It's a massive episode today covering the greatest one-day race of them all. Mathieu van der Poel secured an impressive solo victory at Paris-Roubaix, adding to his earlier 2023 Milan San Remo triumph. After a series of attacks and a key collision at Carrefour de l'Arbre, van der Poel capitalized on rival Wout van Aert's puncture to gain an advantage and ultimately win the race. Despite the intense competition, van der Poel expressed sympathy for van Aert's misfortune and praised his team's perf...
Apr 10, 2023•28 min
What a weekend of racing. Lotte Kopecky went on an 18km attack and destroyed the peloton in the Women's Tour of Flanders. Whilst Tadej Pogačar continued to show a level of brilliance that rivals that of Eddy Merckx. A super-human attack up the Koppenberg sealed the sweetest of victories for the Pog. “It’s a day I’ll never forget,” Pogačar said. “I can say I can retire after today and be proud of my career The Domestiques are proudly supported by Honan Insurance Group and Black Sheep Cycling....
Apr 03, 2023•29 min
Our own Matilda Raynolds takes us inside the women's race and inside her ride in the Australian colours at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race. Matilda has had a great Summer of Cycling and heads off to Europe in April for her crack at the World Tour. We also review the support act, the Men's race, with an emotional men's winner and more crashes in the men's peloton. And finally, Hollywood claims Simon Clarke is best on podium, whilst proclaiming Froome washed upped / dead. All this, the impor...
Jan 30, 2023•29 min
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Jan 22, 2023•23 min
The Domestiques are proudly supported by Honan Insurance Group and Black Sheep Cycling.
Jan 21, 2023•23 min
The Domestiques are proudly supported by Honan Insurance Group and Black Sheep Cycling.
Jan 20, 2023•24 min
The Domestiques are proudly supported by Honan Insurance Group and Black Sheep Cycling.
Jan 19, 2023•26 min
Stage 1 of the Tour Down Under was marred in crashes. It also featured a park car in the last few ks. All this, less than 24 hours after the Prologue literally washed away the hopes of many of the top names. Tommo, Tils, and Lee recap the start of the Men’s TDU, and again it’s some more missed opportunities from the biggest race in the Southern Hemisphere. The Domestiques are proudly supported by Honan Insurance Group and Black Sheep Cycling.
Jan 18, 2023•25 min
The finale of the Women's Tour Down Under leaves us wanting more. Lee, Tommo and Tils discuss how to add more to the race, Channel 7 need to fire their intern, a phenomenal win by Aussie Grace Brown, a different orche jersey every day, and the men's prologue gets underway in the wet. Plus so much more. The Domestiques are proudly supported by Honan Insurance Group and Black Sheep Cycling ....
Jan 17, 2023•29 min
Matilda, Lee and Tomo discuss the enthralling finish of Stage 3 of the Women's Tour Down Under that finished up the famous Mount Lofty. The Australian's took charge on today's stage. Most of the episode is centred around Tuesday's final stage which climbs the famous Corkscrew climb, where temperatures will exceed 40 degrees on the road. This, and so much more, on today's episode of 'The Domestiques'. The Domestiques are proudly supported by Honan Insurance Group and Black Sheep Cycling ....
Jan 16, 2023•26 min
The Domestiques are back, and back with a bang. Matilda Raynolds, Mike Tomalaris and Lee "Hollywood" Turner digest the action from Stage 1 of the Women's Tour Down Under from Glenelg to Aldinga, and an incredible showing by some of the future stars of the peloton. It's not all a love fest, however, as the team gets stuck into the organisers and the riders. So much more to start the 2023 calendar year of Professional Cycling. The Domestiques are proudly supported by Honan Insurance Group and Blac...
Jan 15, 2023•28 min
Words cannot really describe what we saw this weekend. Tommo, Hollywood and Tils certainly have a crack at honouring an incredible week that was. The 2022 World Championships will be remembered for a long-time to come. Find all episodes and more at: https://Blacksheepcycling.cc https://www.instagram.com/blacksheepc.. . Black Sheep Insiders - Sign up at https://blacksheepcycling.cc/pages/jo...\ Your hosts: Mike Tomalaris - https://www.instagram.com/miketomalaris/ Matilda Raynolds - https://www.in...
Sep 25, 2022•27 min
Sophie Smith is a renowned Australian cycling journalist, author, reporter and television presenter. She is best known for her on the ground TV coverage and written journalism for major Australian and UK mastheads having covered the Tour de France 9 times. Now a freelance journalist, Sophie is on the ground in Wollongong and takes us behind the scenes of press conferences, following the event with a TV producer in tow, and we all throw our top contenders into the ring of who will take out the me...
Sep 22, 2022•36 min
We are joined today by a legend of Australian Cycling, Henk Vogels in one of the most amazing interviews we have done to date. Henk spent 13 years in Europe racing on the Pro Tour, rode in the Tour de France twice, and represented Australia at the Olympics and Commonwealth Games. He now looks after some of Australia’s hottest young talents at ARA Pro Racing Sunshine Coast and the Australian Cycling Academy. In this interview, Henk details the work that teams like ARA and Inform TMX Make are doin...
Sep 21, 2022•33 min
Day Two of Worlds in Wollongong is done, and we are joined by special guest Luke Plapp. Yesterday was the U23 Men and the race against the clock in the Individual Time Trial. A day after compatriot Tobias Foss won the Elite Men’s ITT, Søren Wærenskjold claimed another gold for Norway. The recent stage winner of the Tour de l’Avenir finished ahead of Alec Segaert, and Leo Hayter. On today’s episode, the crew and Plappy review all the action, talk about Luke’s first year with Ineos Grenadiers, and...
Sep 19, 2022•24 min
One of the biggest weeks in cycling is here, and it’s on our shores. From Sunday 18th to 25th September, the world’s best cyclists will be racing in Wollongong for a shot at the rainbow stripes, and The Domestiques crew are there to cover it. Today, we welcome Michael ‘Bling’ Matthews to help us review Grace Brown’s AMAZING podium ride in the Women’s ITT, and preview the week ahead. This, and so much more, on the latest episode of The Domestiques. Find all episodes and more at: https://Blackshee...
Sep 18, 2022•33 min
Tracey Gaudry is a Globally renowned Australian sports administrator and former professional cyclist, who was the Vice President of the UCI, current president of the Oceania cycling federation, and behind the scenes continues to champion enormous change in not just women's cycling but lifting the entire peloton from grassroots to world champions. Matilda and Tracey dive into the overnight success of women's racing 30 years in the making and how to drive foundational change. We thank Tracey for h...
Jul 29, 2022•33 min
The team recap Stage 2 and 3 of the Tour de France Femmes Avec Zwift and talks to special guest, semi-retired ex-pro rider and Zwift Social Media Manager Carlee Taylor. Matilda kicks off by highlighting Hollywood’s hosting reliability being that of a Movistar rider as he drops out at the start, then as he comes back the ladies get stuck into discussing the uplifting halo effect of the TdFF and all of the media coverage for the future of women’s cycling, through to crash controversies, “riders ou...
Jul 27, 2022•36 min
Tommo and Hollywood are in Paris for the final stage of the Tour de France. Join us live as we recap all the days action, plus revisit the best moments from the last 3 weeks.
Jul 25, 2022•33 min
Stage 18 was the exclamation point on one of the most exciting Tour de France’s this century. Jonas Vingegaard all but extinguished Tadej Pogacar’s hopes of victory in Paris. Vingegaard broke away half-way up the Hautacam to claim his second mountaintop stage win, with the Pog a further minute down. And so we head into the penultimate stage, the final TT, and then onto Paris. Which is the perfect transition to perhaps the biggest story in Pro Cycling at the moment, the Grand Départ of the Tour d...
Jul 21, 2022•28 min
We are deep into the final week of the 2022 Tour de France, and we are well and truly on our way to the Pyrenees. Stage 16 saw Canadian stallwart Hugo Houle win in an emotional victory, with little change in the General Classification. So, we took the opportunity to spend almost the full episode with Jimmy Whelan, former EF Racing member and winner of the 2022 Santos Festival of Cycling and second place at 2022 Australian Road Nationals. Jimmy had a nightmare 2021, in a story that would test the...
Jul 20, 2022•26 min
Aussie Michael ‘Bling’ Matthews takes us inside the peloton for this very special episode. Winner of Stage 14, ‘Bling’ takes us into those final few kms, Le Tour so far, what’s to come, his hopes for Wollongong Worlds, his friendship with tadej pogačar, importance of family, being slightly misunderstood, and are the ASO testing for CoVid with head pats? This is an incredibly honest chat with Australia’s hottest cycling export, like, subscribe and share with your mates. A massive thank you to Bli...
Jul 17, 2022•33 min
Another jam-packed episode today. The Domestiques wrap up today’s stage into Saint-Étienne, as Mads Pedersen grabs the honours, adding another feather to his illustrious palmarès. Caleb Ewan hits the deck again, and the battle between the Pog and Vingegaard simmers before we hit the Pyrenees. The team also welcomes special guest, Patrick Jonker, ex-US Postal (Lance Artmstrong era), ONCE, and Rabobank. Pat has one of the most illustrations careers of any Australian Professional Cyclists, and he d...
Jul 15, 2022•33 min
On this new episode of The Domestiques It’s Bastille Day, July 14th and Lee ‘Hollywood’ has gone missing, undoubtedly off partying somewhere with his shirt off. Mike and Matilda pedal full steam ahead into all the action laid down on the 9% Col du Granon finish of the Tour de France’s Stage 11. Pogacar cracks on the way up and Matilda reminds us that stage winner (SPOILER ALERT) Vingegaard was her pick for the tour. 18,000m of climbing has already been done but there’s still a long way with 27,0...
Jul 13, 2022•27 min
It’s another rest day on the Tour de France today and the question on everyone’s lips is who will make it through the PCR tests? On this episode hosts Mike, Matilda and Lee talk about their predictions for the climbs ahead and sit down with Bikestyle Tours’ Adam Gill who has been running cycling holidays following races like the Tour de France for over 25 years. Though of course not the last few during Covid. The team touch on the effects of Covid on this year’s tour, what it’s like being where ...
Jul 11, 2022•29 min
What better way to delve into Australian Simon Clarke’s (Israel Premier Tech) breakaway Stage 5 win than with his former coach and mentor Dave Sanders. Sanders has coached and mentored some of Australia’s finest road cyclists including Cadel Evans and Simon Gerrans and was the head coach at the Victorian Institute of Sport for more than 20 years. Sanders talks to our hosts Mike, Matilda and Lee (who somehow lost his shirt for this episode) about Simon’s journey to his historic win, the tactics d...
Jul 10, 2022•35 min
Black Sheep Cycling presents The Domestiques. The first stage of the tour returns to the motherland and already it's all off to a flying start - or so it looked with the man in yellow flapping his wings over the finish line. The 171.5km coastal action between Dunkerque and Calais of Stage 4 sent a bolt of excitement through our hosts Mike, Lee and Matilda for what's to come on this tour. ‘Champagne cycling,’ as Lee called it-looking like he’d had a few himself. The team calls up veteran tour pho...
Jul 05, 2022•35 min
It’s the Tour’s first rest day, but The Domestiques (not ‘Domestics’) aren’t resting. In today’s episode we wrap up the first few days of the tour, and then get stuck into all things Giro Donne. There was huge shakeup that happened in the Emilia Romagna region overnight. Let’s just say that the crew concludes that Annemiek van Vleuten is the greatest cyclist of all time. There - you have it. Spoiler. We then welcome the legendary Allan Jefferson as our special guest. For those that don’t know, A...
Jul 05, 2022•38 min
We’re well and truly rolling now at ‘The Domestiques’. After the Prologue in Copenhagen, Stage 2 of the Tour de France remained in Denmark from Roskilde to Nybord. A flat 200k for the sprinters. Mike, Lee and Matilda unpack the days racing, as Fabio Jakobsen took the honours, and the hearts, of our crew following his life-threatening crash two years ago. Second on the line was Wout van Aert, who took the yellow jersey for the first time in his career. ‘The Domestiques’ also welcomed Gabriel Gaté...
Jul 02, 2022•31 min
Mike, Lee and Matilda introduce the NEW The Domestiques Podcast presented by Black Sheep Cycling and serve up a taste of the tour coverage to come. Mike kicks off with an intro to your hosts and a quick look at this year’s start location of Copenhagen. The team discuss the main contenders for 2022 & those that were sidelined with hints at the potential dynasty of Pogačar, Caleb Ewan’s lack of support and a stacked lineup of Jumbo Visma versus UAE and its star rider. The conversation turns to...
Jun 30, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 1
