Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast for the final I guess competitive stage for the Girod Italia at least on G. C tomorrow is the sprint stage in Rome a million miles away

But today we're starting in AlpPago doing maybe actually oh no not the hardest stage of the

race but the hardest climb in the race hundred and eighty three kilometers long

finishing in Bassano del Grappa 85 k's of Rolling Hills before two reps of the 18

kilometer long 8.1% average Monte Grappa and includes two like

platus sections in it seriously, seriously hard this

climb because there's kilometers of 10 11% within that yes it doesn't go to

high altitude but but very, very difficult and 4,500

meters climbing throughout the stage.

It even includes like a 1,500 meter, 9% sort of 4, 5 minute climb halfway down the descent and it is a descent finish in

Basano de Grappa which they get a look at obviously the first time they go straight down

straight back up.

A Pagatche Benji before the stage he made some declarations or even yesterday, right?

Well, some declarations that he would enjoy winning a stage like this is how I perceived it.

Next to that I think I read somewhere that Michael Bierich told Danish media that

that Poggi might want to attack on the second Monte Grappa which is it, it's kind of logical, and the reason behind it would be that he hasn't reconned to Monte Grappa, so he wants to take a look at the Monte Grappa the first time around and the descent before he makes that attack on the on the second climb which to be honest if every race had twice the same climb in a stage would anyone ever recon of a stage?

Yeah, that's true. Anyway, start of this race, like you said, relatively flat, a little bit of bumps here and there, but ruler breakaway is how I perceive it. Jimi yons since Balarini, Mulubran.

We've got Fernandez-V-Dremme, we yesterday's winner,

Germani from Evdegee, completely forgot

they were in this race because they've been invisible.

Edward Tuns, Palaiso Sanchez, and Andrea Pietrobon, is the 10 riders.

I'm seeing like 10 riders counter, but I only got 9 here, so the 9 riders in the breakaway.

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