Welcome back to the Lenton Rouge Cycling Podcast for our last sprint royale recap in the desert for the year.

I'll miss them with nostalgia.

Yesterday, Tim Merleir said, I like coming to this country, not just here, Saudi, Oman.

He loves the sprints in the desert.

And we have another one, Abu Dhabi breakwater.

Could Johnny Milan go three out of four?

Could Maliah even it up like he did in the Jiro last year? Could Philipson get some runs on the board?

And yeah, the Abu Dhabi Breakwater Sprint, this is the one that's got a bit of a chican, not a breaking chican, but timing is important. There's a bit of a wind

at play as well. No crosswinds, really. We're in too much of a built-up area for most of the

stage. They don't really go out to the desert like in the other stages. Any news pre-stage Benji?

Any abandoned sickness, anything like that? Yes, we had quite a lot of people crashing in yesterday's stage.

For example, we had the crash by Melit himself, actually after the finish.

He didn't abandon the race, but I looked at that footage again after the race, and that man hit his head really hot onto the floor.

Then we had Grunumain, who was apparently part of a crash yesterday in the stage five of the

OE Tour.

He actually abandoned suffering from concussions.

So that's unfortunate.

Hope he gets through that very swiftly, because concussions cannot be underrated.

But I don't actually know if anyone else abandoned at the OE Tour.

I think that those were the most important names that

I can think of. But today's stage, I want to talk about that as well, because we've had a few

sprints so far. We had stage one, one by Yonatan Milan. We had then, well, stage one was that uphill

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