In this episode, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe recap the World Championship road race won by Julian Alaphilippe. How did the Frenchman win it? What could the others have done to stop him? And should Primoz Roglic have put national rivalry aside to help his Jumbo-Visma teammate Wout Van Aert of Belgium, who worked so tirelessly for him in the recent Tour de France?

Plus find out about Daniel's dance-off with the new world champion.

The Grandest Tour starts on Saturday. We will be discussing the Giro d'Italia, Classics and Vuelta a España during cycling's unprecedented awesome autumn. That's more than a month of great cycling coverage from The Cycling Podcast.

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