The Cycling Podcast

The Tour de France reaches Carcassonne in the south west – not a town that has been kind to the sprinters in the past. But, after yesterday’s breakaway stage Deceuninck-Quick Step worked to keep the breakaway on a tight leash to ensure a sprint finish.
Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau at the Grand Café Occitan in Félines-Minervois, owned by Robert Eden – more of him next week – where they discuss Mark Cavendish’s record-equalling 34th Tour de France stage win...

A classic Tour de France transition stage took the riders from Carcassonne to the Pyrenees with Bauke Mollema winning in Quillan. In tonight's episode, with Richard Moore, François Thomazeau and Kate Wagner, we hear from Mike Woods, who, despite crashing during the stage, is the new King of the Mountains.

We have a preview of Sunday's tough stage to Andorra from Joe Laverick, and we also hear from Lionel Birnie before his departure from the Tour...

n our Tour de France stage 15 podcast Richard Moore and François Thomazeau are joined again by Kate Wagner before Mitch Docker joins us for the final week. We discuss Jumbo-Visma's curious, but ultimately successful, tactics, and hear from their young Dane, Jonas Vingegaard, who is now third overall. We also have interviews with Mark Donovan, the British rider who was in the day's break, Neilson Powless and the new King of the Mountains, Wout Poels.

In this episode of Kilometre 0, Richard Moore and François Thomazeau talk to Robert Eden, winemaker and owner of Château-Maris in La Livinière in the Minervois region of Languedoc.

Robert bought Château-Maris in 1997 and it has been described as one of the five most environmentally-friendly wineries in the world by the Wine Spectator...

In our second rest day press conference we are joined by Mitch Docker, who will be part of The Cycling Podcast team, alongside Richard Moore and François Thomazeau, for the final week of the Tour de France.
We answer listeners' questions about how the gruppetto works, Alejandro Valverde, the biological passport, the temperature of bidons, who would win historical head-to-heads, and lots more besides.

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And then there were three. In this episode of our Tour de France diaries from inside the peloton, we hear from Victor Campenaerts, who was forced to pull out of the race on Mont Ventoux.

There are also updates from Tim Declercq, who crashed heavily on the stage to Carcassonne on the day Mark Cavendish equalled Eddy Merckx's record for Tour stage wins, from Ben O'Connor, who is still fifth overall as the race enters its final week, and from Connor Swift...

In our stage 16 Tour de France podcast Mitch Docker makes his debut as a mixed zone journalist, interviewing Andre Greipel, Michael Morkov, Magnus Cort and fellow Australian Harry Sweeny.
With Richard Moore and François Thomazeau, Mitch also discusses a stage won by Patrick Konrad, and which felt a little like a prelude to the next two big days in the Pyrenees.

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Kate Wagner is a classical violinist, artist and architecture critic who discovered professional cycling less than a year ago and has immersed herself in the sport, spending hours watching every grand tour and classic from the past decade.

Having started a blog, which is well worth reading, and after interviewing Primoz Roglic, she set herself the goal of getting to the Tour de France and three weeks ago she found herself in Brest ready to document her first bike race...

In our stage 17 Tour de France podcast we hear from Mitch Docker, Richard Moore and François Thomazeau as they discuss a day that more or less sealed Tadej Pogacar's second victory.
Mitch speaks to Rigoberto Uran, his team leader, and to Simon Geschke and Luke Durbridge. We also hear from Jumbo-Visma sports director Merijn Zeeman, who has some harsh words for Pogacar's coach.

The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport...

In this episode of Kilometre 0, we tell the story of one of the longest-running teams in the peloton. The AG2R-Citroën team is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.

Vincent Lavenu's team started life as Chazal, sponsored by a charcuterie producer, in 1992 and rode the Tour de France for the first time in 1993, with former Vuelta winner Eric Caritoux and future Tour stage winner Jaan Kirsipuu in the line-up...