The Cycling Podcast

In our stage 20 podcast from the Tour de France we discuss the time trial in wine country and hear from Mark Cavendish, Julian Alaphilippe, Dan Martin, Luke Durbridge and Stefan Kung. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport. Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.

Stage 19 of the Tour de France produced another thrilling and surprising day's racing and as well as analysis from Richard Moore, Mitch Docker and François Thomazeau, in tonight's episode we hear from the stage winner, Matej Mohoric. There are also interviews with Chris Juul-Jensen, Luka Mezgec, Mads Pedersen, Casper Pedersen and the four-time Tour winner, Chris Froome. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport. Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout. This episode is sponsored by MAAP. To get your hands on some MAAP kit with 15% off full priced items, go to maap.cc/cycling and enter the offer code ‘cycling15’ before the end of July.

In this, our final episode of Kilometre 0 from the 2021 Tour de France, Lionel Birnie looks back at Mark Cavendish's career with a series of memories from the last 13 years covering the Manx sprinter's career. From an interview in a two-star hotel in the south of France after his third stage win in 2008, to a game of chess in London later that year, to an unfortunate incident with cramp in an Essex restaurant Lionel recalls some of his meetings with Cavendish, telling the story of his career as he closed in on Eddy Merckx's record of 34 stage wins. With thanks to Ian Boswell, Richard Moore, Daniel Friebe, Orla Chennaoui and Edward Pickering for additional material. Photo by Simon Gill. Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is powered by Supersapiens, energy management for committed athletes and coaches. See Supersapiens.com.

On the final day in the mountains of the 2021 Tour de France, Tadej Pogacar more or less sealed his overall win with victory at the summit of Luz Ardiden, though it was a day that began beneath a cloud with news of a police raid on the hotel of the Bahrain Victorious team. We hear in tonight's episode from Richard Moore, François Thomazeau and Mitch Docker, who discuss the stage, the winner of the unofficial "A La Zubeldia" award, and the Bahrain story, with an interview with Matej Mohoric. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport. Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.

In this episode of Kilometre 0, we tell the story of one of the longest-running teams in the peloton. The AG2R-Citroën team is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Vincent Lavenu's team started life as Chazal, sponsored by a charcuterie producer, in 1992 and rode the Tour de France for the first time in 1993, with former Vuelta winner Eric Caritoux and future Tour stage winner Jaan Kirsipuu in the line-up. Later the team was sponsored by the supermarket chain Casino and insurance firm AG2R came on board as a co-sponsor in 1998 before taking over as title sponsors in 2000. Arguably the team's most successful years, certainly in the Tour de France, were when Romain Bardet was riding in their colours. In this episode we hear from AG2R riders past and present, including Simon Gerrans, Larry Warbasse, Oliver Naesen and Aurelien Paret-Peintre, and discover there's more to the team than their now trademark brown shorts. Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is powered by Supersapiens, energy management for c

In our stage 17 Tour de France podcast we hear from Mitch Docker, Richard Moore and François Thomazeau as they discuss a day that more or less sealed Tadej Pogacar's second victory. Mitch speaks to Rigoberto Uran, his team leader, and to Simon Geschke and Luke Durbridge. We also hear from Jumbo-Visma sports director Merijn Zeeman, who has some harsh words for Pogacar's coach. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport. Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.

Kate Wagner is a classical violinist, artist and architecture critic who discovered professional cycling less than a year ago and has immersed herself in the sport, spending hours watching every grand tour and classic from the past decade. Having started a blog, which is well worth reading, and after interviewing Primoz Roglic, she set herself the goal of getting to the Tour de France and three weeks ago she found herself in Brest ready to document her first bike race. This is the third instalment of her Tour de France diary. Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is powered by Supersapiens, energy management for committed athletes and coaches. See Supersapiens.com. 

In our stage 16 Tour de France podcast Mitch Docker makes his debut as a mixed zone journalist, interviewing Andre Greipel, Michael Morkov, Magnus Cort and fellow Australian Harry Sweeny. With Richard Moore and François Thomazeau, Mitch also discusses a stage won by Patrick Konrad, and which felt a little like a prelude to the next two big days in the Pyrenees. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport. Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.

And then there were three. In this episode of our Tour de France diaries from inside the peloton, we hear from Victor Campenaerts, who was forced to pull out of the race on Mont Ventoux. There are also updates from Tim Declercq, who crashed heavily on the stage to Carcassonne on the day Mark Cavendish equalled Eddy Merckx's record for Tour stage wins, from Ben O'Connor, who is still fifth overall as the race enters its final week, and from Connor Swift. Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is powered by Supersapiens, energy management for committed athletes and coaches. See Supersapiens.com. 

In our second rest day press conference we are joined by Mitch Docker, who will be part of The Cycling Podcast team, alongside Richard Moore and François Thomazeau, for the final week of the Tour de France. We answer listeners' questions about how the gruppetto works, Alejandro Valverde, the biological passport, the temperature of bidons, who would win historical head-to-heads, and lots more besides. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport. Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.

In this episode of Kilometre 0, Richard Moore and François Thomazeau talk to Robert Eden, winemaker and owner of Château-Maris in La Livinière in the Minervois region of Languedoc. Robert bought Château-Maris in 1997 and it has been described as one of the five most environmentally-friendly wineries in the world by the Wine Spectator. His vines are all farmed organically and biodynamically and the relationship between the environment and the community – and particularly the need to reduce the wine industry's impact on the environment – is at the heart of Robert's winemaking ethos. And, as you'll hear from his conversation with Richard and François, Robert's passion for the wines he makes is immediately apparent. To find out more about his methods and the wines Château-Maris produces, go to chateaumaris.com Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is powered by Supersapiens, energy management for committed athletes and coaches. See Supersapiens.com. 

In our Tour de France stage 15 podcast Richard Moore and François Thomazeau are joined again by Kate Wagner before Mitch Docker joins us for the final week. We discuss Jumbo-Visma's curious, but ultimately successful, tactics, and hear from their young Dane, Jonas Vingegaard, who is now third overall. We also have interviews with Mark Donovan, the British rider who was in the day's break, Neilson Powless and the new King of the Mountains, Wout Poels. Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.

A classic Tour de France transition stage took the riders from Carcassonne to the Pyrenees with Bauke Mollema winning in Quillan. In tonight's episode, with Richard Moore, François Thomazeau and Kate Wagner, we hear from Mike Woods, who, despite crashing during the stage, is the new King of the Mountains. We have a preview of Sunday's tough stage to Andorra from Joe Laverick, and we also hear from Lionel Birnie before his departure from the Tour. Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.

The Tour de France reaches Carcassonne in the south west – not a town that has been kind to the sprinters in the past. But, after yesterday’s breakaway stage Deceuninck-Quick Step worked to keep the breakaway on a tight leash to ensure a sprint finish. Join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau at the Grand Café Occitan in Félines-Minervois, owned by Robert Eden – more of him next week – where they discuss Mark Cavendish’s record-equalling 34th Tour de France stage win. We hear from Patrick Lefevere, Davide Ballerini and Michael Mørkøv and attempt to put Cavendish’s achievement into context. Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.

We are living in a golden age for television and in this episode of Kilometre 0 we look at how cycling is and could be conveyed on the small screen. We hear from Luke Durbridge and Matt White of Team Bike Exchange, Dirk Van Nijverseel, who is one of the people behind the Tour of Flanders documentaries, and Marc Pons, who directed The Least Expected Day, the Netflix series on Movistar. With thanks to Rob Hatch, who interviewed Pons. The full interview will appear in a forthcoming episode of El Cycling Podcast, our Spanish sibling. Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is powered by Supersapiens, energy management for committed athletes and coaches. See Supersapiens.com. 

In this episode of The Cycling Podcast, join Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau in a bustling square in Nîmes to recap the 12th stage of the Tour de France. A short, flat stage looked certain to finish in a sprint but the peloton allowed a break of 13 riders to get away. There was no chase from the most likely candidates, Deceuninck-Quick Step, and so Mark Cavendish’s bid to equal Eddy Merckx’s record of 34 Tour de France stage wins will have to wait for another day. Instead, Nils Pollit of Bora-Hansgrohe produced a fine solo effort to escape the clutches of the breakaway and win his first Tour de France stage. It meant a happy end to the day for the team, who lost Peter Sagan in the morning. Sagan pulled out with a swollen knee but hopes to recover in time for the Olympic Games. We hear from Sagan, Pollit’s former teammate Ian Boswell, our audio diarist Connor Swift and Michael Mørkøv on Deceuninck-Quick Step’s decision not to chase. Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring sy

This is the second instalment of Kate Wagner's Tour de France diary. Kate is a classical violinist and architecture critic and is in France covering her first bike race. In this episode she gives her impressions of Tadej Pogacar and talks about her quest to interview him. Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast, powered by Supersapiens, the continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com

For the first time in Tour de France history, a stage took the riders over Mont Ventoux twice in the same day. Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and François Thomazeau were in Malaucène to see Wout Van Aert win the fourth Tour de France stage of his career. Giddy at rejoining the Tour bubble (or perhaps he spent too long in the sun), Lionel indulges in some wild speculation. The day was also notable for an attack by Jonas Vingegaard as they reached Mont Ventoux for the second time which led to the yellow jersey Tadej Pogacar faltering for the first time. We also discuss the wisdom of the Ineos Grenadiers tactics. Were they making the pace hard for Pogacar or doing UAE Team Emirates’s job for them? Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout.

On the day the Tour de France returns to Mont Ventoux we look back at the last visit, in 2016, when chaos ensued and Chris Froome, in the yellow jersey, ended up running up the climb. Helping us piece together what happened on Bastille Day, 2016, are Froome, Richie Porte, Serge Pauwels, Seb Piquet and the stage winner who few would remember, Thomas De Gendt. Kilometre 0 by The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens: energy management for committed athletes and coaches. 

The Mark Cavendish comeback tour continued after the rest day with a sprint stage to Valence which saw the Manxman take his third victory of the race and another giant step towards equalling the record we dare not mention. Richard Moore and François Thomazeau are joined by Lionel Birnie, who took the TGV to Valence and enjoyed as comfortable a train ride as Cavendish on the back of the Deceuninck-Quick Step lead-out. We hear from Matt White, sports director of Team Bike Exchange about Michael Matthews’s hopes of challenging Cavendish for the green jersey. There’s a wealth of Provençal knowledge from François and we look ahead to tomorrow’s double ascent of Mont Ventoux. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Supersapiens and Science in Sport. Supersapiens is a continuous glucose monitoring system that helps you make the right fuelling choices. See supersapiens.com For 25% off all your SiS products, go to scienceinsport.com and enter the code SISCP25 at the checkout. Apologies for the technical issue