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The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast takes listeners to the heart of professional cycling with weekly episodes and daily coverage of the Grand Tours.
Founded by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie in 2013, The Cycling Podcast is one of the longest-running independent sports podcasts.
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Rose Manley and Lizzy Banks are once again joined by Anne-Marije Rook to discuss the champagne stage of theTour de France Femmes with its testing finishing straight into Épernay. The Cycling Podcast...
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Rose Manley and Lizzy Banks are joined by Anne-Marije Rook to discuss the chaotic second stage of the inaugural Tour de France Femmes. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science i...
· 59 min 41 sec
Join Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau in Paris for the final stage of the Tour de France. They review all of the teams and then catch up with Rose Manley to talk about the opening stage of the To...
· 1 hr 38 min 12 sec
Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau recap the time trial to Rocamadour which crowned the Tour de France champion. We discuss cheese, time trialling, and the journey to Paris. Plus Lionel catches up w...
· 1 hr 9 min 0 sec
Rose Manley and Lizzy Banks preview the inaugural edition of the Tour de France Femmes, which starts in Paris on Sunday and finishes on La Super Planche des Belles Filles a week later. What awaits th...
· 29 min 11 sec
Join Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau in a town square in Cahors as they discuss the day Jumbo-Visma saved the Tour for France. After discussing the stage, we also catch up with very good friend...
· 57 min 30 sec
Has the Tour de France’s final mountain stage crowned the 2022 champion? Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau discuss the stage, the tactics and the historical context. We also hear from Tiesj Benoo...
· 1 hr 4 min 17 sec
Although their teams are depleted to varying degrees it is clear which two riders are the strongest in the Tour de France. The question now is whether Thursday’s final stage in the Pyrenees can separa...
· 56 min 24 sec
The Tour de France has reached the Pyrenees with an appetizer before the two big mountain stages to come. Join Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau in Foix as they dissect a thrilling 16th stage. We...
· 1 hr 2 min 31 sec
The Tour de France Femmes starts in Paris on Sunday but it is not the first Tour de France for women riders. In 1984, the Tour de France organisers created the Tour Féminin – 18 stages held over part...
· 53 min 21 sec
A hot day on the Tour de France with temperatures hitting 40 degrees and the racing equally frenetic, particularly over the final 50 kilometres. Lionel Birnie is back on the Tour to join François Th...
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After 192.5km from Saint-Etienne to Mende, Stage 14 of the 2022 Tour de France was won by Australian Michael Matthews, who produced a brilliant ride to win a tough and hilly stage. Matthews duked i...
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On the road to Saint-Étienne it was not only love that could break your heart, if you were Fred Wright then it was Mads Pedersen who held that ability as he took the stage from the day’s breakaway, an...
· 55 min 14 sec
Stage 12 and L'Alpe d'Huez was bouncing once again on Bastille Day. Tom Pidcock pointed to a future as a GC rider with his first stage win and Chris Froome took a huge leap forwards in his return from...
· 58 min 8 sec
Last Sunday, thousands of amateur riders rode L'Étape du Tour, a sportive organised by ASO over the route of Stage 12 of this year's Tour de France from Briançon to Alpe D'Huez, crossing the Col du Ga...
· 31 min 34 sec
Stage 11 was quite the stage with many of the GC contenders doing what they could to find an advantage and see if they could capatalise on it. Jonas Vingegaard won stage 11 to take yellow jersey off T...
· 57 min 36 sec
As the Tour enters the Swiss Alps and the mountain stages start coming thick and fast the week two team of Rose Manley, Ian Boswell and the ever present François Thomazeau talk through everything that...
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Mitch Docker and François Thomazeau are joined by Julien Prétot from Reuters to discuss stage nine of the Tour de France. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport. Supe...
· 45 min 28 sec
Join Mitch Docker and François Thomazeau as they take the reins to discuss stage eight of the Tour de France. We hear from Serge Niamké, Matt White, Michael Matthews, Fred Wright and Julien Pinot....
· 51 min 56 sec
Join Lionel Birnie, François Thomazeau and Mitch Docker amid the boy racers in Montbeliard – home of Peugeot – as they discuss stage seven of the Tour de France, which climbed La Super Planche des Bel...
· 51 min 17 sec