Welcome back to Lantern Rouge cycling podcast for the women's starter Bianca 2023 recap

a race that looked a bit closed off when coverage first started and then it built up built up

and the crescendo the final 15 minutes of this race were very good and then the finale was

even exceeded my expectations we have some things to discuss in this finish as a reminder

the course from sienna to sienna is 136 kilometers they have eight uh not pavay not cobbles

white gravel road sections that looked in very good condition uh but they don't do the Montessant

Marie section which is really hard after the asiano one so there is a decent section of tarmac and

then sort of second third of this race that offers a place to anticipate then there's the classic

finish to sienna last 30k is the same as the man's race punchy climb summer gravel

following here kopecki puck peaches who is she bengi who is puck peaches and fem van empel because you

know i'm not the cx car they're cx riders and they're pretty damn good at cx riding they're like one

of the like two of the top riders in women's cx at the moment and like i don't watch as much

much cx as some people do but they're definitely really good riders and the go-to thing when it comes

to cx ride is when they transition into road is oh can they do that at strata beyond k and we've

seen perseco in twitter france fem last year with her hands off her handlebars doing something while

riding on gravel so they have the technique for it she was also cx history still does cx and so

forth so there's something in there when it comes to strata let's see if it works out in today's

race there but um police along a bogeyney has covid or an injury she was flu-like symptoms or

some flu-like symptoms okay she's out shame for trex agafrater they have sprouting the women's

world tour leaders jersey at least a balsamow but she said to bengi in person not a favorite race

i believe yeah so we'll see how trex go it's not their strongest team without ELBs the big

container they have for this race another way also out i don't know what the reason was but not

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