Pogačar’s 2026 Plan: Genius or Risky & Can Onley's Surprise Transfer Save INEOS? | LRCP Weekly #26
Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Lanterne Rouge Media, SL
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🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of LRCP Weekly Patrick Broe and Benji Naesen recap the past week in the world of cycling.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:54 - UAE top guns announce their schedules
15:55 - Red Bull’s schedules
30:23 - Lidl - Trek: Ayuso arrival, Skjelmose tension & leadership planning
47:39 - Provisional Grand Tour start lists + Jonas/Pidcock rumours
55:09 - Ineos update: Welsford & Onley?
01:14:57 - Derek Gee to Lidl - Trek?
01:20:28 - Closing chat
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🇦🇺 Patrick Broe - Host: https://www.youtube.com/@LanterneRougeCycling & https://www.instagram.com/the_lanterne_rouge_/ & https://www.twitter.com/lanternerougeyt
🇧🇪 Benji Naesen - Host: https://www.youtube.com/@BenjiNaesenTV & https://www.instagram.com/benjinaesen/ & https://www.twitter.com/benjinaesen
🇳🇱 Luc Grefte - Producer: https://www.twitter.com/lucgrefte
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Lenten Rouge Cycling Podcast weekly show. Maybe our last weekly of the year. |
| 0:05.4 | No, I don't think so. There's still some weeks to come. We've got a week or so until Christmas. |
| 0:09.9 | This is brought to you by our show partner that joins cycling and we have a lot of big rider news this week. |
| 0:18.0 | News about the UAE top guns, including Pegagatchez schedule, How Red Bull Bora |
| 0:23.3 | Hounds grow. I mean, all these teams, Benji, they wait for the team preview. Here are ideas |
| 0:29.9 | about the writer's scheduling and then just copy it, right? |
| 0:34.2 | I think about 85 to 90% of our |
| 0:38.9 | predictions when it comes to the start list |
| 0:42.0 | eventually came out, but we don't want to pat |
| 0:44.0 | ourselves on the back too much. |
| 0:45.3 | Wow, we did say Pog would do the Tour de France. |
| 0:50.0 | That was like an out there take as well, you know, |
| 0:52.3 | like an Encore potentially doing the Tour de France |
| 0:55.2 | while being a massive salary, buyout, transfer. |
| 0:59.6 | What a shocker, right? |
| 1:02.8 | Exactly. |
| 1:04.4 | But what is Jonah's waiting for? |
| 1:08.0 | Visma do it a bit later. |
| 1:10.3 | The world to route isn't even out yet. |
| 1:12.7 | Vizma Lysa Vike is the new EF education easy post, my friend. |
| 1:16.4 | I'm just saying it. |
| 1:17.4 | I like, EF got a good kit. |
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