About this episode

The episode discusses the end of the spring Classics, the upcoming Giro d'Italia, and Ineos Grenadiers' new sponsorship deal with Netcompany, including the introduction of AI software to enhance team performance.

The spring Classics campaign has come to an end and the Giro d'Italia is just around the corner. To bridge the gap between the two, and with Daniel Friebe absent as he prepares for the Giro, Lionel Birnie is joined by Tudor Pro Cycling's Larry Warbasse to wrap up the first part of the season, look ahead to the first Grand Tour of the year and react to some huge sponsorship news which may help Ineos Grenadiers challenge for the Tour de France once again. In part one Larry updates on the Tour of the Alps, where he and a lot of riders were fine-tuning their form ahead of the Giro and one of his teammates made a rapid and successful transition from speed skating to elite level cycling with a stage win. He also talks about his version of the all-day-breakfast and heat training indoors. In the second part, Lionel reports back from the big reveal which confirmed a new title sponsor for Ineos Grenadiers. From the Giro d'Italia they will be Netcompany-Ineos thanks to backing from a Danish IT company that is pumping in a figure thought to be around €100m over five years. The target is for the team to win an eighth Tour de France in the next five years, but its the introduction of…

People in this episode

Host: Lionel Birnie

Guest: Larry Warbasse

Topics covered

• spring Classics
• Giro d'Italia
• Ineos Grenadiers
• sponsorship
• AI in cycling
• Tour de France

Keywords

• Ineos Grenadiers
• Giro d'Italia
• sponsorship
• AI software
• Tour de France
• Larry Warbasse
• Lionel Birnie
• cycling news

Sponsors

Netcompany

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ineos Grenadiers, Pulse, Danish IT company

Places: Heathrow

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