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in Northern Ireland. Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge cycling podcast, presented by Zwift,

Tour of Autopier on a moment, more on that later, here with Benji for Paranise Stage 8,

and to Renewadriado Code Stage 7 recaps. Paranise first, because this was, as it always is,

one of the best stages to watch of the year, and it proves you don't need long stages to

have exciting racing. 115km long, medium mountain all day, they have like six, it's all six

km, six per cent, then they have the coat to pale, six and a half, seven per cent descent through

the Tour de B, and then the cold has the final one, 6.1 km, seven. 6 per cent for a descent finish

into Nice, Rogwich 47 seconds ahead of Yates, starting the stage, Danny Martinez in third,

a little bit further behind, on one minute, Adam Yates on 150, can turn around 2.04. So first

surprise, the day of ENGY, YUMBO were kind of hard pacing and a break didn't go, I thought they'd

want those bonus seconds gone. Yeah, there were quite some attacks early on the stage on the initial

climbs, as expected in a short stage, like this, plenty of people wanting to win the stage,

and plenty of people trying to use the profiles to their advantage when they have a leader,

so they'll try and send some riders up there and so forth. We saw attacks by plenty of people,

but I do want to note that Godouf finally gave up on starting R&E, so that's a W, I'd argue,

considering we've been complaining a lot, this week that he was starting when he shouldn't have,

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