Welcome back to Langerage cycling podcast presented by Zwift for Paranise stage 8 recap. This is the 118 kilometer Nice loop stage a training loop that many of the riders will have done featuring multiple punchy climbs all less than 20 minutes long and they get progressively steeper throughout the stage with good to pay 6.6%

that's where I think Martinez attacked last year and a long step descent through as and they do the cold as which has a 2 kilometer 11% section before a step descent into Nice.

I think that's a lot to be dissent. We had begatured 12 seconds ahead of Guru going into the stage and really nice weather. I got the shorts on today here and it was 20 degrees definitely summer kit in Nice which was

good for the riders it is called the race for the sun after all but last year it was treacherous conditions cold conditions and definitely made for a more exciting finish but satellite riders we got we didn't have full chaos bend you we did have some interesting riders in the break.

Yeah and it started off without the satellite riders actually when we saw a tug buddy movement by Unilex pro cycling this is like next level tug buddy as in Christ of going up the road with Greg art and pulling Greg art into a break away and then dropping that's like that's like

thanks book right.

Yeah it is perfect Christ off doing the work he was a little bit off in the sprint stages but one of the goals for Unilex was to take the KOM jersey in this race and I think their first they were at Catalonia but their first French world to a stage race and they did that.

So job accomplished for Greg art he was in every break he probably was even in the break on Zwift on stage six when he got cancelled.

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So I want to say too much about that on Zwift.

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Unlike to Reno yesterday the lack of teams with a we mentioned this in the previous day the lack of teams with a serious second GC option really meant no one that threatening could go on the break.

Exactly we didn't have like breakways with satellite riders but you know they're not going to come into play that easily in the stage either they're just going to stay up the road until they get caught again and so full.

But anyway let's talk about it a large group gets away this is behind the Greg art who still up the road who stops already back in the peloton or already on his way to the group at this point but a large group is created with trotnik in there.

So a young bow satellite writer for vingo you've got Hamilton for some in the eights advice could go for the stage could be for civic of who's still like somewhere on 10th in GCF thing Stefan Kuhn very vital potentially for go do also in the breakway satellite writer right in there as well could be for who the hell is the right

again genometer yes yeah exactly right going to break away because he doesn't want to be he doesn't want to be penalized for anything that happens to finger go in the stage.

Anyway loads of other writers in there is a get a on over nassen giving vocal that who bridges up to that breakway a bit later.

Shampoos and teammate a corn comogen call since the La Cruz rule they guard but they're all like six plus minutes and instantly your ease already pacing like crazy to keep this gap on roughly a minute max because they want to control the stage want to make sure all the satellite is probably don't go out the road.

What do you think should be a strategy for you here as in they want to control the race to make sure no dangerous breaks go but if there's a group at satellite writers in it.

Are you that scared of for example a trotnik being in there a king being in there.

Um I think they're just going for the stage the whole time.

I think they weren't worried about.

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