Welcome back to Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast. For a day of GC action,

a brilliant stage in the criterion to go for now. I really enjoyed it. The final mountain stage

finishing a, it's like a matinee performance, saying at 2.30 in the afternoon,

from Le Pont de Clare, I think that's to not cut across Le Mans and Roland Garros. That's why

I'm not complaining. From Le Pont de Clare to La Bastille, which is this absolute rampant climb,

you really see these in French races compared to the welter, like a despicably difficult climb.

But before then, it's a lot of, I call these pigacha climbs because they're 20 minutes,

about six to seven percent, and they're all put together after a medium mountain start.

The difference, the different climb is the Calde de Gragne, which is 10k is 8.7 percent,

but almost no flat in the last 60 cases of this stage. Before a 2k, 14 percent finish,

and it was, yeah, I thought this was a really, really good stage, Benji, particularly because the

breakaway, we had some ambitious people who weren't far away on GC in there. Exactly. We didn't

see the GC battle. Well, no, we didn't see the breakaway battle. That's a very different thing.

At the start of the stage, because the broadcast of a Dolphin A starts a bit later, but I can

imagine that it was quite a fierce battle looking at the pro-followed being so hilly at the start,

yeah, Alaphilippe was in there. GC Jalla, as you announced to me yesterday, he was in that break,

when I actually liked seeing that. And for two reasons, both that he's trying to get ahead of

things and maybe still wants to try and get a stage win this way, or wants to have a bit of an

advantage by the time he reached the mountains at the end of the stage on the GC riders. But on

the other end, that humble wasn't this, this team that hunts every person in the top 10 down,

just because there are six or eight minutes behind. So relatively close,

Jamba knows they can catch this guy if they want to. So they allow him to be in the breakaway.

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