Tadej Pogačar’s Controversial New Sponsor | LRCP Weekly #3
Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Lanterne Rouge Media, SL
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🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Patrick and Benji recap the past week in the world of cycling and preview the upcoming races.
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:10 - Race recaps (AlUla, Mallorca)
00:27:56 - Pogačar's crypto sponsor & curious haircut
00:43:46 - Tour de France wildcards controversy
01:00:55 - Race previews
01:10:10 - Wrap-up & outro
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🇦🇺 Patrick Broe - Host: https://www.youtube.com/@LanterneRougeCycling & https://www.instagram.com/the_lanterne_rouge_/ & https://www.twitter.com/lanternerougeyt
🇧🇪 Benji Naesen - Host: https://www.youtube.com/@BenjiNaesenTV & https://www.instagram.com/benjinaesen/ & https://www.twitter.com/benjinaesen
🇳🇱 Luc Grefte - Producer: https://www.twitter.com/lucgrefte
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast for our weekly show, brought to you by our show partner, join cycling. |
| 0:08.1 | Winter is finished. |
| 0:09.5 | I mean, by that I mean I'm back in Europe. |
| 0:12.1 | The delay is gone. |
| 0:13.3 | Thank you for bearing with me and Benji throughout the winter. |
| 0:16.3 | It is snowing outside my door right now. |
| 0:18.2 | The earliest recording of a weekly show in the history of |
| 0:21.2 | LRCP. We were texting at 6.30 in the morning UK time. I'm jet lagged and sick, so I want to know |
| 0:28.5 | why you're awake, Benji. Honestly, I'm just ready for a golden era. I've had the Fibernet people |
| 0:35.5 | come to my village yesterday and inject our soil with fast internet. |
| 0:41.3 | And ever since I feel reawakened, rejuvenated, ready for the new season to properly kick off. |
| 0:48.3 | And we both know the tour on under as a Mickey Mouse race, Patrick. |
| 0:51.3 | The Alula tour is where it's at, right? |
| 0:53.3 | You know, I do have, yeah, quite a predilection for the goal. Mickey Mouse race, Patrick. The Alula Tour is where it's at, right? |
| 1:00.2 | You know, I do have, yeah, quite a predilection for the Gulf State races that kicked off with the Alulah Tour. I won't hear, you know, negative words against the Tour down under. Jayvine |
| 1:05.3 | winning with a broken hand, half of UAE injured in that race. I think they had to start Gade with four riders. So a lot of injuries, a lot of crashes, including a lot of sickness, not just with them, also in the Alula Tour. But yes, we will get into quite a few things today. We've got a lot of race previews because the best month of racing in the season kicks off this month. I'm not exaggerating. |
| 1:28.9 | I really do think it's some of the best month of back-to-back world wall racing. We have recaps of |
| 1:35.1 | the Mallorcan races where Remko showed out and then also some news, Pagatchez's controversial |
| 1:40.9 | crypto sponsor and maybe even more controversial hair cut. And the most |
| 1:45.9 | controversial at all, of all rather, was the announcement of the Twitter France Wildcard, |
| 1:52.7 | which that's unraily shocked. Normally you and I, we're not plugged. No, that's not true. We're |
| 1:58.7 | plugged in. We normally know what's going to happen in advance. |
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