S8 Ep89: The Cycling Podcast Féminin | 'July' 2020
We return to racing in the latest episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin with reaction to and analysis of Strade Bianche, the first Women's World Tour race of the resumed season. We held back the July episode so Orla Chennaoui, Rose Manley and Richard Moore could discuss the race, which was won by the world champion Annemiek van Vleuten but was also notable for the performances of the other tw...
57m Aug 05, 2020
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S8 Ep88: Red hot on the white roads
Temperatures soared in Tuscany on Saturday and the riders occasionally disappeared in clouds of pale dust as they crossed the dirt roads. Strade Bianche was a brutal return to the World Tour for the riders and in this episode we assess Wout Van Aert's victory. The Belgian made his breakthrough at the same race two years ago, finishing third behind Tiesj Benoot and Romain Bardet. He was third a...
1hr 7m Aug 03, 2020
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S8 Ep87: Remco dusts off the opposition
After a break of almost five months, racing is back. In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe review the opening three days of the Vuelta a Burgos and look ahead to the first World Tour race following the resumption, Strade Bianche. Twenty-year-old Remco Evenepoel picked up where he left off in the spring. After winning both stages he rode before ...
1hr 10m Jul 31, 2020
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S8 Ep86: Service Course | Episode 12 | Hackers & helmets
In this episode of Service Course Lizzy and Tom speak to an ethical hacker about the ransomware attack on Garmin, and ask what the repercussions are for those of us who use Garmin devices. They also consider the wider issues of data security in cycling and find out why Strava became a problem for Area 51 and GCHQ. Tom also finds out about a prototype wheel that cleans up air pollution as it s...
1hr 24m Jul 30, 2020
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S8 Ep85: Life in the Peloton – The racing restart mailbag with Luke Durbridge
Back in March, Mitch Docker was planning to travel to Tuscany to race on the white roads for the first time. But the coronavirus pandemic meant Strade Bianche was postponed and for the best part of five months the peloton has been in suspended animation – training, racing indoors and waiting for the resumption. This week, Mitch heads to Italy for his first race but before he travelled he got t...
1hr 13m Jul 29, 2020
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S8 Ep84: Countdown to restart
Racing is about to re-start. The Vuelta a Burgos gets underway next Tuesday and the first major stage race on the calendar in more than four months features a high quality field, including Nairo Quintana, Remco Evenepoel, Richard Carapaz and the Yates brothers, Simon and Adam. Lionel Birnie, Daniel Friebe and Richard Moore look ahead to Burgos and pick out one thing each that fascinates them a...
52m Jul 23, 2020
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S8 Ep83: What does Froome's departure mean for Team Ineos' Tour de France plans?
Following confirmation that Chris Froome is to leave Team Ineos for Israel Start-Up Nation, we discuss the implications for the upcoming Tour de France. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe speculate on who Team Ineos will select as the team looks for an eighth Tour de France title in nine years. Will Froome make the final eight or not? We also hear from Freddy Ovett, son of former ...
1hr Jul 17, 2020
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S8 Ep82: Explore | Everesting
Everesting is a simple concept but a difficult challenge. To complete a successful Everesting challenge, a rider must climb and descend the same hill multiple times until they have reached the magic 8,848 metres of vertical gain – the equivalent height to Everest. Although Everesting may seem to be the antithesis of exploration on two wheels, during the coronavirus lockdown it has come into i...
1hr 20m Jul 10, 2020
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S8 Ep81: Chris Froome moves on, Rod Ellingworth looks ahead
In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast we speak to Rod Ellingworth, the man in charge at WorldTour team Bahrain-McLaren, about the uncertainty of the last few months and the imminent resumption of racing. Ellingworth admits that the pay cuts imposed on his team have made his job difficult, but he also reveals that he spoke to Chris Froome, who is set to leave Team Ineos, about joining B...
1hr 4m Jul 09, 2020
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S8 Ep80: Not the Tour de France
In this week's episode Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the strange case of Mitchelton-Scott and its on-off takeover, and we hear from the team's lead sports director, Matt White, about the challenges of planning for the season when it resumes later this month. There has  been a lot of speculation about Chris Froome, the four-time Tour de France winner, and his relationsh...
1hr Jul 02, 2020
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S8 Ep79: Life in the Peloton – Paul De Geyter
This week, Mitch Docker interviews his former manager, Paul De Geyter, to get the lowdown on the mechanics of rider contracts, who are the best and worst team managers to work with, and how the  coronavirus crisis might be affecting the transfer market. Now retired, De Geyter, who was also general manager at WorldTour team Lotto-Soudal, was one of the first rider managers, with the late Frank ...
54m Jul 01, 2020
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S8 Ep78: The Cycling Podcast Féminin | June 2020
In the June episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin there are interviews with the world’s number one ranked rider and the fashion house that’s taken over one of the world's best teams. Lorena Wiebes is the world number one and she recently joined Team Sunweb – we speak to her and one of the team’s sports directors, Hans Timmermans. And we hear from Matthias Thoma, the owner of Paule Ka, the Fre...
1hr 18m Jun 29, 2020
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S8 Ep77: Press Conference
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe answer listeners questions as our press conference episode returns. Listeners have recorded their questions about all aspects of professional cycling and sent them in and now it's over to us to answer them. The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science In Sport. INTRODUCING RICHARD MOORE Continuing our series in which we interview each o...
1hr 34m Jun 26, 2020
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S8 Ep76: Service Course | Episode 11 | Custom build
In this episode of Service Course Tom Whalley and Lizzy Banks delve into the world of bespoke bikes. We speak to Phil Taylor, one of the founders of the UK’s handmade bike festival, Bespoked, which had been due to take place in May. Phil tells us the story of how he set up Bespoked while holding down his other day job as a psychotherapist. We also speak with custom bike builders Liz Coleman an...
1hr 10m Jun 24, 2020
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S8 Ep75: And So They Rode
To coincide with the general release of Cycling Podcast Productions' first film, And So We Rode, we are releasing the original audio diary by Conor Dunne and Larry Warbasse which inspired it. In 2018, The Cycling Podcast asked Conor to keep a diary at the Tour of Britain, which he and Larry were due to ride for the Aqua Blue Sport team. But shortly before the race, the team folded. It didn't ...
1hr 50m Jun 19, 2020
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S8 Ep74: Life in the Peloton – Jens Keukeleire
This week, Mitch Docker catches up with Flandrian Jens Keukeleire. The pair were teammates at Orica-GreenEdge for several years and have been reunited at EF Pro Cycling this season. Mitch takes Jens right back to the beginning, ten years ago, when he was a neo-pro with the Cofidis team. Within a month of joining the pro ranks, Keukeleire won his first big race, Le Samyn, with a spectacular sp...
54m Jun 17, 2020
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S8 Ep73: Lance reviewed
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe return for the first time since the conclusion of Our Giro. A couple of months ago we reviewed the Netflix documentary about the Movistar team, The Least Expected Day. Grab the popcorn because in this episode, we discuss the new ESPN 30 for 30 film directed by Marina Zenovich, Lance. Is this another step on the path to redemption for Lance Armstron...
1hr 34m Jun 12, 2020
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S8 Ep72: Explore | In conversation with Emily Chappell
This episode of Explore by The Cycling Podcast features Hannah Troop in conversation with Emily Chappell, who used to criss-cross London delivering and picking up parcels as a bike courier before discovering long-distance and endurance cycling. Chappell was the first woman to finish the 2016 Transcontinental race and her latest book, Where There's A Will, tells the story of how she won the race...
1hr 27m Jun 10, 2020
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S8 Ep71: Service Course | Episode 10 | Unbroken record
In this episode of Service Course join Lizzy Banks and Tom Whalley as they take a look back at the track team from Derbados that took on the world and turned the track scene upside down. Team Huub Wattbike have been the leaders in technical innovation in the world of track cycling since they burst on to the scene as Team KGF back in the 2017 British National Track Championships. Since then, the...
1hr 12m Jun 07, 2020
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S8 Ep70: Life in the Peloton – Tom Southam
In this episode of Life in the Peloton, Mitch Docker talks to Tom Southam, one of his sports directors on the EF Education First team, and answers some listeners' questions from the postbag. Southam was born in Cornwall, England, and raced in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Italy as an amateur before turning pro for the Amore e Vita team in 2003. He also rode for Barloworld, Drapac-Porsche...
1hr 12m Jun 03, 2020
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S8 Ep69: Our Giro stage 21: The call of nature
Our Giro reaches Milan after three weeks on the virtual road. We set out from Budapest in Hungary, then spent a few days in Sicily before making the familiar journey the length of Italy, visiting the Dolomites and the Alps and now it's the last leg. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe look back to the 2017 Giro, won by Tom Dumoulin, who famously had to stop to answer the call of natu...
1hr 26m May 31, 2020
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S8 Ep68: Our Giro stage 20: 'I'll get them tomorrow'
Is stage 20 of Our Giro the 'queen stage'? Well, that's a matter of debate but we have got a bumper episode looking back to the final Friday of the 2018 edition when Chris Froome turned the race on its head. Simon Yates had looked so good for two and a half weeks, winning stages in pink and with panache. Froome had endured crashes and stuttering form in the first half of the race and his victor...
1hr 44m May 30, 2020
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S8 Ep67: Our Giro stage 19: Tales of the Tappe
This episode of Our Giro looks at the relationship between the Giro d'Italia and the literary tradition of journalists, writers and poets covering the race. We look at the 1949 Giro and the continuing rivalry between Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali through the pages of a collection of writing by novellist and poet Dino Buzzati. Daniel speaks to Filippo Cauz and Leonardo Piccione, two young writer...
1hr 23m May 29, 2020
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S8 Ep66: Our Giro stage 18: Life of Brian
Stage 18 of Our Giro reunites us with Brian Nygaard, who stood in for Lionel during his brief trip home from the race to watch his football team get walloped in the FA Cup final. Continuing the Giro's recent tradition, this episode is our 'wine stage' featuring Daniel's conversation with Nygaard, whose career in cycling has taken him from press officer to team manager to journalist. The Dane ha...
1hr 19m May 28, 2020
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S8 Ep65: Our Giro stage 17: My name is Luca
In this episode of Our Giro, we meet Trek-Segafredo general manager Luca Guercilena and learn about his career in professional cycling. Guercilena was not a pro rider but a sports scientist, whose career began with the Mapei team – where he tested a certain Daniel Friebe and, according to some observers, failed to spot the talent in front of his eyes(!) Later on, he was part of the Leopard-Trek...
1hr 23m May 27, 2020
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S8 Ep64: Our Giro stage 16: An American in pink
In this episode of Our Giro we hear from 1988 Giro d'Italia champion Andy Hampsten, the only American to win the race. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe look back at the 1988 Giro which was shaped by terrible whether on the stage to Bormio, which went over the Gavia. Snowy conditions made for a cold, miserable day in the saddle for the riders but there was no question as far as the...
1hr 17m May 26, 2020
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S8 Ep63: Our Giro riposo: Team Hamburger
Andy Hampsten is the only American to win the Giro d'Italia but in the first of two episodes with him we look at the 1985 race when he switched mid-season from a small domestic team in the US to the 7-Eleven squad that had been invited to ride the race. Two days from the end, Hampsten won a stage at Gran Paradiso – a short, explosive road race – which earned him a contract for 1986 with the La ...
59m May 25, 2020
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S8 Ep62: Our Giro stage 15: The most beautiful race
Every year, the Giro d'Italia shows off the best countryside Italy has to offer. It's not to say that France and Spain are not blessed with great scenery but Italy seems to provide the most consistently beautiful backdrop for the racing. The Giro's slogan – the toughest race in the most beautiful place – might have a touch of hype but it's probably fair to say it is the most photogenic of the t...
1hr 25m May 24, 2020
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S8 Ep61: Our Giro stage 14: White-knuckle ride
In this episode we look at the art and psychology of descending the big mountains. As Our Giro approaches the big mountain stages, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe we talk about some editions of the Giro d'Italia that have been decided going down hill. We hear from American rider Christian Vande Velde, who suffered a bad crash on a descent early on in the 2009 Giro d'Italia. Vande...
1hr 30m May 23, 2020
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S8 Ep60: Our Giro stage 13: End of the world as we knew it
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe look back at Paris-Nice, the last World Tour stage race before coronavirus brought the world to a halt. In stage 13 of Our Giro we hear from Max Schachmann of Bora-Hansgrohe who was in sparkling form this spring, finishing second at the Volta ao Algarve before winning Paris-Nice, which made its way to the French Riviera as Europe was on the verge o...
1hr 6m May 22, 2020
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S8 Ep59: Our Giro stage 12: Giro 2000
Stage 12 of Our Giro picks up the Max Sciandri story at the point where he decided to switch nationalities and swap his Italian racing licence for a British one. Sciandri also recalls riding the 2000 Giro d'Italia for the vegetarian Linda McCartney Foods team and we hear from the team's press officer John Deering about a remarkable stage win for David McKenzie. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and ...
1hr 8m May 21, 2020
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S8 Ep58: Life in the Peloton – The 2014 Giro d'Italia
There's a Giro d'Italia flavour to a very special episode of Life in the Peloton. Mitch Docker gets the Orica-GreenEdge band back together to tell the story of an unforgettable Giro for the team. Orica-GreenEdge won the team time trial in Belfast to put Svein Tuft into the maglia rosa. The following day the jersey swapped to the shoulders of his teammate Michael Matthews and the Orica riders sp...
1hr 25m May 20, 2020
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S8 Ep57: Our Giro stage 11: The Supertuscan
Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe as Our Giro reaches Tuscany. We interview Max Sciandri about his journey from Derby to the Tuscan hills via Los Angeles. Sciandri was one of the Movistar sports directors who helped guide Richard Carapaz to victory in last year's Giro and he's a familiar voice to podcast listeners. We thought we'd talk to Max about his early years in Britain, ...
1hr 12m May 20, 2020
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S8 Ep56: Our Giro stage 10: The hot seat
It's time trial day for Our Giro and we look back to the 2013 race and remember the day Alex Dowsett gave Great Britain a stage win they perhaps expected Bradley Wiggins to deliver. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe return refreshed after a virtual rest day with another packed episode. After two years with Team Sky, Dowsett switched to Movistar and the 2013 Giro gave him his first ...
1hr 3m May 19, 2020
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S8 Ep55: Our Giro riposo: Porte in a storm
In 2010, Richie Porte was a first-year professional and rode the Giro d'Italia for Saxo Bank. After a promising sixth place in the opening time trial in Amsterdam he spent the first half of the race comfortably inside the top ten. Then came the stage to L'Aquila, which had been hit by a terrible earthquake the previous year. A huge break got away and gained a lot of time. Porte was in it and en...
55m May 18, 2020
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S8 Ep54: Our Giro stage 9: Magic Nights
Italy was full of confidence in 1990. The country was alive, at the cutting edge of sport and fashion and with a booming economy. About to host the World Cup, the nation's cyclists were on the cusp of a resurgence too. After three years of foreign victors at the Giro, an Italian led from start to finish. Gianni Bugno took the pink jersey in the opening time trial in Bari and defended it all the...
1hr 18m May 17, 2020
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S8 Ep53: Our Giro stage 8: Lion King part 2
Part two of our look at the life and times of the Giro d'Italia's record stage winner Mario Cipollini picks up the story in 2002, as he has just won the rainbow jersey at the World Championships. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe look at the final seasons before his eventual retirement, which he had threatened a couple of times previously. The ceremonial skinsuits were a reflection...
50m May 16, 2020
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S8 Ep52: Our Giro stage 7: Lion King part 1
Mario Cipollini holds the record for the most Giro d’Italia stage wins and so we are going to spend the next two stages of Our Giro looking at his career and life, which has been as turbulent as it’s been flamboyant. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe take a broadly chronological look at the career of the man who was nicknamed the Lion King and Super Mario, who marketing men wanted ...
1hr 8m May 15, 2020
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S8 Ep51: Our Giro stage 6: Bonk!
Our Giro reaches Mount Etna for its first summit finish and, appropriately enough, the story of one of the Giro’s most famous explosions.  Call it a capitulation, a hunger flat, a bonk – cycling has as many terms for running out of fuel and hitting the wall as Eskimos have for ice. In 2002 Cadel Evans, the Australian former mountain biker taking part in his first Grand Tour, was in the pink jer...
51m May 14, 2020
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S8 Ep50: Our Giro stage 5: The Supernovas
Our Giro is still on the island of Sicily and Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe turn their attention to the ‘Prosecco Supernovas’, or one-hit wonders: riders who burnt brightly but briefly at the Giro d’Italia.  They include Ivan Quaranta, the sprinter who upstaged Mario Cipollini at the 1999 Giro. Twenty-one years later, Daniel caught up with Quaranta to find out where – or, indee...
1hr 1m May 13, 2020
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S8 Ep49: Our Giro stage 4: Imbroglio! Skulduggery at the Giro
Our Giro arrives in Sicily and Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the race’s rich history of controversy, tactical ruthlessness and downright cheating. From police raids to outlandish excuses for positive doping tests to Richard’s shocking wine-tasting notes, we cover it all. We talk about Eddy Merckx’s positive test at Savona in 1969, the day a rampant Marco Pantani was sto...
1hr 10m May 12, 2020
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S8 Ep48: Our Giro stage 3: Stars and Watercarriers
It’s movie night for The Cycling Podcast as we look back at Stars and Watercarriers, Jørgen Leth’s film made at the 1973 Giro d’Italia. Richard Moore speaks to the filmmaker Leth about how the film came about and about the story he was trying to tell. The 1973 Giro was dominated by Eddy Merckx, who wore the pink jersey from start to finish. The race began in Verviers in Belgium and made its way...
46m May 11, 2020
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S8 Ep47: Our Giro stage 2: The Hungarians
The second stage of Our Giro focuses on Hungary, which was to be the host of the Grande Partenza this year. Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe as they ask why Hungary has not produced as many international class riders as comparable nations. Only one Hungarian – László Bodrogi, a contemporary of Fabian Cancellara and Filippo Pozzato in the Mapei development squad at the start o...
1hr 1m May 10, 2020
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S8 Ep46: Our Giro stage 1: The (second) Giro of rebirth
Welcome to the first stage of Our Giro, a series of podcasts by Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe celebrating the best the Giro d’Italia and Italy have to offer. With the Giro d’Italia postponed because of the coronavirus crisis, The Cycling Podcast is embarking on a virtual grand tour instead. Starting in Budapest and finishing in Milan, our route will more or less follow that of ...
1hr 1m May 09, 2020
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S8 Ep45: Life in the Peloton – Cameron Meyer
In this episode of Life in the Peloton, Mitch Docker catches up with five-time world points race champion Cameron Meyer. Meyer won back-to-back points race – or the points score, as the Aussies call it – titles in 2009 and 2010 and more or less made the discipline his own. Heralded as a potential stage race contender, he turned professional for the Garmin-Slipstream team and in this episode he ...
1hr 8m May 06, 2020
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S8 Ep44: Our Giro preview
Our Giro starts on Saturday and in this episode we look ahead to what's in store during our three-week virtual journey round Italy. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe will be celebrating the best the Giro and Italy have to offer. The classic races, the riders, the food and wine, the culture, countryside and history. We'll look back at some memorable moments from our time covering th...
1hr 7m May 05, 2020
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S8 Ep43: The Cycling Podcast Féminin | May 2020
The May episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin is an in-depth look at the career of the world’s top female cyclist, Annemiek van Vleuten. We hear from Van Vleuten herself, her longtime coach Louis Delahaije, her Mitchelton-Scott teammate Lucy Kennedy and one of her rivals, Lizzy Banks of Bigla-Katusha. Van Vleuten is well known for her commitment to training and long hours in the saddle, but sh...
1hr 29m May 01, 2020
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S8 Ep42: Dave Brailsford on a year with Ineos
In this week's episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe reveal a few more details of the upcoming coverage of Our Giro d'Italia. Our virtual journey round Italy kicks off in Budapest on Saturday, May 9 and over the course of three weeks we will delve into the history and culture of the Giro d'Italia, capturing the sounds and flavour of the first grand tour ...
1hr 42m Apr 29, 2020
1hr 42m
S8 Ep41: Service Course | Episode 9 | Taming the cobbles
Despite the absence of a cobbled season, Lizzy Banks and Tom Whalley talk about the ways in which cycling technology has attempted to tame the cobbles. There’s a look at some retro editions of Roubaix, particularly those in the early 90s, where it looked as if road bikes equipped with front and rear suspension were going to be the dominant force on the cobbles. This begs the question, what happ...
59m Apr 24, 2020
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S8 Ep40: Life in the Peloton – Adam Hansen
Mitch Docker is back with the Lotto-Soudal pro rider Adam Hansen. In this conversation, recorded at the start of the year during the Tour Down Under, Mitch had three key questions for Adam, and his answers were fascinating. 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 (https://lifeinthepeloton....
53m Apr 22, 2020
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