Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge cycling podcast. We're coming out of deviation police retirement

I was about ready to take my pension for 25 years long service

But it's potentially back today. I've even got the hat ready for it

We had the first quote what was supposed to be a sprint stage from monastrol sirloir to le coutu

It did have some media mountains in the first half of the stage, but then a long 50k flat section before a

A big green climb coutu per na seven case three percent last case five percent

plateau

Then a very very technical descent. Well actually no not technical like it's an easy descent if you're on your own very wide

Very fast, but there was so many road dividers and road furniture and the teams got very very nervous today

And there were a lot of crashes unfortunately in this flat running for grown-of-egg and

Then it's their only opportunity to win a stage at this year's criterion to dothane, but I

There's no coverage of the dothane early Benji, which uh, yeah, it's fine because did anything

Was there ever a breakway in this stage?

Come on, you missed a legendary breakway today. I can't believe you missed it because

AliExpress out of leap

What's your burger door was in the breakaway for half the stage and we didn't see a single second of that

Because the second that the broadcast was about to start

I came back from my ride where I got brutally assaulted by a pigeon by the way

That's a story for another time. I came back from my ride. I put on the

Interwebs. I look at what's happening in the race and I see no breakaway and I'm like

Hmm. This is all we're halfway to race

But anyway, but good old was in the break earlier. He got caught and that's kind of the story

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