Itzulia Basque Country Stage 2 2023
Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Lanterne Rouge Media, SL
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🗓️ 4 April 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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In this episode Patrick Broe and Benji Naesen recap the second stage of the 2023 Itzulia Basque Country.If you enjoy LRCP please support us by subscribing and leaving us a rating and review! You can also send us a tip here https://ko-fi.com/lanternerougecyclingpodcast 🤗
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast for Bass Country Stage 2, a Helter Skelter Dangerous |
| 0:07.9 | Descent Finish 195K Stage. It wasn't that hard beforehand, which is part of the problem. |
| 0:15.1 | The hardest climb was 2.3K's 9%, but that was best part of 50K's from the finish. |
| 0:22.7 | And then it's like a false flat drag to about 5K's from the finish, |
| 0:30.0 | whether there's a steeper descent, so the side they go up is shallower, |
| 0:35.9 | and then the descent they do is like 4.5K's at 5%, with some hair pins in it. So this is not a |
| 0:42.4 | selective stage most of the time. There's no 2K 11% climb followed by another climb, and honestly I was |
| 0:49.9 | not seeing a stage like this for a while, because I know that Aaron Brew won that descent stage |
| 0:57.2 | in us with a star of Benji in the bass country, but I feel like that was more selective. |
| 1:19.9 | That selection happened because that final climb was so shallower when it comes to the gradient, |
| 1:24.0 | that moves would already have to happen on the climbs before, and maybe they happened on the |
| 1:27.9 | climbs before, maybe they didn't, you'll hear in a second. But one thing was certain, the second |
| 1:32.4 | that we saw in us at the front of Peloton, there was a clarity of who their leaders could potentially |
| 1:37.7 | be, because Hager was working before the climbs happened, right? He was, he was on the front in |
| 1:43.6 | the leader's jersey pulling. So my guess was Brailleer got to go for the stage, and Martinez had |
| 1:52.4 | to keep himself safe. I was doubting that I really doubted someone like Vingigard, or Martinez would |
| 2:01.5 | really go for it on the descent. I'm all, I was thinking Soler, Brailleer, and then Movistar |
| 2:08.7 | have got a dichotomy between Enric Mars who crashed out of like three world tour one week races |
| 2:15.3 | last year with descending problems, including this race. He finished, but he lost loads of GC |
| 2:21.7 | positions after he crashed out of Torreino, and they've also got Ambrune to go for the stage, |
| 2:29.3 | who is a demon descendor, and has a sprints. So that's a real tension between those two, |
| 2:34.8 | and you could even save the same for Freiler and Martinez. So I was, I really didn't know how |
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