Welcome back to the Lantuan Rouge Cycling Podcast for Stage 18 of the Giro D'Italia, just three stages left after today.

Race has gone. It's gone so fast.

Pierre de primero to Pavar, 178 kilometers, starting at 700 meters, finishing at sea level,

which Benji says means Dinaise is a lock to win.

Wow. Well, that Well, you did.

It's the fact that it goes downhill from start to finish that way.

He just carries the momentum from the start and he just goes.

Exactly.

That's the logic. Yeah it's a pure sprint the last

hundred K is a pancake flat on the not even on the coast just in the in the plane

above Venice

not much more to say there's

it's decent weather although it rained a little bit in some parts like it's warm

everyone's in shorts so shouldn't be even though there's a

3k 5% climate start and then a couple of other rollers I think the ghost has gone

for people really trying seriously to get a break to win one of these stages.

There just hasn't been that second that hasn't been that de Ghent or Simon Clark type stage

this this year or even last year with court, Magnus Court with Nico Dens maybe, won the stage.

It was just out of the sprinters. There just hasn't been. There's too many sprinters teams.

We've got Merleier here, Milan's still here, Dainese, you and loads of teams,

Gaviria, Malana, they all want to go for their sprint.

And so Benji, you will have to tell me what happened at the start

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