S9 Ep148: Kilometre 0 – An hour at 186bpm
In the second instalment of our riders’ diaries from the Vuelta a España we hear from James Knox of Deceuninck-Quick-Step, Pavel Sivakov of Ineos Grenadiers and Joan Bou of Euskaltel-Euskadi. Bou is from Valencia and when the Vuelta reached some of his local roads at the end of the first week he shone, figuring in a couple of breakaways, including the strong break on stage six, from which Magn...
44m Aug 23, 2021
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S9 Ep147: Stage 9 | Puerto Lumbreras – Alto de Velefique | Vuelta a España 2021
Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie dial up our man in Spain, Daniel Friebe, to discuss stage nine of the Vuelta a España, the final test in the mountains before the first rest day of the race. A couple of days ago we were hoping to learn more about the likely shape of the battle for the red jersey only for a number of riders to gain time in the break and muddy the picture at the top of the overal...
47m Aug 22, 2021
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S9 Ep146: Stage 8 | Santa Pola – La Manga del Mar Menor | Vuelta a España 2021
Although it was a quiet day on the Vuelta a España there’s plenty for Daniel Friebe, Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie to talk about. They discuss the sprint finish and a second victory for Fabio Jakobsen before reflecting on some comments from EF Education-Nippo sports director Juanma Garate about Hugh Carthy, who withdrew from the race yesterday. We ponder the impact of pressure and leadershi...
57m Aug 21, 2021
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S9 Ep145: Stage 7 | Gandia – Balcón de Alicante | Vuelta a España 2021
The Vuelta a España burst into life with the toughest stage so far, to Balcón de Alicante. There was a desperate escape from the last chance saloon by Team DSM, a crash for one member of Movistar’s trident and a clutch of dangerous riders climbed back into contention. Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie dial up Daniel Friebe in Spain to discuss the action. Richard wastes no time claiming the stage...
51m Aug 20, 2021
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S9 Ep144: Kilometre 0 – Padun of a Kind
Mark Padun’s back-to-back stage wins at the Critérium du Dauphiné in June shocked the cycling world. Long touted as a future star, the Ukrainian had seemed to stagnate in his second and third seasons as a pro - only to bounce back spectacularly in the Alps over that remarkable weekend in the late spring. Having missed out on selection for the Tour - to the surprise of many - Padun is now aimin...
19m Aug 20, 2021
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S9 Ep143: Stage 6 | Requena – Alto de la Montaña de Cullera | Vuelta a España 2021
The wind may not have blown particularly hard but it took only a gentle sea breeze and some narrow roads to create some Classic-style racing at the Vuelta a España. In this episode, Daniel Friebe has descended the Alto de la Montaña de Cullera in order to check in with Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie to recap stage six of the race which saw another change of leadership. But which Classic did ...
50m Aug 19, 2021
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S9 Ep142: Stage 5 | Tarancón – Albacete | Vuelta a España 2021
The peloton spent most of the fifth stage anticipating crosswinds which never blew but there was still late drama on the approach to Albacete. Daniel Friebe is still in Spain following the Vuelta a España, and he is joined by Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie to discuss the day’s racing. We hear from Kenny Elissonde, who was talking down his chances of taking the red jersey before the stage, an...
47m Aug 18, 2021
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S9 Ep141: Kilometre 0 – The Other Slovenians
In this episode of Kilometre 0 we meet some of the other Slovenians. The small country has two of cycling's superstars, Primož Roglič and Tadej Pogačar. But beneath them there are a lot of other good riders, three of whom are riding the Vuelta a España.  We speak to Jan Tratnik of Bahrain Victorious, Jan Polanc of UAE-Team Emirates and Luka Mezgec of Team Bike Exchange. We also hear from Gora...
27m Aug 18, 2021
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S9 Ep140: Stage 4 | El Burgo de Osma - Molina de Aragón | Vuelta a España 2021
Stage 4 of the Vuelta a España saw an emotional win for Fabio Jakobsen, just over a year after his terrible crash at the Tour of Poland, and in tonight's podcast we hear from his teammate and good friend, Florian Senechal. Rein Taaramae held on to the leader's red jersey despite a late fall and we have an interview with him and his Intermarché team's sports director, Valerio Piva. Richard Moo...
46m Aug 17, 2021
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S9 Ep139: Stage 3 | Santo Domingo de Silos - Espinosa de los Monteros | Vuelta a España 2021
The first mountain stage of the Vuelta a España was contested by the breakaway, with the stage and red jersey of overall leader going to Rein Taaramae, the Estonian on the Intermarché team. Daniel Friebe and Richard Moore discuss the stage and what we learned, and we hear from Kenny Elissonde, who was third on the stage, and Primoz Roglic, the deposed leader. Daniel speaks to Hugh Carthy and ...
49m Aug 16, 2021
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S9 Ep138: Kilometre 0 – Meet our audio diarists
In our first episode of Kilometre 0 from the 2021 Vuelta a España we meet our audio diarists, James Knox, Pavel Sivakov and Joan Bou. Knox, riding for Deceuninck-Quickstep, is riding for GC in his second grand tour of the year. Sivakov, of Ineos Grenadiers, is in a supporting role in a team that includes Egan Bernal, Richard Carapaz and Adam Yates. And Bou is riding for one of the Spanish wild...
31m Aug 16, 2021
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S9 Ep137: Stage 2 | Caleruega - Burgos | Vuelta a España 2021
In our stage 2 episode from the Vuelta a España we discuss the first bunch sprint of the 2021 race, won by Jasper Philipsen of Alpecin-Fenix, completing their clean sweep of stage wins in the three Grand Tours. We hear from their sports director, Michel Cornelisse, and from the rider who was second, Fabio Jakobsen. There was a crash with 4.5km to go and we hear from Max Schachmann, the biggest...
51m Aug 15, 2021
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S9 Ep136: Stage 1 | Burgos | Vuelta a España 2021
The Vuelta a España opened in Burgos on Saturday evening and Daniel Friebe and Richard Moore were there for The Cycling Podcast to capture the sounds, sights and smells of stage one. In tonight's episode we hear from Jack Haig of Bahrain Victorious, Joe Dombrowksi of UAE-Team Emirates, Johan Jacobs of Movistar and Fabio Jakobsen of Deceuninck-Quick Step. And we discuss Primoz Roglic's win and ...
49m Aug 14, 2021
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S9 Ep135: Vueltas y revueltas | 2021 Vuelta a España preview
In this episode Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe look ahead to the third and final grand tour of the season, the Vuelta a España. Will it be another showdown between the two newly-crowned Olympic champions Primoz Roglic and Richard Carapaz or will Egan Bernal get the Ineos Grenadiers leadership role and aim to add the Vuelta to the Giro title he won earlier this season. Which tea...
1hr 12m Aug 12, 2021
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S9 Ep134: Life in the Peloton – Ashleigh Moolman Pasio
In this episode, I caught up with multiple South African champion Ashleigh Moolman Pasio. We talked about her route into professional cycling, her QOM Strava record on the famous Rocacorba climb near Girona, and the challenge she set herself to get the best women's time below 30 minutes. Then, in the final part, we talked about the women's road race at the Tokyo Olympics. It was a very surpris...
1hr 13m Aug 11, 2021
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S9 Ep133: Vinos de la Vuelta
The final grand tour of the 2021 cycling season also completes our viticultural triple crown, after our collaboration with Dvine Cellars to bring you the wines of the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France. In this episode, Daniel Friebe discusses The Cycling Podcast’s Vuelta selection with Greg Andrews of Dvine Cellars and Greg’s resident aficionado and maestro of Spanish wine, Angus McNabb. Y...
40m Aug 10, 2021
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S9 Ep132: Life in the Peloton – A Swedish odyssey
It's a bit of a different episode of Life in the Peloton this week because instead of chatting to someone in the world of professional cycling, I decided to document a bikepacking ride I went on a few weeks ago. As many of you will know, my team – EF Education-Nippo – has embraced all sorts of cycling events in the past couple of years. You might have followed Lachlan Morton's Alternative Tour...
1hr 22m Aug 04, 2021
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S9 Ep131: Lord of the Rings
This episode of The Cycling Podcast covers the Olympic Games time trial, won by Primoz Roglic, and the resumption of the World Tour with the San Sebastian Classic, won by Neilson Powless. Roglic – a former ski jumper, in case you didn't know – began his sporting career dreaming of gold at the winter Games. Now he is Lord of the Rings in the time trial. In the Basque Country, Powless secured t...
1hr 7m Aug 03, 2021
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S9 Ep130: Service Course | Keirin and culture
In this month's episode of Service Course, Lizzy and Tom turn their eyes on Japan. Yes they talk about some of the tech that helped win the men's and women's road races (hello Core temperature sensors), as well as some of the kit that's going to be unveiled at the track cycling events, but the main focus is not the Olympics. For this edition Tom has a long conversation with Justin McCurry, if ...
1hr 22m Jul 31, 2021
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S9 Ep129: An Olympian upset
In the July episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin Rose Manley and Richard Moore discuss the Olympic Games and the huge upset in the road race, won by Austria's Anna Kiesenhofer ahead of the favourite, Annemiek van Vleuten. Orla Chennaoui, who is in Tokyo for the Olympics, gives us a blow-by-blow account of a race that we'll be discussing for years. We also hear from Ashleigh Moolman Pasio ab...
1hr 21m Jul 30, 2021
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S9 Ep128: Golden Richard, Anna and Tom
Who would succeed Golden Greg Van Avermaet and Golden Anna van der Breggen as the Olympic road race champions? Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the opening weekend's action from the Tokyo Games, focusing on the way Richard Carapaz managed to escape the stranglehold of Wout van Aert and Tadej Pogacar to win the gold medal. The big question, though, was why didn't the others lend Van Aert...
59m Jul 26, 2021
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S9 Ep127: Post-Tour musings
In a bumper episode Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe give their thoughts on the 2021 Tour de France. How many did this year's vintage score on Daniel's wine glass scale? Is this the beginning of the Era of Pog? What did we make of the Team Ineos tactics? And where does Mark Cavendish's comeback rank in the sport's greatest of all-time? The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Scien...
1hr 22m Jul 22, 2021
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S9 Ep126: Life in the Peloton – Magnus Cort Nielsen
Life in the Peloton is back with a chat with my teammate Magnus Cort Nielsen, who talks through his journey from growing up on one of Denmark's islands to winning stages in the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España. Magnus had another great Tour, finishing strongly with a top ten in the time trial on the final Saturday of the race, and that was a stage I was able to witness in the flesh. It ...
1hr 1m Jul 21, 2021
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S9 Ep125: Stage 21 | Chatou – Paris Champs-Elysees | Tour de France 2021
In our final episode from the 2021 Tour de France we have lots of interviews and reaction from Mitch Docker, Richard Moore, François Thomazeau and Kate Wagner. We hear from our audio diarist, Ben O'Connor, who finished fourth overall, from Mark Cavendish's mentor, Brian Holm, Sepp Kuss, Luke Durbridge, Harry Sweeny, Fred Wright, Geraint Thomas and others. The Cycling Podcast is supported by S...
1hr 8m Jul 18, 2021
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S9 Ep124: Stage 20 | Libourne - Saint-Emilion | Tour de France 2021
In our stage 20 podcast from the Tour de France we discuss the time trial in wine country and hear from Mark Cavendish, Julian Alaphilippe, Dan Martin, Luke Durbridge and Stefan Kung. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport. Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com (http://supersa...
1hr 3m Jul 17, 2021
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S9 Ep123: Stage 19 | Mourenx - Libourne | Tour de France 2021
Stage 19 of the Tour de France produced another thrilling and surprising day's racing and as well as analysis from Richard Moore, Mitch Docker and François Thomazeau, in tonight's episode we hear from the stage winner, Matej Mohoric. There are also interviews with Chris Juul-Jensen, Luka Mezgec, Mads Pedersen, Casper Pedersen and the four-time Tour winner, Chris Froome. The Cycling Podcast is...
1hr 4m Jul 16, 2021
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S9 Ep122: Kilometre 0 – Don't mention the record
In this, our final episode of Kilometre 0 from the 2021 Tour de France, Lionel Birnie looks back at Mark Cavendish's career with a series of memories from the last 13 years covering the Manx sprinter's career. From an interview in a two-star hotel in the south of France after his third stage win in 2008, to a game of chess in London later that year, to an unfortunate incident with cramp in an ...
45m Jul 16, 2021
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S9 Ep121: Stage 18 | Pau – Luz Ardiden | Tour de France 2021
On the final day in the mountains of the 2021 Tour de France, Tadej Pogacar more or less sealed his overall win with victory at the summit of Luz Ardiden, though it was a day that began beneath a cloud with news of a police raid on the hotel of the Bahrain Victorious team. We hear in tonight's episode from Richard Moore, François Thomazeau and Mitch Docker, who discuss the stage, the winner of...
59m Jul 15, 2021
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S9 Ep120: Kilometre 0 – A family affair
In this episode of Kilometre 0, we tell the story of one of the longest-running teams in the peloton. The AG2R-Citroën team is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Vincent Lavenu's team started life as Chazal, sponsored by a charcuterie producer, in 1992 and rode the Tour de France for the first time in 1993, with former Vuelta winner Eric Caritoux and future Tour stage winner Jaan Kirs...
27m Jul 15, 2021
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S9 Ep119: Stage 17 | Muret – Saint-Lary-Soulan Col du Portet | Tour de France 2021
In our stage 17 Tour de France podcast we hear from Mitch Docker, Richard Moore and François Thomazeau as they discuss a day that more or less sealed Tadej Pogacar's second victory. Mitch speaks to Rigoberto Uran, his team leader, and to Simon Geschke and Luke Durbridge. We also hear from Jumbo-Visma sports director Merijn Zeeman, who has some harsh words for Pogacar's coach. The Cycling Podc...
54m Jul 14, 2021
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S9 Ep118: Kilometre 0 – Too much and not enough
Kate Wagner is a classical violinist, artist and architecture critic who discovered professional cycling less than a year ago and has immersed herself in the sport, spending hours watching every grand tour and classic from the past decade. Having started a blog (https://derailleur.substack.com/) , which is well worth reading, and after interviewing Primoz Roglic, she set herself the goal of ge...
23m Jul 14, 2021
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S9 Ep117: Stage 16 | Pas de la Case – Saint-Gaudens | Tour de France 2021
In our stage 16 Tour de France podcast Mitch Docker makes his debut as a mixed zone journalist, interviewing Andre Greipel, Michael Morkov, Magnus Cort and fellow Australian Harry Sweeny. With Richard Moore and François Thomazeau, Mitch also discusses a stage won by Patrick Konrad, and which felt a little like a prelude to the next two big days in the Pyrenees. The Cycling Podcast is supporte...
44m Jul 13, 2021
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S9 Ep116: Kilometre 0 – Audio diaries, part 3
And then there were three. In this episode of our Tour de France diaries from inside the peloton, we hear from Victor Campenaerts, who was forced to pull out of the race on Mont Ventoux. There are also updates from Tim Declercq, who crashed heavily on the stage to Carcassonne on the day Mark Cavendish equalled Eddy Merckx's record for Tour stage wins, from Ben O'Connor, who is still fifth over...
25m Jul 13, 2021
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S9 Ep115: The Press Conference | Rest Day 2 | Tour de France 2021
In our second rest day press conference we are joined by Mitch Docker, who will be part of The Cycling Podcast team, alongside Richard Moore and François Thomazeau, for the final week of the Tour de France. We answer listeners' questions about how the gruppetto works, Alejandro Valverde, the biological passport, the temperature of bidons, who would win historical head-to-heads, and lots more b...
1hr 8m Jul 12, 2021
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S9 Ep114: Kilometre 0 – A very British winemaker
In this episode of Kilometre 0, Richard Moore and François Thomazeau talk to Robert Eden, winemaker and owner of Château-Maris in La Livinière in the Minervois region of Languedoc. Robert bought Château-Maris in 1997 and it has been described as one of the five most environmentally-friendly wineries in the world by the Wine Spectator. His vines are all farmed organically and biodynamically an...
35m Jul 12, 2021
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S9 Ep113: Stage 15 | Ceret – Andorra la Vella | Tour de France 2021
n our Tour de France stage 15 podcast Richard Moore and François Thomazeau are joined again by Kate Wagner before Mitch Docker joins us for the final week. We discuss Jumbo-Visma's curious, but ultimately successful, tactics, and hear from their young Dane, Jonas Vingegaard, who is now third overall. We also have interviews with Mark Donovan, the British rider who was in the day's break, Neilso...
55m Jul 11, 2021
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S9 Ep112: Stage 14 | Carcassonne - Quillan | Tour de France 2021
A classic Tour de France transition stage took the riders from Carcassonne to the Pyrenees with Bauke Mollema winning in Quillan. In tonight's episode, with Richard Moore, François Thomazeau and Kate Wagner, we hear from Mike Woods, who, despite crashing during the stage, is the new King of the Mountains. We have a preview of Sunday's tough stage to Andorra from Joe Laverick, and we also hear ...
53m Jul 10, 2021
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S9 Ep111: Stage 13 | Nîmes – Carcassonne | Tour de France 2021
The Tour de France reaches Carcassonne in the south west – not a town that has been kind to the sprinters in the past. But, after yesterday’s breakaway stage Deceuninck-Quick Step worked to keep the breakaway on a tight leash to ensure a sprint finish. Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau at the Grand Café Occitan in Félines-Minervois, owned by Robert Eden – more of him nex...
45m Jul 09, 2021
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S9 Ep110: Kilometre 0 – Cycling on film
We are living in a golden age for television and in this episode of Kilometre 0 we look at how cycling is and could be conveyed on the small screen. We hear from Luke Durbridge and Matt White of Team Bike Exchange, Dirk Van Nijverseel, who is one of the people behind the Tour of Flanders documentaries, and Marc Pons, who directed The Least Expected Day, the Netflix series on Movistar. With th...
31m Jul 09, 2021
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S9 Ep109: Stage 12 | Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux – Nîmes | Tour de France 2021
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau in a bustling square in Nîmes to recap the 12th stage of the Tour de France. A short, flat stage looked certain to finish in a sprint but the peloton allowed a break of 13 riders to get away. There was no chase from the most likely candidates, Deceuninck-Quick Step, and so Mark Cavendish’s bid to e...
47m Jul 08, 2021
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S9 Ep108: Kilometre 0 – Don't call me
This is the second instalment of Kate Wagner's Tour de France diary. Kate is a classical violinist and architecture critic and is in France covering her first bike race. In this episode she gives her impressions of Tadej Pogacar and talks about her quest to interview him. Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast, powered by Supersapiens, the continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make t...
30m Jul 08, 2021
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S9 Ep107: Stage 11 | Sorgues – Malaucène | Tour de France 2021
For the first time in Tour de France history, a stage took the riders over Mont Ventoux twice in the same day. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau were in Malaucène to see Wout Van Aert win the fourth Tour de France stage of his career. Giddy at rejoining the Tour bubble (or perhaps he spent too long in the sun), Lionel indulges in some wild speculation. The day was also nota...
45m Jul 07, 2021
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S9 Ep106: Kilometre 0 – Running up that hill
On the day the Tour de France returns to Mont Ventoux we look back at the last visit, in 2016, when chaos ensued and Chris Froome, in the yellow jersey, ended up running up the climb. Helping us piece together what happened on Bastille Day, 2016, are Froome, Richie Porte, Serge Pauwels, Seb Piquet and the stage winner who few would remember, Thomas De Gendt. Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast...
22m Jul 07, 2021
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S9 Ep105: Stage 10 | Albertville - Valence | Tour de France 2021
The Mark Cavendish comeback tour continued after the rest day with a sprint stage to Valence which saw the Manxman take his third victory of the race and another giant step towards equalling the record we dare not mention. Richard Moore and François Thomazeau are joined by Lionel Birnie, who took the TGV to Valence and enjoyed as comfortable a train ride as Cavendish on the back of the Deceuni...
44m Jul 06, 2021
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S9 Ep104: Kilometre 0 – Audio diaries, part 2
It's been an action-packed few days for our audio diarists as the Tour de France hit the Alps and reached its first rest day. Our quartet have been documenting the race each day, letting listeners hear their thoughts as the Tour unfolds. For Ben O'Connor of AG2R-Citroën there was a phenomenal stage win at Tignes which put him in the virtuel maillot jaune for a while on the final climb and eve...
29m Jul 06, 2021
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S9 Ep103: The Press Conference | Rest Day 1 | Tour de France 2021
In our rest day press conference episode Richard Moore, François Thomazeau and Kate Wagner answer some of our listeners’ questions.  We also hear from Wout van Aert, who Richard spoke to on the rest day, and Grischa Niermann, the Jumbo-Visma sports director.
53m Jul 05, 2021
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S9 Ep102: Kilometre 0 – From cyclist to sommelier
The Tour des Flâneurs takes a gentle deviation from the race route to visit L'Auberge du Père Bise where former pro rider Clément Chevrier works as a sommelier. Chevrier, who rode for IAM Cycling and then AG2R, retired last year at the age of 28 having completed the Vuelta a España three times and the Giro d'Italia twice. The transition from the pro peloton to life after cycling can be a diff...
28m Jul 05, 2021
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S9 Ep101: Stage 9 | Cluses - Tignes | Tour de France 2021
In our stage nine podcast from the Tour de France we discuss a day in which the winner was one of the riders keeping an audio diary for The Cycling Podcast, Ben O'Connor of Australia and Ag2r-Citroen. It was also a stage that confirmed the superiority of the rider in yellow, Tadej Pogacar, and we discuss some of the suspicions and doubts that swirl around his performances. We also hear from Mi...
54m Jul 04, 2021
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S9 Ep100: Stage 8 | Oyonnax - Le Grand-Bornand | Tour de France
Our stage 8 Tour de France podcast opens with an extraordinary musical performance from François Thomazeau and Kate Wagner as we discuss a stage won by Belgian Dylan Teuns and in which Tadej Pogacar, the defending champion, stamped his authority on the race as he took over the yellow jersey. We discuss whether, with two weeks remaining, the battle for overall victory is effectively over. And w...
51m Jul 03, 2021
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S9 Ep99: Stage 7 | Vierzon > Le Creusot | Tour de France
A thrilling seventh stage of the Tour de France, the longest of the race, saw a 29-man breakaway and a difficult day for the UAE-Team Emirates team of Tadej Pogacar, the defending champion. In tonight's episode Kate Wagner gives us the Tale of Etape and we hear from two riders who were in the breakaway, Brent Van Moer, our audio diarist Victor Campenaerts and Geraint Thomas. We also speak to M...
56m Jul 02, 2021
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