S14 Ep25: Fox Clever
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie return for another spring Classic review, this time focusing on Remco Evenepoel’s surgical performance and victory in Amstel Gold Race at the weekend
We examine how Remco learned from his near-miss last time around and pick out some of the other notable displays from Sunday’s race. It’s then time to look forward to the true Ardennes Classics, which kick off with Flèche Wallonne on Wednesday.
Daniel has an intriguing theory about why Paul Seixas may struggle on the Mur de Huy, while Lionel wonders whether Tom Pidcock may have made a wise choice by skipping Flèche altogether.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the cycling podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello and welcoming you on April the 21st, the day before a 19-year-old will surely turn flesh well on from the most underwhelming classic into the most sexy. |
| 0:29.7 | Never mind what Le Kiebvreau. A few weeks ago up Milan San Remo. I think you know which ride I'm talking about. |
| 0:34.9 | My name is Daniel Freeber and I am the host of this episode of the Cycle Podcasting, |
| 0:38.1 | which we'll look ahead to a heart-stopping half week in the Ardennes. |
| 0:42.3 | Also look back at what occurred at Amistel Gold last weekend. |
| 0:45.4 | We've got so many podcasts coming out over the next couple of weeks |
| 0:48.5 | that we've had to ration our guests and our energies. |
| 0:51.8 | So it's in the austerity line up today. |
| 0:57.2 | Just me and Cycling's second most ardent flesh-wollant evangelist, propagandist. It's Lionel Bernie. Hello, Daniel. Hello. |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah, spoilers and speculation before we even got off the mark here. |
| 1:11.6 | Paul Sexas about to win his first Fleshwallone, first of probably 11, I'm going to say. |
| 1:18.2 | Well, Lionel, before we started recording, we're in our briefing, briefing each other about today's episode. |
| 1:23.1 | I neglected to mention this, but we did talk last week briefly about the intervention of |
| 1:28.3 | Emmanuel Macron in the sexass dossier, trying to convince either Descartes to dump up |
| 1:35.7 | enough cash to keep sexass or persuade sexass to stay with the team. |
| 1:42.1 | This is a bit of a world exclusive. I actually spoke to Emmanuel Macron earlier this week |
| 1:47.2 | and asked him whether Sexas would be staying at DeCathlon. |
| 1:50.0 | And here's what he said. |
| 1:51.5 | For sure. |
| 1:52.8 | Well, there you have it. |
| 1:54.0 | I know. |
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