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 6m 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 23m Nov 18, 2020
1hr 23m
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
1hr 5m
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 22m Nov 12, 2020
1hr 22m
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
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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...
1hr 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 15m Oct 30, 2020
1hr 15m
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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S8 Ep175: Kilometre 0 – Grandest Tour Diaries
In this, this instalment of the Grandest Tour Diaries, we hear the thoughts and reflections of our team on a thrilling edition of the pink race, as well as the reaction to the first six stages of the Vuelta a España. Thanks to Nathan Haas (Cofidis), Joe Dombrowski (UAE Team Emirates), Rick Zabel (Israel Start-Up Nation), James Knox (Deceuninck-Quick-Step), Cesare Benedetti (Bora-hansgrohe), Ja...
40m Oct 26, 2020
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S8 Ep174: The Grandest Tour Stage 21: The Jai-breaker
The Giro d’Italia concluded with the final time trial into Milan and an already simmering Vuelta a España bubbled into life in the freezing rain. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Lizzy Banks recap all the racing, starting with analysis of the time trial which gave Tao Geoghegan Hart overall victory in the Giro ahead of Jai Hindley. We also hear from Daniel Friebe at the Vuelta on a day when I...
57m Oct 25, 2020
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S8 Ep173: The Grandest Tour stage 20: Tao + Jai = Tie
Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Lizzy Banks as they discuss a stage which means two riders go into the Giro d'Italia's final time trial on Sunday level on time. It's the closest finish to a grand tour in history. Who will come out on top? The Cycling Podcast is supported by iwoca and Science in Sport.
53m Oct 24, 2020
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S8 Ep172: The Grandest Tour stage 19: On The Buses
Richard and Lionel are joined by professional rider Lizzy Banks as they discuss stage 19 at the Giro d'Italia and stage 4 at the Vuelta a España, though the main talking points were in Italy, where the riders staged a protest over the length of the stage and ended up covering much of the distance in their team buses. We hear from our audio diarists, James Knox, Rick Zabel, Joe Dombrowski and C...
1hr 4m Oct 23, 2020
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S8 Ep171: The Grandest Tour stage 18: The World Jacket Putting-On Championships
In this episode Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are again joined by François Thomazeau to review stage 18 of the Giro d'Italia, which tackled the legendary Stelvio before the finish at Laghi di Cancano. We discuss the World Jacket Putting-On Championships and Team Sunweb's tactics and ask why the mood in the camp might not be ecstatic tonight considering they took the stage victory and the pin...
56m Oct 22, 2020
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S8 Ep170: Kilometre 0 – Giro Diaries – Part 5
In this episode of Kilometre 0 we hear more from our diarists in the Giro d'Italia peloton. They are Nathan Haas (Cofidis), Joe Dombrowski (UAE Team Emirates), Rick Zabel (Israel Start-Up Nation), James Knox (Deceuninck-Quick-Step), Cesare Benedetti (Bora-hansgrohe), Jacopo Guarnieri (Groupama-FDJ). Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is supported by Zwift, the app for riding, training and rac...
56m Oct 22, 2020
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S8 Ep169: The Grandest Tour stage 17: The Italian-Spanish-Belgium triangle
For the second day in a row there are three races in three countries to discuss. Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are joined by the star of our Tour de France coverage, François Thomazeau. In the first part we review stage 17 of the Giro d’Italia, where Aussie Ben O’Connor went one better than yesterday and took a vital victory for NTT Pro Cycling. Then we recap the men’s Three Days of De Pann...
1hr 9m Oct 21, 2020
1hr 9m
S8 Ep168: Life in the Peloton – Greg Griffiths
Meet The Commissaire. In this episode of Life in the Peloton, Mitch Docker talks to one of the team of UCI officials who enforce the rules, dish out the penalties, and keep the peloton on the straight and narrow. Greg Griffiths is from Mitch's neck of the woods, in Melbourne, Australia, and every year he travels round the world working as a commissaire – or judge – in professional cycling. B...
52m Oct 21, 2020
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S8 Ep167: The Grandest Tour stage 16: Cappuccino, waffles, jamón
Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are joined by guest host and former Team Sky and Katusha-Alpecin professional Ian Boswell to discuss today's racing in three countries. It was a day to celebrate for Slovenia and one to commiserate for Jolien D’Hoore. We start in northern Spain, the Basque Country to be precise, where the Vuelta a España got underway. Primoz Roglic picked up where he left off i...
52m Oct 20, 2020
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S8 Ep166: Kilometre 0 – George Bennett
"As long as I've been a good bike racer, I've had this problem." George Bennett has suffered from a long term health issue since the beginning of his career as a professional cyclist. Last winter he underwent surgery in attempt to correct it. He had a fantastic start to the season restart, winning Gran Piemonte and coming second to Jakob Fuglsang at Il Lombardia, in addition to playing a vita...
23m Oct 20, 2020
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S8 Ep165: Kilometre 0 – NTT SOS
Africa's premier cycling team has been around in various guises since 2007. Initially, as continental team MTN, which became pro-continental team MTN-Qhubeka, before joining the WorldTour as Dimension Data and now NTT. Gerald Ciolek took their first win at Milan Sanremo back in 2013. Shortly afterwards, the team was riding and winning stages at the Tour de France. They made a splash in 2015 w...
28m Oct 19, 2020
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S8 Ep164: The Grandest Tour stage 15: The Giro van Vlaanderen
In this episode we join Richard Moore and a good friend of the podcast in Belgium to review the Tour of Flanders, which featured a showdown between two riders whose rivalry began in cyclo-cross and are now destined to clash in the cobbled classics for years to come. Then it’s over to Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe to recap the first serious mountain stage of the Giro d’Italia, which saw a fir...
47m Oct 18, 2020
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S8 Ep163: The Grandest Tour stage 14: The Prosecco time trial
With Daniel serving a one podcast ban (not really) for defaming an entire nation’s pronunciation of the words ‘pasta’ and ‘risotto’ it’s left to Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Ian Boswell to recap the Giro d’Italia’s time trial to Valdobbiadene in Prosecco country. Ineos Grenadiers will have plenty of reason to pop the cork on a bottle of the fizzy wine after Filippo Ganna and Rohan Dennis t...
47m Oct 17, 2020
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S8 Ep162: The Grandest Tour stage 13: The sprint stage without sprinters
For stage 13 of The Grandest Tour we are joined again by former professional Ian Boswell, who discusses the Giro d'Italia in the company of Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie. There are audio diaries from Jacopo Guarnieri, the lead-out man for sprinter Arnaud Démare, and James Knox, an important teammate for Joao Almeida, who still holds the pink jersey of race leader and increased...
55m Oct 16, 2020
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S8 Ep161: The Grandest Tour stage 12: Chocolate mousse at the Merckx's
In our latest episode, discussing stage 12 of the Giro d'Italia, Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are joined by guest presenter Ian Boswell, the former professional rider with Team Sky and Katusha-Alpecin. It was a tough day in Italy, with heavy rain and cold weather turning a hilly stage into a battle for survival. We hear from James Knox of Deceuninck-Quickstep who describes himself as "an em...
43m Oct 15, 2020
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S8 Ep160: Kilometre 0 – Giro Diaries – Part 4
Our Giro Diaries series continues and this episode kicks off with Jacopo Guarnieri recapping a day's racing while having his post-race massage. We also hear from James Knox as he continues to defend his teammate João Almeida's maglia rosa and from Cesare Benedetti on Peter Sagan's first Giro stage win and first race victory since the 2019 Tour de France. Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is ...
28m Oct 15, 2020
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S8 Ep159: The Grandest Tour stage 11: A transitional stage
The Giro d’Italia had a transitional stage for the sprinters and we had a transitional podcast too, with Lionel Birnie joining Richard Moore to recap stage 11. With sprint finishes in Rimini and in Schoten at the Scheldeprijs, the question is, who’s the fastest? Arnaud Démare – who took his fourth stage victory of this Giro – or Caleb Ewan, who won in Belgium? We hear from Jacopo Guarnieri of...
51m Oct 14, 2020
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S8 Ep158: Kilometre 0 – Giro Diaries – Part 3
In this episode of Kilometre 0 we hear from three of our diarists in the Giro d'Italia peloton. With Mitchelton-Scott and Jumbo-Visma having to pull out of the race because of a spate of coronavirus positive tests, Joe Dombrowski of UAE Team Emirates reacts to the news, talks about the difficulty of keeping the bubble secure and asks whether the race will make it to Milan. Israel Start-Up Nat...
42m Oct 14, 2020
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S8 Ep157: The Grandest Tour stage 10: Saganissimo
The Giro d’Italia resumed after its rest day with the news that two high profile riders, Steven Kruijswijk and Michael Matthews, had tested positive for Covid and were out of the race. The race limped on and served up a thrilling stage, won by Peter Sagan with one of the performances of his career. In this episode we hear from Ben Swift and Brandon McNulty, as well as our audio diarist James ...
55m Oct 13, 2020
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S8 Ep156: Kilometre 0 – Italy's other mountains
Stretching over 1200 kilometres, from the knee of Italy’s boot to the tip of its toe, the Apennines are ‘il Bel Paese’s’ defining geographical feature - & yet many would struggle to point to them on a map. Similarly, the range’s place in Giro folklore is underplayed or even ignored, despite glorious dramas on fearsome climbs like Blockhaus, Monte Carpegna, San Pellegrino in Alpe & l’Abetone.  ...
15m Oct 13, 2020
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S8 Ep155: The Grandest Tour Rest Day 1: Press Conference
The first rest day of the Giro d'Italia sees Daniel and Richard answer your questions with the first press conference of The Cycling Podcast's Grandest Tour. There are questions about asterisks, the dates of the Ardennes classics and whether they should be moved, Team Ineos and Peter Sagan – and many more. There were also questions for Joe Dombrowski and James Knox, who are both keeping audio ...
57m Oct 12, 2020
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S8 Ep154: The Grandest Tour stage 9: Super Sunday
There were races in Belgium, France and Italy, with Ghent-Wevelgem, Paris-Tours and the Giro d'Italia, and we have reaction to each of them in our latest episode. From Italy, we hear from Wilco Kelderman, who moved up to second overall at the Giro, and his Sunweb teammate Sam Oomen. We also have interviews with Larry Warbasse, who makes some pointed comments about Ruben Guerrero, the stage nin...
51m Oct 11, 2020
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S8 Ep153: The Grandest Tour stage 8: Dowsett takes an emotional win
As Alex Dowsett won his second stage of the Giro d’Italia, and his first in seven years, The Cycling Podcast was there to witness an emotional victory for the rider from Essex. The Giro had woken up to the concerning news of one of the favourites, Simon Yates, testing positive for Covid-19. His Mitchelton-Scott teammates all tested negative and so continue in the race, but Yates was taken by a...
46m Oct 10, 2020
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S8 Ep152: The Grandest Tour stage 7: When the wind blows
We lingered in Matera, the beautiful city where stage 6 of the Giro d'Italia finished and stage 7 started, with crosswinds forecast. They duly came, and, predictably, it was Deceuninck-Quickstep and Jumbo-Visma who went to the front and tore the race into pieces. In tonight's episode we hear from our diarist, James Knox of Deceuninck, about his sense of trepidation ahead of the stage. We also ...
59m Oct 09, 2020
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S8 Ep151: Kilometre 0 – Giro Diaries – Part 2
In episode two of Kilometre 0 from The Grandest Tour we hear once again from our team of audio diarists, including pasta with Nathan Haas, defending the pink jersey with James Knox, and hearing about the life less glamorous with Rick Zabel. Our audio diarists at the Giro d'Italia are Haas (Cofidis), Joe Dombrowski (UAE Team Emirates), Zabel (Israel Start-Up Nation), Knox (Deceuninck-Quick-Step...
30m Oct 09, 2020
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S8 Ep150: The Grandest Tour stage 6: Démare in a hurry
From the beautiful city of Matera, the third oldest in the world, Richard and Daniel report from a stage of the Giro d'Italia won in impressive style by French champion Arnaud Démare. We hear from his Groupama-FDJ leadout man, Jacopo Guarnieri, who is keeping an audio diary for The Cycling Podcast, and also from another of our diarists, James Knox, whose Deceuninck-Quickstep team defended the p...
51m Oct 08, 2020
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S8 Ep149: The Grandest Tour stage 5: Premature celebrations
A mountainous stage 5 of the Giro d’Italia was won by the heaviest man in the race, Filippo Ganna, after an apparent row between his breakaway companions, Thomas De Gendt and Einer Rubio.  We hear from both De Gendt and Rubio, with each having a different view of what went on. In this episode we also hear from Simon Yates, who still hopes to win overall, from Jakob Fuglsang and our old friend...
48m Oct 07, 2020
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S8 Ep148: Life in the Peloton – Dr Kevin Sprouse
Mitch Docker is back to talk about Life in the Peloton with a man who is critical to the health and wellbeing of the riders on and off the bike. Dr Kevin Sprouse is the medical director of Mitch's team, EF Pro Cycling, and in a fascinating conversation he talks about the daily routine for a team doctor working in professional cycling. What does a team doctor do day-to-day? How does a doctor d...
1hr 12m Oct 07, 2020
1hr 12m