QueenStage Women's Cycling Podcast

2026 UCI Road Worlds Montréal: How Team Netherlands Pulled Off the Perfect Race Women's cycling news, race analysis, and Elite Women's Road Race recap from the 2026 UCI World Championships in Montreal. On this episode of the QueenStage cycling podcast, hosts Rosael and Rook report live from Montreal, Canada, breaking down the 2026 UCI Road World Championships Elite Women's Road Race — one of the m...

UCI Worlds 2026 Preview: Can Anyone Beat Demi Vollering in Montreal? The rainbow jersey is up for grabs in Montreal! In this episode, hosts Rosael, Rook, and Molly break down everything you need to know about the 2026 UCI Road World Championships, with the elite women's road race taking place Saturday, September 26th. In this episode: Recap of the Philadelphia Cycling Classic's triumphant return a...

The dust has settled on Col d'Èze, and the full Queen Stage crew, Rosael, Molly, Anne-Marije "Rook," and Betsy, reunites for a complete breakdown of the 2026 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. From Sigrid Haugset's stunning eighty-five-kilometer solo breakaway on stage three to Demi Vollering's commanding overall victory in Nice, this year's race delivered some of the tightest, most tactical racing...

Betsy, Molly, and Rosael break down the final stage of the 2026 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, a thrilling 99-kilometer mountain circuit from Nice to Nice featuring four ascents of the Col d'Eze. Stage 9 Recap The 99-kilometer stage started explosively with early attacks from Franzi Koch and Maeva Squiban, who attacked despite a heavy crash the day prior. Lorena Wiebes secured the intermediate...

Anne-Marije, Molly, and Rosael break down stage eight of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, the longest stage in the race's history at 171.9 kilometers from Sisteron to Nice. Stage 8 Recap Maeva Squiban and Loes Adegeest formed a two-rider breakaway 140 kilometers out, building a gap of over six minutes. Adegeest took top points at the intermediate sprint before the peloton began reeling them i...

Molly Hurford hosts with Rosael Torres-Davis and Anne-Marije Rook (back from parental leave) to break down the tour's most anticipated stage: the 147-kilometer haul from La Voulte-sur-Rhône over 3,500 meters of climbing to the summit of Mont Ventoux. Presenting sponsors: Bike Tires Direct and SRAM. Stage Recap An aggressive start gave way to an eleven-rider breakaway near 75 kilometers to go, feat...

Betsy, Molly, and Rosael break down stage six of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, a hilly 153.4 kilometer route from Montbrison to Tournon-sur-Rhône with six categorized climbs, including the category two Col de Lalouvesc at kilometer 105.6. Stage 6 Recap A three-woman breakaway (Loes Adegeest, Nikola Nosková, Katrine Aalerud) built a gap of nearly two and a half minutes before EF Oatley, Mov...

Betsy, Rook, and Rosael break down stage five of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, a punchy 140 km classics-style route from Mâcon to Belleville-en-Beaujolais featuring 2,900 meters of elevation gain and eight categorized climbs. Stage 5 Recap Demi Vollering takes a thrilling victory on Stage 5 after launching a decisive attack on the Mont Brouilly climb and out-sprinting Yellow Jersey holder...

Betsy, Rook, and Rosael open the 2026 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift with daily coverage from stage four, a 21 km individual time trial from the wine village of Gevrey-Chambertin to the heart of Dijon. Stage 4 Recap Marlen Reusser takes the stage win and the yellow jersey after a blistering individual time trial. Lieke Nooijen (Visma Lease a Bike) and Demi Vollering round out the top three, with...

Rosael, Betsy, and Molly break down stage three of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, a hot and hilly 157-kilometer route taking the peloton out of Geneva, Switzerland, and into Poligny, France. Stage 3 Recap Sigrid Haugset (Uno-X Mobility) pulls off a massive upset, winning the stage and taking the yellow jersey after a historic 88-kilometer solo ride—the longest in the history of the Tour de...

Molly Hurford, Anna-Marije Rook, and Rosael Torres-Davis break down stage two, a sprint finish similar to stage one, despite 1,800 meters of climbing. An early breakaway of Eline Jansen (VolkerWessels), Yuliia Biriukova (Laboral Kutxa), Carlotta Cipressi (Human Powered Health), Emma Comte (Cofidis), and Anouska Koster (Uno-X Mobility) built a gap of over two minutes before being caught around 40 k...

Anne‑Marije, Rosael, and Betsy open the 2026 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift with daily coverage from stage one, a 138 km circuit starting and ending in Lausanne, Switzerland. Stage 1 Recap Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx‑Protime) takes the win and first yellow jersey after a chaotic uphill finish. Kim Le Court Pienaar and Demi Vollering round out the top three, with Puck Pieterse and Noemi Rüegg completi...

Nine years after entering the pro peloton, Heidi Franz is lining up for her first Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. Rook sits down with the St Michel–Preference Home–Auber 93 rider ahead of the start in Vannes to talk about the road that got her here, a path that ran through team collapses, missed contracts and one very last minute decision to fly to Girona anyway. Heidi walks through the wreckage...

For the grand finale of our Rapha and Zwift series, we're joined by two legends of the peloton: Lizzie Deignan and Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio. As the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift kicks off this Saturday, we look back at the rivalries, both personal and historical, that shaped women's cycling into what it is today. Moolman-Pasio, a chemical engineer turned climber, reflects on more than a decade at...

Queen Stage is back with a complete preview of the 2026 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, the biggest race on the women's cycling calendar. Rosael is joined by co-hosts Molly Hurford and Anne-Marije Rook to break down all nine stages, the top GC contenders, and bold predictions ahead of the August 1 to 9 race. This year's edition is the longest in the race's five-year history, with a return of the...

🚨 SPECIAL VAULT RE-RELEASE 🚨 With the 2026 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift right around the corner, we are taking a trip back in time! We are re-releasing our complete post-race recap of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift to help you get prepped, hyped, and caught up on all the storylines as we prepare for this year's edition. Episode Overview Two days after the champagne sprayed at the...

Rosael Torres-Davis and Molly Hurford bring listeners a bonus conversation with Geerike “Gee” Schreurs, the Specialized Off-Road gravel racer who finished second at Unbound Gravel 2026, one second behind teammate Sofia Gomez Villafañe in the closest finish in the race’s twenty-year history. Molly met Schreurs the week after Unbound through a chance disc golf outing near her home outside Toronto, a...

This extended edition of our live UNBOUND Gravel recording includes an exclusive first look at the new Liv Devote Advanced SL, straight from Emporia, Kansas. Near the end of the recording, Ludi Scholz, Liv's global gravel category manager, walks us through what went into building a pure race machine from the ground up: new carbon construction, a full aero system, and 297 grams shed from the previo...

She won UNBOUND Gravel in the mud. Then she went to Steamboat Springs and won SBT GRVL on dry champagne gravel. Sofia Gomez Villafañe is having one of the most dominant seasons in women's gravel racing history, and she sat down with Queen Stage to talk all of it. In 2026 alone, Sofia has won Santa Vall, Castellón Gravel Race, Valley of Tears, Mid South Gravel, Sea Otter Classic, The Traka 200, Unb...

What's the toughest opponent a time trialist will ever face? The clock is just a scoreboard. The real rival is the voice in your head. This episode, Queen Stage talks with Grace Brown, the reigning Olympic champion and 2024 world champion in the individual time trial, about the mental architecture of elite cycling, the line between ambition and perfectionism, and what happens to your sense of self...

Rosael Torres-Davis and Molly Hurford are joined by guest host Shawn Small of Ruckus Composites for a packed recap episode covering one of the busiest weekends on the women's calendar. The trio starts with a rant about FloBikes' patchy coverage of women's racing before diving into the new five-stage Tour de Suisse Women, which ran for the first time alongside the men's race under new organizer Cyc...

For the first time ever, Queen Stage recorded live, and we did it in the only place that made sense: Emporia, Kansas, home of UNBOUND Gravel, presented by Liv Cycling . We brought together four women who represent every corner of the sport: Ludi Scholz, Liv's global gravel category manager, who has spent over a decade making the case that women deserve more than a shrunken, pinked-down version of...

Giro d'Italia Donne Stages 6–9 Recap | Presented by SRAM Four stages. One historic sprint record. A queen stage cut short. And a final day that rewrote the GC. Rosael and Anne-Marije Rook are joined by guest host Aidan Burgess, teacher turned cycling social media favorite and host of the Domestiques Hot Seat podcast, for a full breakdown of the Giro's defining final chapter. Before diving into the...

Here's the trimmed version — 3,987 characters: Five stages down, four to go — and the Giro d'Italia Women 2026 has already delivered more drama than most race weeks deserve. Anna van der Breggen put on a masterclass in the uphill time trial to claim the maglia rosa, Demi Vollering finally broke through for her first-ever Giro stage win, and 21-year-old Canadian Isabella Holmgren announced herself...

A shocking bike-weight disqualification strips SD Worx of a victory, Elisa Balsamo claims an emotional hometown win in pink, and we debate whether modern gravel has officially traded its DIY roots for professional PR machines. The Grand Tour season is officially underway! Host Rosael Torres-Davis is joined by Anne-Marije Rook and Molly Hurford to break down the drama-filled opening weekend at the...