back to the ruse cycling podcast for the double cap paroines in toronto adriatico we're part of the season

we're going to have double headers all week we're going to have double headers of catalonia and the

classics coming up march and april is jam packed full of cycling and today we had a nervous sprint stage

in paronese from monte sante-Belgarde.

It was supposed to be the crosswind stage and it nearly could have been.

And we're also going to recap Terrano Adriatico, the individual time trial to open that race up.

But starting in Paranese, as I said, absolutely flat.

But for a couple of tiny hills, which they roll over in the big

ring in the first hour, they start really to the west of Paris in Monteson. So they didn't

really make their way south at all yesterday. It's a bit of a misnomer. And then they worked their way

directly in a straight line south.

So if there's any form of crosswind, which there often is here, it splits apart the race.

Today there was mostly cross headwind, actually.

So, yeah, not the stage people expected or the organisers hopeful.

I would think so as well.

And I got to say, I opened up the life ticker in the early afternoon.

I was like, okay, is anything happening in the race yet early on in the stage?

And I got this major deja vu because the breakway was basically 66% the breakway of yesterday.

The letter put it on this exactly the same as yesterday, but this

time around joined by Jonas Abrahamson of UNOX. So a strong rider in a three-man

breakway that on paper should be easily controlled because of the fact that it's only three riders.

And does it surprise you that we still have these breakways of three riders in a race where Tim

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