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in Northern Ireland. Welcome back to the Lantern Roost Cycling

podcast presented by Zwift for the final Queen stage of UAE Tour. Up to Jibel her feet,

it's perfectly flat all the way to the base, 135k's of flat, and then 11k's at 6.7%.

Last stage we have I think in the middle east this year, and not as hard as Green Mountain,

but it's a harder climb than Jibel Jais in earlier in the week. The GC standings before the stage

were Pagatja, on top 14 seconds out of last of 17 ahead of Yates, with Almeida,

Palace, Bilbao, etc., all around 50 seconds plus behind. But yeah, nothing really happened,

Benji, what about Alpasin? And the strike I'll end up getting in the break, I wasn't watching.

Struck off didn't get into the breakway. We had an Alpasin rider in the break, though,

Johnny Vermeiros. I didn't see the initial part of the stage, so I can't say if Struck off even

tried to go in the breakway, whether Alpasin controlled them or nothing like that, I was kind of

surprised to see Merck in the breakway. I don't see any point of having Michal Merck in the

breakway today. Perhaps he just wanted to go on a bit of a ride in front to get away in the

likes of Kate and Groves, Jordi's new in highs, Darryl, MP, Schwardzman, like most of these riders

has no point of being in the break today, outside of just, I guess, exposure, but does exposure

matter for a well-through team at this race? I'm not so sure to be honest, but UAE was the one

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