S6 Ep33: Giro d’Italia 2018 | Stage 12 | Osimo – Imola
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe recap stage 12 of the race which finished on the motor racing circuit in Imola. There was contrasting fortunes for Bora-Hansgrohe and Quick Step at the finish because Ireland’s Sam Bennett won his second stage of the Giro while Elia Viviani found himself out of position and out of support from his team-mates. We hear from ...
42m May 17, 2018
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S6 Ep32: Giro d’Italia 2018 | Stage 11 | Assisi – Osimo
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe shelter from a heavy rain storm in Osimo to discuss the 11th stage of the Giro d’Italia. In a packed episode, we hear from Matt White, Simon Yates’s sports director after the British rider won his second stage and extended his lead over defending champion Tom Dumoulin. We also hear from the Dutchman and his coach, plus Bel...
51m May 16, 2018
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S6 Ep31: Giro d'Italia 2018 | Stage 10 | Penne – Gualdo Tadino
The Cycling Podcast comes from Umbria after stage 10 of the Giro d’Italia changed the complexion of the overall race for the pink jersey quite significantly. Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the fact that Mitchelton-Scott’s dream position has been altered by the fact that Esteban Chaves struggled on the first climb, found himself unable to follow the wheels and eventually lost 25 minute...
46m May 15, 2018
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S6 Ep30: Giro d'Italia 2018 | The Press Conference
It’s a rest day at the Giro d’Italia and so The Cycling Podcast find themselves in the position of answering questions instead of asking them. We have invited listeners to leave a voice message on What’s App, or send a question by email, and earlier this evening, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe answered them at their rest day retreat near the town of Penne. If you’d like to ask a question for...
1hr 5m May 14, 2018
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S6 Ep29: Giro d'Italia 2018 | Stage 9 | Pesco Sannita – Gran Sasso d’Italia
This episode of The Cycling Podcast comes from the finish line at Gran Sasso d’Italia, where stage nine of the race finished. Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe capture the atmosphere on the mountain and speak to the riders as they cross the line before reconvening in a pizzeria to discuss the movers and shakers. Simon Yates and Esteban Chaves now lie first and second overall and we ask if the o...
48m May 13, 2018
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S6 Ep28: Giro d'Italia 2018 | Stage 8 | Praia a Mare – Montevergine di Mercogliano
The episode of The Cycling Podcast comes from the deepest countryside in Campania as Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe review stage eight of the Giro d’Italia, and another uphill finish. It was a fairly unremarkable stage but there were two very notable aspects to the final climb – firstly the attack by Richard Carapaz, the best young rider, who broke away to become the first from Ecuador to win...
55m May 12, 2018
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S6 Ep27: Giro d'Italia 2018 | Stage 7 | Pizzo – Praia a Mare
It may have been a fairly routine stage of the Giro d’Italia but it’s a jam-packed episode of The Cycling Podcast from the Giro d’Italia. Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe begin the episode by looking back at last night’s transfer from Sicily to the mainland and how it affected the riders. Then they recap the stage, won by Ireland’s Sam Bennett ahead of Elia Viviani. We hear from Bennett’s Bora...
45m May 11, 2018
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S6 Ep26: Giro d'Italia 2018 | Stage 6 | Caltanissetta – Etna
This episode of The Cycling Podcast finds Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe in the queue to board the ferry from Messina in Sicily to the mainland – just as they did at a similar stage of the race last year. They reflect on a thrilling finish at Mount Etna, where the Australian Mitchelton-Scott team pulled off a stunning double by winning the stage and taking the pink jersey. Colombian rider Es...
50m May 10, 2018
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S6 Ep25: Giro d'Italia 2018 | Stage 5 | Agrigento – Santa Ninfa
This episode of The Cycling Podcast finds Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe in Menfi, the home town of Team Sky’s Sicilian rider Salvatore Puccio where they recap stage five of the race to Santa Ninfa. The honours went to Team Lotto NL-Jumbo’s Enrico Battaglin, who had been third the previous day. In this episode we hear from defending champion Tom Dumoulin, plus Nicolas Portal and Matt White lo...
48m May 09, 2018
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S1 Ep24: Giro d'Italia 2018 | Stage 4 | Catania – Caltagirone
The Giro d’Italia resumed in Sicily after the grande partenza weekend in Israel and a tricky finish in Caltagirone gave Belgium’s Tim Wellens the second Giro stage win of his career and caught Chris Froome out. Wellens and his Lotto-Fix All team played a blinder, negotiating the penultimate hill and a deceptive descent and piling the pressure on behind. The Belgian pipped Mike Woods on the lin...
41m May 08, 2018
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S6 Ep23: Giro d'Italia 2018 | Stage 3 | Be’er Sheva – Eilat
The Giro d’Italia’s three-day stay in Israel concluded with a long stage through the Negev desert from Be’er Sheva to Eilat. And although the landscape was very different to Saturday’s stage the end result was the same. There was a second stage win for Quick Step’s Elia Viviani. In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie recap the days racing as we hear from Quick...
38m May 06, 2018
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S6 Ep22: Giro d'Italia 2018 | Stage 2 | Haifa – Tel Aviv
The Giro d’Italia continued with the second stage from Haifa to Tel Aviv and it concluded with the predicted bunch sprint, although that barely told the full story of a surprisingly intriguing day. After missing out on the pink jersey in the opening time trial, BMC Racing had a plan to put Rohan Dennis into the race lead. They targeted the time bonus at an intermediate sprint and propelled the...
31m May 05, 2018
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S6 Ep21: Giro d'Italia 2018 | Stage 1 | Jerusalem / Jerusalem
The Giro d’Italia got underway with a time trial in Jerusalem and Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie were there to see the race resume more or less as it ended last year – with Dutchman Tom Dumoulin in pink. The world time trial champion pipped Rohan Dennis of BMC Racing by two seconds to take the opening stage, and in this episode we hear from Dumoulin’s Sunweb team-mate Sam Oomen. We also get ...
40m May 04, 2018
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S6 Ep20: The 2018 Giro d'Italia preview
May 2 | The 2018 Giro d'Italia starts in Jerusalem on Friday and ahead of the first grand tour of the season, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe meet up at the classic Italian cafe, Italia Uno, in London's Charlotte Street to preview the race. They each pick three things they are looking forward to – from the course, to the riders to the cuisine. There’s also a brief recap of the 2...
1hr 12m May 02, 2018
1hr 12m
S6 Ep19: Quick Step’s domination of the Classics continues
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe review the final Classic of the spring and another win for the dominant Quick Step team courtesy of Luxembourg champion Bob Jungels. We also weigh up the winners and loser at Liège-Bastogne-Liège. The BMC Racing team lost their biggest supporter, Andy Rihs, who died last week aged 75 and we assess the Swiss ...
1hr 8m Apr 25, 2018
1hr 8m
S6 Ep18: The Cycling Podcast Féminin | Episode 23
In the April episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin Richard Moore and Orla Chennaoui are joined once again by Rose Manley as they look back on a busy month of racing. From the Tour of Flanders to Liège-Bastogne-Liège, not to mention the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Australia, they discuss all the main talking points, and there are interviews with the riders who animated those races. ...
1hr 6m Apr 25, 2018
1hr 6m
S6 Ep17: Alaphilippe conquers the Ardennes
Ardennes Week closes the spring Classics and it was first blood to Julian Alaphilippe on Wednesday as he beat Alejandro Valverde to the top of the Mur de Huy to win Flèche Wallonne. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss this race as well as Sunday's Amstel Gold Race, won by Michael Valgren, and look ahead to Sunday's Liège-Bastogne-Liège. They also ask why some riders are abl...
52m Apr 18, 2018
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S6 Ep16: Paris-Roubaix
April 10 | In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe reflect on Paris-Roubaix. The race was won by the world champion Peter Sagan but was overshadowed by the death of 23-year-old Belgian rider Michael Goolaerts, who suffered a heart attack and later died in hospital. We discuss Sagan's victory, which he engineered with an attack more than 50 kilome...
1hr Apr 10, 2018
1hr
S6 Ep15: Terpstra delivers at the Tour of Flanders
April 4 | In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss Niki Terpstra's victory at the Tour of Flanders and ask whether it was a vintage edition of the race. Daniel offers his patented wine glass rating, Lionel bemoans the fact Quick Step's rivals were able to do so little to upset the apple cart and Richard suggests that Bora made a tactical er...
1hr 2m Apr 04, 2018
1hr 2m
S6 Ep14: From the cobbles to Catalonia
March 28 | The cobbled Classics are well underway and Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe meet up to discuss Quick Step's dominance at Friday's Grand Prix E3 Harelbeke, and how their sprinter Elia Viviani got caught out by world champion Peter Sagan at Sunday's Ghent-Wevelegem. And they ask what those races mean with the Tour of Flanders coming up at the weekend. There's also a rep...
1hr 7m Mar 28, 2018
1hr 7m
The Cycling Podcast Féminin | Episode 22
The March episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin sees Richard Moore and Orla Chennaoui joined once again by Rose Manley as they discuss the opening races in the Women’s World Tour. We hear from Gracie Elvin, the leading Australian rider and one of the people behind The Cyclists’ Alliance, a new organisation set up to represent and promote women’s cycling. And there are interviews with some of...
1hr 11m Mar 26, 2018
1hr 11m
S6 Ep13: Nibali conquers the Poggio at last
March 21 | In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss Vincenzo Nibali's victory at Milan-Sanremo. After several failed attempts to win the opening one-day Monument of the season, Nibali finally secured victory in Italy's most prestigious Classic. It also made it back-to-back Monument victories for the Shark of Messina after he took Il Lombard...
52m Mar 21, 2018
52m
S6 Ep12: Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico
March 15 | In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe review the two World Tour stage races – Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico – and look ahead to the opening Monument of the season, Milan-San Remo at the weekend. There's a report from Paris-Nice by François Thomazeau and we hear from Simon Yates, who came so close to winning the race before being un...
1hr 6m Mar 15, 2018
1hr 6m
S6 Ep11: Strade Bianche and the Team Sky story
March 7 | In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss a brilliant edition of the Italian one-day race Strade Bianche before turning their attention to the publication of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee's report into doping which centred on Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky. Strade Bianche turned out to be a three-way showdown...
1hr 9m Mar 07, 2018
1hr 9m
S6 Ep10: Valgren beats the big freeze at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
February 28 | In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore reports from a freezing cold Belgium and the opening Classics of the season, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne. An extended package from Flanders captures the sounds of the cobbled classics as the season as the 'Beast from the East' gripped the region. We hear from Astana's Michael Valgren and his team-mate Magn...
59m Feb 28, 2018
59m
The Cycling Podcast Féminin | Episode 21
February 22 | The February episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin sees Richard Moore and Orla Chennaoui joined by Rose Manley as they look ahead to the 2018 season. Rose has covered the Women’s World Tour for the past two seasons, presenting the highlights for InCycle, and now runs her own production company, La Pédale. We hear from a selection of top riders, including Tiffany Cromwell and Mar...
1hr 19m Feb 22, 2018
1hr 19m
S6 Ep9: The Ruta del Sol
February 19 | This week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast comes from Andalusia and the Ruta del Sol where Richard Moore is joined by our Spanish correspondent Fran Reyes to discuss the week’s racing. There’s an exclusive interview with Chris Froome, making his first race appearance since the adverse analytical finding for an elevated level of the asthma medication salbutamol. We also hear from...
58m Feb 19, 2018
58m
S6 Ep8: A despatch from Dubai
February 15 | In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe joins Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie and reports back from his trip to the Dubai Tour. We hear from Mark Cavendish and Alexander Kristoff about their early season form as all the sprinters begin to think about Milan-San Remo, the first monument of the season, next month. And Aqua Blue's owner Rick Delaney expresses his exasp...
52m Feb 15, 2018
52m
S6 Ep7: Sprinting in the desert
February 8 | In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Orla Chennaoui discuss the opening days of the Dubai Tour, where the sprinters have been sharing the stage wins among themselves. Daniel Friebe is in Dubai and he sends a despatch from the race featuring an interview with Norway's Alexander Kristoff who has swapped the Katusha team for the UAE Team Emirates t...
49m Feb 08, 2018
49m
S6 Ep6: The Cyclo-Cross Podcast – Sunday
Sunday | Our mini series from the cyclo-cross World Championships concludes with coverage of the men’s elite race from Valkenburg. Lionel Birnie is joined by cyclo-cross experts Renaat Schotte and Balint Hamvas to discuss Wout Van Aert’s third consecutive title, and a victory that, while not a surprise, had not been expected. We discuss what went so right for Van Aert and what went so wrong f...
37m Feb 04, 2018
37m
S6 Ep5: The Cyclo-Cross Podcast – Saturday
Saturday | In this episode of The Cyclo-Cross Podcast in association with Mudiiita, Lionel Birnie is joined by cyclo-cross experts Renaat Schotte and Balint Hamvas to discuss the first day's racing at the World Championships in Valkenburg. The mud was the big story of the day, and it meant for worthy winners in all three races. There was a British double from Evie Richards in the women's under...
41m Feb 03, 2018
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S6 Ep4: The Cyclo-Cross Podcast – Friday
Friday | The Cycling Podcast heads to Valkenburg in the Netherlands for the World Cyclo-Cross Championships and Lionel Birnie finds that persistent rain has made the course very muddy before the racing even gets under way. Lionel checks out the course, asks a couple of mechanics how they plan to cope with the muddy conditions and catches up with Renaat Schotte for a last-minute form guide befo...
31m Feb 02, 2018
31m
S6 Ep3: The Cyclo-Cross Podcast
This week's episode of The Cycling Podcast is the debut episode of The Cyclo-Cross Podcast. As thoughts and mud-encrusted wheels turn towards the World Championships in Valkenburg at the weekend, The Cycling Podcast kicks off its comprehensive coverage of the races for the rainbow jersey with an extended preview episode. Unexpectedly enthused by his trip to Scheldecross before Christmas, form...
51m Jan 29, 2018
51m
S6 Ep2: A look ahead to 2018
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe recap the week in professional cycling and cast their eyes over the forthcoming season at what they are looking forward to from the 2018 season. We discuss the Giro d’Italia wild cards, Richie Porte’s fifth successive victory on Willunga Hill, asking whether that’s proof that the Tasmanian is over the terrib...
53m Jan 24, 2018
53m
S6 Ep1: The 2018 season is off and running
January 18 | The Cycling Podcast returns with a bumper episode just as the 2018 road racing season gets underway with the Tour Down Under. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss some of the big stories from the off-season, including the latest developments, or lack of developments, with Chris Froome’s salbutamol case, and the announcement of the teams that have been awarded wil...
1hr 15m Jan 18, 2018
1hr 15m
Phil Deeker's Thousand Cols Challenge | Brevet
January 10 | Between May and October 2017, Phil Deeker set himself the challenge of riding a thousand cols in 100 days. The founder of Rapha Travel’s Cent Cols Challenge – during which riders tackle 100 cols in ten days of riding – decided to join together ten of his challenging routes for an epic adventure to mark his 60th birthday. In this episode of Brevet, Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie i...
41m Jan 10, 2018
41m
The Cycling Podcast Féminin | Episode 20 | I ❤️ the 1980s
I ❤️ the 1980s In the first Cycling Podcast Féminin of 2018 we hear from two pioneers of the 1980s, Robin Morton and Mandy Jones. Orla Chennaoui speaks to Morton, who managed a men’s team at the 1984 Giro d’Italia, only securing her seat in the team car after the other directeurs sportifs took a vote on whether a woman should be permitted in the race convoy. And Richard Moore speaks to Jones...
55m Jan 09, 2018
55m
End of year review | Episode 36
December 29 | This final episode of 2017 is highlights (or lowlights?) reel taking a look back at the three grand tours and other major news stories of the year. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe will be back in mid-January as the 2018 World Tour season gets underway with the Tour Down Under. If you find you're missing The Cycling Podcast sign up as a Friend of the Podcast at the...
29m Dec 29, 2017
29m
The Christmas Ramble | Episode 35
In our final regular episode of 2017, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe revisit the story of Chris Froome and his adverse analytical finding for the asthma drug salbutamol and assess how things have played out in the week since the news was made public. And Daniel heads to Belgium – Antwerp to be precise – for a taste of cyclocross and a teaser for The Cyclocross Podcast, which wi...
1hr 11m Dec 21, 2017
1hr 11m
The Cycling Podcast Féminin | Episode 19
The December episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin, with Orla Chennaoui and Richard Moore, focuses on some of the sponsors who back women's teams. We hear from Erwin Janssen, of the Dolmans Landscaping Group, who co-sponsors the world's top team, Boels-Dolmans, which includes such stars as Anna van der Breggen, Lizzie Deignan and Megan Guarnier. Janssen tells Orla why they support a women's te...
58m Dec 19, 2017
58m
The Chris Froome salbutamol case | Episode 34
December 14 | In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe react to the news that the 2017 Tour de France and Vuelta a España winner Chris Froome has questions to answer after a urine sample from the Vuelta showed higher than permitted levels of the asthma drug salbutamol. What has happened, what are the precedents and what will happen next? The Cycli...
43m Dec 14, 2017
43m
Lunch with Brian Holm | Episode 33
December 8 | In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, we join Brian Holm for pie and mash in London. The former Danish national champion has had an eventful career – he nearly died in a crash when he was a young professional, he won the Paris-Brussels one-day classic and he rode for the German Telekem team, helping his team-mate Bjarne Riis to win the 1996 Tour de France. Like Riis, Holm doped,...
1hr 2m Dec 08, 2017
1hr 2m
The Giro route and Chris Froome’s bid for glory | Episode 32
The Cycling Podcast this week is devoted this week to the 2018 Giro d'Italia, with the route for the 101st race unveiled on Wednesday. We discuss the route and Chris Froome's decision to try to win his first Giro before going for his fifth Tour de France. It was already known that the Giro would start in Israel, becoming the first grand tour to start outside Europe, but already this is generat...
59m Dec 01, 2017
59m
The Cycling Podcast Féminin | Episode 18
November 27 | The November episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin is a conversation between Richard Moore and two of the world's most promising young riders, the Canyon-SRAM pair Hannah Barnes and Mieke Kröger. It was recorded before an audience earlier this season at the Rapha Clubhouse in Manchester. In the course of their discussion Barnes and Kröger talk about how they started racing, with ...
45m Nov 27, 2017
45m
Training camps and team building | Episode 31
November 22 | Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe meet up in central London after their sell-out West End show at the Arts Theatre to discuss the latest training camp and team building trends. The Australian Orica-Scott team plan to break with established training camp tradition by moving hotels each night, making it more like a stage race, rather than spending time at one base. Whi...
1hr 5m Nov 22, 2017
1hr 5m
When Orla Met Ned | Episode 30
November 14 | During the Vuelta a España Orla Chennaoui went to Herne Hill velodrome to meet Ned Boulting, who races on the track throughout the year. Both work primarily in television but Orla was keen to talk to Ned about the various other strands to his career. He has gone from interviewer to commentator, written books and, more recently, performed a solo stand-up show. Despite all that, Ne...
1hr 3m Nov 14, 2017
1hr 3m
Vaughters and vin | Episode 29
November 8 | Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are at The Connaught in London's Mayfair to meet Jonathan and Ashley Vaughters. They talk about how the Cannondale-Drapac team – soon to become EF Education First – was saved when it faced extinction and wine, as Ashley was in London to attend a ceremony to induct to the Institute of Masters of Wine. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Rapha and Sc...
43m Nov 08, 2017
43m
Around the world in 78 days | Brevet
November 3 | In this pilot for a new series – The Cycling Podcast Brevet – Richard Moore meets Mark Beaumont, who recently smashed the world record, pedalling around the globe in 78 days. In doing so he rode 240 miles a day, every day, for almost three months – a remarkable feat that must surely be at the outer limits of what is humanly possible. Two weeks after finishing Beaumont could refle...
33m Nov 03, 2017
33m
A conversation with Conor Dunne | Episode 28
November 1 | In this episode of The Cycling Podcast we sit down to talk to Irish rider Conor Dunne about his experiences at the Vuelta a España. Dunne was part of the Aqua Blue team – the first Irish squad to ride a Grand Tour – that set out from Nîmes in southern France in August. For the 6ft 8in tall rider, the Vuelta presented a huge challenge every day. He finished 158th – and last – over...
49m Nov 01, 2017
49m
A postcard from China | Episode 27
October 25 | The Cycling Podcast this week comes from the Tour of Guangxi in China, the last World Tour race of the 2017 season. Fran Reyes, who listeners will remember from our Vuelta a España coverage, was there for all six stages and brings us a report from a race that was difficult to follow from afar, but which seems to have been a hit with the riders. We hear from Mikel Landa, in his las...
31m Oct 25, 2017
31m