Volta a Catalunya Stage 1 Recap
Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Lanterne Rouge Media, SL
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Movistar decided they wanted to watch the world burn and this stage turned into absolute chaos - immediately becoming one of Lanterne's favourite stages of the year.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast with Benji Naisen and to our recap of the |
| 0:05.2 | first stage of the 100th edition of the Volta Ciclista Catalonia, a seventh stage world tour race. |
| 0:11.7 | I put up a big preview of it the other day during Milano San Remo when I was kind of bored. |
| 0:18.2 | First stage is from Kalea to Kalea. It's a look from the coast. They go in, land into the |
| 0:24.7 | medium mountain region and then back into a flat sprint in the coast. Pretty interesting profile, |
| 0:32.1 | very tightly balanced between break and sprinters and maybe a climbing sprint, a sort of like |
| 0:39.7 | Magnus Court, like on Matthew's types. Other of those two are here, the 180 kilometer long stage, |
| 0:46.8 | two main climbs. They crest with 104 and 131 Ks to go. The first one's not so bad. |
| 0:54.8 | Not particularly steep. The first long one, but then the concerning one, maybe if you're not in |
| 1:01.6 | good condition, was the climb from the, or called the Port de Santa Fe, the Montseni. |
| 1:07.6 | The first five or six Ks of it were actually like six percent average. So that was the place |
| 1:13.5 | to put sprinters under pressure, then a long descent of 30 Ks and then a small roller, |
| 1:20.2 | one and a half Ks of 5.6 percent and then 18 Ks, false light downhill to the finish. |
| 1:26.6 | Who do you think, who do you like for this stage, Benji beforehand, the break, the sprinters, |
| 1:32.1 | a GC man? Honestly, I didn't really have a clear view of what was going to happen. We know that |
| 1:36.8 | on this similar parkour, the ones who had won a stage a few years ago, so to bring canmen on this |
| 1:41.6 | kind of parkour, because you've got the climbs in the middle of the stage, it is sent towards a |
| 1:46.7 | smaller hill just before the line. This means that first of all, the sprinters could already drop |
| 1:52.0 | on the mountains, on those hills. I'm not sure if we can really specify as pop-up mountains, |
| 1:58.0 | but these major climbs of the day, those are the ones where the sprinters, the real flat sprinters |
| 2:04.6 | could drop. We don't have too much of those on the stylist here. I was more looking at potentially a |
| 2:10.8 | sprinter would already use Bunch, but then my question would result into who's going to keep that |
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