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in Northern Ireland. Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling podcast stinking hot here in Europe

in the race in this room for Tutor France stage 12 from Briar Sol to Laup du Wess. This was

the stage pretty much used when Carlos Sastra attacked and took two minutes in the 2008 Tutor France

but that was in the the Pyrenees and the Alps reverse. This is the end of the Alps, the last Alpine

stage for the Pyrenees next week. Would we see action? 166k's, the cold to Galibier, the side

they descended yesterday, 23k's, 5% descent down the side they came up yesterday, and then they go

up the cold to the farther fair, which is 29.1k's, 5.2% just a nasty long climb, but it's stepped

it's flatter sections, it's steeper sections, it's your regular, another step descent valley

before Alp du Wess, 14km, 7.9%, but that's because of the last sort of 900 meters are a lot

flatter. The first 5k's average about 8.5%, so with the honest finger guard after his massive

three minute game yesterday on 222 before Pagaccia, ahead of Pagaccia, I thought it was going to be

Skytrain all day from Jumbo, Vismabengi, but not like I think how I would approach the stage or

how you do the stage, you do Skytrain, and then you push hard, you use up your domestics one by one

in a planned fashion. If Jonas feels good and Pagaccia has a bad day, he takes another 20 to 30,

but if Jonas has a bad day, you're not making the race so hard that he's going to give a minute back

to. Exactly, that's how I expected a race to go as well, a rather defensive strategy compared to

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