RadioCycling will be offering three episodes a week during the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. Our first Tour-themed show, backed by our new sponsor Saddle Skedaddle , offers a blitz of the latest news going into the world's greatest race. We start with the latest on transfer dealings at Ineos Grenadiers, where there's a lot of outward traffic but very little movement in the other direction. With Tao Geoghegan-Hart, Ben Tulett, Pavel Sivakov, Carlos Rodríguez and now Dani Ma...
Jun 28, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 17
While Ineos teenager Josh Tarling was expected to be among the medallists in the British TT championship, his victory by more than a minute over his rivals did cause a stir. We speak to his former coach Stuart Blunt about the 19-year-old Welshman, who Blunt describes as a "British Filippo Ganna". We've got a Jumbo-Visma double, starting with the latest from team manager Richard Plugge on the Dutch team's search for a new lead sponsor. Plugge refuses to confirm press rumours of discussions with S...
Jun 25, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 16
From Orson Welles to Ernest Hemingway, Ben Stiller to Paul Smith, Dustin Hoffman to Samuel Beckett, the Tour de France has long had many famous fans in the world of culture and the arts. Now the race has had the Netflix treatment with Unchained, their much-heralded series about the 2022 Tour. Enjoyable as it was, the series only showed a glimpse inside the madness, excitement and intrigue of the world's biggest bike race. So what about the other great cinematic and literary gems, classics and fa...
Jun 21, 2023•39 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Soon after Ukraine was invaded by Russia in February 2022, RadioCycling's Chris Marshall-Bell began investigating the impact of the war that has ensued has had on Ukrainian cycling and its cycling community. 16 months on, RadioCycling presents this special episode on Ukraine. It focuses on one of the country's leading coaches, Oleksandr Kulyk, who was killed six days into the conflict, and his son, Andriy, his country's national road race champion in 2019. Andriy Kulyk's moving account of his fa...
Jun 18, 2023•19 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Tour de France selection is always a tricky business, team managers giving good news to some riders and dismaying others. This is typified by the hullabaloo at Groupama-FDJ, where team boss Marc Madiot has delighted Thibaut Pinot fans by selecting the mercurial climber for a final lap of France before his retirement, but made way for him by discarding sprinter Arnaud Démare, who's had the Tour on his programme all year. We delve into the news that created beaucoup de brouhaha in France. Staying ...
Jun 15, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 13
If the Critérium du Dauphiné's ability to highlight the Tour de France favourites once again proves reliable, Jonas Vingegaard is going to be hard to stop as he aims to defend his title in July. We examine the Dane's dismantling of his rivals in the French Alps, look at which of them have emerged from the Dauphiné with reason for optimism and, on the flip side, those who have left with their reputations tarnished. Liker the Dauphiné, the Tour International Féminin des Pyrénées was scheduled to h...
Jun 11, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Our latest episode kicks off with an exclusive interview with Vuelta a España director Javier Guillén, who tells us that there's absolutely no prospect of the Vuelta swapping dates with the Giro d'Italia, a move that many were pushing for as a possible solution to the bad weather that perennially affects Italy's Grand Tour. "No, no and no!" declares Guillén. Looking ahead to this year's Vuelta, now just 10 weeks away, Guillén says all the big names will be welcome and discussions are under way t...
Jun 08, 2023•33 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Tadej Pogačar discloses that there positive and negative sides to his racing layoff after he broke his wrist at Liège-Bastogne-Liège in April. On the up side, he'll be fresh going into the Tour de France, but he acknowledges he'll be short of racing and that his wrist may still be hampering his punchy style. We hear what the two-time Tour champ has to say. Canyon//SRAM are in the midst of a doping after their Belgian sprinter and world track champion Shari Bossuyt tested positive at the Tour of ...
Jun 05, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Jonas Vingegaard is stronger and more confident than ever, that's according to Mathieu Heijboer. Jumbo-Visma's head of performance tells that us that, while the Dane is still shy and retiring off the bike, Vingegaard has moved on another level when he's racing and is full of confidence as he prepares to defend the Tour de France title. Scotland, England, Wales: This seems increasingly likely to be the order for the three stages that will form the Grand Départ of the 2026 Tour de France. We lift ...
Jun 01, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Roglič redemption: Thomas the fall guy as Primož slays his demons. We hear from Jumbo-Visma's Grand Tour debutant and reluctant oboeist Thomas Gloag about his Giro and riding for the race's newly-crowned champion. Plus, Olympic champion Ed Clancy, a close friend of Mark Cavendish's since they were kids, reflects on the Briton's stunning final stage victory in Rome. Ineos left shattered as Jumbo numbers tell in the end. Sports director Oli Cookson gives the British team's perspective on the secon...
May 29, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 8
No Country for Old Men: as GC battle at the Giro lights up in typically late but enthralling fashion, Geraint Thomas and Primož Roglic are set to slug it out for the pink jersey, but can't write off young gun João Almeida. Stage wins and the pink jersey: we catch up with DSM sports director Matt Winston, who reflects on his team's impressive Giro and the weekend's critical TT finale. World of confusion: has the UCI over-reached itself with the Glasgow Super-Worlds? Dubbed "cycling's Olympics", s...
May 25, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Mark Cavendish is reportedly set to announce on the Giro's rest day that he will retire from racing at the end of this season. Philippe Gilbert has described the Giro's GC battle as offering "meagre entertainment" and the ex-world champion is far from alone in this opinion. We look at what why the contest for the pink jersey is one of attrition rather than thrills. RadioCycling Exclusive: UCI president David Lappartient tells us that he'd like to see the Liège and the rest of the Ardennes Classi...
May 21, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 6
There's a lot to cram into this episode. It kicks off with an exclusive interview with ex-pro turned riders' union president Adam Hansen, who talks about the challenges of his first months as head of the CPA, why he's trying to be more inclusive and open, and about the riders' biggest concern – no prizes for guessing that it's race safety. Covid is causing chaos at the Giro d'Italia. Is it time for tighter restrictions to be brought back in with the Tour de France looming? Ineos DS Steve Cumming...
May 18, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Episode 4 went off without hitch, only for race leader Remco Evenepoel to quit the Giro d'Italia with Covid. So here's version two, complete with that disappointing news, as well as a look ahead to week two of the corsa rosa . We get Jayco-Alula team manager Matt White's analysis of what lies ahead in a race that could hardly be any more finely balanced. Plus, there's Tao Geoghegan Hart's analysis of Radio Cycling host Jeremy Whittle's wardrobe, while Peter Cossins suggests that the Giro, so hyp...
May 15, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 4
A look ahead to the GC battle on the mighty Gran Sasso Corratec's Charlie Quarterman on his challenging day in the break on stage 6 and why he asked Alessandro Di Marchi to ease up a tad DSM get a new partner but insist they'll keep focusing on young talent and not prima donnas Mark Cavendish's coach Maurizio Mazzoleni explains why the Manx sprinter has raced so much this season and how this is likely to pay off Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoice...
May 11, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 3
RadioCycling brings you to up to date with the thrilling action experienced at the Vuelta Femenina, hears from Audrey Cordon-Ragot who has experienced a nine month period she'd happily erase from memory, and also gets the lowdown on cycling's attempt - or lack of - to combat the ride in Covid cases. There's also the perplexing tale of a certain Lance Armstrong being blasted into space... Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
May 09, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 2
On the first-ever edition of RadioCycling, we bring you the four biggest news stories ahead of the opening men's Grand Tour of the season. We hear how Covid is affecting certain teams in the build-up to the Giro d'Italia, investigate the strange tale of a Russian army cyclist racing the biggest races in the women's calendar, while we also reveal where Antonio Tiberi is heading next after shooting dead a cat. There's also a look back on the first half of La Vuelta Femenina. Sponsored by Sigma Spo...
May 05, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 1
