Pretty much why much better than I thought it was going to be like best of th...
what I was expecting from a guy that hasn't looked great and was hit by a car is that right coming into this race yeah he was hit by car I just saw some pictures again when you wait showed his injuries it was really bad so I mean it's pretty decent 22 seconds obviously it's not the you know the roughly chandy more that we we know at the top of that if you start after an injury but let's not forget you know this guy has won five grand tours and was a very
“very good time trial is back in his prime was he even a little good champion time trial if you remember”
everybody welcome back to the move on Spencer Martin I'm here with Johan Merneau we're breaking down stage one of the 2026 Volta Espania a 9.4 kilometer long time trial in Monaco and at the end we'll also do our outcomes preview of stage two stage one was one by Taday Pagachar with a view of A.T. Emirates scorching time of 10 minutes 57 seconds 51.5 kilometer per mile average on an extremely technical course I was shocked about technical it was Ethan Hayter from Sidol Quickstep
second on the same time technically within a second of Pagachar's second time Pagachar is one of
the time trial by less than a second this season Josh Darwin from net company N.U.S. R.Pick was third four seconds back with Calum Thornley from Red Bull Boir Handsgroan fifth Kristoff sorry in fourth Kristoff Leportin fifth Leo Bassu in sixth Oscar Chamberlain in seventh Wildbinard eight nine seconds back so technically could take the lead to mile Finn Fisher Black in ninth and Arthur Clarkers in tenth from Tudor Procycling lot to break down how the other GC riders finished
what is this how how many stages is Taday Pagachar gonna win at this well-to-but before we get into any of that you want I would love to know what your eight-sleep move the day is and before you say that let me just say Taday Pagachar is using his eight-sleep every stage of this well-to they're carrying around because it's keeping him cool keep it him at the temperature he
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move for up to three hundred fifty dollars off during this well-to-aspania but Johan what was your eight-sleep move the day? Yes, Spencer I mean my eight-sleep move of the day has to be the Pagachar obviously you know we all know he's the best rider in the world he can do it all but at nine point five kilometer flat technical time trial to win this against specialists like Edenator and and just starting especially zero so nine hundredths of a second if I'm correct
it was the difference yeah we know sometimes you say sometimes you and this is what happens you usually wait with big champions you know like you say okay you know what's nine hundredths of a
second but you know what it always happens to the best these little things that needs little
tiny differences and Pagachar just the perfection on a bike I mean when you saw him right off the start ramp obviously you know we are a month now after the two of the
“France he is still incredibly lean looks an amazing shape I honestly I expected him to be top five”
top ten I expected him to lose like five or ten seconds or something to be up there in the mix I did not expect him to win it shows again Spencer that what an unbelievable champion this is what an unbelievable training maniac this guy is because you know to come out like this this is the closest to a an effort that basically makes you smell blood in your throat especially after a period of none racing that racing for a month and here he is also a local from Monaco I mean a lot of
these guys are locals because of a lot of guys live there but what a way to start man definitely my hates people that they type of got char winning the prologue the pro I mean I'm so used to call it but it's stage one right it's a time trial but yeah unbelievable yeah it really is unbelievable
just to put it in a perspective so the first time check which was you know six and a half minutes into
the effort he used three seconds behind Ethan Hader so right there you're like well there's no way he can make up three seconds and four and a half minutes because the second half of the course was the slowest and more technical so he makes up you know what over a little over three seconds on Hader in the last four and a half minutes which means he was taking big we didn't see a lot of him I would not say the coverage was like the best it could be because they didn't really let us know
even that he was a threat for the stage one and tell he was through that final tunnel but he must have
Been taken big risks and the last half of that course to make up that much ti...
looked dialed and flying on this course I mean while in art super soon we all know how strong
“well been art is Ethan Hader went eight seconds faster than been art on the second half of that course”
and then Pagotcha goes three seconds faster than Ethan Hader I mean that is crazy stuff but Johan what like what would his training have looked like between the tour and now to come out and do this that's about curious you know you know what I mean that's the thing about Pagotcha you know like we've seen him obviously straight after the tour he did the Pogi challenge the grandfather there in his in his hometown obviously when he was in Slovenia quite some commitments
I'm gonna guess then we've all seen him on a gravel bike like a sack of tourists riding up more than two supporting his wife in the Tour de France farm so I'm gonna guess his preparation for the Valtais has been then days max like 10 days of more specific training of course you know if you finish the Tour de France with that kind of condition that Pagotcha had you know if you maintain it and you put in a few short intense intensive efforts you're there you know
you're there but still I kind of insisted off a 9.5 kilometer flat time trial at you know 11 minute effort you know to do this after such a busy period they last five weeks for him it's it's astonishing it's it's crazy normally what you see is you know after the tour the guys should do the tour de France and the guy even guys who have been really good at the tour de France and then they get back to the Valtais it takes them a few days to get back into the rhythm
into the you know into motion they know their condition is great they haven't lost their basic condition but it takes them a little bit to get back into you know the more intense efforts nothing of this seems to apply to Pagotcha yeah you would think there would be fatigue or you would think if you did the tour and then you did the Valtais you'd be great you'd have a deep well of fitness and you'd be great at big you know long-term efforts I don't think I would guess
that someone would be the best at a 10 minute effort you'd think that you know Ethan Hader needs a contract he's in a contract year and he's been he he's been focusing on this stage probably specifically you think of what but aren't you think of Stefan Coome these guys have been focusing on this stage and Pagotcha is able to come out and like out-explosive them it's really shocking actually I couldn't believe it expensive this is one other extra
“reason for riders to really be more desperate I think you know you're racing against this guy”
everybody knows he's the strongest and then you try to find little occasions opportunities where you maybe can beat him right and guess what he's beaten everybody again in some of them in their specialty you know because I think it's safe to say that Ethan Hader and Joe starting
on specialist time trial to trialists they're very powerful and they're also quite technical okay
Pagotcha is also very technically he's you know really often forget that he's also one of the best like handlers in the world he's up there you know he's up there he's he's incredible he looked it looked flawless I mean again it's not I don't think it's an advantage to live in Monaco because everybody everybody lives there and and most of the guys have done this course many many times before before the race but I mean I don't know I don't know what to say
could be say I mean okay we could we could easily say before the start of the world that okay this world that is over already before it starts that's safe to say with Pagotcha at the start are we going to say now after stage one the world that's over already I'm going to say yes if he gets if he finishes the race he's going to win the race I mean right now he's 10 to all time and grand tour stage wins it really impressive especially considering he only has 10 stage
wins outside of the two to France he is 36 total stage wins that's most of all activators
Pagotcha's second at 22 Phillips and third at 17 that's a lot of stage wins and he could
“do a lot of damage in this race I mean I do think what we said in the preview holds true I think”
in the third week he might not optimize every stage to win it yeah but I mean even in this first week he could win multiple stages I didn't think he was going to win this stage he's already got one after one day but um do you want to take a quick break y'all hot and then we'll tell about the GC like where the GC stands after this okay let's do that okay we'll be right back
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you where you heard about them tell them we sent you it really helps to show okay y'all on it we are back you know act like it with the dust settled it's not so obvious you watch that you're like whoa that's real fast the gaps for tight right no these are huge like these are the gaps we'll see
in a mountain stage for the gc this is over less than 10k so you've got your in first
previous vlog glitch probably the second of the best of the gc riders 22 seconds back 22 seconds back in 10k Tobias Holland Johansson 28 seconds back Mattish Gomo's a 29 seconds back in Rick Moss 33 seconds back actually pretty good ride there for in Rick Moss Richard Caribad the Richard Caribad it's stuck in my head Caribad 33 seconds back it feel it's called 46 seconds back Oscar only worse to the gc riders 50 seconds back 50 seconds over 9.4k
“I don't think we'll see I think in the stage 18 time trial we'll see bigger gaps but”
this is probably one of the more consequential gc stages we'll see in the first half of the race these are the gaps yeah okay but with Pogacchar know Spencer me he's gonna take he's got that's gonna be stages where he takes more than a minute two minutes on his closest rivals I'm sure but you know I mean I did I predict 45 seconds for Felix Gaul the other day
thank you set a minute but it's possible first I said close to a minute and then I said 45 seconds
but anyway you know I think that's I mean 46 seconds and Gaul and only are the two big losers today already and they're supposed to be is two closest rivals I don't know what I mean Gaul it's kind of expected you know he's not a great time trial is especially on a flat time trial's but Oscar only man I don't know did something happen did he have a mechanical or get a you know God out of a corner
“or something we didn't see him I don't remember seeing him on course but that's definitely”
another great start for Oscar only 50 seconds down already after 9.5k well one thing that's not great is the last individual time trial he's done in a race was it the bolt out garbage in February so you know would make sense if he was a little rusty you wouldn't draw up that way right if you were drawing your season out and you'd say okay we're going to do it a time trial in February next time when we do one in a race at least individual
yeah I mean he's August obviously he's had bad luck you know he had several crashes so you know you can't plan for that but you know if you would have been like 25 30 seconds you know up there with look like a Tobias how long do you harness and scale mosa and they're smart so it's okay you know okay fine these extra 20 seconds not but it's gonna make a big difference at the end you know for the podium but it's you know it's the way you start and the motivation and
the morale that's not that's not good and especially if you take into account the bolt go and only have been racing they just come fresh out of little brugos so where they will numbers are really good you know so that's yeah yeah that's not a great performance of those two it is a little it's hard to know what to do with that because as you say the time they lost to schgamos a hall in the haunts and moss carapaz they'll probably get back
but what does that mean about their form like why are the two guys that we thought would be closest the slowest of the GC guys in the time trial it's a little confusing to me yeah I mean maybe those guys the maybe those are two of these guys that we need time to get into it right it's I think I'm gonna say if you look at I mean at the end result at the end of three weeks
It's not disaster it's more a mental a mental result a mental bad result ment...
I would say go maybe less so but only is definitely gonna have you know negative thoughts
“the night about his performance the only thing I get think of is with those those are the two”
guys taking the fewest risks you know thinking you know because I was on really technical time trial on it I at least they are they're gonna have a chance to I mean it's gonna get real again on stage four so it's not like they have to wait a long time like they'll the we're gonna have a that GC set piece coming down here in another few days but yeah probably not how you'd want to get into a grand tour if you were mapping that out yeah I'm not gonna say I mean you know it's
not I don't think it's like they taking less risks I think I did GC rise the guys they take the the risks the calculated risks right I don't I haven't seen I mean the course looked technical that we didn't see any crashes at least along TV so I don't know I don't know yeah not not another great start for them but I still think that those guys are gonna be a
factor in GC I mean meaning for third second third for fifth and not for first place of course
I mean I'm looking back now golf not the best time trial so look at the zero he lost four minutes 21 seconds over 42k so that that's that's a good chunk of time they just happen to be going I think it looks worse at this wealth for because the GC their GC rival is the one winning the stage you know at the zero golf hit his bad TT performance behind Vindigar to also had a sub-part TT performance so the gaps look that big but when the top GC guys winning the time trial
you get exposed a little bit more but I remember seeing that image of Philly's gall at the
“zero with the helmet and took the glasses off and remember that you remember that yeah into your”
limits by the way I have to say you know decathlon has an incredible team here a really good
riders I mean today they were you know for at some point they were they had four guys in the top 10 young riders and stellar performance today of Leo Bizio with the timer yeah young rider he's one year older than Paul sex off he's a climber and they can finish six inches in the in the stage if I'm not mistaken six yes that's it's guys he beat he beat Wild Van Art on this course so that's that's quite that's a significant performance so it's really impressive I frankly thought it was
it's a different guy with the same name I was like there's no way that's a little bit sue I mean it's a really good team I got 67th 17th and 25th on the day and then I wasn't even where they had any time trial specialist at this race so this guy Oscar Chamberlain I was unfamiliar yeah it's a really nice thing was he not world champion time trial at some point junior or
“under 23 I don't remember now I think junior's probably that guy's a time trialist”
I've seen him this guy in a world championship somewhere okay and you love these junior world championships I mean yeah where would he he's only 21 years older right now okay so he he was Australian junior champion and 2023 so right there is pretty good I mean yeah really good team predictathlon I would say a pretty much why which better than I thought it was going to be like best of the rest that's not what I was expecting from a guy that hasn't looked great and was hit
by a car is that right coming into this race yeah he was hit by car I just saw some pictures again when he showed his injuries it was really bad so I mean it's pretty decent 22 seconds obviously it's not you know the Roglic anymore that we we know in a top of that if you start after an injury but let's not forget you know this guy has won five grand tours and was a very very good time trial is back in his prime was even a little good champion time trial
if you remember yeah I mean really in Tokyo you know yep he won in Tokyo the fake 2020 21 Olympics and yeah he can I mean even outside of the grand tours I saw a stat I don't have it in front of me but his ability to win stage races like across all timeframes unbelievable I think he's might have the best win percentage I guess he wouldn't have a better win percentage than Pagachar and maybe not Jonas but it's like one of the best of all time he could think I
Has a winner yeah he's probably going to have to hope something happens to Pa...
well I still I also say I don't know how he's going to do it in the mountains you know with this year we haven't seen anything promising from pre-most you know like if you look at romantly for example you know was not that was not great did he do two of Switzerland also
I don't remember how I thought he did I mean he was one of the worst riders and the second
kind of of the course it's kind of weird he didn't who was Switzerland he was not very good or he was eighth overall kind of an enormous yeah he's not I mean he's not been he's not been good but I would they which surprised me more that he was second best of the GC riders here yeah who knows how he's going to be on the climbs but if you go back to the 2025 zero he was pretty good before he crashed out of that race and we just haven't seen him yeah he was he won a match that since then
“yeah um any other GC guys to pick out to you like Schkammosa I think you know I think”
Schkammosa on his level although he did a really good tap rod on the tour by the way yeah he did really good but yeah you know what I mean looking at these differences here I'm going to say you know not terrible from Hendrick Moss only 33 seconds they've been a lot worse we'll see I thought Moss was great I mean imagine if Tadda is not here so in Rick Moss would have
been 11 seconds behind Roglic your guy who passed him when he got second at the vaults in 2021 in
the time trial you'd say wow what a ride yeah I thought Caripass was pretty good you know 33 seconds back yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I mean it's not going to be I thought I thought golf and only would be cakewalk in the second third but now look and maybe another thing another thing another thing Spencer I'm you know for me like this I mean personal personal disappointment I mean not not the performance but I would have loved just starting to win I think everybody and then you know when
Ethan Hater came I said you know I think it's it softens it softens there is not disappointment because who got you are also beaten yeah so but man for him to show up and you could see you know in his in his demeanor that he's riding there you know he's riding for four and which is brother and I just hope he's gonna he's winning one of the one of the stages you know he's the that's his goal that's his goal in this in his well-to-you he wants to win his stage for his brother
we the 32 kilometer long time trials what he should be focusing on now because he was the best
of the big guys this I started to get to get concerned with the moment the first rider we went
I thought this course is not what I thought it was and then when Stefan Kuhm yeah he finishes 14 seconds back it's like I this is not a great course for these big guys you know that he wanted to be at a high speed all the time so he did pretty well and like of the of that type of profile like Tarlene Welvinar and Stefan Kuhm he was the best of all of them and then yet softens the blow a bit that two guys beat him and that it's probably better for Pagotcha that Ethan Hater
sitting in between them because that would not have been the best look right if Pagotcha it's a time trial you know I mean everybody goes full you know that's you can't you can't calculate well you could say you could say okay that for example if if darling is in in both position and then you're one of the last guys you could say you know and then you get informed you could say maybe okay maybe I'm slowing down in the last 100 meters which for
“that which is for example you remember when Vingigar the up that for Walt in the two remember that”
yep but you know as it's the first day now there's no you know there's no room for these kind of calculations question for you on that is everyone going all out because this is the second time this year we've seen Pagotcha get out of the saddle in the final 100 meters and literally sprint through the line where the guy that he beat stayed in the skis over the line you know like that's why he won that state of the stage because he sprinted on is it isn't isn't we don't
know I mean there's theories there's a lot of theories and calculations of aerodynamic specialists that say you know just stay in the position as well especially if it's flat and high speed you definitely what they tell you yeah you just slow down when you stand up and sprint to the finish I'm going to time that 100 meters I think he was I think he's going faster but they do
“tell you that that you should not stand up and sprint but I'm certain to question that because”
second time we've seen this and my son was like well what is an everyone sprint like I don't know
Maybe maybe we should be maybe we could get yours now most of the most of the...
because there's nothing left in the legs is the quads are exploding you can't stand up it's it's it's burning you know it's it's physically impossible to stand up the fact that you can still stand up does he also which is for example also why much of under the blue one the last stage on the chance and he did because he stood up in the last 30 meters he had no business being able to do that it also helps that Pagatcha knows how fast he has to go
in these time trials where everyone else like Ethan Hayters is going a little blind right he's four
seconds up he doesn't know them Pagatcha is within a second of them Pagatcha knows when he's going
because he's going later do you want to take a quick break and then talk about a quick question for you Pagatcha can't stay at this house right he has to stay at the hotel tonight no no yeah he has to stay at the hotel yeah yeah and that's the rules of the race yeah yeah the rules of the UCI
“yeah you have to be you have to be at the team hotel and it's the second stage of this”
volta because when they go to indoor on stage four every even more riders are going to be right next to their house um a bit if Lance made us all stay at like the worst hotel in Boulder or something that couldn't stay at my house but let's uh let's take a quick break and then we'll talk about tomorrow
stage okay yohan we are back so if we get a short stage today they're making up for tomorrow so stage two
Monaco to Monaco to Monaco to Monaco to Monaco to Monaco to Monaco to Mono's 214k because we got to get the Spain you know we have an appointment in Spain we got to get over there and we got to cover a lot of ground so that's a long stage for a modern grain tour over 3,000 meters of elevation gain and then an uphill they have three two categorized climbs and then some tough uncut categorized climbs and then an uphill finish about 4% for the final kilometer probably going to be some sort of
reduced sprint you to imagine Matt's Patterson, Wout Van Art and potentially Ventati Picachar will be dookin it out how do you think this is gonna play out it's really early enough that it's not going to be
“a breakaway right yeah I think so I think so and especially you know uh vizmas here with it to your goal”
for stage events I think Wout will um want to in the stage so I think they're gonna control
I'm gonna guess Patterson the same Patterson by the way has said before the race that he's not going for the points jersey which is you know strange I don't know I mean it's probably not a goal initially I mean he has won now all the points jersey in all the three round two or so you know it's it has done what he has to do but he said he's focusing on stage wins rather than just on the points classification but tomorrow I think it's you know you name the two guys that
think these are the two big favorites for for the stage especially also because it's 3000 years of climbing so pretty hard for real sprinter and those two teams have two teams that can actually make it hard enough yeah for the sprinters to get dropped and then for both of them an ideal
“uphill finish uh three four percent if I'm not mistaken so I'm gonna go for what Vannacht”
um would love to theme when the stage and I would love to see him take the leaders jersey which is yeah if he wins the stage that's a possibility if he wins the he gets the the ranchers you know one of the keys to his ride today it's he's stayed within nine seconds of a gotcha so if he was within ten seconds of him then if he wins tomorrow and per gotcha doesn't finish in the top three and then also assuming per gotcha doesn't take time at the bonus sprint
then while Vannacht will be in the leader jersey I'd assume that that's a goal pretty impressive he was able to nail it right in there I was he's per gotcha gonna get in the top three of the stage though he shouldn't he shouldn't right he should try to not and then I mean yeah I mean there I if I if I would be him and his team I I'd like you know I'd let the let the jersey to Visma and then we're gonna control stage three at least and maybe in stage four different
because that's that's a hard stage um I mean yeah I don't know what's the upside though what's the upside of not not being in the in the red jersey for gotcha yes you go back there's not many right but it's the Velka Spencer it's not the tour it's not overwhelming press yeah it's it has it's you can't compare you can't compare you know the tour is you know they they jump on you it's there's a lot of different the Vota is so relaxed man I mean it's I mean yeah it's uh it's an extra
half an hour in the Vota where the tour could be an hour two one and a half hour you know when you're
After the doping control and the podium and the press for press for press int...
and then maybe you get stuck in traffic you know so hello I don't think there's any upside for
“purple gotcha did not this funny you mentioned it felt way calmer just just watching the race today”
like the side of the road and then you'd imagine that this is a tour stage people would have been crashing and they were not crashing it because like yeah just backed off half of like half of yeah yeah no the the the the the stress level is just toned down so much in these I mean even in the zero you know the zero and the Vota compared to the tour it's it's not even close
and the Vota is the third the third one in terms of press and intention and
everybody wanting to fight for position it's it's uh it's it's a nice race to to ride I mean I'm not gonna say relax because that's this respect to the riders of of this era but it's the most relaxed of the three grand tours yeah to ride the race and before the race and after the race it is funny how that happens it just anything that's first like the zero it's a people are more keyed up for it and then yeah focus slips by the third but
kind of makes it a nice race to watch too because it's a little bit more anything can happen because people aren't so dialed in but any any other predictions for tomorrow I so vet art
is gonna go for the point sprint which is also a time bonus sprint with it's about 25
K to go and then what's the what's the bonus there what's it is it I eight seconds
“I think I seem to remember something like eight seconds in the past I mean I'm not sure anymore”
I actually have a little a short tip to the racebook right here but let's see it is what do we have eight seconds would be a lot all right that a six foreign to six foreign to would probably make more sense but yeah and then the question is how many you know because the zero really underwates the points at the intermediate sprint I'd assume since this is an aso race it's similar to the tour that's funny that
what Matt's better said would say that because you just try to throw people off the set like a funny thing to say I don't trust I don't trust them at all I'm young before we got that they're the Deutschland tour today is it the tour was a way good I haven't haven't watched it I haven't watched it but I saw that they're total and was the guy with up and he's out he's out he's out he's out he's out he's a Italian version
of the autoro but I mean they're they're you know and they're neighbors live in the same apartment complex and they were going straight straight that he beat he was not there
yeah you got to get to barely the third roommate what's he doing yeah that's they're not
roommates there they're they're they're not roommates they all it's a better story if we say they're on a different oh yeah on a different level yeah yeah yeah and well it's funny you mentioned that because the autoro attacks he gets away the pelisari pelisari does a lot of work the tour is just sitting on a thing in del Toro what are you doing man like you got you got to build your lead here like you're you're gaining from this pelisari is doing so much work they get to the final
kilometer del Toro gets to the front with like 1.5k to go and then it started sprinting with like 500 meters to go and then of course does not win the stage like pelisari picks his pocket yeah but yeah it was a little bit of an agree you know he's he's he's he's he's he's he's a little
“surprised his position and then you see I think he thought as a pretty big lead now no over”
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah Louis Barre was in the lead now he's 52 seconds back I mean it's great for del Toro okay but I'm like looks like a deal might have been made there between two guys it's been a lot of time together looked like a convenient time for him to become confused about where the finish line was well you know it's it's Spencer it's normally it's also I mean if you're in a two-man break
and you know one one is out of the gc it's full gas both of them and you know one takes a stage one thgc that's usually in the agreement and especially I mean it was usually the agreement not any more in today's cycling but I think he had the acceptance and they're two really good friends and training partners yeah and it I mean I guess they both gained right because now del Toro's in the lead
Pelazari gets a stage one at a race that he wouldn't you know that he wasn't ...
to be at and then also Jasper Phillips and I don't know if he saw the highlight of this one
“of the closest finishes we've seen this year over Olaf Koy at the Renewi Tour but super like”
Phillips has been really impressive since that it seems like out his issues at the tour were just the heat and then once they got it and and regains the leaders you know he must yeah over you know who who is this guy you know about it most very good rider really yeah yeah really really really very underrated very underrated rider really good yeah I mean huge for a lot of intermarshake to get a win in your home one of your home tours that's got to be a big point of
emphasis for them yeah Phillips and that was a really impressive sprint against Olaf Koy pretty just a good race in general Renewi Tour then love in that race check it out
“and believe the final stages tomorrow anything else you want before we take off”
but one more question for you everything Spencer yeah is tour to lab go ahead and you're not
nations anymore is it trade teams it's straight teams wind it change this year this year of first time
there are there are some national teams but it's it's straight I mean it's overwhelmingly developed development teams of big teams which yeah I mean it's it's super high level yeah kind of makes sense I guess of all these you know if you a about rain visma there's many in a ton of breadball spending a ton of money on these junior teams and you 23 teams you would want to use your team infrastructure at the biggest race of the year for these riders so I
guess that makes sense yeah kind of sad though is it so different from how it used to be 231 get the day stage was 231 kilometer by the way why did they do that that's like
that's preparing there's something you're never gonna do as a professional
it's a crazy point state they didn't sub five hours though cooking on that course what these six and a half kilometers per hour oh yeah it's pretty good oh we're getting off track we're talking about the 12 pound so yeah sure yeah well yeah I'm going to be dialed in on the tour to eleven here though what a great race I'm excited about it but we'll let you go and we'll make them only great only great cyclists wind that race but yeah they say yeah
they say only the best in history of one that race specifically they call out the 1990 three the way 1990 edition of the race one by yourself that's crazy one that is crazy you won that race that's a big win yeah well it was different it was different it was different then there was a few years where the tour to eleven year changed name to the tour of the European community and we went actually to a lot of different it was 10 stages by the way 10 days
“then and we went to different countries and I remember I wanted in the last time trial”
with three seconds on the second one so very tight very tight win and so in 1982
great one-man wins good rider right and then eighty six mega-out and rain wins pretty good eighty seven mark madio eighty eight Lauren Finyan which I did that was the first time I did I did I did the tour to eleven year three times but it was it was an open race then so I did tour to eleven year and eighty eight the first time as a young professional when when a lot of young one and he a lot of young had already won two tours and he won the tour to
eleven year not so fair remember this guy all off the way he won in 1993 that guy was a motorbike cheese that's it yeah he's strong congrats you on the delayed congratulations on the 1990 tour to eleven year that's a huge win I guess you did go on the win two tour stages so not so easy to do that either yeah yeah all right well okay let's do thank you we'll be back earlier tomorrow we just have a super late finish today with that stage but we'll be back in the normal
time tomorrow back to the stage
