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Welcome back to Lantern Rouge cycling podcast.

A stage 11 of the Tour de France, probably the most tranquil stage of the tour so far,

I would say, yeah, there's some nervous moments. But overall, I would say that the dozier stage

will get to my CS or even my dream sequence in a second from Clemau Theron, which is probably

shelled out half the town's annual budget, the like three and a half Tour de France stages,

to Moulin, 180 kilometres. And listen, I thought this wasn't an easy parkour,

I thought this could have been a sapping day in the legs because, yes, the first 27K is a flat,

but then there's a two climbs separated by a little bit of flash and yeah,

that 2K, 5% than another one and a half at 5%, then a descent straight into another 10 kilometers

of climbing over 4% with some bit steeper than another descent, no flat and then 1.2K,

6% and then another climb. So really between 27 and 70Ks to go, I thought a breakway could really

press on there and that's quite a difficult start. And then it's lumpy all the way to the finish.

Yes, it levels off, but also the wind direction was cross-tailed in largely actually tailwind,

which suggested that it would be difficult to bring a group back. But Benji, I vastly overestimated

the appetite for a breakway, obviously, in the preview of this stage, which we did yesterday,

because it never had a chance straight out of neutral, we could see that.

Yeah, I didn't really believe in a breakway for the reason that we saw,

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