Van der Poel's Surprise Debut At Opening Weekend | LRCP Weekly #6
Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Lanterne Rouge Media, SL
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 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
00:01:03 - News: Giro wildcards, E3 route changes & De Lie skipping Sanremo
00:16:15 - UCI uses SafeR budget to fight SRAM in court
00:38:23 - Marc Soler doping investigation
00:47:56 - Opening Weekend previews
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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 Lenton Rouge Cycling Podcast for our weekly show. |
| 0:03.2 | Opening weekend is coming up on Saturday and Sunday. |
| 0:06.8 | We'll be doing previews of those races, including the French classics, |
| 0:10.9 | and then a bonus Cobble Classic after that. |
| 0:13.4 | We've got news Dura et alia. |
| 0:16.4 | Wildcards revealed. |
| 0:17.7 | E3's got a harder route. |
| 0:19.0 | Arnold Lease skipping San Remo. |
| 0:21.3 | The UCI is fighting Schram and the teams with the team's money, |
| 0:26.1 | Pauline Furon, Provost extended, age insurance extensions, |
| 0:30.8 | and Mark Salare is going to have some difficult questions to answer, |
| 0:36.0 | maybe eventually from a journalist, even though he was |
| 0:39.5 | surprised, apparently according to the Escape Collective, when he was asked about what his father |
| 0:45.0 | was up to. |
| 0:46.0 | So lots of talk about Giro Wildcards, Benji, the Giro to Talies not on joint cycling's |
| 0:53.3 | events. I think it should be, so some pros can use it, |
| 0:57.4 | that yeah, maybe they think join would be better than their actual trainers, but a word on |
| 1:02.0 | our show partner join in a moment. But yeah, who's got the wildcards to the Gero? |
| 1:06.0 | I think there's a bit of context necessary here because we had the Toto Frans wildcards |
| 1:09.9 | given out one and a half |
| 1:11.9 | two weeks ago at kachero roll got a wild card and the rockets did not get a wild card you know it |
| 1:16.0 | there was a rocket so we were supposed to get a zero wildcard release i think that's week and then |
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