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

This may be our longest recap of the year for what is already odds on favourite to be the race

of the year, one of the best I've ever seen. Paraguay 2022, the men's race, we've got Paraguay

femur X-Wift. Yesterday I got up, made a coffee, the race starts, yes I get up late, it's

the Sunday, and I couldn't leave the couch for the next six hours, unbelievable rates. 257

cases from companion to rebate, 31 cobbled sectors, starting with 98 cases to go. Normally there's

a big fight for the break in the fast highway asphalt section in the first 100 cases, but not

race-defining splits. Today was carnage. First there was a move with Pusional Dool and one other

rider I can't remember. Nothing threatening. Three man moved 30 seconds ahead with like 240

cases, 220 cases. I was like, that can't be the day's break, right? Like just those three guys,

normally we have 10 man strong breaks. We had Benji, I don't know, can we even define what happened

as a break way afterwards? I consider it as because it's a group that breaks away from other riders.

Now what happened? That is a real question here. Again, not too many attacks that when the first

50 kilometers you said it, those three riders, and then suddenly the peloton is like one large group

again, and from that group riders try to slip away, but this is getting into a crosswind section

where a yellow Visma rider goes to the front to try and kind of slip away at the front,

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