Welcome back to Lantern Rouge cycling podcast here with Benji as always for the Sunday of the European continental championships when it finishes actually with the men's road race 180 kilometer course around Trento in the suit control. It actually has the hard as well,

longest climbs in the first third of the race and then they go into a circuit doing the povo climb. They do about eight times the climb.

We saw it in the women's race yesterday is three and a half cases at five percent, but it's steeper at the end, but no outrageous pinches. No partly like that's where our fully could launch it.

Like you have on say murder, but then you're all the foot of fossil and stage one of the two different. So start list pretty stacked actually given that we've got everyone that is from a European nation.

Obviously, no Michael Matthews here who would have won if Australia was allowed to participate, but we do have Renco, we've got a strong Belgian team. No well for not, who's their leader in the world championships.

Other characters who'd be in that race camp and arts doing turns as well.

Tiba Pino pickaches back in action. No, but I for Spain. Yes, one country that's actually missing is Denmark, who was not at the start line here, which is and Britain kind of surprising together with great Britain.

So I don't really know how how this works. How certain teams are not here when certain teams are here, but in the end, if they're not here, that's their problem and others. So is it a Brexit thing?

Mark's probably not a Brexit thing. Maybe.

They're a line of hamburger and sitting on the mask, but I guess no way here. So yeah, that rules out that theory. Yeah, there's some really, really solid writers here got here.

She as well.

Groschartner, who just finished the world to Spain, Marcus Hulgoth and always just signed a two-year deal of tracks to go for it.

But the favour is probably with the Italians with cold breadly in obscene forms, supported by Ulyse Trenton and Moscow and Ghana, Catania, Bagel, Gariotti, just outrageously strong team.

And I guess the three guys that we would expect to be good on this course, they obvious.

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Benji, early action in this race, which you were keenly attuned to.

Yes, yes, yes. I was watching this race and I was like, should I watch from the start? I should probably start watching from from the start.

And I didn't know at that point that this would become one of the best races of 2021, in my opinion.

And we started off with the earlier hills, the ones that you see at the start of the park or the ones that are not part of the circuit section.

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