The biggest team in cycling re-upped for 2021, with Team Ineos adding Tour de France podium placed Richie Porte, Dauphine winner Dani Martinez, Britain's young phenom Tom Pidcock, the mercurial Adam Yates and Belgian talent Laurens de Plus. Benji and Lanterne discuss how GC leadership will play out for Ineos (will they miss Froome), whether they will be competitive in one day races and whether Egan Bernal will return stronger. 

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Team Ineos' big signing for 2021 and beyond, Tom Pidcock kindly joins the Lanterne during his January training camp to preview his 2021 season, discuss the benefits of cyclocross racing as preparation for the road, his target races and why the DMR has made Warzone less fun.

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Lanterne and Benji preview what to expect from Deceuninck-Quick-Step in 2021, including their new signings, riders out of contract (basically everyone) what their strengths and weaknesses are and who should be their leaders for the monuments and grand tours. Perhaps a season of change for DQS in 2021, with some warning in 2020 with Almeida in pink for 15 days, but on paper their classics squad does not look to be the strongest in the world whilst their Grand Tour potential is on the rise.

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Here I am trying to get some easy ZZZ's in January when there is no racing going on and the next thing I know I receive a Whatsapp message from Benji at 3 in the morning and my phone is blowing up once I wake up later because Marc Hirschi, the Swiss Phenom, has had his contract terminated with Team DSM (formerly known as Sunweb) on January 5th. No reason has been given for his contract being terminated by either side, nor any other team confirmed as his next team. All very odd but somewhat in keeping with the way Team DSM has operated the last few years. Benji and I break it down in this podcast.

Team DSM Statement | https://www.team-dsm.com/good-luck-marc/

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The first of our previews for the World Tour teams in 2021, starting with Israel Start Up Nation, the team with arguably the biggest name signings and the most money spent on new transfers in all of cycling.

Let us know down below whether you think the Froome signing is going to work out or whether it will be a disaster, we certainly let you know during this podcast.

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Lanterne and Benji sit down to discuss who is the best male time trial rider in the world, focussing on the following categories of time trial rider:

1. 10km or less pancake flat prologue (Tirreno stage 1);

2. Rolling parcours (WC Yorkshire, Algarve 2020);

3. 20-35km mostly flat (WC Imola);

4. ITT with genuine climb (PDBF ITT and 2017 WC at Bergen);

5. 50km+ TT (WC Yorkshire); and

6. TT deep in the midst of a Grand Tour (Stages 20 in 2018 and 2020 Tour de France). 

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The news broke today that Mark Cavendish has signed a one year deal at Deceuninck-Quickstep for 2021, meaning that he will remain in World Tour for at least another year. Lanterne and Benji break down what the signing means for Cavendish, Quickstep and maybe which races we could see Cavendish doing well at in 2021.  

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Benji and Lanterne deep dive into the Tour de France 2021 route, which was announced during the last week of the Vuelta a Espana. We love the increase in flat time trial kilometres, wish there was more of a queen stage, but overall think it is a better parcours than in 2020. We cannot wait to see how the teams choose their riders and leaders for what will surely be quite an open race.

La Flamme Rouge Profiles of each stage - https://www.la-flamme-rouge.eu/maps/viewtrack/389830

Tour de France Official Route Website - https://www.letour.fr/en/overall-route

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Primoz Roglic got the job done at the Vuelta after an all time great season, but our job is not yet done, recapping this pugnacious race and talking about who impressed (or did not), should Carapaz be Ineos leader at TDF 2021 and how good is Hugh Carthy really.

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