Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast, the recap of Bass Country Stage 5 from Victoria Gastai to Amo Rebietta at Sharno.

But the big news was in yesterday's stage on stage four which was the first

especially the first real G.C. stage where there was a massive crash in the

descent of the oleeta climb down to the unshilla climb and I've never seen a

crash take out so many gee, the four GC contenders out of the top five in one race and Vingagard, Avonepal, Roglich, Vine, Crass, Quinn all had to abandon the race.

I'm not sure if there's any other abandoned,

but they were the, obviously the four big GC guys

as well as some of the four most, most injured. When we first first the descent was quite the start of the descent

but when the breakaway went through we saw that Burgado who'd been in the break of four or five had run off on this

descent on the exit and I think he stayed up in the forest and it's a it's a right

hand sweeping turn where it turns and then straightens up a bit and then turns again in on itself.

Not that sharp, very high speed, and then the exit basically wasn't a cliff or anything it was a runoff into a field off

canber sloping down away from the road and had a culvert in the gutter,

well not even in the gutter, there was just a massive culvert,

a concrete embankment or concrete ditch

quite in a V shape, quite deep,

and also large boulders scattered around the culvert or ditch or have you

want to call it as well as trees and that was the exit of the corner after the apex and so we saw Burgado run aground there

without getting off the bike so he held it up but probably they weren't going

quite as quick in the breakaway and then we see the helicopter shot of just bodies essentially scattered all through this

corner and

How did you see it Benji? There's also the some of the Basque local riders

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