S14 Ep20: Sweet Little Lies
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
The Cycling Podcast returns in perhaps the most eagerly anticipated week of the season, to look back in more detail at Sunday’s Tour of Flanders and ahead to Paris-Roubaix at the weekend.
Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie are joined by former team manager and press chief Brian Nygaard as we reflect on the story that dominated the build-up to Flanders: Remco Evenepoel’s shock announcement that he would start for Redbull-BORA-hansgrohe after months of denials. Are the media entitled to feel upset at being misled, or is all ultimately fair in love and the war for eyeballs?
We hear what Hugo Coorevits thinks, and also what’s on his mind ahead of the “Hell of the North”. Do only the redoubtable pavés of northern France stand between Tadej Pogačar and his next piece of history – or will Van der Poel, Van Aert et al. halt his march towards a Monument Grand Slam?
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the cycling podcast. Hello and joining you after a weekend in professional cycling when Taday Pogaccha cruised past Roger |
| 0:32.8 | de Vlamink's career total of 11 monuments without yet taking aim at the gypsy's most monumental achievement, |
| 0:39.7 | not his four peri-rube titles, but his second place in the 2005 World Wife Carrying Championship. |
| 0:44.8 | My name's Daniel Frebe, I'm the host of this episode of the Cycle Podcast, in which we will look back |
| 0:49.4 | at how the Slavalion conquered Flanders for a third time, wonder how he might obtain his first Rubé Cobble, |
| 0:56.4 | and also a pine on the wisdom of pissing off the crusty old print media |
| 1:01.0 | by announcing your riding the Ronda on April Fool's Day. |
| 1:04.6 | Joining me to do that today is the certainly not crusty or old, |
| 1:07.6 | but definitely PR savvy and suave, Brian Nygaard's. Thank you, Daniel. And thank you for that. I don't know. I smelled a compliment in there. Thank you. Also joining. Here we go. Here we go. Krusty and old. No. And also joining us is the Aero Bullet of Not Watford. The Aero Bullet because Remka Avaal, has a new nickname which will discover in due course. Hello. Hello, Brian. Nice to see you. Good to see you, Daniel again. Incidentally, the World Wife Carrying Championship 2005, of course, Roger Woodman finished second in that. It wasn't his wife. We've talked about this on numerous occasions before. It took place in Finland. |
| 1:45.4 | And there was no sort of reference intended to the sort of, it's not a piggyback. |
| 1:51.9 | What is it when you put someone on your handlebars with Tare-Pogat-Car, Pauline, Veron-Provo. |
| 1:57.5 | It was no reference to that. But no news, no news as yet on Pogacar taking aim of that |
| 2:04.9 | particular competition, which will be of great relief to Roger de Blamink. One of his |
| 2:11.5 | achievements, at least, at least remains unchallenged. Chaps, we had a fantastic, well, very entertaining weekend, women's race, men's race. |
| 2:21.7 | We've got another fantastic weekend, Paribate coming up as discussed. |
| 2:25.3 | We'll look back a little bit of Flanders. |
| 2:27.2 | Some of the issues that arose from Flanders, |
| 2:29.8 | and we'll also look forward to the hell of the north on Sunday, isn't it? |
| 2:36.1 | But first, but first, well, liner, there are a couple of the races that have finished, |
| 2:40.3 | that have concluded that we should also mention that happened at the weekend. |
| 2:43.0 | I don't think we mentioned them in Arrivae on Sunday evening. |
| 2:48.2 | One was the GP Miguel Indurain, which was won by Basque rider John Isagir in pretty |
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