Tour de Romandie Stage 2 Recap
Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Lanterne Rouge Media, SL
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🗓️ 29 April 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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LR and Benji recap stage two of Tour de Romandie, the first day with some extended climbs but a 20km flat run into the finish meant that once again, some climby sprinty bois could make it to the reduced bunch sprint finish. Another strong headwind on the climb played into proceedings as well as Benji and LR having stern words for the teams that did not deliberately lose time in the previous stage despite having breakaway ambitions.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast with Benji Naisen and to stage two of the |
| 0:05.1 | Tour de Romandie 2021, a 165 kilometer long stage from La Nouvelle, Nouvelle to Santemier. It has |
| 0:16.1 | I think five category two climbs and it finishes with a category one, the Voudazel which crests |
| 0:25.2 | about 17 kilometers from the finish, it's eight kilometers at 6.7% it was over 3300 meters of climbing, |
| 0:32.3 | a very rolly stage but unfortunately it proceeds the true mountain stage and is after just a prologue, |
| 0:40.7 | not a long time trial where significant differences might be had. So it looks like a breakaway stage |
| 0:49.6 | Benji but the way GC is set up made that difficult but who were the brave souls that went into the |
| 0:57.7 | break today they were pretty strong riders. Yes we had a quite in a few strong riders including a |
| 1:04.4 | few previous ground tour winners in the breakaway, first of which is Raint Arame, 1T, so a potential |
| 1:11.2 | stage win for 1T, we're so hyped for that one, on front all we're in the break as well I think he |
| 1:16.4 | is having his birthday today, 27, Birnsteiner is also in the breakaway, we know him from a breakaway |
| 1:23.7 | stage in the Giro last year, Nouvelle Villelle is also in the breakaway and we also have a |
| 1:28.1 | Chris Hamilton for Sunweb and Guy Sado for EF education first, so all in all the pretty strong |
| 1:33.8 | breakaway when he comes to climbers and these are pretty much all of them except perhaps Stadame |
| 1:40.0 | at this point in his career, riders that I could see fighting for a Giro stage win or something of |
| 1:45.9 | those lines in the future, we've seen them do that in the past as well, pretty much so I just wanted |
| 1:51.6 | to bring that up, but very roly-pop cool like you mentioned and that breakaway actually got a |
| 1:56.8 | pretty considerable gap, but the problem there is that there's riders in there that quite simply |
| 2:03.4 | are a bit too close in GC with the likes of Chris Hamilton being on 29 seconds going into the |
| 2:08.5 | stage, I think we're going to have a quick discussion about that after the stage about why someone |
| 2:14.5 | like DSM does not, for example, take more time in the previous stages to then send someone in the |
| 2:20.5 | breakaway because with 29 seconds people are going to control you, but anyway we're going to |
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