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 ho...
40m Apr 16, 2022
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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...
1hr 49m Apr 14, 2022
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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 f...
1hr 3m Mar 25, 2022
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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...
1hr Mar 24, 2022
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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...
38m Mar 19, 2022
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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...
55m Mar 16, 2022
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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 ...
56m Mar 15, 2022
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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 do...
1hr 19m Mar 09, 2022
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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 lo...
1hr 15m Mar 07, 2022
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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 Nor...
1hr 5m Mar 04, 2022
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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 J...
1hr 34m Feb 28, 2022
1hr 34m
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 fr...
1hr 5m Feb 25, 2022
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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 pogcinera...
1hr 27m Feb 23, 2022
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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...
1hr 35m Feb 18, 2022
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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 thir...
1hr 16m Feb 08, 2022
1hr 16m
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 (https://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 a...
13m Feb 07, 2022
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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 Bi...
1hr 27m Feb 03, 2022
1hr 27m
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, Mo...
1hr 23m Jan 28, 2022
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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 d...
1hr 31m Jan 27, 2022
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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 Sill...
1hr 17m Jan 21, 2022
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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,...
1hr 13m Jan 20, 2022
1hr 13m
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...
52m Jan 11, 2022
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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 festiv...
17m Dec 24, 2021
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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 ...
1hr 49m Dec 23, 2021
1hr 49m
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...
54m Dec 20, 2021
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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 abou...
1hr 19m Dec 17, 2021
1hr 19m
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 Podc...
1hr 43m Dec 16, 2021
1hr 43m
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 ...
2hr 3m Dec 10, 2021
2hr 3m
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....
1hr 14m Dec 06, 2021
1hr 14m
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 mos...
1hr 16m Nov 30, 2021
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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 moment...
1hr 5m Nov 26, 2021
1hr 5m
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 ...
1hr 19m Nov 24, 2021
1hr 19m
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 ...
1hr 7m Nov 20, 2021
1hr 7m
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 S...
1hr 13m Nov 18, 2021
1hr 13m
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 Borde...
1hr Nov 17, 2021
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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 ...
1hr 20m Nov 11, 2021
1hr 20m
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 ...
54m Nov 10, 2021
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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.  The Cycling Podcast Fém...
1hr 22m Nov 05, 2021
1hr 22m
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 r...
1hr 18m Nov 04, 2021
1hr 18m
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 no...
1hr 14m Nov 03, 2021
1hr 14m
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 t...
1hr 21m Oct 28, 2021
1hr 21m
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 t...
13m Oct 28, 2021
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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, b...
1hr 25m Oct 22, 2021
1hr 25m
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...
1hr 40m Oct 21, 2021
1hr 40m
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 th...
1hr 14m Oct 18, 2021
1hr 14m
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 ...
1hr 4m Oct 15, 2021
1hr 4m
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 i...
54m Oct 11, 2021
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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 grabb...
56m Oct 09, 2021
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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...
51m Oct 08, 2021
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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 ...
59m Oct 07, 2021
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