Welcome back to the Lenton Rouge Cycling podcast here with Benji as always for the recap of stage eight of the Vuelta Espanya another sprint stage the fourth in this well to first week

So Saturday little bit surprising the way they've arranged it. I think they the organizers would have preferred to reverse the action yesterday with today stage. No, not less today stage was 174 case long. There was a couple of short climbs in the middle.

They were of no moment and it was all about to finish. There's a right hand sweeping then. No need to break anything like that in the last 200 meters. So you don't want to be first we'll through there, but you want to be jumping pretty sharpish out of that corner similar.

Remind me a lot of the corner where it's again the to give the area in the year and maybe a bit a little bit longer in the corner than that, but before we get into NG's

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Basque riders up front or some of them will bask. Yeah, okay, we can in the breakway, but guess any to the and that break away. Well, got a bit of a gap of two minutes, three minutes, like usual. We had the usual suspects in the peloton.

The sprinting teams willing to set up one rider at the front to keep tempo going for that initial part of the stage during the stage itself. Yeah, pretty boring. I ended up doing something else and I turned

back with about 40k to go because I knew there was a corner coming somewhere where echelons could happen and I was curious whether it would happen. I

was 38 kilometers ago. That's where action started happening because a stanna moved to the front with Freiler and Freiler started hitting it after a 90 degrees right corner straight into a

Well, open section when it comes to wind and crosswinds were possible, but the wind was just not very strong, but we had some stuff happening. And once again, every single echelon section in this entire

Volta so far, which team is at the back of the group? You have a vacation first, who is in the last echelon? You have a vacation first. Now the split ups were pretty chaotic for like 20 seconds. I don't think it was

that much longer. No, I don't think so. I wasn't too fast because you see when they that does a second section where they came out of a town again, and then a

star another second time after that already been a split and I think team on the right stone or some of that they start sprinting like, okay,

there's going to be a crosswind section. And then you see the right on front looking around, actually, which side of the road do I go on to for the best

shoulder from the wind? And if you're having to do that, that means the wind isn't strong enough. So, so any else on the left side, I'm doing their own

train. What I want to ask you, Benji is mountain stage tomorrow, 13 k 7.5%. If you're mountain top finish, breakway possible with

rock, which allergic to the red jersey at the moment. Why are Alpison having jave on, flog himself on the front today? Is it

something they just have to do to set up Philipson? Did they really need to keep the break? They kept it tight, like at one minute, one, you know, one 30. He's now going to be going

against Padun who took a rest day yesterday, and then nobody to be seen today. And in the dofen, I remember Padun was asked if he had to pull on the front

for cold braille and couldn't, couldn't or wouldn't pull very strong. Like, yeah, I'm just saying, is that, is that a criticism, whether your criticism is just

inevitability or do you think it doesn't matter for Vaughan's chances tomorrow anyway?

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