Welcome back to the Lantern Root Cycling Podcast.

We have three of these pods a year here with ENGY and the RAT thing in the corner for the

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We have three stacked teams for GC at this race, Yombo Visma, with Rollich as their leader

trying to claw back something after the Tour de France Disappointment, any else with Bernal

Carapas, Pidcox, Syvacol, V8s, all could be leaders maybe on another team and Bahrain

bringing Lunder, Arashira, Caruso, Hague, Mehta, Puduin, Pulse, Tratnik, probably the deepest

overall team that Rollich is the favourite Benji, I think it's like $1.92, he's back to

back winner, I think it's pretty appropriate, he's the favourite really.

Yeah, to be honest, I find the same thing, he's all that favourite based on the Tour de

Raine type as well, that will go into in a second but we know that he went out of the

Tour de France very early on due to the crash and he came back very strongly in the Olympics

with that time trial, it starts with a prologue here, he's likely going to be very close already

in the first week and it wouldn't surprise me if he's in the lead on Pick on Blanco already

to be honest.

So, yeah, the Paakour suits him and the climbs are quite heavy but there's ones out there

that do fit his standard, typical medium-sized mountain with very steep percentages that

Rollich basically loves and he has the benefit compared to other people that he can also

punch on to a 2-kilometer climb, for example and perhaps still a few bonus seconds like

last year because last year if he didn't have the bonus seconds with the loss he had on

the final mountain stage, he might not even have won the win, that was a matter.

My concern is his team, Robert Kessink coming off the Tour de France crash and on a bit

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