Sahara Gravel stage 3 recap with Eddy Le Huitouze

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Payson McElveen

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🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Stage 3 of Sahara Gravel took the riders away from the Atlas Mountains and towards the Sahara Desert, with 95 kilometers ending in a tailwind. Payson is joined by stage winner Eddy Le Huitouze to discuss how the race played out, but first, they do a little background on how he got here. The 22-year-old Frenchman just completed two years in the WorldTour with FDJ and has been racing bikes since the tender age of six. He talks about his time in the WorldTour, lining up for Flanders and Roubaix ...

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0:00.0	I'm Pace McElvin and this is the With Pace podcast.
0:11.8	I think I almost had 40K to go.
0:15.2	I took a gap on the little force flat downhill with tailwind or close tailwind on the rocky path
0:23.0	because it's so hard to stay in the wheel because you can't see anything and it's so
0:28.3	dangerous you can have a puncture for sure when I took back the road I had like
0:34.0	almost 30 seconds advantage but that was a long way to go.
0:44.2	Okay, Eddie, we are on a sand dune at the end of stage three.
0:52.3	You won today?
0:54.6	Yeah, pretty amazing place to win a race also and to spend the night.
1:01.3	Yeah.
1:01.8	It would be like a unique experience.
1:04.7	It would be nice, for sure.
1:06.6	Very true.
1:09.1	We are near Zagora, I think, which is a decently sized city.
1:16.1	We can barely see it from here.
1:18.4	We're sort of like hiding behind the tuft of grass to get a little windbreak because it's
1:24.2	pretty windy, as we'll talk about.
1:27.3	But you had an awesome race today you've
1:29.8	been strong all three days so far but today you you got the win tell me a little bit about
1:37.5	how the well first let's talk about the distance so total it was just under 100k but there was a bit of neutral beforehand so the
1:47.5	race itself was 90 yeah 90k 2 and a half hours maybe 220 2 i think yeah more yeah um and on paper
1:57.4	or the the course profile looked like mostly downhill.
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