The Cycling Podcast

Join Lionel Birnie and Ian Boswell in Anglefort as they recap stage 13 of the Tour de France. There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, and hear from the voice of Radio Tour Sebastian Piquet and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport. Follow us on social...

Join Lionel Birnie and Ian Boswell in Belleville-en-Beaujolais as they recap stage 12 of the Tour de France. There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, catch up with Jayco-Alula rider Luke Durbridge, hear from the voice of Radio Tour Sebastian Piquet and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage. The Cycling Po...

Join Lionel Birnie, Mitch Docker and Ian Boswell in Moulins as they recap stage 11 of the Tour de France. There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, catch up with Jayco-Alula rider Luke Durbridge, hear from the voice of Radio Tour Sebastian Piquet and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage. The Cycling Podca...

Join Rose Manley, Lizzy Banks and new voice to the podcast – Denny Gray – as they review the second Grand Tour of the year, the Giro Donne. The team take a closer look at which riders impressed and which fell short in the nine-stage battle for the maglia rosa . We hear from rising star Juliette Labous, plus Lizzy offers her unique view from inside the race. Our coverage of the Tour de France Femme...

Join Lionel Birnie, Mitch Docker and Ian Boswell in Issoire as they recap stage ten of the Tour de France. There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, catch up with Jayco-Alula rider Luke Durbridge, hear from the voice of Radio Tour Sebastian Piquet and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage. The Cycling Podc...

Join Lionel Birnie and Mitch Docker at Le Puy de Dôme as they recap stage nine of the Tour de France. There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, catch up with Jayco-Alula rider Luke Durbridge, hear from the voice of Radio Tour Sebastian Piquet and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage. The Cycling Podcast i...

On Sunday, the Tour de France will return to Le Puy de Dôme for the first time in 35 years. The volcano in the Massif Central was first visited by the race in 1952. Fausto Coppi, who had won the Tour's first-ever summit finish at Alpe d'Huez a couple of weeks earlier, took the stage. In 1964, it was the scene of a famous duel between Jacques Anquetil and Raymond Poulidor as the two brushed shoulde...

Join Lionel Birnie and Mitch Docker in Limoges as they recap stage eight of the Tour de France. There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, catch up with Jayco-Alula rider Luke Durbridge, hear from the voice of Radio Tour Sebastian Piquet and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage. The Cycling Podcast is supp...

Join Lionel Birnie and Mitch Docker in Bordeaux as they recap stage seven of the Tour de France. There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, catch up with Jayco-Alula rider Luke Durbridge, hear from the voice of Radio Tour Sebastian Piquet and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage. The Cycling Podcast is sup...

Join Lionel Birnie, François Thomazeau and Mitch Docker in Cauterets-Cambasque as they recap stage six of the Tour de France. There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, catch up with Jayco-Alula rider Luke Durbridge, hear from the voice of Radio Tour and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage. The Cycling Po...

Join Lionel Birnie, François Thomazeau and Mitch Docker in Laruns as they recap stage five of the Tour de France. There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, catch up with Jayco-Alula rider Luke Durbridge, hear from the voice of Radio Tour and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage. The Cycling Podcast is sup...

Join Lionel Birnie, François Thomazeau and Mitch Docker in Nogaro as they recap stage four of the Tour de France. There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, catch up with Jayco-Alula rider Luke Durbridge, hear from the voice of Radio Tour and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage. The Cycling Podcast is sup...

Join Lionel Birnie, François Thomazeau and Mitch Docker in Bayonne as they recap stage three of the Tour de France. There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, catch up with Jayco-Alula rider Luke Durbridge, hear from the voice of Radio Tour and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage. The Cycling Podcast is s...

Join Lionel Birnie, François Thomazeau and Mitch Docker in San Sebastian as they recap stage two of the Tour de France. There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, catch up with Jayco-Alula rider Luke Durbridge, hear from the voice of Radio Tour and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage. The Cycling Podcast...

Join Lionel Birnie, François Thomazeau and Mitch Docker in Bilbao as they recap stage one of the Tour de France. There’ll be French flavour from François, we’ll see who is outside the team bus, catch up with Jayco-Alula rider Luke Durbridge, hear from the voice of Radio Tour and analyse the action. Then we’ll review yesterday’s dinner and look ahead to tomorrow’s stage. The Cycling Podcast is supp...

In this episode of Kilometre 0, we speak to three filmmakers who had the tricky task of making a film during the 2020 'Covid' Tour de France. The result is Enter the Slipstream, which debuts on US streaming service Peacock, part of NBC Sports, tomorrow (Saturday, July 1). Lionel Birnie spoke to director Ted Youngs, producer Matt Rogers and story producer Alexis Steinman about the filmmaking proces...

This is our XL Tour de France preview with Lionel Birnie, Daniel Friebe and François Thomazeau – a bumper episode looking ahead to the race, which starts on Saturday. A few days before the grand départ, as the team line-ups and new jerseys are unveiled we look ahead to see what's in store at the biggest race in the world. It's shaping up to be a clash between defending champion Jonas Vingegaard an...

Kilometre 0 Richie and Chris kicks off a seven-part mini series focusing on the 2013 Tour de France. To mark the 100th edition of the race, the Tour headed to Corsica for the grand départ. Lionel Birnie spoke to former teammates Chris Froome and Richie Porte about the race. Froome led Team Sky for the first time having been runner-up to Bradley Wiggins the previous year. Wiggins was somewhat contr...

With the SD Worx victory machine still rumbling on at the Tour de Suisse, Rose Manley, Orla Chennaoui and Lizzy Banks are faced with a few conundrums. Is Kasia Niewiadoma back to her best? Can SD Worx be beaten on strategy? And most pressingly of all, exactly who has the cutest dog in the peloton?  The Cycling Podcast Féminin team pick over some of the week’s impressive solo performances and hear...

The world of professional cycling was rocked and devastated this week by the death of 26-year-old Bahrain Victorious rider Gino Mäder after a crash in his home race, the Tour de Suisse. The tragedy has completely overshadowed the build-up to the Tour de France - and, in turn, forced a change to our original plan for the episode, namely a review of the new Netflix docuseries, Tour de France: Unchai...

In this week’s episode of The Cycling Podcast, Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are joined by one of the brains behind what some have already called the event of the cycling season - not Christian Prudhomme or Mauro Vegni but James Gay-Rees, the Oscar-winning executive producer of the hotly anticipated docuseries released on Netflix last week, Tour de France: Unchained.  James lifts the lid on how...

This episode of Service Course comes from two far flung destinations. Firstly Lizzy takes you to Arkansas where she was competing in the Joe Martin Stage Race and then Tom, with the help of Oskar Scarsbrook takes you to Sierra Leone. More specifically the Lunsar region of Sierra Leone where the Tour de Lunsar was taking place. The most important race in the region, the Tour de Lunsar is not on the...

With the Giro d'Italia now in the rear-view mirror and the Tour de France on the horizon, The Cycling Podcast begins the countdown to the grand départ in Bilbao. As the Critérium du Dauphiné reaches its halfway stage, Lionel Birnie is joined by François Thomazeau and Rob Hatch to discuss what it all means for the build-up to the world's biggest race. Does his stage win mean Julian Alaphilippe is b...

The Cycling Podcast Feminin team are reunited once again following Lizzy Banks’ long anticipated return to racing. Lizzy shares her experience of helping her team to victory at the Joe Martin stage race earlier this month, after overcoming two and a half years of illness and injury. There’s plenty to discuss in the World Tour, where the SD Worx winning streak has continued. Emphatic wins in Itzuli...

On the Giro d'Italia's second rest day, Lionel Birnie headed west to Bath to meet two of the voices of cycling – Eurosport-GCN commentary duo Rob Hatch and Sean Kelly. He joined them for a ride down the Bristol to Bath railway path. It was a ride that took a surprising and slightly surreal diversion once they reached Bristol... The Cycling Podcast is supported by Science in Sport. Follow us on soc...