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in Northern Ireland. Welcome back to Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast. As you can see, Benji and I

in the same room for the first time since the jury to tell you, for the big special occasion,

the Tour de France family of Ex-Wift, stage one, kick off, extremely hot in Paris. We've had to

come to laptops, would not have survived for the outside recording, we're at the Zwift booth,

you do the architry, Anthony the Champs, Elise Zay, thanks to Zwift for both supporting the race

and supporting us coming to Paris to see this for the start of the Tour de France family of Ex-Wift.

And this was the 81-kilometer sprint stage sort of inverted parkour compared to the men's race,

they start with the sprint on the Champs Elise Zay, with Vibers, Bolsamo, Capecchi, Vos, all those

riders, no consony, our preview is wrong, she's not in the race, she had COVID before the race,

and yeah, there was also two intermediate sprints, not one, they don't give bonification to 25 point

maximum point available sprints, as well as one, Queen of the Mountain sprint, I think it was a

400-metre 3% drag or 300-metre 4% drag, giving two points, so whoever took that would take

their Queen of the Mountain jersey for the stage tomorrow, but the big one was the yellow jersey on

offer, what did you think Benji about SD works, like were you surprised to see them really taking

it up and controlling parts of today's stage, say before this morning, I would have expected

it to be Trek, DSM, and Jamba Visma as the big three. I think it played a role into the intermediate

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