Cold, Rain & an Unhinged Final Few Kilometers | Giro d'Italia 2026 | THEMOVE+

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You know what's going to happen? We're going to kick us. But we don't need to mentally roast it right now. Just today I was like, "Oh, like, you know, this is already won this race. Was my thought when I saw that?" Wow, they're keep basic. And if nothing happens to him, he has wanted to see him out of this but the separation will be solved. And we saw who really arrived as well.

But, you know, it's free week. So a lot can happen. And a lot will happen. Everybody welcome back to the move plus. I'm Spencer Martin. I'm here with Yohan Bernal. We are breaking down stage five over this year of the Talia, which was won by Igor Arietta from UAE team.

“Remember, it's our second win in two days. Not a bad, not a bad year to Talia for losing three key riders on stage two.”

Afanza Ulario from Bahrain, Victoria's was second.

I'm not also not doing this stage finish. Just as we'll get into it later in the show. It was absolutely bananas. Ulario gets second. Two seconds behind Arietta. But takes the GC lead by almost three minutes over Arietta and six minutes over the real GC group. Julio Chican Chugone who held the Maglio Rosa coming into the stage, finished the stage over seven minutes down.

So he's six minutes, 12 seconds out of the GC lead now. He looks like a truly sad man out there pulling for himself in the in the Maglio Rosa. There could be there could be police going to the race Philadelphia on to a rest little track management for making that happen. But just a quick primer on what happened. The stage starts, it's actually was decent weather at the start turned into terrible weather.

Some of the worst weather you could imagine racing through around not that cold like 13 degrees Celsius,

but rainy and probably felt a lot cold in that very hard fight for the break away on the first climb.

A move got clear with Afanza Ulario in it and then Arietta bridged up with Ben Turner and a few others. After the climb crest, it was like a kind of a chaotic moment.

“I think Victor Campingard jumped across then we'll talk a little bit about why he's motivated to write her in the break away.”

And then little track has to get on the front and pull their managing the gap well. They get to the toughest climb of the day with around 64 kilometers to go. Red Bull comes to the front, the gaps 155 to the break. I'm thinking, well, they're going to blow this up. We're going to have the GC showdown.

Maybe we'll have Pelazari win the stage. We'll see what happens. They kind of stall out. They only have Alexander Vlasov left on the front. Like half out of the climb. The gaps actually going out. Igor Arietta attacks, drops everybody, looks fantastic. A little scuffle behind Ulario emerges, bridges up to Arietta, which is super impressive.

By the way, that's not easy to do. Probably helped. The climb was super tough and he was just stronger than everybody else. And then the chaos began back in the GC group things calm down. Chaconia gets to the front. There's no one left from little track other than Derek G West. So he has to pull. He doesn't really have a chance though because it's two guys up front.

He's pulling by himself. The gaps going out. It's clear he's going to lose the jersey because Ulario entered the stage. I'm in it behind him coming into the final. Arietta crashes with 13 K to go. Oh, no. He's out of the race. Ulario continues on. He can't wait for him because he doesn't want to lose time.

Six K to go. Ulario crashes. Oh, no. Arietta catches up. We're going to have a two-up sprint. Two K to go. Arietta misses a turn. I don't know if he missed it, if he didn't see it. If he thought he was going to crash and just kind of went off in a little ramp.

The ended up being a good ramp for him to have because he didn't crash. He goes off the road. It looks like Ulario is just going to float to the stage when the leader's jersey. Arietta, this was an impressive performance here. Yohan, the last two K. He looks like he's in his biggest gear, like a 40 RPM turnover. I thought I was watching a replay in slow motion, but I was watching the actual finish in real time.

Arietta, it's a slightly uphill final kilometer, just real Zen Ulario. Blows right by him wins the stage. Ulario gets the leader's jersey. Big for Bahrain, Victoria's because they lost San Diego. But Trago and Stage 2, big for UA, because they lost Adam Yates, and now they want two stages in a row. What were your takeaways from this crazy stage?

Like a cyclist, and you've done around two hours. That letter is just horrible. You know, horrible. It's the worst you can imagine. It was raining, it was cold, it was hail, more than 200 kilometers.

“You know, you're struggling with the clothing all day long, you know, you have to put layers on and take them off.”

It's chaos. Plus, you know, your legs don't work. You know, you're riding with legs that are at some point so cold that, you know, it's everything looks in slow motion. The horrible day, you know, I mean, it was a hard day, 3,700 and something meters of elevation. It was hard on everybody. The breakaway, of course, that there were some riders there. I mean, especially the moment the breakaway was established, it was a long fight.

You know, you could, I mean, it was coming down so hard, pouring, pouring, pouring.

I think one of the first guys actually to go was Sylva, right? The guy who won, yeah, and it's the former maglio Rosa was really very important.

Yeah, so impressive from him. And you could see that, I mean, everybody was just like, okay, we were going to, you know, push through this push through this because everybody and everybody in the back is suffering too. That's, that's what goes to their mind, you know, because it was so hard. And finally, this, you know, this break goes away. First, these five riders, then, you know, when all these other joined, there was 12 riders. And then there was one rider who really impressed me Spencer.

This guy from EF, Darren Rafferty. Yes. Britched up by himself when the break had already more than a minute. That was, I mean, when you see it was in the breakaway yesterday. When you see a move like that, obviously, you know, they had instructions to be in the moves, they were not, they got yelled at.

And then he goes and everybody says, what kind of a stupid move is this? That's the first part, right? Yeah. The guy made it to the break. That was impressive. So, the 13 riders and you could straight away see that little track could not control this because they only had three riders at some point and take that.

And then afterwards, somebody else came back, but they had this, what's his name? The guy was pulling me.

“I think he's from Eritrea, does he remember his name?”

I should not be the one to say his name. It's ammonia, ammonia well.

I believe it's his first name and his last name is, I'm not even going to take a crack at it.

But he did a lot of work. He was on the phone for a long time. He says name, I'll say, I'll try to say, what do you think of this? Oh, my Lord. It's like, I'm going to spell it. E.B.R.E.I.G.Z.A.B.H.I.G.R.

>> Here in the race, Gabriela. >> Yes, Gabriela. >> Yes. >> You know that's sad. >> Okay, there you go.

Listen, I mean, that guy was pulling forever forever. And you know, initially, keep the break, like, what's dreaming is that I went back to two minutes. >> Now, he was doing a good job. Like, it was staying where it needed to be.

>> Yeah. >> But, you know, they just blacked my power. And, nobody else was going to try, especially also, because Visma had components in the break away. So, initially, I thought I don't know what you thought.

I said, your components is in there. You could see he was super motivated from the very beginning to be in that break.

And so, my first talk was, okay, this is just a strategy.

You know, you're not just going to go on that climb with 50 get a go. He has somebody in the front already, and then, you know, use him afterwards. But none of that happened. Componers couldn't follow the acceleration of Arieta and Lalu on the climb, and finally, you know,

couldn't really do anything for the team. But, yeah, I was surprised to see that there was no action in the GC hoop. On that was a really hard climb.

“But I think that the weather contributed a lot too, okay, you know what?”

Let's just try to save the day. Let's try to get safe to the finish, because you know, if you attack, that also brings with it that you have to afterwards take risks in the downhill to stay up front. - Yeah.

- I think from that moment on, I think there was just, okay, let's just be conservative, status quo. Let's save everything, let's not lose any more riders. And bring it home safely, and I think that's basically what happened in the GC hoop.

But didn't take away from the spectacle we saw between, you know, for the stage when between those two riders, there was so much drama going on.

who was gonna win.

“But listen, well deserved for Arieta, man.”

He was, he fought for it.

Sun of the next professional rider who is a grand tour stage winner, also is that in the tour Spain. Jose Luis, Arieta, was for a very long time. I would say very long time on, he was on Banesito and Movistar.

Actually, Movistar is a rider, I don't think so. He was on Banesito and then he was, - It was Banesito. - Did you do that? - Well, in between, you remember this team,

you're very honest. - You, as the same as the same thing. - The case to palm is what it became eventually. - In the age. - But they are, I guess, the palm.

And I think then he went to 81. - Yeah, for actually quite a while, like five years. - Then he was, he was DS, Movistar for a long time. - Something happened, he left and he's now DS at Dekatro. - The H2R, I mean, I don't know if he's still on Dekat long,

but he was definitely, and at first, long as H2R was a sponsor, he was DS there after, after Living Movistar. But listen, Adiya Tami, you could see this coming.

“You know, this is, I think this is his third year pro.”

From the first year, from the first year, he was on, I don't know if he started on Keren Pharma, or on Kachatro. - Yeah, that's right, Keren Pharma. - Yeah, I saw him do already some really good things.

I remember seeing Adiya and Ogran Camino up there with the best, you could straight away see, okay, this guy's a real, real, real racer, big talent. And, you know, for a rider like this on UAE,

somebody who always, always, always works for everybody else,

but himself to get this opportunity because of the unfortunate crash of three of the three best riders or three leaders. And now, have this stage win, that's just unbelievable. I mean, what a way to turn it around my UAE,

they know that I'm gonna start to be riders and stage four to stage five, they win. And it's not over, it's not over. That the ambience is gonna be pretty good at UAE. - Well, here at the hot take I had in my head,

during the stages, is this gonna work out better for them because of the crash? - Well, it's now they have these stallions, they're sent in after stage wins. I mean, these guys are, when we saw area attack,

it looked like he was in a junior, he was a grown-up in a junior race, which actually is a bad analogy 'cause if Yohan, if Yohan and I were in a junior race, we wouldn't do so well.

But he looked like a professional in a junior race. It was, he was going twice the speed of the other guys in the climb. It was, these guys are so talented and now they're untethered from having to team work.

Obviously, it may be Adam Yates wins this race. So that's a tragedy that he's not here. But what's funny is, as you're going through that early in the race, I know Rubio was the concern. That was the guy everyone was worried about was Rubio

from Movistar because he was only 10 seconds off the race lead.

“He's a pretty, you know, I think at UAE tour,”

did he not have a high finish, did he maybe he won UAE tour? Maybe I'm gonna lose my stage in the mountains stage. You'll win the hardest mountain stage and he was the concern, but then he's pulled in.

He's real dimmer, like 50 K to go. And then now there's a new concern or laurels up the road. Yeah, you would say a little trick. I mean, Rubio, I think initially that was the purpose also because he had another movie star rider with him.

Milacy was really strong, also young rider. Really strong. So he was pulling a lot, but then Rubio just,

when the lights went out, he was one of the first guys

dropped actually on that line and then got caught by the main hunt and then got dropped from that lost 10 minutes from the main group. So that's like, okay, completely out of energy. And as you say, people were pulling over to put clothes

on, put on jackets, take jackets off. It was a disaster back there. Yeah, no, I said, the days like this man, it's hard, it's hard to be a cyclist on days like this. Well, and we were just talking a few days ago about it.

Wow, everyone's so skinny. How are they 68 kilos of heavy guys, 72 kilos? The flip side of that is when it's, even when it's 13, they know 13 degrees Celsius, you know, for big boys, it might not be that cold, but if you have,

these people must have 2% 3% body fat. And in 13 degrees on the right, it's going to feel so cold. Yeah, yeah, no, I mean, it's a plus, plus, but it's not just being in that's riding your bike

With your hands numb. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot.

“And luckily, I mean, luckily, the clothing nowadays”

has improved, so I mean, the clothing now for rain.

This is so much better than, and 15, 20 years ago, but still, there's nothing that can really protect you from getting wet. You're there all wet, you know, whatever you put on. You're at your wet and cold from top to toe, which makes riding a bike pretty, really difficult.

As we have seen with the crash of Arietta and the crash of Aralu, I mean, it was, I mean, it was not really too dangerous corners. It was, okay, wherever Arietta crashed. It was a hairpin, but still, you know,

I don't know how many other hairpins you took today. So it's also, you know, the reflexes are a lot less at the end of a stage like this. I mean, where Aralu crashed, it must have been slippery, but he did not even enter the turn yet.

And he was on the ground already. He crashed. It was before the turn. Which could, so this was all to the stage was five hours. So can you imagine, and it was not raining at the beginning.

So nobody was, nobody had the ring gear on at the start. Then they had to try to put it on. That that's the worst of every world right there. And you're in the rain for five hours. As you said, Victor Kippinard's going in the break away.

It's like, well, what's going on here? Is he's making a do something? Nothing ends up happening. G.C. Y. Y's accepted Chikone sadly was the saddest.

“I think loss of a jersey I've seen in a long time.”

The most slow motion disaster unfolding before eyes. But all the G.C. stuff gets called off because of Matt. Yeah, imagine if the G.C. group is racing into the final, like the two lead guys were, like it could have been really ugly. So maybe everything got called off because it was like,

well, we don't want to risk crashing. This isn't worth it, especially with four, you know, tomorrow's a sprint stage. And then it's four G.C. days in a row. It would be my best guess.

But what, why? Because Victor Kippinard's put a lot of work into that. Like he was, he wanted to be in that break away from Colombia zero. Do you think that was to set up a Visma move or just to have it as an option? I don't really think so.

I mean, obviously it's always good to have a rider in a break.

Especially if it's a big one, like 12 13 riders, it's good. But, you know, then really bring anything to do Visma. Other than if Jonas had plans to attack on that climb because with all the riders that were there, it would have been very difficult for companies to win the stage with that steep climb.

I mean, it's good. But he's, you know, there are always riders who could have climbed better than him. Well, that's not, shouldn't really be a concern right now. Getting Victor Kippinard's up the road to get a stage win. Probably should not be a list of it.

And it's not, it's, in my opinion, it was to set up an attack, but, you know, the plan's changed on the road, they just wanted to keep everything safe.

“If it's, if it's dry, dry, dry, they, I think I think it would have been different.”

A thought I did have is, is he doing this just to mess with everybody, like, like, just to create chaos because he's up the road. Visma now doesn't have to pull. They get to the steep climb. Red Bull comes forward, looks impressive, but they're not taking any time out of the

breakaway. What was that about? Well, that's the, that's the, that's the impressive part, Spencer, about those two riders in the break, you know, like, Arietta and Elalio. When Red Bull was pulling, they were, they were not going slow.

And they did not take any time back on, on Arietta and Elalio. So that was, you know, the sign that they were most likely going to make it to the finish. What Red Bull was doing exactly, I don't know, I think, were they trying to, you know, make it to the Red Bull Sprint and get the bonification for political anxiety and think to Jersey, that could be one of, I mean, it's also, I mean, I don't know, it was a weird, a weird

decision. I think they tried and they probably thought that they would reel in the break easier,

but finally they didn't reel in at all, but, yeah, I don't know.

I don't know what's the thinking was behind it. And then go for the stage man and then get the leaders jersey. I mean, I guess that was the, the plan. Well, I mean, if, if, if, if, if Billy's already gets the Red Bull Sprint, if it's six seconds, that would, that would put them in the leaders jersey already, but that would mean that

to court it doesn't take any seconds, which was also be difficult, right? Yeah, there would be really tough. Yeah. I mean, if you really start to think about it, anything they were trying to accomplish

Sprint and the final sprint to Pelazari? Probably not, but I, the thought is you get a a young rider in the Maglia Rosa, that's a success. He feels confident. He feels good about the team.

“I assume that's what they're trying to do.”

Yeah, although I think, I think, but the Zarris would focus on the podium. That's what I think. I mean, man concern and, you know, not really worry about being, they think, although, you know, you can, we cannot, we cannot judge what it means for a Italian rider to have them at the Maglia Rosa.

We cannot know the importance of that in his magical, you know, so I could also understand that if that was their goal, then that they tried, but didn't work out. Yeah, I'd rather have them thinking, well, we're going to have the Maglia Rosa and Rome. Why do we need now? That's also, that's, that's also a very, very difficult objective, but certain something

needs to happen to you and us. It's not excluded, but yeah, well, I mean, you and I know that it's very hard and something that we would have to happen to you and us, I would like the mentality instead of Red Bull to be, we're going to happen to you and us. You know, it's going to happen.

We're going to kick us, but we don't need the Maglia Rosa right now. Just today, I was like, oh, like, the, you know, Zarris won this race was, was my thought when I saw that.

Wow, they're, he basically, I mean, if nothing happens to him, he has won it since

he announced his participation and we saw, and we saw who would your rivals were, but, you know, it's three weeks, so a lot, a lot can happen and a lot, uh, a lot will happen. I have a lot of, uh, I'm not looking forward to Black House after today, I feel like you own this.

“I think it was a difficult day for everyone and then you own us to click.”

He was back. There's smoking cigars, not too worried about what was happening all day. Here's a few questions for you. So ball rain now has the accuracy, the racially, a funzo, we'll already know, there's a writer.

We don't know a lot about, like, got fit the Saudi tour earlier this year. Fine result, but that's on the Grand Tour win. He is minutes, like six minutes up on Chaconay, Bernal Arnsman, Bindigard. Bindigard's probably going to be people in the top 10 by 10 minutes. So let's say he is a 16 minute buffer to the end of the top 10 over on this race.

Can he hold on like, what can he do, G.C. wise? Um, I think he definitely can be top 10, uh, yeah. So the fact, what he did today show that he's in great shape, um, he's going to hang on to the jersey on the state seven, I think, on Blockhouse. He's not going to lose six minutes.

Probably not, uh, you know, or look who's here, look who came. Hey, Bobby, that's guys back. Bobby's back. I have to get him a lot because he's, uh, yeah, he's asking for attention.

“So that's why he comes and say, hi, Bobby, you got to close that dog food sponsorship”

for us. Look at that right there, uh, but yeah, he probably will lose it tomorrow. Uh, or something. On Friday. No, on, on Blockhouse.

Yeah. It's hard. It's hard. Although I did hear some today, uh, one of the, uh, ex, uh, ex professional cyclists say that, yeah, Blockhouse, it's not steep.

It's long, but it's not steep. And I looked at the profile, I said, wow, if that's not steep, then I don't know what steep means. It's 13 and a half kilometers at, uh, eight and a half percent. Eight and a half percent.

A lot of, a lot of, uh, a lot of sectors that, of more than 10 percent.

So it's definitely a hard plan. But, but I think it's, uh, a lot, a lot, a lot of you is going to hang on to the jersey, uh, which is probably also a good thing for Visma, you know, because. Arine is a bit, I mean, not, not to the same extent, but they're also a bit in the same situation as UAE.

They lost their leader for G.C. As Santiago Bittrago in the crash. Um, they bounce back. They win the, uh, they get the jersey today. And so that they are definitely going to try to defend it, uh, for as long as they can.

I think. So, uh, plus, plus, I think that the value is going to become the leader. They're still, are also on the team, but, you know, he's days of G.C. rider or, come from probably with assumes. I mean, he's like 38 or 39 years old.

Right. I mean, it's the last, this last year is last year, by the way. Um, so yeah, I think, I think, I think, uh, but I will defend the jersey, uh, and I'm pretty confident that after, states 7, allow you still going to be the lead with three minutes for maybe, maybe three, uh, how much does he have on, on the honest six and a six and

a half, basically, yeah, more than three minutes, a problem is in that time trial, what's

Uh, yeah, he's also going to do some time to two minutes there. Yeah, this is crazy about Chris, so they stand and bring just a stage, then already Spencer. So, you know, that's, that's it. Yeah, through the rest day, too, you know, four days in pink.

So, uh, anybody in this race would think that, you know, four days in the lead to jersey and many team suits the sign for that straight away, especially a team that just lost your leader on stage. Yeah. Yeah, we'll try.

Go guess where, Chris, I've finished in last year's year, 0 overall, um, Dr. fifth pretty good. Yeah. He's really good.

He's been a second in 2021.

We all remember. He's still putting up impressive. I mean, that's actually not talked about enough. He's 38 years old and he's probably riding the fastest he's ever ridden in his life.

“I would assume to be getting fifth at the zero, you have to fly in.”

Um, it's, you know, he's, he's very, uh, very undervalued episode. He's, he's, he's, he's got a strong career, man. So a few more questions for you. Lead a trek. Could they have done anything differently here or no, they just exhausted all options.

Well, I mean, you know, they, they came with a team that is basically built around Milan. Um, plus, you know, Chicona was in, was in the Pink jersey, but their leader for GC is really their energy. So he was not going to pull. No.

So they only had Gibraes Gabbier, uh, and then at a later point, so Blair, it came back, but it was too late already there. I mean, because when you split your team. Yeah. Yeah.

I thought he came back. Yeah. But when you split your team like this, you start to run on a rider's, a lot of things and they think because one of them is Jonathan Milan, you know, he's not going to help. One of them is Derek G, one of them is Chicona, so that's three protected riders right

there. So you only have what four, four riders left five five, five riders left, presumably three of those are lead out riders, and then you have two guys to work. So Sobrero and the gentleman who was exhausted, because he had worked for 50k going into that climb.

So they tried his age names, but that's a good one. Give it a try. A mine well. Well, I don't even think I wrote, I listened to that closely when you said it. But this, I mean, but this is also what happens when you split a team like this, and then

you're not winning sprints.

“It starts to get really dicey really fast, and that's what's happening in the little”

tracks. Sure. I mean, I was sad for Chicona also, because he would have deserved to be a few days in pink, but yeah, that's in the day stage was not a good one, not a nice one for anybody.

Now, I mean, in Chicona, like he did what he could, like he was out there, he received

showed respect to the jersey, as we all agree as the most important thing about professionals.

There was nothing else to do for him, you know, maybe he didn't, I mean, he didn't chase, he just was up there in front, he knew he couldn't do anything. So, I mean, it's also, it's also kind of, you know, not nice, not cool for, you know, an Italian, the way the pink jersey and actually not being able to show it off because he was in rain jackets all day, you know, just at the start, and then he might be pink, Gille, over

his rain jacket, you know, to show something. I mean, maybe he, maybe he could, no, because block, you know, because it's blockhouse, and then, you know, that is kind of a bummer, it's too bad for him, but he had that pink helmet. So, well, we could see him in there, he gets his day in Chicona.

How many loves, um, think letters on the, on the like, that was cool? Yeah. Yeah. This is also, people forget, may they think, may, oh, summer, no, may, especially in Europe, especially where I live, too, in the US in Colorado, may can be a miserable month.

And that's, like, you get reminded that every, every couple days in Europe, it's always,

always, there's always bad letter in the zero at some point. We didn't, we didn't even get to the high mountains yet. So, no, but, you know, you go to all these places in Italy and France, and it's so green, Germany, it's green, and you're like, well, how is it so green, because it rains all the time?

And when does the rain come in April and May? And that's when it gets green, um, but should we talk about tomorrow's stage on, we can take a quick break. Oh, yeah. Okay.

Okay. We'll be right back. So, you're on tomorrow. We have 141 kilometer stage into Napoli. We've done this the last few years around this time of the zero.

Um, this is probably the most straightforward.

“I think we had, you know, the Thomas against circuit race, that was a few years ago, where”

to get held off the, like, a Vanderpool and Benjamin Grammar group. Perhaps if I'm remembering that correctly. And we've had a few chaotic sprint stages into Napoli's tomorrow.

I think last year too, remember how it was a bad weather stage.

Tons of crashes. Um, Kaden Rowe. Wait, somebody won.

“Why haven't our launch with like 600 meters to go?”

Kaden Rowe's won. Kaden Rowe's won. Yeah. But that was a crazy stage. I don't think Tomara's going to be as crazy.

A 141k with one climb, a bonus sprint, a Red Bull kilometer. They do go right into the heart of Napoli. So I guess anything can happen. It does seem to have just promote chaos. Um, but after today, where everyone's so tired and ready for.

I guess a simple stage. I would guess that it's a sprint stage. It's, it's kind of a flat, cold last kilometer. And then it kicks up and it looks almost like it's on cobbles for a few hundred meters before the finish.

So I hope that's all. I didn't check the weather, but, you know, if you go into Napoli, you need to pray for dry weather. Oh, if it's, yeah. It's slippery over there.

“Um, but I think, you know, it should be a guaranteed bunch sprint.”

Um, you know, the usual Milan. We're in a big and one year. On this, on this of Lund. So it's warm is like 19 degrees Celsius, 66 Fahrenheit, 65% chance of precipitation though. Oh, that's not it.

21 kilometer hour wind. That could be tricky. Yeah. Yeah. If it rains, if not, that won't be tricky.

I hope it doesn't rain. I know what he wants crashes more. I mean, there's so many, so many people are ready to abandon this. I know. We're only five days in.

Yeah. I saw that, yeah, they have three guys out. But these three guys, these three guys were, those were the three sick guys. Okay, okay, they were all sick from the same race leading to this time makes sense. It's just a bummer because like Milan Mnten was one of them. It is a really good sprinter, you know, there was a Lee. Yeah, and then Josh Gettins, I was excited to see how he did.

He waited a second. I think he got called up last moments if I'm not mistaken. I don't know if he was not in a crash actually.

You're right, because the last, he got to replace one of the sick guys. Okay, yeah, and then he's out bummer. I think it's going to be, I mean, I could be wrong. I don't have the odds in front of me because they're not out yet. I think it's going to be a battle between Paul Manier and Jonathan Milan again.

“What do you should? Yeah, I should be. Yeah, I'm going to keep going for Manier because I just think he's in better shape.”

Then Milan overall, although in his in a flat stage, just a sprint stage like this short doesn't really matter and maybe we see finally. Milan in action, you know, he's going to get there at some point, you know, and we should not count him out. But I'm still going to back my whole money. I mean, Manier looked not easy today, but he was handling those climbs impressively well. We don't really, I mean, Milan, when it probably went into the stage where there is simple brief, like it was just to get through the stage, so maybe that wouldn't have been too hard on him.

I'm going to really zag here, though, not really zag. I'm going to pick Dylan growing a bacon. I thought he was quite close, but the last sprint back in Bulgaria, you know, we saw these sprinted exactly as fast as Paul Manier. He just wasn't as good up a position. I thought it's even about team looked really good. I'm going to go Dylan growing a bacon, but Paul Manier is also a very good. You know, against the Bruno Bacon today, for tomorrow, I think is, you know, that a riding like Bruno Bacon has even if he was in a group battle, he has spent a lot on a stage like today.

You know, 3,700 meter stage in bad weather, a rider of the stature of Bruno Bacon suffered a lot to make it. So that could be, that could be, and is this vantage tomorrow? And we might say Milan would be the same, but he's actually surprisingly good climber, especially for someone as big as him. So maybe maybe Milan was a little less fatigued in Dylan growing a bacon. I mean, if we're being frank, the probably the smart money should be on Paul Manier, it's just the only thing is I can't.

And what about Loond? I don't know, Loond, he was so on a position. I mean, what happened back there in the last sprint stage, he just was out of position, he was never quite there.

Well, I've heard he, I mean, he seems to have had a bad crush last season or something, and he's still dealing with, you know, fear, which is not good if you're a sprinter.

Yeah, that is a problem. I mean, I'm just looking at, I mean, if the thing about Loond is a lot of his wins, especially recently, are in, like fitness based competitions.

“I think if Cadel Evans greater some red race, like that, you got to be a really strong writer. That's not a real bunch, Brent, get involved with going to me with second. Like that's fitness.”

Tereno, he did win stage three against the Lee Phillips and Manje, Wellsford, but that was a hard stage, you know, quite a bit of climbing. I, yeah, I don't know. He's definitely going to win now, now that I say he's not going to win, but I would not pick Loond because I would doubt him in the chaos of like the final few kilometers in Naples. Good, yeah, but now he will absolutely win. So now bet on him after I've said that now go better. I hope for him. I mean, he's he's fast, obviously, like in a, if he's beating Phillip Phillips and who's the best stage race sprinter in the world.

I'm just by the numbers, Deli, very good, Manje, obviously, very good. So he's clearly in Milan was in that sprint. So he's physically capable of it. It's just, he looked a little, but that was, that was last year, right? That was this year, Tereno. We just don't remember it because it was like, that was boring. Yeah, that was, yeah, that was, yeah, that was like a, it was kind of a funny Tereno, you know, starts with a TT. He wins that sprint stage.

“And then Vander, it was like that Vander Poe wins and then the final stage. I think that's when like Vander Poe blew it up. Do you remember that on the climb? And then I think Loond was on one of the only sprinters to stay in that group.”

Yeah. And then Milan won that stage. And that's Milan's last win.

I'm going to go Bruno Megan. I just, I also feel like I never have a handle on zero sprints. I think one thing and then the opposite happens.

So I'm just embracing the chaos of, this speed he developed, this speed, we're living in developed in that last sprint was definitely on par with Bomaniay. Yeah, yeah, like literally the same speed was equal. So he can win and has a good team for the lead out. Yeah, the team is dialed in and this is what they're here for. That would be the case for Bruno. Now, is there only objective with the stage? So it's the whole team in for that. In this, I mean, I feel like I'm piling on little track. But the sensations and going to bet will be very positive.

You know, like we got close. We're here. We're almost. We could win a stage. Little track. I feel like everything's just cascading down on them. You know, so we're not winning. We lost the leader's jersey. I just don't feel like it will be as positive and they gave a lot today. You know, they burn through a lot of riders today that we're going to bet didn't. All right. Well, thanks, Johan. And we'll be back. Oh, so Pompaniay wins tomorrow.

Like that's, that's pretty impressive. Three wins.

Three basically sweeping the sprint stages at 20 tears old in your first.

Is it his first year of the time? Has to be. Yeah, I. No, no, no, no, he didn't last year, but he abandoned. He didn't last year.

“He's right now. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I do big, I remember that. Well, thank you.”

And we'll be back tomorrow to talk about stage six and then preview stage seven,

which is our first big GC showdown on Block S. Yeah.

Okay. Thanks. See you.