Welcome back to Lenton Rouge Cycling Podcast for the doubleheader recap of Paranise and Torreno Adriatico.

We have a team time trial in Paranese, a very technical one. We can't wait to discuss it.

And then a big boy sprint to start in an absolutely flat stage in Torano Adriatico.

We'll lead off with Paranese. Benji, recap the rules for us.

What are the special rules for the Paranese TTs?

So to be clear, from the top of my head, in the past in cycling, there was also always

the case that team time travels, obviously you start with your team, not individually.

And by the finish line, it would be the fourth orfour-to-fifth rider that has changed every

now and then in the past already.

The time of the four-for-to-fifth rider would count for the riders that cross the line in

the first group.

So for, I'm explaining this horribly, aren't I?

So, for example, team time trial in 2019. Team starts time trial.

Throughout the time trial, riders drop off. You need to finish with X amount of riders, for example,

four riders, because it would be the time of the fourth rider that counts for those four riders

that cross the finish line. If, let's say, a domestic drops early in the time trial

and is not part of those four riders,

they'd get their own time, having lost time to the rest of your team.

That's kind of the old vibe of the team time trial.

The new team time trial, and I gotta say,

spoilers already, I kinda like it,

is that it's basically as simple as the individual time counts, right?

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