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Rebecca Charlton on her Cancer Diagnosis, Cycling and Recovery
Jun 26, 2026
1h 04m 38s
LeBlanq Joyride Festival Special
Jun 18, 2026
33m 52s
Giro Rest Day Reflections 2026 Stages 16 - 21: Vingegaard makes it look easy!
Jun 1, 2026
45m 13s
Giro Rest Day Reflections 2026 Stages 10 - 15: Time Trials, High Mountains and Soggy Chips
May 25, 2026
49m 25s
Giro Rest Day Reflections 2026 Stages 4 - 9: Metatarsal Madness
May 18, 2026
56m 18s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/26/26 | Rebecca Charlton on her Cancer Diagnosis, Cycling and Recovery | Matt Stephens chats to one of his best friends and colleagues, Rebecca Charlton, about the cancer diagnosis that led to the toughest year of her life. By approaching her treatments the same way she approaches cycling, Rebecca went all in with full commitment - the only way she knows how. She credits her cyclist mindset and ability to tolerate suffering for her ongoing recovery, and commends the cycling community for their ability to pop up just about anywhere, to chat about Matt Stephens’ balls. Support Mummy’s Star here - https://www.mummysstar.org/ Support Tour de Four here - https://www.tourde4.com/ www.sigmasports.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 04m 38s | ||||||
| 6/18/26 | LeBlanq Joyride Festival Special | Matt Stephens takes us to the LeBlanq Joyride Festival on the Isle of Wight. You can expect conversations with Olympian Denise Lewis, Tour de France stage winner Sean Yates, and DJs Lisa Medwell and Taylor Phinney! www.sigmasports.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 33m 52s | ||||||
| 6/1/26 |  Giro Rest Day Reflections 2026 Stages 16 - 21: Vingegaard makes it look easy!✨ | Giro d'Italiacycling+4 | — | TNT SportsHBO Max | — | Giro d'Italia2026+5 | — | 45m 13s | |
| 5/25/26 |  Giro Rest Day Reflections 2026 Stages 10 - 15: Time Trials, High Mountains and Soggy Chips✨ | Giro d'Italiacycling+4 | — | TNT SportsHBO Max | Milanese | Giro d'ItaliaMatt Stephens+6 | — | 49m 25s | |
| 5/18/26 |  Giro Rest Day Reflections 2026 Stages 4 - 9: Metatarsal Madness✨ | Giro reflectionsGrand Tour racing+4 | — | Tobleronesautomatic vehicles+3 | Sigma SportsHampton Wick | GiroMatt Stephens+6 | — | 56m 18s | |
| 5/11/26 |  Giro Rest Day Reflections 2026 Stages 1-3: Drama, Ducks and Smooth Sprinting✨ | Giro d'Italiacycling+4 | Adam BlytheOrla Chennoui | TNT SportsHBO Max | BulgariaStockley Park | Giro d'ItaliaMatt Stephens+5 | — | 41m 47s | |
| 4/17/26 | Niels Vandeputte on winning the Belgian Gravel Champsionships and Chasing a Cross Jersey✨ | cyclocrossgravel racing+4 | Niels Vandeputte | Alpecin-Premier Tech Development Team | Belgium | Niels Vandeputtecyclocross+6 | — | 1h 01m 58s | |
| 4/3/26 | Carlton Kirby on French Biscuit Factories and Emotional Crescendos✨ | cyclingcommentary+3 | Carlton Kirby | Eurosport | TuvaluFrench biscuit factory | cyclingcommentary+5 | — | 1h 11m 12s | |
| 3/20/26 | Anders Mielke on Breaking Into Cycling Media and Chasing Cobbles with Mads Pedersen✨ | cycling mediapodcasting+4 | Anders Mielke | Sigma Sports | Denmark | cyclingmedia+6 | — | 1h 10m 00s | |
| 3/6/26 | Imogen Cotter on Resilience, Reinvention, and Life Beyond the Peloton✨ | resiliencecycling+4 | Imogen Cotter | Sigma Sports | BelgiumGirona | Imogen Cottercycling+5 | — | 1h 06m 56s | |
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| 2/20/26 | Stefan Küng on Chasing Monuments, Precision, and a New Chapter at Tudor Pro Cycling✨ | cyclingcareer transition+5 | Stefan Küng | Tudor Pro CyclingGroupama-FDJ+1 | Spain | Stefan KüngTudor Pro Cycling+6 | — | 1h 02m 25s | |
| 2/6/26 | Matthew Riccitello on Removing his Power Meter and Riding on Feel✨ | cyclingtraining philosophies+4 | Matthew Riccitello | Decathlon CMA CGM Team | TucsonNice | Matthew RiccitelloVuelta a España+6 | — | 1h 06m 19s | |
| 1/23/26 | Alistair Brownlee on Life After Gold Medals, Gravel Racing, and his Yorkshire Roots✨ | life after elite triathlongravel racing+3 | Alistair Brownlee | Sigma Sports | Yorkshire | Alistair Brownleegravel racing+5 | — | 1h 05m 16s | |
| 1/9/26 | Julian Alaphilippe on Racing with Instinct, Fatherhood, and Finding Balance at Tudor✨ | cyclingfatherhood+4 | Julian Alaphilippe | Tudor Pro CyclingSigma Sports+1 | CalpeQuébec+1 | Julian AlaphilippeTudor Pro Cycling+6 | — | 1h 02m 38s | |
| 12/19/25 | Andrew Strohmeyer on Chasing the European Cyclocross Dream✨ | cyclocrossEuropean racing+4 | Andrew Strohmeyer | Sigma Sports | NetherlandsMount Airy, Maryland | cyclocrossAndrew Strohmeyer+6 | — | 1h 04m 41s | |
| 11/28/25 | João Almeida on Grand Tours, Team Dynamics & That Pidcock Moment✨ | Grand ToursTeam Dynamics+4 | João Almeida | UAE Team Emirates | Portugal | João AlmeidaGrand Tours+5 | — | 1h 11m 17s | |
| 11/14/25 | Chris Hall on his stupid bike challenges for Movember | Matt Stephens chats to ultra-distance bike racer, content creator and charity fundraiser Chris Hall about his recent challenges for Movember. Despite atrocious weather conditions, Chris completed a lap of Britain unsupported during the summer of 2025, learning valuable lessons along the way. With a history of severe depression, Movember is a charity close to his heart and this monumental effort is documented superbly in Chris’ film “Bikepacking the Perimeter of Britain”. Cycling has played a huge part in Chris' recovery from depression and continues to help him maintain his mental health. www.sigmasports.com Support Chris’ Movember fundraising at his MoSpace: https://uk.movember.com/mospace/6408721 Chris Hall’s ‘Bikepacking The Perimeter of Britain’ on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLGuamHY2pc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 25m 30s | ||||||
| 10/31/25 | Emma Pooley on competitiveness, privilege and roast potatoes | Matt Stephens chats to Emma Pooley about her incredibly varied career, which spans from professional cycling through long distance running and triathlon, to a victory on University Challenge and some Geotech Engineering thrown in for good measure. The very definition of a multi-disciplinary champion, Emma talks candidly about her struggle to retire from pro sports and how her love for the mountains is undying. The former UCI Individual Time Trial world champion and Olympic Silver medalist shares the origin story of her competitive nature, which to Matt’s surprise, involves roast potatoes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 11m 54s | ||||||
| 10/10/25 | Amy Hudson on World Mental Health Day 2025 | Matt Stephens chats to Amy Hudson, known as amy.cycling.adventures on social media channels, about her struggles with mental health and the role cycling has had in her recovery. While working as a Mental Health Nurse for the NHS, Amy began suffering with anxiety and eating disorders, with thoughts of suicide. Her husband bought her a road bike, and it slowly changed her life. Now, with the goal of raising funds for mental health charities, she has completed the entire men’s Tour de France route as well as the transfers, and is setting her sights on a huge challenge in 2026. www.sigmasports.com Amy’s Fundraising page for Shout and The Mix Mental Health charities - https://www.justgiving.com/page/a-c-a Read more about this episode on the Sigma Sports Blog: https://www.sigmasports.com/hub/stories/world-mental-health-day-matt-stephens-in-conversation-with-amy-hudson EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/unplugged Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 09m 21s | ||||||
| 9/26/25 | Filippo Conca on how winning the Maglia Tricolore changed his life. | Filippo Conca races in the Maglia Tricolore with UCI WorldTeam Jayco–AlUla - but just three months ago, that seemed like a distant dream. Out of contract at the end of 2024, he found salvation in SWATT club, an Italian amateur team known for offering cyclists a fresh start with a mix of road and gravel racing. In this podcast, Filippo explains how it feels to win an Italian national road race championship as what he calls ‘a normal rider’, how his engine was suited to gravel racing, what he has planned for the end of this season and his goals in 2026. His is a story of resilience, redemption, and victory - it’s a bit like a movie. www.sigmasports.com EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/unplugged Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 02m 13s | ||||||
| 9/15/25 |  Vuelta a España Rest Day Reflections 2025 - 3 Vingegaard looks good in red (Stages 16 - 21) | With his unique mix of mayhem, tangents and honest analysis, Matt Stephens looks back on the final week of the 2025 Vuelta Ciclista a España drawing this season’s Rest Day Reflections mini series to a close. There was redemption for Egan Bernal, Pidcock on the Podium, a birthday Kuss, and of course the great Dane dominating the race with Vingegaard looking good in red on the top step. But this is a Matt Stephens podcast, so you can expect clips from inside a revolving door, an origin story about his fondness for waterfowl, and an honest admission from Adam Blythe on his struggles with resisting off-air Monster Munch. www.sigmasports.com EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/unplugged Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 49m 51s | ||||||
| 9/8/25 |  Vuelta a España Rest Day Reflections 2025 - 2 Ayuso’s contract, Chennaoui’s theme song, Pedersen’s anatomy (Stages 10 - 15) | From Juan Ayuso’s contract to Mads Pedersen’s anatomy, Matt Stephens leaves no stone unturned in his analysis of stages 10 to 15 of the 2025 Vuelta Ciclista a España. With the race in the balance, this informal look back at the previous week of racing is the perfect rest day listening. Expect the usual from Matt however, as he gets distracted by Orla Chennaoui’s theme song, carp (again), and an eerily silent room! www.sigmasports.com EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/unplugged Make a donation & join Sir Chris Hoy’s Tour de Four movement here➼ www.tourde4.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 54m 55s | ||||||
| 9/1/25 |  Vuelta a España Rest Day Reflections 2025 - 1 Mini Giro, Máximo Vuelta! (Stages 1 - 9) | Fresh from the TV studio, Matt Stephens reflects on the first nine stages of the 2025 Vuelta Ciclista a España as they happened. Expect expert opinions on a jam-packed first week of racing that included everything from a mini Giro d’Italia to a sprint finish with a disqualification. And since this is Matt’s podcast, you can also expect him to provide updates on wooden foot bridges and for him to get distracted by carp. www.sigmasports.com EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/unplugged Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 06m 57s | ||||||
| 8/4/25 | Tour de France Femmes Avec Zwift Rest Day Reflections 2025 - Return of the GOAT, and a star is born | Reporting from the mix zone, the motor bike, and a McDonald’s, Matt Stephens brings us a unique look at the Tour de France Femmes Avec Zwift 2025. After hot-footing it from stage 19 of the men’s race, Matt didn’t want to miss a beat of the women’s competition. And what a race it turned out to be. With so much French interest in their homegrown riders the fans at the roadside brought the atmosphere, and the peloton brought the theatre. With a final word from Pauline Ferrand-Prévot fresh from her victory this is a podcast not to be missed. www.sigmasports.com/podcast EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/unplugged Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 10m 41s | ||||||
| 7/28/25 | Tour de France Rest Day Reflections 2025 - Stages 16-21 Wrapping up a rollercoaster of a Grand Tour | Live from behind the scenes at the Tour de France, Matt Stephens shares his experience of the final week of racing at the men’s competition before jetting off to watch the Femmes. In this episode you can expect the usual shenanigans alongside some more detailed race analysis and a reflection on how the Tour de France unfolded. So if you like a cocktail of excitable European accents reviewing their fancy French dinners, and Adam Blythe mildly panicking about toilet access while on moto duties - then this is the Tour de France podcast for you. www.sigmasports.com/podcast EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/unplugged Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 50m 39s | ||||||
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