Volta Catalunya 2026 - Stage 4

0:00Emersing yourself in all things soccer ahead of this summer's World Cup, I'm Alex Abnos, Senior Sports Editor from the Guardian, and whether you're a soccer beginner or you know the game inside and out, we've got you covered. Read, watch and listen as our journalists connect the dots between the games, the cultures, and this political moment. We'll have daily newsletters throughout the tournament, reporters on the ground with all the big teams, and the legendary football weekly podcast, The Guardian. Bringing you the whole picture on soccer. Search Guardian soccer for more. This is Indomacansou from the No Free Lunge podcast. Ever feel like your workload is out of control? Like you're wearing every hat and expected to be everywhere at once? Running a business means juggling books, payments, leads, payroll, basically everything. But with Intuit QuickBooks, your workload gets unloaded. QuickBooks gives you access to Intuit's powerful AI agents and trusted human experts who work together to handle the tedious stuff so you can get back to what actually grows your business. And because everything's streamlined on one platform,

1:04your customer management, accounting, expenses, and payroll all work seamlessly in one place. So go ahead, outdo it with Intuit QuickBooks. Get 50% off QuickBooks online for three months, terms and conditions apply. Feature availability may vary by product. Visit QuickBooks.com for details. Welcome back to Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast. The recap of Stage 5 of Volta, Siklistakadaluña, Stage 4, in fact. But the stages of all been changed up. Unfortunately, we'll also have a recap of the women's Tour of Bruges. What's the official title? They Rhonda van Bruges. Yeah, Tour of Bruges. I was correct the first time. What a mirror. It's the same thing. It's just translated. I think it's Rhonda van Bruges, Tour of Bruges anyway. Okay. Today's stage was unfortunately amended. So any Oscar in it is love and amended stage. Good for news for Dorian. Good on. They took out unfortunately for the fans. The uphill finish to Valteiro. Beautiful finish. Sometimes you do have bad weather there. It's on the French

2:07border. It is in the on the spine of the Pyrenees. And it was because of high wind and not the average, but the gusts. And I can tell you they took a good decision. Like sometimes we're like, what is this work nonsense? But they took a good decision today. Like last night, our house was shaking or working out. Couldn't, couldn't like sleep. It was like the house woke up. Then the guards just filled with stuff that's flying in. When I took Toby to walk, the neighbors sheet metal off the barbecue, the top of the barbecue. I'm talking like a 10 kilo 8 kilo thing flies off over their fence. And in front of me and Toby, it like 50 Ks an hour. Yeah. I was like, what the fuck? So you can't happen there at 2,200. If you have Barry, if you have Barry is up there with 80 KPH gusts. It's too dangerous. Yeah. I think that's very fair. But anyway, that means that the stage today is very different, which it kind of looks like a versatile sprint stage from the get go. And

3:08that means that we won't see a GC battle. I was maybe thinking of the amendment. Maybe the earlier climbs might still play a role, but not really. That's not the case. So it's a versatile sprint. Some climbs in the first half that could create a breakway formation phase Patrick. But at the end of the day, it looked like it was going to be a sprint. I would say based on the fact that most of the versatile sprints have been also sprints by the end of the breakway victory with weaker breakways on those days. But breakway formation in the stage took quite a while. In my opinion, like I swear to her, multiple grooves of the road, first a group of five to six riders, then Urjarte, a solo at a certain point, but eventually, am I right in saying that was a six-man breakway. Initially, where remain bum on vice-stroffer, Wenzel Fernandez and Kuru's dad, led to becoming a four-man breakway when remain in Wenzel were certainly back in the peloton. Yeah, I think they wanted to cap free in cap two points. Definitely a votes-stroffer. So the cap two, there's no categorized climbs after the cap two, 42k's in.

4:09So that's maybe why they were waiting. These roads are really their big, especially the last 50k's, really big roads for a breakway. It's full-star uphill. It's really tough to stay ahead. They're heading north to Camp Rodon. It was going to be an uphill sprint. The speed was also lower because of that. So in the sprint, hectic leadout, the average speed of today's sprint stage was 37.5kph. That's pretty slow. That says a lot about the fact that there's so much up and down before we get to the finish line. And also, even though the last 50 kilometers is not completely flat, it says gradual uphill towards the finish line, I would say. So the position fight doesn't speed them up because the GC teams are chilling and probably a good thing, but not the most entertaining stage, I must say. I must agree with you. Ball went at a certain point from the breakway as a virtual leader, but I don't think anyone in the peloton was truly scared of that. And I would say that any of us, you know, when I watched and did we see

5:13NSN also pulling behind the breakway at a certain point, or did they keep their eggs for the leadout? I saw you know X and any else actually. I never saw NSN pulling behind the break. The break was always in check. It was two small guys ahead. They were just sitting ducks, and they sort of pulled up stumps at a certain point. But crucially, they did get brought back before the, well, there's two intermediate sprints. There's three intermediate sprints actually, but there was one that they got brought back before the one at Saint-Juan de de la Zabadesses. And so this full 321 bonus on offer, it was an uphill sort of sprint. We see Bora lined up going for it. We see Q3, Q3, Q5. They're going to help pitcock for it. And also a Losh O'Rider. Who was that? Is it going to be someone for the points? Or do we expect it to be just for the, I actually don't know where it was?

6:14Yeah, I don't, because I thought it was Osvin 8 though, but it wasn't. He's not here. Is it Goldie for the other points? I think it's Goldie. Yes, it's Goldie. Okay. Good lead-up from Q3, Q3, Q5. It splits. And lipa vits. We think we see Bora, and we assume it's Renco because he went for the earliest sprint. Renco's not there anymore. Red Bull got caught out by the really hard lead-out of Q3, Q5. They dropped the wheel through the village. And Pitcock takes the points basically on contestors. Goldie's second, Pitcock's lead-out third miles behind. He was going for 10 seconds. And then lipa vits screams past and tries to start a move with Pitcock. I'd say I do like the idea of seeing Intermediate sprint happen and then continuing it. Now, I didn't necessarily believe it would work here, but it's also relatively close enough to the finish that we might see something occur, but you need the right group, you know, but did we see cooperation from the side of Pitcock for that move with lipa vits?

7:18Pitcock, well, he wasn't interested. Yeah. He got doesn't want to do 15 minutes all out on a false flight uphill with full sprint teams chasing. But do we know at this point what would happen for tomorrow's stage? Finally, still going ahead. Tomorrow's stage a bit further south. Well, it's not, it's not right in the Pyrenees. So as the crow flies, it's maybe 30k south of of Andorra or the border of France and Spain, let's say. And it's a bit deeper into this nearer say to Jalusian Berger. So it's a bit lower. Where there's a bit better the gas might be going. So it looks like it should go ahead. But I think they're smart to take the bony's. You don't know what can happen. Because like, for example, a rider like Gualdi, I think he was like fifth on the first stage or something. Do we know where he's adding GC? After he's born a second, he moves up to fifth place. So hypothetically, if tomorrow's stage,

8:19the mountaintop to call the pole gets cancelled. And something happens to the last stage as well. Who knows? Then dude might actually top 10 this GC of this race. So he might as well do it. Like, well, there was words that can happen on a stage where he won't necessarily play a role in the final sprint, let's say. So I think it's a good idea to do so. Pitcock taking those three seconds as well as the intermediate sprint might be helpful for GC. And now the question is that pitcock lip of its move doesn't happen. We get to the phase that moves towards the final sprint. Ethan Vernon, did we have confidence in the man? Because on paper, he's the best sprinter in the peloton. We do. Oh, yeah. I'm not sure about that. I'm not sure, you know, this finish is the is he better than God on? Yeah. I think if it's a harder day overall, God on wins. But it wasn't. And they were able to bring his lead out fresh. They've got the timing a bit better today. And they had Gilmore move up. They have Stuart there. The lead outs will all

9:21look like they're on slow motion because it's uphill. We see actually solar moving, McNulty into position. There's a key right hander, like a double right hander. Not even 300 to go. This corner was at 150 to go. It was outrageous. And you had to be in position for that corner. It's a sort of sprint where you can position yourself on just power. So it suits God on. It probably suits Vernon too, given he has the strongest lead out. To be honest, is the kind of corner where the positioning the sprint towards the corner matters almost just as much. If not more, then what happens after the corner? Because once you get out of the corner, it is. There's belly in these spaces to the compost. Then you can't go to the final corner with two next to each other. You have to do it in the wheel of each other. So whoever goes first in the final corner has a full distance of himself on the right or behind him. And also can choose the line after the corner. And that will, in my opinion, also play a role on this specific stage. But Anderson was looking pretty solid for the lead out, huh? Yes, Stuart does it. He doesn't go too early. He can also see there's not

10:25that much pressure. But actually, a lot of I can't make head and all tale of who they're going for today. Two knots yesterday, quality before today, it looks like Cochlamon gets there. The knowledge rightfully, in my opinion. Yeah, I actually, I mean, Cochlamon was using my fellow games. Because I thought he could be their chosen man. But they go for him today. They actually come over the top of his NSN a little bit. But then yeah, Vernon, he's on the front a bit early. But then he moves like he's going to take the corner really like goes to the barrier. And then he's going to take a hard apex, really fast line through the corner. Then he sees, he moves back in on Godon. He moves right to take a worse line, but it stops Godon coming underneath him in the corner. And that's the race. And now the corner like you can't, they're both kicking up. And so you're not getting the draft benefit that much when you're re-accelerating and Vernon wins easily. But once again, a super impressive pitcock Gonzalez combination because Gonzalez helps pitcock

11:29get in position and pitcock takes once again, bonus seconds at the finish line, which is four seconds for third place. So pitcock took a total of nine, wait, six plus three is nine seconds. No, that's bullshit. Four plus three is seven seconds plus three today. And he took the take four on stage one. He took three seconds at the intermediate sprint today. And four, we're getting for it. I should be 10, not nine, right? He should have more seconds than that. Yeah, it was no. He won the IS. Are we done? No, we're not. Can you get minus seconds? Maybe. Uh, David Gonzalez, he's never won a race. He's been six, he's been like top 10 in welter finishes. I saw him in Tour of Oman. If we were watching the YouTube stream, if you're watching the second

12:32sprint in Tour of Oman, you're a favorite race. Exactly with about three case to go. David Gonzalez positioned Emmanuel Huku himself for like four kilometers through the bunch. So there's these guys who they got no results. I'm sure if you did his power profiling, it wouldn't be that spectacular. And he's not the perfect lead-out rider in terms of build. You would say eaters because 68 kilos is not necessarily what you'd play as a perfect lead-out rider at. No, he's like a little bit. He doesn't have the engine. That's why he's never won a race because he can position position, but he he no way he has the five second value. But he's he's just obviously very good in the bunch, good in the hectic and good at highlighting a guy. And he did it perfectly today. And Pidcock was in the right position through that corner, takes valuable bonus. McNulty fourth, court fifth Gonzalez six, cockleman seven, Dinesi eighth, Hobbs ninth, Mark Stewart, tenth, bit of strange old sprints, like of well to week three, sprint top 10. I thought you respect GC Dorian Godot.

13:36As 13 seconds ahead of Pidcock, Rencon on 14 seconds. Vingigars now 10 seconds are drift and 11 seconds are drift of Avonpool and Pidcock respectively. Simone Guali is in fifth on 24 seconds. Rakanie Noviero on sixth, 25 seconds with McNulty, then all the LGC guys are more or less on 26 seconds, about 13 behind Pidcock. Derek G was caught up in another crash today, but he was already at GC. Now, when it comes to tomorrow's stage then, let's take a look at that one because on paper, it has a big mountain at the finish line, but on paper hasn't mattered for today's stage. We have four categorized clouds before we get to the final climb. Those climbs are 15, get 4.8%, then 2.6K at 7.3%, then a big one, the Koldafu Mania, which is 5.4K at 8.9%, that's a very steep climb, a very, very difficult one with about, I would say, 40K to the bottom of the final climb, 60K to the last to the finish. Then the second last climb in between is the

14:40Kuala da Sobirana, which is 7.3K, 6.6%, so a more gradual one, you would say, with a few steeper sections in it. And then finally, the Koldafu, which is 16.4K is at 7.2%, is that the climb that last year was supposed to be in that women's race where Vicky Shladnová was ready to cook people and then they took half the climb out or something? I think they did it. Did they do it? And Buneal followed Demi and then Demi dropped her at the end. Is this the same climb? Am I thinking of the different race? Volta Kadelonia women the last year, they did Koldafu from Baga, and it's 19K 7%, they did it from... Is it the same one? Yes, it's the same one. Well, what race am I thinking of then? There's a race that last year something got cancelled out, Spanish race, in the same period. Either way, it doesn't matter. Anyway, it's a very hard, finished, very hard stage. I hope we can go ahead. We have

15:44an HD climb with three category ones and a category two, so I'm not sure Baptiste Verstroffer. I don't know at the point system of the KOM jersey in Volta Kadelonia off by heart, that it's not looking good. I don't think also quite a hard start. Unless it's in the break, Pardon? Unless it's in the break, where? Yeah, that's going to be... These are going to be times hard. Yeah, that's going to be very tough. And they do start, like the start in La Sue, it's so basically this is the town closest to the border with Andorra, so all these riders in the Kolda months, they ride down to this start point and then do like a loop, and also the famous... This is around where the famous meeting was with Pepi Marti, is on a climb next to here. So they go down south on the big road, very fast, and then they, I think there's a loop you can do 160k's and they come back, but they keep going east. So as I said, it's a bit further south. Sonny should be okay. I think Verstroffer might be fine in terms of...

16:48Okay, we have points. 39 points already, and he's already conquered a few first cat climbs, so... Yeah, the first climb of yesterday, stage 3 was a first cat climb. But they go in the break and know out on the... Yeah, against on the floor. Yeah. But my fault process is more that... No one cares about it. No one cares about it. The point is... For those climbs can't be that big in the system that we don't actually know, because we haven't checked the rules of the Catalonia race, but... That's more how I'm thinking, but it looks like a fascinating mountain stage. I hope it happens. We won't know until this evening, I reckon, if there's nothing on social media this evening about it being canceled, then on paper it should on paper happen. I said on paper way too many times in that sentence, but Remco, Vingo, Leipovitz, that's where it's at. Did we update a little bit on the Remco drama from yesterday? Yeah, so Remco said that he was changing from the hoods to the

17:54drops when he hit a pothole. As the pothole exists, we don't know. There was an image on Twitter circulating of maybe a one centimeter like deep crack at some point on the roundabout. People were starting to gaslight me. That a one centimeter crack like this wide... It should be fenced off. I think they were trying to ragebeat me. No one else crashed in the roundabout. If there was a massive pothole that was unmarked in the like the mountain normal line, I think otherwise would have had it issued. So... So I'm not curious, but then I guess that means no one really knows the rules. Because if you know the rule about the 5-3k to go, you should never admit writer error, which one might argue it is if you take your hands off the bars as you're entering roundabout. So anyway, we'll see. Maybe we'll go there in person.

18:59Fuck no, dude. You can do that. I'm not going to a roundabout. I just say it. Just check whether it's a pothole or not. Patrick, this does mean that despite the rules saying that it probably should be otherwise, Remko did not lose any time yesterday in G.C. So it wasn't the place on the same time. So it's still playing a role in G.C. as a consequence of that for tomorrow. So the Red Bull has even a pool and leap of its bull for that. We'll see how that combination plays, whether they're both in G.C. forms, stuff like that. You want us at Visma's going to be intriguing to see, because on paper, he's the favorite. Then we have Golrikatello at the Kaplan only at any of us. Golrikatello? Yes. I've not seen him on my television or wait. That's a really good thing. You'll see him tomorrow, hopefully. Lenny Martin is here. Karapas, but let's be honest, he will attack with 5 kilometers to go then drop with 4 kilometers to go. Kean? Yeah. O'Connor? Pete Clum. Almeida is an important mention,

20:00because yesterday, his G.C. could have been lost, but not. And it's a climb that perfectly fits Almeida, actually. The call to pull. It does. It's a little bit of it's too. It reminds me of Valmenje, the second mount stage of the Dothane, where Almeida was quite strong. So I think it's going to be a good test. It's the longest European climb we've had in racing so far this year if I'm not mistaken. Correct. And there's guys here in good shapes. I'm really interested to see. It's a 40, 45 minute climb. That's a proper test, 7% average. Wait. It's a bad attitude. We can't forget about G.C. of course right now, because right now Dean Gordon has 13 seconds on pick. No, you think it does G.C. Gordon G.C. Gordon. If they cancel tomorrow, yeah, the finish. And they have just the quarter-out finish. He can. He still doesn't win. No, but you know, in the Barcelona stage, he survived and came second to Pog in 24. Yeah, but no. No. I don't think he can even

21:07top 10 if it's just to get old finish. I think he can. I don't see it. He's got, he's just got bonus for days. There's too many top 10 climbers here. Yeah, that's true. I'm sorry. If tomorrow gets canceled and Dean Gordon's still top 10 G.C. Bruce is going on the front on Prado and he's putting Gordon on Nania. Poor Dean Gordon. Yeah, that's why it's good. That's why guys like Pitcock were taking the bounties today. You never know what can happen with the weather. It has, I mean, Greg Van Abba, one to Renault, did he not? You know, weather affected race. Who do you pick to? Yes, but that was a very weather affected race to the point that they could out half the race. I'm pretty sure from my memory. And I think Wellens also wanted to sort of pull on you that way because of cancellations, but I might be inventing that nonetheless. My winner is you're not finger go. Fair enough. Which is boring. Yeah. Could be any one of the, that couldn't be anyone. I don't think it

22:12could be anyone. I do see a possibility where I will made. I get close to winning it. Give me. Give me Paul double from the break. I'll allow it. A big GC fight. Now, Tour of Rouge Patrick. Women's Tour of Rouge was also present today. Women's World Tour race. And to be honest, our preview for this race was pretty simple. It's a flat race, which usually means if Lorena Wibis is on the start line, that Lorena Wibis wins, but I'm going to drop a massive sport or Patrick. Wibis did not win today. She didn't even podium. She didn't top five. She didn't top eight. She finished ninth in this sprint finish and I will be honest. My stream kept on crashing. So I've got a very fragmented thought process of this final. I know that throughout the park where there were very limited, very limited breakways to the point that for the first half, I saw no one attack and it kept together. Maybe nervous when he comes to the wins. That's a possibility. And then towards the final segment, I was kind of just, I don't know. In these kind

23:19of races, Patrick, we always advocate for if Wibis is here, you got to try other strategies. I feel like I didn't see that either. Yeah, it was really bad weather. Like horrendous weather. They were caught in a rain storm. It was cold conditions. The wind wasn't maybe as strong or good as yesterday for it to be split, but it was a pretty passive race. UAE were pacing, but not like. Yeah, it was quite passive. It seemed to erroneous. Emmercing yourself in all things soccer ahead of this summer's World Cup, I'm Alex Abnos, senior sports editor from the Guardian. And whether you're a soccer beginner or you know the game inside and out, we've got you covered. Read, watch and listen as our journalists connect the dots between the games, the cultures and this political moment. We'll have daily newsletters throughout the tournament, reporters on the ground with all the big teams and the legendary football weekly podcast, The Guardian. Bringing you the whole picture on soccer, search Guardian Soccer for more. What's up? It's Sean Lindner from Two Black Guys, a good credit.

24:21If managed supply runs is still on your to-do list, here's your science upgrade. Walmart Business has a tech, tools and services that make it ridiculously easy to stock up for your office or team. Think scheduled deliveries, multi-user accounts and even IT setup. Bonus. With a Walmart Business Plus membership, you get free shipping, spend analytics and 2% rewards. Join the smart way to shop at business.warmart.com. Terms apply. It was going to be a sprint quite early. That's what we got at 15Ks to go. The team just lined up is on the left and UAE and a track. Should UAE be basing? I know Laura Gillespie is a pretty good sprinter. I like her as a writer as well, but we buzzes in the bell aton. And despite the outcome, I agree that Veeb is losing this sprint does not mean that taking her to sprints maybe for Sunday and I can't blame him is the play. Especially when SD works, they're just, they're not as good in the classics is my perception as in terms of team depth as two, three years ago. Now,

25:25Capecchi's in magic form. Veeb is the still the fastest woman in the world. But in previous years, they also, you could not do anything. A discussion on doing something else was moved. Now, yeah, they don't have the peak majorists and all these other writers. Vashem Goodshape, but yeah, there's a little bit less liking depth. A track lined up their lead out well. They were going for Balsamo and it looked like the camera was just focused on track. They had three writers and they're going what rifling through them. One, two, three, they're going to lead Balsam out. They then wait. They wait so long, then with the camera still focusing right from the front on shot on track, it then pans with like 70 meters to go back to a full view of the peloton and carouseloyed on Movistar has a two and two bike links on Elisa Balsamo and is sprinted from the bunch on the right hand side. She wins this race. Huge upset ahead of Balsamo then Vin Hoven. Veeb is was boxed. Consonnie narrow fourth. Beside, let's be declared Van Halof. Veeb is

26:29Balsstad. Bals has also. She's young too. She's only 20. So too young. Ah, here we go. She's Canadian. So she's from Calgary. So bad weather buff. And carouseloyed is from the UK evidently. Yes. And as we know, every UK classic writer is unbelievably good in shit weather. It's just a fact. And maybe that's what we needed today. Maybe learn a Veeb is that's her kryptonite is bad weather. And yeah, she's 19 years old by the way. Carouseloyed. If she was born a day later, she would still be first year, you 23. She was professional last year. She's from the track. So it's good track writer. She's improved this year. And just yeah, she came with Ferguson to Movistar Ferguson was the bigger name is still the bigger name, but this is a huge win. It's a world tour race. Of course. And like, I don't think

27:32Quibis is necessarily because of the bad weather. I feel like it might be more due to positioning, but if the camera zooms in on one part of the peloton for the majority of it, then we can't dissect properly of what specifically happened to Ibis in the process. But it looked to me like she was blocked in quite a bit throughout the last portion of the race. But Carouseloyed wonderful victory. It's to be honest, if you can win like this again, it's the ball, some of vein hole and consony, etc. It won't be the last print you win either. This does not look like a one-trick bony victory. Like bet your RVV. Normally, when you win a really big race against good opponents, when you're that young, it means you're good. And it's an upset because no one knew who you were before. But then in five years, it will look like a normal result because she will maybe keep winning. So big win for her, big win for Movistar too. Their first world tour race of the year. And yeah, three of their wins have come from the British teenagers Ferguson. Three of their four wins Ferguson and Lloyd this year. And yeah, Vibis lose. But as you say, Benji,

28:36I'm not sure I would still be comfortable going to a sprint with her. Of course not. I would need her. And to be honest, we can be able to him, we should probably shouldn't be doing a proper probably might as well because you don't have a weekly show before it. But if you look at the start list, I can be able to him. If it wants to load, then we can the weekly didn't we? Yeah, but just specifically to the start list is what I'm trying to load at least. There we go. Then on the provisional, there's no Coppeki for his D works. So if Coppeki was there, you'd see like a double play where Coppeki could be the one playing in the hill zone or responding in the hill zone while we versus is playing defensively with the currant's provisional start list. It looks like we versus the all-out leader and the rest of the team is build around trying to get her or trying to control the race for a with a sprint, which is a viable strategy. But it means you only have one option and that's the aspect there. So I don't know. I think can we be able to come in as a different way than to our brood? You've got the hill zone,

29:38you've got potential echelons, which you could have had here as well, but perhaps, but especially a hill zone. If little trek, for example, or any other team on the start list is happy with trying to help as the worst control for this. If little trek controls the race for a sprint for Bolsomor, I don't have words for that, you know? It's like some of them all. Make sure he won't. Bad. They've done it before. It's not the first time. Okay. We'll see. But yeah, that was a big upset victory. We also had Coppeki stage 2, which was won in a late attack from the Lippo D'Alto, the first ever pro victory for it's a Conti team general story. This is the guy that got this qualified because his bike had a handlebars in that Italian national race when he crashed, went into an illegal position. It's the same dude. That's the same dude. I now karma exists. That makes me think even more that maybe

30:49that's how they were set up. What do you mean that's how were they how were they how what what because he's a he's a SEGA style operator. He's a attack on a flat stage late, get into an arrow position, have everything optimized as much as possible because that's how he pulled it off today very impressively. That makes your experience is already in the first place for it. Oh, your conspiracy theory is that his bike was set up in the first place and it didn't change position by crashing because for the people that don't have the context, he wasn't he won a race with 100 kilometers solo, but no, but not 100 like 40 kilometers solo I think. An early in the race, he crashed, hit the deck and what the team and him said is that his handlebars went into an illegal position so flared more inwards because of that crash and that's why he got this qualified and lost the victory. Your conspiracy theory is they were set up like that in the first place. But why does he get Deusqueud there and SEGA doesn't get Deusqueud in dinner for his illegal

31:53position? Well, SEGA got a yellow card but I don't have the rules in front of me so I can't tell you what a yellow card or a Deusqueu is the standard behavior. Anyway, he obviously uh but to be honest, also about the here SEGA thing, I've seen Billion other riders doing the same exactly. No, no, no, no, as much as not the praying mantis one. What were you have where you have one finger on the hoods? I'm sorry, but the rule doesn't say that. The rule doesn't say praying mantis one finger on who the rule says rest your four arms on your handlebars. You're not as finger gold. Did that apparent ease? I mean, yeah, everyone touches the bars. Their bars with their Luke says it doesn't matter. Luke is like shut up Benji. Yeah, I don't know what doesn't matter. But anyway, Philippo Dalto wins big gap too because basically what happened was Jacob tried to split it. They were crosswinds Benji. Yep. And well, we do know that yes, you can initially split it in a crosswind initially, but it will come back. That's the rules. It did come

32:54back. Everyone was a little bit more tired and he snuck off the front. His teammates let his wheel go and that was that. No, I wanted to chase Mosquet. He won the sprint behind in front of the SEGA. Maga Niyoti. Uh, if you want to watch his curious, he has a quite a unique sprint form. Watch the front shot of this finish on YouTube. And, uh, Mangini, Thith, Shvurchek, Sixth, Laurel, Seventh, Boise Eighth, Percenty, Ninth, Atta Gettie, 10th. Don't even probably abandon the race. Don't know if he crashed or what happened. But, um, yeah, Maga Niyoti was, he was going to be the lead out for Maga Niyoti. Uh, tomorrow we have what do we have? We're going to a lot of climb. It's going to kick off. I have a little remember a stage in the Giro where Gaviria won four stages or something. And the Chiclamino jersey that ended in an echelon in the last two kilometers. So I think our theory with Italy and crossmans might be wrong. Maybe. But anyway, he goes into GC lead, Filippo Dauto. Uh, not sure he can climb, but we'll see. He's

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