Domestique Cycling Podcast

Can Evenepoel make UAE's life difficult? - Domestique Cycling Podcast 20.07.2026 48mnt

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 second overall at this race. Remco Evenepoel beat Tadej Pogacar in an uphill sprint on the stage for his first ever Tour road win, while Isaac del Toro completed the podium and reclaimed the white jersey. Pogacar's overall lead is now five minutes over Even...

How EF Are Surviving the Tour - Domestique Hotseat with Ben Healy and Michael Valgren 14.07.2026 28mnt

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 35 degrees, and what it takes for a team like EF Education to keep chasing wins in the heat. Healy is refreshingly open about his biggest weakness. The heat, he says, is a real Achilles heel, and it is stopping him from performing at his best when it mat...

Why Jayco aren't racing for GC - Domestique Hotseat with Gene Bates 04.07.2026 1j 4mnt

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 broken wrists, Mauro Schmid's move to Q36.5, and why Bates thinks nobody can stop Pogačar this July. He also opens up on managing Ben O'Connor after a huge 2024, how Jayco keeps its Australian DNA while becoming a truly international team, the stage 1...

Damiano Caruso on retirement, the Giro Miracle & Pogačar vs. Vingegaard - Domestique Hotseat 01.07.2026 1j 3mnt

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 feels like family over a bigger paycheck. We also cover Bahrain Victorious' chaotic run to the pink jersey at this year's Giro d'Italia, his prediction for Pogačar vs. Vingegaard, and why, heading into retirement and a new role as directeur sportif, al...

The Big Tour de France Preview! - Domestique Cycling Podcast 29.06.2026 1j 36mnt

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 Pogačar against Jonas Vingegaard, and this time the Dane arrives off a crushing Giro win with his cleanest run-in since 2023. But two new faces are forcing their way into the picture: 19-year-old Paul Seixas, France's biggest home hope in decades, and a rebooted Remco Evenepoel a...

Has Pogačar already won the Tour? - Domestique Cycling Podcast 23.06.2026 31mnt

Three-stage races, one clear message: the Tour de France is coming, and the favorites are flying. Tadej Pogačar 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 of a second over Mathieu van der Poel, and a mountain win to finish. Three stages, the overall, and not a rival within six minutes. We break down the stage-1 "glitch", Narváez's 90 km breakaway raid in a thunderstorm, Van der Poel's surprising time-trial form,...

Del Toro is locked on for P3 in Paris - Domestique Cycling Podcast 16.06.2026 39mnt

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 final-morning abandon, and what it all means for the Tour de France. Is Del Toro already a better climber than Remco Evenepoel? We think so. We also dig into the soaking-wet Copenhagen Sprint that ended in carnage and handed Jasper Philipsen a big confide...

Vingegaard, Giro safety and cycling’s salary problem - Domestique Hotseat with Michael Storer 16.06.2026 1j 2mnt

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 beat Tadej Pogacar at the Tour de France, and offers a different perspective on cycling’s safety debate. We start with the Giro. Storer discusses the breakaway that reshaped the general classification, the crash that ended Adam Yates’ challenge, his strong...

Seixas should win the Dauphiné, but how he wins is everything - Domestique Cycling Podcast 08.06.2026 29mnt

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 Charmig while the GC men wait. We break down stages 1 and 2, why João Almeida is out of the Tour de France, the team time trial, and the brutal mountain finale on the Grand Colombier and Plateau de Solaison. Plus: Demi Vollering's stunning comebac...

Budget caps, safety and the future of GreenEdge ft. Brent Copeland - Domestique Hotseat 05.06.2026 1j 9mnt

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 this conversation he opens up on all of it. We start with the Giro d'Italia: the stage 2 crash that took out Andrea Vendrame and changed the entire race, and what the Tour de France build-up looks like with Michael Matthews on the moment. From there...

What we have learned from the Giro - Domestique Cycling Podcast 01.06.2026 43mnt

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 GC fight that was won early, a surprise podium, the breakout of Alfonso Eulalio, Felix Gall's second place as a statement to his own team, Jai Hindley's love affair with Italian racing, the sprint battle between Jonathan Milan and Paul Magnier, Toon Arts' unex...

How Uno-X pulled off the perfect breakaway win - Domestique Hotseat with Johannes Kulset 25.05.2026 40mnt

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 exactly how it happened, why the win means more than most people realise, and what the team is hunting in the final week. We also get into: why the Giro and Vuelta produce better racing than the Tour right now, what it actually feels like to get dropped by...

Is the Marcel Kittel comeback on? - Domestique Hotseat Podcast 19.05.2026 38mnt

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 hurt so much, and what it really takes to build a sprint train capable of mixing it with the best. Marcel is now on the other side of the race, guiding the sprint group from the team car, and he walks us through the emotions of the Giro so far: the brok...

How many stages will UAE Team Emirates win in the second week? - Domestique Cycling Podcast 18.05.2026 44mnt

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-place podium contender, and discuss why Jai Hindley might be the one rider who can stop him. We also dig into the power data from Velon. Vingegaard's three minute attack on Blockhaus, Paul Magnier's standing-start sprint in Naples, and Giulio Ciccone'...

Inside Decathlon's Giro with Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen - Domestique Hotseat Podcast 12.05.2026 29mnt

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. Rasmus is one of the lead-out men for Tobias Lund Andersen at Decathlon CMA CGM, and he walks us through what went right and what went wrong on stages 1 and 3, why Milan looked off the pace, and how Magnier has put himself in the conversation as a top-t...

What have we learned after three days? - Domestique Cycling Podcast 11.05.2026 44mnt

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 a Grand Tour stage, taking pink into Italy. And on a slippery road with 23 km to go, a mass crash takes Marc Soler, Jay Vine, Adam Yates and Santiago Buitrago out of the race in a single moment. In the middle of the carnage, Jonas Vingegaard launches a...

What are Bahrain Victorious' Giro plans? ft. Bahrain's Director Sportif - Domestique Hotseat Podcast 05.05.2026 45mnt

In this episode, Gorazd Štangelj 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 has become faster and more chaotic, with positioning now often deciding races before the climbs even begin. He reflects on his own Giro history, the race’s unique demands, and why experience with Italian roads, weather and racing culture still matters. The co...

The Giro d'Italia Preview! - Domestique Cycling Podcast 04.05.2026 1j 4mnt

The 109th Giro d'Italia starts this Friday in Bulgaria - three weeks, 3,459 kilometres and 50,000 metres of climbing all the way to Rome. Jonas Vingegaard is the clear favourite, chasing the third Grand Tour of his career and the treble that would put him alongside Merckx, Hinault, Anquetil, Gimondi, Contador, Nibali and Froome. We break down the route stage by stage - the Bulgarian Grande Partenza, Blockhaus on stage 7, the 40-kilometre Tuscan time trial, the five-star showdown at Pila...

Pavel Bittner: "The respect goes out the window" - Domestique Hotseat Podcast 30.04.2026 31mnt

Pavel Bittner sits down on the Hot Seat to talk through a brutal Paris-Roubaix campaign, what it's like watching the race from inside the broom wagon, and why he keeps coming back to a race that has, in his own words, "always treated me pretty shit." We also get into his breakthrough win at the Vuelta a España, beating Wout van Aert in a sprint at 21 years old, the unspoken etiquette of the final 3km ("the respect goes out the window"), and where he sees his career heading - sprinter, classi...

Pogacar's days are numbered? - Domestique Cycling Podcast 28.04.2026 39mnt

Tadej Pogačar wins Liège-Bastogne-Liège for the fourth time, three in a row, thirteen Monuments, but the story of Sunday is Paul Seixas. The 19-year-old Frenchman became the only rider in history to follow Pogačar on the Côte de la Redoute, matching 8.7 w/kg for nearly four minutes and setting a new climb record in the process. We break down the most extraordinary edition of La Doyenne ever raced, the Remco breakaway controversy, the mystery of Pogačar's 5,000 Swiss franc jersey fine, and wh...