In this episode Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss the Ineos Grenadiers strategy for this season's three grand tours.

With Geraint Thomas, Egan Bernal, Richard Carapaz and Tao Geoghegan Hart in their squad they have four grand tour champions to divide between three races – and that's before considering the ambitions of Pavel Sivakov, Adam Yates and others.

So how will they manage it? And will Dave Brailsford's suggestion that he wants his team to rip up the established tactical handbook and race more freely be possible? Can they 'prepare like Germany, play like Brazil' as he put it?

We also discuss the latest UCI rule changes which bans the so-called 'super tuck' descending position and seriously increases fines for littering.

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