Welcome back to Lantern Rouge cycling podcast for stage 10 of the Tour de France, the first stage after the first rest day yesterday and wow, it is super hot in Europe at the moment, particularly in the middle of France and where we are so yeah, we're we're feeling it with the riders as well.

They've done the Pyrenees, sort of early this week, it would have been at scorching temperatures, but it's like 38 degrees for this stage from Volcania, which is the volcanic region near Climothorond to Israel, what looks like a medium mountain, you know, Patrick Conrad, breakaway, Marquis, she break away of years past, a Molum and breakaway type stage, 168Ks, just turned into an absolute slugfest, we've got cat threes and sort of seven

eight case five percent six case six percent five case five percent six seven case six percent is the last major climb about 28 kilometers from the finish and over 3000 meters dead of L meters, but I thought this was nailed on break Benji, but to the point where we could see the break form, yeah, and then go and have a siesta, we weren't afforded that privilege today.

Yeah, no siesta for us, we had action from start to about 75% into the raisin and the final also had some sparking action left and right as well, so it was a good stage from the start, like the first hour, I'll be honest already, was the best part of the race for me personally, the breakaway formation phase, I love seeing it usually because the tactics involved now was crazy, it was just chaos everywhere, many attacks, including,

loud fan art, multiple times, Matias Kiamoza, trying desperately to get in the breakaway, Julio, I love Philippe, so many riders trying and then a seven man group form, he had Kowski or any else, Cavania, you know, is a year A, we've got material, jogger and some violence, strong and charming, once again, the attacking is a real team, which I absolutely love this sort of France and in the Giro, but the action came when the second group started forming because

Jonas Vingegar starts to slip into G2, a group behind the first group, my cut in the sides to bridge, Pogachar to that group, Yates and Bardet are there, what were you thinking?

Well, yeah, unfortunately the producers were none the wiser, they literally had no idea this was going on, so we didn't see a lot of this on TV at all from the helicopter, because I saw Vingegar slipping and my immediate reaction was a gatch is attacked, because that's normally what happened in the second and third big of the Tour de France last year.

But this year, or today it was the opposite, Vingegar trying to slip in Hinley style, he only had coups in that move with him.

It's not like he had Vanart up the road, so it was never really going anywhere for either of them.

I don't know, I think he was, I don't really know what he was trying to do apart from just see what happened, maybe he was trying to be a patron and shut down the counter move, I don't think so.

The new Danish patron, but I agree with that, I didn't see fully realistic that that group would make it, although the gap at a certain level was 40 seconds.

The thing is though, Hinley slipped in being a Borough rider that looks a lot like the other Borough riders in Borough kit, this guy's wearing the yellow jersey and tried to slip in, so exactly hiding very well.

He's like that meme with with the dude standing behind a tree, but he's like twice the size of the tree, that's what it looked like, Vingegar in the break away, but it was fun to see.

And it was curious to me that you, we had the upper hand when it comes to the amount of riders in group to ride as well, Vingegar had because they're a follicle correctly, and you seem to try to keep that going even when part of that group started attacking.

I didn't say this is where I got really confusing to me because as you said, this group got 40 seconds behind, I can't remember who was in the break.

Benji, like nailins remember that.

Chris Nailins, Solo initiated being in this move ahead, and it wasn't the first or the second of the last.

So Chris Nailins is ahead already, and it's full kicking off behind, and he's riding full in a group ahead.

The gap went to 40 seconds, the pelts on the Benji, not because of Vingegar or Kus, UAE's pacing.

And it didn't make sense to me because Vingegar, like he's got Kus in the group, he's got teammates behind.

Yumbo weren't chasing behind, it was basically my car riding against Borra, because, because Yates, as you mentioned, Simone Philippe is in the group, just behind by him, the on GC.

So it's UAE riding with Vingegar in the wheel, just the same as Pikachu, to keep Borra and Inos behind.

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