Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast with Benji Naisen.

This show, the recap of stage one of the Tour de France from Brest,

to London, now is brought to you by our show partner,

Nicole, who produced performance cycling apparel predictably chaotic stage

today in stage one of Tour de France.

It always is a bit of a, it is a sweet start to the race, to be honest.

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But onto the race recap, 200K roll stage, Britannia classic,

not even light finishing on the co-to-fossil.

The wolf pit 1.2K is 8.1% to start that final climb.

And then it levels off at the end.

It's 3K, it's 5.3% and it's rolling climbs pretty much all day.

And the fight for the break was a bit weird, Benji, wasn't it?

The gap, they didn't really go automatically.

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