VeloVoices Podcast 196: I Don’t Like Bridges At The Best Of Times
Kathi, Luke, Midge and Euan are here to run through the Grand Depart stages of the 2022 Tour de France. From horrible … Continue reading
Tour de France 2022: Stage 3 – Groenewegen’s return; Wout stays in yellow
It’s been nearly two years since Fabio Jakobsen and Dylan Groenewegen collided at the Tour of Poland, resulting in a … Continue reading
Tour de France 2022: Stage 2 – Feel-good win for Jakobsen while Wout slips into yellow
The second stage of the 2022 Tour de France hit the open roads and bridges of Denmark. Much chaos was … Continue reading
Tour de France 2022: Stage 1 – Yves Lampaert takes a surprise yellow
Bonjour mes amis et velkommen til København. Stage One of the Tour de France kicked off with a 13.2km time … Continue reading
VeloVoices Podcast 195: The Tunnel Full of Glory
Kathi, Luke, Midge and Euan return to chat over all things cycling. We romp through the Dauphine, the Tour de Suisse, the … Continue reading
Tweets of the Week 2022 : Dauphine with a splash of Suisse
After a week’s hiatus, we’re back with all the best tweets from the Jumbo-dominated Dauphine as well as a few … Continue reading
Giro d’Italia 2022 A to Z : Part 2 – From Now to Never to Zero stage wins
Part Two of our Giro d’Italia 2022 A to Z kicks off with Now or Never – riders who saw their chance and took it! And we finish up with Zero stage wins … teams who unfortunately didn’t come away with victory. We also have tears, tiny fans, one very quixotic rider and the best cycling photographers in the world.
Giro d’Italia 2022 A-Z: Part 1 – From Almeida to Maglia Rosa
It’s a return of the Grand Tour A to Zs with Giro d’Italia 2022. We collect the good, the bad, the pinapple pizzas and the pain faces; stats, shout-outs and so much fun
VeloVoices Podcast 194: Cycling Fans Are NEVER Happy
Kathi, Luke, Midge, Issie and Euan discuss the 2022 Giro d’Italia and the overall winner Jai Hindley.
There’s a positive vibe going on as we go over what we loved about the race, from the riders and teams, to the sass on social media.
But we wouldn’t be cycling fans if we didn’t have a few gripes too.
Plus, we guarantee to be the only cycling podcast which includes discussions of Star Wars characters at Royal celebrations. Whether that is a good thing or not is up to you.
Check out our Giro coverage here:
Giro Tweets of the Week 2022 : Wanty Corner, MvdP food crimes and Bora brilliance
Giro d’Italia 2022 : Stage 16 – Wanty corner goes wild with Jan Hirt’s 5-star victory
Giro d’Italia 2022 : Stage 18 – Dries De Bondt grabs the stage as the break deny sprinters
Giro d’Italia 2022 : Stage 19 – Bouwman aces the final corner for stage win number two.
Giro d’Italia 2022 : Stage 21 – Hindley makes history; Sobrero wins in Verona
Listen here:
Videos
Davide Formolo (Cannondale-Garmin) delivered for the team at this year’s Giro d’Italia with a popular solo win on stage four. Called up only a fortnight before the start, he hadn’t specifically trained for the race, which leaves us wondering whether he might have bettered his overall 31st place if he’d targetted this race. Keeping the pink glow going, he looks back at his first Grand Tour.
Created in 1993 to enable amateur cyclists to personally experience a stage of each year’s Tour de France, L’Etape de Tour is THE cyclosportive. This year’s event takes place on Sunday 19th July over 142km from Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to La Toussuire.
All places are taken for this year’s Etape (unless you get a place with a tour operator or through a charity). Places go fast as soon as registration opens so if you want to get a jump on proceedings for next year, take a minute to register with ASO Challenges. Registration details are here. Also, follow l’Etape on Twitter and Facebook for news all year round.
Links: Official website
Images
Stage 13, the longest of this year’s Vuelta, came down to a messy, chaotic sprint and a beautiful win by Deceuninck QuickStep’s Florian Senechal. The Frenchman gave it everything to deny Matteo Trentin (UAE-Team Emirates) after teammate, and red hot favourite for victory, Fabio Jakobsen found himself out of position on the run to the line. The red jersey stays on the shoulders of Odd Christian Eiking (Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert) and everyone else remains as they were on the GC, prior to the climbing action this weekend.
I cannot imagine riding a bike, at speed, in 41°C heat, on slippery tarmac, due possibly to dirt, grease or olives, for hours. But that’s what the peloton did today in Stage 12 of this year’s Vuelta. But as yesterday, the race caught fire in the last kilometre and, again, it was EF’s Magnus Cort who showed he was on the form of his life as he took to the front in the final 800m. But this time, there was no Roglic and Mas chasing him, and he took a MAJESTIC win half a wheel ahead of Andrea Bagioli (DQS), with Michael Matthews (BEX) in third. The red jersey stayed with Odd Christian Eiking (Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert) and the GC hasn’t been stirred at all and all the jerseys stay put.
Asides
All of the history and excitement of the world’s most famous one-day bicycle race in one coffee-table book. Paris-Roubaix: A Journey Through Hell is an essential read for anyone interested in this spectacular race.
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Links
It was a stage of action and drama at Tour Down Under. The GC leaders battled for bonus seconds. A first WorldTour victory went to Jasper Philipsen after Caleb Ewan was relegated for head butting. Race leader Patrick Bevin was involved in a crash and had to chase to get back with the peloton.
Quotes
“Riders like me and Cancellara don’t think about the points, just the win.”
Vincenzo Nibali bemoans the lack of fierce joy in the riders of the peloton, many of whom he believes play it safe and ride just for points, not the win.
Read his straight-talking interview on Velonews.
When asked what animal he would like to be, Bernie Eisel answered ‘My cat. She has the best life you can imagine!’
I happen to know that there are a whole lotta ladies out there who would kill to be Bernie’s cat. I’ll leave that there …
The face a million women love (Image: Team Sky)
Here is Team Sky’s 20 Questions to the Ladies Favourite