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Tour and under stage three, the final stage of the women's race with one categorized

climb.

The big one starts in the city of, well, not in the city of Adelaide, starts north, northeast

near the base of Monocute, or north of Monocute, rather, and goes up to Loverthall, around

the hills, no real, like, no real savage climbs or anything like that, two intermediate

sprints, one at Loverthall, one at Gamaraka, and then they come back down, think, or

droid, and turn left to do the corkscrew climb, which would be decisive, 2.4K is 9%, I still

don't really trust that, I think it's not 2.4K is at 9%, although there are steep sections

in it.

And there's the all important descent to the finish, which is actually longer than

in the men's race, the descent in the women's race is 7.5Ks, in the men's race, it turns

right at the base of the Monocute descent, or the end of the Monocute descent, and turns

right, it's only 6Ks, so 1500 extra meters of fast flights would have downhill for an

attack at a navigate.

Okay, we had a breakway pretty early, was that 73 kilometers to go that Danford, Georgia

Danford, and Gina Riccardo, who we already saw in the breakway a few days ago, both got

in the breakaway, these wanted to stick the first, these spots at the first intermediate,

and we saw a sprint in the groove behind from Daria Piculic, who took the final second

and the final point, basically at that first intermediate, so nothing important for GC,

which is kind of the value that we look for in these intermediate sprints, and the same

thing happened in the next one, because Lucinda Stewart of ARA also bridged towards the

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