Welcome back to Lantern Rouge Cycling podcast presented by Zwift Benji Fresh offers with race,

I believe we hear more about that in a second. We've got the Paranise to Renewadriado

double header recap TTT in Paranise with different rules. It's a 32k flat TTT two corners,

not very technical except for the final is in town, few curves in the last two kilometers,

but the rules. What is it? The first rider sets the time, the best time, or the team's time,

but then every other rider sets their own GC time. Is that right? Correct. That's the rule. Back

in the day it was the fourth rider that did so, so that's why in the pass and team time trials,

you'd see four riders arrive at the finish line together, but this time around it's a single rider

I can decide that team's time and it doesn't change much for the GC riders there. They need to be

in the first right is that finish, if not the first right of that finishes, if they only finished

with one rider. So that doesn't change much, but I was curious what the the new intriguing strategies

could be that we'd see because I wasn't expecting all out different things, but maybe the final

three kilometers would be played differently because otherwise when there's four riders left

in usual team time trials, you'd see them just try and stick together, but here we might see lead

hours and so forth. That's what I had in mind at least going into this theme time trial and I'll

I'll try it back to you. What did you think of that new idea going into it? I thought it was good.

Well, actually, no, I had no strong view on it beforehand, but then watching the race, I thought

it was pretty exciting. It had a little bit to it. It definitely some teams had different strategies

depending on the teams they have, their relative strengths. Jamba Visma came in the very hot

favorites. They have, well, multiple world champion Ron Dennis in the TT world champion currently

and Tobias Fos in the TT, Van Hoidon, Tratnik, Bingo Gart, Afini, who else? Koi sprinters usually

not bad in a TT T red hot favorites, and they only win by one and a half seconds ahead of EF

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