Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge cycling podcast with Benji Naisen, the last mountain stage

of the year for 2020, the Vuelta of Spaniards stage 17 recap, brought to you by LaCole, our partner

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description. This stage 17, the pivotal one, supposedly in theory, from sequeros to autodella.

Covertilla, 178.2 kilometer long stage, a reminder the GC position is going into it,

carapage, 45 seconds behind rogwich, and 53 seconds behind rogwich was Eucarthi, Dan Martin,

another 50 seconds back, a minute 48 behind rogwich in fourth. So all to play for for rogwich,

in this stage. If you don't know on this climb, this is where Chris Froome

transformed, I think, in 2011 and showed himself to be a world class climber to the 2011

welter, it's 178 Ks. You've got an easy cat worm, 14 Ks at 5.3%, roly terrain, then a cat too.

I think the garganta climb, again, not selective, 11 Ks, 5%, and they had an 800 meter

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