UAE Tour 2026 - Stage 5
Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Lanterne Rouge Media, SL
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Patrick and Benji recap the ffith stage of the 2026 UAE Tour.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lansom Rouge Cycling Podcast. |
| 0:02.0 | The recap of UAE Tour, 2026 stage 5, the Dubai al-Mamsar Park to Hamdanbid Muhammad Smart University sprint stage, 168 kilometers long. |
| 0:13.0 | They're in, they're not in the middle of the country, it's a lot of built up areas and there's not much wind anyway to play ball. So no crosswinds, no hills, |
| 0:25.1 | Jonathan Milan dominant yesterday, despite the hilly stage and the break nearly winning, |
| 0:31.3 | that meant he was a big favor for today's stage. And we did have a bit of a fight for the |
| 0:35.3 | breakaway. I think maybe eight or nine teams really tried to get in the break. |
| 0:41.5 | Yeah, but on a flat stage like this, there's also so many teams that might look for a potential |
| 0:45.7 | spell it on sprint. |
| 0:47.6 | And yes, Milan is the all-out pure sprinter here that on paper distorts everybody on the start line. Yes, he had that crash, but yesterday we saw that that didn't necessarily give the biggest impact. |
| 0:59.0 | Did you expect then for those other sprint teams to not play a role in controlling at all? |
| 1:04.0 | Looking at a Enios, for example, looking at an NSN even looking at all these other teams that have a second tier, third tier sprinter here, |
| 1:13.6 | but should probably hedge their beds between break or and sprints. |
| 1:17.6 | Yeah, it's just teams have like a sunk-class fallacy. |
| 1:21.6 | If you've invested in a sprinter, you send them to UAE tour where there's a pancake flat sprint. |
| 1:26.6 | You're like, people just don't want |
| 1:29.1 | to have the hard conversation in February yeah with their sprinter hey um fabio yacobson like |
| 1:35.8 | well they actually went in the break to their credit yesterday with Knox but they don't want to |
| 1:40.1 | have the conversation like yeah we just don't really believe in you. Actually, you have no chance to win today with Milan here. |
| 1:47.2 | You just don't want to, it's not worth it. |
| 1:49.0 | Like, which is not from a, you know, maximise probability of victories across the year. |
| 1:54.8 | If you think, okay, if you all go on the break, you have a nought point, |
| 1:59.9 | not one win chance probability, |
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