S14 Ep5: Green Card
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
With the racing hotting up all over the pro cycling world, we return with the same Friebe-Birnie-Hatch trio as last week to review the latest action and talking points.
The biggest news story of the week was ASO’s decision to hand Spanish outfit Caja Rural a Tour de France wild card at the expense of the Unibet Rose Rockets. We discuss to what extent Caja’s place on the startline in Barcelona is justified and the case for the opposition i.e. the Rockets.
One man who’ll certainly be heading to the Tour, barring accident, is Remco Evenepoel. His three wins in his first three outings for Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe in Mallora augur well for the rest of season. Daniel’s question is: could Remco even be the man to ruin Tadej Pogačar’s Sanremo dream?
Another candidate for that role, of course, is Mathieu van der Poel. He won his eighth world cyclocross title at the weekend, which has us wondering about the Winter Olympics extending his career in the discipline.
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| 1:19.6 | You are listening to the cycling podcast. |
| 1:44.2 | Thank you. You are listening to the cycling podcast. Hello, welcoming you for the first cycling podcast of the month of February after weekend when the reigning world TT champion won three times. The world cycle across champion claimed that title for a record |
| 1:50.0 | eighth time and the world road race champion premiered a hairstyle from eight mile. My name's |
| 1:55.3 | Daniel Freeman. I'm the host of this episode in which we will dissect all of the aforementioned |
| 1:59.4 | action from the last few days in professional cycling, the cross, the quaffirs, and more besides joining me to do that today are the real slim shady of not Watford, Lionel Burning. |
| 2:08.6 | Hello, Daniel. |
| 2:11.0 | And our other guests has already got his head in his hands. |
| 2:13.9 | And that guest is the MC with the sickest flow in professional cycling |
| 2:19.0 | his name is, his name is Rob Hatch |
| 2:21.4 | did you get the Eminem reference? |
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