S14 Ep7: Operation Desert Fox
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
The Cycling Podcast returns with another debrief from the latest round of early-season racing, this week focusing on the Volta Comunitat Valenciana and the Tour of Oman.
Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and Rob Hatch discuss Remco Evenepoel’s most recent tour de force in Spain and Astana’s similarly fast start to the season, with Christian Scaroni winning in the Middle East. Scaroni also lays claim to one of the best nicknames in the pro peloton (clue in the episode title), but we learn that a new contender for that title may have emerged in Oman.
It was a busy week on other fronts, with Jonas Vingegaard’s coach leaving Visma-Lease a Bike, Marc Soler dragged into a minor family drama in Spain, and news of a new Lance Armstrong biopic. All that and more in another feisty episode!
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| 1:20.5 | Now it's on with the show. |
| 1:21.6 | Now it's on with the show. Hello, welcome you after a week in pro cycling when Remko Avenapal and Tade Pogacha demonstrated two different reactions to unwanted company on the Costa Blanca, Remco choosing violence in the form of Watts and Pog opting for the common mortal approach of social media rage. |
| 1:58.7 | My name is Daniel Freiber and I'm the host of this episode of a |
| 2:01.2 | cycling podcast in which we will discuss the latest adventures and misadventures of the |
| 2:06.4 | aforementioned Galacticos and also everything else has been going on at the last two weeks, |
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