Stage 21 | Monza to Milan | Giro d'Italia 2017
The final podcast of the 100th Giro comes from the Piazza del Duomo in Milan, scene of the finish of the time trial that ended the race. It was a thrilling finale, one that race director Mauro Vegni could only have dreamed of, with four, maybe even five, riders all in contention before the 29km stage. We hear from Nairo Quintana’s Movistar teammate Rory Sutherland, from the first Maglia Rosa, ...
1hr 1m May 28, 2017
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Giro d'Italia Stage 20: Pordenone – Asiago
The penultimate day of the Giro d’Italia saw Thibaut Pinot take a strong stage win as Nairo Quintana held the pink jersey and Tom Dumoulin slipped a few more seconds. Yet the race remains in the balance. With only a flat 29km time trial into Milan to come the top four are separated by just 53 seconds and any one of them could still be crowned winner. Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss the...
42m May 27, 2017
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Giro d'Italia Stage 19: San Candido - Piancavallo
On the penultimate day in the mountains the 100th Giro d’Italia saw a re-shuffling of the top four, who are now separated by just 53 seconds. It sets up a thrilling finale with Saturday’s final mountain stage followed by the time trial into Milan. Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss the action and there are interviews with stage winner Mikel Landa, former pink jersey Tom Dumoulin and defen...
34m May 26, 2017
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Giro d’Italia Stage 18: Moena - Ortisei
Stage 18 of the Giro d’Italia was dubbed the ‘Queen Stage,’ though in this mountainous 100th edition of the Italian tour there are a few contenders for this unofficial honour. It was won by Tejay van Garderen, the BMC leader who had looked down and out, while the overall battle simmered and threatened to boil over at the finish when harsh words were exchanged between race leader Tom Dumoulin an...
45m May 25, 2017
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Giro d’Italia stage 17: Tirano – Canazei
Stage 17 of the Giro d’Italia took the riders into the Dolomites and ended with a win for Pierre Rolland and Cannondale-Drapac. We hear from Rolland’s teammate Davide Formolo – the last Cannondale rider to win a Grand Tour stage, at the Giro two years ago – as well as from the sports director, Charly Wegelius. Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe also return to Tuesday’s drama, when a call of natur...
44m May 24, 2017
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Stage 16: Rovetta - Bormio
For some the Giro d'Italia really started with stage 16, the first multi-mountain stage in the Alps that finished with a fast descent to Bormio. The stage was thrilling and controversial with the debate over whether Tom Dumoulin's rivals should have waited when he stopped to answer a call of nature before the third major climb of the day. Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss this and we hea...
41m May 23, 2017
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Stage 15 | Valdengo to Bergamo | Giro d’Italia 2017
Stage 15 of the Giro d’Italia was more like a one-day Classic than a grand tour stage coming at the end of the second week – and not just because it finished in Bergamo and used roads that would not have looked out of place at the end-0f-season Il Lombardia. The race was furious from the start, with the peloton reluctant to let any break get its head. The first two hours saw the speeds top 50 ...
33m May 21, 2017
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Stage 14 | Castellania to Oropa | Giro d’Italia 2017
This episode of The Cycling Podcast comes from Biella, at the foot of the climb to a Oropa where stage 14 of the Giro d'Italia finished. It was a stage when Tom Dumoulin must have expected to come under pressure but he not only stood up to the attacks from Nairo Quintana but managed to drop the Colombian in the final few hundred metres to win the stage and tighten his grip on the pink jersey. ...
42m May 20, 2017
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Stage 13 | Reggio Emilia to Tortona | Giro d’Italia 2017
Stage 13 of the Giro d’Italia was completely flat and was always likely to end in a sprint and so it proved, although the wind threatened to make for a nervous afternoon. In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss Fernando Gaviria’s fourth and best Giro stage win, and attempt to explain the nuances of the breakaways. We also hear from Stefano Zanatta, dire...
43m May 19, 2017
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Stage 12 | Forlì to Reggio Emilia | Giro d’Italia 2017
After three explosive days – the day to Blockhaus, the time trial and then Wednesday’s hilly stage – the 100th Giro d’Italia calmed down again. A three-man break on the road from Forlì to Reggio Emilia was never likely to succeed, and so it proved. At the finish, the bunch was all back together and Fernando Gaviria, the 22-year-old Colombian sprinter, won his third stage of the race. In this ...
40m May 18, 2017
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Stage 11 | Florence to Bagno di Romagna | Giro d’Italia 2017
This episode of The Cycling Podcast evaluates an aggressive, unpredictable day when the pink jersey, Tom Dumoulin, and his Sunweb team could not relax for a moment. The stage was won in memorable style by Spaniard Omar Fraile of Dimension Data after a long breakaway and a brilliant tactical move in the final kilometres. In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe d...
45m May 17, 2017
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Stage 10 | Foligno to Montefalco | Giro d’Italia 2017
The time trial in Montefalco turned the Giro d’Italia on its head again and left the race beautifully balanced between the climbers and the time triallists. As expected, Tom Dumoulin won the stage, and took the pink jersey, but it was the margin of his win over Nairo Quintana that suggests this Giro will be alive until deep into the mountains next week. In this episode of The Cycling Podcast,...
47m May 16, 2017
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The Cycling Podcast Féminin – Episode 12
Lizzie Deignan in conversation with Richard Moore and Orla Chennaoui This month’s episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin comes from Lizzie Deignan’s book launch in Leeds. Deignan was in conversation with Orla Chennaoui and Richard Moore and talks about her autobiography, Steadfast, which opens with the controversy around her missed drugs tests in 2016. She also talks about sexism, retirement ...
53m May 16, 2017
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Stage 9 | Montenero di Bisaccia to Blockhaus | Giro d’Italia 2017
The Giro d’Italia reached Blockhaus, the first major mountain of the race, and at last there was drama, although it was the unwelcome kind of drama because a poorly-parked police motorcycle, which was accompanying the race to ensure the riders’ safety, caused a crash which ended Wilco Kelderman’s race and scuppered the overall chances of both Team Sky’s leaders. Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe...
43m May 14, 2017
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Stage 8 | Molfetta to Peschici | Giro d’Italia 2017
If the Giro d’Italia is a 21-course tasting menu, the first week has seen plate after plate of bread with olive oil. Today we were at least offered some meat and cheese. Tomorrow, at Blockhaus is the prima piatti. Stage 8 of the Giro from Molfetta to the pretty coastal town of Peschici in Puglia was aggressive, anarchic and chaotic. A crash for Valerio Conti on a tight corner at the bottom of ...
46m May 13, 2017
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Stage 7 | Castrovillari to Alberobello | Giro d’Italia 2017
After eight days of racing, the 100th Giro d’Italia is yet to spark into life – although with all the mountains in the final week it may be that the old adage about good things coming to those who wait comes true. Stage seven from Castrovillari to the picturesque town of Alberobello, famous for its buildings with conical stone rooftops, was not a classic. Two riders spent much of the day out i...
35m May 12, 2017
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Stage 6 | Reggio Calabria to Terme Luigiane | Giro d’Italia 2017
Stage six of the Giro d’Italia headed to Terme Lungiane, a natural spa north of Reggio Calabria, where the day started, and although the race for the pink jersey is only bubbling gently at the moment, the battle for the honours at the finish line was intense. Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the close sprint between two riders in red and black – BMC Racing’s Silvan Dillier and Trek’s Ja...
35m May 11, 2017
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Stage 5 | Pedara to Messina | Giro d’Italia 2017
The Giro d'Italia was island-hopping again after stage five, leaving Vincenzo Nibali's home town of Messina and heading across the water to the mainland. With Richard Moore returning home for a few days, it's up to Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe to negotiate the journey and this episode features the ferry journey across the Strait of Messina that gives Nibali his nickname, The Shark. The fif...
45m May 10, 2017
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Stage 4 | Cefalù to Etna | Giro d’Italia 2017
It was hoped that the Giro d’Italia would explode into life at Mount Etna in Sicily but a strong wind discouraged attacks from most of the favourites. However, there was an impressive stage win, a new pink jersey, a crash for one of the the overall contenders and a controversial incident that has led to one rider being disqualified from the race. In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard...
40m May 09, 2017
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Stage 3 | Tortolì to Cagliari | Giro d’Italia 2017
The Giro d’Italia’s stay on Sardinia has come to an end with a dramatic third stage to Cagliari. It was short and sweet and the final 25 kilometres were shaped by strong winds. The Sardinian start makes logistics tricky for everyone on the race, not least The Cycling Podcast’s team. So this episode starts in Cagliari airport, where a choir had assembled to greet the riders arriving for their c...
31m May 07, 2017
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Stage 2 | Olbia to Tortolì | Giro d'Italia 2017
The Giro d’Italia’s second stage in Sardinia saw German champion Andre Greipel win the sprint finish, as Caleb Ewan pulled his foot out of the pedal at a crucial moment. The headwind made it a long, relatively slow day in the saddle but the drama at the end made up for it. Russia’s overall contender Ilnur Zakarin of Katusha lost crucial seconds after a puncture, although his team-mates initial...
33m May 06, 2017
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Il Direttore | The Director
This is an episode of The Cycling Podcast Italiano. (Italian) Il Cycling Podcast Italiano fa il suo esordio in occasione del centesimo Giro d’Italia, partito il 5 maggio da Alghero. In questa prima puntata, Daniel Friebe incontra il direttore del Giro, Mauro Vegni, per una chiacchierata a 360 gradi, sul Giro, ovviamente, ma anche sul ciclismo moderno e sulla sua vita “da direttore”. The Cycli...
24m May 06, 2017
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Stage 1 | Alghero to Olbia | Giro d'Italia 2017
The 100th edition of the Giro d’Italia is underway and Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe were in Sardinia to see Austrian rider Lukas Pöstlberger take a surprise stage win in Olbia. The 25-year-old Austrian rides for Peter Sagan’s Bora-Hansgrohe team but he stepped out of the world champion’s shadow to claim the squad’s biggest victory of the season. It was a victory that owed muc...
48m May 05, 2017
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Giro 100 | Teaser trailer
With the 100th edition of the Giro d’Italia almost upon us, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe gather in one of London’s traditional Italian cafés, Italia Uno in Charlotte Street, to discuss what makes the race so captivating. They look back at last year, when The Cycling Podcast offered daily coverage of the Giro for the first time and then explore this history of the race in a ty...
14m Apr 28, 2017
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Remembering Scarponi | Episode 16
April 26 | The Cycling Podcast remembers Michele Scarponi, who was tragically killed while out training near his home in Italy at the weekend just days after winning a stage of the Tour of the Alps.
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the Italian’s career and popularity in the peloton and hear from former Astana press officer Chris Baldwin who worked with Scarponi for a few s...
59m Apr 26, 2017
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Episode 11 | The Cycling Podcast Féminin
In this month’s Cycling Podcast Féminin Richard Moore and Orla Chennaoui report from Flèche Wallonne, where Anna van der Breggen won her second of three Women’s World Tour races in a week. It’s an episode packed full of interviews: we hear from Van der Breggen, Ashleigh Moolman Pasio, Megan Guarnier, Boels-Dolmans manager Danny Stam, Tour of Flanders winner Coryn Rivera, new Women’s World Tour...
1hr 1m Apr 24, 2017
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Valverde Mountain | Episode 15
April 20 | In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the Amstel Gold Race before handing over to Richard Moore and Orla Chennaoui at the Mur de Huy in Belgium, where Flèche Wallonne took place. Both Lionel and Daniel agree that the course changes at the Amstel Gold Race shook things up, although Philippe Gilbert, the architect of a stunning winning at the ...
56m Apr 20, 2017
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Cannibal of the Cobbles | Episode 14
April 12 | In this week’s podcast Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe pick over the bones of the fastest ever Paris-Roubaix, won by Greg Van Avermaet. Van Avermaet has been in sparkling form throughout the cobbled classics, winning four, and he claimed his first Monument in clinical and decisive fashion. He had to outsmart Zdenek Stybar, the Quick-Step rider who sat on the three-man...
1hr 8m Apr 12, 2017
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Bonus | Boonen's Farewell | Trailer
This bonus episode for Friends of the Podcast, marks Tom Boonen's retirement after more than a decade at the top. The Belgian former world champion wanted one final Classics campaign before bowing out on the Roubaix velodrome, where he won a record-equaling four editions of Paris-Roubaix. Add to that three victories at the Tour of Flanders, five wins at Grand Prix E3 Harelbeke, three each at ...
2m Apr 07, 2017
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Gilbert wins a Flanders of what ifs | Episode 13
April 5 | Philippe Gilbert's remarkable win in the Tour of Flanders is the main subject up for discussion in The Cycling Podcast this week, with Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe debating whether Gilbert would have held on to win had Peter Sagan not crashed at a crucial point in the race. We also look ahead to Paris-Roubaix and ask whether Tom Boonen, in his final race as a profes...
1hr Apr 05, 2017
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15th time lucky | Mat Hayman: how I won Paris-Roubaix | Trailer
Six weeks before last year's Paris-Roubaix Mathew Hayman crashed and broke a bone in his arm. He was told he'd be out of action for six weeks. Five days after the crash he was on a turbo trainer in his garage, his arm supported on a ladder. Five weeks later he returned to racing in Spain. Amazingly, he started his 15th Paris-Roubaix, the race he most loves. He hoped to help his team. But then ...
3m Apr 03, 2017
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Cobbled Classics and Catalonia | Episode 12
March 30 | With three World Tour races taking in the cobbles and climbs of Flanders, it can mean only one thing – the Ronde Van Vlaanderen is just round the corner. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the week's three races – Dwars Door Vlaanderen, the Grand Prix E3 Harelbeke and Ghent-Wevelgem – and weigh up who's hot and who's not. While the Classics riders are occupied b...
1hr 1m Mar 30, 2017
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The Lionel of Flanders trailer
March 23-27: A five-part series for Friends of the Podcast 2017. Lionel Birnie heads to Flanders to witness the build-up to the Ronde Van Vlaanderen as cycling fever grips the region. With three World Tour races in five days, the Classics specialists have plenty of opportunity to hone their form before the Tour of Flanders. But what are these races like? Is it right to think of them as mere ...
6m Mar 24, 2017
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Michal Kwiatkowski wins Milan-San Remo | Episode 11
March 22 | The Cycling Podcast this week looks back at the first monument of the season, Milan-San Remo, with Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discussing Peter Sagan’s searing attack on the Poggio and Michal Kwiatkowski’s perfectly judged sprint on the Via Roma. Did Sagan not listen to last week’s podcast, in which Daniel advised him to exercise some patience? Or did it not make ...
48m Mar 21, 2017
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Episode 10 | The Cycling Podcast Féminin
March 20 | In the March episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin Richard Moore and Orla Chennaoui are joined by Steve Fry of M2 Sports, an agency with a particular interest in women’s cycling. There is an interview with Olympic road race champion Anna van der Breggen, a look back at the opening events in the Women’s World Tour, including an outstanding edition of Strade Bianche, and a feature on ...
1hr 4m Mar 20, 2017
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Alberto Contador lights up Paris-Nice | Episode 10
March 15 | The Cycling Podcast this week comes from Nice, where Richard Moore is joined by award-winning French journalist François Thomazeau to discuss Alberto Contador’s bold and exciting attempt to beat Sergio Henao on the final stage of Paris-Nice. There are interviews with stage winners Sam Bennett of Bora-Hansgrohe and Richie Porte of BMC Racing, the Team Sky sports director Nicolas Port...
1hr 10m Mar 15, 2017
1hr 10m
Team Sky's woes continue | Episode 9
March 8 | In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the latest racing in Europe and the ongoing controversy that has engulfed Team Sky, putting pressure on their boss, Sir Dave Brailsford. The European season continues to amp up towards the Spring Classics. At the weekend, Strade Bianche both underlined its claims on a place among tho...
1hr 2m Mar 08, 2017
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First of the Cobbled Classics | Episode 8
March 1 | The cobbled classics got underway at the weekend and The Cycling Podcast discusses Greg Van Avermaet’s win at Het Nieuwsblad and Peter Sagan’s at Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne. We hear from Cannondale-Drapac manager Jonathan Vaughters whose rider, Sep Vanmarcke, was third in the first of these two races – but did Vanmarcke get his tactics right? Daniel Friebe is back from the Abu Dhabi Tour...
1hr 1m Mar 01, 2017
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Grand Tour strategy with Orica-Scott | Episode 7
February 22 | There’s a lot of racing to discuss and look forward to in The Cycling Podcast, with Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie joined by Daniel Friebe at the Abu Dhabi Tour, which has a stellar cast of stars, including Mark Cavendish, Marcel Kittel and Vincenzo Nibali. We hear from British rider Ben Swift who moved over the winter from Team Sky to the newly renamed UAE Team Emirates and the...
1hr 8m Feb 23, 2017
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Episode 9 | The Cycling Podcast Féminin
February 20 | Richard Moore and Orla Chennaoui return for the second Cycling Podcast Féminin of 2017 in the company of Drops rider Abi Van Twisk. They recorded the episode in London following the launch of the Women’s Tour, which will include a final stage in the centre of the Capital. But the June event will still be over five days rather than seven, much to the disappointment of race directo...
1hr 5m Feb 20, 2017
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An early-season ramble | Episode 6
February 16 | A lull in the early season sees The Cycling Podcast go off-piste and discuss the prospects of Tom Boonen as he prepares for his final spring Classics campaign before his retirement at Paris-Roubaix, reflect on the early retirement of German former wunderkind Gerald Ciolek, and feature a special report on the diabetic team, Novo Nordisk. We also hear from Mick Bennett, director of...
46m Feb 16, 2017
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Double trouble and bucket breaks | Episode 5
February 9 | As the 2017 season continues to move through the gears, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe return to review and debate the latest results and news from the professional peloton’s front line. Nairo Quintana’s victory in the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana bodes well for his chances of pulling off a Giro-Tour double last achieved by Marco Pantani in 1998. At least that’s...
1hr 8m Feb 09, 2017
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Of Punch-ups and Plagiarism | Episode 4
February 3 | Our latest episode sees Lionel Birnie and his weekly round-up fully tested by a frantic few days of early-season racing and news. After hearing from Marcel Kittel and Andrei Grivko about their dust-up in the Dubai desert, Lionel, Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe ponder whether the race jury was right to eject the Ukranian. This week’s podcast also features interviews with both the ...
1hr 19m Feb 03, 2017
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Tour Down Under, Berlin Six and Damian Collins MP | Episode 3
January 27 | In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe briefly recap the Tour Down Under, where Richie Porte won on Willunga Hill for the fourth year in a row and Australian riders completed a clean sweep of stage wins for the second successive edition of the race. Daniel reflects on the death at the age of 31 of former under-23 world champion Dmytr...
1hr 5m Jan 27, 2017
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Mud, sweat and energy balls | Episode 8 | The Cycling Podcast Féminin
In the first Cycling Podcast Féminin of 2017 Richard Moore and Orla Chennaoui are joined by Delia Beddis, a double winner of the Three Peaks cyclo-cross race, and Ian Cleverly, the editor of Rouleur. The theme, ahead of the world championships this weekend, is cyclo-cross, and there are interviews with under-23 world champion Evie Richards and 13-time American champion Katie Compton. We also h...
1hr 7m Jan 25, 2017
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What does the 2017 season have in store? | Episode 2
January 20 | This episode of The Cycling Podcast was recorded just as the 2017 UCI World Tour season was getting underway at the Tour Down Under. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss what they are looking forward to in 2017, analyse the changes to the World Tour calendar and rules, assess the Vuelta a España route, which was announced last week, and weigh-up the Giro d'Italia...
1hr 5m Jan 20, 2017
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Back to the future: riders to watch in 2017 | Episode 1
January 11 | In the first episode of 2017 The Cycling Podcast turns the spotlight on some of the potential stars of the future. Featuring two of the world’s leading development teams, we speak to Tao Geoghegan Hart, Adrien Costa and Joan Bou, and to the individuals who run those teams, Axel Merckx and Alberto Contador’s brother, Fran. Merckx runs Axeon Hagens Berman, whose alumni include Taylo...
40m Jan 11, 2017
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32. Review of the year
December 27 | This episode looks back at some of the highlights and memorable moments of The Cycling Podcast's coverage in 2016, featuring regular hosts Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe as well as the cast of guests, including Orla Chennaoui, François Thomazeau and, of course, Ciro Scognamiglio. It features some of the best moments of the three Grand Tours – the Giro d'Italia, To...
34m Dec 26, 2016
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The Cycling Podcast Féminin – Episode 7
December 22 | The seventh episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin is a riding special. Orla Chennaoui and Richard Moore report from a women's ride in Kent with Dame Kelly Holmes, the double Olympic gold medallist from Athens 2004, where she won the 800m and 1500m. Having recently taken up cycling, Holmes tells us how it compares to athletics and about her new ambitions on two wheels. We hear fr...
1hr 3m Dec 22, 2016
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31. Catching up with Graeme Obree
December 15 | In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore meets former world champion and World Hour Record holder Graeme Obree. They talk about the film Battle Mountain, which tells the story of Obree's attempt to set a new human-powered landspeed record, as well as his Hour Record attempts in Norway in 1993. Obree also discusses the the question of whether the body rules the mind ...
44m Dec 15, 2016
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