S9 Ep42: Girovagando
In this week's episode we look ahead to the Giro d'Italia and back at the Tour de Romandie, won by Geraint Thomas after a crash in the rain on Saturday and then a strong time trial in the final stage on Sunday. Previewing Girovagando – as we will be calling our daily coverage of the Giro – Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss the first Grand Tour of the season: the riders, the route and oth...
1hr 20m May 04, 2021
1hr 20m
S9 Ep41: Service Course | Reverse Engineering
This episode of Service Course starts out at the Finsbury Park Road Race in 2015 where Tom is up against a rider who is using a dangerous position on the bike, said rider would be ejected from the Tour of Turkey some five years later for using that very same position. For this episode, loosely themed around positioning, Tom rides solo as Lizzy continues her recovery from a concussion sustained ...
1hr 20m Apr 29, 2021
1hr 20m
S9 Ep40: Life in the Peloton – The Grand Tour Doc, Dr Kevin Sprouse
The first grand tour of the season, the Giro d'Italia, is just around the corner so I wanted to speak to Dr Kevin Sprouse about his role as a team doctor at one of the great stage races. Kevin is my team doctor at the EF Education-Nippo team and he's part of the medical team that looks after the riders all season round. For this podcast I wanted to ask him about how the doctors look after the...
1hr 9m Apr 28, 2021
1hr 9m
S9 Ep39: Pogcineration
In this week's episode Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the last of the spring classics, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, won by Tour de France winner Tadej Pogačar. There's also an interview with one of the race's main protagonists, Michael Woods, who tells us that he was proud of his performance in a race in which he has a good record. Woods also gives us his verdict on Pogačar, ...
1hr 2m Apr 26, 2021
1hr 2m
S9 Ep38: Pleasures of the Flèche
In this week's second episode we review Flèche Wallonne, or as Daniel calls it, cycling's annual "uphill cheese rolling competition." Quickest to the top of the Mur de Huy was Julian Alaphilippe, the world champion, who took his third win in this race. But he was pushed close by Primož Roglič, making his Flèche debut, who attacked early, with around 350 metres to go. Anna van der Breggen won ...
39m Apr 21, 2021
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S9 Ep37: The Amstel Close Race
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the photo finish to the Amstel Gold Race. After losing Brabantse Pijl to the young British rider in a close sprint, Wout van Aert turned the tables on Tom Pidcock by an even closer margin in the finishing straight named after 2019 winner Mathieu van der Poel. Lionel tries to explain how the photo fi...
45m Apr 19, 2021
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S9 Ep36: The boy who cried Wolfpack
In this week's episode we discuss a busy week of racing, with Mark Cavendish returning to winning form, Tom Pidcock announcing himself on the world stage and everyone's favourite Pog Rog band reuniting in the Basque Country. We have an interview with Cavendish's new coach, Vasilis Anastopoulos, and try to put the veteran sprinter's three stage wins at the Tour of Turkey into context. In the B...
1hr 12m Apr 15, 2021
1hr 12m
🇪🇸 Trailer: El Cycling Podcast episode 4
This is a trailer for episode four of El Cycling Podcast, a podcast for Spanish speakers hosted by Laura Meseguer and Rob Hatch. Follow El Cycling Podcast on Audioboom or your favourite podcast app (https://audioboom.com/channels/5045825) to listen to every episode. Laura Meseguer y Rob Hatch repasan la Vuelta al País Vasco (y la historia tras ESA canción) junto a Joseba Beloki. Mikel Landa y ...
4m Apr 15, 2021
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S9 Ep35: Life in the Peloton – Tom Pidcock
This week's guest is a young man who has made a big splash in his first couple of months racing in the World Tour. I knew the name Tom Pidcock because he's been racing on the coat tails of Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert in cyclo-cross for a couple of winters now, but I'd never actually met him or spoken to him before. But when I got a message to say Tom would love to come on the podca...
41m Apr 14, 2021
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S9 Ep34: Trailer: Magnus Bäckstedt – Cuddly Lions and Cobblestones
This is a ten-minute trailer for our latest episode for Friends of the Podcast. To sign up go to thecyclingpodcast.com (https://thecyclingpodcast.com/) If ever a rider was built for Paris-Roubaix it was Magnus Bäckstedt. Since turning professional and seeing the cobblestones for the first time, he dreamed of conquering the Hell of the North. But, like the journey from Compiègne to the velodro...
10m Apr 09, 2021
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S9 Ep33: From Silicon Valley to Flanders
The latest episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin focuses on the Tour of Flanders and Ghent-Wevelgem with interviews with Elisa Longo Borghini, Anna Henderson, Demi Vollering, Lotte Kopecky and Grace Brown. Orla Chennaoui, Rose Manley and Richard Moore discuss how the races were won and we also have a long interview with a new name, Kristen Faulkner. Faulkner has a remarkable story: she grew ...
1hr 36m Apr 08, 2021
1hr 36m
S9 Ep32: The Great Dane of Flanders
Richard Moore heads to Oudenaarde for the Tour of Flanders and then reviews the men's race with Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe. The biggest question pre-race was whether Deceuninck, sorry, Elegant-Quick-Step could topple defending champion Mathieu van der Poel and his big rival Wout van Aert. And the answer was, yes, thanks to another brilliant display by their Great Dane, Kasper Asgreen. Af...
1hr 27m Apr 05, 2021
1hr 27m
S9 Ep31: Life in the Peloton – Belgian cobbled Classics with Luke Durbridge
The cobbled Classics in Belgium are such an exciting time of year and it's become a tradition for me to check in with my good buddy Luke Durbridge to talk about what makes these races so special. Luke is up in Belgium at the moment and has been riding all the Classics that lead up to the big one on Sunday – the Tour of Flanders – and Paris-Roubaix just over the border in France a week later. ...
1hr 1m Mar 31, 2021
1hr 1m
S9 Ep30: Trailer: Supersonic: The Marcus Christie Story
This is a trailer of a new episode for Friends of the Podcast. To listen to the full episode sign up at thecyclingpodcast.com (https://thecyclingpodcast.com/) The path to a career as a professional cyclist is a road less travelled and also a notoriously gruelling one. For many, moreover, it can become a search for the self, the pursuit of an identity, which raises the stakes way beyond the pro...
6m Mar 31, 2021
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S9 Ep29: Who's afraid of the big bad Wolfpack?
In this episode Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the week's racing in Belgium and Catalonia. First, the cobbled Classics where Deceuninck-Quick Step got off to a flyer with victory for Sam Bennett at the Oxyclean Brugge-De Panne Classic before winning the numbers game at the E3 Saxo Bank Classic, where Kasper Asgreen got the better of everyone, including Mathieu Van der P...
1hr 27m Mar 29, 2021
1hr 27m
S9 Ep28: Service Course | Robocoach
In this episode of Service Course Ian Boswell stands in for Lizzy. Ian talks about his continuing recovery from the concussions that forced his early retirement, and gives his reaction to the way the new concussion protocols are impacting racing this season. On the new tech side of things Tom speaks with Chris Blomfield-Brown from CORE about their new core temperature sensor, which is being use...
1hr 16m Mar 26, 2021
1hr 16m
S9 Ep27: Trailer: The Lionel of Flanders
This is a trailer for a five-part series available for Friends of the Podcast. Four years ago, Lionel and Simon went to Flanders to see the traditional preparation races that lead up to the Tour of Flanders. The result was a five-part series for Friends of the Podcast called The Lionel of Flanders. (Thanks to producer Tom Whalley for coming up with the title). The order of the races may have ...
3m Mar 24, 2021
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S9 Ep26: Stuyven stuns The Galácticos
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the first Monument of the season, Milan-Sanremo, and ask how Jasper Stuyven was able to stun the Galácticos. The other questions answered include, why did Filippo Ganna lead Team Ineos into the Poggio, should Caleb Ewan have attacked on the Poggio, what should Wout Van Aert, Matthieu Van der Poel and Julian Alaphilippe done differently, wo...
1hr 3m Mar 22, 2021
1hr 3m
S9 Ep25: Trailer: Covering Team Sky
This is a trailer for a new four-part series available now for Friends of the Podcast. It's called Covering Team Sky and it's been written and read by Lionel Birnie. Part one is called The Founding Principles and covers the period leading up to the launch of Team Sky in 2010. Part two is A Difficult Debut Season, focusing on the team's first year in the peloton. Part three, TUEs and The Jiffy ...
4m Mar 19, 2021
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S9 Ep24: The Galácticos
Our second episode of the week recaps a remarkable edition of Tirreno-Adriatico and looks ahead to Saturday's opening Monument of the season, Milan-Sanremo. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe analyse Tirreno-Adriatico – where Wout Van Aert outsprinted the sprinters and out time trialled the time triallists; Matthieu Van der Poel also won a sprint and a hilly stage and Tadej Pogacar...
1hr 7m Mar 17, 2021
1hr 7m
S9 Ep23: Life in the Peloton – Robbie McEwen
Robbie McEwen doesn't do many podcasts so I was really happy when he said yes to coming on Life in the Peloton. As one of the best sprinters of his generation – a generation that overlapped with the likes of Mario Cipollini, Erik Zabel, Thor Hushovd, Tom Boonen and Alessandro Petacchi – Robbie won 12 stages of the Tour de France. He also won the green jersey three times. Now retired, Robbie h...
1hr 18m Mar 17, 2021
1hr 18m
S9 Ep22: Paris-Nice and the case of Dr Freeman
In the first of two episodes of The Cycling Podcast this week, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss Paris-Nice and another defeat snatched from the jaws of victory by Primoz Roglic. Roglic lost the Tour de France to his Slovenian compatriot Tadej Pogacar in the most dramatic fashion in the final time trial. And with victory all but certain in Paris-Nice, he crashed twice on t...
1hr 21m Mar 15, 2021
1hr 21m
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
1hr 20m
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
1hr 18m
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
1hr 5m
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
1hr 23m
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 25m Mar 02, 2021
1hr 25m
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 7m Feb 25, 2021
1hr 7m
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 27m Feb 24, 2021
1hr 27m
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
1hr 28m
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
44m
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
1hr 17m
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
1hr 25m
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
54m
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
1hr 4m
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
1hr 9m
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 11m Jan 27, 2021
1hr 11m
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 45m Jan 22, 2021
1hr 45m
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 33m Jan 20, 2021
1hr 33m
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
59m
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
1hr 2m
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 35m Dec 15, 2020
1hr 35m
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 26m Dec 09, 2020
1hr 26m
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