Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling podcast with Benji Nyson.

We're all to you by LeCole.

We're going to be getting into zero stage two first, then the age based on the age men and women

will put timestamps in the show notes and in the YouTube video description if you want to check

that out and go to whichever you want. But starting with the zero, which was a great stage,

as you know our zero podcasts are brought to you by LeCole, our show partner. LeCole produced

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They are the official kid supplier where apparel supplier to Bahrain McLaren.

Bahrain McLaren, by the way, with Mark Goodwin, the Ukrainian, we forgot to call him out

as a potential stage winner in this year at a telly or in our preview show. That was remiss of us.

And unlike a lot of other brands, LeCole focused solely on road. They don't produce gravel clothing,

some random shorts for you to wear on your gravel rides. It's all about road performance and

road kit and making sure they're the best possible. And that's what they devote their energy

and time to. If you want to check their kit out, you can find them at www.lecolle.cc. That's

lecolle.cc. But zero is a telly or stage two from Alchemel to Agra Gento. I believe one of the

recent finishes in Agra Gento in 2008 was 2006 was when Ricardo Rico finished a head of

I think Quackim Rodriguez and Daniela De Luca. But a bit of a different racing era back then.

Today it was a similar finish though. Four categories of four climbs at the start in this 149

kilometer stage. And then it wasn't that serious. Four percent, four cases, three percent, etc.

Then pretty much rolling flat to rolling flat. Nothing that would cause anyone or any sprinters,

any issues, an intermediate sprint, 46kz, then a second intermediate sprint, 138kz, then I think

it's like a 3.7k, 5.2% climb up to Agra Gento. And it's undulating. Some parts were actually

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