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Racing Returns Down Under & Pidcock Skips Tour de France | LRCP Weekly #1

Season 6, Ep. 6

In the first weekly show of 2025 Patrick Broe and Benji Naesen are live from Australia, they discuss the latest news in the world of cycling and go over the races Down Under.


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Timestamps: 

00:00 Intro

01:20 Women’s Santos Tour Down Under recap

04:30 Villawood Crit recap

09:20 Vingegaard announces his 2025 schedule

12:37 Tom Pidcock skips Tour de France

13:50 Lidl-Trek sprinters Grand Tour schedules

16:13 UCI suspends DS and Team Manager

24:35 Santos Tour Down Under Preview

45:18 Outro 



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