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Hello and joining you this week from London or have retreated for some final low altitude, low temperature, low pound against the Euro-Giro-Detalia preparation.

I've recovered from the Diet Cold which affected my performance in our area of a podcast after the E.H.

Thanks for all the thousands of get-well soon messages. I didn't get a single one.

My name is Daniel Frieber and I'm the host of this episode of the cycling podcast in which we'll talk red and yellow cars exclusively in reference to cycling.

Not that other sport we have been known to mention. We'll turn Armchair Quarterback on Wednesday morning body language experts and psychoanalysed Patrick Lefayette's handshake with Junio Alifalip at the end of the E.H.

We'll hopefully zero in on the correct pronunciation of whatever bone Tadeh Pogachar broke in his wrist after our guest today handed him a rather sinister looking knitted voodoo doll on the start line at Liege.

Let's meet that guest now so he can explain exactly what was going on. He is a Liege winner himself, a two-time monument winner and also a former quick step rider.

Alas it's not Remco even a poor actually no alas as far as we know Remco hasn't pending a claimed autobiography without his ever studied literature by Albe Arcamus most random thing I could find in the aforementioned autobiography.

He's never co-hosted this podcast to all things to which this man can lay claim he is the rider formally known as cross winds disco down.

2013 Liege winner Dan Martin and the man who presented Tadeh Pogachar with that what was it a knitted panda on the start line on Sunday which didn't bring your old mate much locked down.

We know the story about you and pandas you were chased by a panda of course when you won Liege but what tell us about the doll you presented Pogachar with?

Well I didn't present it to him that that first it was taken and I will post it on social media and I'm doing it yet.

That was supposed to bring him some luck and I just thought ten years of the panda.

He's not put a 10 year restraining order.

Ten years since the panda and I thought the panda should make a reappearance at Liege and choose it to winner and unfortunately got it wrong.

So perhaps it was the 2014 version of the panda that maybe fall off on the last corner that it was that one right there but yeah it was.

Anyway nice to be here that was a that was a 45 second intro.

It was it was long and Dan just very quickly let's run here by albert camus you study a level is that right yes I did yeah yeah and like what the month there which I managed to somehow pass an exam without actually reading.

Very apt for you because that is set in all bagne near Marseille and you lived very close to there didn't you when you were at VC.

What's it VC pom l'an? VC lap on VC lap on is not.

Yeah exactly. Yeah it was funny how albert I think albert camus was from a ban even at Lagotomo.

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