wed, 02 Jun 2021 08:00:00 +0000
S9 Ep77: Explore | A cyclist on the English landscape
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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Mon, 31 May 2021 09:00:00 +0000
S9 Ep76: Stage 21 | Senago - Milano | Giro d'Italia 2021
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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Sun, 30 May 2021 20:12:44 +0000
S9 Ep75: Stage 20 | Verbania - Valle Spluga - Alpe Motta | Giro d'Italia 2021
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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Sat, 29 May 2021 19:53:36 +0000
S9 Ep74: Stage 19 | Abbiategrasso - Alpe di Mera (Valsesia) | Giro d'Italia 2021
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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Fri, 28 May 2021 20:46:06 +0000
S9 Ep73: Kilometre 0 – Filippo Nazionale
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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Fri, 28 May 2021 08:07:38 +0000
S9 Ep72: Stage 18 | Rovereto - Stradella | Giro d'Italia 2021
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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Thu, 27 May 2021 21:05:31 +0000
S9 Ep71: Stage 17 | Canazei - Sega di Ala | Giro d'Italia 2021
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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Wed, 26 May 2021 20:14:39 +0000
S9 Ep70: Kilometre 0 – The stage winners
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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Wed, 26 May 2021 07:37:23 +0000
S9 Ep69: The Press Conference | Rest Day 2 | Giro d'Italia 2021
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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Tue, 25 May 2021 19:34:54 +0000
S9 Ep68: Stage 16 | Sacile - Cortina d'Ampezzo | Giro d'Italia 2021
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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Mon, 24 May 2021 20:39:43 +0000
S9 Ep67: Stage 15 | Grado - Gorizia | Giro d'Italia 2021
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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Sun, 23 May 2021 20:19:36 +0000
S9 Ep66: Kilometre 0 – Frontierland: The Giro & Italy's most mysterious region
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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Sun, 23 May 2021 09:28:32 +0000
S9 Ep65: Stage 14 | Cittadella - Monte Zoncolan | Giro d'Italia 2021
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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Sat, 22 May 2021 21:10:01 +0000
S9 Ep64: Stage 13 | Ravenna - Verona | Giro d'Italia 2021
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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Fri, 21 May 2021 20:53:04 +0000
S9 Ep63: Kilometre 0 – Alfredo, Forever
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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Fri, 21 May 2021 08:27:22 +0000
S9 Ep62: Stage 12 | Siena - Bagno di Romagna | Giro d'Italia 2021
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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Thu, 20 May 2021 19:41:07 +0000
S9 Ep61: Stage 11 | Perugia - Montalcino (Brunello di Montalcino Wine Stage) | Giro d'Italia 2021
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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Wed, 19 May 2021 20:08:03 +0000
S9 Ep60: Kilometre 0 – The Austrian Interloper
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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Wed, 19 May 2021 08:09:30 +0000
S9 Ep59: The Press Conference | Rest Day 1 | Giro d'Italia 2021
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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Tue, 18 May 2021 20:22:25 +0000
S9 Ep58: Stage 10 | L'Aquila - Foligno | Giro d'Italia 2021
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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Mon, 17 May 2021 20:18:48 +0000
S9 Ep57: Kilometre 0 – La Prima Donna
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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Mon, 17 May 2021 09:03:22 +0000
S9 Ep56: Stage 9 | Castel di Sangro - Campo Felice (Rocca di Cambio) | Giro d’Italia 2021
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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Sun, 16 May 2021 21:17:19 +0000
S9 Ep55: Stage 8 | Foggia - Guardia Sanframondi | Giro d’Italia 2021
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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Sat, 15 May 2021 20:53:20 +0000
S9 Ep54: Stage 7 | Notaresco - Termoli | Giro d’Italia 2021
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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Fri, 14 May 2021 21:25:50 +0000
S9 Ep53: Kilometre 0 – The Miracle of Castel di Sangro
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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Fri, 14 May 2021 08:03:10 +0000
S9 Ep52: Stage 6 | Grotte di Frasassi - Ascoli Piceno (San Giacomo) | Giro d’Italia 2021
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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Thu, 13 May 2021 20:52:19 +0000
S9 Ep51: Stage 5 | Modena - Cattolica | Giro d’Italia 2021
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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Wed, 12 May 2021 20:56:38 +0000
S9 Ep50: Kilometre 0 – Remco, the reboot
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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Wed, 12 May 2021 08:14:04 +0000
S9 Ep49: Stage 4 | Piacenza - Sestola | Giro d’Italia 2021
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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Tue, 11 May 2021 20:52:25 +0000
S9 Ep48: Stage 3 | Biella - Canale | Giro d’Italia 2021
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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Mon, 10 May 2021 19:58:33 +0000
S9 Ep47: Kilometre 0 – The Baron of Biella
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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Mon, 10 May 2021 09:00:56 +0000
S9 Ep46: Stage 2 | Stupinigi – Novara | Giro d’Italia 2021
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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Sun, 09 May 2021 19:24:43 +0000
S9 Ep45: Stage 1 | Torino | Giro d’Italia 2021
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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Sat, 08 May 2021 19:06:08 +0000
S9 Ep44: The wines of the Giro
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
Sat, 08 May 2021 07:27:33 +0000
S9 Ep43: Top of the Pops
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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Thu, 06 May 2021 12:47:13 +0000
S9 Ep42: Girovagando
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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Tue, 04 May 2021 20:12:03 +0000
S9 Ep41: Service Course | Reverse Engineering
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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Thu, 29 Apr 2021 16:00:00 +0000
S9 Ep40: Life in the Peloton – The Grand Tour Doc, Dr Kevin Sprouse
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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Wed, 28 Apr 2021 18:37:43 +0000
S9 Ep39: Pogcineration
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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Mon, 26 Apr 2021 19:29:42 +0000
S9 Ep38: Pleasures of the Flèche
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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Wed, 21 Apr 2021 19:11:24 +0000
S9 Ep37: The Amstel Close Race
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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Mon, 19 Apr 2021 19:27:32 +0000
S9 Ep36: The boy who cried Wolfpack
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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Thu, 15 Apr 2021 19:12:31 +0000
🇪🇸 Trailer: El Cycling Podcast episode 4
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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Thu, 15 Apr 2021 07:25:56 +0000
S9 Ep35: Life in the Peloton – Tom Pidcock
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

Photo by Sean Hardy @Hardyccphotos.

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Wed, 14 Apr 2021 08:26:44 +0000
S9 Ep34: Trailer: Magnus Bäckstedt – Cuddly Lions and Cobblestones
This is a ten-minute trailer for our latest episode for Friends of the Podcast. To sign up go to thecyclingpodcast.com

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.

Series: Friends of the Podcast 2021
Fri, 09 Apr 2021 15:13:45 +0000
S9 Ep33: From Silicon Valley to Flanders
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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Thu, 08 Apr 2021 14:44:36 +0000
S9 Ep32: The Great Dane of Flanders
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.

Plus, visit thecyclingpodcast.com to win a set of Jaybird Vista headphones.

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Mon, 05 Apr 2021 15:41:22 +0000
S9 Ep31: Life in the Peloton – Belgian cobbled Classics with Luke Durbridge
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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Wed, 31 Mar 2021 14:14:15 +0000
S9 Ep30: Trailer: Supersonic: The Marcus Christie Story
This is a trailer of a new episode for Friends of the Podcast. To listen to the full episode sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com

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.
Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:16:57 +0000
S9 Ep29: Who's afraid of the big bad Wolfpack?
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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Mon, 29 Mar 2021 19:51:46 +0000
S9 Ep28: Service Course | Robocoach
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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Fri, 26 Mar 2021 17:41:26 +0000
S9 Ep27: Trailer: The Lionel of Flanders
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
Wed, 24 Mar 2021 07:30:43 +0000
S9 Ep26: Stuyven stuns The Galácticos
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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Mon, 22 Mar 2021 19:46:44 +0000
S9 Ep25: Trailer: Covering Team Sky
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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Fri, 19 Mar 2021 16:52:13 +0000
S9 Ep24: The Galácticos
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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Wed, 17 Mar 2021 20:32:29 +0000
S9 Ep23: Life in the Peloton – Robbie McEwen
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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The 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.
Wed, 17 Mar 2021 08:23:23 +0000
S9 Ep22: Paris-Nice and the case of Dr Freeman
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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Mon, 15 Mar 2021 20:27:45 +0000
S9 Ep21: SD Worx win the numbers game
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.

The Cycling Podcast Féminin is supported by iwoca and Science in Sport.

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Fri, 12 Mar 2021 13:58:55 +0000
S9 Ep20: Van der Poel has lift off
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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Wed, 10 Mar 2021 12:32:50 +0000
S9 Ep19: Trailer: Paris-Nice and The King
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.

To sign up as a Friend of the Podcast go to thecyclingpodcast.com
Sat, 06 Mar 2021 20:05:00 +0000
S9 Ep18: 🇪🇸 El Cycling Podcast – Camisas de cemento
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.
Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:57:00 +0000
S9 Ep17: Life in the Peloton – On the road with Tom Scully
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 music
The 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.
Wed, 03 Mar 2021 10:08:00 +0000
S9 Ep16: Opening Weekend
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.
The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science in Sport.

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Tue, 02 Mar 2021 09:35:40 +0000
S9 Ep15: Service Course | Cycling in cyberspace
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.

Service Course by The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport. For 25% off all your Science in Sport products go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.

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Thu, 25 Feb 2021 19:07:00 +0000
S9 Ep14: Crosswinds and Côtes du Rhône
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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Wed, 24 Feb 2021 13:18:38 +0000
S9 Ep13: Trailer: A team apart
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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Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:10:56 +0000
S9 Ep12: Fly me to the moon
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.

The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science in Sport.

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Wed, 17 Feb 2021 20:18:38 +0000
S9 Ep11: Life in the Peloton – Nate Wilson
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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Keep in touch with Life in the Peloton

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Theme music
The 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.
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 10:12:23 +0000
S9 Ep10: Trailer: A virtual lunch with Rod Ellingworth
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
Mon, 15 Feb 2021 14:54:16 +0000
S9 Ep9: Rose between two thorns
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.

The Cycling Podcast Féminin is supported by iwoca and Science in Sport.

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Fri, 12 Feb 2021 09:29:27 +0000
S9 Ep8: The Ineos grand tour battle plan
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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Wed, 10 Feb 2021 12:39:12 +0000
S9 Ep7: Life in the Peloton – Jack Thompson
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.

Life in the Peloton 2020 playlist

Keep in touch with Life in the Peloton

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Theme music
The 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.
Wed, 03 Feb 2021 18:33:46 +0000
S9 Ep6: Duel in the sand
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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Wed, 03 Feb 2021 08:40:59 +0000
S9 Ep5: Service Course | Let's Talk About CX
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.

Service Course by The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport. For 25% off all your Science in Sport products go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.
Fri, 29 Jan 2021 15:34:31 +0000
S9 Ep4: Dumoulin hits pause
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.
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.co.uk/play and enter the code CYCLE
Wed, 27 Jan 2021 08:00:00 +0000
S9 Ep3: Presenting Jumbo-Visma 2021
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
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 11:26:56 +0000
S9 Ep2: Life in the Peloton – Heinrich Haussler
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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Life in the Peloton 2020 playlist


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The 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.
Wed, 20 Jan 2021 09:44:10 +0000
S9 Ep1: The Speculation Episode
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.
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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#/
Thu, 14 Jan 2021 12:29:18 +0000
S8 Ep204: Service Course | Christmas Press Conference
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.

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.
Mon, 28 Dec 2020 15:28:48 +0000
S8 Ep203: Strictly Amaraterra
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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Wed, 23 Dec 2020 11:53:54 +0000
S8 Ep202: 2020 hindsight
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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This episode is also supported by Harrys.
Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:54:28 +0000
S8 Ep201: Rose's Christmas Quiz
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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Tue, 15 Dec 2020 17:26:05 +0000
S8 Ep200: Explore | Utterly Brilliant with Timmy Mallett
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.

Explore by The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science in Sport.

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Thu, 10 Dec 2020 19:22:44 +0000
S8 Ep199: Old beginnings
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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Wed, 09 Dec 2020 11:03:57 +0000
S8 Ep198: The transfer market
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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Thu, 03 Dec 2020 15:33:26 +0000
S8 Ep197: Service Course | Chain reaction
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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Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:37:52 +0000
S8 Ep196: Peiper on Pogacar: It was the pinnacle of my life
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.

Our supporters
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Thu, 26 Nov 2020 17:23:31 +0000
S8 Ep195: Explore | Escape From Lockdown
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

Sponsor Richard's ride for Pancreatic Cancer UK.

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
Fri, 20 Nov 2020 11:14:57 +0000
S8 Ep194: Life in the Peloton – Svein Tuft turns the mic on Mitch
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.

Life in the Peloton 2020 playlist


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

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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 music
The 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.
Wed, 18 Nov 2020 11:57:48 +0000
S8 Ep193: Press conference, part two
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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Further listening
Meet Orla Chennaoui. Exclusively for Friends of the Podcast, Richard talks to Orla about a career that has taken her from traffic news to grand tours. To listen, sign up as a Friend of the Podcast at thecyclingpodcast.com/join

The Cycling Podcast Féminin features Lizzy Banks, Lisa Brennauer and Elisa Longo Borghini. Out now

The last episode of Life in the Peloton for 2020 sees Mitch Docker answering questions put by his friend and former teammate Svein Tuft. Out on Wednesday

Explore returns with an episode called Escape from Lockdown celebrating the sheer joy of going for a bike ride. Out on Friday
Tue, 17 Nov 2020 15:39:19 +0000
S8 Ep192: Press conference, part one
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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Fri, 13 Nov 2020 18:47:07 +0000
S8 Ep191: The Cycling Podcast Féminin | November | Brennauer, Banks and Longo Borghini
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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Thu, 12 Nov 2020 19:49:18 +0000
S8 Ep190: The Grandest Tour stage 33: It's a wrap
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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Sun, 08 Nov 2020 22:00:00 +0000
S8 Ep189: The Grandest Tour stage 32: Déjà vu (almost) all over again
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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Sat, 07 Nov 2020 21:03:42 +0000
S8 Ep188: The Grandest Tour Stage 31: Gone fishing
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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Fri, 06 Nov 2020 21:37:22 +0000
S8 Ep187: The Grandest Tour stage 30: Where are we, Lionel?
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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Thu, 05 Nov 2020 21:00:15 +0000
S8 Ep186: The Grandest Tour stage 29: A tale of two Tours
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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Wed, 04 Nov 2020 21:09:22 +0000
S8 Ep185: Life in the Peloton – Hugh Carthy
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...

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

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Theme music
The 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.
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 12:41:18 +0000
S8 Ep184: The Grandest Tour stage 28: Pass the parcel
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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Tue, 03 Nov 2020 21:40:17 +0000
S8 Ep183: Kilometre 0 – The story of the Giro
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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Thanks to Russ Ellis for the photograph.
Mon, 02 Nov 2020 11:01:14 +0000
S8 Ep182: The Grandest Tour stage 27: Butter pies all round
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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Sun, 01 Nov 2020 22:03:05 +0000
S8 Ep181: The Grandest Tour stage 26: Waiting no more
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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Sat, 31 Oct 2020 20:35:59 +0000
S8 Ep180: The Grandest Tour stage 25: Every second counts
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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Fri, 30 Oct 2020 21:10:01 +0000
S8 Ep179: Service Course | What Happens If You Run Out Of Ink?
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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Fri, 30 Oct 2020 15:51:24 +0000
S8 Ep178: The Grandest Tour stage 24: Relegation
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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Thu, 29 Oct 2020 21:29:17 +0000
S8 Ep177: The Grandest Tour stage 23: The Rioja stage
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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Wed, 28 Oct 2020 21:14:59 +0000
S8 Ep176: The Grandest Tour stage 22: Woods' smart move
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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Tue, 27 Oct 2020 21:17:49 +0000
S8 Ep175: Kilometre 0 – Grandest Tour Diaries
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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Mon, 26 Oct 2020 13:06:56 +0000
S8 Ep174: The Grandest Tour Stage 21: The Jai-breaker
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.
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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
Sun, 25 Oct 2020 21:28:23 +0000
S8 Ep173: The Grandest Tour stage 20: Tao + Jai = Tie
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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Sat, 24 Oct 2020 20:34:13 +0000
S8 Ep172: The Grandest Tour stage 19: On The Buses
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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Fri, 23 Oct 2020 21:14:32 +0000
S8 Ep171: The Grandest Tour stage 18: The World Jacket Putting-On Championships
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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Thu, 22 Oct 2020 20:21:56 +0000
S8 Ep170: Kilometre 0 – Giro Diaries – Part 5
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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Thu, 22 Oct 2020 10:48:58 +0000
S8 Ep169: The Grandest Tour stage 17: The Italian-Spanish-Belgium triangle
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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Wed, 21 Oct 2020 21:32:31 +0000
S8 Ep168: Life in the Peloton – Greg Griffiths
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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Wed, 21 Oct 2020 20:05:47 +0000
S8 Ep167: The Grandest Tour stage 16: Cappuccino, waffles, jamón
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.
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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
Tue, 20 Oct 2020 20:43:22 +0000
S8 Ep166: Kilometre 0 – George Bennett
"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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Photo: Bram Berkien
Tue, 20 Oct 2020 10:25:12 +0000
S8 Ep165: Kilometre 0 – NTT SOS
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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Mon, 19 Oct 2020 09:48:24 +0000
S8 Ep164: The Grandest Tour stage 15: The Giro van Vlaanderen
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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Sun, 18 Oct 2020 20:12:50 +0000
S8 Ep163: The Grandest Tour stage 14: The Prosecco time trial
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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Sat, 17 Oct 2020 19:40:54 +0000
S8 Ep162: The Grandest Tour stage 13: The sprint stage without sprinters
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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Fri, 16 Oct 2020 20:40:21 +0000
S8 Ep161: The Grandest Tour stage 12: Chocolate mousse at the Merckx's
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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Thu, 15 Oct 2020 20:38:46 +0000
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