Welcome back to the Latin Rouge Cycling Podcast for some good old stage racing.

Paronese and Treno Adriadico double-headed, the first stage of Treno.

We'll do Parrenes first because the sprint just happened and it's fresh in our minds.

And then we've got a lot to talk about, in fact,

for the Toronto Adriatico TT.

Two teams unveiling some pretty wacky helmets,

one in particular caught in particular, called Social Media by fire, as well as the Giro announces a route change

already a couple of months in advance to its what I consider the Queen's stage to Lavinia. So a lot to talk about, but this opening stage was the

Sprint stage in Paris, no complying wind, 178Ks, no hills, and they're just going south east.

And you told me Benji, what are they average for the first hour?

32 kilometers an hour, like 32.6 or something, so not exactly the fastest of run-ins towards the finish, but it was pretty curious because normally you'd think, okay, there's 2K, WIM points and an intermediate sprint, I think, on this park

core, which means that there's something for a breakaway to really fight for, but they

went about it in a really interesting way, as in we just had multiple breakaways in the shape of

first of all yonaz ruchen Matthew bergodo went in the breakway to fight for the

fast K-1 points and rutch they took those but bergodo had some from yesterday if I recall correctly so they were still

close in that classification but they get caught not long after and then Basquely Incorne is the next one who also goes in the breakaway he gets called again

fight breakaway which we're still only like 40 kilometers into the race but that includes

Ruuchch once again bergodot latur and they're fighting for that second K-wam point,

Burgodol takes those and he takes the K-wam lead after this end.

And once again, they get caught.

So the tempo in the stage was not huge and it was looking like it was just going to be a jolly Sunday ride until we hit the sprint but before we get there there was some news from some riders before the stage

the least said that he wouldn't be sprinting in today's stage because he wants to recover from the man crash.

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