Ned Boulting
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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.
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Because he hinted at that in the Tour de France 2025.
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So now he's joined the, he's joined that club, hasn't he?
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You know, it's worth, the role call is, Jacques Anquetil was the first rider to win five.
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Then we've got Eddy Merckx, comes along, wins five.
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Bernard Hinault, five.
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Miguel Inderlein, the first man who wins five consecutively in the early 1990s.
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Lance Armstrong, let's just deal with that one.
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He wins seven in a row, but has reclused himself from consideration, ultimately by his own behavior.
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So that's probably the best way of dealing with that.
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And then Tadej Pogacar comes along and wins five as well.
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I mean, comparing across the eras is a fatuous thing to do, isn't it?
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But, but...
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And one of the most telling ways in which it evolved, if you look at the peloton that Merckx beat five times, basically they were restricted to about three or four nations.
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They were Belgians, Italians, Spanish, French riders, and maybe one or two from Luxembourg.
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That was kind of it.
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Now it is, you've got the Norwegians, the, you know, the Danes, you've got the Eastern, you've got Slovenians, you've got the Brits, you've got the Americans, the Australians.
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It's a much bigger global sport now.
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And ultimately, it's just been immense to have witnessed it.
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Yeah.
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And long may it last.
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