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Join us at escape collective.com forward slash join. Oh, Hello and welcome back to the How the Race was One podcast. I'm Dane Cash and the

Gerodatalia is underway. The Welter-Faminina is in the books already.

Grand Tour season is well and truly here.

Aren't you excited about that bike racing analyst extraordinary Cosmo Catalano?

Question mark?

I didn't. I was not necessarily excited for it prior to well you know I was

pretty excited for the welter but the this year I had my doubts about many of which

were assuaged on the first stage but I think

oh good we'll talk about that as the show goes on oh we're going to talk about the

zero that's good okay yeah good plan we will we will get well, we'll get into how the first two stages of the race were won.

That's on the docket today. Obviously, we are recording only a little ways into the race with two stages down.

I don't know that there's that much that we can say,

but both of those first two stages were quite interesting actually.

So I think there, fortunately, there will be some stuff

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