The Cycling Podcast

After a snoozy stage on Friday, the Tour de France burst back into life with a barnstorming stage from Mâcon to St Etienne.
Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau at their hotel – which they are sharing with the CCC, UAE Team Emirates, Sunweb and Cofidis teams – as they unpick a fascinating day’s racing...

After the drama at La Planche des Belles Filles yesterday, the Tour de France settled in for a long, slow day in the sun. Heading into the Burgundy region famous for its snails, the peloton pedalled at a snail’s pace for much of the day.
But there’s no such thing as a snoozy episode of The Cycling Podcast and so we join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau at their hotel for a recap of the stage...

This is the first of a two-part episode of Kilometre 0 looking back at the 1999 Tour de France with Sunday Times journalist David Walsh. We are all familiar with the story of Armstrong's confession and downfall but what about the events that led up to the 1999 Tour and that edition of the race itself? Walsh was there and in this first part he talks to Lionel about the state of cycling and cycling journalism in the 1990s. Kilometre 0 is supported by Hansgrohe showers and taps...

The Tour de France burst into life with a classic mountain stage on La Planche des Belles Filles, with the final gravel section seeming to put an element of doubt into the minds of the riders.
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau recap the sixth stage of the Tour which saw two debutants take the major honours...

For a climb only introduced in 2012, La Planche des Belles Filles in the Vosges Mountains has become a fixture in the Tour de France.  It has also been decisive: on each of its three previous visits the rider in yellow after the stage has gone on to win the Tour.  In 2019 the mountain is back with a twist — a new, tougher finish on an unpaved road...

The Tour de France heads into the Vosges and Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau head to the Hotel Hassenforder to record their stage five podcast.

The restaurant used to be owned by Roger Hassenforder, who won eight stages of the Tour in the 1950s. In fact, he presented the yellow jersey to Julian Alaphilippe on the podium after the stage.

In another packed episode we discuss Peter Sagan’s 12th Tour stage win and hear from Team Ineos’s Egan Bernal...

On the eve of the Tour de France Fran Millar was appointed chief executive at Team Ineos.  Millar first got involved in cycling through her brother, David, who she managed before he served a two year doping ban in 2004.  She helped set up Team Sky in 2010 and has been in various senior roles since then, through all the Tour wins but also the lurid headlines about TUEs and Jiffy bags.  We met her on Sunday morning in Brussels, before stage 2, the team time trial...

From Champagne to quiche Lorraine, the Tour de France continues its journey, although the same team was celebrating again today.
Elia Viviani followed his Deceuninck-Quick Step team-mate Julian Alaphilippe by winning the stage in Nancy. We discuss the sprint finish and dissect the tactics on the run-in to the line before hearing from Alexandre Kristoff’s lead-out man, and the youngest rider in the race, Jasper Philipsen in the latest edition of Outside the Team Bus...

The maillot jaune is 100 years old but this episode of Kilometre 0 focuses on the special edition jerseys designed by an Italian pop artist for the 1989 Tour de France. But who was Mario Schifano and how did he come to design such distinctive jerseys? Kilometre 0 is supported by Hansgrohe showers and taps.

The Tour de France has left Belgium behind and arrived in the region famous for its Champagne. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau record their stage three podcast over a glass of Champagne.
We discuss Julian Alaphilippe’s stage win as he became the first Frenchman since 2014 to wear the yellow jersey. We hear from Deceuninck-Quick Step’s boss Patrick Lefevere...