Welcome back to Lenton Rouge Cycling Podcasts for the recap of the Tour de France Farm of Ex-Swift Parkour release.

We had it in Paris on Thursday and a pretty similar route, I would say, to this year's route.

We do have one massive mountain stage.

So, unlike the men's route, which completely changed complexion, I would say, apart from the absence of time trial, time trial kilometers. This route, I think, is very, very similar. And although it's in a different part of France, again, beginning in not in France, but in the east well sort of in the east of France in the

French speaking part of Switzerland in the Grande de Par is actually going to be in

Lausanne we then go to Eglis for stage two Geneva stage three so a third of the

stages are in Switzerland where did it start this year?

In France, Clement Féinan, right?

Am I inventing that?

Yeah, I think it's starting in France.

Usually when we don't remember, it's not a broad Grand-Daparte.

Yeah, you're right.

But I feel like when it comes to the Tour de Franceonseigne and Zift, that we've had this like

year on year, backloaded routes.

And I think that's been a fair thing to do.

Because we've had the era of von Vleutton, we then had the era of voting, and then we

had the era of SDWorks fucking overvoting and throughout those races it wasn't

really a problem for me that it was backloaded the fact that the hardest mountain

stages are towards the end the question is at what points because the race has gotten an extra

stage last year it's now nine stages just like last year at what points, because the race has gotten an extra stage last year, it's now nine stages

just like last year, at what point is it going to change that dynamic? Is that going to

change based on what the playing field is you think? I'm not sure. I think they, I think that

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