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Good evening, Lionel. Good evening, Daniel. Good evening from the Beller Drowman-Roubae,

another bright, sunny early evening in Northeastern France. This is A Reve, by the Cycling Podcast.

Now the concept of this when we came up with it was that it was going to be our hot take

on the monuments, the biggest of the classics, and we were going to sum up everything that

had happened in around 25 or 30 minutes, weren't we? That was the idea. I think we've got

our- What it actually is likely to be is a symphony of barriers being dismantled?

Well, it could well be the Beller Drowman- In time-honored Cycling Podcast style, I think?

Absolutely. They're actually a sort of group of Belgian fans who I think I don't want to defame

them, but I think they may have had a beer or two this afternoon. They was a running race down

the finish straight about five minutes ago, and I was impressed. Everyone managed to stay on

their feet. But as you say, Daniel, they're dismantling the barriers for Peu-Roubae.

Well, the barriers are in the grass track in the centre where they have the podium, of course,

where the winner was crowned this afternoon, probably about an hour and a half ago now, maybe

a little bit more than that. But yeah, Arives supposed to be our succinct summary of the classics,

but today's race has left my head absolutely spinning. I don't know about you. You probably

were able to pay a bit more attention to it on the TV. I was sort of here and there,

darting around a bit, and every time I went to the low or went to get a sandwich, I came back

and it was like watching a different race. Well, I was going to say I haven't been as confused

since I saw Moe Holland drive at the cinema in 2001. There was new characters, flashbacks,

apparitions, lots that I didn't understand. And I said to you, we were discussing the race all

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