The Cycling Podcast

The Giro d’Italia rolled out of Budapest on Friday morning and we were on the ground in Hungary to see it. An uphill finish at Visegrád castle promised drama and the stage certainly delivered...

The shortest stage of the 2022 Giro d’Italia promised to also be one of the most significant - the first of just two time trials in this year’s Corsa Rosa and a truth serum for the many pretenders to the maglia rosa. In the latest installment of our post-stage Girovagando podcasts, we hear about a time trial result that few predicted but perhaps should have anticipated...

The Giro d’Italia’s final stage in Hungary produced the expected sprint finish after a ride round Lake Balaton.
In this episode, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie have found a German bar in Héviz to recap the stage and debrief on the performances of the sprinters. We hear from the lead-out men and the sports directors before the entire Giro entourage flies to Sicily for the resumption of the race on Tuesday...

The Giro’s Grande Partenza in Budapest came two years after its intended date and hence was even more eagerly anticipated. Hungary had is venerable, beautiful capital, beguiling landscapes and a cycling scene beginning to soar on the wings of a new generation led by Attila Valter, the maglia rosa for three days last year.

But there were also questions. Politics. Doubts about why the Giro had chosen this particular launchpad...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...