Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling podcast presented by ZWIFT who are also sponsoring the young riders jersey in both the men and women's TDU but we have stage two, the penultimate stage of the women's Santos tour down under and this was a cracker actually I really like this finish and I think stage design wise there is really something to

further organize us to take note of here 90 k from birdwood to your radar birdwood is out to the north northeast of like Mount Torrance and Loverthold deep in the Adelaide hills and they come they do look north then do a punchy climb

it kept two so a few cure end points Benji's Gladys the whole stem short-haking note one case six and a half percent and then it's just the hills is all like around that region it's all up and down no like steep extended climbs but it's just lumpy and tough and it was pretty warm today as well there then came south into summer town where there was a second intermediate sprint before the six case three point two percent count one up Mount Lofty up to about seven

hundred meters altitude before a stepped descent towards your radar so not descending fully into Adelaide it was not that long at a cent and also not that hard a climb you know it was basically false flat uphill for five

Ks and then a five percent one K section five and a half percent so not that hard a profile from what it looks like but it could be made hard with strong teams

but the intermediate sprint Benji both in the men and women's races are crucial for bonus seconds particularly on parkour where there isn't those really hard climbs that's again grace brown taking more bonus seconds which I didn't expect the last two days

yes for certain and we need to add to this that in men's cycling you often has a lot of like the early breakaway that days is I asked points intermediate sprint points very early on but here in women's centers with an under that hasn't been the case in the races as in we haven't had breakways yesterday in stage one that was a long time without a breakway stage two very similar and some winetti is the one that took the three seconds on the first intermediate sprint here ahead of grace brown like you mentioned so two seconds for her

but it a Hansen has been riding really strong as a domestic here for trexica for a little taking one second there as well maybe that's taking it away from a from riders from Jake when so forth so that would be useful now the race continued and there's a queue and point just after this first intermediate sprint

Gladys Fahals you said it is a the champion of qm points when he comes to the early ones in these races she's channeled her inner climber and she's attacked the peloton together with Claire steals from Israel who also is riding pretty strong in the center so that under so those two right is fighting it out photos qm points and Gladys Fahals takes the I think seven points on that climb and she's now on ten points after this one so she's doing pretty good she's doing pretty good so um JDF that's it qm question mark uh twenty twenty three

tried last year but yeah you really work out so yeah like Jeffrey Bouchard yeah but the issue the issue is that the breakaway

doesn't win the mountain stages here I know in the Tour de France fun so it's going to be very difficult for Gladys Fahals to do so unless you

becomes the the brand simply be friends learned yeah exactly I've been selling it for years it's not simple yeah I don't know why

riders don't do that it's like the gold strategy being better than von lyrton but they don't do anyway 30

kilometers to go we see some moves by other riders as well and a group kind of forms ahead Lauren

Stevens McMullan Gilman how the rider that you first presented as the top three rider in the

Rondovov Lauren in the Israel preview that uh no Djaco preview sorry wrong team and uh well we'll

see if that happens but it wasn't that good to that as well so two riders on the top three yes

okay I'll allow it for this one and I'm going to find another Australian okay we

ride and I'll put them in a couple of weeks to full Australasian podium okay I I I'll allow it

the challenge not that hot attack actually it's actually great because your takes make mine look good

even though I'm completely wrong most of the time anyway Emily Watson there as well has been

pretty strong as well I think in the uh in the Bakeryts earlier this uh this month Taylor

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