Domestique Cycling Podcast

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 Vingegaard while he's nose-breathing, the moto controversy and why Kulset thinks the peloton is mostly looking at it wrong, and the inside story on Dversnes' celebration, which nearly gave the whole team a heart attack.

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 broken bus window in Naples, Dylan and Elmar’s crash in the final corner of stage 6, and why Unibet can still walk away with a stage win despite the chances slipping by.
We also dive into the details behind a Grand Tour lead-out, why alignment, roles, and 30-page briefings matter, how Wout Poels could still find opportunities in the harder stages, and what Marcel has learned in his new role as a performance leader rather than a rider.

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's stage 9 attack. We also explain why Davide Piganzoli is the most impressive Visma support rider you have probably never heard of.
Then we look ahead to a brutal second week. A 42 kilometre time trial from Viareggio to Massa on Tuesday that should give Vingegaard the pink jersey. A row of stages where Lidl-Trek and Soudal Quick-Step will fight for sprint wins. And then Pila on Saturday, 16.6 kilometres at 7.1%, where Gall could realistically take the fight back to Vingegaard.
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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-three sprinter at this race. We also look ahead to stage 4, the Blockhouse on stage 7, the time trial, and Felix Gall's GC ambitions.

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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 sharp double attack on the Lyaskovets Monastery, and only Giulio Pellizzari can answer it. We dig into the power data from Velon, including Vingegaard's 520 watts for a minute and a half, Magnier's stage 1 sprint with 300 watts less peak power than Jonathan Milan, and the criminally easy first three days where Adam Yates averaged 150 watts for 100 km. We also talk about the stage 1 finale that should never have been designed that way, the broken-helmet question on rider safety, and whether cycling needs G-force sensors in helmets.

Then we look ahead to the Italian week: stage 4 to Cosenza, the punchy day to Potenza, Naples on cobbles, and the big one on Friday. 244 km to Blockhaus, the longest mountain stage in over a decade and the first true GC test of the race.
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