The Wolfpack Howls

Today’s guest is Jasper Stuyven, one of the most renowned classics riders of his generation — a Monument winner with a reputation for intelligence, resilience, and big-race pedigree. He also comes from a family of chocolate makers, which feels entirely fitting for a rider who brings both craft and character to everything he does.

Letizia Borghesi has built her reputation on the harsh cobbled roads of northern France and Flanders. Originally from Cles in Italy and raised in a cycling family, with both her father and sister competing, Letizia caught the bug early and joins AG Insurance–Soudal this winter ready for a new chapter. In the latest episode of The Wolfpack Howls, she talks about her family’s influence, how her love...

Now considered one of Soudal Quick-Step’s more established riders, it’s easy to forget that Ilan Van Wilder is still only 25. That’s likely because he has already played a role in many of the team’s standout moments in recent years; from selfless work setting up teammates to riding for his own results in stages races and holly classics a like.  In this episode of The Wolfpack Howls, Ilan looks bac...

In this episode of The Wolfpack Howls, we sit down with Henrique Bravo following his first full season in Europe with the Soudal Quick-Step Devo team. The Brazilian reflects on the challenge of adapting to European racing and life far from home, and what his first year has taught him both on and off the bike. A natural climber, Henrique talks through key moments of the season, including top-10 GC...

The Wolfpack Howls returns, and in our first episode of 2026 we speak to a rider who has taken the peloton by storm over the last year. Paul Magnier stormed to 19 victories in 2025, but the road to success was anything but smooth for the enigmatic Frenchman. In this episode, Magnier reflects on overcoming a difficult spring campaign to become the second-most successful rider in the world by indivi...

In the second of our episodes from La Vuelta, Max Schachmann joined us from the team’s rest day hotel in Asturias.  He told us of the fighting spirit within the team despairs two dropouts due to illness and how he is seeing the development of his young teammate Junior Lecerf, who this weekend climbed in to the top 10 on GC.  He also tells us how his daughter has cycling inspired names for the fami...

Today’s episode comes to you from the J-Hotel in Torino, which is T-Rex Quick-Step base for the start of La Vuelta 2025.  And how could we possibly think of starting the final grand tour without speaking to today’s guest, one of the most enigmatic and popular riders in the peloton, Mikel Landa

Bert Van Lerberghe has been one of the most important – and underrated – figures in the Wolfpack’s sprint train for years. But this summer, he finally gets his chance to ride the Tour de France. Recorded just hours before the Grand Départ in Lille, Bert joins us from the team hotel to talk about: - His long-standing bond with European Champion Tim Merlier- What it feels like to make his Tour debut...

Welcome to The Wolfpack Howls, the official podcast of Soudal Quick-Step and AG Insurance–Soudal pro cycling teams.  Today’s episode is the 6th in our special series highlighting the work we do with the Netherlands data specialists, Transfer Solutions. Data has become a huge part of professional sport—especially in cycling. We can now measure everything from heart rate and power to distance, speed...

Welcome to The Wolfpack Howls , the official podcast of Soudal Quick-Step and AG Insurance–Soudal pro cycling teams.  Today’s episode is the second in our special series highlighting the work we do with the Netherlands data specialists, Transfer Solutions. Data has become a huge part of professional sport—especially in cycling. We can now measure everything from heart rate and power to distance, s...

Welcome to The Wolfpack Howls , the official podcast of Soudal Quick-Step and AG Insurance–Soudal pro cycling teams.  Today’s episode is the second in our special series highlighting the work we do with the Netherlands data specialists, Transfer Solutions. Data has become a huge part of professional sport—especially in cycling. We can now measure everything from heart rate and power to distance, s...

The Wolfpack Howls & De Dataloog - Ilse Pluimers Welcome to The Wolfpack Howls , the official podcast of Soudal Quick-Step and AG Insurance–Soudal pro cycling teams.  Today’s episode is the second in our special series highlighting the work we do with the Netherlands data specialists, Transfer Solutions. Data has become a huge part of professional sport—especially in cycling. We can now measur...

Welcome to The Wolfpack Howls, the official podcast of Soudal Quick-Step and AG Insurance–Soudal pro cycling teams. Today’s episode is the second in our special series highlighting the work we do with the Netherlands data specialists, Transfer Solutions. Data has become a huge part of professional sport—especially in cycling. We can now measure everything from heart rate and power to distance, spe...

The use of data has long been a hot topic in professional sport—none more so than in cycling. Today, we can collect a huge range of metrics: heart rate, power, distance, speed, vertical velocity, and many other numbers and variables. But this raises the real question—what do we do with all this information? Fortunately, our team is backed by Dutch-based data specialists Transfer Solutions, and we’...

As AG Insurance Soudal head to their third race in Spain in nearly as many weeks, The Wolfpack Howls sits down with Mireia Benito. In a fascinating chat, Mireia talks about her love of racing in Iberia, how she made the transition from basketball to cycling, and her studies cancer research and how that shark pose came about!

We record this episode in the lead up one of the most exciting days in the whole of cycling, perhaps the one day outside of the Tour de France that a race transcends not just cycling  but also in to the wider world of sport.  Its a day like no other, where the peloton take on 259km, which is laden with 30 cobblestone sectors, each with there own myths and legends of races gone by.  We are of cours...

This Sunday is the Ronde van Vlaanderen - a day unmatched in the sporting calendar of Belgium.  Amongst the narrow farming roads and cobbled bergs that the riders will tackle in the race, lie legends and myths from the historic editions, that dates back over 100 years.  The man that perhaps personifies Flanders most amongst our current roster of riders is Yves Lampert. Growing up near Izegem, Yves...

This weekend is another landmark in women’s cycling as we see Milan San Remo added to the women’s calendar. There is quite a debate going on in cycling at the moment as the Primavera Rosa, which ran between 1998 and 2005, took place on the same course as this famous race, but this is the first time that a race branded as Milan San Remo will take place for women and run alongside the men’s race. In...

On Today’s episode, we have Valentin Paret-Peintre. The enigmatic French man joined the team this winter and he sat down with us in our hotel lobby ahead of the Ardeche and Drome one-day races this weekend. He talks about the welcome he has received by the ever growing Wolfpack family.  Valentin also gives some fascinating insight in to why he feels is a better stage race rider than a one day race...

Casper Pedersen is the latest in a long line of Danish riders that have been involved with Soudal Quick-Step pro cycling.  A talented rider, Casper was very successful early in his career with the team, winning the Figueira in 2023, and showing battling performances in many races. He has also proved to be a loyal teammate, putting in tireless shifts of work for others.  In this episode, recording...

Today we have a first on the Wolfpack Howls - our first returning guest, Kim Le Court.  When Kim joined the show in August, she was preparing for the Tour de France Femme.  In this latest pod, Kim tells about her experience at the Tour, frustrating end to the season because of injury, what she learnt in her first year as a professional rider, and what she is looking forward to in the season ahead,...

Today we will be taking a different direction on the show, in that we will not be talking to a past or parent rider but a member of the team’s staff. The role of a cycling soigneur is one of mystery to some outside of the sport. More than just giving massages they are literally the carers or assistants to the riders of team, helping them with logistics, making sure they are fed during and after ra...

A very special edition of the Wolfpack Howls, as we speak to J ustine Ghekiere Justine took the peloton by storm in 2024, winning the QoM jerseys at La Vuelta Femenina, Giro d’Italia, and Tour de France Femmes, while also taking a famous victory stage 7 of the French race.  In this chat, the effervescent Justine tells about  those achievements and how they have changed her life, her journey from a...

Happy new year and welcome to the Wolfpack Howls 2025!  As the calendar turns, we have some new additions to the Wolfpack, and we kick off our year by meeting one of our new riders.  Pascal Eenkhoorn will make his debut for his team at the Tour Down Under in January, having joined us this winter. In this chat, recorded at our December training camp, he talks to us about his love of sport and cycli...

Paul Magnier had one of the most impressive World Tour debut seasons in living memory. Having made the step up last winter, the 20-year-old frenchman from Grenoble, won 5 UCI races, as well as taking two stages of the Giro d'Italia Next Gen, while representing our Devo team.   In the latest episode of our podcast, he tells us about how he fell in love with cycling, despite the competition of tenni...