Ned Boulting

speaker
9,300 appearances 29 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 1 Aug

Ned Boulting’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months
23 · Jul OctJan 26AprJulnow

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 29 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 23.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment
Catch up tomorrow. voice-verified
Thanks for watching. voice-verified
Well, welcome to a special edition of For the Love of Cycling. voice-verified
Tadej Pogacar has done the totally predictable, but an amazing accomplishment. voice-verified
He has won the Tour de France in 2026 and joins the very greatest selection of Tour de France riders there's ever been because he is now amongst that elite selection of five-time winners of the Tour de France. voice-verified
But as we all know, there's so much more to Tadej Pogacar than that. voice-verified
But we thought it'd be an opportunity, David, just to maybe step back a little bit and perhaps for, you've often spoken about it, Sade Pogacar has brought so many new fans to cycling who've woken up to this magical rider that he is and maybe are learning as they go a little bit and may not actually know too much about how this kind of ready-made champion, what his origin story was. voice-verified
It's an opportunity, isn't it, for us to sort of tell a bit of that story, I think. voice-verified
Yeah. voice-verified
Yeah, I mean, it's probably worth starting there where he was born, the country of his birth. voice-verified
You know, for those of you who don't know, Slovenia was part of the post-war Yugoslavia. voice-verified
So in that sort of slightly uncomfortable Balkan groupings of countries with very, very separate cultures and religions and all that sort of thing. voice-verified
that fell apart a few years before Tadej was born in 1998, of course, with the Balkan Wars. voice-verified
Slovenia was not affected by the Balkan Wars. voice-verified
Slovenia, when Yugoslavia fell apart, was the first country to declare independence, never had a significant grouping of other ethnicities within its borders, so didn't have those internal conflicts to deal with. voice-verified
And despite linguistically being Slavic, voice-verified
So having the language in common with the likes of Serbia and Bosnia always looked west, shares a border with Italy. voice-verified
And I think as a result, even though the population of Slovenia is very, very small indeed, and it's a small country, I think that that border with Italy has always been porous. voice-verified
And the cycling culture so prevalent in northeastern Italy has kind of always permeated across that border. voice-verified
And the sport was... voice-verified
Showing 241–260 of 9,300 · page 13 of 465 ← Previous Next →