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Welcome back to the L Rouge Cycling Podcast to the Gera D'Artagna that everyone, including

maybe us, said was going to be boring for the eighth cracking stage out of nine the ninth stage the last

one before the rest day from Avizano to Naples it's not as hard as the Naples

Hilli stage that was a clear breakaway stage for Binnie and

Vanderpool two years ago in 2022 where DeHant actually caught them and well

not caught them he he went ahead and won the from the breakaway

This is 214 K's though very long stage it's been a long hard week of racing

There hasn't been that many easy days downhill start not sure I like it that much. I don't mean like Downhill, Downhill, like a descent, but like Folsite Downhill, fast start. The first hills are around 40Ks in and 50Ks in. Then a descent after some easy hills before a flat sort of 60 k's along the coast and then we get into the

hill zone around Naples not actually that technical really like fast roads, considering it's in a city, and there's about four hills all about five minutes long, more or less.

The seabous ones are Lucrina 1.1k is 6.7% before a descent and then 3k's flat to the finish but that's also a little bit technical so it's not just

straight line to the finish. I thought Benji there'd be more teams jumping at the start today and really

the break was the break went within 30 seconds. Exactly like my my faults before this day started was I think there's a lot of teams that will still trust their sprinter, so while I do expect a longer breakaway formation, I expect a sprint or late attack to be the one that does it today and I'll be honest that

breakaway information like you say was done in 30 seconds and much quicker than I remotely

anticipated we saw two poli boys going on the front, Mirko Maestro at Pietrobon.

There was one guy from a Bardiani that tried to bridge for a bit, but the man ended in the biggest shuspot I've seen in the last 17 decades.

And then the polity guys were looking behind him

we're like we're gonna let him rot we're gonna let him rot behind us and he went

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