Quicklink Cycling Podcast

🗣 Interview - Michael Hutchinson: As national TT championships begin across Europe, who better for Peter to speak to than the multiple national champion Dr Hutch, long-time contributor to Cycling Weekly. They discuss the dark days of cycling through the '90s, the intricacies of aerodynamics and filling in the grid, being Cadel Evans' bollard, coaching Alex Dowsett for the World Hour Record, and more... © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🔊 Show 533: We're back with the latest news from seven races across six countries: 🇨🇭Tour du Suisse loses 30 riders including the GC leader overnight, 🇮🇹 Giro Giovanni's penultimate day sees Hayter maintain his heathy GC lead, the home favourite at 🇸🇮 Tour of Slovenia takes the race lead with a dominant summit finish, 🇮🇪 Rás Tailteann has a new leader as well, it's TT day at 🇧🇪 Baloise Belgium Tour, and 🇫🇷 Route d'Occitanie continues while 🇫🇷 Tour du Pays de Montbéliard gets underway. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🔊 Show 532: Lena reports from day one of 🇫🇷 Route d'Occitanie, COVID starts to thin the startlist at 🇨🇭Tour du Suisse, 🇮🇹 Giro Giovanni continues after a travel day, and 🇧🇪 Baloise Belgium Tour and 🇸🇮 Tour of Slovenia stages end in predictable fashion, while we forgot 🇮🇪 Rás Tailteann began yesterday - oops, sorry it'll be back in tomorrow. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com 

🔊 Show 531: Peter reports from 🇮🇪 Rás Tailteann back on the calendar after three years away, while action also gets underway at 🇧🇪 Baloise Belgium Tour and 🇸🇮 Tour of Slovenia, and 🇨🇭Tour du Suisse hits its mid-point in the sweltering heat. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🔊 Show 530: 🇫🇷 Mont Ventoux awaits the women's and men's pelotons, Lena reports from day three at 🇨🇭Tour du Suisse, and the 🇮🇹 Baby Giro gives us a GLORIOUS WIN FOR THE MOTHERLAND as Leo Hayter stays in total control. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🗣 Interview - Brodie Chapman: On a bumper episode today we take a break from the racing to chat to one of FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope's two Australian riders - Brodie Chapman - winner of Sun Tour, Tour of the Gila, and most recently GP Chambéry.  In a feature-length interview with Katy (@writebikerepeat), they chat women's racing and the coverage (or lack of), getting back on your bike after a bad spell, the joys of cycling twitter, what's coming up, and much more.   This is not an interview to be missed. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🔊 Show 528: 🇨🇭Tour du Suisse begins while races everywhere else conclude, plus there's sprint wins for Consonni and Jakobsen in Belgium. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🔊 Show 527: 🇬🇧 The Women's Tour concludes in spectacular fashion with the final five metres giving us the winner after six days of action. Elsewhere it's queen stage at 🇫🇷 Critérium du Dapuhiné, the 🇳🇱 ZLM Tour continues to be allergic to hills, and we cover eight other races. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🔊 Show 526: Queen stage day at 🇬🇧 The Women's Tour, and we also catch-up with 🇫🇷 Dapuhiné and 🇳🇱 ZLM Tour, Peter talks 🇦🇹 MTB World Cup, and Lena reports from 🇨🇭Grosser Preis Kantons Aargau - a warm-up for Tour de Suisse.  © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🔊 Show 525: On today's episode Mathieu discusses 🇫🇷 Critérium du Dapuhiné, Peter talks 🇬🇧 Women's Tour, and Gray waxes lyrical about the first two days of 🇳🇱 ZLM Tour, while there's other news from 🇦🇹 Oberösterreich Rundfahrt 🇨🇲 Tour du Cameroun 🇨🇴 Vuelta a Colombia 🇩🇪 Saarlaand Trofeo and 🇻🇪 Campeonato Venezuela. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com 

🇬🇧 The Women's Tour (3) notches up Lorena Wiebes's fifth win in her last six for Team DSM after a perfect lead-out from British champion Pfeiffer Georgi, while it's TT day at 🇫🇷 Critérium du Dauphiné (4) with the world champion grabbing it by 2.3s while WVA hunts down all before him.  © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇫🇷 Critérium du Dauphiné (3) and 🇬🇧 The Women's Tour (2) are the stages on today's show, with a round-up of the day's other minor UCI action. Women's Tour coverage once again brought to you by @PBXScribes. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🗣 Interview - Matt Gibson: On a day when his move from Tour Series champions WiV SunGod to Human Powered Health is announced, we bring you our chat with a rider stepping back up to ProSeries level. We also cover day one of The Women's Tour and the rest of the day's pro roada action including day two at the Dauphiné, and Ronde van Limburg. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🗣 Interview - Toms Skujiņš: The Dauphiné gets underway in the Ardèche as the precursor to La Tour. Mathieu brings us the day's news, then Anna talks to Trek-Segafredo's Latvian road and TT national champion Toms Skujiņš who's at the race. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🗣 Interview - Maddy Nutt: We conclude our week of interviews ahead of 🇬🇧 The Women's Tour beginning on Monday as Peter chats to a second rider from the amazing Spectra/Wiggle team about the journey, the joy, and joie de vivre of life on a bike. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🗣 Interview - Elodie Kuijper: On today's show we chat to a multi-discipline rider who also works for CyclingHub.TV. Peter hosts the episode and him and Elodie chat career, cycling, and communication as we continue our week of interviews with riders ahead of 🇬🇧 The Women's Tour. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🗣 Interview - Frankie Hall: Today we chat to the road captain of the illustrious Loughborough University (Lightning) and a rider on the Britich Cycling Elite Development Team as we continue our week of interviews with riders ahead of 🇬🇧 The Women's Tour.  We apologise as the audio quality isn't our usual standard, but the content is great. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🗣 Interview - Xan Crees: We continue our build-up to 🇬🇧 The Women's Tour as Peter chats to the U23 Cyclo-cross national silver medallist who rides for the gender-balanced Team Spectra Racing. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🗣 Interview - Autumn Collins: Our week of shows leading up to The Women's Tour continues as Peter chats to the eight-time Irish champion about life at circuits and tracks, completing her masters, and riding for AWOL O'Shea at Tour Series.  © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🗣 Interview - Sadhbh O'Shea: In the first of our week of shows leading up to 🇬🇧 The Women's Tour, Peter chats to the Velonews contributor about her career in journalism, life by the race-side, and the launch of 🇮🇲 Cycling Club Isle of Man. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇮🇹 Giro d'Italia - Stage Eighteen: Final roll of the dice for the sprinters remaining at La Corsa Rosa, but it's another one chalked up for the break in Treviso. Peter (@PBXScribes) brings us the day's report. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇮🇹 Giro d'Italia - Stage Seventeen: The break once again makes it to the line, with - perhaps - a suprise winner. Not a lot happens elsewhere at the LOTTO Thüringen Ladies Tour or Tour of Norway so we barely bother. We'll try again tomorrow. Maybe. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇮🇹 Giro d'Italia - Stage Sixteen: Departing Lake Garda and tackling the Mortirolo, we're in the final week of La Corsa Rosa, and the break takes another stage win. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🗣 Interview - Axel Zingle (Cofidis): Our Lena catches-up with the former 🇫🇷 national U23 champion, already with a win under his belt as a neo-pro. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇩🇪 Rund um Köln is blessed with the presence of our Lena who catches-up with Danny van Poppel, Jasper Philipsen, Max Walscheid, Szymon Sajnok, Sam Bennett, race winner Nils Politt, Rolf Aldag, and the very popular Eritrean national champion Dawit Yemane as Bora-Hansgrohe dominate their home race.  Gray rounds-up the day's other action as Vuelta a Burgos Feminas, Tour of Japan, Joe Martin Stage Race, Driedaagse Axel, and Trophee Morbihan conclude with their fourth and final stages, and there's more one-day action at Antwerp Port Epic and Boucles de l'Aulne, AND there's a Giro stage and all. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🗣 Interview - Mihkel Räim (Burgos-BH): We take a day off from the Giro (and every other race whch finishes tomorrow) to talk to the three-time 🇪🇪 Estonian national RR champion, hosted by Lena. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇮🇹 Giro d'Italia - Stage Thirteen: We visit the beautiful town of Sanremo for today's Giro stge, and then head up the wall of Colle di Nava before rolling along to the Stura di Demonte river. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇮🇹 Giro d'Italia - Stage Twelve: Reduced bunch takes the stage win as we rattle into the second half of Il Giro, while 🇪🇸 Vuelta a Burgos Feminas gets underway, and 🇬🇧 Tour Series heads to glamorous Clacton-on-Sea. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇮🇹 Giro d'Italia - Stage Eleven: Halfway point of the Giro, and we get a panflat 200+ kilometres where nothing happens. Classic RCS. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇮🇹 Giro d'Italia - Stage Ten: History made in Jesi, before the winner corks it. There's also action at 🇪🇸 Durango-Durango. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🗣 Interview: Connie Hayes. This week's guest rides for AWOL O'Shea, currently competing at the Tour Series. Peter talked with Connie earlier this month - ahead of the competition beginning - about crit and cycling life, focusing on maintaining your mental health and why representation matters. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇮🇹 Giro d'Italia - Stage Nine: Block Haus. Party.

🇮🇹 Giro d'Italia - Stage Eight: Doctor, doctor, I feel like a breakaway. A lovely day to do loopy-loops around Naples, as MVDP and twenty mates decide to try and kick each others' heads in. SD Worx dominate Itzulia Women as Vollering and Moolman put the boot into everyone else, plus all the day's other action. Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇮🇹 Giro d'Italia - Stage Seven: Some hills! A breakaway! After yesterday's siesta, we're treated to la dolce vita. We also cover action from Hungary, Morbihan, Milton, Nove Mesto, and the inaugural Itzulia Women - first stage-race of the year in the Women's World Tour. Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇮🇹 Giro d'Italia - Stage Six: Did anything happen? Zzzzzzz. We watched 11+ hours of cycling yesterday so you didn't have to.

🇮🇹 Giro d'Italia - Stage Five: We stay in Sicily with a day for the fast men, but a tough climb half-way through saw two of the biggest names in sprinting getting dropped and out of contention for the win. Katy and Mathieu call home the finish. Also: Tour of Hungary day one and Navarra Classic.  Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇮🇹 Giro d'Italia - Stage Four: Day one on the island of Sicily brings us the race's first summit finish as the pack race up Mount Etna with all-change in the maglia rosa. We also talk action in Spain and Sunderland. Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🗣 Interview: Pauline Grabosch. On today's show Peter chats to the three-time Team Sprint world champion about the highs and lows of life on the boards. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇮🇹 Giro d'Italia - Stage Three: Technical gremlins ate Gray's segments on today's episode, so enjoy the company of Lena, Mathieu and Peter chatting live about the final five kilometres of today's stage. Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇮🇹 Giro d'Italia - Stage Two: When's a prologue not a prologue? Simon Yates shows his chops and outpaces MVDP to time trial success in Budapest. Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇮🇹 Giro d'Italia - Stage One: MVDP goes straight into pink as a frankly dull first 190km explodes into life for the final five. Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🗣 Interview: FirstCycling.com. On the eve of the Giro where our guests will have a big announcement to make, Peter caught up with Tomas - the founder of the results and stats database - about the site's surprising early days, the growth of the site, and what's next.  © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🗣 Interview: Maddie Gammons. On the eve of Tour Series, Peter caught up with the Saint Piran WRT rider about continuing to make progress as a criterium rider and how she's looking forward to city centre crit life with her new team. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇬🇧 Tour Series 1/7: Guisborough. A May bank holiday Monday can only mean one thing - the return of the Sportsbreaks.com Tour Series - a month of city centre evening crits across the UK featuring the best British teams. We've got the action from North Yorkshire, and a shoutout to friends of the show Benjamin Peatfield and Charlie Paige who are supported by the excellent work of TheRaynerFoundation.org. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

We're live on the ground at 🇩🇪 Eschborn-Frankfurt to bring you the day's World Tour one-day race action from Lena, with a round-up of most of today's other road results: Romandie, Asturias, Elsy Jacobs, Gila, Hellas, Bretagne, IoM Junior, Belgian ITT. Stay tuned to hear from a handful of riders pre-race in Germany, and then from the podium press conference. • Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 • Save 10% with code QUICKLINK on checkout with both Veloskin.CC and EFSWheels.com © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 Marta Bastianelli celebrates a birthday win at Festival Elsy Jacobs, Bora 1-2 at Romandie, and we rattle through the rest of the day's main action. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 Tour de Romandie, Elsy Jacobs prologue, Vuelta Asturias opening day, and Tour of Hellas. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 Day three at 🇨🇭 Tour de Romandie is covered by Mathieu, and we cover all the day's minor UCI action in Athens, New Mexico, and Brittany.  • Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 • Save 10% with code QUICKLINK on checkout with both Veloskin.CC and EFSWheels.com © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇨🇭 Tour de Romandie's second day sees the first road race action, with Hayter having a little sit down at the back, then an intensely satisfying final 50 centimetres. Report by Mathieu (@cyclingwhatifs). • Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 • Save 10% with code QUICKLINK on checkout with both Veloskin.CC and EFSWheels.com © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 On today's show we round-up some of the weekend action including 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 UCI Track Nations Cup and some minor road racing, before turning our attention to the opening day prologue at 🇨🇭 Tour de Romandie, and then Callum Macleod drops by with his recent racing and training audio diary.  Callum is supported by our friends at The Rayner Foundation. • Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 • Save 10% with code QUICKLINK on checkout with both Veloskin.CC and EFSWheels.com © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🗣 Interview: Charlotte Broughton. Peter chats to the ten-time national champion across multiple disciplines about... well... everything. Trigger warning: there’s a lot of chat about mental health issues. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 Katy and Mathieu are here to talk us through the fourth monument of the year: 🇧🇪 Liege-Bastogne-Liege. • Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 • Save 10% with code QUICKLINK on checkout with both Veloskin.CC and EFSWheels.com © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🗣 Interview: Ella Harris. Peter and Anna chat to the 2018 Zwift Academy champion - a win that earned her a contract with Canyon//SRAM - about life, injuries, e-sports, eggs and more. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🗣 Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, Beyoncé! Oú est la plage? Zut alors, mon cochon d'inde est dans la poubelle. Garçon, ouvre les fenêtres! Lena (@reathina) and a very excited Mathieu (@cyclingwhatifs) take us through the decisive final day at 🇮🇹 Tour of the Alps. Mon dieu! © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇮🇹 Tour of the Alps / Giro del Trentino day four sees French heartbreak, and Lena (@reathina) is here to tell us all about it. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🗣 Waffle #19: It's roundtable o'clock! Lena (@reathina) takes us through the day's action at 🇮🇹 Tour of the Alps, Peter (@PBXscribes) drops by with his thoughts and topics for us, then Katy (@writebikerepeat), Anna (@AnnamacB), Gray (@onetakegray), Mathieu (@cyclingwhatifs), and guest Will (@callmewill97) get their waffle on - Flèche, Roubaix, and Liege. • Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 • Save 10% with code QUICKLINK on checkout with both Veloskin.CC and EFSWheels.com © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇮🇹 Lena (@reathina) tackles Tour of the Alps day two, while 🇩🇪 Peter (@PBXscribes) goes through the route reveal for the Lotto Thüringen Ladies Tour. • Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 • Save 10% with code QUICKLINK on checkout with both Veloskin.CC and EFSWheels.com © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇮🇹 Lena covers day one of Tour of the Alps. • Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 • Save 10% with code QUICKLINK on checkout with both Veloskin.CC and EFSWheels.com © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇫🇷 Peter, Mathieu, and Katy talk us through the day's headline act: Paris-Roubaix. • Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 • Save 10% with code QUICKLINK on checkout with both Veloskin.CC and EFSWheels.com © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 On the eve of Roubaix, we rattle through the day's professional road racing in Bosnia & Herzegovina, France, Italy, and Turkey. • Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 • Save 10% with code QUICKLINK on checkout with both Veloskin.CC and EFSWheels.com © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 Action from Turkey, Serbia, France, and Sicily as we look at four of the day's races in a quick round-up. • Our Velogames.com League: 329792217  • Save 10% with code QUICKLINK on checkout with both Veloskin.CC and EFSWheels.com © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 After our week off we round-up what we missed, then head into the day's acton where new contributor Mathieu (@cyclingwhatifs) covers the headline act of the day at 🇧🇪 Brabantse Pijl / La Flèche Brabançonne, and we rattle through the rest as it's not all that exciting. The calm before the Roubaix storm. Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 • Save 10% with code QUICKLINK on checkout with both Veloskin.CC and EFSWheels.com © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇪🇸 Itzulia is a race that Katy (@writebikerepeat) watched, while Gray talks about ones he didn't - Sarthe, Ardennes, Thailand, and Scheldeprijs. Sorry. Was a lovely mint julep though. Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 A World Champion winner at 🇪🇸 Itzulia - Tour of the Basque Country, while rainbow bands also taste victory at 🇫🇷 Circuit Sarthe, and 🇬🇧 Tour of Britain unveils the full 2022 route. 🗣 Lena (@reathina) provides the Itzulia report. Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🗣 Interview: VeloVerse. After a round-up of the day's news including the day one TT at Ituzlia we chat to Simon and David who are two of the creators of VeloVerse, a forthcoming browser-based fantasy cycling game with a beta sign-up later this month. Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇧🇪 Ronde van Vlaanderen - Tour of Flanders. Pogi waves his big dick/tuft around but somehow finishes 4th in a two-up sprint, before Oudenaarde celebrates a home winner for the first time in ten races. Today's Flandrien report was by - in turn - Peter @PBXscribes, Katy @writebikerepeat, and Lena @reathina. Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇪🇸 GP Miguel Indurain is the headline act of the day on the eve of De Ronde, with other action at 🇳🇱 Volta Limburg Classic, the second day of 🇧🇪 Le Triptyque, and 🇬🇧 National Madison Championships. Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 Two doses of UCI action in Europe today with 🇫🇷 Route Adélie de Vitré and 🇧🇪 Le Triptyque Monts et Chateaux, while British Cycling reveal the location of 🇬🇧 National Road Championships and the 32 GBCT riders heading to the Tissot UCI Track Nations Cup in Glasgow later this month. Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🗣 Waffle #18: The gang are back with our regular roundtable to dicuss 🇪🇸 Volta a Catalunya and 🇧🇪 E3, Gent, and DDV. Your host this week is Katy (@writebikerepeat) with Lena (@reathina), Anna (@AnnamacB) and an ill Gray (@onetakegray) for company on Discord, while Peter (@PBXscribes) pre-recorded his thoughts and we plop them in about a third of the way through.  Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 Today's episode is dedicated to the memory of Richard Moore. 🇧🇪 Dwars door Vlaanderen provides the day's racing action. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🗣 We hear from Charlie Paige (@charliepaige01) as the first Rayner Foundation-supported rider to come on the show in 2022. There's a new Women's World Tour stage race announced, the reveal of the invited teams for the inaugural Tour de France Femmes, and half the Women's Tour route. www.theraynerfoundation.org Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 Not much is going on (with no disrespect to the juniors at Asian Conti), so Gray looks at Velogames instead. Join our show mini-leagues with the code 329792217. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇧🇪 Gent - Wevelgem In Flanders Fields is the headline act of the day, and history made in the men's race (@PBXscribes) and another win for the rainbow jersey in the women's (@reathina). Volta a Catalunya concludes, as does Cape Epic, Tour de Normandie, International Tour of Rhodes, and there's other action domestically, in France, and at the Continental Champions being held in Africa and Asia. Join our Velogames: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇮🇹 Coppi e Bartali concludes as Dunbar takes his first win after four years with Ineos/Sky, there's a new GC leader at 🇪🇸 Volta a Catalunya, and we cover the other UCI action on the road. Join our Velogames: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇧🇪 E3 Saxo Bank Classic offers up a spectacular finale as Jumbo Visma turn the screw and threaten to snatch Quick Step's Spring Classics crown. Elsewhere we have news from the African and Asian Continental Championships, Tour de Normandie, Coppi e Bartali, Tour of Rhodes, and today we remember that Volta a Catalunya is still happening after our Velogames team threw itself into the bin. Join our Velogames: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇧🇪 Exterioo Classic Brugge-De Panne is the day's headline act, while Gray completely forgets about Catalunya by getting carried away with Ben Tulett's maiden pro win at Coppi e Bartali. Join our Velogames: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 Two World Tour races today with 🇧🇪 Minerva Classic Brugge-De Panne and 🇪🇸 Volta a Catalunya, plus action in Normandie and Emilia-Romagna, while the African Continental Championships begin with Triple T day in Egypt. Join our Velogames: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇮🇹 Coppi e Bartali begins on the Adriatic coast with a two-up late break contesting the win, 🇪🇸 Volta a Catalunya crosses the border into France with a bunch sprint, and 🇫🇷 Tour de Normandie thunders into Forges-les-Eaux. Join our Velogames: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇪🇸 Volta a Catalunya is the fourth stage-race on the World Tour calendar this year and it got underway with a thunderous finish, while a late clip off the front began a week of action at 🇫🇷 Tour de Normandie. Join our Velogames: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇮🇹 Trofeo Alfredo Binda. The oldest women's race on the calendar serves up the third dose of Women's World Tour action in 2022, with the rainbow jersey taking charge of the overall rankings. Elsewhere there's a win on his first raceday of the year for Hirschi, while Sarreau finally breaks AG2R's duck. Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇮🇹 Milan-Sanremo. La Primavera. Il Classicissima. Cycling's longest and first monument of 2022. Gray and Tom (@reardupeloton) talk us through the explosive final fifteen minutes after six hours of watching people wee in storm drains. Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇧🇪 Bredene Koksijde Classic and its U23 version - Youngster Coast Challenge - are the day's headline acts. Join our Velogames: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 🇫🇷 GP de Denain (Lena @reathina) provides the only professional road action of the day, with junior UCI racing in Turkey and a double-day near Drenthe. Join our Velogames: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 Three doses of .Pro action with 🇮🇹 Milano-Torino (Lena @reathina), and 🇧🇪 Danilith Nokere Koerse (Katy @writebikerepeat).  Join our Velogames: 329792217  © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🗣 Waffle #17: The gang are back with our semi-regular 'Waffle' to dissect 🇫🇷 Paris-Nice and 🇮🇹 Tirreno-Adriatico, then get all excited about Mark Cavendish, Robbie McEwen and Milan-Sanremo. Our audio recording software gave up the ghost just before everyone got their MSR predictions in, so they've all been submitted separately at the end of the episode. Enjoy! Appearing today are host Katy (@writebikerepeat) with Lena (@reathina), Nathan (@nathan44rd) and Peter (@PBXscribes) for company, with Tom (@reardupeloton) contributing his MSR list of favourites. Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🗣 Interview: Max Cushway / Cormac Nisbet. In the first of a new series talking to junior riders across the continent - the NEXT next-generation - we chat to two British riders racing in France for AG2R's Under-19 team. This interview was recorded before the Hatherleigh JRR which Cormac mentions is next on his schedule. Max: instagram.com/maxcushway Cormac: instagram.com/themacmeister_ Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 Final day at 🇮🇹 Tirreno-Adriatico (Peter @PBXscribes) and 🇫🇷 Paris-Nice, as well as racing at 🇳🇱 Ronde van Drenthe and Dorpenomloop Rucphen, and minor action all over the place.   Join our Velogames: 329792217  © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 Queen Stage day at both 🇮🇹 Tirreno-Adriatico and 🇫🇷 Paris-Nice where the GC leaders cement their positions, plus there's Women's World Tour action at 🇳🇱 Ronde van Drenthe. Reports brought to you today by Tom @reardupeloton and Lena @reathina. Join our Velogames: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 Right time, wrong turn at 🇮🇹 Tirreno-Adriatico while at 🇫🇷 Paris-Nice a late escapee makes it home. Join our Velogames: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 It's a double day for UAE as racing continues at 🇫🇷 Paris-Nice and 🇮🇹 Tirreno-Adriatico, while Remco was a total wally behind the wheel. Our Tirreno report is brought to you by new co-host Lena. Join our Velogames: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 We catch-up after two special-edition shows by taking a look at 🇮🇹 Tirreno-Adriatico and 🇫🇷 Paris-Nice time-trial day in the World Tour, and women's action at 🇧🇪 Grote Prijs Oetingen.  Join our Velogames: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎙 International Women's Day: To mark the importance of today the team each focus on an inspirational woman from either past, the present, or looking after the future of #WomenInCycling. In turn, we talk about Annie Londonderry, Alfonsina Strada, Beryl Burton, Cherie Pridham, Helene Dutrieu, Lizzie Deignan, Orla Chennaoui, and Marianne Vos, before closing out this feature-length episode by chatting to Caroline Stewart of Bianchi Hunt Morvelo. We also welcome Lena @Reathina to the show crew. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🗣 Interview: Loes Adegeest. In his maiden interview for the show, Peter talks to the newly-crowned UCI Esports World Champion after her win for the Dutch national squad last weekend on the Zwift platform. Our Velogames.com League: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇫🇷 “The sun’s race” begins as TJV pull-off a remarkable podium lockout, 🇬🇧 Track Nationals concludes at the Geraint Thomas Velodrome, and Arnaud de Lie wins his last race as a teenager at 🇧🇪 GP Monseré. Join our Velogames: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇮🇹 Strade Bianche brings us the first Women's World Tour action of 2022 as Kopecky celebrates, while in the men's race we see a historic win for an unstoppable Pogacar. The 3-day 🇳🇱 EasyToys Bloeizone Fryslân Tour concludes with a familiar winner, and Fin Graham celebrates a hat-trick of titles on day two of 🇬🇧 Track National Championships. Join our Velogames: 329792217 © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 Racing continues at 🇳🇱 EasyToys Bloeizone Fryslân Tour with Lonneke Unneken opening her 2022 account in the inevitable bunch sprint, while medals begin to be handed out at 🇬🇧 Track National Championships. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 Ellen van Dijk bags the day's win as the 🇳🇱 EasyToys Bloeizone Fryslân Tour begins with a pancake-flat time trial. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇮🇹 Trofeo Laigueglia is the day's only action, UCI announce sanctions for Russian and Belarussian teams, Dutch and Australian authorities ban athletes from either country entirely, and Alexandre Geniez (TotalEnergies) turns out to be a total shitbag. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇧🇪 Le Samyn: 209 kilometres for the fellas, and 99 for the ladies as we get more cobbled action in Belgium as reduced bunch sprints see wins for Trentin and Norsgaard in the day's only action. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🗣 Interview: Ed Laverack. After the second edition of the UCI's Esports Cycling World Championships - held on Zwift - our Tom reviews Saturday evening's digital action then talks to the ever-popular Ed Laverack about how the race went for him. Ed's raceday video premieres on YouTube right after this episode goes out. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇧🇪 Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne: Opening weekend continues with KBK as the bunch sprint to a finish after tackling the likes of Katteberg, Berg ten Houte, and Kruisberg in a report by Peter.  Elsewhere, 🇦🇪 UAE Tour wraps-up with a home winner for the first time in four years, 🇫🇷 La Drôme Classic treats us to another day of fun in France, 🇧🇪 Omloop van het Hageland gives us the dy's women's racing, and Help the Aged celebrate success at 🇪🇸 Gran Camiño. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🇧🇪 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad: Doctor doctor, I think I've got a bad case of the cobbles! Opening weekend is here, pavé is here, the spring classics are here! Katy brings us the action from Omloop, Anna tackles 🇦🇪 UAE Tour in the day's other World Tour race, Matt covers the first of a French double-header weekend with 🇫🇷 Faun-Ardèche, and we also catch-up with 🇷🇼 Tour du Rwanda and 🇪🇸 Gran Camiño. 'Twas The Night... intro by Tom. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎙 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (Volk) marks the opening of classic, traditional road racing in Northwestern Europe. In a new series of Friday feature shows, @MattNHNH takes us through three stand-out editions ahead of the big day tomorrow. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 🇦🇪 UAE Tour and 🇷🇼 Tour du Rwanda bumble along, and Gray forgets to talk about 🇪🇸 Gran Camiño entirely. UAE report by @AnnamacB. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 🇦🇪 UAE Tour heads up a hill for the first time, tackling Jebel Jais - the country's highest peak - while at 🇷🇼 Tour du Rwanda the race lead changes hands once again as Restrepo is beaten by the slopes of Tetero. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 Time trial day at 🇦🇪 UAE Tour sees little in the way of surprises, while on day three at 🇷🇼 Tour du Rwanda a late break of GC men stirs it up on the first real day of climbing. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 #CavToTheTour - A pair of bunch finishes in the day’s races see wins for Cavendish and Dujardin, as 🇦🇪 UAE Tour and 🇷🇼 Tour du Rwanda head into their second day. UAE report by @AnnamacB. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 Action from across four continents today as UAE and Rwanda make their appearances on the early calendar as racing also continues in France, Portugal, and Spain; while the curtain closes on the Cycle-cross season. Report from UAE Tour by @AnnamacB, and from Valenciana by @mattnhnh. © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com

🎧 Wins for Vantourenhout, Brand, and Haverdings in the penultimate 'Cross action of the season; while on the road there's cause to celebrate for Van Vleuten, Poels, Wellens, and a dominant Evenepoel as we look at seven races across four countries in two disciplines.   © 2022 QuicklinkSports.com