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Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast

Would Benji quit the podcast for Sporza? Are celebrity signings overrated? Giro Rest Day Q&A

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast

Lanterne Rouge Media, SL

Sports

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Lanterne Rouge and Benji Naesen seek to answer some frequently asked questions regarding our time in Budapest, our interest in doing live commentary and how we see the sport evolving in the future.

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Timestamps:
0:00 | Introduction
1:30 | How was our time in Budapest? Will we travel to more races in the future?
6:46 | Do we plan to do live commentary?
11:08 | What would our ideal World Tour calendar look like?
18:21 | What would our ideal stage race look like?
22:58 | How do we see the sport evolving in the future?
27:47 | What are our thoughts on salary caps with transfer fees etc and how smaller budget teams can retain talent?
31:36 | What are our thoughts on celebrity signings such as Froome, Sagan etc?
35:53 | What sports do we follow outside of cycling?

LRCP
https://www.youtube.com/c/LanterneRougeCyclingPodcast
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Lanterne Rouge
https://www.youtube.com/c/LanterneRougeCycling
https://www.instagram.com/the_lanterne_rouge_
https://www.twitter.com/LanterneRougeYT

Benji Naesen
https://www.youtube.com/c/BenjiNaesenGaming
https://www.instagram.com/benjinaesen
https://www.twitter.com/BenjiNaesen


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0:00.0

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in Northern Ireland. Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling podcast here for the Transition

0:36.4

Day. I'm not going to call the rest day Q&A after the three stages finishing in Hungary,

0:41.2

they then go down to Sicily in the Giro d'Italia. We've only had three stages. There's not that much

0:46.2

to talk about. You can see our podcast of yesterday where we discuss the Grande part of Tensa.

0:50.8

So we're going to do a Q&A on your Monday to keep you going and to answer some questions that

0:55.2

have built up. Remember, we ask these usually on Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcasts Twitter.

0:59.4

So if you want to answer them when we do them periodically or ask questions rather,

1:02.8

that's the place to go to. We're going to talk about our experience here in Budapest,

1:08.0

whether Benji will be on sports as soon, what our ideal world tour calendar looks like,

1:13.6

and some other things like off other favourite sports. But importantly,

1:18.1

just to remind you, the reason we were able to meet for the first time to come to Budapest

1:22.2

to experience the Giro d'Italia. Grande part of Tensa is thanks to our show partners,

1:26.9

Zwift, the online cycling platform that makes training fun. If you want to check it out,

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MVDP uses Zwift to use it in January, Cavendish. We're recording this before the sprint on stage

1:39.5

three. Maybe he wins. He's also on Zwift. There's something for everyone to help you get fitter

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and have more fun on the bike. It has real world and fantasy locations to ride in hundreds of

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