The Cycling Podcast

This episode of The Cycling Podcast evaluates an aggressive, unpredictable day when the pink jersey, Tom Dumoulin, and his Sunweb team could not relax for a moment. The stage was won in memorable style by Spaniard Omar Fraile of Dimension Data after a...

This episode of Kilometre 0 features Herbie Sykes, author of a new book called Giro 100, written to coincide with the 100th edition of the race. The book features a host of stories – some poignant, some profound, many very funny – that, together, bu...

The time trial in Montefalco turned the Giro d’Italia on its head again and left the race beautifully balanced between the climbers and the time triallists. As expected, Tom Dumoulin won the stage, and took the pink jersey, but it was the margin of hi...

Lizzie Deignan in conversation with Richard Moore and Orla Chennaoui This month’s episode of The Cycling Podcast Féminin comes from Lizzie Deignan’s book launch in Leeds. Deignan was in conversation with Orla Chennaoui and Richard Moore and talks abou...

There's a long way to go to Milan but with Nairo Quintana in the pink jersey the possibility of the Colombian winning the Giro d'Italia is on the cards. And if he is victorious on May 28, the next question will inevitably be: Can he do the double an...

The Giro d’Italia reached Blockhaus, the first major mountain of the race, and at last there was drama, although it was the unwelcome kind of drama because a poorly-parked police motorcycle, which was accompanying the race to ensure the riders’ safety,...

If the Giro d’Italia is a 21-course tasting menu, the first week has seen plate after plate of bread with olive oil. Today we were at least offered some meat and cheese. Tomorrow, at Blockhaus is the prima piatti. Stage 8 of the Giro from Molfetta to ...

After eight days of racing, the 100th Giro d’Italia is yet to spark into life – although with all the mountains in the final week it may be that the old adage about good things coming to those who wait comes true. Stage seven from Castrovillari to the...

Mobile phones – everyone has one (more or less) and they are here to stay but what effects are they having on us and, in particular, on the athletes in professional cycling? This episode of Kilometre 0 looks at phones, screen time and the use of social...

Stage six of the Giro d’Italia headed to Terme Lungiane, a natural spa north of Reggio Calabria, where the day started, and although the race for the pink jersey is only bubbling gently at the moment, the battle for the honours at the finish line was i...