S13 Ep112: Elvis Pedersen and Do Ineos Grenadiers Need To Be All Shook Up?
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
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🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Thymen Arensman saved a disappointing Tour de France with two memorable stage wins in the mountains, but Carlos Rodriguez crashed out when his bid for a high finish looked like it had stalled on the cusp of the top ten.
With Dave Brailsford returning to the Tour after a stint at Manchester United Football Club it became apparent just how far the team has drifted since the days when they dominated the race, winning seven editions in eight years between 2012 and 2019.
Geraint Thomas is approaching retirement as a rider but could he be the man to galvanise the team off the bike? Or is it simply a case that Ineos have been overtaken by a handful of teams who have been quicker at identifying and recruiting new talent and more ruthless in calling time on riders who've gone over the summit in their careers?
Before that, Lionel, Graham and Brian recap the week's racing as the cycling season splinters across Europe in this period between the Tour de France and Vuelta a España. And in the final part we hear from journalist Sophie Smith about her trip to the north of Norway to cover the Arctic Race.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the cycling podcast, joining me, Graham Wilgoss, recording on the day that Britain's Charlie Tanfield goes for the UCI hour record record at the Velodrome in Konya, Turkey, |
| 0:39.5 | and making sure we stay on the optimal racing line is Lionel Bernie, and giving us the inside |
| 0:45.8 | track on dinosaurs, Danish cycling, and far beyond. |
| 0:49.7 | Is the Baron himself Brian Nygaard, gents, how we both doing? |
| 0:53.5 | I'm doing great. |
| 0:54.8 | Thank you. I can, well, I'm seeing the both of you. I can tell the both of you doing absolutely |
| 0:59.5 | fine from the looks of it. I'm just wondering, Brian, what it's like to be in the center of an |
| 1:06.2 | international cycling media storm after your comments about Jonas Vingagor in last week's podcast. |
| 1:11.6 | They've gone viral. You've been reported as the Oracle on all things Jonas Vingagore, haven't you? |
| 1:18.9 | Yeah, much to my surprise, I would say, Lahn, much to my surprise. |
| 1:22.9 | Because I've been trying throughout the course of the tour three weeks every single day a rather significant |
| 1:29.8 | lengthy lengthy piece in the paper which is my job twice in the nine o'clock news or morning news |
| 1:38.6 | and danis tv radio live every day and then a single cop all it took was a single rant or analysis on the |
| 1:47.6 | cycling podcast and it all exploded in front of me and Italy took it up in the |
| 1:54.5 | Tutu Picchi web which is which is our I would say our friends and neighbors during the |
| 1:58.7 | Giro Daniel and ours especially. |
| 2:06.7 | And as often happens when these things go viral, bits go missing, don't they? And change over the course of translation or get lost in translation. |
| 2:10.6 | So there is a bit of a corrections corner here, if you don't mind. |
| 2:14.3 | And they call it the podcast is being renamed the cycling and it's also changed |
| 2:20.8 | ownership in the course of a week to being mine. And I don't think that's really fair. So I'd like |
| 2:27.0 | to hand over the keys again to the cycling podcast to you. And also didn't like the didn, handing back the keys, had it for a week. |
| 2:37.7 | I do believe I mentioned him being a carpenter. |
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