The Odd Tandem Cycling Podcast with Bobby Julich and Jens Voigt

Antonia Niedermaier's sporting career began on the ski slopes of Germany. She won the U20 ski mountaineering world cup before transitioning to cycling full time in 2021. Just three years into her pro career she has a palmares that many would envy - two U23 titles in the time trial as well as medals in the U23 road race in Zurich this year - and to top that she won the queen stage of the 2023 Giro Donne.

She joins Bobby and Jens to discuss all this, her future in the sport and more!

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Pavel Sivakov has found comfort in change. After six years at Ineos and Sky he traded one super team for another - joining UAE Emirates for the 2024 season.

A key lieutenant to Tadej Pogacar at the Tour de France and Il Lombardia he faced off against his teammate in national colours at the World Championships this year and was the only man capable of sticking with the dominant Slovenian in the middle phase of the race. Pavel shares the difference between two of cycling's biggest teams, why he made the change and why he chose to represent France instead of Russia on the international stage.

The Odd Tandem is a Shocked Giraffe production. This episode was produced by Mark Payne with music provided by Taylor Phinney.

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Brennan Wertz is the latest American to don the stars and stripes for the gravel discipline after overcoming rivals including Keegan Swenson Colby Simmons. In this wide ranging chat with Bobby and Jens - he talks about why he's welcoming the world tour riders to the peloton and the radical changes he predicts for the discipline in the immediate future.

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Cadel Evans has achieved many accolades during his career, part of a small select group of riders who've won both the rainbow bands and the yellow jersey - Australia's first Tour de France winner and now - the first guest to appear alongside Bobby and Jens three times.

We discuss what a route announcement is actually like for riders, whether Mark Cavendish could come back and who the route actually suits!

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Bobby and Jens open up the mailbag as they attempt to find answers to your cycling questions. How many races can Pogacar win in rainbows? What can cycling learn from biathlon? And what did Bobby just learn about his race ending Tour de France crashes?

All this and more in this months mailbag. Remember to send your questions in the comments below... via our Odd Tandem social media channels or at [email protected]

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Bobby and Jens catch up with Thibau Nys after his breakout year on the road. This year he combined a cyclocross campaign with 9 wins on the road. He tells Bobby and Jens how he pushed on this year, how he prepares for his races and how he deals with having his dad as his boss...

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This is the second time Bobby and Jens have sat down with Kristen Faulkner - a little over two years ago she spoke to us about her battles to survive in the peloton, how her rivals refused to follow her wheel - as they considered her too risky to follow and how challenging that initial step had been into the sport. Even then it was clear to see Kristen was destined to succeed - she'd already won the QOM at the Giro Donne as well as a stage win, but this summer she's launched herself into a whole new stratosphere of success.

First she secure the US National road title, then in the space of a week she secured two Olympic gold medals - surprising the field with a late attack in the road race and dominating the team pursuit with her teammates. Days later she was at the Tour de France femmes and competing for stage wins.

We caught up with Kristen to share her success and work out what's next for her, what she has planned away from the bike and how she's found life since becoming the first American to win gold in two different disciplines at the same Olympic Games.

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In September 2024, Lael Wilcox rolled into Chicago completing a three month, 18000 mile odyssey. Lael had just broken the world record for circumnavigating the globe, breaking the previous best time by more than two weeks. This isn't the first time the Alaskan native has set a new bar for others to meet.

She's twice been the fastest finisher at the Tour Divide - racing from Banff in Canada to Antelope Wells in New Mexico and beat everyone, including to the men in the TransAm bike race from Oregon to Virginia. But Lael is more than just her record breaking feats, she's now one of the biggest names in her sport, and is using her platform to get more women and girls into the sport.

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Jamie Whitmore was dominant in her Xterra, offroad triathlon's elite series. She won 37 races, 6 national titles and a world championship on her way to a position in the sport's hall of fame. After a pain in her leg wouldn't cease, she sought treatment, where doctors discovered spindle cell sarcoma, a form of cancer that attacked her sciatic nerve.

She was lucky to survive cancer and complications from surgery. But the battle had left her with extremely limited mobility in one leg and drop foot. Jamie turned her hand at cycling and became an 11 time world champion, and a paralympic champion.

She spoke to Bobby and Jens about her journey through sport, her battle against cancer, and what the changes she wants the UCI to implement in paracycling.

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Taco van der Hoorn burst onto the scene thanks to his incredibly aggressive racing style, and his narrow handlebars. He won a stage at the Giro d'Italia from a breakaway as well as wins at the Renewi Tour and the Brussels classic.

But in 2023, at the Tour of Flanders Taco's life changed. A crash while he pushed to join the breakaway left Taco with a concussion that sidelined him for the next 16 months. He joined Bobby and Jens to share his road to recovery and how he finds tiny advantages to win.

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