Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast with Benji Nieson.

World Champs Week or actually four days really, it's already come and gone.

In Imelow the 2020 World Championships we just watched the Men's Road Race.

This podcast is going to be talking about the men's and women's

road race. Men's won first. Benji said some pretty spicy things on Twitter already

angering his own nation. I'm worried for him. I've told him I can't get over there.

I got no diplomatic passport to help him out in Belgium if people turn up with

pitchforks at his door in Westphalams.

So with that being said, let's get into the race today.

Once again, just like the, it's the same circuit that the women had,

or same across both the men and women's race is hard it's a really hard

circuit and I think someone mentioned to me that Simon Peleo heo he's not

Spanish Simon Pele, Swiss writer who was helped out with the design of the

course in Egel and Martinie in Switzerland, he said that this course was harder and that was a hard course the Ego Madny one so just a reminder

nine laps to the men 258 kilometers long two major climbs but also a third sort of uncategorized one called the Bergulo in each lap.

The first of the climbs was the Matolano 2.2k is 7.1%. That steep at the start then flattens out at the end.

Second climb and the last climb before the finish, which is about crest, about 12k's from the finish.

Is the Gima Galaistana, 2.3k is at 7.3%.

So similar length, similar grading,

but the Galaistana starts off easier and then is quite steep at the end so

certainly looking like it was going to be a launch pad for attacks in the

finale but yeah very very hard, I think over 5,000

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