A day for the bunch sprinters despite some weather forecasts providing hope of more excitement with a light cross tailwind for some of the day. Exposure in the break for the wildcard teams was the order of the day before a technical finale with 5 corners in the last 2km and plenty of road furniture, causing some unfortunate crashes and GC ambitions to be ruined before the first week was done.

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A difficult medium mountain day with a tough 4.3km 9.5% finish to the stage amidst atrocious conditions. A nightmare for a GC man hiding weak legs and perhaps an opportunity for a large break to form with the maglia rosa up for grabs. Chaotic coverage and some cracks in the GC men were the story of the day.

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A climby sprinty kind of day for the Giro d'Italia stage 3, with Bora and Peter Sagan hoping to distance the other sprinters and catch the break before the line. Things wouldn't be easy for them and they had the GC teams to worry about. LR and Benji also discuss the Lefevre comments regarding Almeida and Sam Bennett leaving Quickstep at the end of the year, whether he is bluffing and where they could go.

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The first sprint stage of this year's Giro d'Italia, with Dylan Groenewegen, Caleb Ewan, Peter Sagan, Tim Merlier, Nizzolo and Viviani all lining up for the stage honours. A stacked field, just missing Bennett, WVA and Ackermann and a tricky finish with an S bend in the final 600m and a gently curving right hand bend to finish it off. Positioning would be important as well as having a clear run to the line on the right hand barrier. 

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The opening stage to LR and Benji's favourite grand tour, the Giro d'Italia, with the Maglia Rosa up for grabs for the stage victor. A lot of hype prior to this time trial, with Ganna seeming fallible in recent weeks, Evenepoel having his first race back from his Lombardia crash and a stacked climbing field of GC men trying to limit as much time loss as possible in this 9km flat time trial. We recap the stage, what this means for GC and preview tomorrow's sprint stage to Novara.

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Our much anticipated Giro d'Italia 2021 preview is here, where LR and Benji analyse everything to do with the race and just the race. We discuss the GC contenders, sprint field, every stage parcours and likely stage win hopefuls as well giving our final predictions for GC at the end. 

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General race overview | 0:00

GC contender overview | 4:15

LRCP Giro fantasy competition | 15:00

Stage by stage analysis | 17:00

Breakaway hopeful chances | 1:31:33

Ciclamino | 1:36:06

Maglia Azzurra | 1:37:17

GC predictions | 1:38:31

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How did Benji and LR meet? Who are their favourite riders? Where do they want to take the podcast in the future? We answer your questions and more in this Q&A special, prompted by hitting 10k subscribers on the podcast YouTube channel and 20k audience on podcast players 

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Why did you decide to be cycling content creators | 5:04

How did you meet? | 10:05

Do you want live broadcast rights | 13:42

Where are you moving and why | 16:05

Which riders do you have a bias towards | 18:11

Rank the monuments | 26:42

What is your fondest cycling memory | 33:08

What can be done to improve women’s cycling | 37:45

Bonus seconds, yes or no | 41:04

Why do you wear sunglasses | 45:17

What is your job | 46:37

Most underrated rider | 50:31

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The final stage of Tour de Romandie 2021, an individual time trial of 16km with steep climbs, barely any long flat sections and some technical sections. GC was to play for with Woods only 11 seconds ahead of Geraint Thomas and Porte looking to step onto the podium not far behind as well.

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The big mountain test in this week's Tour de Romandie, brought forward by 2 hours because of bad weather...which was really, really bad. One of the most chaotic and brutal stages of the World Tour in 2021, with neutralisation drama, crashes and Marc Soler attacks.

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LR and Benji recap stage three of Tour de Romandie, another rainy miserable day with not too much to gain for the GC contenders and some punishing climbs within 10km of the finish. A sleepy stage woke up in the last 30 minutes with the weather causing multiple crashes including some big GC contenders and a surprise winner made his move much to our excitement. 

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