Welcome back to Lantern Rouge cycling podcast presented by Zwift for UAE two at stage seven the final stage the recap the showdown on JBL her feet we will have the corner Brussels corner some form of recap maybe next week at some point as

well as a four night dash as well as a what other races are on. Is that it? There might be other races on to a row under some maybe a roundup and Australia preview as well.

Before I help on the plans for lots to look forward to but this stage was all about. Could Remcord of NGC who would try and leave on to the podium it's a hockey stick stage 154 K's the climb is 10.7 K's 6.8% although that includes.

Like a false flat in the middle actually I think they kind of don't count the end is a bit longer than that there's a steep 10% K about five six K's in and in some case not a steep it's a wide highway before the stage Remco was in a nine second GC lead ahead of lap 13 seconds ahead of bill bow and Adam Ricardo Yates was a minute plus behind why Benji did they have.

Yates middle name in every graphic but they don't for any other rider.

That's very good question maybe it's like a request from the writer because we have the same with would fill up your it's right the other one so yes it's some ongoing Yates thing I feel like maybe it's a British thing but we don't have it well then we have it for Christ off a clive at some point from.

I remember seeing it at some point on screen but anyway those names are a pretty fantastic I want to complain about Rick yard when Philip means.

I think the reason I say Ricardo and Philippe is because the only other riders that have that of the Spanish riders who have the double surname like Enrith Maas Nicolayl and.

They're none of the young other like angler riders the double so yeah that's a curious curiosity to the stage we had our boy wells for in the break the fact that he didn't win the stage little bit disappointing from the break away thought you have to have it you know what yeah 90 seconds of the base plenty of time has been there who else is in the break with them.

Bollerstead was in the break and Jaco Hanan and Bollerstead is now not anymore at Yombo deaf team but at Alpasin I think I think he was at Yombo back in the day.

Hesmon is still at Yombo and does actually play a role in the final of this race even though it's not the biggest role so remember Michelle Hesmon in the break away now I'm we knew that this race was all going to be about Jabela feet the final climb and it's not the.

Easy climb like Jabel Jais was it's a harder climb it's harder percentages but draft still matters on this climb and.

You've got this finish where last year and the year before we've already spoken about it being steeper from three kilometers to go to like one kilometer to go and then it kind of has a descent kicking into the finish line so if someone wants to drop someone they have to do it earlier then in the final sprint otherwise they're going to be sprinting against the other.

Anyway towards the climb we knew the situation in GC we knew that he had to do something to get on to the podium or when the stage depending on what he seemed to be possible at the start of today stage they think all we can't get to the victory in GC anymore just hold go for the stage as a possibility and then I'm just defending a same with lap same with bill bow and I never really considered any other rider that is outside of those four.

Still as an attacking possibility on the stage because he was the best attacker in the ones on a minute anyway right.

Yeah I didn't really do honest polls to Barry.

I know I don't know if you can do us a bell during a one week race but I didn't see him on camera once this week except across in the line here right you know securing their top ten in GC so yeah I didn't really think of coups for the stage.

I thought it'd be a tough ask to beat Yates and because Yates just wouldn't give him any freedom it's not like Yates if he's fighting with Remco on GC they let a coups go that's never happening with Yates he said their goal was to win the stage today on Jabel have the UAE's won the last two years with Pog both GC and this stage Pog is usually entered this stage in the GC lead and then a narrow lead often and then Saddle.

On the wheel of the eights and one the sprint with the eights unable to drop him so we were curious to see would Renco do the same strategy as Pikachu on Jabel her feet against Adam Yates is really good at this climb anyway.

Drag race into the bottom quick steps start launching at Benji before like UAE that I thought Björg was going to drive it from the bottom quick step I was a pro I guess where they just going to.

Use churny or whoever before or seri before they can't do anything was it the biggest lead out though I feel like it were like the domestic that you don't expect to make it far on the climb if that makes any sense that we're doing to work for quick step at that point maybe it was some kind of like.

Show boating against UA of like all we're still here we're still here whatever you do now won't matter Remco is going to survive maybe that's come kind of like a mental game they were playing with the riders that won't necessarily matter in the final segment of the Jabel I feed.

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