Racing Kicks Off Down Under & UK Grand Départ Route Revealed | LRCP Weekly #1
Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Lanterne Rouge Media, SL
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Patrick and Benji kick off the first episode of the weekly show as the new season gets underway!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:37 - Women’s Tour Down Under recap
16:18 - Men’s TDU
27:00 - Pune Grand Tour
28:20 - Tour de France 2027 Grand Départ
34:40 - Route announcements (Tirreno, Paris-Nice, UAE Tour)
49:55 - Red Bull's “trident” photoshoot
58:55 - Safety tech: airbag prototype
01:06:40 - Live TDU prologue reaction + wrap-up
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🇦🇺 Patrick Broe - Host: https://www.youtube.com/@LanterneRougeCycling & https://www.instagram.com/the_lanterne_rouge_/ & https://www.twitter.com/lanternerougeyt
🇧🇪 Benji Naesen - Host: https://www.youtube.com/@BenjiNaesenTV & https://www.instagram.com/benjinaesen/ & https://www.twitter.com/benjinaesen
🇳🇱 Luc Grefte - Producer: https://www.twitter.com/lucgrefte
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Lanchin Rouge Cycling Podcast. |
| 0:01.9 | Weekly show brought to you by our show partner joined cycling. |
| 0:05.4 | We have the Tour Down Under live. |
| 0:07.9 | The Women's Tour Down Under has already finished. |
| 0:10.4 | No transfers, thankfully, I mean, you never know. |
| 0:14.0 | But we do have some news to catch up with photo shoots of some new star riders on new teams root announcements. January normally brings some |
| 0:22.5 | root announcements. Is there a trend because some of them have been shocking actually? I mean, |
| 0:28.5 | not in a bad way, just surprising shocking. We have an airbag modeled at a trade tech show that |
| 0:36.7 | could be in use by, I think currently is in use |
| 0:39.6 | by professional riders, as well as Twitter France 2027 Grand Depart. |
| 0:44.7 | But we have the men's T2U prolog on right now. |
| 0:48.0 | Nothing better than starting the season than being in the country the race is on and pretty |
| 0:53.5 | much being unable to watch it technically |
| 0:56.3 | because the digital media play doesn't work and then there's no other way to watch it |
| 1:01.6 | and it's not on terrestrial TV so I thought let's just do the pod instead. |
| 1:04.7 | Stop gloating my friend, oh I'm in the country where the race is happening. |
| 1:08.3 | I'm not. |
| 1:09.3 | No, I can't watch it. You can't watch it. That's what I'm saying. That is crazy. What |
| 1:15.9 | what better way, what more symbolic way to kick off the pro the world men's world tour season |
| 1:22.6 | in being just one minute in. I was like, fuck it. I'll just watch the live timing on PCS. |
| 1:27.9 | No free yard. |
| 1:28.4 | I've got it right here playing on my right. |
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