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in Northern Ireland. Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling podcast for Parry Nice Stage,

one this show is presented as always by our show partner, Zwift, here with Benji for

one of the craziest finishes I've ever seen, and which is good because Parry Nice bit of a snooze

last year except for Robert's crashing. He's back, we have a stat start list, the Yates Brothers,

Troglich, McNulty Almeida, both looking good, Hague, Vlasov, Quintana, Yonni Ziggira,

Big GC start list, stronger than Toreno on average, the sprinter field, Yackepsen,

Philipsen, Wout Fanart, I see Gronovechen, it's a stacked sprint start list as well, Sam Bennett,

Brian Cockhart, and this first stage was perfectly designed, we have exposed cross-wind potential

sections, maybe the wind wouldn't be strong enough, from La Ville to more La Ville, they have a

bit of a local circuit, 160 Ks and they finish with a hilly circuit, they have a 1200 meter,

six and a half percent, Côte de Bruy, Bois, Robert, Climb, it crests six K from the finish,

and it was Operation Wood Philipsen and Yackepsen get dropped by Bahrain for Colbrelli

and Yombo for Vanart, and that was why it was a great design, and the cross-wind

Benji talks to me about them, was it the wind or was it the team's not really committing to it

that meant there was no splits today? It was a combination of the two I'd say, when

to that cross-wind section with tree riders in front, Frison, Gujarne, Féderovo,

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