Welcome back to the Lention Rouge Cycling Podcast presented by Join Cycling, our show partner for stage 3 of the Critium de Dauphine from Selse du Rousse d'Oble.

I didn't see a single human on the course today. This was, where are we in France?

Do you know Benchi? I don't know. I've got no clue. Let me have a look.

Is Dauphinear region or?

It seems like the over on like the Hautlois, I think, this seemed very like underpopulated this area.

It's northwest of Avenue and southwest of Lyon. So near

the point, I don't know if the dome is there, but yeah, we're in the middle of France below Lyon and

we're making our way towards the Alps and this stage is a again one of those

it's not a climbing sprinty boy stage banji it's not it's something different I don't have a name for it yet if people can I don't know it's a rock I used to call it it's alitch stage but maybe it's a bit too easy for that I don't know.

I wouldn't be able to tell what it is but it also depended on on the actual teams at the start of the stage, because we didn't really have a grasp

yesterday evening on whether it would be a breakway

or whether teams would control the stage.

And when I looked at the parkour then I'm like okay yes you've got the

first let's say 80 kilometers that are flat the second half where you've got ups and downs

ups and downs but it's all about that last 3.8 kilometers at 4.8 percent.

And then when I see that clown, I'm like, okay, that's kind of a clown like yesterday, but maybe less hard.

So maybe we see court against them, a ruglitch again.

And then I look at the part before the final climb.

And I'm like, oh, that's a lot of climbing.

So it was very difficult to like have a grasp on on who was going to win the stage.

I think who did you go for yesterday?

A topic wrong which you know?

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