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in Northern Ireland. Welcome back to Lantern Rouge cycling podcast for stage 8 of the

tool to France from the doll to Luzanne, they go into Switzerland today, 186k stage. I thought

it was a nailed on breakaway stage, sort of rolling medium mountains with not too difficult

to finish. It's like a 5k, 4.5% stepped finish with the first kilometer and a half and about

6.5%. Then there's flat and a false flat downhill, then another 1km 8% punch for a level

soft for a 500m false flat uphill finish. Like the sort of break that went, you'd expect

more rich, sturvin, baguoli, honoree, these type of riders to get in it. If it went to a finish,

wealth and art, pidcock, math use, punches from the bunch blasts of, as well the question would

be what would Jumbo do today? The intermediate sprint was about, let me do some quick maths,

9k's after a 6.5k, 4% climb, so would Jumbo Visma pace the climb really hard to try and drop?

Yikes and get some good intermediate sprint point gains. So yeah, lots of interesting things

on this stage and I was wrong Benji, because when the break was forming, it looked like bike

exchange UA and Jumbo were not letting more than three or four guys go at a time.

Yes, certainly, and there's a few things that happened at the start of the stage. We saw

when the break was forming, the typical ruler of breakaways tried to get away initially,

and it really came down to a crash that caused the final breakaway getting away, and it was a

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