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The Cycling Podcast

The Cycling Podcast

The Cycling Podcast takes listeners to the heart of professional cycling with weekly episodes and daily coverage of the Grand Tours. Join journalists Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie – and a few special guests along the way – as they podcast about the latest cycling news and the world of professional cycling. Founded by Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie in 2013, The Cycling Podcast is one of the longest-running independent sports podcasts. To support The Cycling Podcast, subscribe as

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S10 Ep54: Stage 16 | Salò – Aprica | Giro d’Italia 2022

The Cycling Podcast ·

2022/05/24

The Giro made its way towards Aprica for what many have dubbed this year’s Queen Stage. Having set out from the western shore of Lake Garda, the peloton would scale the Mortirolo and the Valico di Santa Cristina – to name just two of the climbs on today’s route – before finishing in Aprica, the scene of many a famous Giro exploit. We hear from Valerio Piva, who helped steer Jan Hirt to a surprise stage win, and Pavel Sivakov, who helped steer Richard Carapaz through a stage that solidified his

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S10 Ep53: Press Conference | Giro d’Italia 2022

The Cycling Podcast ·

2022/05/23

The Giro pauses for its third rest-day and Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard have traveled from the Valle d’Aosta to Lake Garda, where the race will resume with Richard Carapaz in the pink jersey on Tuesday. We hear from Brian on the fine art of choreographing real Grand Tour press conferences, before fielding questions sent in by listeners. We also hear the accounts of the second week of the Giro d’Italia from our three diarists in the peloton – Pavel Sivakov of Ineos Grenadiers, James Knox of

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S10 Ep52: Kilometre 0 – Poetry and motion

The Cycling Podcast ·

2022/05/23

The Giro’s third rest day in Salò on Monday gives us pause to consider the curious intersection of the Lake Garda resort’s notorious history, one of the more scandalous films of the 20th century – and why the Corsa Rosa is as much epic journey as bike race. What happened in Salò? Who was Pier Paolo Pasolini? And do the Giro riders of 2022 consider themselves adventures and explorers or just racers? Featuring interviews with Giro director Mauro Vegni, Chris Juul-Jensen, Guillaume Martin and

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S10 Ep51: Stage 15 | Rivarolo Canavese – Cogne | Giro...

The Cycling Podcast ·

2022/05/22

The Giro finally journeyed into the Alps with Richard Carapaz in the maglia rosa and the peloton weary after Saturday’s blockbuster into Turin. Could Jai Hindley and Bora-Hansgrohe dethrone the Ecuadorian ahead of Monday’s rest day? We hear from Hindley after a stage that elevated a great white hope of Italian cycling but saw the GC contenders cancel each other out. The episode also features a disappointed but hopeful Hugh Carthy, the inimitable Ciro Scognamiglio - and some very lively local

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S10 Ep50: Stage 14 | Santena – Torino | Giro d’Italia...

The Cycling Podcast ·

2022/05/21

Last night Daniel Friebe longed for some action from the general classification contenders – today he got his wish with – as he described it – a ripsnorter of a stage in the hills around Turin. Daniel is joined by Lionel Birnie and Brian Nygaard to make sense of a crazy day which whittled the number of potential Giro champions down to a large handful. We’ll hear from the Bora-Hansgrohe management team about how they rode themselves into a strong position, we discuss the impact of the heat during

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S10 Ep49: Stage 13 | Sanremo – Cuneo | Giro d’Italia...

The Cycling Podcast ·

2022/05/20

Join Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and Brian Nygaard in Barolo country for a discussion about the Giro d’Italia’s frantic chase between the break and bunch. Expect some wine chat, general disgust at the idea of dipping focaccia into cappuccino, the merits of the Giro’s transitional stages, and a fierce debate about whether the overall race has been exciting enough. We hear from the riders, sports directors and there’s another installment of the Giro del Bufalo. AMARATERRA Amaraterra provide our

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S10 Ep48: Kilometre 0 – Popo's mission

The Cycling Podcast ·

2022/05/20

For most directeurs sportifs, especially one who spent his most important years as a cyclist in Italy, taking and defending the maglia rosa might be a euphoric experience. It is indeed for Trek-Segafredo’s Yaroslav Popovych, but, to him, Juan Pedro López’s pink jersey may also feel more like a welcome distraction. In February, Russia declared war on Popovych’s Ukraine, and three months on their bombs are still falling. Watching on from Italy, Popovych felt helpless – and yet soon swung into action

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S10 Ep47: Stage 12 | Parma – Genoa | Giro d’Italia 2022

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2022/05/19

Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and Brian Nygaard in a sunny square in Genoa after stage 12 of the Giro d’Italia. We go on the hunt for focaccia, break down the way the breakaway captured the stage and ask whether a win for a team’s established superstar is worth ‘more’ in terms of PR than a victory by a less well-known rider. Brian also talks about being team manager of Leopard-Trek when the Belgian rider Wouter Weylandt died in a crash at the 2011 Giro. Today’s stage went over the Passo del

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S10 Ep46: Stage 11 | Santarcangelo di Romagna –...

The Cycling Podcast ·

2022/05/18

Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are joined in Reggio Emilia by Brian Nygaard to assess stage 11 of the Giro d’Italia, which – as expected – ended in a sprint finish. Along the way there’s conversation about prosecco, parmesan cheese and legendary singers in leather trousers. AMARATERRA Amaraterra provide our theme song, Cozze, and other music for The Cycling Podcast’s coverage of the Giro d’Italia. Their Bandcamp page is here: https://amaraterra.bandcamp.com/ Giro dei Vini To order the

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S10 Ep45: Kilometre 0 – La Rosea / The Pinky

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2022/05/18

La Gazzetta dello Sport is much more than just a newspaper. Founded in 1896, ‘La Rosea’ or ‘The Pinky’ (or also just ‘La Gazza’), quickly became an Italian institution and some would argue a cultural icon. The paper also launched the Giro d’Italia in 1909 and gave the leader’s jersey its unmistakable pink colour. Coffee and Gazzetta remain synonymous fixtures in many Italians’ morning rituals, but the print media has, of course, fallen on hard times. In this episode of Kilometre 0, we examine the

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S10 Ep44: Stage 10 | Pescara – Jesi | Giro d’Italia 2022

The Cycling Podcast ·

2022/05/17

The Giro d’Italia resumed after the rest day with an historic stage and an unfortunate moment on the podium. Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie discuss a stage that had all the hallmarks of an Italian one-day Classic. We hear from the winner’s teammates and sports director. Matt White explains why Simon Yates is determined to continue in the Giro despite his knee injury and time loss at Blockhaus. There’s musical pasta chat and sheepish wine talk plus a beautiful edition of the Giro del

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S10 Ep43: Press Conference | Giro d’Italia 2022

The Cycling Podcast ·

2022/05/16

It’s the rest day and Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie have been in Abruzzo staying at a vineyard with a pair of jacuzzi pools in the garden. Rest assured, the press conference episode was not recorded in the jacuzzi. We tackle some of the questions sent in by listeners and we also hear the accounts of the opening week of the Giro d’Italia from our three diarists in the peloton – Pavel Sivakov of Ineos Grenadiers, James Knox of Quick Step and Ben Zwiehoff of Bora-Hansgrohe. Our Giro d’Italia

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S10 Ep42: Kilometre 0 – The duel, part 2

The Cycling Podcast ·

2022/05/16

We left the story of the 2012 Giro d'Italia on the eve of the Stelvio stage on the penultimate day of the race with the destiny of the maglia rosa still delicately poised. Ryder Hesjedal had trimmed Joaquim Rodriguez's lead at Alpe de Pampeago and just needed to keep the Spaniard on a leash to stand a great chance of becoming the first Canadian grand tour winner in the final time trial in Milan. In this episode we again here from the team's boss Jonathan Vaughters, rookie sports director Charly

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S10 Ep41: Stage 9 | Isernia – Blockhaus | Giro...

The Cycling Podcast ·

2022/05/15

The first of the Giro d’Italia’s big mountain stages to Blockhaus shuffled the general classification but kept the race very much alive. Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie as they assess the winners and losers from stage nine. Who bounded up the stairs three at a time and who pressed the button for the basement in the elevator? Who scaled the ladders and who slipped down the snakes? We also visited a key sight in the 1860s unification of Italy, we heard from one of the stars from the breakaway

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S10 Ep40: Stage 8 | Napoli – Napoli | Giro d’Italia 2022

The Cycling Podcast ·

2022/05/14

Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie in Napoli, the home of pizza and Ciro Scognamiglio, as they recap stage eight of the Giro d’Italia. We discuss a second Giro stage win for a breakaway specialist ten years after his first. Which rider is developing a reputation for riding grand tours as if they were a giant game of snakes and ladders. And can it ever be said that an aggressive, attacking rider performed poorly? Daniel and Lionel also visited the ancient city of Pompeii, sampled the perfect

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S10 Ep39: Stage 7 | Diamante – Potenza | Giro...

The Cycling Podcast ·

2022/05/13

The first of a trilogy of difficult stages in the Giro d’Italia took the riders from Diamante to Potenza. Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie outside the busy Barmacia as they unpick the stage and explain who the powerful diamond of the day was. We dissect the stage and look ahead to Saturday’s race in Napoli with Blockhaus looming on the horizon on Sunday. We hear from Hugh Carthy, the leader of the EF Education-EasyPost team about his Giro so far and what he expects from these three stages

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S10 Ep38: Kilometre 0 – The duel, part 1

The Cycling Podcast ·

2022/05/13

This is the tenth anniversary of one of the closest grand tours of all-time, decided by just 16 seconds after a two-week tussle between two very different riders. The Canadian Ryder Hesjedal and the Spaniard Joaquim Rodriguez took turns wearing the maglia roas as if they were playing a game of pass the parcel. It was an intriguing clash of styles too – the patient diesel versus the jack-in-the-box. In this two-part Kilometre 0, Lionel Birnie speaks to the boss of the Garmin-Barracuda team Jonathan

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S10 Ep37: Stage 6 | Palmi – Scalea | Giro d’Italia 2022

The Cycling Podcast ·

2022/05/12

Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie made it to Scalea despite being stuck behind the e-Giro for more than 50 kilometres. Fortunately, the Giro d’Italia peloton was racing a lot less aggressively than yesterday and stage six finished well behind schedule. We unpick the sprint finish and hear from two of the winner’s teammates after the finish. We also react to the news of Vincenzo Nibali’s impending retirement and hear from his Astana teammate Joe Dombrowski, Nibali’s fellow Sicilian Domenico

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S10 Ep36: Stage 5 | Catania – Messina | Giro d’Italia...

The Cycling Podcast ·

2022/05/11

It’ll soon be safe to go back in the water – which is good news for Lionel after he lost his sunglasses to the Strait of Messina while recording this episode of The Cycling Podcast from Scilla. Lionel joins Daniel Friebe to discuss stage five which, as expected, went the way of the sprinters – although it wasn’t without drama along the way. The Giro d’Italia lost one superhero in powder blue yesterday when Miguel Angel Lopez pulled out of the race and another Astana man announced his impending

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S10 Ep35: Stage 4 | Avola – Etna | Giro d’Italia 2022

The Cycling Podcast ·

2022/05/10

The Giro d’Italia returned to Mount Etna and the climb crowned a first-time stage winner and a new wearer of the maglia rosa. Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie as they recap the fourth stage and the first on Italian soil since the Hungarian grande partenza. After successfully hunting the stuffed cabbage in Budapest, they are on the hunt for a Sicilian treat of a more therapeutic kind. On a day that did for the hopes of one superhero, we unpick a day that made the first significant selection

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