S9 Ep52: Stage 6 | Grotte di Frasassi - Ascoli Piceno (San Giacomo) | Giro d’Italia 2021
Another cold and wet day at the Giro d'Italia saw a win for one of our audio diarists, Gino Mader, only 24 hours after losing his team leader, Mikel Landa, who crashed out on Wednesday. In the latest episode Richard and Daniel discuss the stage and the new man in pink, Attila Valter, who we hear from. There's another audio diary from James Knox, Gianni Savio is back discussing tactics and Cale...
55m May 13, 2021
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S9 Ep51: Stage 5 | Modena - Cattolica | Giro d’Italia 2021
Stage five of the Giro d'Italia was one for the sprinters but it was marred by a series of nasty crashes that saw one of the favourites, Mikel Landa, have to pull out of the race – we hear from his sports director, Franco Pellizotti. In this episode we speak to another of the crash victims and the previous day's winner, Joe Dombrowski, and to Simon Yates' director, Matt White. There's another ...
54m May 12, 2021
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S9 Ep50: Kilometre 0 – Remco, the reboot
Remco Evenepoel returned to racing at the Giro d'Italia, after nine months out with injury, and finished 7th in the opening time trial.  What can we expect from Evenepoel, the 21-year-old Belgian phenomenon? Nobody seems to know, not even his Deceuninck-Quick-Step teammate Pieter Serry. We hear from Serry, from Jan-Pieter De Vlieger of Het Nieuwsblad and Renaat Schotte of Sporza. We also ask ...
27m May 12, 2021
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S9 Ep49: Stage 4 | Piacenza - Sestola | Giro d’Italia 2021
Joe Dombrowski took the win at Sestola on stage four of the Giro d'Italia and The Cycling Podcast were there to witness a career best performance by a rider we've followed since our (and his) early days. On this first day in the mountains there were some skirmishes among the overall contenders, too. We hear in tonight's episode from Nicki Sorensen, sports director at Israel Start-up Nation who...
47m May 11, 2021
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S9 Ep48: Stage 3 | Biella - Canale | Giro d’Italia 2021
There was an upset at the Giro d'Italia for the second successive day, with Taco van der Hoorn outwitting the peloton, and we continue our coverage of the race with an interview with his sports director, Valerio Piva. We also hear from Matt White, the Team Bike Exchange sports director whose leader, Simon Yates, is one of the race favourites. Will we see him at the front on stage four? It's a ...
40m May 10, 2021
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S9 Ep47: Kilometre 0 – The Baron of Biella
The start of stage three of the Giro d'Italia in Biella will be a homecoming for one individual with an awe-inspiring palmarès and huge influence in professional cycling.  Giuseppe Acquadro is the town‘s prodigal son – and he is an agent, not a rider. In fact, some have called the man whose client portfolio includes Egan Bernal, Nairo Quintana and Richard Carapaz cycling‘s first ‘super-agent’....
22m May 10, 2021
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S9 Ep46: Stage 2 | Stupinigi – Novara | Giro d’Italia 2021
In our second instalment of Girovagando – our coverage of the Giro d'Italia – we talk about the first sprint stage, the return of Dylan Groenewegen and conclude our tour of Turin in the company of Herbie Sykes. There are interviews with Groenewegen, Patrick Lefevere, Jos van Emden, Caleb Ewan and Elia Viviani, and we hear again from our audio diarist James Knox. Richard and Daniel are also jo...
48m May 09, 2021
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S9 Ep45: Stage 1 | Torino | Giro d’Italia 2021
In our first episode from the 2021 Giro d'Italia Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe are joined in Turin by Brian Nygaard, Italophile and former pro team manager turned wine maker. We discuss the stage one time trial and look ahead to the next three weeks, hearing from Egan Bernal, Tobias Foss, Max Walscheid and our audio diarist, James Knox. Daniel also gets a tour of Turin with local resident a...
52m May 08, 2021
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S9 Ep44: The wines of the Giro
For the second year, The Cycling Podcast is embarking on a viticultural Giro d’Italia alongside the 3,488km journey that rolls out from Turin on May 8. As in 2020, Greg Andrews of DVine Cellars is our guide for the trip. Greg recently sat down with Daniel Friebe to talk through the six bottles that make up The Cycling Podcast Girovagando selection and all things Italian wine. You can order th...
58m May 08, 2021
58m
S9 Ep43: Top of the Pops
In this month's episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin, with Orla Chennaoui, Rose Manley and Richard Moore, we rank the teams' classics campaigns, coming up with a top 10 and speaking to a member of each team to get their assessment and a mark out of ten for their performance. Among the riders we hear from are Audrey Cordon-Ragot, Elise Chabbey, Brodie Chapman, Leah Thomas and Floortje Mackaij...
1hr 15m May 06, 2021
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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
11m
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
11m
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