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...
24m Jun 23, 2021
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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 ca...
1hr 13m Jun 22, 2021
1hr 13m
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 ...
46m Jun 16, 2021
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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 retur...
58m Jun 15, 2021
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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 Cr...
1hr 21m Jun 10, 2021
1hr 21m
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, a...
1hr 12m Jun 08, 2021
1hr 12m
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...
1hr 10m Jun 03, 2021
1hr 10m
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 wa...
1hr 27m Jun 02, 2021
1hr 27m
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 (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/travel/sussex-bicycle-portraits.html) as A Cyclist on the English Landscape. The series of self-portraits feature Roff cycling in and around his adopted home town, St Leonards-o...
56m May 31, 2021
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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 Kn...
1hr 3m May 30, 2021
1hr 3m
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 w...
52m May 29, 2021
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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.  The Cycling Podcast is s...
52m May 28, 2021
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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 Ellingwort...
31m May 28, 2021
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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.  The...
1hr 1m May 27, 2021
1hr 1m
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 wi...
1hr 3m May 26, 2021
1hr 3m
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 Jo...
27m May 26, 2021
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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, an...
55m May 25, 2021
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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 ton...
1hr 2m May 24, 2021
1hr 2m
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'...
51m May 23, 2021
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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 m...
32m May 23, 2021
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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 Wh...
1hr 1m May 22, 2021
1hr 1m
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 ...
55m May 21, 2021
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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 ...
25m May 21, 2021
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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. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and...
46m May 20, 2021
46m
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 ...
53m May 19, 2021
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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 s...
29m May 19, 2021
29m
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 Olymp...
58m May 18, 2021
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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 –...
52m May 17, 2021
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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 ...
32m May 17, 2021
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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 pi...
59m May 16, 2021
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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...
59m May 15, 2021
59m
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 Molle...
52m May 14, 2021
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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 ...
35m May 14, 2021
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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 Cale...
55m May 13, 2021
55m
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 ...
54m May 12, 2021
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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 ...
27m May 12, 2021
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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 who...
47m May 11, 2021
47m
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 ...
40m May 10, 2021
40m
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’....
22m May 10, 2021
22m
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 jo...
48m May 09, 2021
48m
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 a...
52m May 08, 2021
52m
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 th...
58m May 08, 2021
58m
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...
1hr 15m May 06, 2021
1hr 15m
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 oth...
1hr 19m May 04, 2021
1hr 19m
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 ...
1hr 19m Apr 29, 2021
1hr 19m
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...
1hr 8m Apr 28, 2021
1hr 8m
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, ...
1hr 2m Apr 26, 2021
1hr 2m
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 ...
39m Apr 21, 2021
39m
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 fi...
45m Apr 19, 2021
45m
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 B...
1hr 12m Apr 15, 2021
1hr 12m