Welcome back to Lantern Rouge cycling podcast for stage two of the two of the friends. We have two

Ripper stages in a row

Pretty now we've been in for a treat Benji with the stage from

Victoria gas nice to sound Sebastian

Again, you know people I'll reduce punch sprint and the stage ends up being a lot trickier

And a lot more exciting than perhaps it looked on a first glance 210k's finishing as I said in sound Sebastian

Climes all day after the flat opening salvo

For the break away to form and the main sort of where the final really starts is the Hayeskabel

Which is in two parts three k's at five percent short one k flat section and then another three kilometers at seven or three point seven kilometers

That's seven percent before a very fast descent

Into and a run into sound Sebastian along the highways there. So at a tricky stage

We discussed at length yesterday. What would happen how the break would form would you who would try and get in it who will control and

An issue we saw medicine trying to jump in and was is that a tell that

He and Trek had already decided he had no chance of making it over that final climb

Potentially that combined with the fact that he might be able to get 20 points for green doing that

So that's kind of the combination I'm looking for but him getting into the break away means that

Not even the teams that want to control the break away

But also the teams that want to actually go for the green jersey might start controlling him going in the break away

So that eventually did not occur

We ended up with a a three-man break away because I feel like Trenton was doing quite a bit of work in the in the break away control

The break was Nelson Paulus K.W.M. Jersey wherever after yesterday

Remy Cavania and Bolson Hagen so really good riders on the flat with Paulus on the climbs and

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