What have we learned after three days? - Domestique Cycling Podcast

Three stages in Bulgaria, three completely different stories. Paul Magnier wins the opening stage in Burgas and takes the first maglia rosa of his career, then doubles up in Sofia. Guillermo Thomas Silva becomes the first Uruguayan ever to win a Grand Tour stage, taking pink into Italy. And on a slippery road with 23 km to go, a mass crash takes Marc Soler, Jay Vine, Adam Yates and Santiago Buitrago out of the race in a single moment.

In the middle of the carnage, Jonas Vingegaard launches a sharp double attack on the Lyaskovets Monastery, and only Giulio Pellizzari can answer it. We dig into the power data from Velon, including Vingegaard's 520 watts for a minute and a half, Magnier's stage 1 sprint with 300 watts less peak power than Jonathan Milan, and the criminally easy first three days where Adam Yates averaged 150 watts for 100 km. We also talk about the stage 1 finale that should never have been designed that way, the broken-helmet question on rider safety, and whether cycling needs G-force sensors in helmets.

Then we look ahead to the Italian week: stage 4 to Cosenza, the punchy day to Potenza, Naples on cobbles, and the big one on Friday. 244 km to Blockhaus, the longest mountain stage in over a decade and the first true GC test of the race.

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