BeSpoke: at the Tour de France
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BeSpoke: at the Tour de France
Gareth Rhys Owen, Rob Hayles and Simon Brotherton bring you a daily podcast from the 2019 Tour de France, as Geraint Thomas defends the title he won last year for Team Ineos (then Team Sky).Follow the team @5liveSport, via the BBC Sport website, and use the hashtag #BBCycling to get in touch.
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31 episodes
Tour de France - Rest Day - Geraint Thomas and Dave Brailsford join BeSpoke
The BeSpoke team drive through the night to join up with reigning Tour de France champion Geraint Thomas and Ineos Team Principle Sir Dave Brailsford...
Tour de France - Stage 8 - Breakaways & broken bikes
Geraint Thomas and his Ineos teammates crashed with 10km to go but fought back to limit the damage to Gianni Moscon's snapped frame. This was all goin...
Tour de France 2019 preview
The 2019 Tour de France starts this Saturday. With Chris Froome out, we hear from Geraint Thomas who aims to defend his crown. Plus we ask what the f...
The Art of the Time Trial
Bent double, legs aching, lungs burning, knees knocking into your ribcage as you race against the clock: the Time Trial is cycling in its purest form....
Geraint Thomas's guide to surviving a crash
Geraint Thomas tells BeSpoke he's lucky to be ok following his crash at the Tour de Suisse which could've have scuppered his defence of the Tour de Fr...
Chris Froome in intensive care after 55 kilometres an hour crash
Britain's Chris Froome is in intensive care after crashing into a wall at 55 kilometres an hour during a reconnaissance ride at the Dauphine stage rac...
Michael Woods special
EF Education First's Michael Woods played Ice Hockey before becoming an elite runner, only taking up cycling to keep fit. He joins BeSpoke to discuss...
Lizzie Deignan special
With the Giro d'Italia in our slipstream, BeSpoke pops across the Pennines to Leeds and a catch-up with Lizzie Deignan - the dominant British female r...
Giro d'Italia 2019: Carapaz victorious in Verona
In the city synonymous with Romeo and Juliet, there are no late dramas nor tragedies for dashing race leader Richard Carapaz. The BeSpoke team analyse...
Giro d'Italia 2019 - Stage 18
A warm feeling resonates through BeSpoke's Gareth Rhys Owen as the breakaway just kept their advantage after separating from the peloton 170kms out, w...
Giro D'italia: The final week
Bad weather and dangerous descents made for a captivating 16th stage of the 2019 Giro. The Italian rider Giulio Ciccone won, whilst Richard Carapaz re...
Giro D'Italia 2019: Stage 12 - Hail Cesare
The Guardian’s Tour de France Correspondent Jeremy Whittle and Gareth Rhys Owen join Tom Fordyce as the 2019 Giro d’Italia finally gets exciting with...
Masochism & unfinished business – the 2019 Giro d’Italia preview
Last year’s Giro winner Chris Froome tells BeSpoke how he loves to inflict pain on his competitors as we preview the first Grand Tour of the season, t...
The Sky's the limit: Volcanoes, cinnamon and the world's steepest road
The journey to Grand Tour victory starts 2'300 metres up Mount Tiede: a dormant volcano in Tenerife which is overdue an eruption. This is where Team S...
Ropey airports, cobbled roads and retirement
Olympic gold medallist Dani Rowe joins Gareth Rhys Owen on the podcast this week to discuss life after the peloton; Dani retired from road racing in N...
The greatest race of all?
Tom Fordyce is joined by cycling writer Sadhbh O’Shea and BeSpoke veterans Gareth Rhys Owen and Jeremy Whittle to battle up the steep cobbled climbs a...
The near-death story of cycling's great survivor
Tom Fordyce is joined by the Guardian’s Jeremy Whittle and former pro rider Rob Hayles – eventually – as they hear the remarkable story of veteran rid...
BeSpoke's end of year awards
What a year it’s been. A clean sweep for British riders of the three Grand Tours in Geraint Thomas, Chris Froome and Simon Yates, but who will the BeS...
Mr & Mrs Thomas - How we won the Tour
He cried on his wedding day and when he won the greatest prize in cycling, but listen to Geraint Thomas as you’ve never heard him before in this BeSpo...
Is it game over for Cavendish?
In this week’s episode, Ben Croucher and the team discuss whether Mark Cavendish’s latest health problems will stop him breaking Eddy Merckx’s famous...
Stage 17: A horrible climb, a happy Welshman and a rapid escape
On a mountain steeper and longer than Alpe D’Huez, Geraint Thomas takes an iron grip on the yellow jersey as Chris Froome cedes precious time and poss...
Is there a Plan G?
Geraint Thomas joins Tom Fordyce to chat about his win at the Criterium du Dauphine, his hopes for being a co-leader at the Tour de France, and his pl...
Stage 8: Is Froome losing his nerve?
As Chris Froome hits the deck again on Stage 8 of the Giro d’Italia, Tom and Jeremy ask if the five-time Grand Tour winner is experiencing a run of ba...
Stage 7: "Yates brothers race Froome & co like it's a club ride"
As Britain's Simon Yates retains the lead at the Giro d'Italia, Tom and Jeremy catch up with his old cycling club in Lancashire, where it all began. F...
Stage 5: Italians rise to the occasion in Sicily
Join Tom Fordyce and cycling journalist Jeremy Whittle as they look back on Enrico Battaglin's stage five victory of the Giro d'Italia ahead of compat...
Michael Goolaerts Special
Following the death of Veranda's Willems-Crelan rider, Michael Goolaerts at the 2018 Paris-Roubaix race, Tom Fordyce, Rob Hayles and Dr Michael Hutchi...
Flaaaaanders & why you shouldn’t interview Luke Rowe with your 4-year-old in the room
On the eve of the second monument - the Tour of Flanders - the guys look at who’s going to win it, speak to Journalist Laura Winter about the women’s...
Welcome to the 80s, where mullets were helmets & cyclists dreamed of aluminium
After they managed to track down the man who made the Channel 4 TDF theme music, OJ, Tom and Rob revel in what cycling was like in the 80s. They also...
Chris Froome returns an "adverse" drugs test
Reaction to Chris Froome returning an "adverse" drugs test at the Vuelta a Espana.
Follow the team @5liveSport and use the hashtag #BeSpoke for...
Six days, hill climbs & journalistic heavyweights
This week, OJ Borg, Rob Hayles and Dr Michael Hutchinson discuss how six-day racing saved Rob from a Dickensian life as a chimney sweep, speak to Hale...
Chris Froome's Secret World of Climbing
Ahead of this year's Tour de France, the three-time champion Chris Froome takes us inside the peloton as he talks about the tactics, the psychology, t...