Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast, presented by Zwift. We've got the Perinis,

Tarenuad Riyadhiko, double header, two of the most prestigious stage races on the calendar,

and they've got them on simultaneously, which means double trouble for you.

We have, if you're watching on YouTube, it's a separate podcast episode, all in one on

podcast players, but we'll do Perinis first. We had what could have been the Crosswind stage,

but unfortunately, there was more talk of Crosswinds than really any action. It's a

last stage. There were two cat threes that were like 1k at 4%, and then 164k is finishing

with Ponte and Blu, south of Paris. This really fast descent with like 7k, 6k's to go,

after an intermediate sprint with 15k's to go. 6 seconds on off again. What do you think about the

6 seconds, Benji? Like, I'm thinking it worked yesterday, right? Did we not have a more

exciting stage with Pog hyper incentivised to go for that IS?

For a certain, but I think it only works in the grand scheme of the sparing knees, because in

this parinis, we've got a gigantic team time trial that will benefit Yombo Vismani on his

Vingigal. So as an opposite thing to balance that out, Pogacher has his benefit with these bonus

seconds that are quite large at intermediate sprint. So it's kind of like it's perfectly balanced

out between the two, where it will end up being a really close race for GC because of the two.

So I think there are some people that might say all these bonus seconds don't need to be that high,

but then again, the team time trial doesn't need to be 32 kilometers either, because that also

benefits someone. So when it comes to the Tour de France, I don't think I would like seeing

6 seconds every single time, but I also think the breakway would take it a lot more than they do

in parinis. Does that make any sense? Yeah, you're more likely in a Tour de France stage to see more

than one rider going into the breakaway. And you know, the counterpoint is what if Vingigard wasn't

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