Stage 8 | Froome to the fore
July 11 | The latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast comes from Brittany, where stage eight of the Tour de France finished at Mûr de Bretagne. The uphill finish saw Chris Froome to the fore as Alexis Vuillermoz jumped away to win the stage. The day’s loser was Vincenzo Nibali, the defending champion, who was dropped on the climb, conceding ten seconds to Froome and the other favourites. Richard Moor...
30m Jul 11, 2015
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Stage 7 | Cavendish wins his 26th stage after two-year wait
July 10 | In the latest episode of the Telegraph Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe are joined by French journalist François Thomazeau to discuss the seventh stage of the Tour de France. It was won by Mark Cavendish, who ended his two-year wait for a stage victory by outsprinting his rivals in Fougères. The team read to Cavendish’s victory and what it may mean for ...
36m Jul 10, 2015
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Stage 6 | Martin down as Eritrean makes history
July 9 | As Tony Martin became the second rider to crash out while wearing the yellow jersey, the Telegraph Cycling Podcast discusses the latest drama and controversy in this year’s Tour de France. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe are joined by Ciro Scognamiglio of Gazzetta dello Sport as they analyse stage six to Le Havre. It looked routine on paper, but Martin’s crash in the fi...
32m Jul 09, 2015
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Stage 5 | Live from the Tour de France in Amiens
July 8 | The Telegraph Cycling Podcast’s first Wednesday Night Live episode comes from the press centre in Amiens after the finish of stage five of the Tour de France. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss Andre Greipel’s second stage win of the race and ask why, after a good build-up to the Tour, we’re yet to see vintage Mark Cavendish. There’s also a brief cameo from Friend...
35m Jul 08, 2015
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Stage 4 | Martin conquers cobbles
In the latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast the team of Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss Tuesday’s cobbled stage four, where Tony Martin took a well-earned solo victory to claim the yellow jersey from Chris Froome. We hear the post-stage reaction from Nicholas Roche, Froome’s Team Sky teammate. “We got [Froome] safe and sound to the cobbled sections and then G [Geraint Thomas...
35m Jul 07, 2015
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Stage 3 | Froome takes yellow on the Mur de Huy
July 6 | Chris Froome took the yellow jersey on top of the Mur de Huy in Belgium and now leads the Tour de France ahead of Germany’s nearly man Tony Martin. Spain’s Joaquim Rodriguez took the stage on the steep hill and Froome was the only one able to stay within touching distance. But the day was marred by terrible crashes that put four riders out of the race. Fabian Cancellara, the overall ...
33m Jul 06, 2015
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Stage 2 | Cavendish blown off course
July 5 | The latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast analyses a thrilling second stage of the Tour de France, won by Germany’s Andre Greipel after Mark Cavendish mis-timed his sprint and faded to fourth. Cavendish’s Etixx-QuickStep director Brian Holm spoke to the podcast after the race and offered a brutally honest assessment. “History continues,” said Holm, comparing it to other races this season w...
32m Jul 05, 2015
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Stage 1 | Dennis scorches to victory in Utrecht
July 4 | The Tour de France is underway and the Telegraph Cycling Podcast team of Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the opening time trial in Utrecht. Rohan Dennis of BMC Racing won the stage ahead of Tony Martin, Fabian Cancellara and Tom Dumoulin in front of huge crowds. Richard, Lionel and Daniel discuss Dennis’s improvements since joining BMC Racing, his temperament a...
35m Jul 04, 2015
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The day before the Tour
July 3 | It’s the day before the start of the Tour de France and the Telegraph Cycling Podcast team of Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe are in Utrecht as the clock counts down to the opening time trial. They report back from the pre-race press conferences and assess the statements and body language of some of the riders who will shape the race – including defending champion Vince...
33m Jul 03, 2015
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The 2015 Tour de France preview show
June 29 | Just a few days before the 2015 Tour de France kicks off in Utrecht, The Cycling Podcast team met up to preview the race. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe look at the route that lies ahead of the riders, weighing up the importance of the time trials, the cobbles and the mountain climbs. And they run through the teams and riders who are most likely to create the drama a...
58m Jun 29, 2015
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22. Tour de Suisse & the Women's Tour
June 24 | In the final regular episode of the Telegraph Cycling Podcast before the Tour de France, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the Tour de Suisse, the Women’s Tour and the Route du Sud. For the Tour favourites last week’s stage races were the last major tests before they gather in Utrecht for the Grand Départ. Alberto Contador took his Giro-winning form into the Pyre...
28m Jun 24, 2015
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21. Fireworks at the Dauphiné
June 15 | This week's Telegraph Cycling Podcast features interviews with Sir Dave Brailsford, who reflects on Sir Bradley Wiggins' hour record, and Dani King, who looks ahead to the second Aviva Women's Tour. "It was gritty," said Brailsford on Wiggins' record, set in the London velodrome last Sunday. "It was hard for him, he really had to grind it out, he had to dig very deep but he paced it ...
46m Jun 15, 2015
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The Bradley Wiggins Hour Record Live
June 7 | Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe in 'the Pringle', also known as the Lea Valley VeloPark, for Bradley Wiggins' attempt on the Hour record. Richard, Lionel and Daniel broadcast live from the track centre as Wiggins lapped the track in amid an incredible atmosphere. As the laps, and the clock, counted down the team were joined by a succession of guests who offered the...
59m Jun 07, 2015
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The Bradley Wiggins Hour Record preview show
June 4 | On Sunday Sir Bradley Wiggins will attempt to set a new world hour record at the London Velodrome, and the Telegraph Cycling Podcast has a special preview show featuring interviews with Wiggins himself and the three Brits who have held the record: Graeme Obree, Chris Boardman and the current holder, Alex Dowsett. The hour record, Obree tells us, is the ultimate test for any cyclist: “...
59m Jun 04, 2015
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20. Contador wraps up the Giro d'Italia
June 2 | In this episode of The Telegraph Cycling Podcast Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe recap the final weekend of the Giro d'Italia. Alberto Contador wrapped up overall victory to clinch his second Giro title, although he claims it was his third, refusing to recognise he was stripped of his 2011 win. But on the Colle delle Finestre on Saturday, he looked vulnerable for the f...
26m Jun 02, 2015
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Live from Lionel's lounge
June 1 | This episode of The Cycling Podcast was our first live broadcast and went out on mixlr.com/thecyclingpodcast. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe gathered in Lionel's lounge to answer listeners' questions.
30m Jun 02, 2015
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19. Contador tightens his grip on the Giro
May 27 | The Giro d'Italia entered its crucial final phase with a brutal stage in the mountains that took the riders over the Mortirolo and up to Aprica. Although the stage was won by the revelation of the race, Mikel Landa, it was Astana's tactics when their chief rival, and pink jersey holder, Alberto Contador, punctured that sparked the action, and plenty of controversy. The way Contador r...
49m May 26, 2015
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18. Italy and California
May 19 | Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe are joined by William Fotheringham as they look back on the first thrilling week of the Giro d'Italia and the Tour of California. The Tour of California was won in sensational fashion by Peter Sagan, but what was the secret behind his victory - we reveal all. We also discuss William's book, Bernard Hinault: The Fall and Rise of French Cycling, which is...
50m May 19, 2015
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17. An explosive start to the Giro
May 14 | The Giro d'Italia is underway and already it's shaping up to be a battle royale. Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie meet up with Daniel Friebe, fresh back from a trip to the opening weekend of the Giro, to catch up on the latest news from the race. Team Sky's Richie Porte has opted to sleep in a luxury camper van rather than the team hotels, Pippo Pozzato delighted a hen party in San Re...
47m May 14, 2015
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16. The Giro d'Italia preview
May 7 | With the Giro d’Italia just round the corner the Telegraph Cycling Podcast looks ahead to the opening grand tour of the 2015 season. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe head to Italia Uno, the authentic Italian cafe in Charlotte Street, London, to discuss the Giro. There, they are joined by British Eurosport’s commentator Rob Hatch, who interrupted his own preparations for t...
46m May 06, 2015
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15. From the Ardennes to Yorkshire
April 30 | Ned Boulting joins Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe for the latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast, which looks back at Sunday’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège and ahead to this weekend’s inaugural Tour de Yorkshire. There’s an interview with Gary Verity, who led Yorkshire’s successful bid to host the start of last year’s Tour de France. After the Tour’s triumphant two days in Yorkshire, Verity is a...
53m Apr 30, 2015
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14. Amstel Gold for the rainbow jersey
April 21 | The latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast looks back on the Amstel Gold Race, the only Dutch Classic on the calendar, won on Sunday by the world champion, Michal Kwiatkowski. The Pole timed his move to perfection after a late attack by three-time winner Philippe Gilbert was snuffed out. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss an intriguing tactical battle that also saw Tou...
45m Apr 21, 2015
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13. In the Roubaix velodrome
April 13 | The latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast comes from the race known as the ‘Hell of the North', Paris-Roubaix, as Sir Bradley Wiggins brought down the curtain on his Team Sky career. Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie report from the Roubaix velodrome, where John Degenkolb of Germany sprinted to his second Classic win of the year, having also claimed Milan-San Remo. There is an interview wi...
49m Apr 13, 2015
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12. At the Tour of Flanders
April 9 | The latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast comes from Belgium and one of the biggest Classics of the season, last weekend’s Tour of Flanders. Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe report from Oudenaarde, where the race was won by Alexander Kristoff as the wheels fell off Geraint Thomas’s challenge. There are interviews with both Kristoff – the first Norwegian winner in the 99th edition of the ra...
36m Apr 08, 2015
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Bonus – Degenkolb talks ahead of the Tour of Flanders
April 3 | Daniel Friebe of The Telegraph Cycling Podcast talks to Giant-Alpecin's John Degenkolb in the run-up to the Tour of Flanders. The German recently won Milan-San Remo and is on a long list of possible winners of the Tour of Flanders this weekend.
14m Apr 03, 2015
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11. In conversation with Astana's Chris Baldwin
March 30 | In this episode of the Telegraph Cycling Podcast, we speak to Chris Baldwin, the press attaché for the Astana team as the Kazakh squads waits to hear if it will be granted a UCI WorldTour licence by the world’s governing body. It has been a rollercoaster six months for the Astana team. Vincenzo Nibali won the Tour de France and the team was then rocked by positive tests, for blood-b...
56m Mar 30, 2015
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10. John Degenkolb wins Milan-San Remo
March 26 | The latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast looks back on the first Monument of the 2015 season, Milan-San Remo. Sunday's race was won by Germany’s John Degenkolb after Welshman Geraint Thomas’s late, solo attempt to claim his first Classic. Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss all the talking points, including the criticism that it was a tepid affair lacking in drama. ‘Nonsense!’ says ...
25m Mar 25, 2015
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9. The CIRC report, Paris-Nice and Milan-San Remo
March 19 | In the latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast the head of world cycling, Brian Cookson, admits that he is disappointed at the controversy caused by Sir Bradley Wiggins’ intention – which he confirmed in last week’s podcast – to ride the inaugural Tour de Yorkshire in early May. Wiggins was given special dispensation by the world governing body, the UCI, to switch teams mid-season, leaving...
49m Mar 18, 2015
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8. On the road at Paris-Nice
March 12 | Join Lionel Birnie on the road between Paris and Nice for this week's episode of The Telegraph Cycling Podcast. Lionel is covering the event known as The Race to the Sun – the second WorldTour stage race of the season – exclusively for the podcast. In this episode, he covers the opening four days of the race and captures the flavour of the event out on the road. We hear from Sir B...
49m Mar 11, 2015
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7. Dave Brailsford reacts to cycling's doping report
March 10 | Sir Dave Brailsford says he is “underwhelmed” by the Cycling Independent Reform Commission (CIRC) report. In an exclusive interview with the Telegraph Cycling Podcast, the Team Sky principal said he hoped it “would be more hard hitting,” though he also said that his own riders were “angry” at the headline claim by an unnamed rider that 90 percent of the peloton are still doping. “T...
42m Mar 10, 2015
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6. Ian Stannard outwits Etixx-Quick Step
March 5 | How did Ian Stannard of Team Sky beat three riders from the same team to win Het Nieuwsblad, the opening cobbled race of the new season? In the latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast, in which Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are joined by Sky Sports’ Orla Chennaoui, we look back at Stannard’s out-foxing of the three Etixx-Quick-Step riders on the run-in to Ghent, and also discuss Mark Cave...
47m Mar 04, 2015
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5. The racing heats up
February 26 | The end of February and beginning of March is when the cycling season heats up and in the latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe look ahead to the first cobbled classics of 2015. The ‘heating up’ is strictly metaphorical, because the focus moves from the Middle East and south of Spain to Belgium. Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, ...
47m Feb 25, 2015
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4. Contador enters the finishing straight
February 19 | In the latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast the team turn their attention to Spain, home to some of the early season stage races, after the news that Alberto Contador is in his penultimate year in the sport. Contador, the two-time Tour de France winner, said this week that he expects to retire at the end of next season. His departure will leave a hole in Spanish cycling, and Richard ...
42m Feb 18, 2015
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3. Mark Cavendish doubles up in Dubai
February 12 | The new Telegraph Cycling Podcast reflects on Mark Cavendish’s return to form at the Dubai Tour, where he won two stages as well as the overall title. It was a race that demonstrated Cavendish’s full range, from his sprinting prowess to his ability to climb and suffer with the all-rounders. It also saw his Etixx-QuickStep lead-out train in fine working order, with a reprisal of hi...
18m Feb 11, 2015
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2. MTN-Qhubeka aiming to shake up the peloton
February 5 | The latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast looks ahead to the stage races in the Middle East, discusses the prospects of the first African team to be invited to the Tour de France – including an interview with Brian Smith, the man who assembled the squad – and pores over the fallout from Lance Armstrong’s latest TV interview, with the BBC last week. The top riders are in Dubai this week...
58m Feb 04, 2015
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1. The season kicks off Down Under
January 29 | In the first Telegraph Cycling Podcast of 2015 the team of Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the opening races of the season in Australia and Argentina. There is an interview with Mark Cavendish, who got his first win of the year on the final day of the Tour de San Luis. Earlier in the week he was beaten on two occasions by the young Colombian sprinter Fernand...
46m Jan 29, 2015
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Season's Greetings
In the final episode of the year, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe are in relaxed mood as they discuss the latest developments to what promises to be a fascinating battle for the Hour Record in 2015. And, after their Christmas lunch, they look back at some of their highlights of the 2014 season.
41m Dec 22, 2014
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The Astana-Ferrari allegations
In this week's episode, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe are joined by Eurosport's commentator Rob Hatch to react to the breaking news published by the Italian press alleging that the Astana team has been using the services of banned Italian doctor Michele Ferrari. The second half of the episode discusses the track World Cup in London and features interviews with British Cycling'...
38m Dec 09, 2014
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Velon's vision for the future of cycling
In this week's episode of the Telegraph Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are joined by Ned Boulting to discuss Velon, the new body formed by 11 of the world's top teams to revolutionise professional road racing. Velon's goal is to improve the stability of the sport for the teams, develop a more cohesive calendar of races and make cycling more appealing to more people. Daniel, L...
59m Dec 03, 2014
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The Ghent Six-Day
This week, Lionel Birnie takes a trip to Ghent in Belgium to sample the atmosphere at the greatest Six-Day race on the track racing circuit. The Kuipke velodrome in the Citadelpark is noisy and the crowd is passionate about cycling and it was into this arena that Mark Cavendish made his return to top-class track racing with the home town favourite Iljo Keisse. Between evening sessions at the ...
59m Nov 26, 2014
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The Shane Sutton Interview
The latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast, with Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe, features an extended interview with Shane Sutton, who has replaced Sir Dave Brailsford as the man in charge at British Cycling. Comparing it to the challenge David Moyes faced in taking over from Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United – “But without the same pay cheque,” joked Sutton – the former head co...
53m Nov 20, 2014
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The Literary Tour: From Nottingham to Manchester
Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are joined by friend of the podcast Ned Boulting to ride across the Peak District, from Nottingham to Manchester, on a cold, drizzly November day. Why? Well, together with Daniel Friebe they were part of two speaking events held on consecutive nights at the Nottingham Playhouse and Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre. The events were to mark the publication of ...
35m Nov 12, 2014
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In conversation with Tao Geoghegan Hart
This time last year, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe caught up with young British rider Tao Geoghegan Hart before he embarked on his first year as a senior rider for the Bissell Development Team. It's been quite a year for Tao. He was third in the under-23 edition of Liège-Bastogne-Liège, 10th in the Tour de l'Avenir and got his first taste of pro racing at the Tour of Californi...
59m Nov 05, 2014
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The 2015 Tour de France route analysed
In this episode of The Telegraph Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe analyse the route for the 2015 Tour de France, which was revealed in Paris this week. They discuss the Classic flavour to the opening week, with crosswinds, cobbles and the Mur de Huy on the menu. Daniel talks us through the mountains of the Pyrenees and Alps and they discuss the reintroduction of...
54m Oct 25, 2014
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Season ends, Schleck retires, Tinkov's grand tour bonus
The latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast looks back at the final races of the 2014 season, Paris-Tours and the Tour of Beijing, discusses Andy Schleck’s premature retirement, and Oleg Tinkov’s €1 million Grand Tour bounty. There is also an interview with David Millar after the final race of his seventeen-year professional career, the Bec hill climb in Surrey. Jelle Wallays was the surprise winner...
54m Oct 16, 2014
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Short cut: Millar at the Bec Hill Climb
In this special short episode of The Telegraph Cycling Podcast Richard Moore took a trip into Surrey for the Bec Hill Climb. Hill Climbs are a season-ending tradition for British cyclists – brutally two or three minute time trials held on short, steep climbs – and for David Millar the Bec brought down the curtain on his long professional career. Richard samples the atmosphere and speaks to ra...
13m Oct 14, 2014
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Dan Martin wins Il Lombardia
This week’s Telegraph Cycling Podcast includes discussion of the weekend’s final classic of the season, the Tour of Lombardy, won by Ireland’s Dan Martin with a brilliantly executed late attack. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe ask whether Martin’s second ‘Monument’, after his victory in last year’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège, vindicates his decision to prioritise one-day races over Gr...
48m Oct 07, 2014
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The World Championships
In this week's episode of The Telegraph Cycling Podcast Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the road races at the World Championships in Ponferrada. Although both winners – Michal Kwiatkowski and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot – pulled off brilliant victories, Lionel is not convinced either race was a dynamic sporting spectacle. Is he just being grumpy?
39m Oct 02, 2014
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Wiggins conquers the Worlds
In the latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe are joined by ITV’s Ned Boulting as they discuss this week’s world championships in Ponferrada, Spain, looking back on Sir Bradley Wiggins’ victory in the time trial on Wednesday and ahead to the weekend’s road races.
41m Sep 25, 2014
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Recapping the Vuelta a Espana
Daniel Friebe travelled to Spain to witness the final few days of the Vuelta a Espana, which was won by Alberto Contador despite a spirited challenge from Sky's Chris Froome. Before we hear Daniel's despatch, Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie discuss the conclusion of the final grand tour of the season and weigh up the Contador versus Froome battle. Then we hear from Daniel, who has interviewed...
50m Sep 19, 2014
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