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S14 Ep18: Arrivée: Ronde van Vlaanderen (Men)

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🗓️ 5 April 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie for Arrivée, the post-race reaction to the second Monument of the spring campaign, the Ronde van Vlaanderen.

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Good. Good Lionel.

0:42.5

Happy Easter, Daniel.

0:44.4

Happy Easter.

0:45.6

I did get some chocolate eggs.

0:47.4

Yeah, I've eaten a bit too much chocolate egg today.

0:49.7

I feel somewhat, that's sort of sickly feeling.

0:52.9

I'm trying to wash it all down now with a Lefe Zero,

0:56.4

just to sort of balance out the flavours.

1:00.2

Well, I've got a San Miguel Zero, so cheers, Lionel,

1:05.1

and, well, we have just witnessed a tour of Flanders,

1:10.4

which has certainly lived up to everyone's expectations and probably the wildest hopes, dreams of the organisation in the sense that we had the quartet, some would call it a quintet, but certainly the sort of four horsemen of the apocalypse, Remko Avenipal, Taday Pogachar, Matia van der Poe, and Walt Van Arnard, very much to the four.

1:32.5

This is Arivay. We do give away spoilers pretty early in the episodes generally. So Lionel,

1:38.5

do you just want to go about the formalities and just put on record who did win this 110th edition of the Tour of Lange's. I was going to ask whether you got any chocolate eggs, Daniel, or whether this is something that, oh, I don't like chocolate eggs. I like chocolate, but not in the form of an egg or some kind of. You don't really eat chocolate. Of course you don't know. Happy Easter anyway. Hopefully you got a lovely bunch of flowers.

2:05.0

Well, the flowers went to Tade Pogacchar, the world champion.

2:10.2

As you say, Daniel, the four horsemen, four bikemen of the apocalypse.

2:16.6

Perhaps even make that five because Mads Pedersen was desperately trying to hold onto the coattails, wasn't he? But we saw the five best riders

2:20.4

in classics racing at the moment get clear in roughly the order. I think we would have

2:26.4

expected them to, given their status and their current form. And it felt slightly post-apocalyptic

2:33.7

at the end, didn't it, Lionel, with those

2:36.1

for themselves and certainly the field behind them sort of scattered to all four corners. It felt

2:40.5

like they were sort of scattered to all four corners of Flanders' huge time gaps at the

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