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Welcome to the Explore podcast from EF Pro Cycling. This year, we will take you to the heart of our men’s and women’s teams. From the world's biggest races, to our backyards and favorite places, we’re exploring what motivates and challenges us. We have all taken different paths to the WorldTour and we have unique stories to tell. We are racers, teammates, friends, and college grads. We are farmers. We are parents. We are adventurers. So join us on this ride as we explore the world of cycling ...
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Bicycling’s Pro Cycling Podcast is your guide to the most exciting sport on the planet. Longtime contributors (and racing fans) Whit Yost and Joe Lindsey highlight the races and racers to watch, the key storylines of the season, and its most exciting moments on and off the bike. From the cobblestone roads of the Northern Classics to the mountaintop finishes of the Tour de France, Bicycling’s Pro Cycling Podcast has the sport covered.
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The Week In Bike - The Internet's Second Most Weekly Pro Cycling News Podcast
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Love bike racing? Tired of superficial broadcast coverage where castles come first and endless online stories quoting a pro talking about his “sensations”? Hors Delai is your podcast. Join hosts Whit Yost and Joe Lindsey for a different kind of dive into the world of bike racing. Yost and Lindsey, two longtime racing fans and journalists, live on different sides of the country and love to talk about the sport. Hors Delai is their weekly, unscripted get-together to trade observations on the r ...
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Home of Sarah Connolly and Dan Wright's (sweary) "Unofficial, Unsanctioned Women's UCI Cycling Show" and the "Sarah Interviews" podcasts, full of news and events in the world of professional women's cycling, & racing from around the world. Posts with links to the things we talk about in the podcasts, including race videos, on our website www.prowomenscycling.com.
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The Tour de France Femmes is over. After a historic day with a summit finish on the Alpe d'Huez, Alison Jackson, Lotta Henttala, and Noemi Rüegg sit down to talk about the Tour, how they are feeling, why Lotta cried not once, but twice yesterday and share what foods they are most excited to eat now that the race is over. It's been a Tour with plent…
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Things can change fast at the Tour de France. Just two days ago, we were in Rotterdam enjoying a sunny, warm, beautiful (but hectic) Grand Départ. Since then we have started to make out way towards France and unfortunately lost one of our teammates along the way when Clara Emond was forced to go home due to illness. So today, we have a very special…
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Things can change quickly at the Tour de France. Just two days ago, we were in Rotterdam, enjoying a sunny and warm (though hectic) Grand Départ. Since then, we've begun our journey towards France, but unfortunately, we had to say goodbye to one of our teammates, Clara Emond, who had to return home due to illness. But, fear not, the podcast continu…
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We can smell the Mediterranean Sea and Nice feels oh so close for Neilson and Sean. We catch up with them on the second and last rest day of the 2024 Tour de France to recap what has been a crazy week of racing. Our American duo talk about what it was like to race in one of the hardest stages to date, why being in the gruppetto can actually be nice…
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We've (FINALLY) reached the first rest day of the 2024 Tour de France. It's been a crazy first week of the Tour and Florence already feels like ancient history. Our squad has ridden valiantly this week and have showed that they are here to race and race hard. Today, we talk to Tour Rookie, Sean Quinn and teammate Neilson Powless about their favorit…
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The first three stages of the 2024 Tour de France have been brutally hard, intensely hot, and all around unforgettable for our squad. Sean and Neilson take you through the Grand Départ in Florence, what it felt like to finally pin those Tour numbers on for our Tour rookie, and how they have been coping with the heat. They also walk you through how …
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Stage 0 | Florence, Italy Join us for an exclusive series straight from the heart of the Tour de France with your hosts Neilson Powless and Sean Quinn, At this point, Neilson is a Tour veteran, already competing in his fifth "grande boucle" so it's only natural that we ask him to share his wisdom with Tour de France rookie, Sean Quinn. In this epis…
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In this episode, you are joining us on the eve of the US national championship road race. Coming back from injury is always a bumpy road, full of unknowns, vague timelines, and challenges. Both Neilson Powless and Sean Quinn can confirm this. We talk about what it takes to bounce back after injury, our hopes and dreams for the US cycling scene, goa…
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Join us in the back of the team bus as we road trip to the Vuelta Feminina. If you don’t know who Kim is yet, we think you should. Kim is brand new to the sport of cycling. Three years ago, she was a teenager in New Zealand who had never even raced a bike and if you had told her that she would be competing for the win at one of cycling’s biggest ra…
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This season you’ve seen our men’s and women’s squads wearing an unreleased helmet from our partners over at POC. Its look is definitely eye-catching and there’s no shortage of opinions about how it looks, but the numbers and results speak for themselves. Plus, to quote Alison Jackson, we think the squad looks great in them. POC’s all new Procen Air…
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Alison Jackson is back in Roubaix to defend her title on the infamous french cobbles. In this episode, we catch up with Alison and dive into the real Alison. She’s a pro cyclist, beloved dancer, stellar aunt, zamboni driver, former knitter, and so much more. She talks about how she’s taking a different approach to racing this season, what has chang…
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Noemi Rüegg and Magdeleine Vallieres are two of the rising stars on our brand new EF Education-Cannondale squad. We are just a few weeks into the racing season and already they have both earned wins, the first of their careers and the first in our squad’s young history. We chatted with the pair about their backgrounds, racing outside of your comfor…
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EF Education-Cannondale GM Esra Tromp, and EF Pro Cycling CEO Jonathan Vaughters join us from our team camp in Girona to talk about the 2024 season, how we’re integrating our two squads and forming one team and what our goals are for the future. So join us on this ride as we explore the world of cycling together.…
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Veronica Ewers and Owain Doull join us for this episode where we discuss mental health. Trigger warning, we briefly mention suicide. Owain and Veronica talk about the ups and downs they’ve experienced with mental health both as individuals and as professional athletes. We cover everything from the importance of being open about the times they’ve st…
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The second edition of the Tour de France Femmes just wrapped up and we thought we would do something a little different for this one. Instead of doing a deep dive with one or two riders, we talked with each rider – Alison Jackson, Sara Poidevin, Kathrin Hammes, Georgia Williams, Magdeleine Vaillieres and Letizia Borghesi – and asked them about thei…
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James Shaw is over a week into his first Tour de France and it's been quite a week for the Tour rookie. From being the first to tend to Richard Carapaz after his crash on stage one, to having a breakthrough ride on stage 6 where he was in a group with some of the world’s best riders, James has risen to the occasion and shown his true colors. So joi…
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We are at the 2023 Tour de France. It's only stage 3 but a lot has already happened during our time here in the Basque Country. For Tour de France rookie James Shaw, it definitely wasn’t an easy road to get here. After numerous setbacks throughout his career and doubts that he would ever race professionally again, James earned his spot on our Tour …
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We are talking with Lachlan Morton and Keegan Swenson about the ups and downs of racing at Cape Epic – the “Tour de France of mountain biking.” Featuring 8 brutal stages and some gnarly weather conditions, this year’s edition of the South African race proved to be one of the toughest editions in recent memory. It was a challenging week of racing, b…
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This week, we are celebrating the biggest victory in EF Education-TIBCO-SVB’s history with a special episode with winner of the 2023 Paris-Roubaix Alison Jackson and team Sport Director Tim Harris. Dance. Cry. Cheer. Hug. Laugh. We went through every emotion possible on the finish line and we couldn't be more thrilled to see Alison take the biggest…
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This week, we have a very special episode in honor of Women’s History Month. While March has come and gone, we want to keep celebrating all the amazing work the women on our teams have done and are doing. EF Education-TIBCO-SVB rider Lizzy Banks and general manager Rachel Hedderman are trailblazers in women’s cycling and have advanced our sport bot…
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Lachlan and Gus Morton are both legends of the cycling world in their own rights. Born and raised in Port Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, Lachlan and Gus spent their childhoods chasing each other on dirt bikes, and then on road bikes before traveling the world racing for various teams both together and apart. While they have chosen differe…
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This year, we will take you to the heart of our men’s and women’s teams. From the world's biggest races, to our backyards and favorite places, we’re exploring what motivates and challenges us. We have all taken different paths to the WorldTour and we have unique stories to tell. We are racers, teammates, friends, and college grads. We are farmers. …
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Episode 37 - Xmas Ever
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It's Christmas Eve! Traditionally we've recorded a look back at the year and talked a bit about what's coming up. This year we're reviewing things a little differently, as we take a look back at some of the most popular stories and subjects we've addressed over the years and what they teach us about the sport, the audience and the business of Pro! …
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This is a significant episode for us, as this week we are announcing the end of our regular podcast series. We talk through the reasons behind our decision to take a step back, what's changed over the nearly six years we've been doing this and also reminisce about some of our favourite things. This is a positive episode and we'll really love for yo…
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British cyclocross rider Helen Wyman has always been a fan favourite, and it seems like her racing is getting better than ever. Winning her fourth Koppenbergcross this season, she was on the podiums of the last two Cyclocross World Cups, and with the weather turning wet, rainy and muddy, just as she likes it, this could be just the beginning of an …
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Sean Robinson is one half of Vélofocus, whose photography makes women's road cycling look so good. Sean talked to me about how 2017 was for him - the highs and lows, and changes he saw from his unique viewpoint of the sport. We also talked about how the sport could improve, and who he thinks we should watch out for in 2017.Check out the Vélofocus p…
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Episode 35 - The Best of the Year
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This week we recap our highlights and best parts of the 2017 women's road season. It's been an amazing year of racing and there's so much to celebrate. From the spring classics through to worlds in Norway, we've got opinions on them all! Get your best of the year opinions now!Por Sarah Connolly and Dan Wright
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In this episode we take a look at the changes in races, race days and race types from the 2017 season into the 2018 season. There's been some interesting changes in different global regions and specific countries. We look at which country has the most races and several surprising countries should probably be doing much better. Then right at the end…
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Episode 33 - It Being Back is Heart-Healing
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This episode we go through what we know about the 2018 UCI Calendar so far, and what's changed from this year. There's been a lot of changes, with fewer overall race days but still a wealth of races, from all over the world. We go through in detail and talk through the implications of this new season for the peloton as a whole. We also catch up on …
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This week we dive right into all the latest news and updates on transfers. If you need to know which rider is going where, then this is the episode for you! (Unless they haven't been confirmed yet, in which case, you probably still want this episode but you'll have to learn to live with the fact that we can't predict the future). Lots of interestin…
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Peter Sagan pulls off an unprecedented third straight World Road Championships, and Whit and Joe break it down: is Worlds somehow more suited to Sagan’s strength than any other style of racing? So, could he possibly make history as the winningest men’s rider of all time and win a fourth next year? Plus: will new leadership at the UCI portend any si…
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Episode 31 - Being Italian IS a Tactic!
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This week we talk through the Junior and Elite Women's Road Races from Bergen in Norway. There was all sorts of excitement in both races, and we talk through the highlights, the lowlights and the interesting moments that made the races. We also have a bit of a chat about riders to keep an eye on from the Junior racing, and of course we get a bit si…
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The Vuelta is over and it’s “on to World Championships” as a coach in the NFL might say. So Whit and Joe are moving on too, but not without a backward glance at the final Grand Tour of the year, to wrap up some surprises and disappointments and ask the question: is Chris Froome really a nice guy, or do his and Sky’s actions during the last two stag…
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Episode 30 - You Just Danned The Ending
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This week it's been a week of trials, time trials! World Championship Time Trials! We talk through what happened in Bergen with the Team Time Trial and then both the Junior and Elite Women's Individual Time Trials. There are some spectacular results and the racing has been absolutely top notch. We talk through the start of Cyclocross season, and ho…
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Episode 29 - Inverse Cobbles
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This week we catch up on the racing in Spain and France with the Madrid Challenge and the Tour de l'Ardeche. We discuss what happened at the mountain bike world championships in Cairns, and we also get into the latest intrigue from Cycling Australia leading into the Road World Championships in Bergen. Speaking of which, racing in Bergen starts on S…
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More Direct and More Devious
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This week we catch up after Sarah's been away at the Boels Rental Ladies Tour in the Netherlands. There's Plouay results to discuss, all the Dutch racing and of course what it means for worlds. Speaking of worlds, we're two weeks out from the festivities in Bergen and so of course it's time for the (sigh, eyeroll) polemica. This year it's Australia…
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Question: is Chris Froome unbeatable? Whit and Joe ponder the issue in context of the last week of the Vuelta Espana, where Froome has so far repelled all challenges to his lead, but is starting to show the barest hints of the strain of defending the red jersey for two plus weeks. Froome’s dominance stems from that of his Sky team, and Whit and Joe…
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This week Sarah and Dan talk through the polemica and outrage of Dan's whisky choices. Also discussed is each of the stages from this year's Ladies Tour of Norway, including a bit of race-related polemica. Then there's a look ahead to the Boels Rental Tour next week and the implications of current races for Worlds which is coming up quickly indeed …
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This week we cover the results from Sweden with the Vargarda Team Time Trial, and the Road Race. We also have an interesting diversion into how the calendar shift of this race has changed the way it's raced and the results. Ella CyclingTips this week had a really interesting interview with Leah Thorvilson, the Canyon-SRAM rider who was the winner o…
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Episode 25 - There's No Rest for the Wonderful
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This week we catch up on the Prudential Ride London GP, which was surprisingly held in London this year. We also cover the full results for Juniors, Under23s and the Elite Women at the European Championships in Denmark. We've got a great block of live races coming up with Vargarda and then the Ladies Tour of Norway, GP Plouay all coming up. There's…
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This week we follow up on the second race from La Course by Le Tour de France; the chase held on the weekend with the top 19 riders from the Col d'Izoard stage raced it out on the streets of Marseille. We talk through the excitement and also the issues that this new format of race revealed. There's positives and negatives, we take our time with bot…
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Episode 23 - The Humblebrag Episode
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Look, we do understand that not all weeks can be huge weeks of racing, but honestly this week was definitely a HUGE week of racing. We had stage racing at the BeNe Ladies Tour in the Netherlands and Belgium. We also had the Lotto Thuringen Ladies Tour in East Germany. With races suiting different types of riders and different types of racing there …
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Sarah interviews... Marianne Vos, on healing, 2017 goals and her most memorable Giro moments
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Marianne Vos' life in cycling just keeps on as a roller coaster. After getting back on top, she broke her collarbone in June, and now is back racing the BeNe Ladies Tour.She told me how her recovery has gone, and what it was like, watching the team she owns, WM3 Procycling, win the OVO Energy Women's Tour, and struggle in the Giro. We also talked a…
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Episode 22 - 2017 Giro Rosa WrapUp - With Top Quality Evil
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The Giro Rosa has finished for 2017 but we're far from done with it. With great racing every day, it's perhaps best summed up by Neal Rogers talking about Lucinda Brand when he said: "Only thing more badass than “no one in the photo”? No one in the photo with blood trickling down your arm". Sarah and Dan recap the biggest stage race on the calendar…
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Episode 21 - It Was a Genuine Giro Miracle
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We're at the halfway point through the 2017 Giro Rosa with five stages completed. We cover each of the stages so far, from the opening TTT through to the ITT and all the travails and changes on GC in between. There has been more than a fair share of surprise Giro geomorphology including some truly brutal climbs and so on. An incredibly close sprint…
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All year we watch the TV highlights of the UCI women's WorldTour made by Rose Manley, of InCycle TV. I've always enjoyed Rose's work, so I was delighted when she came on the podcast and told me all about the effort that goes into producing these, and the features she's been making on various riders throughout the season, as well as the high and low…
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This week we preview all the stages of the 2017 Giro Rosa, from the Team Time Trial all the way through to the climb of Mount Vesuvius. There's stages to suit the sprinters, the puncheurs, the roleurs and the climbers. Who is suited to each stage? Which teams have the strongest rosters? Who are the riders to watch? How is the race likely to unfold?…
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Balint Hamvas and Sean Robinson are Vélofocus, who take gorgeous photos of women's cycling. They told me about how the 2017 season is going, their highs and lows - and all about their kickstarter for a fantastic coffee table book about the year in women's road cycling.Listen here, and head to my website, https://prowomenscycling.com/velofocus-inter…
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Episode 19 - Always Ad Lib Improv
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This week Sarah and Dan recap the Ovo Energy Women's Tour held in the United Kingdom, reviewing each of the stages and exploring some of the more surprising results. Along the way they accidentally reveal which one of them is the REAL comic book geek (you won't be surprised when you hear who it is!) and of course, take some time to wrap up the othe…
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