Pogačar 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 Manosque, Wout van Aert attacked with two kilometres to go and Pogacar closed him down, then refused to pull. Behind them, 20-year-old Matthew Brennan came past both to win his first Grand Tour stage, on his first ever road stage at a three-week race. Two days in and this Vuelta has already given us more than the preview suggested it would.

We go through the Monaco time trial and how nobody crashed on a course full of tunnels, cones and an F1 hairpin. We get into what Pogacar's ride actually tells us, and the moment he stopped riding for Josh Tarling and went full gas. Then we look ahead. Font Romeu and its one long shallow climb, the short Andorra stage that shouts breakaway, the sprint on stage 5, and the gravel with bonus seconds on top of it on stage 6. We also cover Visma's very crowded sprint train, Felix Gall's 46 seconds, and the influencer the Vuelta hired for its social channels, which has gone about as badly as it could. Plus Kim Le Court winning the Tour of Britain Women, Jasper Philipsen taking three stages and the overall at the Renewi Tour, and Isaac del Toro winning the Deutschland Tour.

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