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Luke and Tom are back to celebrate three great weeks on the road with a grand review of the Tour to discuss the winners, the losers and everything in between, as well as a few notes on what might be in store next year. They answer more of your questions before Luke previews what the rest of his year on the bike looks like. Au revoir from the Tour… until next time. Learn more about your ad choices....

GTCC LIVE! Yes, that's right - as you've heard Tom and G saying, we're going on our first-ever GTCC Tour this November! Get your tickets here: https://tourlink.to/CyclingClub G and Laurens De Plus review stage 20 as Tadej Pogacar gets a win before the Tour heads to Paris to crown Jonas Vingegaard as back to back champion. Plus the best of your questions about what happens at the end of a grand tou...

GTCC LIVE! Yes, that's right - as you've heard Tom and G saying, we're going on our first-ever GTCC Tour this November! Get your tickets here: https://tourlink.to/CyclingClub After a busy few days Luke is back on the pod, coming to you from Belgium on the eve of Tour de Wallonie. He had both eyes on an absorbing day of action at the Tour though, and has lots to say about the day's breakaway action...

GTCC LIVE! Yes, that's right - as you've heard Tom and G saying, we're going on our first-ever GTCC Tour this November! Get your tickets here: https://tourlink.to/CyclingClub You read that correctly - we've got a Watts Occurring exclusive tonight! G called up his old mate Mark Cavendish and he was kind enough to join us to chat about his recovery from that heartbreaking Tour de France crash, his t...

GTCC LIVE! Yes, that's right - as you've heard Tom and G saying, we're going on our first-ever GTCC Tour this November! Get your tickets here: https://tourlink.to/CyclingClub Well, the fearsome Col de la Loze lived up to its reputation and ripped the Tour de France GC to shreds. Jonas Vingegaard has all but sewn up the yellow jersey for another year, Pog had a heartbreaking collapse, and the battl...

GTCC LIVE! Yes, that's right - as you've heard Tom and G saying, we're going on our first-ever GTCC Tour this November! Get your tickets here: https://tourlink.to/CyclingClub Holy moly. What a performance that was. Jonas Vingegaard has taken a major step towards the yellow jersey by destroying today's Tour time trial. Pogacar had no answer, despite being a clear second. G and Luke get stuck right...

GTCC LIVE! Yes, that's right - as you've heard Tom and G saying, we're going on our first-ever GTCC Tour this November! Get your tickets here: https://tourlink.to/CyclingClub It's rest day two at the Tour and boy is this race finely poised. G's recruited everyone's favourite ambassador Laurens de Plus to look back on the Pog vs Jonas action, bask in the INEOS glory, and preview tomorrow's crucial...

GTCC LIVE! If you've not heard yet, we're playing our first live shows this November. Get your tickets here: https://tourlink.to/CyclingClub Wow. Another day of headlines, drama - and an INEOS win at the Tour de France! Is that the day that Carlos Rodriguez came of age? It could well be. Young Carlito slipped away from the big two, after they had a dramatic and controversial battle on the final cl...

GTCC LIVE! If you've not heard yet, we're playing our first live shows this November. Get your tickets here: https://tourlink.to/CyclingClub Well, what a stage that was - and what a turnaround for Luke and G's teammates. Kwiato showed his class with a stage win for the ages, Pidcock impressed on another mountaintop finish - and this fascinating race between Pogi and Vingegaard shows no signs of sl...

GTCC LIVE! If you've not heard yet, we're playing our first live shows this November. Get your tickets here: https://tourlink.to/CyclingClub Another relentless, random day of racing at the Tour de France - and G and Luke pull no punches dissecting the tactical decisions across the peloton. Stage 12 was another day you couldn't take your eyes off, with Jumbo sending guys up the road, everyone fight...

GTCC LIVE! If you've not heard yet, we're playing our first live shows this November. Get your tickets here: https://tourlink.to/CyclingClub Yes, that's right - we've got Watts Occurring Ambassador Laurens de Plus on the pod tonight. He's very proud to have been promoted to co-host. He joins G in Andorra to chat all about his compatriot Jasper Philipsen's remarkable Tour performances to date and a...

GTCC LIVE! If you've not heard yet, we're playing our first live shows this November. Get your tickets here: https://tourlink.to/CyclingClub Today's stage was relentless - and raced in 40+ degree heat. It was, to use a Luke Rowe phrase, a jungle out there. G and Luke are back together to review the action plus there's a poem (really), some secretive prediction talk, and G's back in his favourite p...

GTCC LIVE! We're playing our first live shows this November. Get your tickets here: https://tourlink.to/CyclingClub It would have been tough to script a more dramatic opening week to this year's Tour de France. We've already seen the pendulum swing from Pog, to Jonas, and then back to Pog again; there was Cav's heartbreaking departure from the race to contend with; and we've seen Philipsen's impre...

GTCC LIVE! We're playing our first live shows this November. Get your tickets here: https://tourlink.to/CyclingClub The GOAT? Luke and Tom pay their tributes to the undisputed king of sprinting in today's Tour de France pod, after Mark Cavendish sadly left the Tour de France yesterday in the back of an ambulance, nursing a broken collarbone. It had all been looking so good. Luke recalls tales of h...

GTCC LIVE! We're playing our first live shows this November. Get your tickets here: https://tourlink.to/CyclingClub Jonas Vingegaard is leading the Tour de France, so we thought you’d like to get to know him better. This is G and Tom talking to Jonas about how he won the 2022 Tour. It was recorded during the winter. We did a similar thing with Tadej Pogačar once, and you can hear that on Spotify h...

GTCC LIVE! We're playing our first live tour this November. Get your tickets here: https://tourlink.to/CyclingClub It looked for several glorious seconds like Mark Cavendish was finally going to snatch the record for most stage wins at the Tour. Still hoarse from roaring him on, Luke and Tom discuss how close he came, what went right and what may have gone wrong. The boys look back on a crazy firs...

GTCC LIVE! We're playing our first live tour this November. Get your tickets here: https://tourlink.to/CyclingClub We're not even a full week into this year's Tour de France and it's been absolutely bonkers. If anyone thought the race was over yesterday, it roared back into life today. G's got plenty of thoughts on how Jumbo tackled stage six and Tom's got another fantastic drinking analogy for ev...

GTCC LIVE! We're playing our first live tour this November. Get your tickets here: https://tourlink.to/CyclingClub Woof. The first mountain stage of the Tour did not disappoint - and Luke and G have got a LOT of thoughts about it. Should UAE have controlled the break better? You'll have to listen to hear their thoughts (spoiler: yes, probably). And we'll be back with more mountains reaction tomorr...

GTCC LIVE TICKETS - on general sale from 10am! Click here: https://tourlink.to/CyclingClub Jasper Philipsen did the business once again at the Tour de France - much to the surprise of G. He's back with Tom to discuss another exciting day of sprint action and look ahead to the race's first major day in the mountains. There's plenty of talk about crashing (the dreaded 'c' word), the Watts Occurring...

Recording of tonight's pod started at 3km to go of the Tour de France's first sprint day and... well, Luke and G won't be giving up the day job anytime soon to rival Ned Boulting and co in the commentary game. There was plenty of emotion though, and lots of classic sprint drama for the boys to dissect. G gives his thoughts on the weekend's action, Luke's got a sprint win to celebrate in Austria co...

Luke and Tom are here for the first episode of Watts Occurring's 2023 Tour de France coverage - and wow, what a weekend in the Basque Country. Two unexpected stage winners, a British yellow jersey, and early battles between Pog and Vingegaard. Luke has his views on UAE's workload, Vingegaard working (or not...) for Wout van Aert, and Tom's already struggling in the Watts Occurring prediction leagu...

TICKET LINK: https://tourlink.to/CyclingClubPresale Yes, that's right - tickets are on sale now for our first-ever GTCC live shows! Hit the link above to get yours now. You'll need the special code YELLOW to access the pre-sale - and with every ticket, you'll get a signed copy of G's new book! GTCC's very own two-for-one deal. We'll be playing the Cadogan Hall in London on November 6th and the New...

The Tour de France is nearly here - and while Luke and G won't be going for an all-expenses paid trip round France this year (there's the small matter of the Vuelta to prep for...) we've got BIG pod plans. They've recruited G's GTCC co-host Tom Fordyce and the trio will be bringing you five Tour pods a week throughout July - that's right, FIVE pods a week. We've got some big plans, so make sure yo...

The cycling world was rocked last week with the tragic death of Swiss cyclist Gino Mader. Mader crashed during stage five of the Tour de Suisse and passed away early on Friday. Luke and Geraint pay their tribute to the 26-year-old. Luke’s also been back racing himself at Route d’Occitanie and while he was away, he grabbed 19-year-old Welsh sensation Josh Tarling for a typical Watts Occurring hotel...

It's the talk of the cycling world - the new behind-the-scenes Netflix documentary Tour de France: Unchained, filmed at last year's Tour. G has a starring role and Luke... is caught on film in his bucket hat. We called up James Gay-Rees, the producer of the series and founder of Box to Box, the company behind the Tour documentary and the incredible F1 series Drive to Survive. He gave the boys a fa...