The Cycling Podcast

A thrilling seventh stage of the Tour de France, the longest of the race, saw a 29-man breakaway and a difficult day for the UAE-Team Emirates team of Tadej Pogacar, the defending champion.
In tonight's episode Kate Wagner gives us the Tale of Etape and we hear from two riders who were in the breakaway, Brent Van Moer, our audio diarist Victor Campenaerts and Geraint Thomas...

Jean-François Quenet is a journalist, race organiser, mentor to young riders from all over the world and a fixture at most of the major races.

In his native Brittany he sat down with our own François Thomazeau to discuss his life and career in cycling.

Quenet is a Breton, born in Brest where the Tour started. His name will be familiar to those who read his monthly column in Cycle Sport magazine in the 1990s, offering a window into the world of French cycling...

In our stage six podcast from the 2021 Tour de France we discuss Mark Cavendish's 32nd stage win at the Tour de France as he gets closer to the record of stage wins held by Eddy Merckx, even if Cavendish resists references to this.
In this episode Richard Moore, François Thomazeau and Kate Wagner discuss the stage and we hear from Kasper Asgreen, Michael Morkov and Roger Kluge, as well as our audio diarist, Connor Swift...

Kate Wagner, who in former lives was a classical violinist and architecture critic, is covering her first bike race – the Tour de France – and keeping an audio diary about the experience for The Cycling Podcast...

In our stage 5 Tour de France podcast, Richard Moore, François Thomazeau and Kate Wagner discuss a time trial that had two winners, Tadej Pogačar and Mathieu van der Poel. 
In tonight’s episode we hear from the second and third place finishers, Stefan Küng and Jonas Vingegaard. 
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In our third episode of Kilometre 0 we meet our four audio diarists, Victor Campenaerts (Qhubeka NextHash), Connor Swift (Arkea-Samsic), Ben O'Connor (Ag2r-Citroën) and Tim Declercq (Deceuninck-Quick-Step)...

Stage four of the Tour de France was all about Mark Cavendish's 31st win at the Tour de France and his first in five years. In tonight's episode we hear from his "poisson pilote," Michael Morkov, and another two Deceuninck-Quick-step teammates, Tim Declercq and the world champion Julian Alaphilippe...

In episode two of Kilometre 0 at the 2021 Tour de France we look back to the last La Course, the women's one day race, and ahead to the new Tour de France Femmes, launching next year.

We speak to one of the driving forces behind La Course, Kathryn Bertine, and to the Tour de France director, Christian Prudhomme, and hear from some of the leading figures in the current peloton, including Marianne Vos, Lizzie Deignan, Ashleigh Moolman Pasio, Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig and Alexis Ryan...

It was another day on the Tour de France that was marred by terrible crashes and in our podcast from stage three Richard Moore, Kate Wagner and François Thomazeau talk about their impact on the race.

Chris Juul-Jensen explains why he thinks the crashes have been more serious, and our audio diarist Connor Swift talks us through an eventful day. We also hear from Ide Schelling, the Dutchman who's in the King of the Mountains jersey and who has been in the breakaway each day...

In our first episode of Kilometre 0 from the 2021 Tour de France we look at the region where the race is spending its first few days: Brittany, or Bretagne.

It's France's cycling heartland, with a rich tradition that is still evident with no fewer than ten Bretons riding this year's Tour. We hear from the region's great hope, David Gaudu, as well as from a British rider who rides for a Breton team, Connor Swift...