UAE Team Emirates - XRG 2026 Preview
Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Lanterne Rouge Media, SL
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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In this episode Patrick and Benji preview UAE Team Emirates - XRG's 2026 squad.
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Timestamps
00:00 - Intro & record-breaking 2025 recap
16:02 - Transfers
24:54 - What’s still missing?
27:46 - Can they repeat 2025? 2026 expectations & goals
53:22 - Predictions & hot takes
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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 Lancho recycling podcast, the preview of UAE Team Emirates XRG. |
| 0:06.7 | Oh, no, you did not include, oh, you did include that in the, in the subtitle Benji. |
| 0:12.0 | Yeah, you caught me out. |
| 0:13.4 | You caught me out. |
| 0:14.0 | I just saw the header. |
| 0:15.9 | They had the best season perhaps ever for a cycling team. |
| 0:20.7 | 97 victories, the most winning season ever in cycling and by a big margin by over 10%, |
| 0:28.4 | maybe 20% in fact compared to HDC or whoever it was, I don't know. |
| 0:33.9 | 46 World Tour victories compared to 81 or 41 in 2024. |
| 0:40.4 | They won two monuments and they won, no, they won three monuments. |
| 0:50.0 | They won three monuments and they won one grand tour. |
| 0:54.6 | It's a pretty good year. |
| 0:56.2 | How do you evaluate their season, Benji? |
| 1:00.2 | Well, I think it's fair to say it's pretty good. |
| 1:02.1 | I think we can't nitpick it too much because 97 victories is a total number. |
| 1:08.0 | I think HTC High Road might have been the previous record in that. |
| 1:11.7 | We had the years where QuickSep was getting 50 victories and everybody was saying, |
| 1:15.7 | holy, that is an absurd amount of victories. Can they repeat it the next year? |
| 1:20.7 | 97 victories is in the stratosphere compared to that. Now, they were building up to this. |
| 1:26.8 | Last year, 81 victories, so it went up that way. |
| 1:29.3 | But going through their season individually part by apart, then it already starts with Tade Pogatra and the classics, but also the other races before that, because I'll start off with a very important race to your heart, Patrick. |
| 1:45.0 | Narvae is winning Santa Sutheran under plus one stage. |
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