Welcome back to the Lenten R recycling podcast. The recap of the final Giro Grande Partenza stage in Bulgaria

from Plovdiv, an ancient city to Sofia, the capital city of the country. It is once again a sprint stage.

We have the Botovetch Pass 9Ks 5 for Santa category 2. The intermediate sprints before that.

Then the Red Bull kilometer is about 13 kilometers from the finish with six, four and two bonies.

We would think Florence Stork and Egan Bernal could have actually taken the Pink Leaders jersey today if they took six bones and

not Skoroni, Silver didn't take any time. So we'd see could not play a factor, but otherwise we were

expecting a sprint. What's the actual final 10-Ks of this look like, Benji?

Well, basically, the way I perceived it, eight kilometers of straight roads, and then it turns

into a bend with 200 meters to go onto yellow city cobbles. And just to sketch that perceptive,

if you've got eight kilometers of straight road,

why do you have to finish in on that 200 meter segment?

That's probably because the city of Sophia wants that,

but from a safety perspective, that's really stupid.

And that's what happens when, in my opinion,

three of your UCI safety manager of the four or three of the race directors of the race. In my opinion, in the sport of cycling, safety

managers should be independent. Otherwise, it won't have the effect you want. Yeah, I didn't know that.

Okay. Um, then that's not safer. That's like the appointed safety. Yes. And I think I read today by La Flam Rouge on Twitter that it is the, it was supposed to be independent, UCI safety managers, but then the Italian Cycling Federation stepped up and said, we want it to not necessarily be independent. I don't know the exact details

of that conversation, but apparently they stepped up to have potential raise organizer

individuals as UCI safety managed, which is an insane concept to me. Okay. So yeah, we got my least

favorite. I prefer a 90 degree corner corner actually. My least favorite is a...

I prefer a straight? Yeah. I don't actually mind a corner to slow them down, but I don't like

the fast bends. That's where we saw the Sprint Bittner let out on came fifth on last year. In the

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