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In this episode Patrick and Benji recap the 15th stage of the Vuelta a España 2026.
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Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast — Vuelta a España 2026 - Stage 15. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
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Welcome back to Lantern Rouge cycling podcast three cap of stage 15 of the world. There are a st, a spania from Palma del Rio to quarter of 110 kilometers. As we said last night, the stage was shortened because of the extreme heat and no better time to have a core being the sponsor of today's episode, helping you manage the heat and train and race smarter. Indeed, they cut off the northern loop. They were going to do 190 Ks of like three and a half K elevation gain. It was going to be rinse and repeat pretty much of stage 13, where there's a big break away. But 110 Ks, 2000 meters climbing and it's a flat start, a flat finish. So we have rolling hills in the middle, just these lumpy roads, you know, five percent is all day up and down. And then the last climbs 2.2 Ks, 5% 91 Ks in. So you know, junior length race for these guys. And then it's 20. And then there's a 10 K like 5%
a cent. We're not really pedals. And then there's a flat last 10 Ks into the finishing quarter of the bar quarter was a beautiful city. Very, very harsh. So I'd recommend traveling normally in early spring or even even winter, frankly, the most key to those beautiful, the more a shark attack. You're actually, it's unbelievably cool inside even in the heat. Talking about hot, I had a camera up my nose today, Patrick. Barley experience. I won't lie. At a hospital appointment during the stage, which is right up there, right up there, right up there. I had a hospital appointment during the stage. So I will confess the first 70, 80 kilometers of this stage happened in my dream. I didn't see it. So Patrick will have to carry me in the first spots of this of this stage. But I have a confirmed deviated septum, Patrick, both sides. I don't even know how that works. There's only one septum. It's an S. Yeah, actually, like, how do they think that happened? They obviously, they don't know how it happened,
but I don't know how it happened. I just know that my septum is an S, which, great. Anyway, it's not that serious. Not that big of a deal. I'll see what I do. I don't feel like I don't fix it. They can do the surgery, but I'm the kind of guy that's scared of not being able to breathe with my nose at night. No, no, no, surgery is no big deal. Really? No, surgery is true. I mean, no surgery. I don't know about that surgery, but surgery in general. That's the thing I'm scared about. I want to be able to breathe with my nose at night afterwards. Yeah, but that's what's going to help you do. But the first few days, not? I got to go. I take a bunnings like a machineery tool to my back a couple of times. It's no big deal. Anyway, is bunnings the place where if you go to, you can get like a hot dog? You do. Yeah, yeah. Sources or bunnings is obviously insane, but you also get hardware tools.
Shane told me that GP Lama. He was like, you got to go there to get your hot dog. Where you do have to go to bunnings. Speaking of heat, hot starts at the stage, breakaway goes, and it's not as big as previous days because Visma and Coffitus were controlling. We see a break of 12 riders. Let me get the notes. Luke was on note's duty today, and I know that there was EF in their legneson, hate, a home, hate, slam riser, the NARWOL, Friedrich van Dahl, Ivo Elivaira, Usbaren, Palani, Rudy Porter, Michaela Vice, and Thompson. So a lot of teams represented decent all rounders, but the gap was really tight. Like they never got more than 45 seconds. Okay. Oh, yeah. And because of that, other riders saw the opportunity to bridge across. So it's a very fine line. If you let the
gap out the two minutes, you're never going to bring it back. Remember, Visma have six riders. Coors is in GC, Nordhagen, and Coors are 60 kilos. So remember the last 18 cases this stage, you're 4% downhill on the flat. And I know Coors was the reason Van Art won in quarter the two years ago when UAE were firing attacks. But still easy. He's more than GC here, which he wasn't then. And then you've got Armirao and Crystrike and then Brennan, Van Art, so it'll upharts out and Tullets out. So you have very limited options to control. But they keep it tight. COVID has also helped. Aaronic, because COVID was helping. And the first thing I see when I put on my TV is Cokar dropping. So Visma took it to the extreme after COVID was helping. And Mr. Cokar was scrambling. But we saw some split ups in the Brainkway, right? As in that Brainkway, ended up being maybe lechnus on the loan and then the brain of bridge from the pelotaur. Yes, the Brawiania Bridge of the Cross after Steinhauser,
Google tries to go across. There's like the Brainkway has just lost this morale. It's being brought back in bits and pieces, various hot conditions, 40 degrees. And yeah, there's a lot of things that we're thinking about. But Visma are pacing really, really hard. Still, Coffit has stopped. We see Cokar have a mechanical, I think, or some issue. Coffit has stopped because they're getting dropped. But Visma keep pacing really hard. They don't let the gap back out to 30, 45 seconds. Christfights gone. Nordhargon's gone. It's now just Bruno Armirao and attacks are just flying. And you know that all these sort of punches, no one must go to a finished sprint with Brennan. Never saw it, but I think Mayus must have been dropped. He was nowhere he was there. Also because there were so many riders dropped that I didn't expect to be dropped. Movistar being so must isolated was a shock to me, no? Yeah, Romeo dropped. I know he had a big shift yesterday, but indeed, like the peloton was small, 50 to 60 riders at one point,
Santi dropped. And you're even thinking is, is someone like Karap has going to have a dig? Why not? In fact, you're more likely to have success against must here than on a mountain top finish. It looks like so far. But before we get to the the real action of the stage, Corshades, some insight with us from the UAE team member at XRG where the staff there obviously combined the core sensor data with all the other metrics they have and rider feedback to help with their heat management. It's about understanding how each rider responds to heat, whether they're actually acclimatized and whether things like pre-cooling hydration or in-race cooling strategies are actually making a difference for that rider. And during a race like the Volta where in Andorra it was maybe not mild, but it was not that hot to stages like this, which is so hot we have the extreme weather protocol applied, brutally hot stages. That's obviously
very valuable information. And the core sensor gives you that ability to say it's the same product being used in these grand tours in the Tour de France to win these races. The core sensor you can buy is the same product and it gives you the ability to measure your thermal strain during training and racing. It also obviously then allows you to do heat training. Not just, oh, you know, I'm doing a hot race soon or hot sports events soon. I should become heat acclimatized. It actually lets you have proper heat sessions where you're measuring and managing your thermal strain with the core sensor. So if you want to experiment with it, head to corebodytemp.com, use code LRCP10 core for 10% off. That's LRCP10 core for 10% off the core sensor. I really like it because I love all new data stuff. So the race is becoming broken apart. It's there's riders
picking off the front, legnesons, the soul survivor, the breakaway, we get over the 5K, 5% climb legneson, the bronias on 5 seconds, peloton's 15 seconds, the bronia gets across to him and we have the intermediate sprint on the flat. It's 32Ks from the finish, the intermediate sprint, Benji arrives at his television and now the points are in play for Van Aar. That's true. He does lose the points against Romelia or Melitex, the points ahead of him and I think Furt plays at the intermediate sprint behind the brine and legnesound. They're also bonus seconds but none of these riders actually care about that. But what happens during the sprint is more interesting than the sprint itself is how I see it because Woutfinadgole's spashtro malei and continues on with his adventure with Romelia and the wheel and this basically kicks off the move. Like before this point, you can maybe think to yourself, okay, maybe Visma's going to try and keep it together with that their goal to try and keep it together for a sprint and a peloton.
This switches that from being an option to its very clear attackers are going to make this because in the span of 5 to 10 kilometers we go from a small breakway being up ahead and Visma controlling to riders jumping to the breakway including Woutfinad, including Romelia, nice as well trying to jump towards that move bridge towards that move five riders up front now than a chasing group falling behind and the peloton nobody really taking it up and losing one minute 30 because Vana and Romelia got the gap because it was the intermediate sprint that thought that well Romelia is taking points he's a sprinter why would he continue? Vana is just following him because he's gone for the green jersey, Visma have controlled for two hours they're going to keep controlling and that immediate switch and then they already have a significant gap because no one followed them at the intermediate sprint and you got two big horses and it's also because Brennan can win the sprint of course but getting with Armour
already having worked in Nordhagen, Crystic dropped getting this to a sprint in the last 45 minutes was going to be almost impossible I think with riders attacking and yeah so Vana goes on the attack and unlike maybe the other day he continues and he's like gets across to break your five three Belgians DeBronia, Vana, Nice, Legneson was already in the break and Romelia came across and Romelia was always locked onto the wheel actually and so we have five and it's like well Romelia is quick and Nice is pretty quick like he was where was he in the stage 10 third fourth? I think third. That's pretty good he's quick Romelia has been racking up top five and he's quick so it's not done deal for Vana and also are they going to get to a sprint? Are they going to relay is the question and during the last 10 kilometers I looked at BCS and there was a statistic on there that Wagfinite had only one before the finish of today had only one 19% of all the groups small
groups sprints he's done in his career which that's actually a shockingly low number and we've actually mimed him for that in the past the fact that he that he choked quite a few sprints in that sense in the past in smaller groups now I do think that he's gotten more accurate in them in the last year and a half is that fair? I can't hear you buddy I think sprint is just stronger at the moment. Yeah I think that's fair like a Tireino stage where he ended up losing that stage because of partially tactics as well to be honest the one that Vanderpuh ended up winning that also counts in this in this thing but that's not a speed losing the stage you know that's his clutch not happening. Yeah like when I think of last year he didn't sprint in Germany I mean he was second in a Tour de France Bunch sprint last year I know it was a bit of a grippy
sprint but he was second behind Milan in that sprint and he was leading out Koi in the Giro was he not? Yes so I think his top end speed is pretty good I know in Denmark he won a couple of sprints Dough for no one in the sprint handle leave so I think his sprint is pretty good and so yeah but the problem is really getting it to a sprint and even if your sprint is good if they weigh you down and you have a remalor a nice sitting in your wheel making you lead it out after you've done five times more work you can still lose the sprint. Was the first attack in the last 10 kilometers nays coming from the back with the rider in his wheel on the left side of the road and then being he was wrong actually I think was ramsans was it umsys yeah because he can't go to the sprint it was to run you with nice and the wheel nice fall in the wheel and your legneson was not relaying at all there was a group two by the way and pelton's just out of it pelton stops completely two minutes except for magnetous court nilson who for absolutely no reason at all in the last
five kilometers launches a dual attack with a teammate yeah but you know it should have put the pressure on a lot quicker but just for vibes because there was no way that was going to do it yeah then there's a group in the middle it never gets across it has like all of air of a marker couple of cone farmers uh Brandon's not there so it's all on van out in front pelton's out of it so he can't play the burning card anymore but indeed there's an attack from ramsans nays is there van out doesn't snap close it he um he sits on remella in remella closes it 80% and then van out gets across but now the cooperation is gone and the legneson makes his move van out closes him and the others are cooked nice and the brony have just gone on the attack remella is just closed those two for van out and he closes lecneson doesn't see he's got a proper gap behind him and uh
he only notices as he slowed down looks behind season on a gap tries to continue but they're back in the wheel and then there's a few more attacks from like lecneson it doesn't go anywhere and we're going to have a sprint but van out doesn't have to lead it out that's what we were all thinking was going to happen would that van out would have to lead this out from 250 nice puts it in a big big gear winds it up from like 220 a van out more more maybe longer it was I think 275-ish he likes sends it from the back van out has to get back to the wheel gets back in the slipstream slingshots out of it remella was tracking I think remella did everything right pretty much in his race but he just um van out sprints out of the wheel of nays wins the stage uh head of remella nice the de bronia fourth lecneson fifth indeed there was the group behind of um ako the trashon hanok kum allie veira so van out wins in chloridub again his second win in three days
in the in the heat in the shortened stage also for the points jersey he now has a 108 point lead ahead of brennan that should be pretty comfortable now for him um yeah to win the points competition no gc changes in the top hand yeah that's a stage pretty calm stage yeah I think uh it's good to see wild take a second victory it's confirmation again for romelu but amelae sorry wrong name tibonais strong right from him today um i do think that is strategy in this print completely botched their chances to potentially win the race because tibonais is sprinting solid enough that he could have betted on the sprint instead of betting on a 275 long attack sprint you know so I think that was the wrong decision but at the end of the day um i'm pretty fun final i enjoyed the stage even though i think a lot of people are like commenting on on whether the shortening of
the stage was right floor something i think in this heat it should be shortened the the more noticeable thing about the shortening and though is that i've i seem to hear a lot of like unhappiness and quarrels between between writers and organization and stuff about this the whole concept of heat impact because yesterday quite a lot of writers weren't happy about the the stage being as it was as multiple writers have been uh shipped off to the hospital with a heatstroke in the last three days to then uh because the way it sounded to me i saw an interview from javier again which is the the guy the guy love welta basically and he said it was a writers initiative to make this stage the shortened one i don't think it should have to be the writers that have to decide whether a stage needs to be shortened when it's 40 degrees and it's like really like it's days day after day you know how they're recovering after it does it even change anything like no offense but
what we're all better it's the hitch we're all watching this race right the loop they cut out it's like an unpopulated desert like it's not like they're going through very big towns they're doing a northern loop in like some hills it's not adding money to the race i don't think the finish and start towns add money to the race and the shortening did it change in what way did it really change the tenor of the stage it was always a could be a sprint could be a break could be a late attack stage yeah maybe it made the stage lean a little bit more to a sprint beforehand but i i don't think i don't think it's that big of a deal now i do remember there being an implementation of a high temperature protocol back in maybe 2024 of something and i swear it was a color system that the uci i had to weather a stage was a certain color that the stage would be impacted in three possible ways including shortening earlier throughout the day which i think the
tv is a problem for that as in the broadcast slot i think muchin was the one that brought forward the idea today of the stage being earlier instead of necessarily being shortened the way i perceived the last couple of days is that this color system was seemingly ignored and the riders had to bring it up themselves which if that's the case then i think that's wrong it should be already 40s fucking hot you know what i mean right it should have to come from the riders no it's just it's just an objective like the temperature is 41 it is too hot we must amend the stage or change things about it and the thing about is in spain i know it's very hot but you know it's not like Australia but the mornings are also kind of nice even in the summer in spain like they're tolerable still 30 still 34 but 33 ain't 40 like whereas on in Australia when it's hot 8am you're done you can't go outside so should should organizers in their backup plan
have the ability to have dynamic broadcast slots not easy probably but yeah because the problems the tv broadcast is locked in at a certain time um why not film the race and then pretend it didn't happen in the morning and then know what you you take everyone's iPhone so you go to quarterback and you use um lots of things lots of things you do in kola jute it's like e m p e m p you do an e m p on quarterback right and all the bike computers done yeah exactly mark maddieo he take he give mic maddieo all their bike computers and phones we can't do this because we want the core sensors to work in this temperature exactly the core sensors they can put their bike computer with the core sensors connected in their back pocket that's allowed no bike mount in like an anti e m p pocket exactly have a special uh it was the core Faraday cage what is that I'm fucking no bro yeah they just try each right I'm just trying to imagine each ride
ride around in a Faraday cage and they are then the core sensor connects to their bike computer but they cannot send out the results of the race and we broadcast the race at the normal time and if you score 25 k lampons you can drop a moab that should be that should be a mercy rule in cycling what does that even mean like if you're leading GC by five minutes by the end of week two and you've won like five stages the race stops that'd be crazy because like it's almost like the joint cycling thing they had during the during the tour of phones with the gas no it was a Giro right we've been gone now and success um because I'm trying to think to the pros of like imagine if it's like a running thing where off the stage five breakway ride is five minutes races over break the rider wins the tour you let you let a guy get in the break takes eight minutes
so I would do sports and run so listen and you won the the world congratulations um that was stage 15 short and stage all right rest day tomorrow then we have stage 16 on Tuesday will preview that now from corteana to la rabida palos de la front derra 181 k long it is uh 1900 meters it's not a 50 pointer it could be but it's not a 50 pointer that's on in severe on on Wednesday but we we have a sprint that could be might not be the first 90 cases quite hilly nine percenters but then it's flat afterwards perhaps hey it's page from giggly squad summer gave year home a workout cookouts long weekends probably at home improvement list that never quite got finished and now it's fall's turn and lows is making the change over easy with their labor day deals right now save up to 45 percent off select major appliances so if something's been on your list this is the time doing laundry you can
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wow no because coffer is still wants to win the raise and their odds of winning the raise are still a bigger from the peloton is that true i think both coffer needs to go in the breakaway and go for cacar in the peloton honestly with the team they have i think their biggest chances in the peloton they don't have to check how many riders they have left to be honest yeah louido long break away man come on he's not he's not saying the peloton they have no one who's can go on the break who's remotely fast he's not had the greatest valta has he not they have to control for cacar is this uh is this a sign against your juggle a log door because he was a there and not performing at the valta it's a sprint stage you give him time but the the thing is cock out seemed very annoyed today yeah but the limit was to let you control a visma and the isp is just attack
they outplayed them yeah you need to wear the on his gear was he not on here was he not doing a well ta i don't know both is he get his or not here the talent classics yes yes is that in classics i don't look at you on his gear as he does he want to do one more year he's pretty good huh oh he's pretty good i'd say sorry yeah crazy season anyway anyway when it comes to tomorrow's stage i think it's going to be a sprint and therefore i pick mat you bremose your demose because lap time is gone you going with maus yeah i got a brennan uh that's right something you're going to try something the mickey mouse prediction context then she's losing um because he can't pick piggaccia we have the way if you go on to
if you go on to pcs that's not the reason that's not the reason the reason is i picked the heck for all but as for a stage in a race where he's not even a part of imagine pectoral race how many stages he would have won the uh that's not exaggerate the limit doesn't exist uh there was like 20 different races today and a lot of good racing we had in uh i didn't watch i didn't watch too of a stumble in britain those cross winds you you where he got numbers in the front and they uh attacked with nils polo and he won solo tim wellens winds gc so they got a double victory today i believe they are doing a two of france 2027 grand depart reconnaissance that's why they have such an unusually strong team in britain perhaps uh and then in the point du ruz ladies classic which is a gravel race in britain there's a small group sprint one by nina burton somewhat surprisingly ahead of uh blacian juries that was very
impressive victory from the the luxenburger i said first pro victory no offense but you know apart from luxenburgish national champs tt that's a big win i think i went for a ride with her and the rest of the serathisityman 2024 really nice person and i swear she's hilarious in the eft interviews next to the bike but also a fantastic bike rider gradually getting better wrote as a domo steak for a lot of races but clearly also pretty good herself and um this is a big win a big against against big riders and like sure it's uh it's a sprint within a group but there's some riders in that group that should be able to on paper beat her which is not the case here so captivating win nice to see gp and duster and arty giannato batteric on the menu today is that the race where some nays got attacked by a motorbike once or am i inventing that in my head some nays won that once at least
yeah has to be 2021 no motor one seven are you thinking of you're not thinking of the um spanish classic or diso yoko or classica classica adamia it's won it in 2017 i don't know that it's all right i think it's all right um anyway pico what i was one but he destroyed everybody piccox looking good for worlds so he just had mountain biking for summer after the tour where he was pretty good in the tool and now he wins his first race back and he's going to be looking pretty good he's going to count it out next week apparently so uh good for him sneaky sneaky rider for wall championships that i hadn't fought about actually pitcock if he's on level exactly because like bog is it just blows his doors off a bit too much but when the level it's just he's good he's so efficient he's fast and the finish indeed pitcock
looking very good for world championships and in the zln tour uh motiz vatsek 1 gc because the time trial and henry hobs the uh first year 23 sprinter on the vismadevo team one the sprint ahead of of all shide uh so yeah but it wasn't the youtube stream today so maybe look watched it somehow but i couldn't really watch it but it's a dev rider basically riding for the world tour team right yeah so um yeah it's going to be captivating to see because he's being pretty solid ride as mux wall shot is not super slow so like if henry hobs can win this he can top 10 depending on which one a world tour sprint hobs can win like a races next year he's a monster well there's two hobs so exactly exactly i combine the two there's no hobs all's no hobs all's so can we like seven races next year we ever seen them in the same room
have we ever seen two sprinting brothers of like and they're both like top sprinters mateo milandas that count they are the milon's did sprint against each other did they not this year uh yeah but atilio viviani sprinted against alia back in the day broo yeah alia let's see on the head to head how do you head head and we get miland i mean you're doing the head to head of the brothers or yes alia versus atilio or atilio versus mateo so they have gone head to head indeed UA this year oh yeah johnny miland was first in UA2 stage 4 this year and mateo was third there you go so it's not yeah they're not even the best two sprinting brothers how good to the two hobs brothers that's a great test who wins more races in 2029
the miland brothers or the hobs brothers i still think the miland brothers because you're not on miland is a level that you need to reach first because he's he's tweezers 12 a year yeah i i was gonna say damiano any medio chima but i'm not sure i can count damiano as a sprinter he won a sprint against arno de li in 2021 so when de li was a baby technically he mediano or like the most equal sprinters yeah damiano chima you know the guy right not really 2019 Patrick one of the final stage of the jiruditalia in a breakaway manages to in the colors of actually don't know nipo vinny fontini stay away while the peloton is cruising towards him nearly gets caught on the line damiano chimo and the jiruditalia stage good um yeah i don't know anyone else any young guys to peak your interests anything else popped out
you from the races today i didn't see any of them oh sure you aint seen that's not helpful or i go a good one i reckon that that young guy any else assigns pretty good and you know just signed one diago quintero they signed him um i've heard that name before they signed him a month ago he was on petro like he's a columbian climber and uh they signed and he was immediately 14th in lavenir and he was now second in frieuli i think he's pretty good i know him from the gw team last year yeah the columbian squad so he looks pretty good so they signed him cool all right um i got my niffil fantasy draft this evening i won't tell you what i mean does that mean you need to draft your team this evening or mean cyclist seasons done check yeah wait you got to explain this to me uh snap your
niffil draft is that making your team tonight or is that yes the niffil has this draft and no no no no the niffil season starts in it in five or six days and i'm making my team drafting my team this evening how much money do you give me if i beat you that's what you want my base what how much are you willing to offer sir yeah about how you know first of all you're not in the league don't allow amateurs in the league say i mean i drafted hampton and scatterbow last year i was a year early but look my talent identification it's just unfair actually i'm running monumental models beyond which the computers and the nodes at espn they cannot understand or comprehend you're you're like you've got your own built-in AI data center in your head i have my own system yeah my own built-in AI cool voice okay i'm like yeah so i ain't taking Gibbs one one
i ain't so you're telling me that you're going to share your niffil draft ocean yeah i'll we didn't post on instagram after i'm not telling people who i'm going to pick people in that league listen i know i'm not saying that i mean like you're going to publish it afterwards so we can ridicule you about how so yeah like every year people say why have you drafted four quarterbacks in a 12 team 12 team league yeah and people can also send them their niffil picks they might have different scoring formats we don't do ppr and then you roast them like you did in the fantasy cycling stuff back in the day yeah no in this league there's home-filled advantage so what does that even mean so you start each week and if you're the home team you start with a three-point advantage that in your fantasy yeah that's just cheating well no just that's realistic home-filled advantage you get this and it's three points so half your games you start at a three-point deficit yeah but i let me ask you why because if i think about a football match
because i'm just because there's a just because there's a home-filled advantage because of the audience being around on a football match yes doesn't mean that one of the team starts with a plus three points well in reality they do the indirect effect of that in reality in the niffil is that there's a three-point deficit isn't that built into the results yeah gets built into the results and that's what we're doing by having a three three countering it no no the home-filled team starts with a three-point head start yeah i don't think you're getting my question or i'm very stupid one of the two Patrick no because i'm trying to say it because the home-filled advantage won't actually exist for these niffil fantasy players who are all on different teams so we have to manually put a home-filled advantage for the home team each week so you're not getting points based on the results of the actual niffil people you're getting it based on it you do what the fuck is going on yeah home-filled advantage the best thing ever when someone loses by like one point because
a home-filled advantage it's unbelievable how to do the most nonsense thing over and all right thanks to see the reggae on Tuesday chacho chitching that's the sound of lows labor day savings get up to 45 percent off select major appliances and save up to an additional $100 on select laundry pairs plus get three bags of miracle grow 0.75 cubic foot garden soil for just ten dollars labor day deals are on now it lows in store and online bell it through nine nine plus supplies last selection varies by location see lows dot com for more details soil offer excludes a lasken Hawaii guessing is for game shows not your business workday is the enterprise AI platform for HR finance and IT with AI grounded in your context to get work done and done right it's a new work day
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