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  1. 6d ago

    Finn Fisher-Black on Roglic's chances at La Vuelta - Domestique Hotseat Podcast

    Finn Fisher-Black joined Aidan Burgess on the first rest day of the Vuelta a España, four days after Tadej Pogačar crashed out of a race he was leading by nearly four minutes. He is honest about his former teammate. People assume Pogačar wins so often that a bad day cannot really hurt, and Fisher-Black says that is exactly backwards. Everyone starts each race the same, everyone wants to win, and nobody turns up to a Grand Tour without doing the work. He explains how the news travelled through the bunch, how quickly the racing stopped, and how close his own team came to being caught in the same crash. Then the race that is left. Fisher-Black rides for Primož Roglič, who was hit by a car on a training camp only weeks before the start and could barely get on a bike. Nobody in the team knew what they had until the racing began. He talks about how you read Roglič's mood, why the calm version is the fast one, and why he thinks the last week will be the best one. There is also the tactical picture. With UAE no longer policing the race, nobody seems to want the job, and Fisher-Black explains why that opens up breakaway after breakaway, why he still fancies a move with Jay Vine and Pavel Sivakov in it, and how much freedom he gets while his leader sits second overall. Plus the Monaco time trial and rolling out of a casino, the warm-up he makes up as he goes, the hail on the Font Romeu stage and the hotel that took the peloton in, the five-star reviews that got deleted, the mattress in the background of the call, the drink bottle scrums, and why he still wants to go back to the track. SUBSCRIBE and get notified when a new video drops: 👉  @DomestiqueCycling   Get your cycling news and feature articles on Domestique: https://www.domestiquecycling.com/ Follow Domestique on Socials 🔗 👉 X: https://x.com/Domestique___ 👉 Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/domestiquecycling.com 👉 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/domestique___/ 👉 WhatsApp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VbBXjUd8F2pLi4jBEo3v 👉 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@domestiquecycling 👉 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/domestiquecyclingcom 👉 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/36bP23fgphegg9xTWDVPeF?si=777f3ae957f34d34

    Finn Fisher-Black on Roglic's chances at La Vuelta - Domestique Hotseat Podcast

  2. Aug 24

    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. 👉 Use code DOMESTIQUE20 for 20% off your first tasting box at https://mnstry.com

    Pogačar wants it all - Domestique Cycling Podcast

  3. Aug 20

    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

  4. Aug 17

    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

  5. Aug 16

    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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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
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    Domestique Cycling
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    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
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