Cycling Legends Podcast

No rest day for the wicked (didn't we use that one last year? - Ed) as the team look back on the first week of this year's Grande Boucle.

From Barca to Ussel, it's been a battle against the clock, against the Pyrenees and (probably) against the blazers. And there's another fortnight where that came from.

Magnifique!

📸 This year’s Barcelona Grand Depart is only the third time that the Tour has begun in Spain. The first was in San Sebastián in 1992 where reigning champion Miguel Indurain (pictured) took a hotly contested prologue ahead of Alex Zulle. (Presse Sports)

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Many champions dominate by force or aggression, but Jacques Anquetil seemed to glide into the centre of things, immaculate and compete. Anquetil had substance but he also had style - on and off the bike.

Join Chris Sidwells throughout this year’s race for more Tales from the Tour de France.

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🎵Trabant 33 “Like in France”, courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com

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Sacre bleu! Has it really been a whole year since we last did this?

Join Chris, David and Gary as they look ahead to the 113th Tour de France Hommes sans Zwift. The course, the climbs, the favourites and the dark horses plus some throwbacks along the way.

Can anyone stop defending champion Tadej Pogacar from joining the greats with a 5th maillot jaune? We can only wait and see. Le Tour est ici!!

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In this episode of Cycling Family Trees, we trace the remarkable Rabobank lineage: from Jan Raas’s post–TI-Raleigh breakaway and the Kwantum roots of the 1980s, through Rabobank’s rise as the great Dutch talent factory, to its collapse amid cycling’s doping reckoning and its rebirth as the powerhouse now known as Team Visma | Lease a Bike.

Along the way, we follow the men’s and women’s branches of the story — from Michael Boogerd, Erik Dekker, Óscar Freire and Denis Menchov to Marianne Vos, Anna van der Breggen, Annemiek van Vleuten, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, Primož Roglič, Wout van Aert and Jonas Vingegaard — and ask how one of cycling’s most complicated family trees became one of its most successful.

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Birth(day)s, deaths and marriages! Welcome to the evening edition of your local newspaper. Thankfully cycling content is a-plenty as Chris, David and Gary cast their eyes over another fascinating few weeks in pro cycling.

📸 The Dauphiné Libéré (okay, the Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes, if you must) is often seen as a Tour de France indicator, yet in 78 editions only 12 Dauphiné winners have taken the Maillot Jaune in July. The first was Louison Bobet, pictured embracing first wife Christiane after the 1955 finish in Grenoble. Already a two-time Tour winner, Bobet later earned praise from race founder Georges Cazeneuve for “haloing the race with prestige”. (Photo: Dauphine Libéré)

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