Gilbert wins a Flanders of what ifs | Episode 13
April 5 | Philippe Gilbert's remarkable win in the Tour of Flanders is the main subject up for discussion in The Cycling Podcast this week, with Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe debating whether Gilbert would have held on to win had Peter Sagan not crashed at a crucial point in the race. We also look ahead to Paris-Roubaix and ask whether Tom Boonen, in his final race as a profes...
1hr Apr 05, 2017
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15th time lucky | Mat Hayman: how I won Paris-Roubaix | Trailer
Six weeks before last year's Paris-Roubaix Mathew Hayman crashed and broke a bone in his arm. He was told he'd be out of action for six weeks. Five days after the crash he was on a turbo trainer in his garage, his arm supported on a ladder. Five weeks later he returned to racing in Spain. Amazingly, he started his 15th Paris-Roubaix, the race he most loves. He hoped to help his team. But then ...
3m Apr 03, 2017
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Cobbled Classics and Catalonia | Episode 12
March 30 | With three World Tour races taking in the cobbles and climbs of Flanders, it can mean only one thing – the Ronde Van Vlaanderen is just round the corner. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the week's three races – Dwars Door Vlaanderen, the Grand Prix E3 Harelbeke and Ghent-Wevelgem – and weigh up who's hot and who's not. While the Classics riders are occupied b...
1hr 1m Mar 30, 2017
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The Lionel of Flanders trailer
March 23-27: A five-part series for Friends of the Podcast 2017. Lionel Birnie heads to Flanders to witness the build-up to the Ronde Van Vlaanderen as cycling fever grips the region. With three World Tour races in five days, the Classics specialists have plenty of opportunity to hone their form before the Tour of Flanders. But what are these races like? Is it right to think of them as mere ...
6m Mar 24, 2017
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Michal Kwiatkowski wins Milan-San Remo | Episode 11
March 22 | The Cycling Podcast this week looks back at the first monument of the season, Milan-San Remo, with Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discussing Peter Sagan’s searing attack on the Poggio and Michal Kwiatkowski’s perfectly judged sprint on the Via Roma. Did Sagan not listen to last week’s podcast, in which Daniel advised him to exercise some patience? Or did it not make ...
48m Mar 21, 2017
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Episode 10 | The Cycling Podcast Féminin
March 20 | In the March episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin Richard Moore and Orla Chennaoui are joined by Steve Fry of M2 Sports, an agency with a particular interest in women’s cycling. There is an interview with Olympic road race champion Anna van der Breggen, a look back at the opening events in the Women’s World Tour, including an outstanding edition of Strade Bianche, and a feature on ...
1hr 4m Mar 20, 2017
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Alberto Contador lights up Paris-Nice | Episode 10
March 15 | The Cycling Podcast this week comes from Nice, where Richard Moore is joined by award-winning French journalist François Thomazeau to discuss Alberto Contador’s bold and exciting attempt to beat Sergio Henao on the final stage of Paris-Nice. There are interviews with stage winners Sam Bennett of Bora-Hansgrohe and Richie Porte of BMC Racing, the Team Sky sports director Nicolas Port...
1hr 10m Mar 15, 2017
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Team Sky's woes continue | Episode 9
March 8 | In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the latest racing in Europe and the ongoing controversy that has engulfed Team Sky, putting pressure on their boss, Sir Dave Brailsford. The European season continues to amp up towards the Spring Classics. At the weekend, Strade Bianche both underlined its claims on a place among tho...
1hr 2m Mar 08, 2017
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First of the Cobbled Classics | Episode 8
March 1 | The cobbled classics got underway at the weekend and The Cycling Podcast discusses Greg Van Avermaet’s win at Het Nieuwsblad and Peter Sagan’s at Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne. We hear from Cannondale-Drapac manager Jonathan Vaughters whose rider, Sep Vanmarcke, was third in the first of these two races – but did Vanmarcke get his tactics right? Daniel Friebe is back from the Abu Dhabi Tour...
1hr 1m Mar 01, 2017
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Grand Tour strategy with Orica-Scott | Episode 7
February 22 | There’s a lot of racing to discuss and look forward to in The Cycling Podcast, with Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie joined by Daniel Friebe at the Abu Dhabi Tour, which has a stellar cast of stars, including Mark Cavendish, Marcel Kittel and Vincenzo Nibali. We hear from British rider Ben Swift who moved over the winter from Team Sky to the newly renamed UAE Team Emirates and the...
1hr 8m Feb 23, 2017
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Episode 9 | The Cycling Podcast Féminin
February 20 | Richard Moore and Orla Chennaoui return for the second Cycling Podcast Féminin of 2017 in the company of Drops rider Abi Van Twisk. They recorded the episode in London following the launch of the Women’s Tour, which will include a final stage in the centre of the Capital. But the June event will still be over five days rather than seven, much to the disappointment of race directo...
1hr 5m Feb 20, 2017
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An early-season ramble | Episode 6
February 16 | A lull in the early season sees The Cycling Podcast go off-piste and discuss the prospects of Tom Boonen as he prepares for his final spring Classics campaign before his retirement at Paris-Roubaix, reflect on the early retirement of German former wunderkind Gerald Ciolek, and feature a special report on the diabetic team, Novo Nordisk. We also hear from Mick Bennett, director of...
46m Feb 16, 2017
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Double trouble and bucket breaks | Episode 5
February 9 | As the 2017 season continues to move through the gears, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe return to review and debate the latest results and news from the professional peloton’s front line. Nairo Quintana’s victory in the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana bodes well for his chances of pulling off a Giro-Tour double last achieved by Marco Pantani in 1998. At least that’s...
1hr 8m Feb 09, 2017
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Of Punch-ups and Plagiarism | Episode 4
February 3 | Our latest episode sees Lionel Birnie and his weekly round-up fully tested by a frantic few days of early-season racing and news. After hearing from Marcel Kittel and Andrei Grivko about their dust-up in the Dubai desert, Lionel, Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe ponder whether the race jury was right to eject the Ukranian. This week’s podcast also features interviews with both the ...
1hr 19m Feb 03, 2017
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Tour Down Under, Berlin Six and Damian Collins MP | Episode 3
January 27 | In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe briefly recap the Tour Down Under, where Richie Porte won on Willunga Hill for the fourth year in a row and Australian riders completed a clean sweep of stage wins for the second successive edition of the race. Daniel reflects on the death at the age of 31 of former under-23 world champion Dmytr...
1hr 5m Jan 27, 2017
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Mud, sweat and energy balls | Episode 8 | The Cycling Podcast Féminin
In the first Cycling Podcast Féminin of 2017 Richard Moore and Orla Chennaoui are joined by Delia Beddis, a double winner of the Three Peaks cyclo-cross race, and Ian Cleverly, the editor of Rouleur. The theme, ahead of the world championships this weekend, is cyclo-cross, and there are interviews with under-23 world champion Evie Richards and 13-time American champion Katie Compton. We also h...
1hr 7m Jan 25, 2017
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What does the 2017 season have in store? | Episode 2
January 20 | This episode of The Cycling Podcast was recorded just as the 2017 UCI World Tour season was getting underway at the Tour Down Under. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss what they are looking forward to in 2017, analyse the changes to the World Tour calendar and rules, assess the Vuelta a España route, which was announced last week, and weigh-up the Giro d'Italia...
1hr 5m Jan 20, 2017
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Back to the future: riders to watch in 2017 | Episode 1
January 11 | In the first episode of 2017 The Cycling Podcast turns the spotlight on some of the potential stars of the future. Featuring two of the world’s leading development teams, we speak to Tao Geoghegan Hart, Adrien Costa and Joan Bou, and to the individuals who run those teams, Axel Merckx and Alberto Contador’s brother, Fran. Merckx runs Axeon Hagens Berman, whose alumni include Taylo...
40m Jan 11, 2017
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32. Review of the year
December 27 | This episode looks back at some of the highlights and memorable moments of The Cycling Podcast's coverage in 2016, featuring regular hosts Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe as well as the cast of guests, including Orla Chennaoui, François Thomazeau and, of course, Ciro Scognamiglio. It features some of the best moments of the three Grand Tours – the Giro d'Italia, To...
34m Dec 26, 2016
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The Cycling Podcast Féminin – Episode 7
December 22 | The seventh episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin is a riding special. Orla Chennaoui and Richard Moore report from a women's ride in Kent with Dame Kelly Holmes, the double Olympic gold medallist from Athens 2004, where she won the 800m and 1500m. Having recently taken up cycling, Holmes tells us how it compares to athletics and about her new ambitions on two wheels. We hear fr...
1hr 3m Dec 22, 2016
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31. Catching up with Graeme Obree
December 15 | In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore meets former world champion and World Hour Record holder Graeme Obree. They talk about the film Battle Mountain, which tells the story of Obree's attempt to set a new human-powered landspeed record, as well as his Hour Record attempts in Norway in 1993. Obree also discusses the the question of whether the body rules the mind ...
44m Dec 15, 2016
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30. Lunch with… Charly Wegelius
December 8 | This is the first in an occasional series of podcasts called Lunch with The Cycling Podcast. Lionel Birnie is joined by Charly Wegelius, the former professional rider who wrote the book about being a domestique, and is now one of the most highly-rated young sports directors working in the UCI World Tour. They meet at the Plum and Spilt Milk restaurant at London's Kings Cross to d...
1hr 12m Dec 08, 2016
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29. A chat with Jonathan Vaughters
December 1 | In this episode of The Telegraph Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe are joined by Cannondale-Drapac CEO Jonathan Vaughters and French journalist François Thomazeau. We spoke to Vaughters about Cannondale-Drapac's season, their new signings and plans for 2017. Despite not winning a World Tour race in 2016, Vaughters explained that he was pleased with th...
45m Dec 01, 2016
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28. Sixty Minutes of Ghent
November 24 | The latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast includes a report from the Ghent Six-Day, won by Sir Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish. It was billed as Wiggins’ last race, but Wiggins was vague whether Ghent really did represent the end – we discuss what he might do next. And there’s an interview from Ghent with the young British team, Mark Stewart and Ollie Wood. Richard Moore, Lionel Bi...
58m Nov 24, 2016
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The Cycling Podcast Féminin – Episode 6
Episode six of The Cycling Podcast Féminin celebrates the careers of some of the riders who retired at the end of the 2016 season, though there’s also an interview with somebody who is at the pinnacle of her career: Laura Kenny (formerly Trott). The four-times Olympic gold medallist spoke to Orla Chennaoui about life-post Rio and why we are unlikely to see her in a road race any time soon. We ...
1hr 5m Nov 16, 2016
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27. The off-season ramble
November 10 | It's the off-season, and the world of professional cycling has been uncharacteristically quiet for a few days, but nevertheless this is a packed episode of The Telegraph Cycling Podcast. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the recent Rouleur Classic, where Richard spoke to Italian rider Filippo Pozzato. There's also an interview with Alberto Contador, who is j...
1hr 4m Nov 10, 2016
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26. A chat with Ned Boulting
November 3 | In this episode of The Telegraph Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie meet up with Ned Boulting on the eve of his nationwide tour, Bikeology. He explains the idea behind his one-man show, reviews his first full season in commentary box and how it differs from his previous job as on-the-ground reporter, and looks back at the 2016 season. The Telegraph Cycling Podcast i...
53m Nov 02, 2016
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25. London Six-Day and 2017 Giro d'Italia route
October 27 | This episode of The Telegraph Cycling Podcast comes from the track centre at the London velodrome on the opening night of the London Six-Day. It is Bradley Wiggins's first race since the Fancy Bears hackers leaked details of therapeutic use exemptions that permitted him to use a corticosteroid before major road races in his career. He teamed up with Mark Cavendish, his Madison wor...
54m Oct 27, 2016
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The Cycling Podcast Féminin - Episode 5
October 24 | Episode five of The Cycling Podcast Féminin looks back at the world championships in Qatar and ahead to next year’s revamped La Course by Le Tour de France. There’s an interview with Kelly Catlin, the classical violinist who was a member of the American silver medal winning team pursuit squad at the Rio Olympics, and in his monthly retro feature, Lionel Birnie recalls the 1982 worl...
1hr 7m Oct 24, 2016
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24. World Championship road races
October 20 | In this episode of The Telegraph Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the road races at the World Championships in Qatar. The wind blew in the desert, the men's race split into echelons and at the finish it was Peter Sagan who extended his spell in the rainbow jersey for another year. We assess the race, weigh up the tactics and dissect the sprin...
49m Oct 19, 2016
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Dave Brailsford speaks to The Cycling Podcast
October 16 | The Cycling Podcast met Sir Dave Brailsford to quiz him on the controversies engulfing Team Sky since the Fancy Bears hackers revealed Sir Bradley Wiggins had used a corticosteroid called triamcinolone to treat asthma and pollen allergies before three grand tours, including the 2012 Tour de France, which he won. Although the drug was apparently used in accordance with the World An...
1hr 27m Oct 16, 2016
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23. The World Championships in the desert
October 12 | In the latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the world championships in Qatar, look ahead to the weekend’s men’s and women’s road races, and examine the latest developments in the controversy involving Sir Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky. Qatar was a controversial choice for the sport’s showpiece event and the team time trial and tim...
55m Oct 12, 2016
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22. Chaves wins Il Lombardia
October 6 | In the latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast the team looks back at Il Lombardia, the season’s final monument and the first ever won by a Colombian, Esteban Chaves. The diminutive Chaves, who rides for Australian team Orica-BikeExchange, was the best in a three-man sprint in Bergamo to cap a brilliant year, in which he finished second in the Giro d’Italia and third in the Vuelta a España...
52m Oct 06, 2016
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21. Bradley Wiggins and the TUE
September 28 | The Telegraph Cycling Podcast returns after its post-Vuelta a España break and turns its attention to Sir Bradley Wiggins and the controversy around the release of his therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs). Wiggins was one of several cyclists whose data was hacked – Chris Froome, Fabian Cancellara and Steve Cummings were among the others – but it is the TUEs of the 2012 Tour de Fran...
59m Sep 28, 2016
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The Cycling Podcast Féminin - Episode 4
Episode 4 of The Cycling Podcast Féminin has an international flavour with news and interviews from Rio, Madrid and Africa. Orla Chennaoui and Richard Moore look back at the Olympic Games and speak to three of the British medallists, Joana Rowsell Shand, Becky James and Katy Marchant. From Madrid we have interviews with the Women’s World Tour winner, Megan Guarnier of the USA, as well as from A...
1hr 3m Sep 22, 2016
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Stage 21 | Las Rozas to Madrid | Vuelta a España 2016
September 11 | In this final episode of The Cycling Podcast's coverage of the 2016 Vuelta a Espana, Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie discuss the end of this year's race, and talk about which riders and teams have performed particularly strongly at this Vuelta. The stage was won by Magnus Cort Nielsen of Orica-BikeExchange in a bunch sprint, picking up his second stage, and Orica-BikeExchange's ...
31m Sep 12, 2016
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Stage 20 | Benidorm to Alto de Aitana | Vuelta a España 2016
In this, the penultimate episode of The Cycling Podcast's coverage of the 2016 Vuelta a Espana, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe assess the mountain stage to Alto de Aitana. The stage was won by the young French rider Pierre Latour – and Daniel reveals that BMC's Darwin Atapuma possibly misjudged the finish because of poor information from his team car. The battle for the red je...
39m Sep 11, 2016
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Stage 19 | Xàbia to Calp | Vuelta a España 2016
In this episode of The Telegraph Cycling Podcast, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe sit down for a post-stage drink on the beach at Calpe to discuss the 19th stage of the Vuelta a Espana. The 37-kilometre time trial offered Chris Froome an opportunity to gain time on race leader Nairo Quintana and give himself a slim chance of overall victory on Saturday's final mountain stage to the Alto de Ait...
27m Sep 09, 2016
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Stage 18 | Requena to Gandia | Vuelta a España 2016
September 8 | In this episode of The Telegraph Cycling Podcast Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss a third stage win for Orica-Bike Exchange, courtesy of Denmark's Magnus Cort Nielsen, and look forward to Friday's time trial. There's also rumours of the Vuelta visiting the highest paved road in mainland Europe, at 3,300 metres in the Sierra Nevada, in the next couple of years. And there's...
43m Sep 08, 2016
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Stage 17 | Castellón de la Plana to Camins del Penyagolosa, Llucena | Vuelta a España 2016
September 7 | Mathias Frank gave IAM Cycling a second stage win of the Vuelta a Espana on the steep Alto Mas de la Costa climb. The Swiss rider broke away from a larger break with Italy's Dario Cataldo and then dropped him in the final kilometres, holding off a chase from Robert Gesink and Leopold Konig. In this episode of The Telegraph Cycling Podcast Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe review th...
32m Sep 07, 2016
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Stage 16 | Alcañiz to Peñíscola | Vuelta a España 2016
September 5 | After two days of drama at the Vuelta a Espana, it was a quiet day in the heat of Spain. Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the 16th stage, won by Luxembourg's Jean-Pierre Drucker, but first they deal with the controversy hanging over from the previous stage to Formigal when 91 riders finished outside the time limit. The issue has divided people and we hear three different ...
30m Sep 05, 2016
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Stage 15 | Sabiñánigo – Aramon Formigal, Sallent de Gállego | Vuelta a España 2016
September 4 | In a packed episode of The Telegraph Cycling Podcast from the Vuelta a Espana, Lionel Birnie witnesses Nairo Quintana and Alberto Contador dash Chris Froome’s hopes of winning the race with a daring attack on stage 15 to Formigal. Although Froome is not completely out of contention, the Team Sky leader has a mountain to climb if he is to unseat Quintana. The stage was short – ju...
42m Sep 04, 2016
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Stage 14 | Urdax-Dantxarinea to Col d'Aubisque (Gourette) | Vuelta a España 2016
September 3 | A brilliant day of racing in the Pyrenees, culminating with anarchy on the Aubisque, saw Chris Froome cope with everything Nairo Quintana threw at him. But Alejandro Valverde fell dramatically away from third place overall, losing ten minutes on the final climb, while Orica-Bike Exchange pulled off a tactical masterstroke to catapult Simon Yates into fourth place as Esteban Chave...
35m Sep 03, 2016
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Stage 13 | Bilbao to Urdax-Dantxarinea | Vuelta a España 2016
September 2 | Valerio Conti of Lampre won the 13th stage of the Vuelta a Espana, becoming the eighth rider to get his first grand tour stage win in this race. In this episode of The Telegraph Cycling Podcast Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss Conti's victory and the peloton's go-slow. At 213 kilometres it was the longest stage of the race and the time gap between Conti, the rest of the br...
31m Sep 02, 2016
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Stage 12 | Los Corrales de Buelna to Bilbao | Vuelta a España 2016
September 1 | As the Vuelta a España reached Spain’s cycling heartland, the Basque Country, it was a Belgian on an Australian team who won stage twelve to Bilbao. Jens Keukeleire is highly rated but a stage win in a Grand Tour is the biggest result of his career. And it was yet another success for his team, Orica-BikeExchange, who also had Simon Yates on the attack in the closing kilometres. R...
40m Sep 01, 2016
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Stage 11 | Jurassic Museum of Asturias, Colunga to Peña Cabarga | Vuelta a España 2016
August 31 | In the latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss stage 11 of the Vuelta a España, won by Chris Froome. There are interviews with Froome, who discusses his tactics on the climbs, and his boss at Team Sky, Sir Dave Brailsford. We also hear from Colombian star Esteban Chaves and our Pédaleur de Charme, Luis Angel Maté. The Cycling Podcast is brought to y...
43m Aug 31, 2016
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Stage 10 | Lugones to Lagos de Covadonga | Vuelta a España 2016
August 29 | The Vuelta a España entered the high mountains of Asturias on Tuesday and The Telegraph Cycling Podcast was at the spectacular summit of Lagos de Covadonga as Nairo Quintana won the stage to reclaim the leader’s red jersey. Behind Quintana, Chris Froome performed a trick that is now familiar. He was dropped close to the foot of the 12km final climb but, with help from Team Sky team...
33m Aug 29, 2016
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Stage 9 | Cistierna to Alto del Naranco, Oviedo | Vuelta a España 2016
August 28 | In the latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe review stage nine of the Vuelta a España, won by David de la Cruz, who also took over the leader’s red jersey from Nairo Quintana. There are interviews with Samuel Sanchez, who comes from Oviedo, where the stage finished, and also with De La Cruz’s Etixx-Quickstep teammate, Gianluca Brambilla, the Italian who s...
20m Aug 28, 2016
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Stage 8 | Villalpando to La Camperona, Valle de Sabero | Vuelta a España 2016
August 27 | The first summit finish of the Vuelta a España saw Nairo Quintana take the red jersey of overall leader from his fellow Colombian, Darwin Atapuma, as Chris Froome conceded time to his main rivals but held on to third place. It was the Russian veteran Sergey Lagutin who won the stage from the day’s breakaway but the drama was behind as Quintana attacked and Froome slipped back. The ...
35m Aug 27, 2016
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Stage 7 | Maceda to Puebla de Sanabria | Vuelta a España 2016
Friday’s seventh stage of the Vuelta a España was won by Belgium’s Jonas Van Genechten but the final kilometre was marred by another crash involving one of the favourites, this time Alberto Contador. Contador crossed the line looking bloodied and seemed pessimistic about his chances before Saturday’s crucial stage to Valle de Sabero. It was more bad luck for the Spaniard, who crashed twice at ...
31m Aug 26, 2016
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