The Detour Podcast

With only a couple of days to go before the start of the 2021 Vuelta A España, Phil Liggett joins us again to deep dive into who are the big GC contenders and stage winners.  We also talk with Scott McGrory about where Australian Cycling is at after a disappointing Olympic campaign.

We check in with Olympic Gold Medalist Scott McGrory and the 'voice of cycling' Phil Liggett to recap the second week of the Olympic games.  

We chat with Aussie star Ben O'Connor a week after finishing 4th at the Tour de France.  We chat with Ben about how hard the 2020 year was, his crash early in the Tour de France and how he fought back to win stage 9 and finish 4th overall on the general classification.

We chat with Olympic Gold Medalist and commentator Scott McGrory about the opening week at the Tokyo Olympics including all the action from the road races and time trials, along with the carnage on the BMX circuit.  We also look ahead to the track events and riders to watch going for gold.

Katie Brown from the Amy Gillett Foundation joins the show to talk about Amy's legacy and the important work the foundation is continuing to do raising awareness for rider safety.  We also chat with duel Olympic Gold Medalist Graham Brown to talk Olympics as well as Leigh Howard who will be competing in Tokyo on the track.  Scott McGrory wraps the show with a preview of the Mens and Women's road race and time trials.

Scott McGrory and John Trevorrow review each teams performance from the 2021 Tour de France as Wout van Aert denies Mark Cavendish the all time stage win record, claiming his third stage win of the race.

The 2021 edition of the Tour de France at times has felt like a Hollywood script as Mark Cavendish looks to cement himself as the greatest Tour de France stage winner in history with victory on stage 21.  We also chat about the GC dominance of Tadej Pogacar who will secure his second Tour de France victory by over 5 minutes from his nearest challenger.

It was an eventful stage 19 at the Tour de France as the Manx Missile launched at his mechanic prior to the start of the stage.  We also discuss whether stage winner Matej Mohoric silenced the critics with his celebration, or fuelled the fire with links to Lance Armstrongs gesture during the 2004 Tour de France.

We count down the final three stages of the 2021 Tour de France and all stars are aligning to Mark Cavendish breaking Eddy Merckx's Tour de France stage win record.  We also recap stage 18 where the Pog wraps up the mountain stages with another emphatic victory to continue his dominance on this years race.

Tadej Pogacar continues to stay in control at the Tour de France after his impressive victory on stage 17 fending off the late bluff from Carapaz.  We preview the final mountain stage of the Tour de France and 2003 Green Jersey winner Baden Cooke joins the show live.