You are listening to the UAE.

And speaking of Bulls, Del Toro hinted that he and not Remko or Vingerga could be the most credible

threat to Taday Poggiore in 2026. My name is Daniel Freebo, and I'm the host of this episode

of the Cycling Podcast in which we'll try not to speak too much bull as we recap the most

recent developments in the word of professional cycling here to assist me in that endeavor today

is none other than the motel maestro.

Who else on the day when Smoky Robinson, the other Motown maestro, Larry, turns 86. Happy birthday, Smokey of you listening.

And welcome, welcome Larry. Larry's seen a beautiful, gorgeous,

bathed in sunlight outside his gaff, his palatial gaff

in Eze. We won't give the exact address, but on the coat de Zor, and you've told me it's, what is it, 17 degrees, Mary? Probably, I mean, in the sun right now, it's probably more than 20, because, like, I'm almost sweating in a T-shirt, so pretty, pretty nice weather here. We're pretty lucky springtime weather we've just been discussing your

springtime plans larry or your commitments shall we say um after were you doing a race this weekend

tell the listeners which race you do this weekend i'm doing oh wow now it's called tour de var and

alt-marit team so it's two one days uh down here in the south of

france then i'll do la gualia after that and then after that it's tvd so we'll see what happens in the

next weeks tbd what's that the tour of tour or is Or is that too be defined? Tour, but not sure. There are so many, so many races changing their names at the moment. Dauphine, Pariurubay, I'm not going to say what they should be called now because we're going to, we're going to completely ignore the official denominations and continue to call them what they've always been called. Larry, that's the future. Let's kick off, shall we're talking a little bit about the recent past. You have been in action already. You were in Oman. When was that last week? There's been so much racing in the meantime that it seems like a long time ago. But how did it go for you? That was your season's debut. Yeah, I actually did

one day in Majorca. So I was sick in Majorca, so I only ended up doing one of the days there and

was just stuck in a hotel for a few days before. So that wasn't ideal. And then, yeah, went to

Oman. It was a nice race. Unfortunately, we didn't really get the results we were hoping for, but it's a

really pleasant race to do. It's like, I don't know, it's just, it's not too stressful. The weather's

great. It's hard enough, but not too hard. So, you know, races like UAE, there's a lot of stress,

but then a lot of the day you're just coasting. So, you know, a lot of people stress because, like, they're worried about losing fitness. And, you know, then the food's good in the hotel. So then you're like, ah, you know, can't eat too much because, like, we're not riding very hard. And then, but you still have the stress of the race and then stress of potential

crosswinds so oman there's not a crazy amount of wind and uh it's pretty mountainous so uh

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