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Welcome back to the legend Rouge Cycling Podcast for the procession stage on this late Sunday afternoon slash early evening in Roma. The riders would Riegers would have arrived.

I don't know if they drove this morning to Rome or last night, but yeah, the late start,

330 procession stage, 125 K's from Rome to Rome. This episode is brought to you by our show partner, Join,

Cycling who supported us throughout this Jiro. I even watched, again, watch the finish of this stage on the train of they go out to the coastline to Ostia, which is kind of like a not a bad swear in Spanish, but more of an expression of you know surprise or something

and then come back and do some lapse in Rome it's a cobbley sprint though bench you haven't

analyzed the cobbles but it's it's Pavayish maybe not as bad as not

the course but it's certainly it's not perfect time either.

Yeah no.

Corre course is definitely a bit more hilly, I would say on Nokuro Beric.

So it's a flat version of that and we got it highlighted.

These are Italian couples, not Belgian ones, so let's not give them too much credit.

Anyway, we start off the stage, we start off with the usual shenanigans that

happen on these recession stages and I'll be honest, I didn't watch the first half of today's stage.

I'm pretty sure you might not have watched the first half of the stage either. You were on the

trainer for a large part of it, but the first thing I see when I open up my stream is the jerseys of UAE team Emirates and I thought it was a 1999 team telecom

because it looks so much like team telecom back then they had they had years where they were full pink and they had

years where they had the pink shoulders with the white torso and it looks exactly like

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