Welcome back to Lanthen Rouge Cycling Podcast for the Bass Country Stage 2 recap.

Kind of like our old school recaps.

Just the middle of the week World Tour stage race, Kana Stage.

And I'm all here for it, 161K's living from the border

of the Spanish Basque country and France from Iruen

and rolling through hills all day but no really long ones to

canboo in France they actually do a loop around the French bass country this afternoon.

Weather, mild, but with rainy conditions at the end, very slippery roads.

And as I said, only probably, I don't know, like like two two and a half meters

thousand meters of climbing but really not much flat all day the finish was like

false flat uphill drag with some kickers in there so this is what qualifies as a

sprint stage in the Bas country.

Who is the faith of the Fingi?

The fear for this parkour, I'd say before the stage we would have hinted at

the likes of Owlard, the likes of even hater, because we look at the parkour and we see a versatile sprint, right?

It's not like the parkour looks extremely hard. There's no brutal climb in the last

thing, Columbus that can be a launching point for a vingagal so I'm guessing versatile

sprint and going into the stage we saw specific teams doing work and that is the likes of

Iniose the likes of Injos, the likes of Bora. Mainly Bora is how I perceived it. And then I look at their teams and I'm like, Injos, sure, even Hayter.

Bora, Roglage Sobrero, those are the two riders you could play out in a versatile

sprint, but for me they were not in the top three favorites for a finish like this.

So if I was Bora, I would never pace on a parkour like this.

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