S13 Ep156: The Tadej Programme
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Before hearing Tadej Pogačar reveal his 2026 race programme in Benidorm, we find out more about a revamped and renamed team born in Barcelona, NSN Cycling Team. Their manager, Kjell Callström answers Daniel’s questions about their controversial old owner, Sylvan Adams, and his successors.
Pogačar’s great unveiling told us that he will target Paris-Roubaix first and the Tour de France second, in that order of chronology and importance. We hear from the SlovAlien himself, his coaches and one team-mate, Florian Vermeersch, who opens up about the famous leader who fascinates him maybe as much as his superstar team-mate.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the cycling podcast. |
| 0:29.3 | Hello and welcoming you on December the 16th in a week when two of Taday Pogacar's teammates branded him a criminal. |
| 0:31.9 | Yes, I bet that's made you set up a bit straighter. |
| 0:42.9 | My name is Daniel Freeber and I am the host of this episode of the cycling podcast in which we will find out who were those accusers, exactly what crime, the Slovalian, is accused of committing and what else was said or alleged at the UAE team Emirates training camp on the Costa Blanca. Costa Blanca, is it the Costa Blanca? |
| 0:49.2 | We'll find out in a minute. I think it is, but I always get confused about this. Last weekend. |
| 0:54.2 | Anyway, joining me to do that today, our detective, our super sleuth on the ground in Spain. |
| 0:59.5 | It's another Danny, Daniel after Daniel Benson last week. |
| 1:05.1 | It's our good mate, Danny Arribas, who of course was at my side at the Weltta, Spain in September. |
| 1:10.6 | Danny, that's the last time I saw you in the flesh way back in September. Last time I saw you in the flesh, we were drinking tequila. That's another story. Or meska, something like that, something like that. Say it Mexican. Danny, how are you? Everything good. So glad to be here again. I mean mean there are a lot of daniels in |
| 1:29.4 | water cycling right on this podcast at the moment there certainly are danny um cost he's the costa |
| 1:35.5 | blank benedorm is the costa blanca isn't it yeah it is yeah it is is there do we ever refer to a |
| 1:40.8 | costa valencia is uh's not a specific name. |
| 1:46.7 | I mean, Costa Blanca could be considered from Gendia or something like that. |
| 1:51.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:52.0 | Somewhere over there to the south of the Alicante or even Murcia. |
| 1:56.4 | That is all Costa Blanca. |
| 1:58.1 | And the next one up? |
| 1:59.9 | North of the Costa Blanca. Oh, didn't expect that exam here. It's not. It's Costa, Costa de Valencia, let's say. Okay. There we go. There we go. I think we've kind of settled that. But Danny, you've been there doing the Costa crawl, the training camp crawl for us over the last to a few days. |
| 2:19.1 | You were at Little Trek and we're going to have |
| 2:21.2 | another bulletin dispatch. |
| 2:23.4 | A very extensive and exciting |
| 2:25.4 | bulletin from you |
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