S7 Ep12: Deceuninck's opening weekend double
A packed episode of The Cycling Podcast tackles all the latest stories from the world of professional cycling. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss all the talking points from the 'Opening Weekend' in Flanders. Deceuninck-Quick Step's Zdenek Stybar and Bob Jungels gave them a double taste of victory at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, which Florian Sénéchal m...
1hr 1m Mar 07, 2019
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S7 Ep11: Tejay's Tour ambitions
In the latest episode of The Cycling Podcast there are interviews with Tejay van Garderen, looking to re-boot his career with EF-Education First, and his teammate Sep Vanmarcke, the former winner of Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, the Belgian race that kicks off the cobbled classics season this weekend. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe also discuss the latest racing in Spain, Algarve and ...
1hr 7m Feb 28, 2019
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S7 Ep10: Astana on fire
There’s a lot of recent racing to cover in the latest episode of The Cycling Podcast, presented by Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe with Lionel Birnie in his sick bed. They discuss the astonishing run by Astana, who have dominated the early season, the Tour Colombia 2.1, which showcased the host country’s talent and its passion for the sport, and Team Sky’s hunt for a replacement sponsor. Will ...
57m Feb 21, 2019
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S7 Ep9: The Cycling Podcast Féminin | Episode 32
The February episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin includes interviews with cyclo-cross world championship silver medallist Lucinda Brand, Olympic gold medallist Katie Archibald and the recently retired Dani Rowe. Orla Chennaoui, Richard Moore and Rose Manley discuss the latest news, including a thrilling women’s race at the cyclo-cross worlds in Denmark. Brand suffered a late mishap when she...
1hr 6m Feb 18, 2019
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S7 Ep8: Cavendish on the comeback trail
This week's episode of The Cycling Podcast tackles all the biggest stories from the world of professional cycling and features an exclusive interview with Mark Cavendish, who is seeking to return to his best after almost 18 months laid low with Epstein-Barr virus. In the first part, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe recap the week's racing, discuss the reports that Dave Brailsford...
59m Feb 13, 2019
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S7 Ep7: Katusha-Alpecin's reboot
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the stories thrown up by the early season stage races before focusing on Katusha-Alpecin's attempts to recover from a poor season in 2018. The Swiss team with the Russian origins had a torrid year, collecting just five wins. Marcel Kittel, their expensive marquee signing from Quick Step, failed to rep...
1hr 7m Feb 07, 2019
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S7 Ep6: The disruptors from 'Derbados'
This episode of The Cycling Podcast features an extended interview by Richard Moore with Dan Bigham, John Archibald, Jacob Tipper and Jonathan Wale of the Huub Wattbike team that has been ruffling feathers on the track. At the weekend, they won the national team pursuit title and their rider John Archibald rode a 4-09 in the 4,000-metre individual pursuit, which gives him the second and third ...
1hr 27m Jan 31, 2019
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S7 Ep5: Deja vu Down Under
In the latest episode of The Cycling Podcast the regular hosts, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe, discuss the first World Tour race of the 2019 season, the Tour Down Under, won by South African Daryl Impey. There are interviews with Tim Declercq of Deceunink-Quick-Step and Pascal Eenkhoorn of Team Jumbo-Visma. Declercq discusses the prospects of his new teammate, Remco Evenepoel,...
59m Jan 24, 2019
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S7 Ep4: The Cycling Podcast Féminin | Episode 31
The first Cycling Podcast Féminin of 2019 includes interviews with new Trek-Segafredo recruit Abi Van Twisk, Canyon-SRAM’s Hannah Barnes and retired rider Iris Slappendel. Orla Chennaoui, Rose Manley and Richard Moore discuss the Women’s Tour Down Under, won by Amanda Spratt, where Trek-Segafredo got off to a flyer thanks to Letizia Paternoster’s success on stage one. After a difficult season...
1hr 6m Jan 22, 2019
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S7 Ep3: A fresh start for Caleb Ewan and a reboot for Bob Jungels
The 2019 road racing season is underway in Australia and Caleb Ewan got off to the perfect start, winning the People's Choice Classic, his first race in Lotto-Soudal colours before the Tour Down Under began. We hear from Ewan about how he hopes to return to peak form after a disappointing final year with Mitchelton-Scott where his sprinting ambitions got squeezed out as the team focused on the...
1hr 2m Jan 17, 2019
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S6 Ep2: Dumoulin's Giro ambitions
Join Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe as The Cycling Podcast returns for the 2019 season with a look at Team Sunweb and Tom Dumoulin's plans for the Grand Tours. We hear from the 2017 Giro d'Italia champion about why he's focusing on the Italian Grand Tour this season. We also hear from Team Sunweb's trainer Hendrik Werner and new signing Nicolas Roche. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Raph...
57m Jan 10, 2019
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S7 Ep1: Explore | Episode 7 | Riding and racing
We kick off 2019 with the seventh and final episode of Explore, our series looking at the worlds of bikepacking, endurance and ultra endurance riding. Lionel Birnie and Hannah Troop are joined by Richard Moore to look back at the highlights of the series and look forward to the way the world's of professional racing and endurance events may collide in future. We hear from Simon Mottram, the f...
1hr 39m Jan 01, 2019
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S6 Ep161: Christmas drinks with Dan Lloyd
December 23 | Our 161st and final free-to-air episode of 2018 is a twist on the semi-regular Lunch With series. Join Lionel Birnie for Christmas drinks with Dan Lloyd. Lionel met Dan at the Dancing Man Brewery in Southampton for a beer, a bite to eat and a conversation about his life and career. Okay, these were early Christmas drinks – recorded in mid-November but the Christmas decorations we...
1hr 31m Dec 23, 2018
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S6 Ep160: Explore | Episode 6 | Remembering Mike Hall + Riding Around the World
December 21 | Episode 6 This episode of Explore tells two stories. In the first half, Lionel Birnie travels to mid-Wales to meet Anna Haslock, race director of the Transcontinental Race and partner of the late Mike Hall, who founded the event. It brings the debut series of Explore full circle. In episode one we met James Hayden, winner of the Transcontinental Race two years running, and in e...
1hr 30m Dec 21, 2018
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S6 Ep159: The end of Team Sky
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe meet up at London's Soho Theatre to discuss the news that Sky's sponsorship of the cycling team will come to an end in December 2019. We reflect on Team Sky's nine years in the peloton, ask what the tenth season has in store and discuss what this means for Dave Brailsford and his star riders Chris Froome, Ge...
1hr 16m Dec 18, 2018
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S6 Ep158: Explore | Episode 5 | The TransAtlantic Way
December 14 | Episode 5 This episode of Explore with Lionel Birnie and Hannah Troop focuses on the TransAtlantic Way in Ireland featuring two riders who took part this year, Laura Scott and Simon Gill. The TransAtlantic Way is an unsupported ride that goes from Dublin to Derry (with riders choosing their own route for the first leg) before following the Wild Atlantic Way all the way round the...
1hr 31m Dec 14, 2018
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S6 Ep157: Bennett’s dilemma and Kennaugh’s return
The latest episode of The Cycling Podcast features interviews with Sam Bennett and Peter Kennaugh as Daniel spends a day in Mallorca with the Bora-Hansgrohe team. There’s also discussion of the news that Sky will be pulling out of sponsoring Team Sky at the end of 2019, with a more in-depth episode covering this story to come next week. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Rapha and Science in...
1hr 2m Dec 12, 2018
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S6 Ep156: The Cycling Podcast Féminin | In conversation with Ashleigh Moolman Pasio
The December episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin is presented by Richard Moore and Orla Chennaoui and features an in-depth interview with one of the world's top riders, Ashleigh Moolman Pasio. The South African has just had her best season, which included placing second at the Giro Rosa and Flèche Wallonne, and Richard met her at her home on the outskirts of Banyoles in Catalonia. Moolman P...
1hr 15m Dec 10, 2018
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S6 Ep155: Explore | Episode 4 | Lionel's Low Route with Ned Boulting
December 7 | Episode 4 After the incredible feats we've covered in the first three episodes of Explore, it's time for a bit of a gear change this time as we discover the joy of cycling and the way a journey on two wheels can develop (and sometimes test) a friendship. Lionel's Low Route is the antidote to the Haute Route, which tackles every mountain on the horizon. Carefully plotting a two-an...
1hr 39m Dec 07, 2018
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S6 Ep154: Remembering Paul Sherwen
December 6 | In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe remember Paul Sherwen, who died at the weekend aged 62. Sherwen was a pioneering rider – heading to France to make it as a professional in the late 1970s when very few British or English-speaking riders managed to make that breakthrough. He was the first of the 'second wave' of English-speakers ...
1hr 3m Dec 06, 2018
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S6 Ep153: Explore | Episode 3 | End-To-End
November 30 | Episode 3 Earlier this year, long-distance time triallist Michael Broadwith – a multiple national 24-hour champion – set about tackling Gethin Butler’s 17-year-old record for riding from Land’s End to John O’Groats. This is arguably the most prestigious of the place-to-place records, with a history stretching back to 1886. In this episode of Explore by The Cycling Podcast, we m...
1hr 20m Nov 30, 2018
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S6 Ep152: The Cycling Podcast Live in Cardiff
November 29 | Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie, Orla Chennaoui and a sold-out live audience at Cardiff's St David's Hall in this episode of The Cycling Podcast. Earlier this year, we went on our Grand Tour of (Parts of) Britain to promote our first book, A Journey Through the Cycling Year. In response to that, Joanne John – a podcast listener who runs events at St David's Hall – contacted us...
1hr 6m Nov 29, 2018
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S6 Ep151: Explore | Episode 2 | Australia
November 23 | Episode 2 This episode of Explore heads to Australia and then across the great nation with two riders who had very different reasons for setting out on the challenges before them. First up is a compelling interview with Rupert Guinness, an Australian cycling journalist who has been covering professional racing since 1987. Much loved by his colleagues in the Tour de France press ...
1hr 13m Nov 23, 2018
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S6 Ep150: Not lunch with Adam Blythe
This episode is a twist on The Cycling Podcast's occasional Lunch With... series. Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie met up with Adam Blythe during the London Six-Day at the Olympic velodrome and although they did have lunch the podcast was recorded once all the plates had been cleared away. The former British national champion is still only 29 but has packed a lot into his nine-year pro career....
1hr 16m Nov 21, 2018
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S6 Ep149: Explore | Episode 1 | The Transcontinental Race
November 16 | Episode 1 The Cycling Podcast’s new series Explore focuses on the booming world of endurance and ultra endurance riding and bikepacking. Join hosts Lionel Birnie and Hannah Troop, plus producer Tom Whalley, for a six-part series with new episodes released each Friday morning. Over the course of the series we’ll hear inspirational stories from people who have undertaken some rem...
1hr 23m Nov 16, 2018
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S6 Ep148: The Cycling Podcast Féminin | Episode 29
In the November episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin Richard Moore, Orla Chennaoui and Rose Manley discuss the latest events in women's cycling. There's an interview with Lucy Kennedy of Australia and Mitchelton-Scott at the recent Taiwan KOM Challenge, which she won, and we hear from French rider Audrey Cordon-Ragot on her move from Wiggle-High5 to Trek-Segafredo. Rachel McKinnon recently ...
1hr 14m Nov 15, 2018
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S6 Ep147: An interview with Geraint Thomas
November 14 | Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas speaks to The Cycling Podcast this week as he recalls his victory in July, discusses training in Tenerife and his chances of repeating his success in another Grand Tour — and takes issue with the podcast’s Richard Moore for dismissing him as a potential winner, even after he won back to back stages in the Alps! Richard, Lionel Birnie and Danie...
1hr 8m Nov 14, 2018
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S6 Ep146: A stagiaire's story with Freddy Ovett
November 7 | In this bumper episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe look at the long-established route into the professional ranks for young riders – the stagiaire system – and hear an extended interview with Freddy Ovett, who rode as a stagiaire for BMC Racing earlier this year. Each year many of the World Tour teams offer stagiaire placements to young r...
1hr 17m Nov 08, 2018
1hr 17m
S6 Ep145: The 2019 Giro and Chris Hoy on the revolution in track sprinting
November 1 | In another packed episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe give their snap reaction to the 2019 Giro d'Italia route, which will stay in Italy (bar a brief incursion into San Marino) and will feature some serious climbing in the second half of the race. With the race starting in Bologna next May, Lionel attempts to draw Daniel into a debate abo...
1hr 11m Nov 01, 2018
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S6 Ep144: No Brakes | Red Hook Milano
The first episode of The Cycling Podcast: No Brakes features the recent Milan Red Hook criterium, one of the new events that has gained a big following and a place on cycling's 'alternative calendar.' Calvert Churchill and Keira McVitty report from Milan, speaking to some of the organisers and riders, including Red Hook founder David Trimble and Angus Morton, the Australian who has ridden as a...
1hr 3m Oct 26, 2018
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S6 Ep143: The 2019 Tour de France route ramble
October 26 | The 2019 World Tour season finally drew to a close with the Tour of Guangxi last week and this week the route for the 2019 Tour de France was unveiled. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe assess the 2019 Tour, which will take the peloton in a diagonal from Brussels to the south west and then across to the Alps before the traditional final stage in Paris. What does the ...
1hr 2m Oct 26, 2018
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S6 Ep142: Pinot's vintage Lombardy
October 17 | In the latest episode of The Cycling Podcast Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe discuss Thibaut Pinot’s win at Il Lombardia and we hear from Pinot himself, who discusses Strava art, the disappointment that will haunt him and his plans for 2019. There’s also an interview with 22 year old British rider James Shaw, who has lost his place with Lotto-Soudal and tells us about the challeng...
53m Oct 17, 2018
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S6 Ep141: Vineyards, Valverde and Sagan
In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe are reunited in London to reflect on the Paris-Tours Classic and Alejandro Valverde's This bumper show was recorded in the cafe at Soho's Curzon cinema and begins with a discussion on the inclusion of gravel sections in Paris-Tours, which revamped what had previously been known as the sprinters' Classic. We...
1hr 20m Oct 09, 2018
1hr 20m
S6 Ep140: The Cycling Podcast Féminin | Episode 28
In the October episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin Richard Moore and Orla Chennaoui report from the world championships and are joined by Rose Manley to discuss all the action from Innsbruck. There are interviews with Coryn Rivera, Audrey Cordon-Ragot, Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig and promising young British rider Pfeiffer Georgi. We also discuss the recent UCI reforms and how they might affect wo...
1hr 24m Oct 08, 2018
1hr 24m
S6 Ep139: Kilometre 0 Worlds Stories: Never too late
Edwige Pitel competed at the world road race championship in Innsbruck for France. She has been racing for 15 years, including at the Athens Olympics in 2004, and was French road race champion in 2016. She was 49 then and is 51 now — and still riding at the highest level. She also works as a computer engineer and manages her season with care, not racing week in, week out but selecting her targ...
18m Oct 05, 2018
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S6 Ep138: Kilometre 0 Worlds stories: From Aleppo to Innsbruck
Badreddin Wais was the one-man elite men’s Syrian team at the world championships in Innsbruck. In this special episode of Kilometre 0 he tells Orla Chennaoui about his journey as a refugee from his home city, Aleppo, to Switzerland, where he now lives, works and races his bike. ‘Cycling is therapy,’ he says as he explains that his dream is to earn a professional contract and to represent his c...
18m Oct 03, 2018
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S6 Ep137: The world championships
Richard Moore and Orla Chennaoui report from the world championships in Innsbruck, where Alejandro Valverde and Anna van der Breggen won the men’s and women’s titles. They are joined by podcast friends Ciro Scognamiglio and Fran Reyes and there are interviews with bronze medalist Michael Woods, silver medalist Romain Bardet, Ion Izaguirre, Tom Dumoulin, George Bennett, Peter Kennaugh, Lucinda ...
1hr 21m Oct 01, 2018
1hr 21m
S6 Ep136: The Innsbruck worlds
In the latest episode of The Cycling Podcast Richard Moore and Orla Chennaoui report from Innsbruck, where the world championships are being held this week, and Daniel Friebe previews the course and looks ahead to Sunday’s men’s road race. We hear from the talented young British rider James Knox who rides for Quick-Step but will be helping Adam and Simon Yates in their bid for the rainbow jers...
1hr 5m Sep 27, 2018
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S1 Ep27: The Cycling Podcast Féminin | Episode 27
In the September episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin, Richard Moore, Orla Chennaoui and Rose Manley discuss the latest racing and look ahead to the world championships. At the Madrid Challenge we hear from overall winner Ellen van Dijk and Georgia Bronzini, who won her final race before becoming a sports director with the new Trek Factory Racing team. There are also interviews with Hannah B...
1hr 16m Sep 23, 2018
1hr 16m
S6 Ep135: From Canada to the CPA
September 18 | The first post-Vuelta podcast features a report from the Canadian World Tour races from François Thomazeau, including interviews with Michael Matthews, Nathan Haas and Simon Gerrans. David Millar tells us about his bid to become president of the professional cyclists’ association, and there’s a response from the CPA. There are extracts from the diaries kept by Mark Downey at the...
1hr 10m Sep 19, 2018
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S6 Ep134: Stage 21 | Alcorcón – Madrid | Vuelta a España 2018
The Vuelta a España finished in Madrid with Elia Viviani winning the stage and Simon Yates confirming his overall victory. The final podcast of the race has Fran Reyes and Daniel Friebe reporting from Madrid, with interviews with Julian Dean of Mitchelton-Scott and Patrick Lefevere of Quick-Step. Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie review the race and how it was won and we also hear from Tao Geogh...
1hr 1m Sep 16, 2018
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S6 Ep133: Stage 20 | Escaldes-Engordany – Coll de la Gallina | Vuelta a España 2018
Simon Yates is set to be crowned 2018 Vuelta a España winner in Madrid on Sunday after defending his leader’s red jersey in Andorra. On a short but, in his words, “ferocious” stage, Yates came in third, behind Enric Mas and Miguel Angel Lopez, who also moved up to second and third overall with their performances on this mountainous penultimate stage. In the penultimate Vuelta podcast, Richard ...
56m Sep 15, 2018
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S6 Ep132: Stage 19 | Lleida – Andorra | Vuelta a España 2018
As Simon Yates tightened his grip on the red jersey of leader of the Vuelta a España, Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Fran Reyes report from Andorra on the penultimate day in the mountains. It looked decisive as Yates increased his lead over Alejandro Valverde, though Saturday’s short stage, just 97km long, includes six climbs and could be very dangerous. In this episode of The Cycling Podcas...
39m Sep 14, 2018
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S6 Ep130: Stage 18 | Ejea de los Caballeros – Lleida | Vuelta a España 2018
The stage 18 podcast from the Vuelta a España reflects on an upset, with Jelle Wallays upsetting the sprinters with a clever and strong ride to win in Lleida. Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Fran Reyes discuss the peloton’s misjudgement and Wallays’ win after the Belgian endured a terrible time with crashes and injuries at the Vuelta last year. We hear from some of the disappointed riders, Qu...
47m Sep 13, 2018
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S6 Ep129: Stage 17 | Getxo – Balcón de Bizkaia | Vuelta a España 2018
With the Vuelta a España in the Basque Country, one of cycling’s real heartlands, the fans were out in force as the riders tackled one of the toughest climbs of this year’s race. In this episode there are interviews with American rider Sepp Kuss, impressing in his Grand Tour debut, and Tony Gallopin, the experienced French rider who is riding for the overall classification for the first time i...
52m Sep 12, 2018
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S6 Ep127: Stage 16 | Santillana del Mar – Torrelavega | Vuelta a España 2018
The important time trial stage produced the expected shake-up of the general classification at the Vuelta a España – but the identity of the winners and losers caught some by surprise. It was a good day for Simon Yates and Steven Kruijswijk and a bad one for Nairo Quintana and Miguel Ángel López. In the stage 16 podcast Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Fran Reyes discuss the significance of th...
42m Sep 11, 2018
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S6 Ep126: The Press Conference - Part 2
Join Richard, Fran and Daniel as they answer your questions in part two of the Cycling Podcast's press conference at the 2018 Vuelta a España. You can send The Cycling Podcast an audio memo via WhatsApp to +44 7971 338 205
35m Sep 11, 2018
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S6 Ep125: The Press Conference - Part 1
Join Richard, Fran and Lionel as they answer your questions in part one of the first Cycling Podcast press conference at the 2018 Vuelta a España. Send The Cycling Podcast an audio memo via WhatsApp to +44 7971 338 205
43m Sep 10, 2018
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S6 Ep123: Stage 15 | Ribera de Arriba – Lagos de Covadonga | Vuelta a España 2018
From a misty summit of one of the Vuelta’s iconic climbs, Lagos de Covadonga, Richard Moore and Fran Reyes report from one of this year’s race’s decisive stages. While Thibaut Pinot took a brilliant win, the other overall contenders were involved in a tactical battle that, in the end, was won by Simon Yates, who consolidated his overall lead and now takes the red jersey into the second rest day...
37m Sep 09, 2018
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S6 Ep122: Stage 14 | Cistierna – Les Praeres, Nava | Vuelta a España 2018
The fourteenth stage of the Vuelta a España finished with a new climb to Les Praeres which provided the platform for Simon Yates to win the stage and reclaim the red jersey. Richard Moore, Fran Reyes and Daniel Friebe discuss the action and Yates’ chances of holding on to the jersey against the formidable looking Colombian duo of Nairo Quintana and Miguel Angel Lopez. We hear from Richie Porte...
45m Sep 08, 2018
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