S14 Ep16: Bread of Heaven
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
A few days on from Tadej Pogačar’s extraordinary victory in Milano-Sanremo, we return to add an extra layer of analysis to our Arrivée episode on Saturday.
Tudor Pro Cycling’s Larry Warbasse joins Daniel Friebe to discuss what most impressed him about Pogačar’s latest masterclass and other talking points from La Classicissima. We also reflect on how a performance that was widely celebrated has already prompted much more lukewarm reactions – and where we can find a middle ground.
There’s the usual weekly trip to Coorevits Corner ahead of a huge weekend in Belgium, plus impressions on first skirmishes in the Volta a Catalunya.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and joining you after a weekend in professional cycling when Tade Pogaccio responded to grumbles on the cycling podcast about his boring 70-kilometer breakway in Strade Bianca by crashing before the Chupressa, cracking his frame and winning Milan San Raymond by approximately 70 millimeters. |
| 0:34.6 | My name is Daniel Freba. I'm the host of this week's episode of the cycling podcast |
| 0:38.7 | in which we'll examine some of Pog's newly unveiled excitement farming techniques on the Ligurian |
| 0:44.9 | Riviera and look ahead to a fascinating week of Pog free racing in Belgium and Catalonia. |
| 0:51.4 | Joining me to do that today is a man who's absent from La Classicissimo on Saturday. |
| 0:54.8 | He promises to ask whether the Slav aliens victory even really counts on his Palmares. |
| 1:01.2 | It's the Motown Maestro Tudor Procycling. |
| 1:04.2 | Larry, you were absent. |
| 1:07.2 | So can we even consider it a monument victory in your absence? I mean, if I'm not in the monument, I guess the victory doesn't count, you know, at least not |
| 1:14.6 | to me, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You usually do, you usually do, Milan Time Rainbow, but you were... |
| 1:20.8 | Yeah, I mean, I haven't done it the last two years, but I would say I did it most of the years |
| 1:26.3 | before that, so I've probably done it five times or something. |
| 1:29.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.0 | Something like that. |
| 1:30.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:31.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.6 | Different schedule for you this year. |
| 1:34.7 | You've just been explained to me that you're going up to Sierra Nevada in a couple of days |
| 1:38.3 | for your pre-Gero altitude block. |
| 1:43.0 | Currently, you're sunning yourself on a Mediterranean |
| 1:45.8 | beautiful Mediterranean terrace as am I I'm in my yorka you're in south of France at |
| 1:50.6 | home but Larry generally how are things yeah going pretty well I had a few days |
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