Welcome back to the Lantern Roo cycling podcast with Benji Naisen. This show is supported by our show partner, Nicole. There's no rest for the wicked, which we are indeed straight into to the Swiss stage one and two recap stage one bundle it into stage two.

Some of you might be calling us lazy for not doing a double day with Swiss and though for now. But yeah, you're right. I guess. So stage one was the TT. This to the Swiss course is a little bit different to one week race. There's no

genuine mountain top finish. It's a lot of descent style finishes. There's two time trials. It's a really a course of writers like Sharkman, full saying woods,

Alaphilippe, Carapaz, those sort of writers and they're the writers we have here as well as Matthew Van der Pol. You might have heard of him and Michael Matthews has always had trouble in Swiss sort of fit, you know, behind

us again. We have the TT Benji yesterday. I think this ago was the favorite at $2.30, Dennis at $2.80 and then cum about $8.00 to $9.00. It was at $10.9K flat TT at throw and failed. And yeah, what were the results?

When it comes to the top 10 of this stage, we had the Swiss actually dominating the first time trial at the Tour de Swiss. So the country's probably going to be pretty happy.

Number one, Stefan Kuhn. We had an average of 54.5 kilometers an hour, which is pretty damn high. Biscuit in second. And that I was on full seconds. Caternail with a good time trial. Really good at the end on 12 seconds. Let's talk about that for like 10 seconds after the top 10 here.

Tom Scully, 15 seconds down on 4th. I'll have a leap on 5th on 19 seconds. Jonas Rutsch with a good time trial. 22 seconds down. And then on the same time, Stymler, Vermeer and Kronerson. So 78 and 9 on the 10th spot. We've got Rohan Dennis who are according to many disappointed, but I think you had a feeling that it wasn't going to be a top notch as in on the shorter time trial for him.

I thought you'd come like 5th or something that I looked at Kuhn's result in the Tereno TT. I think it was Benji. And that was a really, really good result. He came second. He came second in San Benedetto, Del Toronto 10K TT behind Waffenart, 6 seconds behind.

I mean, that's an out and back. And this one's a little bit more technical, which suits him. He swearsies. I think he's reek on the course. He hit the corners really well.

I'll see all Swiss people know every part of Switzerland.

But he was super motivated for the home race. I think it's a safe assumption to make. And yeah, he was really good in the corners.

I don't know if it's the same applies to him, I guess. I mean, young guy, but I just think I know if it's the good is nice, we were on him a little bit more.

And before that par an East TT, Waffenart speaks of Christ, whilst that being said, that's the, you know, his best result in the TT so far.

And the UA2 was TT was good as well, I guess. But the point is, Kung and Bissiger didn't see a big difference between going into it.

But otherwise, yeah, Dennis maybe just wet and corners wasn't feeling it. But the GC, there were some GC changes.

And for, well, first of all, Alaphilippe, then G5, is that kind of like his, he's showing that Tour de France stage with, you know, the TT won the Tour de France.

I think this is almost more surprising to me because this pancake flat.

Yeah, exactly. I think that a shorter time trial does fit in much more than a longer time trial as in a 10 kilometer versus 30 kilometers on flat.

So this is definitely better for him. He's got that explosively and he can kind of push that forward to 10 kilometers in this section.

And he seconds down 19 to be precise, but very good time trial for him quite genuinely. And that's not the only rider from his team that did very well here.

Shyamalan at seven spot, not really worth you for GC, but very good. But Kat today on the third spot, he's definitely a helper, at least for Alaphilippe on this one.

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