Inside the Beehive: the podcast

Still buzzing after stage 16 of the Tour de France, where we saw attack after attack, with Victor Campenaerts and Tiesj Benoot in a crucial role as satellite riders. We hear from Jonas Vingegaard after the stage and have a call with Tiesj Benoot from the team bus on his way to the next hotel. How do you prepare for that important push you need to do when Jonas approaches? How do you time that? And we hear how he experiences the Tour de France so far.

After 3 hard GC days, today the GC contenders could take things a bit easier. That meant also that riders like Victor Campenaerts or Wout Van Aert could take their chances and fight for a stage victory. We hear from Wout after the stage. And we talk to our CEO Richard Plugge about the comeback of Rababank and Skil as sponsors in cycling. But also: what does a CEO do during the Tour de France?

The parcours was brutal, the racing was brutal, the weather was brutal and our riders confirmed afterwards that stage 14 of the Tour de France was indeed brutal. Jonas was the first to attack, but in the end he and Pogacar proved the strongest of the GC contenders once again.

And after all that racing some delicious food was waiting for our riders once again. Thanks to our performance chefs and their creative process. We spoke to Karin Lambrechtse, one of our two chefs in this Tour de France.

We saw a super hard stage again today, with big time differences. Jonas rode very impressively and even overtook Remco Evenepoel. He set the fastest time when he arrived, but after him Tadej Pogacar once again proved the strongest. We hear from Jonas after the finish and we talk to our European time trial champion Edoardo Affini. He explains why this was no TT for him, how he experiences his first Tour de France and why we should keep trying.

Today was a tough pill to swallow for us. The team did what they could, showed that fighting spirit that they have been showing the whole Tour de France so far. But in the end Pogacar proved to be stronger than Jonas today. We hear from Grischa Niermann and Sepp Kuss and we call with Per Strand Hagenes, because we also have 21 riders in our roster who are not in the Tour de France.

Inside the Beehive is back just as fresh as Jonas’ haircut after the rest day. Today we hear from Wout after finishing fifth on stage eleven. And we talk to Grischa Niermann, our head of racing, about the rest day, the first part of the Tour de France and everything that is coming now. Is a new Tour de France starting from now on?

We have won! Simon Yates takes our first stage win of this Tour de France after an impressive day up front. We call in with him while he travels to the next hotel. And we hear from Nathan Van Hooydonck about his new job in the team, his work during this Tour de France and how he experienced today’s win.

It was officially announced on X that Wout van Aert was going to sprint for the stage, but in the end he fooled everyone again. We hear from Grischa Niermann and Jonas Vingegaard after stage 9 of the Tour de France. And Chief Marketing Officer Jasper Saeijs tells us more about our new clothing partners Nike and Nimbl.

All Belgian media wanted to know how he felt after his second spot in stage 8 of the Tour de France. We translate it for you in this episode. Next to that we have a chat with our performance nutritionist Gabriel Martins about his work, our riders' preferences and the importance of not only healthy but also tasty food.

Another chaotic and spectacular finish on top of the Mur de Bretagne. Jonas came in second. In this episode we hear from our riders and we talk about our special Tour de France kit with Tom Houtgraaf. How do you design a new kit? And what things do you need to take into account?