Welcome back to Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast, presented by Zwift for the Paranise Stage 1 recap.

This is one of the most stacked start lists we've ever seen for Paranise with the back.

The Tour de France Champion and the runner-up and the previous two years Tour de France Champion, Pikachu and Vingigard,

going head-to-head both in good shape after Andalusia and Grand Commenio.

This is actually quite rare, unfortunately for Cycling, concerto and Froome.

I don't know, that's the only other two GC contenders I know in the history of Cycling.

Two big guns going head-to-head like this is a treat.

So it's a huge race, but Stage 1 is one of those...

Eh, looks like a boring sprint stage.

Nothing is boring in Paranise.

Love yeah, love that yeah, till love very air.

It's not how you say it, 170K long, they have these rolling heels, so much road furniture,

outskirts of Paris, super cold.

500m to 11.6% Benji, that little cat 3 with 20Ks to go.

And then there's an intermediate sprint with 1500m 5%, with 6 bonus seconds.

It's like like a... some new thing, double intermediates.

A new thing, I had Mark Sergiant, an X team manager of Lotto tell me,

was a new thing, I'm not sure if they're going to do it for the tour,

but is rumored that it might also be in the tour, so that would be intriguing.

But hey, it's quite intriguing, hey, the parkour initially I was like,

this could be a sprint, but I also get Calais vibes from this,

or I would say Paranise Stage 1, 2022 vibes,

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