Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast with Benji Nice and stage 18 of the Twitter France.

Perhaps the last mountain stage, well it is the last mountain stage and the last opportunity

for the G.C. men to make big impressions on each other.

We've got Euro Rosa stages, I think, five and six, wrap up the results there, as well as

Euro Delatos Ghana and the Copper Savini results, which is talk about quickly.

Luxembourg, I think we'll have to do it in a pod on its own.

But back to Tew to France stage 18, it was a lot of mountains, but it wasn't in my opinion as hard as the stage

yesterday just because of how steep these clums were compared to cold

the lows it started with an uphill false flat with that intermediate

sprint with 13.5 k's into the stage, then the corner de Rosolon 20k is at 6%.

Category 3 and a category 2, they're called

their Says, 15Ks at 6.5%, another descent,

then the called the Ravi, 7Ks at 6.8%, another descent, and there's no, by the way, there's been no values at any point that I've been speaking really, and then the Glier climb, which I think was 5k or 6k is at 11% so quite steep but no not that I saw no

obscene pinches like yesterday it didn't look as undulating to the naked eye. And there's a little gravel

section at the top of that climb that also was a climb in it of itself which did spice up the

G. C. A little bit. bit then another descent then a short 6k

climate 4.5% then a descent into the finish at La Rochelle. So in years past

these sort of stages have been used as a springboard for big attacks from Landis or

Antani I think attacked on Sez once in the Tour de France and

for him in giro similar sort of stage I guess where

the G C you know someone like Pagacha maybe would attack early but would that

happen today in this era who knows but yeah what

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