to lantern rouge cycling podcast for the preview of liege baston liege twenty twenty

six the men and women's edition this sunday la doyen the uh fourth monument of the season

before lombardier in october we have 260 kilometers in the men's race from liege down south to baston

and then back up north via a different even harder route

to liege we have about 4,000 meters of elevation gain and the yeah the hard part of the race

starts in the k du van which is very hard with about 90ks to go then they do the stoku which is 1k 11%

and it's just constant up and down climbing called rossier four and a half k six percent long

descent and then more short climbs and then a very fast descent the key moment of the race is to

descend into the koddha radud. It's about a four-minute

50 climb, I think, four and a half-minute climb, 1.6Ks 9%. Then there's more hills after that, and then the

last hard climb is the Coddala Roch or Foucahn, which is about 1K, 10%, before even the Boncelle

short little climb after that before a descent finish into

liege or flat sprint after a descent so what's happened in previous years benji i feel like the

races evolved a few times because back in the day we obviously know that the parkour was not

finishing liege it was a parkour was not finishing in Lijs.

It was a parkour that, well, finished on the code the island, I think Lijs as well, but different finishing sector.

Now, we moved to the parkour that we have now pretty recently, I think five years ago, roughly, where we have the Rochefoucault, then the flat finish in Lijs.

But at the start of that new route, we had the Roche ofFacon, then the flat finish in Liesz. But at the start of that new route, we had Roche-Facon, the final climb being the declaring

factor.

And that, to me, changed in maybe 2022, a rampco-waven-a-pull-Farge showed up, where that pinnacle

moment moved toward Laudududu, and it hasn't really moved away from that.

And it's ironic ironic because if we look

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