Welcome back to Lantern Rouge cycling podcast for stage three of the Tour de France fan Alex with the most likely sprint stage of the first three stages with the last 12

K's being pretty much completely flat from Colonne La Rouge to Montignac Lasco. It is medium mountain beforehand though with up and down really all day, nothing too severe but you know in the first 30

K's there is like seven K's of climbing straight pretty much back to back and then it's medium month the next couple hours and then there's also

two category fours put together which are about four K's of climbing at five percent with 50 K's to go so it's not like it's pretty completely flat

and the teams we have here are two four six seven rider teams not eight rider teams and you know ST works got lots of different objectives for different riders so I thought maybe

it wouldn't necessarily be a nailed on sprint for which viewers would be the favorite but what did you see

Benji once yeah what once TV coverage started or indeed from the racetrack up before then

when it comes to the race tracker beforehand we knew that some attacks had happened at the start but once again only a solo breakaway rider up the road

Catherine Hummers of EF and like if we take a look at how this race is set up this is a likely sprint finish like you

mentioned so we best versus call those are the two teams that will most likely try and control in the peloton so I want to see every single other

team in the attack on the stage not necessarily to win from the attacks but you got to keep in mind every rider goes in the break

might make it harder for the likes of the SMS D works to control the race and if you take a look at his D works they've got

make its goals in this race they've got following that won't be pacing for the likes of webos in the first majority of this race maybe

she she might jump in for a tiny bit of a lead out worst case scenario copacky same scenario so it's kind of up to the

other riders to help out and then you've got a limited amount of domestic there the exam has labo in the same fashion when it comes to when it comes to gc

but they have a bit more riders around shallow to call here so there's about seven eight double steaks or something in the peloton that should be used

for controlling other teams should be doing anything when it comes to controlling they should be trying to attack all

all along to make it harder for the domestic of the SMS D works to make it more likely that their sprinter wins or that day can get something out of the

stage in a different way and we got some attacks we got to give credit to some riders like the hummus for example that was up the road

there were other attacks that failed initially at the start of the race like labekki went up the road for a bit

she took one point at a KOM at a QM point but in the end it it really started kicking off for us when the broadcast started

and when that broadcast started yesterday we saw the once famous attack by Yara Kostlenoffer move of july van the welder

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