New aliens have landed in Cycling - Domestique Cycling Podcast
The new generation is here. Isaac del Toro set a record on Jebel Hafeet to win the UAE Tour, Jonathan Milan put out nearly 2,000 watts in a bunch sprint after crashing earlier in the week, and a 20-year-old Belgian named Tom Crabbe is already fielding calls from half the peloton.
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In Portugal, Paul Seixas announced himself with a stunning victory at the Volta ao Algarve, while Juan Ayuso showed a different side of himself, winning the Volta ao Algarve and proving he can lead a new team without drama.
And somewhere in the middle of all this, Remco Evenepoel was blaming his air conditioning. The opening weeks of 2026 have been anything but quiet.
With the Belgian Classics now on the horizon, Bram and Ethan look ahead to Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne. Will Mathieu van der Poel show up for his first-ever Omloop? Can the revised parcours - with 10km of flat before the Muur removed - finally end the race before the sprinters get a say?
And with Paul Magnier in the form of his life and Matthew Brennan turning heads, who actually wins? All that, plus podium picks and at least one prediction that will almost certainly be wrong.
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