Stage 9 | Radda in Chianti to Greve in Chianti | Giro d'Italia 2016
For the latest Cycling Podcast, from the Giro d’Italia, Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are joined in Greve in Chianti by Caley Fretz of VeloNews as they discuss the stage nine time trial won by Primoz Roglic. There are interviews with Mikel Landa, the Team Sky leader, and, after a rough couple of days for the former pink jersey wearer, Tom Dumoulin. With the time trial run off in treacherous ...
33m May 15, 2016
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Stage 8 | Foligno to Arezzo | Giro d'Italia 2016
In the latest Cycling Podcast Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie report from Arezzo, where stage eight of the Giro d’Italia finished. They are joined by Dutch journalist Daan Hakkenberg, who discusses Tom Dumoulin’s bad day in the pink jersey of race leader, as well as the strong performance by his countryman, Steven Kruijswijk, who moved up to third overall behind new leader, Gianluca Brambilla. ...
34m May 14, 2016
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Stage 7 | Sulmona to Foligno | Giro d'Italia 2016
In our stage 7 podcast we take an in-depth look at a team that is at the Giro d’Italia hunting for stage wins – BMC Racing. We hear from their sports director, Max Sciandri, and young Swiss star Stefan Küng, who came close to winning the stage with a late, solo attack. Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are joined by Ciro Scognamiglio of Gazzetta dello Sport and discuss Andre Greipel’s second sta...
39m May 13, 2016
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Stage 6 | Ponte to Roccaraso | Giro d'Italia 2016
In the latest Cycling Podcast from the Giro d’Italia, Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are joined by Sophie Smith as they discuss the sixth stage from Ponte to Roccaraso, with the first summit finish. There are interviews with the Orica-GreenEdge sports director Matt White, and with Rory Sutherland of the Movistar team. White was critical of Movistar’s tactics on the treacherous descent of Bocc...
42m May 12, 2016
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Stage 5 | Praia a Mare to Benevento | Giro d'Italia 2016
As the Giro d’Italia makes its way north, stopping in Benevento, an hour from Naples, Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are joined by Caley Fretz of VeloNews to discuss the stage, won by Germany’s Andre Greipel, and also the controversy over motors in bikes – a story that Fretz has been following closely. We hear from Greipel’s Lotto-Soudal teammate, Adam Hansen, riding his 14th consecutive Gran...
37m May 11, 2016
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Stage 4 | Catanzaro to Praia a Mare | Giro d'Italia 2016
The Giro d’Italia finally reached home soil on Tuesday and The Cycling Podcast was there to see Diego Ulissi win the fourth stage and Tom Dumoulin reclaim the pink jersey. In Praia a Mare, Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie were joined by Ciro Scognamiglio of Gazzetta dello Sport. We also hear from Team Sky’s Ian Boswell and Dumoulin’s coach at the Giant-Alpecin team, Marc Reef, who reveals that ...
30m May 10, 2016
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Stage 3 | Nijmegen to Arnhem | Giro d'Italia 2016
On the Giro d’Italia’s third and final day in the Netherlands, The Telegraph Cycling Podcast reviews the stage and looks ahead to finally landing on Italian soil. The race resumes on Tuesday more than 2,000km away in the south of Italy. And after his second stage win, this one in Arnhem on Sunday, it will be Marcel Kittel who lines up for stage four in the Maglia Rosa (pink jersey) of overall l...
32m May 08, 2016
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Stage 2 | Arnhem to Nijmegen | Giro d'Italia 2016
Marcel Kittel proved that he is back to his best with a convincing win in Nijmegen at the end of stage two of the Giro d’Italia and The Telegraph Cycling Podcast was there to witness his victory and reflect on the German’s return to form. Over a beer in a bustling square in central Nijmegen, with the Dutch city en fête for the visit of the Giro, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe d...
41m May 07, 2016
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Stage 1 | Apeldoorn | Giro d'Italia 2016
The 99th Giro d’Italia got underway in the Netherlands on Friday and the Telegraph Cycling Podcast team were there to witness a popular local win for Tom Dumoulin – as they will be throughout the three-week race. This will be the first year the podcast has covered the ‘Connoisseur’s Grand Tour’ in full, with nightly shows as well as nine episodes of Kilometre 0, every Monday, Wednesday and Fri...
42m May 06, 2016
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15. Sutton allegations rock British Cycling
In the latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast the team discusses the controversy at British Cycling following allegations that Shane Sutton, the technical director, used sexist and offensive language against female and Paralympic athletes – allegations that Sutton denies. Sutton was suspended late on Tuesday night and then resigned on Wednesday. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss...
52m Apr 27, 2016
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14. Disc or no disc
April 20 | In this week’s Telegraph Cycling Podcast Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe are joined by Rob Hatch as they discuss the Ardennes Classics and two equipment-related controversies, involving disc brakes and renewed allegations of motors in bikes. Only a few teams have been using disc brakes this season as part of a UCI-sanctioned trial. But the trial ended abruptly last week after the Sp...
50m Apr 21, 2016
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The Cycling Podcast Big Race Explainer – No.4 Liège-Bastogne-Liège
April 20 | Liège-Bastogne-Liège is the final important one-day Classic of the spring before the focus switches to stage races and the Grand Tours. La Doyenne is the oldest of professional cycling's five one-day Monuments. It is a very different race to the cobbled Classics that come earlier in the spring. The course makes its way into the hilly Ardennes and the amount of climbing in the secon...
8m Apr 20, 2016
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13. Hayman triumphs at a classic Paris-Roubaix
April 12 | In this week’s episode of The Telegraph Cycling Podcast our hosts, much like the international peloton, are split between the cobbles of north-eastern France and the green hills of the Basque Country. It’s a point in the season where the contrast between the different types of road racing in professional cycling could not be starker. Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe headed to Paris-...
1hr 6m Apr 12, 2016
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The Trainer Road Challenge | 2. The Race
April 7 | After five months of training using the Trainer Road App, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Rob Hatch headed to Manchester's velodrome for the conclusion of their challenge. Coach Chad Timmermann from Trainer Road had set the challenge back in the autumn – which of our three riders would be the fastest in a four-kilometre individual time trial? This episode tells the story of the rac...
20m Apr 07, 2016
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12. Peter the Great: Sagan takes flight in Flanders
April 7 | This episode of the Telegraph Cycling Podcast analyses the Tour of Flanders and the impressive attack by the world champion Peter Sagan that decided it. With Richard Moore off at the Tour of the Basque Country, Eurosport’s Rob Hatch stepped in to join regular presenters Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie to dissect the UCI World Tour race in Belgium. Sagan’s brilliant and immaculately-...
42m Apr 06, 2016
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The Cycling Podcast Big Race Explainer – No.3 Paris-Roubaix
April 6 | With its battered cobbled roads, Paris-Roubaix is a race that belongs to the past. And yet it is arguably the most eagerly-awaited single-day race of the entire year. The weather forecast is monitored on an hour-by-hour basis as race day approaches because, of all the great Classics, the conditions have the greatest bearing on the character of the race. A dry Paris-Roubaix with a ta...
11m Apr 05, 2016
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11. Tragedy at Ghent-Wevelgem: Reflection before revolution
March 31 | It has been a dark week for cycling following the deaths of Antoine Demoitié, who died after being hit by a motorcycle during Sunday’s Ghent-Wevelgem, and Daan Myngheer, who suffered a heart attack at Critérium International. This episode of The Telegraph Cycling Podcast focuses on the incident at Ghent-Wevelgem, which was the latest in a growing list of collisions between race vehi...
1hr 12m Mar 30, 2016
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The Cycling Podcast Big Race Explainer – No.2 Tour of Flanders
March 30 | This episode of The Cycling Podcast's Big Race Explainer focuses on the Tour of Flanders. Although it's the youngest of the five single-day monuments – founded in 1913 – the old cobbled roads mean that the character of the challenge ahead of the riders has remained barely changed for decades. We talk to the defending champion Alexander Kristoff and three-time winner Tom Boonen to f...
9m Mar 30, 2016
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10. A postcard from Sanremo
March 24 | This week’s Telegraph Cycling Podcast includes a special report from the first Monument of the season, Milan-San Remo. Daniel Friebe was there for the podcast, capturing the atmosphere in San Remo as the town prepared for the finish, speaking to the locals and then spending the day on Via Roma until the riders swept in, led by surprise winner Arnaud Démare of FDJ. We hear from Démar...
49m Mar 23, 2016
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The Trainer Road Challenge | 1. Training
March 21 | Back in the autumn a company called Trainer Road approached The Cycling Podcast offering to sponsor our episodes over the winter. But there was a catch. They wanted our hosts to follow a Trainer Road turbo training programme throughout the winter, track their improvements and then race head-to-head over four kilometres at Manchester velodrome. So Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Eu...
15m Mar 21, 2016
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9. Snow and Nice
March 17 | Geraint Thomas’s victory in Paris-Nice is the main talking point in this week’s Telegraph Cycling Podcast. Hosts Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss what it means for the Welshman, who managed something Bradley Wiggins never did – he beat Alberto Contador. Contador threw everything he had at Thomas, but the Team Sky rider held on for a career best victory. The onl...
50m Mar 16, 2016
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The Cycling Podcast Big Race Explainer – No.1 Milan-San Remo
March 16 | The Cycling Podcast teams up with Eurosport to begin the countdown to the first Monument of the season, Milan-San Remo. Nicknamed La Primavera, or La Classicissima, the longest one-day Classic of the season is also one of the most open. If the Cipressa and Poggio fail to decide the result, it all comes down to a sprint finish in the Via Roma. In this special short episode of The Cy...
9m Mar 16, 2016
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8. Track and dirt roads
March 9 | This week’s Telegraph Cycling Podcast includes reports from the track cycling world championships in London and the Strade Bianche in Tuscany. “I’m proud of them,” an emotional Shane Sutton, the coach in charge of the British team, told us as Sir Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish crossed the line to secure a memorable madison victory in the London velodrome on Sunday. For Cavendish...
49m Mar 09, 2016
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7. Cometh the cobbles
March 3 | In the latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast the team discuss the opening weekend of the fabled cobbled classics, with Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne whetting the appetite for the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix next month. Lionel Birnie brings us some on-the-ground reaction from the Belgian semi-classics and he is joined back in London by Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe. Th...
55m Mar 02, 2016
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6. The Lizzie Armitstead interview
February 25 | This week’s Telegraph Cycling Podcast features an exclusive interview with world champion Lizzie Armitstead ahead of her season debut at Het Nieuwsblad on Saturday We also hear from the former double junior world champion, Lucy Garner, who has joined British team Wiggle-High5. Armitstead looks ahead to her big target for 2016, the Rio Olympic road race, but also takes us back to ...
51m Feb 24, 2016
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5. Cavendish clinches Qatar as Kristoff wins three stages
February 16 | In this week’s Telegraph Cycling Podcast the regular team of Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss Mark Cavendish’s overall victory at the Tour of Qatar and his sprint battles with Alexander Kristoff and what they might mean for the rest of the season. Kristoff’s team, Katusha, has been in the news for other reasons, with the Russian squad appearing to escape lig...
33m Feb 15, 2016
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4. Early wins for Kittel, Cavendish and Froome
February 11 | The Telegraph Cycling Podcast returns this week with Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discussing the latest racing in the Middle East, Australia, Spain and France. Marcel Kittel, who missed most of 2015 with illness and poor form, appeared rejuvenated when he made his debut for his new team, Etixx-QuickStep, at the Dubai Tour. In sprinting to two stage wins and the ...
44m Feb 10, 2016
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3. Motors, mud and early season races
February 4 | Motorised doping is the hot topic in the sport of cycling and also in the latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast, with Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discussing events at last weekend’s cyclo-cross world championships. Femke Van den Driessche, a Belgian cyclo-cross rider, was caught with a concealed device in her bike after the inaugural under-23 women’s race. With rumou...
42m Feb 03, 2016
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2. The road season gets underway
January 28 | The season has kicked off and, in the latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the opening events in Australia and Argentina. At the Tour Down Under in Adelaide Simon Gerrans took his fourth win and Caleb Ewan confirmed his promise as a sprinter – prompting the podcast team to ask, is he quick enough to beat Mark Cavendish and Marcel...
54m Jan 27, 2016
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Friends Special No. 1 Preview - The Froome Tests
Inside the Lab: Chris Froome entered a laboratory in west London for physiological testing after winning his second Tour de France in August 2015. The results have been pored over since they were made public, and their significance debated – not least by The Cycling Podcast. Our first Friends Special of 2016 takes you inside the lab – not to go over old ground, but to give you a flavour of wh...
5m Jan 20, 2016
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1. At the training camps
January 14 | In the first Telegraph Cycling Podcast of 2016 we hear from training camps in Spain and Manchester and riders including Mark Cavendish, Ireland’s Dan Martin and Italy’s Elia Viviani. Richard Moore is joined by Ciro Scognamiglio and Orla Chennaoui in Mallorca at the Team Sky winter base, where Sir Dave Brailsford explains the thinking behind the camp. Brailsford also tells us how t...
46m Jan 14, 2016
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43. Heroes, villains and the stories of 2015
December 28 | In this, the final episode of The Telegraph Cycling Podcast in 2015, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe are joined by some friends of the podcast to look back at some of the moments of the year. Among the guests are Ned Boulting, Orla Chennaoui, Rob Hatch, François Thomazeau and Ciro Scognamiglio. The Telegraph Cycling Podcast is supported by Trainer Road.
41m Dec 28, 2015
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The Cycling Podcast's Christmas Message
December 22 | The Cycling Podcast team would like to thank all our listeners for helping to make 2015 our best year yet – and ask for your support to make 2016 even better. And so, after a couple of Sherries, it fell to Lionel Birnie to give this year's Christmas message...
3m Dec 22, 2015
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42. The scientists speak, part two
December 17 | This is part two of our conversation with sports scientists Jeroen Swart and Ross Tucker. Swart was one of the scientists who tested Tour de France champion Chris Froome at the GSK lab, while Tucker has publicly questioned Froome's performances and called for greater transparency. The Telegraph Cycling Podcast is supported by Trainer Road.
40m Dec 17, 2015
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41. The scientists speak
December 15 | The new Telegraph Cycling Podcast features part one of a two-part interview with sports scientists Jeroen Swart and Ross Tucker. Part two will be released later this week. The South Africans, both based in Cape Town, have been among the most prominent voices in the discussion over power data and Chris Froome’s recent physiological tests. Swart was one of the scientists who tested...
58m Dec 15, 2015
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40. Bradley Wiggins interview
December 9 | This week’s Telegraph Cycling Podcast features an exclusive interview with Sir Bradley Wiggins, as well as a competition to win a signed copy of his new book, My Hour. Wiggins looks back at his hour record, set in London in June, in the company of Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie. “I’d love to do it again,” says Wiggins of the hour, “but I just don’t think I’m going to have the tim...
43m Dec 09, 2015
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39. Chris Froome's lab test
December 4 | In this week’s show Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie discuss Chris Froome’s test results, published in Esquire magazine on Friday. It was in August that Froome went to the GSK Human Performance Laboratory in west London in response to the clamour for physiological data that followed his second Tour de France victory a few weeks earlier. Froome underwent a Vo2 max test as well as su...
36m Dec 04, 2015
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38. The Basque Country episode
November 25 | The latest episode of The Telegraph Cycling Podcast features a special report from the Basque Country. Richard Moore introduces the region and the riders from a small pocket of northern Spain that is synonymous with world class cycling. Along with Flanders and Brittany it is one of the sport’s talent hotbeds, producing an extraordinary number of top riders – especially exciting c...
46m Nov 25, 2015
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37. The cycling writing show
November 17 | This week’s Telegraph Cycling Podcast has a literary theme. With Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe at the London Sports Writing Festival at Lord’s, they introduce interviews with Brendan Gallagher and Edward Pickering, author of The Yellow Jersey Club, which features interviews with many of the surviving members of cycling’s most exclusive club: those who have won th...
53m Nov 17, 2015
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36. A chat with Sean Kelly
November 11 | With Richard and Daniel away, this week Lionel Birnie sits down with Sean Kelly to talk about his early days as a professional rider, his first win, his first Tour de France and his first (and only) day in the yellow jersey. The Irishman topped the world rankings for much of the 1980s and earned the nickname King Kelly during a spell of Classics dominance in 1984, when he won Mil...
33m Nov 10, 2015
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35. In conversation with Geraint Thomas
November 3 | This week’s podcast features Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie in conversation with Geraint Thomas. In a wide ranging interview Thomas discusses his upbringing in Wales, his breakthrough 2015, in which he won his first Classic and seemed set to challenge for the podium at the Tour de France, his goals for 2016, and whether one day he could see himself moving on from Team Sky. Heari...
46m Nov 03, 2015
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34. More Joy of Six
October 28 | This week's podcast, with Lionel Birnie and Richard Moore, features a second report from the London Six Day. We hear from six-day legend Iljo Keisse, 2014 Paris-Roubaix winner Niki Terpstra, and Maurice Burton, who competed in the last six-day in London, held at Wembley Stadium in 1980, and whose son, Germain, was competing in the revived event. Burton senior competed in the major...
43m Oct 28, 2015
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33. Tour de France 2016 and the London Six Day
October 21 | The latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast comes from the new London Six Day and includes analysis of the route for the 2016 Tour de France, which was revealed on Tuesday, as well as an interview with Britain’s greatest ever Olympian, Sir Chris Hoy. Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie were at the London velodrome for the third day of racing at the London Six and speak to Garry Beckett, who ...
47m Oct 21, 2015
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32. The old and the new: Tour of Abu Dhabi and Paris-Tours
In this week's episode of The Telegraph Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are again joined by Eurosport's commentator Rob Hatch to discuss the closing week of the road racing season. Attention was split between a new race, the Tour of Abu Dhabi, and one of the oldest Classics, Paris-Tours. Lionel asks whether new events on the calendar have a duty to be genuinely innovative by e...
40m Oct 14, 2015
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31. Il Lombardia, World Tour and David Millar
October 7 | This week’s Telegraph Cycling Podcast includes a guest appearance by David Millar, talking about his new book, The Racer, as Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Rob Hatch discuss the latest cycling news, from Il Lombardia, won by Vincenzo Nibali, to Marcel Kittel’s move to Etixx-QuickStep. Millar’s book is the follow-up to his critically acclaimed autobiography, Racing Through The Dar...
39m Oct 06, 2015
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30. The World Championships with Ned Boulting
September 30 | In the latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are joined by Ned Boulting to discuss last week’s world road race championships in Richmond, Virginia. The women’s and men’s road races had worthy and deserving winners in Lizzie Armitstead and Peter Sagan: a testament to the unusual course, with its cobbles and short, sharp climbs, which produced a series o...
49m Sep 30, 2015
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29. Previewing the World Championship road races
September 23 | The latest episode of the Telegraph Cycling Podcast looks ahead to the men’s and women’s world road race championships, one of the great weekends of the cycling year, being held in Richmond, Virginia. Rob Hatch joins Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie with Daniel Friebe also offering his thoughts on the course and the favourites for Sunday’s men’s race. There’s an interview with Ow...
47m Sep 23, 2015
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28. Aru claims the Vuelta as Dumoulin falters
September 15 | In the latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast there are interviews with American riders Taylor Phinney, who rode the Tour of Britain as he continues his comeback from a career-threatening injury, and Ian Boswell, the Team Sky rider who made his Grand Tour debut at the Vuelta a Espana. Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are joined by Rob Hatch as they pick over the bones of the two races,...
59m Sep 15, 2015
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27. Can Tom Dumoulin win the Vuelta?
September 8 | Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie are joined by Orla Chennaoui of Sky Sports in the latest Telegraph Cycling Podcast. They discuss the Vuelta a Espana and the Tour of Britain and ask whether Tom Dumoulin can upset the climbers by winning in Spain? After Monday’s 16th stage, the so-called ‘Queen stage’ of the Vuelta, left the race in the balance as they headed into Tuesday’s rest da...
51m Sep 08, 2015
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26. The Vuelta past and present with Sean Kelly
September 2 | Joining the Telegraph Cycling Podcast this week is Sean Kelly, the Irish legend who is currently commentating on the Vuelta a Espana for British Eurosport. With Richard Moore and Lionel Birnie, Kelly – a former Vuelta winner – discusses this year’s Spanish tour as it approaches the half-way point. The powerful Dutchman Tom Dumoulin was in the red jersey of race leader at the time...
51m Sep 02, 2015
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