Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast. We're coming to you earlier than anticipated. They just ride so fast nowadays. This is the recap of Lijéges Baston Lijes. On YouTube, this is just the men's live stream. If you're listening on podcast players, the women's will be stitched onto the back of this. When we record that after that race, we have 40 minutes until coverage of that kicks off. So we thought, why not get in and do the men straight afterwards?

Two hundred and sixty kilometers from Lège to Bastogne, back to Lijes, over 4,000 meters climbing.

The race really starts with Codivana. We have steep climbs with about 85Ks to go. Then descends,

positioning ski. Then we have the Koldum

Makisard and the Kodududu Desnier.

This is where Pavel Novak, Doman Novak even, sorry, Pavel Civkov and Dominovac,

I amalgamated the two guys who were smashing this zone.

Pavel Novak exists, right? It's Movis Star Rider now. Fuck, no, that's crazy. That's crazy. Yeah, there's a check climb on. Wow. Ah, who won maybe Baby Dura stage last year. Anyway, then we have the Cote de la Rodute. It's only about 37Ks from the finish to top of that. that's a five minute all-out watt per kilo test, and then a couple more heels than the Cudler-Rosha-Fa-Con, which is another four-minute watt per-pe-eal test for a descent into the flat finish in liege. This episode is brought to you by. Morton, they've just released a new product, really cool product. we went to Gothenburg and saw it with the whole team last month, but we had to keep schum about it.

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Favorite was Pagatja Benji, Sisha, second favorite, Remko, third favorite. Yeah. Where are you?

What are you doing?

I'm in Paris for the launch of a pro cycling manager event.

But that is, besides the point here, I want to talk about Liesch best on Liesch, Patrick,

because if we take a look at the run up to this race, then we had six cells winning flesh wellon, but then Pogachar is still the favorite because we know what the level difference on paper is between those two riders and the others. Pogacra, mile above the rest, would potentially success as a competitor. We spoke in our preview about, especially that Monte Santimari's segment in Stradeade Bianque where Seixas showed that he could potentially

follow Paul Six-S correction, follow Tade Pogacha in the future. Following himself might be a bit difficult,

but we were hoping to see that play out a little bit today because we don't just one day, a

Pogacra rides away and nothing else happens the rest of the way kind of adventure on our TV

because of entertainment.

So a bit of intense racing is what I was hoping for.

I feel like we got some of that.

So that is enjoyable, but I will say the race started off very differently than I anticipated Patrick,

because when I opened up my trail, I was like waltzing around the city of Paris, and I was like, oh, let me look at my phone. Breakways probably made. Who's in the stupid break? I saw 52 riders, Patrick? In the early breakaway? Turns out, it's not necessarily from the early break, although we don't have confirmation yet from riders in the race. So this is based on... Pogg explained.

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