Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast with Benji Niesen.

We just finished watching stage 8 and this year's tour of France back-to-back exciting days.

After Wabharnath stage win yesterday, we had some G.C GC action today. If you want to support the

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But anyway, on to today's stage in stage 8, the GC positions before the stage where

Yates in yellow, permission Scott, Roglich second,

here on Montana third, Egan-Burnal fourth,

and Naira Quintana fifth, I think,

but all the other G.C. contenders were largely on the same time as Egg and Bernal.

The stage profile is the first proper mountain stage.

They had a category 1 climb after about 60 kilometers, 7k at 8% the cold of Monte then the Port de Valais 12.2

kilometers long at 7.6% HC climb and then after that the cold de periseur with bonus seconds on top of it 9.7 k is 7.5%

category 1 and then a descent into ludanviel with a sort of

roly running in the last 4 kilometers.

So another one of those stages where

there's a mountaintop finish, well there's not a mountaintop finish rather,

it's the opposite of that they got the

mount and then they have to descend into the finish which I don't really think helps

attacks but anyway I'll hand over to Benji now to describe what happened

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