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  1. 18h ago

    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 sport struggling at the back. He also confirms his selection for the Vuelta a España, the Grand Tour he likes best and the one where his career started with two stage wins. He talks through where his chances are, why Mads Pedersen and Wout van Aert worry him more than Tadej Pogačar, and how a team of only Danes and Norwegians keeps punching above its budget. And he is honest about what comes next. There is no job lined up, only a winter in Andorra, and a rider who says he almost does not know who he is outside of cycling. There is also the moustache, the worst hotel in the Tour de France, and one very firm opinion about ankle socks.

    Why Magnus Cort Is Retiring At 33 - Domestique Hotseat Podcast

  2. 3d ago

    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 training, still hoping for a fifth title that would make him the outright record holder. Felix Gall and Oscar Onley come in off the back of Burgos, where five seconds separated them, and on Monday morning Visma confirmed that defending champion Jonas Vingegaard will not race again this season. We don't think the GC battle is really a battle at all, but the podium behind Pogacar is wide open, and we go through all 21 stages to work out who takes it. We cover the Monaco time trial and its F1 corners, the brutal short stage into Andorra, and the gravel sections and punchy finishes that should suit the breakaway all through week one. We get into the Alto de Aitana and the heat that comes with it, the Jerez time trial that could cost Felix Gall his podium spot, and the queen stage to the Collado del Alguacil, the only Categoría Especial climb of the race. Then we lay out our predictions for the podium and the green jersey, talk about what a "day by day" Vuelta actually looks like for Roglic, and go through the riders worth watching beyond the favourites. MNSTRY have been fuelling this podcast for months now. Ethan has got noticeably stronger on it. Bram puts that one entirely on his own lack of training. Neither of us has had a single stomach issue: up to 120 grams of carbohydrate per hour, naturally sourced flavours, nothing artificial, entirely vegan. 👉 Use code DOMESTIQUE20 for 20% off a tasting box at https://mnstry.com 🎮 Play Domestique Predict We're back for the Vuelta. Pick the rider you think will finish highest on every stage. You can only use each rider once across the whole race, and your score is their time behind the stage winner minus a bonus of 10, 6 or 4 seconds for a top three finish. It runs like its own GC, from Monaco on Saturday through to Granada on 13 September, and it's free. Come beat us at https://peloton.domestiquecycling.com/predict

    Why you should watch La Vuelta anyway - Domestique Cycling Podcast

  3. 4d ago

    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 actually asked of her. Her job at CANYON//SRAM was to protect Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney and Antonia Niedermaier, which she describes as bodyguard duties for the whole week. That means positioning, following attacks she was not built to follow, and an endless loop back to the team car for bottles and ice. It was the hottest week she has ever raced. She could not tell you how many bottles the team went through, only that the ice had melted before she reached the front with it. She is good on Niewiadoma. On the stage 5 climb to Belleville-en-Beaujolais, Backstedt was going sideways up an 18 percent ramp to make it flatter. At the bus afterwards she found out her leader had ridden the same climb in the big ring. On Mont Ventoux, where Niewiadoma went solo with nine kilometres to go and took yellow, her verdict is that the mind games behind made no difference at all. Niewiadoma was the strongest rider in the race from breakfast onwards. The numbers are worth the episode on their own. Over 1,100 watts in a bunch sprint, and 225 to 250 in the Ventoux gruppetto. On the final stage she set a 20 minute best that beat her old one by 20 watts, with Niewiadoma shouting at her to keep going. She also explains why she was fourth in the Dijon time trial rather than on the podium. Getting over that took a phone call with her sister about anything other than cycling. There is plenty more in here. Why the UCI clothing checks were not the story people thought they were, why nobody in the peloton was surprised that Lorena Wiebes could climb, and why she once got on the radio to tell her sprinter that she was not doing the final. She also wants one change for next year, and it is not a harder route. She wants a rest day and a proper sprint stage, because there was not a single day in the nine where anybody could ride easy.

    Zoe Backstedt On What It Really Takes To Ride The Tour de France - Domestique Hotseat Podcast

  4. Aug 10

    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 by eight seconds. Then she attacked again on the final climb of the race on Sunday, when sitting on the wheel would have been enough, and won by 1:18. We go through all of it, including the stand-off between Vollering and Reusser on the Ventoux that nearly cost her the race, and why Bram thinks Niewiadoma's ride up it was the best climbing performance he has seen from a woman. We also get into the row. Niewiadoma accused Celia Gery of closing her against the barriers at the foot of the last climb on stage 8. FDJ said the footage does not show much, and the 20-year-old spent the night before the final stage receiving death threats. The two of them cleared it up in about fifteen seconds after the finish, which rather makes the point about where the escalation actually happened. Our view, and the view of most people who voted on the Domestique Debate, is that this is a racing incident. On the men's side, Felix Gall won the Vuelta a Burgos by five seconds for the first stage race win of his career. He did it on the kind of punchy finishes that should suit Ciccone, Onley and Pellizzari more than him, which leads into whether he is the only real threat to Tadej Pogacar at the Vuelta. Tudor won the Tour de Pologne with Marco Brenner and then took the closing time trial with Stefan Kung, which is a very good week for a team that keeps stepping up. And the transfer market has properly opened. Soudal Quick-Step signed Tim Torn Teutenberg and Lorenzo Milesi, Santiago Buitrago left Bahrain Victorious after seven years, and Picnic PostNL have now lost all three of their fast men. 🎮 Play Who's That Rider Our daily game is live on Domestique. Guess the rider from their palmares, with one extra hint for every wrong answer. Play today's edition at https://peloton.domestiquecycling.com/daily MNSTRY MNSTRY have been fuelling this podcast and sending us their products to test for months now. Ethan has got a lot stronger on them. Bram has not, and that is entirely down to a lack of training. What they do have in common is that neither of us has had a single stomach problem: up to 120 grams of carbohydrate per hour, naturally sourced flavours, nothing artificial, entirely vegan, and all the good stuff your body actually recognises. 👉 Use code DOMESTIQUE20 for 20% off your starting kit at https://mnstry.com

    We rate the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift - Domestique Cycling Podcast

  5. Aug 6

    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 has turned into something nobody predicted. We go through how it happened, and why nothing about Ferrand-Prevot's week looks like the rider who dominated this race in 2025. Before that, the first week did everything the men's Tour did and more. Lorena Wiebes won the first two stages and was untouchable in both, to the point where the interesting question became why anyone is still chasing down breakaways to set up a sprint against her. Then Sigrid Ytterhus Haugset rode 88 kilometres alone to win in Poligny and take yellow, with Lotte Kopecky chasing her all the way to second place. It was the best move of the race so far, and the television coverage started after she had already gone, which we have plenty to say about. Reusser took the jersey back in the Dijon time trial, then Vollering won a finish that went to the line on stage 5. Twelve riders have already abandoned, one team is down to three, and the peloton is racing in the high thirties. On the men's side, Remco Evenepoel has now won the Donostia San Sebastian Klasikoa four times from four starts. A bike change left him nearly forty seconds down on the Erlaitz, and he still rode back to the front and dropped everyone but Richard Carapaz. Jonathan Milan has won the first three stages of the Tour de Pologne, which gets us onto what that race keeps doing with its finish design. Matthew Brennan and Oscar Onley have taken a stage each at the Vuelta a Burgos, and Onley's is his first win for Netcompany-Ineos. We also get into the things underneath the results. Two Belgian development teams have disappeared in two seasons. Women's cycling is arguing about whether it needs a bigger calendar. Nine UAE riders are not going to a Grand Tour this year and have won ten races between them. And we still cannot work out what Fabio Jakobsen would be doing at Visma. Order your MNSTRY Tasting Box now and use code DOMESTIQUE20 to get 20% off! Order now! http://mnstry.com/en-in?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=domestique&utm_campaign=260126_domestique_partnership-2026

    Ferrand-Prevot Has Lost The Tour de France Femmes Already? - Domestique Cycling Podcast

  6. Aug 2

    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 Zwift in the garage, and she got jealous enough to put a neighbour's old road bike on a trainer and ride it in her sneakers. Six years later she is racing in Europe with two professional wins to her name. In this episode she tells Aidan Burgess how that actually happened, and she is unusually honest about the ugly middle part. She entered Zwift Academy almost by accident, after a time trial got rained off in Melbourne. When the finals invitation came, her parents assumed it was a scam. She turned up in Portugal at 17, needing lawyer-verified travel documents, to be greeted by Zoe Backstedt. Then came 2025. She describes a season where she finished 29th in her first race and 29th in her last. She spent every race hanging on at the back, quietly wondering whether the team had made a mistake picking her. What changed for 2026 was not training. It was deciding she deserved to be there. She won on 30 April, won again on 1 May, and pulled on the leader's jersey. She is also clear about what is still missing. The World Tour team has a mental coach. Her development team does not, so she has been building her own sports psychology out of podcasts. She is also sharp on why girls do not take up cycling in the first place. There was no women's racing on television when she was young, and there is still a belief that you need to spend tens of thousands of dollars before you can start. Emily Dixon rides for Canyon//SRAM Generation. This episode was recorded just before the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, and she gives her podium picks at the end.

    How Zwift turned a 17-year-old into a pro - Domestique Hotseat with Emily Dixon

  7. Jul 31

    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 is talking to a few teams, and that there should be news quite quickly. Before that, he takes us inside the strongest team in the world. He explains why UAE keep December training camps deliberately relaxed, with no crazy interval sessions and no weighing food, so that riders can hold the stricter plans all season.  He explains the racing philosophy in one line: they race to win and they train to train, and a race is never treated as preparation. He describes what a domestique at UAE is actually paid to do, which is mostly positioning, and why the modern peloton is decided before the climb rather than on it. He is also open about the parts that are less comfortable. The jersey brings expectations, and he admits there are days when he would rather the camera found someone in a neutral kit.  Team Flanders, the team that made him a professional, is losing its Flemish government funding, and he says plainly that without it some riders who have the potential will never turn professional at all. There is plenty for the equipment obsessives too. He compares the Colnago Y1Rs with the V4 and puts a number on the difference between a full aero bike and a full climbing bike.  He also explains why he raised his handlebars by two centimetres rather than a few millimetres. And he describes the treadmill the whole sport is now on, where altitude camps and heat training no longer win you anything, they only stop you losing.

    What UAE Does Differently - Domestique Hotseat Podcast w. Rune Herregodts

  8. Jul 27

    Tadej Pogacar was the only one who Raced to Win the Tour de France - Domestique Cycling Podcast

    Tadej Pogačar 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 domestique for his own teammate. Remco Evenepoel finished second at 6:26 with two stage wins and the best climbing week of his career. Isaac Del Toro is third and in white on his debut. Paul Seixas is fourth at nineteen years old. And on a final stage shortened by the wildfires in the southwest, Mathieu van der Poel went over Montmartre with Pogačar and held on all the way to the line. Bram and Ethan unpack all three weeks: why nobody even tries to follow Pogačar anymore, whether Evenepoel would have matched Jonas Vingegaard, how Richard Carapaz timed his run at the mountains jersey to perfection, and why stage 21 has become the best stage of the Tour. We also spend a while on the part of this Tour that was not fun to watch. Half a million people on Alpe d'Huez, no barricades outside the Dutch corner, Einer Rubio into a team car with twenty stitches to the face, and ASO blaming the design of modern cars. We think something has to change before the Tour goes back. This episode is brought to you by MNSTRY.  Over 120g of carbohydrate per hour, naturally sourced flavours, no artificial additives, no preservatives, and everything vegan. Domestique listeners get 20% off their first tasting box with the code DOMESTIQUE20. 👉 https://www.mnstry.com

    Tadej Pogacar was the only one who Raced to Win the Tour de France - Domestique Cycling Podcast
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