Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Pubcast with Benji Nice and to the analysis and recap

of stage 20 of this year's Tour de France. The individual time trial, up Lapland, Belfier,

probably the craziest Tour de France page I've ever watched in my lifetime. I wasn't alive in

what was it? 1989, the mall, the mall stage. I'll age myself a little bit there, but yeah,

and in same stage, I'll just recap for you what the GT standings were going into the stage and

what the profile looked like. So it was a 36.2K time trial, 30.3 kilometers of it was flat. Now in

my video I made, I think I overestimated the amount of climbing. I'd saw somewhere that there

was 570 meters of climbing in that first 30Ks and it didn't seem like that was the case. They

went much quicker than I expected in the first 30. I think that was flatter than we expected,

maybe a little bit technical off the ramp. Then there was a 5.9km time trial at 8.5%

up Lapland to Belfier, which has been used in the Tour de France a number of times that climb. So

flat then climb. An interesting TT profile. The GT before the stage started, as you know,

was Trimel's roguet in first, 57.4km ahead of Tate Pagaccio, the Slovenian.

Miguel and Hellopis, the Colombian 90 seconds back, then 90 seconds behind him,

Australian Richie Port, three minutes behind roguet,

and Lunda, Marce, Yates, Urundumela, Valverde. I won't read you out all their time gaps because it's

not too important. The main ones are the roguet to the gacha, 57 second gap. Remember that number in

your brain? Then Lopez in third, he was 90 seconds, a minute 30, I think, was that, yeah, a minute 30,

ahead of Richie Port. So remember those two time gaps. As we expected, the first riders to start

over the last ones in GC, that's how every time trial goes after the first danger at least.

And it was four riders of Lotto Sudel in the first five, now we didn't expect them to go

all out. But we were thinking that they needed to be fast enough to prevent going out of time

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