Daniel Friebe
friebos.bsky.social
Daniel Friebe
@friebos.bsky.social
✍🏼 of Mountain High (& Higher), Eddy Merckx: The Cannibal & Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was (09/06/22). One bit of The Cycling Podcast & ITV cycling.
Podcast recorded a few hours before INEOS‘s Caleb Ewan announcement, which we nonetheless sort of mooted. Lots of other stuff in here, including INEOS‘s mea culpa, Geoghegan Hart, Fisher-Black, Pithie & more. audioboom.com/posts/864163...
Summer of Sam
Daniel Friebe, Lionel Birnie and Rob Hatch return to ring in the new season, which commenced this week with the Tour Down Under. After two stages and two emphatic wins for Redbull-Bora-hansgrohe’s “Fl...
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January 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM
A UAE Grand Tour clean-sweep, a Van Aert Monument, a Yates brothers grudge match…& (nearly) a live airport-lounge cameo from Rog. All in The Speculation Episode 2025: audioboom.com/posts/863884...
The Speculation Episode 2025
After a Christmas and New Year break, The Cycling Podcast returns with the now traditional early-season speculation episode.
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January 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Desperately sad to say that my friend Gianni Savio has passed away. There’s a lot to add - about his remarkable career, the riders he launched towards greatness, the laughs he & I shared over 20 years & hundreds of chats - but for now my thoughts are with his wife & daughters.
December 30, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Last in the trilogy of our Grand Tour highlights - & last @cycling_podcast episode of 2024 - is online now. audioboom.com/posts/862830...
Best of the Grand Tours 2024 | Vuelta a España
Join Daniel Friebe, Fran Reyes, Richard Abraham and Rob Hatch as they follow the season's third Grand Tour from Porto to Madrid.
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December 26, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Fun to relive some of these memories. Tour & Vuelta compilations coming next. Merry Christmas all! audioboom.com/posts/862829...
Best of the Grand Tours 2024 | Giro d'Italia
Relive some of the highlights of the first Grand Tour of the season, the Giro d’Italia, with this compilation of some of our best moments from Italy in May. Daniel Friebe and Brian Nygaard were your g...
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December 24, 2024 at 12:44 PM
A footnote/encore to my interview with Redbull-Bora-hansgrohe Head DS Rolf Aldag, our festive audience* with Primož Roglič is online for Friends of The Cycling Podcast.

*utterly devoid of Xmas references minus two or three ski-jumping references
December 18, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Time for our now annual audience with Redbull-Bora-Hansgrohe Head DS Rolf Aldag at their Mallorca training camp. We get into the weeds of Roglič‘s first season with the team, the teething problems & the mistake they made before the Tour.
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Review of 2024 - Ep.7: True Rolf, The Redbull Reign Idea
For the penultimate instalment of our Review of 2024 series, we reprise and re-iterate on one of the most popular episodes of 2023, a long & very in-depth interview with Redbull-Bora-Hansgrohe Hea...
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December 17, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Roglič’s programme: Algarve, Catalunya, Giro, Tour.

No Tour de Suisse (obviously) & says he ‘won’t be competitive’ in Algarve.
December 14, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Confirmed: Roglič will target the Giro d’Italia (with Hindley & Martínez in team) & then also ride the Tour.
December 14, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Contrary to some reports, Ineos were never remotely in the running - at least according to my info. bsky.app/profile/inrn...
Red Bull Bora Hansgrohe confirm signing Maxim Van Gils, their ninth signing for 2025 www.redbullborahansgrohe.com/news/welcome...
December 9, 2024 at 11:15 AM
Maxim Van Gils ain‘t going to Ineos unless someone‘s telling big, fat lies.
December 7, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Just further to this, don’t expect INEOS to try to ‘replace’ Pidcock with some kind of last-minute signing. Despite him attending team meeting at Old Trafford a few weeks ago, feeling even then was he’d be gone. Riders/staff weren’t surprised when they were informed. bsky.app/profile/frie...
Understand the Pidcock ‘divorce’ was relatively amicable in the end, despite the very onerous financial considerations. ‘Like a married couple who know they want different things,’ I was told by a source today. Destination not confirmed but everything points to team currently known as Q36.5.
December 5, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Understand the Pidcock ‘divorce’ was relatively amicable in the end, despite the very onerous financial considerations. ‘Like a married couple who know they want different things,’ I was told by a source today. Destination not confirmed but everything points to team currently known as Q36.5.
December 4, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Over the summer it was widely reported that triathlete Kristian Blummenfelt intended to become a pro cyclist with the goal of competing for victory in the Tour. The plan has been shelved, probably forever, Blummenfelt says here - ‘It was probably now or never.’ open.spotify.com/episode/0RWk...
The Norwegian Train Gets Back On Track: Kristian Blummenfelt Unpacks Kona, The Olympics, Training, & Lessons On Resilience After Failure
The Rich Roll Podcast · Episode
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November 28, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Before we get into a froth about Prudhomme wanting to ‘slow racing down’ based on one pull-quote, it’s worth noting that he’s also said the onus is partly on course designers. See here in a 🇩🇪 interview from the summer. www.tour-magazin.de/profi-radspo...
Tour-Chef Christian Prudhomme: "Die Rennen müssen langsamer werden"
Christian Prudhomme, Chef der Tour de France, sorgt sich um die Sicherheit im Radsport – und wirft kontroverse Vorschläge in die Diskussion.
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November 26, 2024 at 9:00 AM