S14 Ep21: Arrivée: Paris-Roubaix (Men)
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Join Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie as the dust settles on an incredible edition of Paris-Roubaix.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Arrivae by the cycling podcast. Good evening, Lionel. |
| 0:30.7 | Good evening, Daniel. |
| 0:31.9 | Or afternoon. |
| 0:32.9 | It's still quite early. |
| 0:34.6 | It's very early. |
| 0:36.4 | Barely, you've barely had you. |
| 0:37.7 | What do you have? |
| 0:38.1 | Your tea cakes for lunch? |
| 0:40.9 | I don't know. |
| 0:42.1 | You're, your maltloaf. |
| 0:45.3 | Afternoon tea. |
| 0:46.3 | Lina, not a dry eye in the house. |
| 0:49.3 | A dry edition of Pariubé, which is my favorite flavor. |
| 0:53.7 | Because I'm a contrarian. But not a dry eye in the house. Very emotional Pari Roubaix, which is my favourite flavour, because I'm a contrarian, but not a dry |
| 0:56.1 | eye in the house. Very emotional Parirubay and a what a pulsating pariubay as well. It's always |
| 1:00.9 | pulsating. But as it often is, I find particularly when it is dry and fast, it seems to sort of |
| 1:07.0 | whip up. It seems to crank up the excitement levels and sort of spread them out over the |
| 1:11.2 | course of the day, maybe to a greater extent than the wet additions, than the, you know, the fated |
| 1:15.9 | wet additions. Yeah, there's a sense that you don't get any time to take your eyes off the |
| 1:22.8 | screen, really. I think I was messaging our friend and colleague Ed Pickering and at one point I realized |
| 1:29.9 | that I was hungry. I hadn't eaten since the start. No malt loaf. No malt loaf. No. And I'd needed a |
| 1:36.7 | wee since Orshi and we were well we were heading towards the Carre for Delabre at that point. |
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