The Cycling Podcast

Part of the Tour de France experience is sampling the food and wine the country has to offer. And who better as our guide than François Thomazeau, a man who owns a restaurant in Marseille and has written a book on Parisian bistro culture. In this ep...

With the whole Tour de France transferring from one side of France to the other on the rest day it means a lot of driving for some of the people working on the race. While the riders travelled by plane, all the race vehicles have almost 600 kilometr...

An amazing, incident-filled day on the Tour de France saw two of the top five riders crash out and Chris Froome call on the unwritten rule that no one should attack the yellow jersey when he has a mechanical problem to keep his grip on the race lead. ...

A fast, aggressive eighth stage of the Tour de France may not have shaken up the general classification too much but the toll will certainly tell on the riders. It was hot, fast and, at times, brutal racing that many may pay the price for in the coming...

One of the closest finishes in Tour de France history meant that the winner could not be determined by the naked eye or even the finish line photograph. Instead, the jury had to look at enhanced pictures to give the victory to Marcel Kittel, by a margi...

This episode of Kilometre 0 features Phil Anderson, the first Australian – in fact, the first non-European – to wear the yellow jersey at the Tour de France. Anderson describes the day early in his debut Tour in 1981 when the race entered the Pyrene...

On Thursday the Tour de France returned to the flatlands after the mountains of the previous day, with the sprinters doing battle again in Troyes. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Francois Thomazeau of The Cycling Podcast discuss the day’s main talking...

In this episode of Kilometre 0 we focus on one of the wild card teams, Wanty-Groupe Gobert, who have put riders in the breakaways day after day during the first week of the Tour de France. We hear from Yoann Offredo, who was in the break on the road...

The first mountain-top finish of the 2017 Tour de France offered a few clues as to who is going to contend for the final yellow jersey of the race but La Planche des Belles Filles did not provide the big sort we have seen on the climb in the Vosges in ...

Cycling is a healthy, environmentally-friendly pursuit but how green is the Tour de France? With a huge convoy of race motorbikes and cars, a fleet of team cars and scores of buses burning fuel at the rate of a euro per kilometre and trucks, not to ...