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Welcome back to Lynch and Roin Roo Cycling Podcast, the Critium de Dauphinay stage one, the only nail

well, we say Nailed on, nothing's a N nail on sprint stage in the Dauphin and even stages like this have about 2,000 meters elevation game, but it should be a sprint. It's from a sample saucur,

and they loop back, so it's a loop, they do some local lapse.

It starts with some hills, and they're not that easy either,

you know, 1500 meters at 6%, 2.5Ks at 6%, 2.5 ks at 6% 2.5 ks at 8% even in

that's in the first hour those three hills but doubtful anyone would be

particularly interested there is one hill near the finish. It's 600 meters at 6.5% and then a bit of a plateau and then a really fast descent on the big N road into the finish.

The finish even is downhill from a K to 500 meters to go.

Then there's a bend with 200 right-hand sweeper.

So very, very fast finish. But listen, you know, downhill finishes if it's not an RCS race, so who cares?

Right?

And the sprinters we have here, they're few and far between we've got Godin but he's leading out Sam Bennett who just won it cashieur to Dunkirk we've got Mads Pedersen the big favorite with a dedicated leadout train and as well as Magnus Court but to be honest Magnus

court never has been a good bunch sprinter so it really is thin on the ground in

terms of bunch sprinters Benji it's the one year Groovagan probably should have

come to the Dauphineette he's not here for once

Yeah, for the first stage and then abandon after day one there goes to be I would have been a that would have been the plan for

Gonna-Wegan, but anyway like this is one sprint stage and at the start I was thinking, okay, parkour, let's take a look at it.

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