Budget caps, safety and the future of GreenEdge ft. Brent Copeland - Domestique Hotseat

Seixas should win the Dauphiné, but how he wins is everything - Domestique Cycling Podcast

The Critérium du Dauphiné 2026 (now the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) is wide open, and 19-year-old Paul Seixas arrives as the favourite ahead of Isaac del Toro. Two days in, the breakaway has won both stages by method of Alex Baudin and Anthon Charmig while the GC men wait.  We break down stages 1 and 2, why João Almeida is out of the Tour de France, the team time trial, and the brutal mountain finale on the Grand Colombier and Plateau de Solaison. Plus: Demi Vollering's stunning comeback to win the Giro d'Italia Women 2026, becoming only the second rider ever to complete all three women's Grand Tours. Fuel your body actually recognises. No artificial anything. 👉 Code DOMESTIQUE20 for 20% off your tasting box Order now! [https://mnstry.com/en-in?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=domestique&utm_campaign=260126_domestique_partnership-2026]

Budget caps, safety and the future of GreenEdge ft. Brent Copeland - Domestique Hotseat

Brent Copeland rarely gives interviews. As General Manager of GreenEdge Cycling (Team Jayco AlUla and Liv AlUla Jayco) and President of the AIGCP, the teams' union, he sits inside almost every room where cycling's future is being decided. In this conversation he opens up on all of it. We start with the Giro d'Italia: the stage 2 crash that took out Andrea Vendrame and changed the entire race, and what the Tour de France build-up looks like with Michael Matthews on the moment.  From there we go deep into SafeR, the body working on rider safety. Copeland explains how every crash in pro cycling now gets logged and analysed, the real story behind the handlebar width rule, and what actually happened with the SRAM gear restriction case. Then the big one: money. Copeland makes the case for a budget cap in professional cycling. He explains how average WorldTour budgets have nearly tripled since 2012, why losing Mauro Schmid came down to an offer 40% over market price, what he learned from the people who introduced salary caps to the AFL and NRL, and why he believes the current model is unsustainable. And he addresses the question every Australian fan is asking: what happens to the team when Gerry Ryan steps back?

What we have learned from the Giro - Domestique Cycling Podcast

Jonas Vingegaard wins the 2026 Giro d'Italia with five stage victories and a final margin of over five minutes, completing the Grand Tour treble. But was it the race we hoped for? Bram and Ethan break down everything from the Giro: the GC fight that was won early, a surprise podium, the breakout of Alfonso Eulalio, Felix Gall's second place as a statement to his own team, Jai Hindley's love affair with Italian racing, the sprint battle between Jonathan Milan and Paul Magnier, Toon Arts' unexpected emergence, and the wildly uneven team performances from Visma, Bahrain, Lidl-Trek, and Soudal Quick-Step. Plus: what the Giro tells us about the Tour de France — and whether anyone can actually challenge Vingegaard and Pogačar in July. This episode is fuelled by MNSTRY - 100% vegan sports nutrition trusted by Unibet Rose Rockets, CANYON//SRAM and more. Use code DOMESTIQUECRAMP20 at mnstry.com for 20% off your first Anti-Cramp Shot order. Order now! [https://mnstry.com/en-in?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=domestique&utm_campaign=260126_domestique_partnership-2026]

How Uno-X pulled off the perfect breakaway win - Domestique Hotseat with Johannes Kulset

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.

Is the Marcel Kittel comeback on? - Domestique Hotseat Podcast

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.