Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast, presented by Zwift for the Hent

Wavelham, double recap men and women's editions. We have 260 kilometres on offer for the men's race

in, I don't know how cold it was but it was classic conditions. There was a little bit of wind

but it was no 2015 conditions but it was also no sunny E3. So bit of a day for the hard men today

for the riders like Patterson, the parkour is 160k's of flat pretty much as they go around

De Muren which you might have seen in the other race, Brigadepamma this week and they go through

some of the World War I memorial sites and then they start the hill, which are a collection of

the Sherpenberg, Barnaberg and the Camelberg, although they do it and the Monteberg, sorry,

and they do the Camelberg from a different side, the last edition. That's the steepest one,

the last edition of it is 700 metres at 10.4% with some really steep pinches so it's in flat

and a lot of headwinds to the finish, the sprinters get a chance here in theory, they haven't for a few

years. But yeah, good style is Benji just missing envy pee in Polk but every other top like

classic strutters here. Exactly, the big guns are here while Fernandez here, so that's one of the

the big treat that we saw at E3, Hydele Baker but we also don't have Brigadepamma and Vannepool

because those themes are focusing on Ackermann and on Philipson, Ackermann because Molana was hit

by a car recently and Philipson because Vannepool is not here because I just mentioned that. Anyway,

so we're starting this race and we know the Moorin, is there going to be wind but yesterday I

checked the predictions and there was like five knots of wind, I don't know what not sorry but it

doesn't sound much. So I wasn't expecting much in the Moorin and that's unfortunately what happened

because on one end you're hoping that the Moorin absolutely explodes the race but on the other end

you don't want that because it's not on the broadcast so it's like it's a really annoying balance,

no? Yeah, it liked us what happened in previous editions, like 2015 I think you just see

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