Welcome back to Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast for stage one of the Tour de France 2023 from Bilbao to Bilbao

A very difficult opening stage with GC gaffes with surprising winners with tactics already in playing with unfortunately

Some GC abandoned so it had a bit of everything and we've also got some

With some learning for us Benji every single team just about has changed their jersey for the biggest race of the year

So I don't recognize anybody and half them have also gone for the old

White on three white for the three quarters of the top and then a bit of color to hide eye at the bottom

It's actually quite crazy 11 teams

I think in total and then the combination of

New and C. Jersey's also popping in I feel like this is being done too much the current rule is that teams can change their jersey

Three times per year now instead of one and I feel like that's a bit much because

Don't you feel like if you're a new comrade to sport you want to be able to recognize the people that you're looking for because I feel like

I had trouble finding Israel all the time today. Yeah, the Israel one because it doesn't even yeah, that one's odd

It's like that change and C. Jersey, but hey the stunner looked worse in person than it was when I saw it on the internet

But there's so many new jerseys out there, but anyway, we recognize most of them and we're able to watch a stage

And so this stage 183 kilometers long we start with two sort of two kilometers five to six percent climbs where I thought a

Decent break would form because we have the K. W. M. Jersey on offer for the breakaway in theory

There's then some valleys another collection of two longer climbs four case five percent three point five case eight percent

Another valley through Gernico, which is Bill Baugh's hometown and then we do a collection of four and a half climbs

First one there's other letters easy the Argentinian right back for man city 50 pace on FIFA

And then they gradually get more difficult code demorga 3.8 case five percent cat four one K one point

Code divivero 4.3 K 7 percent cat two. Yeah, which means five points at the top

And then the code to pk after another five to seven kilometer valley 2.1 K's 9.4 percent

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