Vuelta a España 2025 - Stage 3
Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Lanterne Rouge Media, SL
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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In this episode of the weekly show Patrick Broe and Benji Naesen recap the second stage of the 2025 Vuelta a España.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast for stage three of Love Welter, the final stage in Italy. |
| 0:06.2 | And we have a typical Tireno-Adriatico-style finish, which we've often had. |
| 0:11.4 | This was, we had three of these sort of stages in 2021, where an a La Filippe, a Vanderpul, a Vanat, a versatile sprinter, a puncher, maybe even a GC writer can get involved from San. |
| 0:23.2 | How do you say this? I want to say it was Spanish pronunciation, but it's not in Spain. |
| 0:27.3 | San Maurizio Canaveze to Cherez, 134 kilometers long. A little bit roly, though. It's not as flat |
| 0:33.4 | as the other stage. It's 2,000 meters of climbing. We have one categorized climb to cap 2, 6K, 6.5%. |
| 0:40.5 | But the first 3K is like 8%, so it's quite hard at the start. |
| 0:44.4 | Descent, bonus sprint just after that descent on an uphill kicker, |
| 0:49.4 | more rolling hills and then like a big sort of, |
| 0:53.3 | you know Gorge Road, we all know gorge road like going up |
| 0:56.6 | gorge road in the td u they normally come down at that sort of road next to a river up to this finish |
| 1:02.8 | where it's the last two and a half case 3.2 percent it's pure power test as or louis aola said |
| 1:10.2 | at the finish. |
| 1:11.4 | Last K is 4.5%. |
| 1:12.9 | Draft is important. |
| 1:14.3 | Power is important. |
| 1:15.0 | If you drop the wheels, it's not good. |
| 1:17.1 | It's, I actually quite like these sprints. |
| 1:20.4 | I actually kind of do because it gives a different dynamic to it. |
| 1:24.3 | First of all, you have the dynamic of okay. |
| 1:26.4 | Can you Phillips and survive? |
| 1:28.2 | Secondly, what else changes? If it's really hard, can it even lead to punchers making it? |
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