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Domestique Cycling Podcast is a sports podcast hosted by Domestique Cycling, with 120 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #63

  Why Magnus Cort Is Retiring At 33 - Domestique Hotseat Podcast

  Aug 20, 20261 hourS2

  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.

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  Episode #62

  Why you should watch La Vuelta anyway - Domestique Cycling Podcast

  Aug 17, 202651 minS2

  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

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  Episode #61

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

  Aug 16, 20261h 10mS2

  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.

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  Episode #60

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

  Aug 10, 202631 minS2

  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

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  Episode #59

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

  Aug 6, 202638 minS2

  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

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