S14 Ep12: Cliffhanger
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
The Cycling Podcast returns for another round-up of a packed and intriguing last week in professional cycling, with Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico completing their respective journeys and Milan-Sanremo on the horizon.
Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and Rob Hatch look first at Paris-Nice, where Jonas Vingegaard served up a timely reminder of his credentials ahead of his Giro-Tour double bid. We discuss Redbull–BORA–hansgrohe’s tactics on the decisive stage to Uchon, a thrilling team time trial and Lenny Martínez’s tactical masterclass on the final stage. The focus then switches to Tirreno, where good friends Isaac del Toro and Giulio Pellizzari turned rivals, with the Mexican ultimately prevailing.
In the final part of the episode, we look ahead to the great cliffhanger of the spring season, Milano-Sanremo, and particularly Tadej Pogačar’s latest bid to win there. There’s a trip to Coorevits Corner, former winner Pippo Pozzato’s advice for Pogačar, and another interview with the Slovenian’s own dedicated Sanremo coach, former rider and local boy Niccolò Bonifazio.
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| 1:17.8 | way with indeed now it's on with the show hello and joining you after a week in cycling when Jonas Vingegar proved his pedigree as a past and maybe future Tour de France winner and also a Dungaree present-day cycling fashion influencer. |
| 1:40.7 | My name is Daniel Freiband. |
| 1:41.9 | I'm the host of this episode of the cycling podcast in which will review the we'll review the action from Parinise, aka the race not quite to the snowbound |
| 1:48.8 | Alpine Ski Resort, and Tirino Adriatico, aka Italy's bleakest off-season seaside resort, |
| 1:55.8 | and we'll also look forward to La Classicissima, aka Milano San Remo, at the weekend. |
| 2:01.6 | Joining me to do that with his bucket and spade and inflatable crocodile is Lionel Bernie. |
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