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121 episodes
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...
Del Toro is locked on for P3 in Paris - Domestique Cycling Podcast
The Critérium du Dauphiné is done, and a 22-year-old just announced himself to the world. Bram and Ethan break down Isaac Del Toro's back-to-back summit wins on the Grand Colombier and Plateau de Solaison, Paul Seixas' brave ride and painful fi...
Vingegaard, Giro safety and cycling’s salary problem - Domestique Hotseat with Michael Storer
Michael Storer has just delivered the best Grand Tour result of his career, finishing seventh overall at the Giro d’Italia for Tudor Pro Cycling. In this conversation, the Australian reflects on the race, explains why Jonas Vingegaard could bea...
Seixas should win the Dauphiné, but how he wins is everything - Domestique Cycling Podcast
The Critérium du Dauphiné 2026 (now the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) is wide open, and 19-year-old Paul Seixas arrives as the favourite ahead of Isaac del Toro. Two days in, the breakaway has won both stages by method of Alex Baudin and Anthon Ch...
Budget caps, safety and the future of GreenEdge ft. Brent Copeland - Domestique Hotseat
Brent Copeland rarely gives interviews. As General Manager of GreenEdge Cycling (Team Jayco AlUla and Liv AlUla Jayco) and President of the AIGCP, the teams' union, he sits inside almost every room where cycling's future is being decided. In th...
What we have learned from the Giro - Domestique Cycling Podcast
Jonas Vingegaard wins the 2026 Giro d'Italia with five stage victories and a final margin of over five minutes, completing the Grand Tour treble. But was it the race we hoped for?Bram and Ethan break down everything from the Giro: the G...
How Uno-X pulled off the perfect breakaway win - Domestique Hotseat with Johannes Kulset
Uno-X Mobility's Johannes Kulset joins us fresh off a massive Giro stage win for the team. Fredrik Dversnes went into the break on a pan-flat sprint stage and executed a plan the team had been sitting on since day one. Johannes breaks down exac...
Is the Marcel Kittel comeback on? - Domestique Hotseat Podcast
Nine stages into the Giro and the race has delivered chaos, crashes, and near misses. Marcel Kittel joins us on the rest day from inside the Unibet Rose Rockets camp to break down how the team has handled its first Grand Tour test, why stage 6 ...
How many stages will UAE Team Emirates win in the second week? - Domestique Cycling Podcast
Jonas Vingegaard finally laid down his marker on the Blockhaus, with Felix Gall the only rider who came close to following him and Giulio Pellizzari paying the price for going too deep, too early. We make the case for Eulálio as a genuine third...
Inside Decathlon's Giro with Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen - Domestique Hotseat Podcast
Three stages into the Giro and the race is already cracked wide open. Rasmus Søjberg joins us on the rest day to break down what we've seen so far: the crashes, the sprint margins, and why UAE could still win stages despite losing key riders.
What have we learned after three days? - Domestique Cycling Podcast
Three stages in Bulgaria, three completely different stories. Paul Magnier wins the opening stage in Burgas and takes the first maglia rosa of his career, then doubles up in Sofia. Guillermo Thomas Silva becomes the first Uruguayan ever to win ...
What are Bahrain Victorious' Giro plans? ft. Bahrain's Director Sportif - Domestique Hotseat Podcast
In this episode, Gorazd Ĺ tangelj joins Aidan in the Hotseat for a look inside the role of a sports director, from preseason planning and race tactics to the split second decisions made from the team car.Gorazd explains why modern racing ...
