Welcome back to the Lenton Rouge Cycling Podcasts.

The recap of past country stage one.

We'll also do a little GC preview.

We may be too late for that, I'm afraid, but nonetheless it's a very unique parkour

that we know are the one week race like this this year, and the start list here is

unbelievably good.

Paul Seychas, Vokolan, Roglich, Leipitz, Shielmosa, D'Or-Torot, Tullet, Bilbao, home man. We actually at the stage in Bilbao today. Landa. Ricottello, Johanneson, Del Toro. I already said him. A Yuzo. Keanuabooks, Healy, Alafalip, it's unbelievable.

This style is Benjiu, by watering.

So there's only one and a half kilometers in the world, but you've got 50 G.C riders

at Etitoulias, what you're saying?

Yeah, you got some good punchers here, yeah.

Because parkour-wise, it started off with a 13.8 kilometer time trial today, but the rest

of the stages, tomorrow stage, for example, Patrick.

Stage two is kind of a 10km, 8% climb in the last 25 kilometers, but then an uphill

punch at the finish line.

How do you perceive that stage then?

Yeah, that's like not even the hardest stage,

but it's got a 27 minute climb that's really, really steep. These guys are all really aggressive.

So is someone like Alephilippe really going to survive that with the guys like Sychus? It looks

like a pure GC stage. that's a really hard climb by

away yeah it's a hard and all these clines by the way in the bass country you can just assume

they're harder than the average gradient suggests stage three we've got a puncher finish this

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