Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast with Benji Nieson. We just watched stage

four of the 2020 Twitter France, the first stage to have some genuine GC action or some actual meaningful things happen. Maybe not big time gaps, but the first time

I think in this year's Twitter, where you can really look at what happened and say, that is indicative of things to come for the

G.C. riders in this year's Tour de France. We previewed it a little bit yesterday

but the stage which was 160 kilometers long culminated in a category one climb to Osier-Murlett,

about 10.4 kilometers long average gradient of 6 percent, steeper sections but nothing no really steep sections drafting was

important for the entirety of the climb the favorites for the day were

Juliannella Philippe the man that was wearing the yellow jersey, but he was only in the lead by about 7 to 10 or 17 seconds.

Second favourite was actually Adam Yates, the Michigan Scott writer.

Third favorite, I think was Primoz Rogwich,

and then it was Bernal, Dermelab,

Podgatia, etc.

But really it was Alleep, who was the heavy favorite based on his performance on stage two and I'll throw to you

Benji now what happened almost the second after they left the neutral zone?

Basically when you have mountain stage and ground tours, you sometimes expect that stages

like these open up with a bang, you've got a long challenge for the breakaway, but once again today,

just like the days before, we've got yesterday as well the same case.

No one really went for it except for the first guys that went for it.

So we basically directly had a breakaway.

That included Viamos from Ajezer, Nylance and Pollit from Israel and the startup nation,

Bugaro for total direct energy, but note for Sunweb and Pacheh or B&B vital concept.

Now that breakaway was basically already greenlit the second day.

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