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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S9 Ep98: Kilometre 0 – Jeff of all trades
Jean-François Quenet is a journalist, race organiser, mentor to young riders from all over the world and a fixture at most of the major races. In his native Brittany he sat down with our own François Thomazeau to discuss his life and career in cycling. Quenet is a Breton, born in Brest where the Tour started. His name will be familiar to those who read his monthly column in Cycle Sport magazi...
26m Jul 02, 2021
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S9 Ep97: Stage 6 | Tours - Châteauroux | Tour de France 2021
In our stage six podcast from the 2021 Tour de France we discuss Mark Cavendish's 32nd stage win at the Tour de France as he gets closer to the record of stage wins held by Eddy Merckx, even if Cavendish resists references to this. In this episode Richard Moore, François Thomazeau and Kate Wagner discuss the stage and we hear from Kasper Asgreen, Michael Morkov and Roger Kluge, as well as our ...
50m Jul 01, 2021
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S9 Ep96: Kilometre 0 – Bring me Wilco Kelderman
Kate Wagner, who in former lives was a classical violinist and architecture critic, is covering her first bike race – the Tour de France – and keeping an audio diary about the experience for The Cycling Podcast. In this first of three instalments of her audio diaries, all to feature as part of the Kilometre 0 series, she talks about the art of packing for a month on the road, the French hotels...
36m Jul 01, 2021
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S9 Ep95: Stage 5 | Changé - Laval | Tour de France 2021
In our stage 5 Tour de France podcast, Richard Moore, François Thomazeau and Kate Wagner discuss a time trial that had two winners, Tadej Pogačar and Mathieu van der Poel.  In tonight’s episode we hear from the second and third place finishers, Stefan Küng and Jonas Vingegaard.  The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport. Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monito...
46m Jun 30, 2021
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S9 Ep94: Kilometre 0 – Audio diaries, part 1
In our third episode of Kilometre 0 we meet our four audio diarists, Victor Campenaerts (Qhubeka NextHash), Connor Swift (Arkea-Samsic), Ben O'Connor (Ag2r-Citroën) and Tim Declercq (Deceuninck-Quick-Step). Campenaerts and O'Connor are debutants, Swift is riding his second Tour, with the Grand Départ in his team's home region, and Declercq, "The Tractor", is doing his usual job of spending man...
34m Jun 30, 2021
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S9 Ep93: Stage 4 | Redon - Fougères | Tour de France 2021
Stage four of the Tour de France was all about Mark Cavendish's 31st win at the Tour de France and his first in five years. In tonight's episode we hear from his "poisson pilote," Michael Morkov, and another two Deceuninck-Quick-step teammates, Tim Declercq and the world champion Julian Alaphilippe. We also hear from Fred Wright, Thomas De Gendt and, speaking about the crashes that marred stag...
52m Jun 29, 2021
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S9 Ep92: Kilometre 0 – Tour de France Femmes
In episode two of Kilometre 0 at the 2021 Tour de France we look back to the last La Course, the women's one day race, and ahead to the new Tour de France Femmes, launching next year. We speak to one of the driving forces behind La Course, Kathryn Bertine, and to the Tour de France director, Christian Prudhomme, and hear from some of the leading figures in the current peloton, including Marian...
26m Jun 29, 2021
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S9 Ep91: Stage 3 | Lorient - Pontivy  | Tour de France 2021
It was another day on the Tour de France that was marred by terrible crashes and in our podcast from stage three Richard Moore, Kate Wagner and François Thomazeau talk about their impact on the race. Chris Juul-Jensen explains why he thinks the crashes have been more serious, and our audio diarist Connor Swift talks us through an eventful day. We also hear from Ide Schelling, the Dutchman who'...
55m Jun 28, 2021
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S9 Ep90: Kilometre 0 – Bretagne
In our first episode of Kilometre 0 from the 2021 Tour de France we look at the region where the race is spending its first few days: Brittany, or Bretagne. It's France's cycling heartland, with a rich tradition that is still evident with no fewer than ten Bretons riding this year's Tour. We hear from the region's great hope, David Gaudu, as well as from a British rider who rides for a Breton ...
31m Jun 28, 2021
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S9 Ep89: Stage 2 | Perros-Guirec - Mûr-de-bretagne Guerlédan | Tour de France 2021
Stage two of the Tour de France saw another hilltop finish, another devastating attack by one of the stage favourites, and an emotional win on the line, but this time it was Mathieu van der Poel, who also took over the yellow jersey, dedicating it to his late grandfather, Raymond Poulidor. In tonight's podcast Richard Moore, François Thomazeau and Kate Wagner pick over the stage and the rivalr...
48m Jun 27, 2021
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S9 Ep88: Stage 1 | Brest-Landerneau | Tour de France 2021
The Tour de France got underway in Brittany and in our first nightly episode Richard Moore, François Thomazeau and Kate Wagner discuss an eventful day, with two dreadful crashes and a stunning win for Julian Alaphilippe. We hear from our diarist, Tim Declercq, a teammate of the winner, and from Richie Porte of Ineos Grenadiers. François tells us about the cultural highlights of the area and Ka...
52m Jun 26, 2021
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S9 Ep87: Tour de France wines
In this extra episode, on the eve of the Tour de France, Daniel Friebe speaks to Greg Andrews of D Vine Cellars about The Cycling Podcast Tour de France wine collection. If you would like to purchase one of the cases, go to: D Vine Cellars (https://www.dvinecellars.com/product-page/tour-de-france-with-the-cycling-podcast-6-bottle-case) . The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Sc...
42m Jun 25, 2021
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S9 Ep86: Service Course | Lizzy's return
In part one of this episode of Service Course, Lizzy Banks returns to the mic to tell Tom Whalley about her recent concussion, and the long road she has been taking to recovery. After a crash at Strade Bianchi, Lizzy initially believed she was fine until the symptoms of her concussion started to become apparent, even then a few weeks later she thought she was fine and resumed training, but a s...
1hr 35m Jun 24, 2021
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S9 Ep85: Annemiek van Vleuten
In this bonus episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin, Orla Chennaoui speaks to Annemiek van Vleuten, the former world champion and one of the favourites for the Olympics. Van Vleuten got in touch after our last episode, taking issue with something that was said. Here, she sets the record straight on the Women's World Tour and discusses missing some of the upcoming races to focus on the Olympic...
24m Jun 23, 2021
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S9 Ep84: Tour de France preview
In our final episode before the Tour de France Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and François Thomazeau preview the race before the Grand Départ in Brittany this weekend. Mark Cavendish is one of several surprise selections – we discuss his late inclusion in the Deceuninck-Quick-step team at the expense of Sam Bennett. We also look ahead to stage one, asking who that will suit – Daniel picks 18 ca...
1hr 13m Jun 22, 2021
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S9 Ep83: Life in the Peloton – Simon Mottram
For this episode of Life in the Peloton, I chatted to Simon Mottram, who founded Rapha back in 2004. I was really interested to hear what drove him to start the company and particularly his comment that Rapha is not a clothing company, it's a cycling company. Simon's passion for cycling shines through and it's fair to say that Rapha has changed the way we think about style on the bike. As you ...
46m Jun 16, 2021
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S9 Ep82: An eye on the Tour de France
We are looking ahead to the Tour de France in this week's episode as we review the recent racing in Switzerland, Slovenia and Belgium. The Tour is set to be a fascinating battle between the collective strength of Ineos Grenadiers and the individual talents of Tadej Pogačar, the defending champion, and Primoz Roglič. This week we also hear from Pavel Sivakov, the young Franco-Russian who retur...
58m Jun 15, 2021
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S9 Ep81: Not too Chabbey
In June's episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin Rose Manley, Orla Chennaoui and Richard Moore discuss all the recent racing, and we hear from Tour de Suisse stage winner Elise Chabbey of Canyon/SRAM. There's also an interview with one of the strongest performers of the season, Pauliena Rooijakkers of Liv Racing. And we meet the winner of the world's biggest gravel race, Unbound. Lauren De Cr...
1hr 21m Jun 10, 2021
1hr 21m
S9 Ep80: Movie Stars
Film club returns to The Cycling Podcast as Daniel Friebe and Richard Moore review The Least Expected Day, series two of Netflix's fly-on-the-wall Movistar documentary. We discuss the latest racing, including Richie Porte's victory at the Critérium du Dauphiné and what it means for the Tour de France. And we hear from Ian Boswell, last week's guest host and winner at the weekend of Unbound, a...
1hr 12m Jun 08, 2021
1hr 12m
S9 Ep79: Doubting Thomas
Richard Moore is joined by former professional Ian Boswell and François Thomazeau for this week's episode as we discuss the Critérium du Dauphiné, look back on the Giro d'Italia and discuss the implications for cycling of the week's biggest story in sport, tennis player Naomi Osaka's decision not to participate in press conferences and to withdraw from the French Open. Is the Dauphiné a little...
1hr 10m Jun 03, 2021
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S9 Ep78: Life in the Peloton – Tsgabu Grmay
Life in the Peloton is back after taking a break while the Giro d'Italia was on, which gave me a chance to sit down with someone I've wanted to get on the podcast for a long time. Tsgabu Grmay rides for my old team, now called Team Bike Exchange, and he's racing his tenth season in the pro peloton. He was born and brought up in the Tigray region of Ethiopia and comes from a sporty family. I wa...
1hr 27m Jun 02, 2021
1hr 27m
S9 Ep77: Explore | A cyclist on the English landscape
Explore returns with Lionel Birnie travelling to the south coast of England to meet photographer and journalist Roff Smith, whose lockdown project was published in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/travel/sussex-bicycle-portraits.html) as A Cyclist on the English Landscape. The series of self-portraits feature Roff cycling in and around his adopted home town, St Leonards-o...
56m May 31, 2021
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S9 Ep76: Stage 21 | Senago - Milano | Giro d'Italia 2021
In our final episode from the 2021 Giro d'Italia Richard Moore and Brian Nygaard soak up the atmosphere in Milan and look back on the past three weeks of racing and travelling around Italy. We hear from some of the stars and unsung heroes of the race, including Alberto Bettiol, Jan Tratnik, Salvatore Puccio, Dries De Bondt and Gianni Savio. There's a final instalment from our diarist, James Kn...
1hr 3m May 30, 2021
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S9 Ep75: Stage 20 | Verbania - Valle Spluga - Alpe Motta | Giro d'Italia 2021
In our penultimate episode from the Giro d'Italia we reflect on the final mountain stage, won by the rider in second place, Damiano Caruso. Richard Moore and Brian Nygaard discuss the stage ahead of Egan Bernal's likely coronation as Giro winner in Milan on Sunday. We hear from Chris Juul-Jensen of Team Bike Exchange, Matt Winston, sports director of Team DSM, and Larry Warbasse of Ag2r, as w...
52m May 29, 2021
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S9 Ep74: Stage 19 | Abbiategrasso - Alpe di Mera (Valsesia) | Giro d'Italia 2021
On the penultimate mountain stage of the Giro d’Italia Simon Yates claimed victory to set up a thrilling final weekend.  In our stage 19 podcast we hear from Yates’s sports director, Matt White, and also from a rider who was in the breakaway, Larry Warbasse.  There’s another instalment of James Knox’s audio diary and a final entry from our other diarist, Gino Mader.  The Cycling Podcast is s...
52m May 28, 2021
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S9 Ep73: Kilometre 0 – Filippo Nazionale
One day before stage 20 of the Giro d'Italia begins in his home town, we take a look at a rider upon whose broad shoulders the hopes of Italian cycling seem to rest. Filippo Ganna is the world champion who on Sunday in Milan will be the favourite to win his fifth Giro time trial in a row. In this episode we speak to some of his rivals, including Edoardo Affini of Jumbo-Visma, to Rod Ellingwort...
31m May 28, 2021
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S9 Ep72: Stage 18 | Rovereto - Stradella | Giro d'Italia 2021
A rider we’ve been tipping all Giro, Alberto Bettiol, finally got his stage win on a day when the other big news was the withdrawal of Remco Evenepoel.  In our stage 18 podcast we discuss Evenepoel and the decision to throw him into the Giro and hear from a couple of other young riders, Tobias Foss and Attila Valter. We’ve also got an interview with the previous day’s winner, Dan Martin.  The...
1hr 1m May 27, 2021
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S9 Ep71: Stage 17 | Canazei - Sega di Ala | Giro d'Italia 2021
The Giro d'Italia may have some twists and turns left after a seventeenth stage that saw the first sign of weakness from the overall leader, Egan Bernal, while Dan Martin took a well deserved win. In the podcast we hear from Rod Ellingworth on Bernal, there's more from our diarist, James Knox, we solve the mystery of George Bennett's "double ascent" of the Zoncolan, and we have an interview wi...
1hr 3m May 26, 2021
1hr 3m
S9 Ep70: Kilometre 0 – The stage winners
Eleven of the sixteen stages so far at this Giro d’Italia have been won by first time grand tour stage winners.  Some – Egan Bernal, Giacomo Nizzolo – have not been much of a surprise. But some certainly have, and yet there have been days when the stage winner has been overshadowed by the GC battle.  In this episode of Kilometre 0 we revisit their stages with some of the winners, including Jo...
27m May 26, 2021
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