Welcome back to Lenten Rouge Cycling Podcast, the recap of E3 Saxo Classic Harold Becker,

as well as the Volta Catalonia, a pretty good day of racing, I would say, with, yeah, good,

just actually unexpected action. One maybe went the way we thought, but very unexpected action

at the end of one of these races. You want to start with the, we'll start with the Belgian Classic, Benji. That's the best race today. I think so as well. The Edri Saxo

classic was the big classic of the day. And it's kind of known as the mini tour of Flannes,

I would say. It's like the week before the Tour of Flannas on a Friday always. And this race

had some minor changes compared to last year usually the race open

ups on the time bed again that was still the expectation but in the run-up to the time

back with about 80ish kilometers to go there's the replacement the connoctoberg is replaced by the

outer quartermane a new side and also the carnalalk Bestra out before that. So two clams instead of

one, so a bit more maybe attrition, a bit more anticipation opportunities before we get to that

tie and bed again. We saw that potential extra anticipation opportunity today. But I think

before we jump into it, the favorite was Machiavon Rupol. But who did you see as the secondary

favorites?

Someone from UAE, I think the mesh is very strong at the moment, Omlope we saw that, and more

just the collectives. It was really flat hierarchy teams, so Visman without Vanar, I've got

the door, Strand-Hagenet's in good shape,

and Keelich, Red Bull, very strong block with Pithy, the Van Dyck brothers, Vamesh, and then

Decahathlon. They've been really good just as a block. Yeah, so I don't know which one of them's

the third favorite. Probably it was Pedersen and Laporte because they can sprint and their classics riders.

But as blocks, I thought DeCathlon, Bora and Visma were the, and UAE rather, were the keys to the race, Pollitt as well.

Trek, I didn't see it actually because you really like last year Trek nailed the positioning

...