RIDING WITH Podcast

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RIDING WITH Podcast is a sports podcast hosted by Jonathan E. Kaplan, with 41 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Jonathan E. Kaplan hosts RIDING WITH Podcast, a sports show with 41 episodes published.

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  SPORTSWASHING: RWANDA HOSTS CYCLING'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS AMID ALLEGATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

  Sep 25, 202529 minS0

  <p>With cycling’s World Championships underway in Kigali, Rwanda, this week, I spoke with my old friend, Mvemba Dizolele, a highly-regarded foreign policy analyst, about the role of sports in diplomacy and politics. (Take the time to read Mvemba’s full bio here.)</p><p>For background on the issues facing Rwanda, Minky Worden of Human Rights Watch, who is a friend of the RIDING WITH podcast, has a terrific dispatch about Rwanda’s human rights violations and the role it plays in the conflicts in Congo and Sudan. </p><p>John Prendergast, a leading human rights advocate who has wo...

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  BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC

  Sep 8, 202515 minS0

  <p>Today’s episode of the RIDING WITH podcast is a bit different. I’m trying a narrative with sound mixed in from the biggest, most prestigious cycling race in the United States, which took place in Baltimore on Sept. 6, 2025. You’ll get to hear from the winners, runners-up, and those finishing just off the pace. It’s an inside look at what it takes to produce a massive event in a major American city from race organizers to the mayor’s office, and how the riders themselves view Baltimore and the United States.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to RIDING...

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  BEING THERE

  Jul 16, 202540 minS0

  <p>At the Tour de France, the teams’ buses are equipped with laundry machines. Hotels can range from high end to a box and a cardboard mattress. After crossing the finish line on the Champs-Élysées, the riders celebrate with family and friends, attend a fancy team dinner, and then go clubbing.</p><p>On today’s podcast, I speak with Kevin Vermaerke, a 24-year-old American professional cyclist, riding for the Dutch team, Picnic PostNL. </p><p>Vermaerke raced the Tour de France in 2022, but he crashed on Stage 8 and was forced to abandon the race with a broken collar...

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  ORLA CHENNAOUI ON CYCLING, JOURNALISM, and the CHANGING MEDIA LANDSCAPE

  Jul 5, 202538 minS0

  <p>Orla Chennaoui didn’t just rise through the ranks of sports media — she cut her own path. From reading traffic reports and covering sports for Sky News to anchoring coverage of cycling’s biggest races, she’s now the voice of cycling on TNT Sports and a defining presence in the sport.</p><p>While TNT Sports airs in the UK and Ireland, cycling fans in the United States who subscribe to MAX (formerly HBO) can watch her pre- and post-race coverage of some of cycling’s biggest races. </p><p>Today, Chennaoui is more than a journalist — she’s a global bra...

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  OUR MAN IN PARIS

  Jul 3, 202536 minS0

  <p>The New York Times shuttered its sports section in 2023 and it had stopped covering professional cycling and the Tour de France years earlier.</p><p>That did not mean the Times would stop covering sports. In 2022, it had purchased The Athletic for $550 million. Now, if you subscribe to the Times, you can read The Athletic.</p><p>Cycling fans are lucky to have an enterprising young journalist, Jacob Whitehead, who normally covers football—or what Americans call soccer. </p><p>Fortunately, he’s expanded his beat to include cycling. </p><p>Whitehead’s first story examined how Remco Evenopeol would...

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