Welcome back to the Latin Rouge Cycling Podcast for the Recap of the Olympic Games Road Race, the women's race,

the same finish, the same local lapse around Long Marsh, but 158 K's they start the same in Paris and the

Trocadero but they only do the south of the Western loops past I don't know

Chateau 4 it's like I think they went through Versailles look actually yeah they do go through Versailles so the loop in the forest is south of Versailles they didn't do the northwest and loop that the man did yesterday so it's about 115, 120 k's shorter.

And there is a couple of pinchey climbs in the middle of the course,

but then, of course, the Monmartra circuit,

1200 meters at 5.5% including Pavay, not full-blown Belgian

cobbles, but Pavay nonetheless. A quick descent, a couple of flat sections, and then

they do a few more climbs that are a bit shorter not as hard on

tarmac and then they do two more laps of that before the finish is about not including

the short descent about seven kilometers long.

So a technical city course, but not as technical as the Glasgow course,

which was like crazy, crazy technical crazy technical here strength still mattered a lot

rather than just technical skills and the clients were a little bit longer.

Glasgow they were 300 meters these are three times as long at least Monmartre is but the the favorite

Benji Kapecki surrounded by a decent Belgian team and then the Netherlands

also strong any is there anything else pre-race?

Well, I was very curious how Netherlands was gonna play it, like how are they gonna go for a sprint for weibbiz? Are they gonna try and use multi-leaders strategy, voss-forwarding weibiz?

From deck would be domicique, Van Dyke would be domestic,

at what point would they use her?

Would they learn from their mistake in Tokyo

and actually right behind a potential dangerous,

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