Episode Topics: Team Breakdowns: Michelton Scott & Lotto Soudal, 

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Cycling News: 

Vuelta replaced two sprint stages in Portugal with two medium mountain stages in Spain

Campenaerts sets altitude tent to 4700m to ‘feel like a rider on EPO’

Tour of Flanders - Reduced 26km. Tenbosse and Muur van Geraardsbergen removed

Mitchelton-Scott - Team Manuela Fundacion

• Personal Opinions of the team
• 2019 Stats
• PCS Rank 9th (5878 pts), Down 2 from 2018
• 35 Victories: 13 WT, 12 WT Stages, 5 GT Stages (M Trentin - TdF Stg 17, S Yates - TdF Stg 12,15; D Impey - TdF Stg 9; E Chaves - Giro Stg 19)
• 2018 Comparison: 33 Victories, 17 WT Stages, 6 GT Stages
• Team Identity: GC, Stages, Dumb Nicknames
• Key Signings:  ??
• Key Losses: M Trentin, M Hayman
• Key Riders: S Yates (27), A Yates (27), E Chaves (30), L Mezgec (31)
• Main Topics:
• How will they survive without Hayman?
• Will Simon Yates win a GT this year?
• Can Adam Yates or Chaves podium a GT this year?
• Mezgec had a good 2019, will he build on it?
• Young Riders to watch
• Edoardo Affini (23) (Mostly an ITT specialist atm)
• Tour of Britain: Stage 6 ITT (14.4km) 1st; Tour of Norway: Stage 4 1st

• 2020 Key Victories - UAE tour: Adam Yates with a stage and overall at (pogacar, lutsenko, gaudu, majka, kelderman, zakarin, valverde);
• Jayco Herald Sun Tour  Kaden Groves 2 stages (sprinter 21)
• Ruta del Sol: 1 Stage - Jack Haig
• Better or Worse than 2019?

Lotto Soudal

• 2019 Stats
• PCS Rank: 8th (6013 pts), up 6 from 2018
• 23 Victories: 12 WT, All Stages, 8 Caleb Ewan, 6 GT Stages (1 De Gendt)
• 2018 Comparison: 25 Victories - 7 WT, 1 Classic
• Team Identity: Stage Hunting
• Key Signings: Gilbert, Degenkolb
• Key Losses: Tiesj Benoot, Campenaerts, Keukeleire
• Key Riders: Ewan (25), De Gendt (33), Wellens (29), Gilbert (37), Degenkolb (31)
• Personal opinions on the team
• Main Topics:
• Caleb had the season he said he would, more of the same in 2020?
• Redemption year for Degenkolb?
• The De Gendt Paradox. More wins in 2020? (2 in 2019)
• How will Gilbert do in the classics?
• Tim Wellens: Taste of week stage glory in 2020? Will he nab a Classic?
• Young Riders?
• Brent Van Moer (21)
• U23 World Championships: 5th ITT; U23 Paris-Roubaix: 6th; U23 Ronde van Vlaanderen: 9th
• 2020 Victories: 3 Stages Tour Down Under (2 Ewan, 1 Holmes); 1 stage UAE Tour (Ewan)
• Better or Worse than 2019?

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