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in Northern Ireland. Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Pogcast for the Tour de France

stage 9, 2022. A stage I thought would actually be a boring breakaway day, but it was much

more than that. From air to the UCI headquarters, we do worse. We go around Lake Geneva, I think it is.

North, very beautiful. Then, hey, a head north come back and then finish in

Chateau de Port du Soleil, which is also near Eagle Lake. They double back through it twice.

It is the first mountain stage where we have a 30 minute climb and multiple climbs, but it just

isn't a big GC day the way I look at it. Benji and I have been saying it is the Montague

World stage all since we first saw this since November of October. It is like 13km 4%, 8km 7%

that called it a croix. Then the descent 20km flat valley and then the part of Mojant, which is 12km 7%

but it levels off at the end and there is a descent and there is a 4km 4.5% finish. So with our

satellite riders, you cannot hold a gap. It just doesn't look GC to me Benji and the intermediate

sprints after the climb just on the screen GC and a big break did go. Like a big break went with

the riders we expected. It is a gear, a gashka, a conrad, a tug buddy, all these sort of riders and

yeah, have you been surprised at how long it has taken for breaks to go and I think my reason is

the inexperience of the UAE flat don mistakes who don't let the right break go straight away,

a chase things that don't need to. I think it's a combination of both. I think first of all,

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