Welcome back to Lenton Rouge Cycling Podcast.

Sean Kelly's back on the microphone.

Real racing, none of this nonsense in Europe.

In the Middle Eastern Australia and New York,

Parry Nice is here.

The first major one week World Tour race of the year

with a pretty solid lineup. We already did the preview

on our last weekly show. The main competitors have not changed. Why don't you run us through

today's parkour, Benji, and the sort of scenarios you saw playing out?

Yes, sir. Basically, 156 kilometers from Le Perret en Ivelin.

Yeah, the flair of that French.

Can you hear it?

I love it when Pariné comes by.

Anyway, on the parkour itself, let's be honest about it.

If you look at the parkour, you shout sprint stage.

There's a few things to it, though, because in the last 30-ish kilometers,

you would see a climb with about 25k to go called the Côte de Villiers Saint-Frederic, 1.2

kilometers, 6.8%. So not the craziest climb. Let's be honest, two years ago, we saw, or was it

three years ago, we saw Visma right away with three of their riders on a small climb in Pyrenees as well. So this race can do wonders. I wasn't necessarily expecting that

to happen today, but it could lead to a pure sprinter dropping or having trouble on that climb.

So the 10 million years of the world, is he going to survive that? On paper, you'd say yes,

but you never know. But that's not

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