Podcast 5 Jun 2014: Giro finito, Dauphine dirty-talk, Hour Record overhaul - a podcast by SBS

Glad the Giro's over, or are you like Garmin-Sharp's Ryder Hesjedal, whose sport director Charly Wegelius said that if there was a fourth week, he'd probably be in pink?

(Never mind the fact that the Canadian lost 5'39 to Nairo Quintana in the Cima Grappa time trial and the next day to Zoncolan, ceded three-and-a-half minutes more to the Colombian.)

Whatever!

By almost all accounts, the 97th edition of La Corsa Rosa provided a spectacular three weeks' racing - and perhaps best of all, it looked like one that, 5, 10, 20, or 100 years from now, won't ask to be rewritten.

The Inimitables - that being host Al Hinds, together with Phil Gomes and Anthony Tan - recap the first Grand Tour of the year with typical aplomb, unscripted and uncensored.

From looking back to gazing forward, the trio then get stuck into the Tour Contenders' pre-Tour warm-up, also known as the Critérium du Dauphiné.

This year - and by the way folks, it starts this Sunday! - it plays host to a veritable selection of TdF favs - Froome, Contador, Nibali, van Garderen. La Grande Boucle is still a month away, so will the aforementioned their legs on the card table, play down (or up, if they're creeping) their form, or target a stage in which to test themselves?

To complete proceedings, the Hour Record gets a(nother) run. Ho hum.

Recent changes by the genuises at the UCI tech committee mean Hour aspirants no longer need use a conventional bike. Yet it seems to have turned its only protagonist, Fabian Cancellara off, who wanted to go 'old-school'.

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