Welcome back to Llantern Rouge Cycling Podcast for a recap of stage 4 of the Twitter of France filled with drama.

So much to talk about this is like the Marie Bloc stage all over again.

The Twitter France, you know sometimes they know what they're doing

when they put these sort of stages in the race. And this was from Pinarolo, we cross

over the French border, we start with the Cessary Airclim, 40Ks at 4% descent and then the coldamol genera 8.3 ks at 6%

Another short descent in the long drag up the glibier the quote-unquote easy side

23 k's 5% up to the

G. G. part of it is on like a, yeah, the big road motorway, then there's a long descent, 20 kilometer descent to Valois.

The first part to Plan Lache is technical, and then after that it's actually a fast pedaling descent.

There was a headwind on a lot of the stage particularly on the Galliope and so that was

we were curious to see whether that would change the G.C. action or what maybe

you 18 minutes would do. The last 8Ks of the glibier is where it's hard and actually the hardest

kilometer is the last K, the last 900 meters average 9%. So, yeah, that could be where people

attack or maybe if you struggle before, if you struggle before and you're dropped before and you're out of the draft in a headwind it's all over for you

and we saw some gee bids absolutely go today Benji but yeah what did you

what were we seeing pre-stage? What were we hearing pre-stage?

There was what Nils Pollots said, I think to Fabian Wegman pre-tour?

Mm-hmm.

Yes, I think, Pollets said to Fabian Weagman, this is a rumor from Danish television that, or German television,

Wegman is a German, but it's probably German television then. Why would it be Danish television? Anyway, German

television rumor that UAE would smash it today, as simple as that. But my questions were related to, okay,

how are they going to try something because in the

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