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132 episodes
Thor Hushovd slams safety in cycling "We have to take action" - Domestique Hotseat Podcast
Thor Hushovd, former world champion and now general manager of Uno-X Mobility, joins Aidan Burgess on the Domestique Hotseat. This is the week the UCI confirmed new standards for finish barriers and a push for GPS tracking. Thor says the talkin...
Everything You Missed at the World Championships - Domestique Cycling Podcast
Brandon McNulty won the 2026 World Championships road race in Montréal. He attacked alone with 33 kilometres to go, held on by 13 seconds, and became the first American to win the elite men's title since 1993. Michael Matthews took silver the d...
Alice Towers' Crash That Ended Her Worlds - Domestique Hotseat Podcast
Alice Towers should have been lining up for Great Britain at the World Championships in Montréal this week. Instead, a crash in a wet race in France left her unconscious, in hospital and with a concussion. She has no memory of it. Two weeks lat...
Andreas Leknessund On A Worlds Without PogaÄŤar - Domestique Hotseat Podcast
Andreas Leknessund joins Aidan Burgess from his hotel room in Montréal, the day after the World Championships time trial and just over a week after finishing the Vuelta a España. With Tadej Pogačar out after his Vuelta crash, the Uno-X Mobility...
Evenepoel, Seixas or Del Toro? 2026 World Championships Road Race Preview - Domestique Cycling Podcast
Remco Evenepoel won his fourth straight world time trial title in Montréal by 57 seconds from Filippo Ganna, and now he goes for something no man has done: the time trial and the road race at the same Worlds. Tadej Pogačar is out. Paul Seixas a...
Enric Mas wins La Vuelta a Espana 2026! - Domestique Cycling Podcast
Enric Mas is the winner of the 2026 Vuelta a España, the first Spanish winner of his home Grand Tour since Alberto Contador in 2014. Four Vuelta podiums, three of them second places, and at 31 he finally has the one that counts. Primoz Roglic i...
Finlay Pickering Inside The Vuelta's Wildest Stage - Domestique Hotseat Podcast
Finlay Pickering finished the Vuelta a España sick, and he tells Aidan Burgess he never once thought about climbing off. The Jayco AlUla rider spoke to us on the morning of the final stage in Granada, a day after Mikel Landa's win on the Collad...
Enric Mas is now the favourite at La Vuelta - Domestique Cycling Podcast
Enric Mas reaches the second rest day of the Vuelta a España in red, 2:06 ahead of Felix Gall and 2:10 ahead of Primož Roglič. The man with four Vuelta podiums and no Grand Tour win is now the favourite, and Bram and Ethan spend this episode wo...
Finn Fisher-Black on Roglic's chances at La Vuelta - Domestique Hotseat Podcast
Finn Fisher-Black joined Aidan Burgess on the first rest day of the Vuelta a España, four days after Tadej Pogačar crashed out of a race he was leading by nearly four minutes.He is honest about his former teammate. People assume Pogačar...
PogaÄŤar wants it all - Domestique Cycling Podcast
Tadej Pogacar took the first red jersey of his career in Monaco by nine hundredths of a second. Ethan Hayter lost it on the line, then spent all of Sunday in the breakaway trying to take it back, and finished the day 29 seconds down. In Manosqu...
Why Magnus Cort Is Retiring At 33 - Domestique Hotseat Podcast
Magnus Cort is retiring at the end of 2026, and he tells Aidan Burgess exactly why. He is still winning, he became Danish champion for the first time this year, and that is the point. He does not want to squeeze everything out and finish the sp...
Why you should watch La Vuelta anyway - Domestique Cycling Podcast
Tadej Pogacar arrives at the Vuelta a España chasing the one Grand Tour missing from his palmares, seven years after finishing third here on debut at twenty. Primoz Roglic is now expected to start, five weeks after being hit by a car in trainin...
Zoe Backstedt On What It Really Takes To Ride The Tour de France - Domestique Hotseat Podcast
Zoe Backstedt came out of her first Tour de France Femmes with an all time 20 minute power best, a stage 9 pain face that went round the internet, and a very clear idea of what the race is missing. She tells George Burgess what nine days of it ...
We rate the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift - Domestique Cycling Podcast
Demi Vollering is a two-time champion of the Tour de France Femmes, and she had to win the last two stages to get there. Kasia Niewiadoma rode away from her on Mont Ventoux on Friday and took yellow. Vollering took it back in Nice on Saturday b...
Ferrand-Prevot Has Lost The Tour de France Femmes Already? - Domestique Cycling Podcast
Pauline Ferrand-Prevot came to defend her Tour de France Femmes title and is five minutes down after five stages. Marlen Reusser has the yellow jersey, Demi Vollering is twelve seconds behind her, and the race the whole spring pointed towards h...
How Zwift turned a 17-year-old into a pro - Domestique Hotseat with Emily Dixon
Emily Dixon spent her childhood throwing tantrums on mountain bike trails. She did swimming, gymnastics, dance and netball, and she was, in her words, pretty mediocre at all of them. Then lockdown cancelled everything, her dad started riding Zw...
What UAE Does Differently - Domestique Hotseat Podcast w. Rune Herregodts
Rune Herregodts has one month of his Belgian national champion's jersey behind him, and he is out of contract at the end of the season. In this episode he tells Aidan Burgess that he expects to leave UAE Team Emirates XRG, that he i...
Tadej Pogacar was the only one who Raced to Win the Tour de France - Domestique Cycling Podcast
Tadej PogaÄŤar has won his fifth Tour de France, and he now stands level with Merckx, Hinault, Anquetil and Indurain. Five stage wins, Marco Pantani's Alpe d'Huez record beaten by more than a minute, and then a Queen stage spent riding as a dome...
Michael Storer on the 2AM doping test, Vingegaard's crash & chasing a stage win - Domestique Hotseat Podcast
On the second rest day of the Tour de France, Michael Storer joins the Domestique Hotseat to talk through a brutal and record-breaking second week of racing. He gets honest about backing up a second grand tour after the Giro, why the heat has b...
Can Evenepoel make UAE's life difficult? - Domestique Cycling Podcast
Jonas Vingegaard's Tour de France is over. The two time champion crashed twenty kilometres from the summit of Plateau de Solaison on stage 15 and abandoned with a suspected broken collarbone, ending his record of never finishing lower than seco...
How EF Are Surviving the Tour - Domestique Hotseat with Ben Healy and Michael Valgren
Ben Healy and Michael Valgren sat down with us on the first rest day of the Tour de France, nine days into one of the hottest editions in memory. The result is an honest conversation about racing in temperatures that have barely dropped below 3...
Why Jayco aren't racing for GC - Domestique Hotseat with Gene Bates
Gene Bates, Sporting Manager at Jayco AlUla, joins the Domestique Hotseat with Aidan Burgess on the eve of the Tour de France in Barcelona. We get into the team's plan to hunt stages instead of riding for GC, Michael Matthews' comeback from two...
Damiano Caruso on retirement, the Giro Miracle & PogaÄŤar vs. Vingegaard - Domestique Hotseat
Damiano Caruso is riding his eighth and final Tour de France. Before the start, he joins us to talk about Paul Seixas' reported €13 million contract, why he thinks it puts unfair pressure on a 19-year-old, and why he'd always choose a team that...
The Big Tour de France Preview! - Domestique Cycling Podcast
On Saturday the 113th Tour de France rolls out of Barcelona: 21 stages, 3,333 kilometres to Paris, opening with a team time trial for the first time since 1971. For the sixth year running it comes down to Tadej PogaÄŤar against Jonas Vingegaard,...
Has PogaÄŤar already won the Tour? - Domestique Cycling Podcast
Three-stage races, one clear message: the Tour de France is coming, and the favorites are flying. Tadej PogaÄŤar turned his Tour de Suisse debut into a public training camp - a 69 km solo on stage 1, a time trial win by four-hundredths o...
