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On cycling's Super Sunday as the Tour de France finishes and the Tour de France Femmes gets going, these are RadioCycling's headlines...As Jonas Vingegaard completes the most dominant Tour victory of recent years, we pick out the race's highlights including an unforgettable first week, the return of the Puy de Dôme, Bora's poignant tribute to Gino Mäder, and, last but not least, Thibaut Pinot's tr...

After two weeks of frenzied and close-fought action, the Tour leaves the Alps with its leader holding the biggest lead of this century. As the race pauses in "Chickentown", these are RadioCycling's headlines...At Combloux and Courchevel, Jonas Vingegaard became the demolition man, putting a wrecking ball through the general classification and eviscerating Tadej Pogačar. With scepticism of his perf...

After Jonas Vingegaard's torching of his rivals in the Combloux time trial, these are RadioCycling's latest headlines...Like Jacques Anquetil, Bernard Hinault or Miguel Induráin in their time trialling pomp, Jonas Vingegaard not only beat Tadej Pogačar in the Tour's only TT, but blitzed him, putting an astonishingly large gap between himself and his arch-rival. We reflect on this incredible perfor...

As the Tour de France pauses in Saint-Gervais for its second rest day, these are RadioCycling's latest headlines...The Tour remains on a knife-edge, with Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard so close to each other that they might as well be riding a tandem. We reflect on a Tour that's shaping up as even better than last year's and potentially as one of the best of all time. There's another fascinati...

In a very frank interview with Radio Cycling's Chris Marshall-Bell, Israel-PremierTech team owner Sylvan Adams explains why four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome didn't merit a place in their Tour de France line-up and says that the British rider hasn't fulfilled the hopes IPT had for him when he signed an extremely lucrative multi-year contract three years ago. "He’s supposed to be our l...

In this special episode, RadioCycling pays tribute to Gino Mäder, the 26-year-old Swiss rider who died after crashing while racing in his national tour last month. Produced in collaboration with journalist Kate Wagner, who got to know Gino well during his professional racing career, it features extracts from interviews she conducted with the Bahrain Victorious rider. These interviews highlight not...

As the Tour de France pauses in Clermont-Ferrand for its rest day, these are RadioCycling's latest headlines...2019 Tour de France champion Egan Bernal has made a miraculous return to racing after his near-fatal training crash in Colombia last year.  The Ineos Grenadier tells us why he's proud of what he's achieved in making it back to the Tour, what he's hoping for from the rest of the race, and...

As the Tour de France leaves the Pyrenees, these are RadioCycling's news headlines...It's been frantic, the tactics have been crazy at times, but it's also been totally captivating. We look back on two days in the Pyrenees when Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar tried to knock lumps out of each other and in doing so served up racing action that was every bit as enthralling as last year's epic moun...

As the Tour de France heads for the Pyrenees, these are RadioCycling's news headlines...Wout van Aert hasn't looked like a happy camper at times during the Tour's opening days, but Jumbo-Visma's head of performance Merijn Zeeman tells us that there's no rift  at all between the Dutch team's multi-talented Belgian powerhouse and their Danish leader and defending Tour champion Jonas Vingegaard. It's...

With the Tour de France's first weekend completed, these are RadioCycling's news headlines...Ineos team manager Rod Ellingworth acknowledges that at least three of the British team's GC leaders are angling for transfers, but denies that there's going to be a mass exodus of their stage race talent. Bullish in his defence of Ineos's Grand Tour strategy, Ellingworth tells us why he's excited about th...

RadioCycling will be offering three episodes a week during the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. Our first Tour-themed show, backed by our new sponsor Saddle Skedaddle, offers a blitz of the latest news going into the world's greatest race. We start with the latest on transfer dealings at Ineos Grenadiers, where there's a lot of outward traffic but very little movement in the ot...

While Ineos teenager Josh Tarling was expected to be among the medallists in the British TT championship, his victory by more than a minute over his rivals did cause a stir. We speak to his former coach Stuart Blunt about the 19-year-old Welshman, who Blunt describes as a "British Filippo Ganna".We've got a Jumbo-Visma double, starting with the latest from team manager Richard Plugge on the Dutch...

From Orson Welles to Ernest Hemingway, Ben Stiller to Paul Smith, Dustin Hoffman to Samuel Beckett, the Tour de France has long had many famous fans in the world of culture and the arts. Now the race has had the Netflix treatment with Unchained, their much-heralded series about the 2022 Tour. Enjoyable as it was, the series only showed a glimpse inside the madness, excitement and intrigue of the w...

Soon after Ukraine was invaded by Russia in February 2022, RadioCycling's Chris Marshall-Bell began investigating the impact of the war that has ensued has had on Ukrainian cycling and its cycling community.16 months on, RadioCycling presents this special episode on Ukraine. It focuses on one of the country's leading coaches, Oleksandr Kulyk, who was killed six days into the conflict, and his son,...

Tour de France selection is always a tricky business, team managers giving good news to some riders and dismaying others. This is typified by the hullabaloo at Groupama-FDJ, where team boss Marc Madiot has delighted Thibaut Pinot fans by selecting the mercurial climber for a final lap of France before his retirement, but made way for him by discarding sprinter Arnaud Démare, who's had the Tour on...

If the Critérium du Dauphiné's ability to highlight the Tour de France favourites once again proves reliable, Jonas Vingegaard is going to be hard to stop as he aims to defend his title in July. We examine the Dane's dismantling of his rivals in the French Alps, look at which of them have emerged from  the Dauphiné with reason for optimism and, on the flip side, those who have left with their repu...

Our latest episode kicks off with an exclusive interview with Vuelta a España director Javier Guillén, who tells us that there's absolutely no prospect of the Vuelta swapping dates with the Giro d'Italia, a move that many were pushing for as a possible solution to the bad weather that perennially affects Italy's Grand Tour. "No, no and no!" declares Guillén. Looking ahead to this year's Vuelta, no...

Tadej Pogačar discloses that there positive and negative sides to his racing layoff after he broke his wrist at Liège-Bastogne-Liège in April. On the up side, he'll be fresh going into the Tour de France, but he acknowledges he'll be short of racing and that his wrist may still be hampering his punchy style. We hear what the two-time Tour champ has to say. Canyon//SRAM are in the midst of a doping...

Jonas Vingegaard is stronger and more confident than ever, that's according to  Mathieu Heijboer. Jumbo-Visma's head of performance tells that us that, while the Dane is still shy and retiring off the bike,  Vingegaard has moved on another level when he's racing and is full of confidence as he prepares to defend the Tour de France title. Scotland, England, Wales: This seems increasingly likely to...

Roglič redemption: Thomas the fall guy as Primož slays his demons. We hear from Jumbo-Visma's Grand Tour debutant and reluctant oboeist Thomas Gloag about his Giro and riding for the race's newly-crowned champion. Plus, Olympic champion Ed Clancy, a close friend of Mark Cavendish's since they were kids, reflects on the Briton's stunning final stage victory in Rome. Ineos left shattered as Jumbo nu...

No Country for Old Men: as GC battle at the Giro lights up in typically late but enthralling fashion, Geraint Thomas and Primož Roglic are set to slug it out for the pink jersey, but can't write off young gun João Almeida. Stage wins and the pink jersey: we catch up with DSM sports director Matt Winston, who reflects on his team's impressive Giro and the weekend's critical TT finale. World of conf...

Mark Cavendish is reportedly set to announce on the Giro's rest day that he will retire from racing at the end of this season. Philippe Gilbert has described the Giro's GC battle as offering "meagre entertainment" and the ex-world champion is far from alone in this opinion. We look at what why the contest for the pink jersey is one of attrition rather than thrills. RadioCycling Exclusive: UCI pres...

There's a lot to cram into this episode. It kicks off with an exclusive interview with ex-pro turned riders' union president Adam Hansen, who talks about the challenges of his first months as head of the CPA, why he's trying to be more inclusive and open, and about the riders' biggest concern – no prizes for guessing that it's race safety. Covid is causing chaos at the Giro d'Italia. Is it time fo...

Episode 4 went off without hitch, only for race leader Remco Evenepoel to quit the Giro d'Italia with Covid. So here's version two, complete with that disappointing news, as well as a look ahead to week two of the corsa rosa. We get Jayco-Alula team manager Matt White's analysis of what lies ahead in a race that could hardly be any more finely balanced. Plus, there's Tao Geoghegan Hart's analysis...

A look ahead to the GC battle on the mighty Gran SassoCorratec's Charlie Quarterman on his challenging day in the break on stage 6 and why he asked Alessandro Di Marchi to ease up a tadDSM get a new partner but insist they'll keep focusing on young talent and not prima donnasMark Cavendish's coach Maurizio Mazzoleni explains why the Manx sprinter has raced so much this season and how this is likel...