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  1. 5d ago

    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 talking has to stop and the action has to start. 👉  Get 15% off your first purchase with the code DOMESTIQUE15 at https://exposurelights.com He talks about what it is like to run a team of 50 riders and fear the worst phone call. He says every 10 metres of road holds a danger, and that he has had calls from parents asking if their sons are safe. He says the UCI, race organisers, teams and riders all have to take their share of the responsibility. Thor also looks back at the rainbow jersey he won in Australia in 2010. He talks about how aero suits, narrow handlebars and wind tunnels changed racing, and whether cycling needs shorter formats, like a criterium world championship, to reach a younger audience. Then it's Uno-X Mobility: why the men's team is only Norwegian and Danish, why the women's team is more international for now, and how the team keeps its trust-based culture as it grows. He also confirms that more signings are coming, including what he calls big names.

    Thor Hushovd slams safety in cycling "We have to take action" - Domestique Hotseat Podcast

  2. Sep 28

    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 day after his 36th birthday. Mathieu van der Poel attacked from a long way out and still took bronze. 👉  Get 15% off your first purchase with the code DOMESTIQUE15 at https://exposurelights.com 👉  Get 20% off your first Tasting Box with the code DOMESTIQUE20 at https://mnstry.com 👉 Get 87% off your first 27 months for a VPN at https://www.domestiquecycling.com/surfshark We go through the whole race. There was the 16 rider break, and France setting a brutal pace with Bruno Armirail on the front for four laps. Van der Poel took Oscar Onley, Quinn Simmons and Primož Roglič with him in a move that stayed out for almost 70 kilometres, and Remco Evenepoel kept fighting his way back after being dropped. Then McNulty went clear. Isaac del Toro, his UAE teammate, would not chase, and Matteo Jorgenson followed every counterattack. Tom Pidcock attacked again and again, and we ask whether those attacks helped the chase or killed it. We also talk about Paul Seixas cramping on the last lap at 20 years old, and the pressure on him in France. Should trade teams have this much influence at the Worlds? We also look at Matthews' silver after breaking both arms this spring, and Sallanches 2027 with 5,700 metres of climbing. In the women's race, Demi Vollering finally won the rainbow jersey. She was caught, attacked again on the last lap and beat Kasia Niewiadoma in the sprint, which completes the Triple Crown of Giro, Tour and Worlds. We also cover the UCI's fines for Eritrea's kit and Vollering's yellow card, then preview the European Championships in Slovenia.

    Everything You Missed at the World Championships - Domestique Cycling Podcast

  3. Sep 26

    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 later she sits down with Aidan Burgess to explain what the injury has done to her. 👉  Get 15% off your first purchase with the code DOMESTIQUE15 at https://exposurelights.com She is open about the symptoms. There was a pounding headache that felt like her heart was beating inside her head, and her fuse became so short that small things upset her. On her first ride outside she stopped to check her wheel, then her headset, before she realised the problem was her balance. She also explains the return to training protocol. It starts with 30 minutes on the trainer below 120 bpm, and any symptoms mean she has to wait another day. Then the conversation turns to the race she is missing. She talks about Zoe Backstedt's silver in the time trial and Team GB's plan to attack in the road race. She explains why racing a circuit with no radios is so confusing from inside the bunch. She also gives her picks for the podium and backs her EF Education-Oatly teammates, including defending champion Magdeleine Vallieres at a home Worlds. The last part of the episode is about her. Towers is 23 and in her first season at EF after three years at Canyon//SRAM. She talks about wanting more chances for herself without giving up the domestique work she loves. She would like to target the Ardennes, and she looks ahead to the 2027 Tour de France Femmes, which starts in Britain and goes through the Peak District roads where she learned to ride. She also has an opinion on whether women's cycling needs a three week Grand Tour.

    Alice Towers' Crash That Ended Her Worlds - Domestique Hotseat Podcast

  4. Sep 22

    Andreas Leknessund On A Worlds Without Pogačar - 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 rider says Sunday's road race is "more open than ever". 👉  Get 15% off your first purchase with the code DOMESTIQUE15 at https://exposurelights.com He talks through his own time trial, where he rode the 400 watts he was aiming for and still finished 32nd. He also explains what three weeks of the Vuelta do to a rider's legs, and how Norway approached the mixed relay after Katrine Aalerud crashed on the recon. Then the road race. Leknessund looks at Remco Evenepoel's fourth straight time trial title, Paul Seixas's surprise bronze, Mathieu van der Poel's long solo in Luxembourg and Wout van Aert's form from the Vuelta. Without Pogačar setting the race, he expects more tactics, more riders with a real chance and more room for early attacks, which is where his own chance lies. He also goes back to stage 7 of the Vuelta, his first Grand Tour stage win, with Tobias Halland Johannessen second on the day Norway lost King Harald V. After his near misses at the Giro, he did not believe he had won until the last kilometer.

    Andreas Leknessund On A Worlds Without Pogačar - Domestique Hotseat Podcast

  5. Sep 21

    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 and Isaac del Toro finished one and two on this circuit two weeks ago. Mathieu van der Poel has just ridden 174 kilometres alone in Luxembourg. The 2026 World Championships road race is on Sunday: 273.7 kilometres and twelve laps of Mount Royal. 👉  Get 15% off your first purchase with the code DOMESTIQUE15 at https://exposurelights.com 👉  Get 20% off your first Tasting Box with the code DOMESTIQUE20 at https://mnstry.com We start with the weekend. Evenepoel put time into Ganna on every section of the time trial, while Ganna rode a negative split. We also get into why a 40 kilometre time trial is its own discipline, and why pacing it confused so many riders. Then we look at the road race team by team. Belgium have Evenepoel and Wout van Aert, and no dedicated helper for Van Aert. France bring Seixas, Sivakov and an eight-rider team we expect to race to blow things up. We also cover Great Britain with Pidcock and Adam Yates, Denmark, Germany with Lipowitz and Brenner, Ecuador without Carapaz, Italy with Ciccone, Pellizzari and Lorenzo Finn, Van der Poel's Dutch team, Norway, New Zealand, Slovenia with Roglič, Spain with Enric Mas, Switzerland, and a US team with McNulty and Simmons.

    Evenepoel, Seixas or Del Toro? 2026 World Championships Road Race Preview - Domestique Cycling Podcast

  6. Sep 14

    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 is second at 2:15, Felix Gall third at 2:44. 👉  Get 15% off your first purchase with the code DOMESTIQUE15 at https://exposurelights.com 👉  Get 20% off your first Tasting Box with the code DOMESTIQUE20 at https://mnstry.com Bram and Ethan go through the final week: two more sprint wins for Matthew Brennan, who finished his debut Grand Tour with five, the Jerez time trial where Mas lost only 33 seconds to Roglic, Sepp Kuss riding from eleventh to fifth on the queen stage, and Tobias Halland Johannessen finally winning one in Granada after years of second places. Then there is the argument. The organisers took general classification times with 9.8 kilometres to go on the final stage, so the last lap did not count. There was no crash and nothing overtly dangerous about the circuit. Is a Grand Tour that has to disable its own classification to run its finale still a twenty one stage race? After that it is Canada. Remco Evenepoel won GP de Québec, Isaac del Toro beat Paul Seixas in a two up sprint in Montréal, and Evenepoel finished fifth after spending too much of the race in the middle of the group. Del Toro and Seixas both look like Worlds contenders now. The elite men's road race is on 27 September, on many of the same roads. Full Worlds preview next week.

  7. Sep 14

    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 Collado del Alguacil and two days after the worst day he has ever had on a bike. 👉 This podcast is powered by Exposure Lights. Get 15% off your lights which will last you a lifetime at https://www.exposurelights.com/ with code DOMESTIQUE15 He is honest about what went wrong. A good time trial, then a stomach that stopped working, then 30 minutes lost on stage 19 and a top 20 on general classification gone with it. His reason for staying out there is the best line in the episode: a DNF on ProCyclingStats is not something he wants next to his name. There is a proper masterclass in here on racing in the heat. Pickering does not think the heat was his problem at all, and he has little patience with the idea that the Vuelta in August is a surprise. Saunas, a training block in Spain, 20 minutes at a time, every day, building slowly. He explains exactly how he does it and why most people get it wrong by cooking themselves once and never going back. He also makes the case for Enric Mas. Pogačar crashing out changed the race, but Pickering argues the winner still had Roglič, Kuss, Carapaz and Gall to beat, and points back to the day Mas chased Pogačar down on the road. His view on racing the best rider in the world is simple: you do not want to fight a guy who is nought and 26. Plus stage 20 from inside the bunch, Landa as a hero from his childhood, the Worlds without Pogačar, a losing bet on red at the Monaco start, and the supermarket start line in Granada.

    Finlay Pickering Inside The Vuelta's Wildest Stage - Domestique Hotseat Podcast

  8. Sep 7

    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 working out whether he can actually finish the job. 👉 Use code DOMESTIQUE20 for 20% off your first tasting box at https://mnstry.com 👉 Use code DOMESTIQUE15 for 15% off your first purchase at https://exposurelights.com Mas took 27 seconds at Calar Alto and another 25 on La Pandera, and Movistar have controlled this race in a way nobody expected from them. That leads to the argument that runs through the whole episode: with Tadej Pogačar out and his season now over, does this Vuelta come with an asterisk next to it? Bram says it should not. Ethan says nobody looks up who crashed out twenty years later. Then the heat. 41 degrees on the road to Loja, riders taken to hospital, and Sunday's stage into Córdoba cut by 79.5 kilometres under the extreme weather protocol. Both hosts think the measures are the right ones and both think they are aimed at the wrong end of the day, with the Vuelta moving finishes later for television rather than starting in the cool of the morning. There is a lot of good racing in here too. Wout van Aert won twice in three days and controlled the whole finale in Córdoba, Visma are on five stage wins with three of them from Matthew Brennan on his Grand Tour debut, and Jakob Omrzel and Marco Brenner produced the two surprises of the week. Bram and Ethan then look at the final week: the Jerez time trial, Peñas Blancas, the brutal stage 20 to Collado del Alguacil, and a Granada finish that is not a parade. Plus the Tour of Britain, where Tim Wellens took the overall and UAE filled the podium on the final stage in Earlston. Ethan was at stage 1 in Lincoln to see Lewis Askey win. A heads up on the end of this one: Bram's internet dropped in the middle of the Tour of Britain section, so the episode finishes earlier than usual.

    Enric Mas is now the favourite at La Vuelta - Domestique Cycling Podcast
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    Domestique Cycling
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