The Cycling Podcast

The soigneurs are the foot soldiers who keep the peloton rolling. Every day their duties involve preparing drinks bottles and food for the riders, handing up the musettes at the feed zone, meeting the riders at the finish line with a cold drink and a change of clothes. And then, at the end of the day, they massage the riders’ legs to relieve the stresses and strains built up during the day...

Join Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe in Spain as they discuss an action-packed stage of the Vuelta a España, which saw the red jersey change hands and several high profile riders crash out.
They talk about the race for the stage, which saw Jesus Herrada succeed where his brother Jose fell short yesterday, and the red jersey switch across to Dylan Teuns...

Join Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe in Spain as they discuss an action-packed stage of the Vuelta a España, which saw the red jersey change hands and several high profile riders crash out. They talk about the race for the stage, which saw Jesus Herrada succeed where his brother Jose fell short yesterday, and the red jersey switch across to Dylan Teuns...

The first summit finish of the Vuelta a España took the riders to the observatory at Javalambre – the first time the race has ever gone there.
Lionel Birnie is joined by Richard Moore to discuss a stage that was won by one of the wild card teams in the race, and also shook up the overall classification with the red jersey returning to Miguel Angel Lopez...

Earlier this summer, the UCI announced that Juan Jose Cobo was guilty of a doping offence and would be stripped of his 2011 Vuelta a España title. While Chris Froome was in hospital following his crash at the Critérium du Dauphiné he learned - almost eight years after the race had finished - that he was the Vuelta champion. It makes him Britain’s first Grand Tour champion...

Join Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe as they recap stage four of the Vuelta a España.
They are in the same hotel as the Deceuninck-Quick Step and Movistar teams, in the shadow of the Luis Puig velodrome in Valencia to discuss a sprint stage that went the way of the young Dutch champion Fabio Jakobsen.
Jakobsen is a teammate of our Vuelta diarist James Knox and we hear from him and Max Richeze and the team’s sports director Wilfried Peeters...

It was a day for the sprinters on stage three of the Vuelta a España from Ibi. Ciudad del Juguete to Alicante.
Join Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe in Altea as they recap a great day for the Irish at the Vuelta a España.
We also hear from our two Vuelta diarists, James Knox and Nick Schultz, plus discuss why the Movistar team have fallen out with one of cycling’s so-called ‘super agents’...

Marcel Kittel's first grand tour stage victory came in the Vuelta a España in 2011 when he beat Peter Sagan and Oscar Freire to the line in Talavera de la Reine. Late last week, he announced his retirement at the age of 31 and in this episode of Kilometre 0 we speak to some of his former teammates about his career and the reasons he has decided to call it a day...

The second stage of the Vuelta a España turned the race on its head as a powerful group of six got away on the final climb.
Join Lionel Birnie and Richard Moore as they recap a thrilling race into Calpe that saw Nairo Quintana win the stage and Nicolas Roche take the leader’s red jersey.
We hear the second installments from our diarists in the peloton, James Knox and Nick Schultz, plus we check in with Daniel Friebe about Astana’s topsy turvey couple of days...

The Vuelta a España got underway with an evening team time trial on the Costa Blanca which was costly for a couple of the overall contenders.

Join Lionel Birnie in Torrevieja for the first episode of our nightly Vuelta coverage as he recaps a day that has put one of the big favourites into the red jersey already.

We also hear the first despatches from our two audio diarists in the peloton, James Knox of Deceuninck-Quick Step and Nick Schultz of Mitchelton-Scott...