Welcome back to Lantern Rouge Cycling podcast to one of the best days of the year for us the recap of the tour of Flanders ronde of on the lander and men and women's race the men's finished first with the stack start list like the top 10 of this race is a who's who of classics hit as riders who would be, you know, people like Patterson and cool fantastic riders of their own generation and you know they played it great.

Today so many tactics to talk about we have 274 Ks 135 a flat and the wind was like 25 kilometers now didn't affect the race too much no rainy conditions maybe a bit of a muddy cop and bird and then 19 hailing and that's heels in Dutch for you at home some with the Cassian or how you say it with the cobbles the nastiest are.

Quarant part of a combination Quarant's the longest climb it's per gacha's specialty it's sort of two in a bit kilometers and then shortly after is the part of the 400 meter 11% punch or 9% punch

geez I've been watching all day since 9 a.m. and then the Coppenberg is hard as well the last part of it though 1314 Ks from the finish with a lot of headwind into the final Benji where are you in like a Belgian prison you drank too many climates yourself today I'm afraid I'm indeed in Belgian prison it's called

knees blood headquarters which are like a newspaper in Belgium I had to do a live watch long all day but like they like caught snippets of my reactions and Mark said Jean the ex DS from lotto reactions during the race and well that's basically what I've been doing all they're watching every single kilometer from from the second that it was on so I'm also I've also done it.

So if you they're listening and you just say well didn't have it they'll kick you out is that is news blood pro than up which is or sports are where do they stand.

I don't know I think they're okay I don't know like what I like other is news blood is private and sports is public owned sports is is national owned yeah while these blood is private indeed correct.

Okay so we have a safe you might be safe okay so we have a recap of Belgian media or sports media anyway.

We want to talk about the breakway but that's going to take a little bit because I tune in I'm like okay wait for the break to go go for walk wait for the break to go go for walk the break took over 120 kilometers or 110 kilometers to go.

It was non stop and I feel like all the riders just about that wanted to get in the break I don't know what was.

Like what was stopping the break going Benji I think the answer is so many teams wanted to be in the break that normally wouldn't like track like quick step.

And that it just never would go because it would have seven of the nine teams that want to be in the break but the other two aren't there and they chase so it just never ever went I don't know it was great got to a point where guys wanting to be in the break stop trying and I think they thought I'll wait till it goes and jump to it.

Yeah I think so as well it was mixed situations that calls the break not to go initially and it's like scenario one you've got loads of people trying to get in the break and then there's one pin that misses out try to jump towards it that scenario that happens but next that for example a group of six goes.

The big teams are fine with that a young one so full but then.

Three more riders try to go and they're like nine riders we want to control nine riders and then push from the sun the four young boys my closet down and that's scenario we see a lot at the start of this reason was continuous but I also feel like the roads were in helping the roads being so wide means that there's no real blockage of the peloton at the front it's not like a team can say it's enough because it's so wide that people can keep on attacking right.

Yeah it's and there's no real climbs or anything and the wind the only thing of note whilst the break was still forming is do some ray of it's the destroyer man has been there was there was all jokes aside like this has been coming there was a big crash from mass you one of the Bahrain riders jumping onto a curb and then it ran out of curb he was in a puddle and then he just

went straight into the bunch the Bahrain guys and Ray of itch in particular like you don't want to be near them at the front he's waving all about so they've been coming those a huge crash calls by mass you look but before then and he got to qualify but before then Ray of itch and Bahrain tried to split it in some like cross winds and Matthew van der Paul we'd seen

race doesn't gone last wheel I don't know why these guys Benji like a literally last wheel I'm not saying you have to be in the first five wheels but last wheel and he gets caught behind the split just like in

a bay last year we surprised a that he was back there be that Bahrain tried see that young bow didn't really start push.

It's like a mix once again we started with wild being in a bad position at the start but we've done before the section where Bahrain pushed echelon so I'm guessing that young ball is aware that a national

on section was coming a section where cross winds would occur and then we see opposite not doing that so it clearly were not aware that

something would arrive Bahrain seems to be the only time that was really trying something there so they're pushing so that's the thought process

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