S9 Ep21: SD Worx win the numbers game
In this month's episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin Rose Manley, Richard Moore and Orla Chennaoui discuss the first races of the new season, in which a familiar team with a new name, SD Worx, have so far been dominant. There's an interview with Emma Norsgaard, the Dane who has made a great start to her Movistar career with second at both Het Nieuwsblad and Le Samyn. And we meet Teniel Campb...
1hr 20m Mar 12, 2021
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S9 Ep20: Van der Poel has lift off
In this week's episode we look back at Mathieu van der Poel's phenomenal victory at Strade Bianche and there's a report from the race to the sun, Paris-Nice. First, Lionel Birnie, Daniel Friebe and Richard Moore discuss Strade Bianche, a race that grows in prestige, and in fans' affections, each year. Was this edition the best yet? And from Paris-Nice, Richard and François Thomazeau convene o...
1hr 18m Mar 10, 2021
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S9 Ep19: Trailer: Paris-Nice and The King
This is a trailer for a new episode available now for Friends of the Podcast called Paris-Nice and The King. It tells the story of Paris-Nice, its place in French cycling heritage and the seven consecutive victories by Irish rider Sean Kelly in the 1980s. To sign up as a Friend of the Podcast go to thecyclingpodcast.com (https://thecyclingpodcast.com/)
5m Mar 06, 2021
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S9 Ep18: 🇪🇸 El Cycling Podcast – Camisas de cemento
This is episode one of a new Spanish language podcast, El Cycling Podcast, hosted by Laura Meseguer and Rob Hatch. Episode one is being launched here before the whole series moves to a designated Spanish language feed, which you can subscribe to here (https://audioboom.com/channels/5045825) . ¡Bienvenidos al primer episodio del Cycling Podcast! Somos Laura Meseguer (presentadora en Eurosport ...
1hr 5m Mar 04, 2021
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S9 Ep17: Life in the Peloton – On the road with Tom Scully
It was time to hit the cobbles for the first time this year with Opening Weekend up in Belgium. That's Omloop Het Nieuwsblad on Saturday and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne on Sunday. I was planning to travel from Girona to Belgium with my EF Education-Nippo teammate Tom Scully so I thought it would be a great idea to take all of you on a road trip with us asa we headed to the first classics of the sea...
1hr 23m Mar 03, 2021
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S9 Ep16: Opening Weekend
In this week’s episode Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe review opening weekend in Flanders and the first cobbled classics of the spring, Het Nieuwsblad on Saturday and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne on Sunday. We hear from Jake Stewart, the 21-year-old from Coventry who was second at Het Nieuwsblad – the youngest podium finisher since Eddy Merckx in 1966 – and rides for the French team, Groupama-FDJ. ...
1hr 24m Mar 02, 2021
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S9 Ep15: Service Course | Cycling in cyberspace
In this episode of Service Course, Lizzy Banks and Tom Whalley take a deep dive into the world of online cycling, something that we've all become even more accustomed to over the last 12 months thanks to a global pandemic. Tom speaks to Zwift's lead game designer Wes Salmon, Hustle City creator Marcus Cheek, cyclist and CEO of Die Gute Fabrik Hannah Nicklin, Mike Rose from No More Robots, and ...
1hr 6m Feb 25, 2021
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S9 Ep14: Crosswinds and Côtes du Rhône
The 2021 World Tour season is underway with the UAE Tour and in this episode Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the opening three days of racing in the dessert. There was a stage win for Mathieu van der Poel before his Alpecin-Fenix team had to withdraw after a staff member tested positive for Covid-19. As expected, Filippo Ganna won the time trial with Tour de France champ...
1hr 26m Feb 24, 2021
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S9 Ep13: Trailer: A team apart
This is the first ten minutes of an episode that's just been released for Friends of the Podcast called A Team Apart. It's a study of a team that punched above its weight last season, Team Sunweb. They won three Tour de France stages, Flèche Wallonne, Paris-Tours and nearly the Giro d'Italia too. A new sponsor DSM has perhaps given the team greater security, considering Sunweb is in the fragil...
11m Feb 23, 2021
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S9 Ep12: Fly me to the moon
This episode of The Cycling Podcast starts with the most significant corrections corner ever following Daniel's assertion last week that Ineos Grenadiers rider Pavel Sivakov had climbed the equivalent of the distance to the moon... We also discuss the early races of the season, the big stories in the news and look ahead to Chris Froome's debut for his new team, Israel Start-Up Nation. Can he w...
1hr 28m Feb 17, 2021
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S9 Ep11: Life in the Peloton – Nate Wilson
I was travelling back to Girona from the first team training near Marseille at the start of the year with our trainer Nate Wilson and I was asking him a whole bunch of questions about coaching and it suddenly struck me that the conversation we were having would make a great a great podcast. So I got my recorder out of my backpack and asked Nate about his methods and philosophy but also the men...
44m Feb 17, 2021
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S9 Ep10: Trailer: A virtual lunch with Rod Ellingworth
This is the first ten minutes of an episode that's just been released for Friends of the Podcast. It's an in-depth conversation with Ineos Grenadiers director of racing Rod Ellingworth about his early days in cycling. The full episode is available now. To sign up as a Friend of the Podcast go to http://thecyclingpodcast.com/friends
11m Feb 15, 2021
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S9 Ep9: Rose between two thorns
The first episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin of 2021 includes a report from the new Jumbo-Visma women's team training camp in Alicante and a conversation with Ella Harris, the Canyon-SRAM rider, from her home in New Zealand. With Rose Manley taking over in the host's chair, and Orla Chennaoui and Richard Moore in domestique roles, there's a fresh look and sound to the monthly podcast that ...
1hr 17m Feb 12, 2021
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S9 Ep8: The Ineos grand tour battle plan
In this episode Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the Ineos Grenadiers strategy for this season's three grand tours. With Geraint Thomas, Egan Bernal, Richard Carapaz and Tao Geoghegan Hart in their squad they have four grand tour champions to divide between three races – and that's before considering the ambitions of Pavel Sivakov, Adam Yates and others. So how will they...
1hr 25m Feb 10, 2021
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S9 Ep7: Life in the Peloton – Jack Thompson
It's a bit of a departure from the norm this week because my guest is Jack Thompson – aka Jack Ultra – who is not a professional cyclist but whose adventures on two wheels have demonstrated to me the power of the bike. When I first heard about the type of riding Jack does I was impressed by the sheer scale of the targets he sets himself. From Everesting three mountains, one in Italy, one in Fr...
54m Feb 03, 2021
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S9 Ep6: Duel in the sand
Road racing is back with the traditional curtain-raiser to the European season, the Grand Prix La Marseillaise, taking place in the south of France on Sunday. In this episode we assess the latest instalment in the ongoing duel between Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel. It's a rivalry that spans the mud (and sand) of cyclo-cross, the cobbles and hills of the Classics and could flare up in ...
1hr 4m Feb 03, 2021
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S9 Ep5: Service Course | Let's Talk About CX
In this episode of Service Course Lizzy Banks and Tom Whalley look at the latest trends in cyclocross bikes. With riders like Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert tearing things up both on the road and in the mud, they ask whether the two disciplines of road and cx are now having much more of an influence on each other. Lizzy speaks to Anna Kay, one of the most promising young CX riders out...
1hr 9m Jan 29, 2021
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S9 Ep4: Dumoulin hits pause
The cycling world has been rocked by the decision of one of the sport’s stars, Tom Dumoulin, to hit the pause button on his career. The Dutchman is taking time out, with the blessing of his team, Jumbo-Visma, to decide whether he wants to continue or not. The news broke 24 hours after the release of last week’s episode, a special with Jumbo-Visma from their training camp in Spain, including a...
1hr 10m Jan 27, 2021
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S9 Ep3: Presenting Jumbo-Visma 2021
This week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast comes from the Team Jumbo-Visma training camp in Alicante, Spain. Richard Moore and Orla Chennaoui spent a few days with the world’s number one ranked team as they prepared for and looked ahead to the 2021 season. We hear from Marianne Vos, who will lead the new women’s team, Wout van Aert, Tom Dumoulin, Steven Kruijswijk, Sepp Kuss, Tobias Foss and P...
1hr 44m Jan 22, 2021
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S9 Ep2: Life in the Peloton – Heinrich Haussler
It's great to be back for another season of Life in the Peloton and for my first episode of the new year I caught up with someone I've been wanting to get on the pod for a long time. It's the German Aussie Heinrich Haussler. Even though I've known him a long time, there were so many things I wanted to talk to Heino about. For a start, is he German or is he Australian? He won the Aussie champs ...
1hr 32m Jan 20, 2021
1hr 32m
S9 Ep1: The Speculation Episode
What does 2021 have in store? In this first episode of the new year Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe gaze into their crystal ball, and we hear from François Thomazeau, Ian Boswell, Lizzy Banks, Ciro Scognamiglio, Mitch Docker, Harry Tanfield and Ben Lowe of VeloViewer, with their predictions for the upcoming cycling season. Will young riders continue to dominate, or will the oldi...
1hr 23m Jan 14, 2021
1hr 23m
S8 Ep204: Service Course | Christmas Press Conference
In the final Service Course of 2020 Lizzy Banks and Tom Whalley answer your tech questions, from tyre pressures and choice of glove to race radios and pro hacks.  When the questions prove too much, Tom and Lizzy turn to a selection of genuine experts, including Niamh Fisher-Black (the current New Zealand national road race champion), Alan Sheldon (Lizzy's team mechanic for the past two years) ...
59m Dec 28, 2020
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S8 Ep203: Strictly Amaraterra
Since 2016, when The Cycling Podcast first covered the Giro d'Italia on the ground, the soundtrack has been provided by Amaraterra, a London-based band that plays the southern Italian pizzica music. They were in the news recently after it was reported that a Strictly Come Dancing spin-off show offered a free lunch rather than a payment to perform. It was a story that provoked a big response fr...
1hr 2m Dec 23, 2020
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S8 Ep202: 2020 hindsight
In our final regular episode of 2020, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe pick their moments of the COVID-19 season. We hear from young British rider Joe Laverick, who has been riding for the AG2R development squad but is moving to Girona next season to take up another opportunity about the implications Brexit may have on his fledgling career. And in the final part, Richard tests L...
1hr 19m Dec 17, 2020
1hr 19m
S8 Ep201: Rose's Christmas Quiz
In the final episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin of 2020 we have news on the future of the Drops Cycling Team, who in 2021 will become Drops Le Col supported by Tempur.  We hear from Bob Varney, the man behind the team, and his new sponsors, as well as two Drops riders, Joss Lowden and Marjolein van 't Geloof. There are also interviews with Ashleigh Moolman Pasio, the new UCI Esports world ...
1hr 34m Dec 15, 2020
1hr 34m
S8 Ep200: Explore | Utterly Brilliant with Timmy Mallett
This episode of Explore, introduced by Lionel Birnie and Hannah Troop, features a man who was a fixture on British children's television in the late 1980s and 1990s – Timmy Mallett. The host of Wacaday, the Wide Awake Club and Mallett's Mallet, Timmy was never seen without his trademark colourful glasses and trusty sidekick, a large foam mallett. In 2018, he rode the pilgrimage route to Santi...
1hr 8m Dec 10, 2020
1hr 8m
S8 Ep199: Old beginnings
In this week's episode we look at two high profile figures who are returning to old haunts. Mark Cavendish is going back to Deceuninck-Quick Step, the team with which he spent three successful seasons earlier in his career, while in an even more surprising move, his old mentor, Rod Ellingworth, is returning to Team Ineos after just a year in charge at Bahrain-McLaren. In a week full of major n...
1hr 25m Dec 09, 2020
1hr 25m
S8 Ep198: The transfer market
In this week's episode Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe talk about cycling's transfer market and the eleventh hour rescue of World Tour team NTT, which will race in 2021 as Qhubeka Assos. As well as discussing the eclectic roster being put together by the African team, we hear from rider agent Gary McQuaid, who looks after Bob Jungels, Adam Yates, Jai Hindley and others, and from...
1hr 57m Dec 03, 2020
1hr 57m
S8 Ep197: Service Course | Chain reaction
In this episode of Service Course, Tom Whalley and Lizzy Banks continue in their pursuit to track down the makers of the world's first 3D printed carbon bike. They talk to Henry Furniss who co-founded WyndyMilla but has now moved on to create his own R&D business for 3D printed technologies. They discuss Henry's current project creating 3D printed lugs, that feeling when you wake up having real...
1hr 5m Nov 30, 2020
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S8 Ep196: Peiper on Pogacar: It was the pinnacle of my life
Allan Peiper was in the UAE Team Emirates car behind Tadej Pogacar during the dramatic time trial on La Planche des Belles Filles. The 60-year-old Australian describes the young Slovenian's victory over this compatriot Primoz Roglic as the pinnacle of his life and in this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Lionel talks to him about this year's Tour de France. It was a particularly poignant race ...
42m Nov 26, 2020
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S8 Ep195: Explore | Escape From Lockdown
Explore returns with Escape From Lockdown, an episode celebrating the simple joy of riding a bike. The coronavirus pandemic has made it difficult to explore the world on two wheels. Most of the world has experienced lockdown or travel restrictions of some sort and we've all been tethered to home more than usual. For this episode, four riders took advantage of loosening restrictions to go cycl...
1hr 32m Nov 20, 2020
1hr 32m
S8 Ep194: Life in the Peloton – Svein Tuft turns the mic on Mitch
In the final episode of the Life in the Peloton for this year, Mitch Docker is back on the other side of the mic with his friend and former Orica-Scott teammate Svein Tuft asking the questions. Find out about Mitch's school days and how he completed a year's worth of art coursework in a couple of days, his early racing days and how he got started on the road to the World Tour with the Drapac d...
1hr 22m Nov 18, 2020
1hr 22m
S8 Ep193: Press conference, part two
After listeners sent in a flood of questions we split our post-Grandest Tour press conference over two episodes. This is part two. Next question please... Our supporters The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca (https://www.iwoca.co.uk/?utm_source=google-ads&utm_medium=PPC&utm_campaign=1905711499&ad_group=72226008204&target_id=kwd-42576349472&creative=380272393106&match_type=e&device=c&ad_po...
1hr 8m Nov 17, 2020
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S8 Ep192: Press conference, part one
We received so many questions for the press conference that we have decided to split it across two episodes. Part two will be out next week. In this episode, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe tackle questions sent in by listeners. We also put your questions to our Grandest Tour guest hosts François Thomazeau, Lizzy Banks and Ian Boswell. So, without further ado, first question pl...
1hr 5m Nov 13, 2020
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S8 Ep191: The Cycling Podcast Féminin | November | Brennauer, Banks and Longo Borghini
The November episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin, with Orla Chennaoui, Rose Manley and Richard Moore, takes a look back at the recent races, discusses a controversial finish at Driedaagse De Panne, some interesting tactics at the Tour of Flanders and the late, late show at the Ceratizit Madrid Challenge, which finally ended the season. There are interviews with the winner in Madrid, Lisa Br...
1hr 21m Nov 12, 2020
1hr 21m
S8 Ep190: The Grandest Tour stage 33: It's a wrap
After five weeks, spanning the Giro d’Italia, classics and Vuelta a España, our daily coverage of ‘The Grandest Tour’ comes to an end with Ian Boswell, Lionel Birnie and Richard Moore discussing the final stage of the Vuelta in Madrid and the efforts made by organisers, teams and riders to successfully stage so many races in the middle of a global pandemic. We hear from our audio diarists Mitc...
1hr 11m Nov 08, 2020
1hr 11m
S8 Ep189: The Grandest Tour stage 32: Déjà vu (almost) all over again
Ian Boswell joins Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie to talk about the penultimate and decisive stage of the Vuelta a España, and a thrilling finale that almost re-enacted the finish to the Tour de France – but not quite. The team discuss whether Primoz Roglic was in any real danger as Richard Carapaz launched a late bid to claim the race lead. It was high drama but in the end Roglic did enough a...
43m Nov 07, 2020
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S8 Ep188: The Grandest Tour Stage 31: Gone fishing
Ian Boswell rejoins the team for stage 31 of The Grandest Tour, looking back at stage 16 of the Vuelta a España, ahead to Saturday’s decisive one, and also back at the Giro d’Italia. Boswell tells us what to expect on the final climb of the Vuelta, to Alto de la Covatilla, which he rode himself when the race was last there in 2018 and the stage was won by his friend, Ben King. We hear from ou...
59m Nov 06, 2020
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S8 Ep187: The Grandest Tour stage 30: Where are we, Lionel?
As the Vuelta a España reached stage 15, and The Grandest Tour reached stage 30, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau recap a day that had breakaway written all over it, but ended in a bunch sprint. We check in with Daniel Friebe and hear from our audio diarist, Nick Schultz, who was in the break that looked like it would stay away, and from Harry Tanfield, whose Vuelta ended th...
55m Nov 05, 2020
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S8 Ep186: The Grandest Tour stage 29: A tale of two Tours
The latest episode of The Grandest Tour looks at two Grand Tours, with the latest from the Vuelta a España, with stage 14 won by Tim Wellens, and a look ahead to next year’s Tour de France, with the 2021 route announced on Sunday evening. Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are joined by François Thomazeau, who picks out the most interesting stages of next year’s Tour and describes the route as th...
47m Nov 04, 2020
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S8 Ep185: Life in the Peloton – Hugh Carthy
Mitch Docker sits down with his EF Pro Cycling teammate Hugh Carthy on the Vuelta a España's second rest day to talk about his stage win on the fearsome Angliru climb. Hugh talks about climbing, gearing, the World Tour's toughest mountains, team bus playlists, staying calm in the heat of the moment, pots of tea, butter pies, crumbly Lancashire cheese, the Birdy Brow KOM and much more... Keep ...
1hr 8m Nov 04, 2020
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S8 Ep184: The Grandest Tour stage 28: Pass the parcel
The time trial stage of the Vuelta a España was always going to be important and it caused a re-shuffle at the top of general classification with Primoz Roglic taking the red jersey of race leader back from Richard Carapaz. Lizzy Banks joins Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie to discuss the stage and its implications for the race. They also debate the “gimmick” of the steep climb at the end that ...
46m Nov 03, 2020
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S8 Ep183: Kilometre 0 – The story of the Giro
Our final episode of Kilometre 0 from The Grandest Tour is a look back at the Giro d’Italia and how it was won in the company of the winner, Tao Geoghegan Hart, and the runner-up, Jai Hindley. We also hear from Sunweb sports director Luke Roberts about what happened at the critical point in the race, when they tackled the Stelvio, and members of The Cycling Podcast team select their key moment...
41m Nov 02, 2020
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S8 Ep182: The Grandest Tour stage 27: Butter pies all round
The Vuelta a España tackled the fearsome Angliru and in this episode Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Lizzy Banks review a thrilling final five kilometres that again changed the complexion of the overall race. The Angliru belonged to Preston's Hugh Carthy of EF Pro Cycling, who attacked twice on the climb to clinch his first Grand Tour stage victory. Behind that, Primoz Roglic was unable to r...
48m Nov 01, 2020
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S8 Ep181: The Grandest Tour stage 26: Waiting no more
As the Grandest Tour reaches stage 26 – and the Vuelta a España reaches stage 11 – Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Lizzy Banks look back on a day in the mountains that was won by the Frenchman David Gaudu while the overall favourites appeared to keep their powder dry for Sunday’s finish at the Angliru. We hear from our audio diarist, Nick Schultz of Mitchelton-Scott, whose team leader, Esteba...
39m Oct 31, 2020
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S8 Ep180: The Grandest Tour stage 25: Every second counts
Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are again joined by guest host Lizzy Banks to recap stage 10 of the Vuelta a España. For the second successive day, the stage was largely unremarkable until after the finish. Confusion over the time gaps meant there was a while to wait until it was confirmed stage winner Primoz Roglic had reclaimed the leader's red jersey from Richard Carapaz even though the pa...
47m Oct 30, 2020
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S8 Ep179: Service Course | What Happens If You Run Out Of Ink?
In this episode of Service Course, Lizzy Banks and Tom Whalley look at the increasingly important role that 3D printing is playing in bike design. They discuss the 3D printed bars that Filippo Ganna used to win 3 stages at the Giro and the World TT Championships. We also hear from Dimitris Katsanis who designs and builds the 3D printed bars for the Ineos Grenadiers. Finally, we meet James Coo...
1hr 14m Oct 30, 2020
1hr 14m
S8 Ep178: The Grandest Tour stage 24: Relegation
In this episode, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau recap what would have been the quietest, least eventful Grand Tour stage of the season but for a late intervention by the race jury that relegated the race winner from first place. Did the jury make the correct decision? We discuss that and get the thoughts of Daniel Friebe from Spain. The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwo...
38m Oct 29, 2020
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S8 Ep177: The Grandest Tour stage 23: The Rioja stage
Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are again joined by François Thomazeau to discuss the eighth stage of the Vuelta a España, which offered some more clues as to who is going to be the strongest over three weeks. If Primoz Roglic seemed to falter in recent days as Richard Carapaz took over the leader’s jersey the Slovenian struck back on the Alto de Moncavillo to win the stage and reduce the Ecua...
49m Oct 28, 2020
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S8 Ep176: The Grandest Tour stage 22: Woods' smart move
The Vuelta a España resumed on Tuesday and Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau discuss an exciting stage won by the Canadian Mike Woods of EF Pro Cycling. We also hear from Woods as he is driven from the finish to the team hotel, and he tells us how he managed to outfox Alejandro Valverde and his other breakaway companions. There's an interview with Harry Tanfield, making his ...
57m Oct 27, 2020
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