Podcast 22 May 2014: Cycling's Aussie Assault - a podcast by SBS

To pay homage to La Corsa Rosa, we have decided to conduct this week's podcast 'in Italiano'.

Yes, that's right, all of it. Inglese is out, Italiano in.

Joking.

How could we do that when the Australians are taking the Giro by storm?

Actually, they're not just taking the Giro by the scruff of the neck. Rohan Dennis was killin' it in Cali, and Drapac has been doing the biz at the tours of Azerbaidjan and Japan.

Should we be surprised, or is this the new norm in one of two truly globalised sports?

The podcast quartet - that being Phil Gomes, Anthony Tan, Matt Keenan and Dave McKenzie - also speculate on who Orica-GreenEDGE sport director Matt White has his eagle eye on, after he let it out that the team intends to sign a Grand Tour contender before too long.

Dennis? Bradley Wiggins? Cadel Evans? Someone else?

Of course, they wonder what may happen in the first of two individual time trials in this year's Giro, and the back-to-back stages in the Italian Alps this weekend.

As for the language used by certain media outlets that at times appears to be a de-facto anti-bike lobby, which vacillates from the profane to the insane - what to do about it?

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