Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast for Bastille Day Stage 13 of the Tour de France,

the 14th of July from Châtillon, Thurt-Charleron, to Gran-Colombier. This climb was won by former

enemy device, Helen Johanison, in Tour de Lavinia before. It was in the Tour de France 2020,

where Pagatia beat Roglic in an uphill sprint, where a younger Visma controlled the entire day

with their team and Pagatia won that stage and took time again, and today we have a Wapakilo test.

137 Ks, flat for the first 80, and then they do a little 8k5% warm-up climb, a false flat plateau

for another 9k's, then a pretty fast descent, not very technical, you just smash it, and then a 10k

flat valley before 17.8 kilometers up from Colombia. As I said yesterday, usually you can get pretty high

Wapakilo here, because it starts from very low altitude, the only problem is the irregularity of

the climb, with the first six kilometers being quite difficult, three kilometers of those average

over 9% and one at nine, and then it flatens off, and then there's another 3k's at 9.5%, but then the final

if you make it to the final five k's as a breakaway, you're in with a chance, because there's three

k's at 444% in a row, and then it's actually the last 700 meters is the only one that kicks up

9.5%, a real punch in the last 700 meters, so not a climb, you expect big GC gaps. There were

gaps, but not big ones in 2020, and with how easy the stage was before we wouldn't be expecting

big gaps, Benji, but breakaway formation, to borrow, let's borrow a shamelessly steel a little bit

from the breakaway on the GCN plus coverage, where they do the in the bus with the team, you're the

UAE team director this morning, what's like your key principles for breakaway formation, assuming

you want to go for the stage with Pikachu? Basically said so yesterday, so the goal is to have a

smaller breakaway ahead, not a 20 man breakaway, not a 30 man breakaway, one that you can control with

a limited amount of riders on the flat, it's not the longest stage to control, so how do you do that?

You're going to have groups trying to get away initially, so either three or four riders will

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