The Domestiques

We're back! Tommo, Hollywood and Tils are back to guide you through the highs and lows of what will be the best two months of cycling we may ever experience, with both the Men's and Women's Tour de France through to the World Champs. We pick our winners, our worst kits, the best of the Aussies, why this Tour may rival the best Tour we've had this century, and pick our winners and outside horses. S...

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 intens...

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 m...

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 claim...

The Domestiques are proudly supported by Honan Insurance Group and Black Sheep Cycling.

The Domestiques are proudly supported by Honan Insurance Group and Black Sheep Cycling.

The Domestiques are proudly supported by Honan Insurance Group and Black Sheep Cycling.

The Domestiques are proudly supported by Honan Insurance Group and Black Sheep Cycling.

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...

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 .

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 Domestique...

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 y...

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...\ Yo...

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...

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 Cyclin...

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...

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 m...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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 Austr...

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 Rabob...

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...