Fox Clever
4/21/20261 hr 4 min
Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie return for another spring Classic review, this time focusing on Remco Evenepoel’s surgical performance and victory in Amstel Gold Race at the weekend
We examine how Remco learned from his near-miss last time around and pick out some of the other notable displays from Sunday’s race. It’s then time to look forward to the true Ardennes Classics, which kick off with Flèche Wallonne on Wednesday.
Daniel has an intriguing theory about why Paul Seixas may struggle on the Mur de Huy, while Lionel wonders whether Tom Pidcock...
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Daniel Friebe· Host0:14
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcoming you on April the 21st, the day before a 19-year-old will surely turn Flèche Wallonne from the most underwhelming classic into the most sexy. Never mind what L'Equipe wrote a few weeks ago about Milan-San Remo. I think you know which rider I'm talking about. My name's Daniel Friebe, and I am the host of this episode of The Cycling Podcast, in which we'll look ahead to a heart-stopping half week in the Ardennes, and also look back at what occurred at Amstel Gold last weekend. We've got so many podcasts coming out over the next couple of weeks that we've had to ration our guests and our energies, so it's an, the austerity lineup today, just me and cycling journalism's second most ardent Flèche Wallonne evangelist, propagandist. It's Lionel Birnie.
Lionel Birnie· Host1:04
Hello, Daniel. Hello. Um, yeah, spoilers and speculation before we've even got off the mark here. Paul Seixas about to win his first Flèche Wallonne. First of probably 11- Well- ... I'm gonna say ...
Daniel Friebe· Host1:18
well, Lionel, um, before we started recording, w- in our briefing, briefing each other about today's episode, I neglected to mention this, but we did talk last week briefly about the intervention of, uh, um, Emmanuel Macron