S8 Ep7: From the Life in the Peloton archive: Luke Durbridge
Welcome to The Cycling Podcast presents Life in the Peloton with Mitch Docker. We're delighted to welcome Mitch to the team for 2020 and ahead of the release of his first new episode on January 29 we thought we'd delve into his back catalogue to present six edited versions of some of his greatest hits. Mitch's friend and former teammate Luke Durbridge is a regular guest on Life in the Peloton a...
22m Jan 24, 2020
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S8 Ep6: From the Life in the Peloton archive: Marcel Kittel
Welcome to The Cycling Podcast presents Life in the Peloton with Mitch Docker. We're delighted to welcome Mitch to the team for 2020 and ahead of the release of his first new episode on January 29 we thought we'd delve into his back catalogue to present six edited versions of some of his greatest hits. This time, let's hear Mitch's conversation with Marcel Kittel. They were teammates together a...
23m Jan 23, 2020
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S8 Ep5: From the Life in the Peloton archive: Daryl Impey
Welcome to The Cycling Podcast presents Life in the Peloton with Mitch Docker. We're delighted to welcome Mitch to the team for 2020 and ahead of the release of his first new episode on January 29 we thought we'd delve into his back catalogue to present six edited versions of some of his greatest hits. First up it's Daryl Impey, the Mitchelton-Scott rider who has experienced the highs and lows ...
23m Jan 22, 2020
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S8 Ep4: A trip to Girona to meet Mitch Docker
For this episode of The Cycling Podcast Lionel Birnie travelled to Girona to meet Mitch Docker. Melbourne-born Docker rides for EF Education First and is about to embark on his 12th season in the elite pro peloton. He came to Europe in 2009 when he got a contract with the Skil-Shimano team, then moved to Orica-GreenEdge, where he spent six years, before heading to EF Education First. In that ti...
1hr 25m Jan 21, 2020
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S8 Ep3: The Cycling Podcast Féminin | January 2020
The Cycling Podcast Féminin returns for 2020 with a look ahead to the new season and interviews with Morgane Gaultier, the UCI's women's cycling coordinator, and two talented young riders, Sarah Gigante and Pfeiffer Georgi. Gigante is the youngster who shocked her rivals by winning the senior Australian national road race title last year at the age of just 18. Now 19, she backed that up this ye...
56m Jan 17, 2020
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S8 Ep2: Ian Boswell on concussion and retirement
Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe for a look at the week’s cycling news, including Bernie Eisel’s retirement and Bjarne Riis’s return to the World Tour as part of Team NTT’s management. This episode features an extensive interview with Ian Boswell, the American who spent seven seasons in the World Tour with Team Sky and Katusha-Alpecin. Boswell has been forced to retire from r...
1hr 26m Jan 15, 2020
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S8 Ep1: Nice-Paris and other races in 2020
The Cycling Podcast returns after the Christmas and New Year break with our first episode of 2020. Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe as they each pick three things they're looking forward to in professional cycling in the coming year. From new teams to riders facing new challenges, big-name transfers and leadership dynamics, new places to visit and, yes, the prospect of goulas...
1hr 11m Jan 09, 2020
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S7 Ep184: The Christmas Cycling Scrabble Challenge
It’s Christmas, traditionally a time for people to come together and enjoy the simple pleasure of playing a friendly board game and a glass of eggnog. Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and special guest Ned Boulting for The Cycling Podcast’s Christmas Cycling Scrabble Challenge. This is Scrabble, but not as you know it. Only words that have a clear and obvious link to the world of professional ...
57m Dec 23, 2019
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S7 Ep183: Service Course | Episode 5 | Wonder Materials and Space Elevators
Imagine a world without potholes. Imagine a bike frame that is stiffer than one made from carbon fibre yet 20% lighter. Imagine a bike that transmits a potentially endless amount of data, without any wires, and with all the sensors built into the components (and also your clothing). Imagine an elevator that could take you from the earth to the stars. Lizzy and Tom imagine all of those things an...
53m Dec 20, 2019
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S7 Ep182: Meet Flavio Zappi
In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Lionel Birnie travels to Bicester Village retail outlet, not to do his Christmas shopping but to meet former Italian pro rider Flavio Zappi. After a calamitously clumsy introduction at the Rapha cafe (sorry again, chaps!), Lionel talks to Flavio about his career as a rider in the early 1980s when he finished second in the king of the mountains comp...
1hr 33m Dec 17, 2019
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S7 Ep181: The Americans in Nice
In a follow up to a Friends Special from 2016, Richard Moore travels to Nice to meet up with American professionals Ian Boswell, Joe Dombrowski and Larry Warbasse, and also a couple of younger riders, Will Barta and Matteo Jorgenson. Boswell, Dombrowski and Warbasse are all at different points in their careers. After a serious crash in March, Boswell didn't race again in 2019 and is starting to...
1hr 6m Dec 10, 2019
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S7 Ep180: The Cycling Podcast Féminin | December 2019
In the final Cycling Podcast Féminin of the year the team look back on their standout moments of 2019 with Kasia Niewiadoma, Lizzy Banks, Maria Martins and Bob Varney. It’s been a difficult few weeks for one of the teams of the year, Parkhotel Valkenburg. Their world number one, Lorena Wiebes, is the subject of offers from bigger teams and another rider, Sofie De Vuyst, announced that she has t...
1hr 6m Dec 06, 2019
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S7 Ep179: Adam Blythe talks about retirement
The Cycling Podcast's 11-date Grand Tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland has reached its conclusion and Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are back with an episode recapping the cycling news. Former British national champion Adam Blythe joined us for two of our live shows – at London's Arts Theatre and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester – and in this episode he speaks about the de...
59m Dec 04, 2019
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S7 Ep178: On the road at the Grand Tour
This week's episode finds Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe in the green room backstage at the Y Theatre, Leicester, before the ninth stage of their Grand Tour. We recap the theatre tour so far and answer some of the questions posed by the audience that we didn't have time to get to on stage. We also meet Stacy Snyder, the ceramist who has been making the beautiful cups for The Cyc...
1hr 1m Nov 29, 2019
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S7 Ep177: Service Course | Episode 4 | String Theory and Climbing Bikes
This month Lizzy Banks takes Service Course back to the place where it all began for her, Hill Climbs. It was the Sheffield University Hill Climb at Curbar Edge in Derbyshire where Lizzy first started to believe that she may have a serious future in the sport and so for this episode she goes back to her roots to look at hill climbing bikes in all their glorious eccentricities. The show features...
43m Nov 27, 2019
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S7 Ep176: The Cycling Podcast Féminin | November 2019
The November episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin includes a feature on arguably the greatest team in the history of women's racing, Boels-Dolmans. With both sponsors giving notice of their intention to quit, the Dutch squad faces an uncertain future. We speak to the team director, Danny Stam, its longest-serving rider, Christine Majerus, and former riders Lucy Martin and Nikki Brammeier. Orl...
1hr 6m Nov 22, 2019
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S7 Ep175: How to plan a cycling season, with Matt White
After travelling from Bristol to Belfast and reaching London on Monday night, The Cycling Podcast's Grand Tour has reached its halfway point. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the week's news – double Tour de France stage winner Steve Cummings' retirement, the latest from Dr Richard Freeman's General Medical Council hearing and we hear from Matt White about how he sits down...
1hr 2m Nov 21, 2019
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S7 Ep174: Remembering Poulidor
The Cycling Podcast is currently on a theatre tour but Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie, François Thomazeau and Orla Chennaoui recorded this week's episode a few hours before taking to the stage at Worcester's Huntingdon Hall. They discuss the latest developments in the General Medical Council's hearing into former Team Sky and British Cycling doctor Richard Freeman, and Shane Sutton's extraordinar...
52m Nov 14, 2019
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S7 Ep173: Ellingworth takes the wheel at McLaren
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe review some of the biggest stories from the past week in professional cycling. After 14 years, the Tour of California – the biggest stage race in the USA – is taking a hiatus. What does this mean for racing in America – and does Peter Stetina's decision to quit the World Tour in favour of gravel events such a...
1hr 9m Nov 08, 2019
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S7 Ep172: Cavendish reboot, Pidcock stays put
In the latest episode of The Cycling Podcast we hear from Tom Pidcock, the versatile young rider who explains his decision not to step up to a World Tour team in 2020. Lionel Birnie, Daniel Friebe and Richard Moore also discuss Mark Cavendish’s move to Bahrain-Merida. Can he and Rod Ellingworth roll back the years and have the kind of success they enjoyed together at British Cycling and Team Sk...
1hr 5m Oct 29, 2019
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S7 Ep171: The 2020 Giro and a farewell to Phinney
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe give their first reaction to the 2020 Giro d'Italia route as it is unveiled in Milan. The Grande Partenza in Budapest, Hungary, will be followed by a transfer to Sicily – without a rest day – and a journey that hugs the southern and Adriatic coastlines before a very difficult final week in the Alps. We weigh ...
1hr 9m Oct 25, 2019
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S7 Ep170: Service Course | Episode 3 | Invisible Women
Inspired by Caroline Criado Perez’s book Invisible Women (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07CQ2NZG6/) , Tom Whalley and new co-host Lizzy Banks (Bigla Pro Cycling) ask how data bias is present in cycling. They hear from Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio about a fundamental UCI rule that she believes is based on data solely from male riders, and Liz Colebrook, one of the few female frame builders in the UK, w...
46m Oct 18, 2019
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S7 Ep169: The 2020 Tour de France route
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe react to the route of the 2020 Tour de France, which was unveiled in Paris earlier in the day. There are new start and finish towns, new summit finishes and only one time trial – on the climb of La Planche des Belles Filles on the penultimate day – but what else is in store and who does it suit? This inevitab...
1hr 7m Oct 16, 2019
1hr 7m
S7 Ep168: An autumnal ramble
The World Tour season is beginning to wind down with the race of the falling leaves – il Lombardia – at the weekend but in this episode of The Cycling Podcast Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe reflect on three big stories from the world of cycling. In part one, Daniel remembers Giorgio Squinzi, the boss of the Mapei company who elevated the brand from the humble world of industrial...
1hr 5m Oct 09, 2019
1hr 5m
S7 Ep167: The Cycling Podcast Féminin | October 2019
The latest episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin comes from Harrogate, where Saturday's women's road race was won with an astonishing performance by Annemiek van Vleuten. Richard Moore and Rose Manley report from Yorkshire and assess Van Vleuten's victory and the manner in which it was achieved, while Orla Chennaoui files a 'dispatch from the desert,' since she is covering the world athletics ...
1hr Oct 01, 2019
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S7 Ep166: Another Sunday in Harrogate
The UCI road world championships concluded in Harrogate on Sunday with the men’s elite road race.  Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau discuss a race run off in terrible weather and with a surprising winner in Denmark’s Mads Pedersen.  There are interviews with Pedersen’s good friend and fellow Dane Michael Valgren, who was 6th, and with Mathieu van der Poel, Philippe Gilbert an...
1hr 5m Sep 29, 2019
1hr 5m
S7 Ep165: Saturday in Harrogate
The Cycling Podcast returns to Bettys to discuss the penultimate day of the World Championships in Harrogate. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau discuss the women’s road race, won with an astonishing 104-kilometre solo break by Dutch rider Annemiek van Vleuten, before recapping the controversial disqualification of another Dutch rider, Nils Eekhoff, for drafting a team car afte...
51m Sep 28, 2019
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S7 Ep164: Friday in Harrogate
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast from Harrogate, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie, Daniel Friebe and François Thomazeau are joined by Mitchelton-Scott sports director Matt White. They talk about Sunday's men’s road race, and also the importance of the junior and under-23 races in the development of the stars of tomorrow. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Rapha and Science In Sport.
27m Sep 27, 2019
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S7 Ep163: Thursday in the Yorkshire Wolds
Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie, Daniel Friebe and François Thomazeau and an audience at the Wold Top Brewery for a live version of the World Championship podcasts. They discuss the prospects for the road races at the weekend. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Rapha and Science In Sport.
44m Sep 26, 2019
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S7 Ep162: Wednesday in Harrogate
 In this episode of The Cycling Podcast Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are joined in Betty's tearooms by François Thomazeau to discuss the men’s elite time trial. The gold medal and rainbow jersey was won for the second year in a row by Australia’s Rohan Dennis, who pulled out of the Tour de France midway through, reportedly because he was dissatisfied with his team’s equipment and kit. We dis...
56m Sep 25, 2019
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S7 Ep161: Dygert dominates, Dutch defeated
The latest episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin comes from the world championships in Yorkshire, where Richard Moore reports on the women’s time trial, William Fotheringham tells us about his new biography of Beryl Burton and Rose Manley looks ahead to Saturday’s road race. There are also interviews with Chloe Dygert Owen, Annemiek van Vleuten, Ashleigh Moolman Pasio, Hayley Simmons and Audre...
51m Sep 25, 2019
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S7 Ep160: Tuesday in Harrogate
The rain fell almost all day, making the under-23 and women’s time trials extremely challenging for the riders in Yorkshire. Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Rob Hatch in the Rapha cafe in Harrogate as they dissect the two races and reflect on an astonishing gold medal-winning performance by a young American rider. We hear from Dean Downing, who is driving the commissaires all week, about ...
45m Sep 24, 2019
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S7 Ep159: Monday in Harrogate
After a day of time trial action in Harrogate, Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are joined for tea in Bettys by Seb Piquet. Both gold medallists suffered minor mishaps on their way to victory. We discuss how Harrogate is warming up for the races to come and hear from Elynor Backstedt, bronze medallist in the junior women’s time trial and daughter of former Paris-Roubaix champion Magnus Backstedt...
38m Sep 23, 2019
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S7 Ep158: Sunday in Harrogate
The Cycling Podcast has arrived in Harrogate for the World Championships – the first time they’ve been held in Great Britain since 1982. Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Rob Hatch in Bettys tearoom in the finishing straight in Harrogate town centre as they discuss the first mixed relay team time trial in World Championships history. They also find out about the history of Bettys tea rooms ...
39m Sep 22, 2019
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S7 Ep157: The Cycling Podcast Féminin | September 2019
The latest episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin comes from Madrid where La Madrid Challenge was won by Lisa Brennauer after Chloe Hosking took the second and final stage in the city centre. We hear from Brennauer and Hosking and also Christine Majerus, the recent winner of the Boels Ladies Tour. Orla Chennaoui and Richard Moore discuss Orla's recent article for Rouleur magazine on sexual abus...
1hr 4m Sep 17, 2019
1hr 4m
S7 Ep156: Stage 21 | Fuenlabrada – Madrid | Vuelta a España 2019
In the final episode from the Vuelta a España we hear reactions to the race from a range of riders, from debutants Carl Fredrik Hagen and Will Barta, to Sepp Kuss, a stage winner and teammate to the overall winner, Sam Bewley, Willie Smit, Tim Declercq, Ben O’Connor, Dylan Teuns, Lawson Craddock and Kiel Reijnen. Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Orla Chennaoui discuss the three weeks of the rac...
43m Sep 15, 2019
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S7 Ep155: Stage 20 | Arenas de San Pedro – Plataforma de Gredos | Vuelta a España 2019
The penultimate stage and last in the mountains of the Vuelta a España saw a fierce battle among the main contenders with 20-year-old Tadej Pogacar winning his third stage to move up to third overall.  It means he will finish on the podium in Madrid on Sunday, with his fellow Slovenian Primoz Roglic on the top step and Alejandro Valverde in second.  Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Orla Chennao...
48m Sep 14, 2019
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S7 Ep154: Stage 19 | Ávila‎ – Toledo | Vuelta a España 2019
There was controversy at the Vuelta a España just two days from the end when a crash took out Primoz Roglic, the race leader, and the Movistar team appeared to try to take advantage. Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss this “beef” and we hear from Deceuninck-Quick Step workhorse Tim Declercq, whose team was triumphant once again. There’s also an interview with Willie Smit, a South African o...
40m Sep 13, 2019
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S7 Ep152: Stage 18 | Colmenar Viejo – Becerril de la Sierra | Vuelta a España 2019
On the penultimate mountain state of the Vuelta a España there was a win for a team who lost not one, not two, but three leaders, and a shuffling of the pack behind race leader Primoz Roglic. Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss the stage and Orla Chennaoui joins Richard to debrief yesterday’s thrilling crosswinds stage. We hear from Roglic’s sports director Addy Engels and two of revelation...
46m Sep 12, 2019
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S7 Ep151: Stage 17 | Aranda de Duero – Guadalajara | Vuelta a España 2019
The longest stage of the Vuelta a España produced a masterclass from Deceuninck-QuickStep in racing in crosswinds. The Belgian team attacked almost from the gun and placed all but one of their eight riders in a forty-strong front group.  Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss a thrilling stage that had serious ramifications for the general classification. We hear from Sepp Kuss of race leader ...
40m Sep 11, 2019
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S7 Ep149: The Press Conference | Rest Day 2 | Vuelta a España 2019
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe answer your questions on the first rest day of the 2019 Vuelta a España. We also hear from Orla Chennaoui along with our Vuelta diarists, James Knox of Deceuninck Quick Step and Nick Schultz of Mitchelton-Scott.  Send us your questions for the final Press Conference via WhatsApp voice memo to +44 7971338205. The Cycling Podcast is sponsored by Raph...
56m Sep 10, 2019
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S7 Ep148: Stage 16 | Pravia - La Cubilla | Vuelta a España 2019
It was another first ascent for the Vuelta a España as the riders tackled La Cubilla, the so-called “Galibier of Asturias.” We hear what some of them made of it once they’d reached the summit as Jakob Fuglsang won the stage ahead of Tao Geoghegan Hart, who was on the attack for the second day in a row. Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss the action and we hear from yesterday’s stage winner ...
36m Sep 09, 2019
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S7 Ep146: Stage 15 | Tineo - Santuario Del Acebo | Vuelta a España 2019
Sepp Kuss, a young American on the Jumbo-Visma team, won the 15th stage of the Vuelta a España at the summit of Santuario Del Acebo while his teammate Primoz Roglic tightened his grip on the red jersey of race leader.  Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss the stage, and we also hear from Orla Chennaoui and Adam Blythe, who are in Spain covering the race for Eurosport. There are interviews wi...
49m Sep 08, 2019
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S7 Ep145: Stage 14 | San Vicente de la Barquera – Oviedo | Vuelta a España 2019
It was a rare treat for the sprinters: a flattish stage that was duly controlled by the sprinters’ teams and won by Ireland’s Sam Bennett, his second stage win at this year’s Vuelta a España. Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie discuss the stage and we hear once again from our audio diarists, James Knox and Nick Schultz. There’s also an interview with Deceuninck-Quick Step domestique Tim Declercq a...
39m Sep 07, 2019
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S7 Ep144: Stage 13 | Bilbao – Los Machucos | Vuelta a España 2019
Los Machucos, the toughest climb so far of the Vuelta a España, saw the two Slovenians, Primoz Roglic and Tadej Pogacar, ride away from their rivals. At the summit it was 20-year-old Pogecar who took his second stage win. Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe were there and they discuss the stage and its implications on the battle for the red jersey, which currently Roglic is winning. We hear from hi...
49m Sep 06, 2019
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S7 Ep142: Stage 12 | Circuito de Navarra – Bilbao | Vuelta a España 2019
Philippe Gilbert claimed his sixth Vuelta a España stage win as the race reached Bilbao, the biggest city in the Basque Country, while Primoz Roglic held on to the red jersey of overall leader. Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie discuss Gilbert’s win and ask whether he should be considered one of the favourites for the world road race championships in Yorkshire at the end of the month. There’s an ...
52m Sep 05, 2019
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S7 Ep141: Stage 11 | Saint-Palais – Urdax | Vuelta a España 2019
The Vuelta a España re-entered Spain after its sojourn in France with a stage in the Basque Country won by a local rider, Mikel Iturria, on a local team, Euskadi-Murias. Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss the stage and we hear from Damien Howson, who was in the breakaway, as well as one of the revelations of the race, Carl Fredrik Hagen, riding his first Grand Tour and currently sitting si...
41m Sep 04, 2019
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S7 Ep139: Stage 10 | Jurançon – Pau | Vuelta a España 2019
Primoz Roglic took a commanding lead at the Vuelta a España, winning the stage 10 time trial to take over the red jersey from Nairo Quintana.  Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe report from Pau and ask whether the race is now Roglic’s to lose. We hear from another Slovenian, the 20-year-old winner of Sunday’s mountain stage, Tadej Pogačar.  Pogačar put in another strong ride and remains fifth over...
35m Sep 03, 2019
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S7 Ep138: The Press Conference | Rest Day 1 | Vuelta a España 2019
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe answer your questions on the first rest day of the 2019 Vuelta a España.  We also hear from our Vuelta diarists, James Knox of Deceuninck Quick Step and Nick Schultz of Mitchelton-Scott.  Send us your questions for the next Press Conference via WhatsApp voice memo to +44 7971338205. The Cycling Podcast is sponsored by Rapha and Science in Sport. OU...
1hr 7m Sep 02, 2019
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S7 Ep136: Stage 9 | Andorra la Vella – Cortals d’Encamp | Vuelta a España 2019
The shortest road stage of the Vuelta a España produced a fascinating day's racing in Andorra. There were mountains, sunshine and hailstones as the pack was shuffled once again and Nairo Quintana ended the day in the race leader's red jersey. Richard Moore reports from Cortal d'Encamp where Tadej Pogačar, the 20-year-old Slovenian, stunned the favourites by attacking to win the stage alone. Lio...
41m Sep 01, 2019
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