Welcome back to Lanchin Rouge Cycling Podcasts to the opening of La Vuelta, Spain.

The first state, but we're not in Spain.

We are in Turin, what Benji and I have deemed to be the richest city in all of Europe

because they just cannot stop hosting Grand Tour cycling events.

And we have a sprint.

Yes, we have a sprint, but we have to talk about something different first.

I arrived in this podcast meeting.

We're about to do the podcast and Patrick arrives late.

So the fact that our live stream on YouTube is late is on him.

And he arrives and he says, a wizard is never late.

He didn't know the second part of the quarter.

I had to fill him in.

He roused precisely when he needs to. And then he says that's from Harry Potter, right? I'm sorry, but... Dumbledore said it. Ah! I've usually thought it was from Harry Potter. Is it not? It is not. It's from a lot of rings, but I had to get that out of my mind because it has been

eating up on me for the last 10 minutes. Let's begin. Let's begin. Classic start to the tour of

Spain, yes, from Torino Regia de Venaria to Navarra. We did see in the last couple of days,

a few things have changed since our preview ben turner is in for

any oscar and it is Lucas hamilton is out with illness and uh lu turner was at the renewy

tour and had to dash across to italy probably does give them a better sprint train option

for the versatile sprints particularly on stage three i I think Turner and Gano is a good combination.

Any other, or Damiana Caruso fell down in his bathroom year, two evenings ago,

and fractured his hand, and so he's out?

Like it's sad, but it's also one of the funnier ways that I've seen someone slip out of a ground tour. It could happen to anyone, though. That is true. Imagine if we slip before the podcast and one of us doesn't make it to the microphone. Would never happen. I've fallen on my bike at 65KPH and been a mummy and I'll still turn up and as long as I can speak, it's fine. And I've been stuck in this room for the last two weeks.

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