S13 Ep91: KM0: Chapter & Verses, part two
This is part two of Lionel Birnie's conversation with Shelley Verses about her experiences working as a soigneur for the 7-Eleven team at the 1986 Tour de France. She was the first woman to work as a soigneur on the Tour and her presence on the race attracted a lot of attention from the media. If you've not listened to part one yet, you can find it here (https://pod.fo/e/2fc2b6) . This episode...
26m Jul 21, 2025
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S13 Ep90: The Cassoulet Podcast | Stage 15 | Tour de France 2025
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France. We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour. To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app. INTRO...
57m Jul 20, 2025
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S13 Ep89: Supersonic Superbagnères | Stage 14 | Tour de France 2025
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France. We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour. To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app. INTRO...
49m Jul 19, 2025
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S13 Ep88: The Living Daylights | Stage 13 | Tour de France 2025
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France. We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour. To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app. INTRO...
48m Jul 18, 2025
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S13 Ep87: Great Brittany
Come and chow down on our Grand Tour sandwich episode! Deliciously filled with all the chat from a thrilling Giro d’Italia Women plus a look ahead to the imminent Tour de France Femmes in our mini feature about Breton cycling. Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Rebecca Charlton cover all the talking points from a Giro which saw the maglia rosa change hands several times. It took a daring strategy on ...
55m Jul 18, 2025
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S13 Ep86: Hautacam et Haute Cuisine | Stage 12 | Tour de France 2025
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France. We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour. To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app. INTRO...
58m Jul 17, 2025
58m
S13 Ep85: Nothing Toulouse, Everything To Gain | Stage 11 | Tour de France 2025
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France. We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour. To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app. INTRO...
41m Jul 16, 2025
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S13 Ep84: KM0: The Great French Cook-Off with EF Pro Cycling Chef Owen Blandy
On the evening of the first Tour de France rest day, Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss headed to the EF Education-Easy Post team hotel on the outskirts of town for dinner. There, they met the team's chef, Owen Blandy, a  keen amateur racer who quit his job in finance to pursue a dream, combining his love of cycling with a passion for cooking. For Owen, preparing the meals for the riders is an ...
36m Jul 16, 2025
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S13 Ep83: KM0: Chapter & Verses, part one
In 1986, Shelley Verses became the first woman to work as a soigneur at the Tour de France, when she was part of the American 7-Eleven team's support staff. Shelley had been at the Giro d'Italia with 7-Eleven the previous year but the attitudes towards women being involved in professional cycling were such that she was confined to duties at the team hotel. That changed at the 1986 Tour when sh...
25m Jul 15, 2025
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S13 Ep82: Massif Attack | Stage 10 | Tour de France 2025
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France. We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour. To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app. VAN R...
46m Jul 14, 2025
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S13 Ep81: Take Me Down to Cavendish City | Stage 9 | Tour de France 2025
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France. We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour. To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app. VAN R...
43m Jul 13, 2025
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S13 Ep80: Putting the Cheval in Laval | Stage 8 | Tour de France 2025
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France. We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour. To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app. VAN R...
42m Jul 12, 2025
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S13 Ep79: Mûr-de-On the Dance Floor | Stage 7 | Tour de France 2025
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France. We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour. To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app. VAN R...
48m Jul 11, 2025
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S13 Ep78: The Bayeux Tapestry | Stage 6 | Tour de France 2025
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France. We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour. To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app. VAN R...
56m Jul 10, 2025
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S13 Ep77: KM0: Join the Caravan of Love
The publicity caravan has been a Tour de France institution for almost a century. Introduced in 1930 by the race founder Henri Desgrange to generate much needed funds for the Tour, the cavalcade of promotional vehicles that precedes the race has grown to become a much-loved spectacle for millions of roadside fans every summer. It's bright, colourful and noisy and during Tuesday's fifth stage T...
27m Jul 10, 2025
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S13 Ep76: The Caen-Caen and the Caravan | Stage 5 | Tour de France 2025
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France. We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour. To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app. VAN R...
39m Jul 09, 2025
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S13 Ep75: The Road to Rouen | Stage 4 | Tour de France 2025
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they recap the 2025 Tour de France. We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour. To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite podcast app. VAN R...
52m Jul 08, 2025
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S13 Ep74: Calm, Chaos and Dunkirk Spirit | Stage 3 | Tour de France 2025
Join Lionel Birnie, Graham Willgoss and François Thomazeau as they recap the 2025 Tour de France. We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour. To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite...
52m Jul 07, 2025
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S13 Ep73: Hot Stuff and A Sunday In Hell | Stage 2 | Tour de France 2025
Join Lionel Birnie, Graham Willgoss and François Thomazeau as they recap the 2025 Tour de France. We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour. To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycling Podcast in your favourite...
49m Jul 06, 2025
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S13 Ep72: Van Rijsel With Love | Stage 1 | Tour de France 2025
Join Lionel Birnie, Graham Willgoss and François Thomazeau in Lille as they recap the first stage of the 2025 Tour de France. We’re back on the road for the 13th time with daily episodes recorded at the heart of the world’s biggest race. Our nightly episodes feature race analysis, interviews and plenty of French flavour. To listen to the episodes as soon as they are released, follow The Cycli...
47m Jul 05, 2025
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S13 Ep71: The XL Tour de France Preview, Part Two
This is part two of our bumper XL Tour de France Preview, with Lionel Birnie, Graham Willgoss, Rob Hatch and François Thomazeau. We pick up where we left off with François' run-through of what to expect on the road in weeks two and three of the 2025 Tour de France, interspersed with some of the more intriguing sub-plots to look forward to. There's also Whitey's Whiteboard – in which experienc...
56m Jul 03, 2025
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S13 Ep70: The XL Tour de France Preview, Part One
Join Lionel Birnie, Graham Willgoss, Rob Hatch and François Thomazeau for the first part of The Cycling Podcast’s bumper Tour de France preview. This episode focuses on the first half of the 112th Tour, which will take the riders from Lille in the north east, across to Normandy and Brittany before cutting down through the heart of France to the Massif Central. The head-to-head battle between ...
53m Jul 02, 2025
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S13 Ep69: The One And Onley
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss for the final instalment of their pre-Tour de France 'attitude camp'. In this episode they recap the final major preparation race, the Tour de Suisse where UAE Team Emirates – who else? – took the overall honours. But while João Almeida's overall victory had a feeling of inevitability about it as soon as he reached the midway checkpoint in the final time ...
1hr 5m Jun 24, 2025
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S13 Ep68: Things That Make You Say Ooh!
They may not have made it to their Swiss chalet, but spirits are still high on this month’s Cycling Podcast Féminin as the team tackle several weeks of lively racing. Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Rebecca Charlton set themselves the challenge of picking out some moments that made them say “Ooh!” from the Tour of Britain Women and the Tour de Suisse, which is no easy task after a number of memorab...
1hr 6m Jun 19, 2025
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S13 Ep67: The Tour de France Dress Rehearsal
Join Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss as they review the Critérium du Dauphiné and ask whether it was a full dress rehearsal for the Tour de France. Get ready to check-in for another block of pre-Tour preparation at The Cycling Podcast’s ‘Attitude Camp’. With Eddy Merckx about to celebrate his 80th birthday, Tadej Pogačar equalled The GOAT's tally of Dauphiné victories (one) and reminded eve...
1hr 10m Jun 16, 2025
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S13 Ep66: All Aboard the Dauphiné’s GC Sprint Train
Lionel Birnie and Graham Willgoss kick-off The Cycling Podcast’s build-up to the Tour de France, which starts in Lille on July 5. The Critérium du Dauphiné began in spectacular style with fireworks at the end of the opening stage on Sunday. The three riders who finished on the podium at last year’s Tour de France – Tadej Pogačar, Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel – lined up alongside each o...
49m Jun 09, 2025
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S13 Ep65: How The Giro Was Won (And Lost) On The Finestre, with Matt White
As the dust settles on a sensational 20th stage of the Giro d’Italia, Lionel Birnie is joined by Matt White – one of the people in cycling who knows Simon Yates best –  to analyse how the race was won (and lost) on the Colle delle Finestre. Until the eve of the Giro, Matt was head of performance at the Jayco-Alula team, having been with the Green Edge organisation since it was founded. Until t...
54m Jun 03, 2025
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S13 Ep64: Stage 21 | Roma – Roma | Giro d’Italia 2025
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse. Follow us on social media: Twitter @cycling_podcast (https://twitter.com/cycling_podcast) Instagram @thecyclingpodcast (https:...
1hr 40m Jun 01, 2025
1hr 40m
S13 Ep63: Stage 20 | Verrès – Sestrière | Giro d’Italia 2025
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse. Follow us on social media: Twitter @cycling_podcast (https://twitter.com/cycling_podcast) Instagram @thecyclingpodcast (https:...
1hr 5m May 31, 2025
1hr 5m
S13 Ep62: Stage 19 | Biella – Champoluc | Giro d’Italia 2025
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse. NordVPN Get NordVPN two-year plan + four months extra ➼ https://nordvpn.com/tcp It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back g...
1hr May 30, 2025
1hr
S13 Ep61: Irish Legs Are Smiling
On The Cycling Podcast Féminin this month, Rose Manley, Denny Gray and Rebecca Charlton head back to their virtual cabana to talk about everything that happened in the Spanish racing block. With a win at Vuelta a Burgos, Marlen Reusser’s ascendency continues. The Movistar rider has put a difficult 2024 behind her to become one of the very best GC stage race contenders in the world. Plus we can...
57m May 30, 2025
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S13 Ep60: KM0: Valley of Kings
The hardest stage of the Giro d’Italia, by general consensus, takes the race into the Valle d’Aosta two days before its conclusion. Italy’s smallest region has often played host to drama in the Giro - but exactly where is it and what does this mountainous & mysterious land represent. In this episode, Daniel Friebe & Michele Pelacci ponder and answer these questions and look ahead to what could...
32m May 29, 2025
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S13 Ep59: Stage 18 | Morbegno – Cesano Maderno | Giro d’Italia 2025
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse. Follow us on social media: Twitter @cycling_podcast (https://twitter.com/cycling_podcast) Instagram @thecyclingpodcast (https:...
49m May 29, 2025
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S13 Ep58: Stage 17 | San Michele all’Adige – Bormio | Giro d’Italia 2025
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse. Follow us on social media: Twitter @cycling_podcast (https://twitter.com/cycling_podcast) Instagram @thecyclingpodcast (https:...
1hr 6m May 28, 2025
1hr 6m
S13 Ep57: Stage 16 | Piazzola sul Brenta – San Valentino | Giro d’Italia 2025
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse. Follow us on social media: Twitter @cycling_podcast (https://twitter.com/cycling_podcast) Instagram @thecyclingpodcast (https:...
1hr 7m May 27, 2025
1hr 7m
S13 Ep56: Stage 15 | Fiume Veneto – Asiago | Giro d’Italia 2025
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse. Follow us on social media: Twitter @cycling_podcast (https://twitter.com/cycling_podcast) Instagram @thecyclingpodcast (https:...
1hr May 25, 2025
1hr
S13 Ep55: Stage 14 | Treviso – Nova Gorica | Giro d’Italia 2025
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse. Follow us on social media: Twitter @cycling_podcast (https://twitter.com/cycling_podcast) Instagram @thecyclingpodcast (https:...
1hr 18m May 24, 2025
1hr 18m
S13 Ep54: Stage 13 | Rovigo – Vicenza | Giro d’Italia 2025
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse. Follow us on social media: Twitter @cycling_podcast (https://twitter.com/cycling_podcast) Instagram @thecyclingpodcast (https:...
1hr 3m May 23, 2025
1hr 3m
S13 Ep53: Stage 12 | Modena – Viadana | Giro d’Italia 2025
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse. NordVPN Get NordVPN two-year plan + four months extra ➼ https://nordvpn.com/tcp It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back g...
52m May 22, 2025
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S13 Ep52: Stage 11 | Viareggio – Castelnovo ne’ Monti | Giro d’Italia 2025
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse. Saily If you are travelling abroad and want to reduce or even eliminate roaming charges you need an eSim from Saily, brought t...
1hr 9m May 21, 2025
1hr 9m
S13 Ep51: Stage 10 | Lucca – Pisa | Giro d’Italia 2025
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse. Follow us on social media: Twitter @cycling_podcast (https://twitter.com/cycling_podcast) Instagram @thecyclingpodcast (https:...
1hr 7m May 20, 2025
1hr 7m
S13 Ep50: Stage 9 | Gubbio – Siena | Giro d’Italia 2025
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse. Follow us on social media: Twitter @cycling_podcast (https://twitter.com/cycling_podcast) Instagram @thecyclingpodcast (https:...
1hr May 18, 2025
1hr
S13 Ep49: Stage 8 | Giulianova – Castelraimondo | Giro d’Italia 2025
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse. Follow us on social media: Twitter @cycling_podcast (https://twitter.com/cycling_podcast) Instagram @thecyclingpodcast (https:...
1hr 3m May 17, 2025
1hr 3m
S13 Ep48: Stage 7 | Castel Di Sangro – Tagliacozzo | Giro d’Italia 2025
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse. Follow us on social media: Twitter @cycling_podcast (https://twitter.com/cycling_podcast) Instagram @thecyclingpodcast (https:...
1hr 1m May 16, 2025
1hr 1m
S13 Ep47: Stage 6 | Potenza – Napoli | Giro d’Italia 2025
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse. Follow us on social media: Twitter @cycling_podcast (https://twitter.com/cycling_podcast) Instagram @thecyclingpodcast (https:...
1hr 7m May 15, 2025
1hr 7m
S13 Ep46: Stage 5 | Ceglie Messapica – Matera | Giro d’Italia 2025
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse. NordVPN Get NordVPN two-year plan + four months extra ➼ https://nordvpn.com/tcp It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back g...
58m May 14, 2025
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S13 Ep45: Stage 4 | Alberobello – Lecce | Giro d’Italia 2025
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse. Indeed If you are looking to hire someone for your company, maybe the best way isn’t to search for a candidate but to match wi...
1hr 10m May 13, 2025
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S13 Ep44: Arrivée | Vuelta Femenina
In this special Arrivée episode, Rose Manley and Rebecca Charlton look back at the first Grand Tour of the year for the women’s peloton, the Vuelta Femenina. The race marks the first World Tour stage race to see top rivals Anna Van der Breggen and Demi Vollering go head-to-head. Vollering may have had the edge so far this season but Van der Breggen has found further form since her comeback. An...
38m May 12, 2025
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S13 Ep43: Stage 3 | Vlorë – Vlorë | Giro d’Italia 2025
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse. Saily If you are travelling abroad and want to reduce or even eliminate roaming charges you need an eSim from Saily, brought t...
1hr 2m May 11, 2025
1hr 2m
S13 Ep42: Stage 2 | Tirana – Tirana | Giro d’Italia 2025
Join us for daily coverage of the Giro d’Italia recorded on the road as the race makes its way from Albania to Rome. Our daily coverage features race analysis, interviews and daily postcards from Italy, plus our regular check-in with Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse. Follow us on social media: Twitter @cycling_podcast (https://twitter.com/cycling_podcast) Instagram @thecyclingpodcast (https:...
1hr 6m May 10, 2025
1hr 6m