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Only a long time, a long time, a full-time package and cheese minus action. Yeah, okay, we're talking here about another caliber of rider Spencer. You know, I think we, you know, Jonas doesn't get enough credit for what he has accomplished already. Let's not forget this is a double-to-the-france winner and a volatile winner. You know, this is a guy who has shown already that he is incredible good stage racer over three weeks.

So, I would say even more. We can really, we can not forget that. Even more impressive than that, I don't think he's finished below second in a grand tour since 2020. Exactly. So, yeah, that's super impressive.

But in the only, the only guy he lost through was Espoirachar. Everybody welcome back to the move plus. I'm Spencer Martin. I'm here with the O'Hunbernel.

“We are breaking down stage 10 of the zero to Talia of 42 long individual.”

I'm sorry, 42 kilometer long individual time trial. One by you guessed it. Felipogana.

One minute and 54 seconds ahead of second place as teammate.

I'm in Orangeman with Rimee Kavanya coming in third, one minute, 59 seconds back. In terms of the GC, Orangeman was the top GC finisher with Derek G West. 22nds behind him, finishing 2016 behind Ghana. And then the big story of the day, Jonas Vanigar. The presumed favorite, the eventual winner of this race, many people assume,

was three minutes behind Ghana. So, that's over a minute behind time in Orangeman. And showing just I guess how maybe mediocre his day was. He lost time to Beno Connor. He also did not put a ton of time into the race leader.

Ulario who still has the race lead by 27 seconds. And was actually taking time out of Indigard coming in to the final few kilometers. Yep, yep, not Jonas. Johan, you told me I have not fact checked this. But that Jonas lost 20 seconds inside the final four kilometers of racing to Orangeman.

I, it's, if it's not true, it's close to true to Ghana. To Ghana, okay, okay. But something I did note and notice is after T2.

So he went through the second intermediate time check pretty,

like pretty strongly compared to Orangeman. And then he starts bleeding time. So he loses 0.58. So basically half a second per kilometer to Orangeman between time check. One in time check, check two.

But between time check two and three, it's 2.4. Seconds per kilometer. And then time check three to the finish. It's almost three seconds a kilometer. He was standing up a lot, which is unusual for him.

Even on a road stage, not advisable on a time trial stage. And he stopped pedaling before the finish. He's kind of coasted in through the finish line. None of those are great signs that you're comfortable or feeling good in the time trial. But what was your takeaway from the stage, Johan?

Well, thank you. First of all, of course, another surprise. Ghana wins ideal time trial for him 42 kilometers, which is very unusual. So nobody's really used to those kind of distances anymore in grand tours. But above all, Spencer, the dominance and the speed.

I mean, 55 kilometers per hour. This is the fastest time trial ever in a grand tour of more than 40 kilometers. I think it was since 2003 when David Miller won a flattish time trial.

“I think I'm not, I don't remember not where it was.”

But he was in knots, right? In 2003, two of the fronts was, yeah, could be, yeah. It's crazy that actually that it's taken that long to beat that. If you consider how great the exact was today. Yeah, exactly.

So, yeah. First of all, Spencer, the main reason is that there are no more 40 plus kilometers. That's a good point. Yeah, hard to beat it when you don't do it. Yeah.

So, yeah, I mean, super dominant performance of Ghana. Two minutes to everybody is on teammate 157. And then everybody else more than two minutes. That was the main takeaway. And then the average time trial would say of Jonas Ringigart.

He finishes 13th. You could say, well, last year in the Tour de France, he also finished 13th. And the first flat time trial was also 30 something kilometers. But this is not the same competition. I think I expected Jonas to be accepted, except Aaron's one.

And today, he was not. Their G was better. Ben O'Connor was better. And then,

Hindley and Pulizari were not far behind him.

“So, I think that says that Jonas didn't average time trial.”

Not a great time trial. The last time that everybody expected on Felix Gal, he takes one minute 22 seconds. Still considerable for somebody who didn't do a great time trial. And as I said yesterday, he was not going to be able to get a lot of the big jersey.

A lot of you defended the jersey pretty well. He's still leading with 27 seconds, I think. But I think that's the main nobody surprised about Ghana's winning. I'm surprised he took so much time on everybody. But at the same time,

it should not be real surprised. This was his main goal of the whole zero. He's been preparing for this in the race already for the last three, four days, saving as much possible energy. All the others who are close probably not.

So anyways, impressive performance. Impressive performance at that speed over 40k. That's really something else.

“But I think that the majority of the fans and the people from within the race”

are probably surprised that Jonas was not putting his stamp on the race today. Having said that, you know, he is still the big favorite. He is, if I'm not mistaken, almost two minutes ahead of his next rival, which is now Arnsman and then doing a half minutes, I guess, on Felix's goal. So, you know, after you could say after one mountain stage and one time trial,

it's not a bad situation. I know you have probably some other opinion about that. But I think overall, the outcome is not bad, although I think that the day, there may be some doubts about his form. I'm not particularly worried about it for him.

But I think that people would expect it a more dominant performance if I'm being honest. Well, so he's 130 over Arnsman and the G.C. And then, okay, about two minutes on two minutes on goal. And right under that 157 under goal, I believe. Just, I don't know if I'm, like, if Jonas is at this shape, we saw today,

and he finishes the race, he probably wins it overall. Like, he won the last uphill finish, last summer finish. Maybe he was sitting on more than, you know, we're kind of in our little bubble. We don't, we're not in Italy consuming a time media, but that was quite controversial, Johan. People were upset about that.

Yeah, but yeah, yeah, I saw a lot of people being upset about it. I would say, if you're upset about that, try to go sit on somebody's wheel while you're right. I think Spencer, what we really should, you know, try to figure out is, okay, people are upset about it. I think what really counts is all his rivals and rival teams upset.

I'm going to say, no, I think nobody was blaming Jonas and Vizma for what they were doing.

The other day, on that uphill finish, where Philly's got attacked, and then finally he,

you're not as attacked with 900 meters to go. It's the most logical thing to do. Especially, let's not forget, you know, let's not forget that, Jonas is not at his top form, and you know, although he says, it's not true, but he has the two of the fronts in the back of his mind.

He knows that he needs to be better at the two of it in the zero. So, I can understand that he rides as economical as possible, by saving himself energy and by saving his team as much as possible, because they still have their work cut out for the rest of the, of the zero, which, you know, in typical zero fashion, what we've seen until now is nothing compared to

what still ahead in terms of mountain stages.

“And so there's still a lot to come, so you need to be basically taken day by day and try to save energy as much as you can.”

Yeah, especially his team is going to have, yeah, that's going to be a bear of a project,

controlling the race in the third week.

But here's, I just want to say, I think if he continues at this form, he probably wins the overall. A couple data points that I find a little concerning. So just in this time trial, I would, I would, I would change the, the word probably too, for sure. Well, would you, if he, if he,

Yo, thank you for that. Well, race we're talking about here. This thing is insane. Remember last year, which you have guessed, I'm in the eights wins that race. Crazy stuff happens. Remember the Steven.

No, I was really cool to have said.

I'd be crazy. Yeah, okay. But we're talking here about another caliber of rider Spencer. You know, I think we, you know, you know, Jonas doesn't get enough credit for what he has accomplished already.

Let's not forget, this is a double to the France winner. And of wealth, I winner.

You know, this is a guy who has shown already that he is an incredible

good stage racer over three weeks. So I would say we can, we can not forget that. Even more impressive than that. I don't think it's finished below second and a grand tour since 2020. Exactly.

Yeah, maybe. So yeah, that, that's super impressive. But, and the only, the only guy he lost through was Spogachar. Yeah. Okay.

Okay. All right. But he's not here. Couple data points. He will lose.

The thing though, he will lose at some point.

“Like that's what we all have to wrap our heads around is all these guys will lose.”

It happens. It will happen. So he loses 1.6 seconds per kilometer to armsman today. That's not actually when we consider the buffery as over onsman. It's not a disaster.

And if you go back to the total last year, at the stage, what was that stage? Five time trial. 33 kilometers long. He loses 1.9 seconds to Pogachar. So, you know, actually there's precedent for this.

Why he's getting, why he seems to be getting worse at grand tour time trials. Long ones. Flat ones is a little, that's maybe another question for another day. But last year's the tour, like he's beating Beno Connor. You know, today he's losing to Beno Connor.

And losing so much time late in the race when we consider the fact that Go back to stage 7, he loses time in the last 4k. He's coming back to those guys. That makes me wonder is something not right here. Is this, well, not just that form.

That's something.

First of all, especially back form known.

You can, well, this is like a man. Let's call it Managed Form or whatever the project is here. Okay. The thing is we don't know, right? We don't know what's happening.

I mean, you know, apparently there's, I mean, There's a rumor that there's a virus in the, in the stomach buck in the, in the peloton. For example, Jay Hind, Jay Hindley and Julie Pelligari were not, Yesterday, not able to go and recall the time trial because they had stomach problems. And so they decided to just, you know, stay at the hotel and manage their energy as

As good as possible. And apparently there's a lot of, a lot of teams to have sick riders. Visma has been asked the question, they say they have nobody who is ill or sick. But of course, you know, if it would be the case, and especially if it would be Jonas, They won't say that, yeah, yeah, it's true Jonas is sick.

They're not going to say it, you know. So we don't know, we don't know exactly what's happening.

“But I mean, okay, I think I think everything's also a bit out of proportion”

Because of the huge gap that Ghana created. And then of course, you know, like Jonas loses three minutes on Ghana. But, you know, he loses one minute to Aron's mom, who is his, you know, The biggest rival in the best time trial is of the GC. He does only gain one twenty two over call, which you would have been shocked by, right?

Did the start of the stage? Not really, not really, not really. Let's not forget Gau is in great shape. You know, somebody who's in good shape, and we're already ten days in the race. You know, Gau, I mean, I mean, he didn't have a good time trial. Yeah, that's the craziest.

I mean, Egan Bernal had a bad time trial today. Here, let's say you don't watch the stage. You don't know what happened. I run up to on the street. I say, Jonas, vinegar, be Egan Bernal, who had a bad day by 47 seconds.

The first thing you would ask me is where did he crash?

You know, you would think something that got wrong. No, it's true. I mean, he definitely should have been at least five places high up. You know, so, but I repeat, you know, if I look at this from from from the team perspective and the team manager, it's okay, you know what, not great, but our overall situation is pretty good. You know, we had one big mountain stage.

We had one time trial, and we are virtually in the lead. And today was the day that Arsman had to take time on Jonas, because he's not going to take more time in mountain stages. The only guy who was really worrying for Jonas is FedEx Gau. Other than that, there's nobody who should be worried about in my opinion.

And so it looks pretty good. Probably.

“So a question sponsor, was it, I mean, it's a joke, was it the skin suit?”

Yeah, exactly. Apparently, Visma said that their skin suit that they've been working on the whole of season is a minute faster over 40K.

By the way, I mean, I repeat, I think it's completely nuts that professionals cycling at this level.

The best cyclists who have and the best teams who have invested all that all their resources in getting as fast as possible.

“Then on the key days are not, are not able to wear their own clothing.”

It's like, you know, it's like saying, okay. You know what, for the time trials, we have a sponsor for the time draw bikes. They sponsored me exactly. Yeah, right. It's a bit extreme.

But only if you're in the lead, everybody else gets to ride their awesome bike.

Yeah. But speaking, speaking of skin suits and marginal gain Spencer, I just want to bring up. I mean, I didn't want to talk about it, but I have to. You know, we're talking about all these teams with their huge budgets, you know, and their, you know, their super advanced programs. Felix Gaul.

What the hell was that, man? I mean, I don't know if Gabriel can pull up the picture here of Felix Gaul coming over to finish with. So I mean, Dekatlon, what is it called? Dekatlon CMACMG or CGM? Yeah, yeah. Dekatlon CMACGM, you know, team Dekatlon and your management and specialist performance managers and scientists and an aerogurus. What, what was that?

This guy, I mean, I don't think it was the aerogurus decision we should say. Well, yeah, I mean, look, I mean, it's clear that if you see this, this helmet, it's it nowadays, you know, the attendance is to go to bigger helmets to form one unit with the shoulders and that makes a lot of sense. But it's with an integrated visor, you know, so kind of has to have the visor. Yeah, I think Felix Gaul doesn't like the visor to the visor of and role normal normal, but this is not aerofelics. You are already not aerobelics, but I mean, plus, I mean, come on, it just looks really bad.

This is anti-publicity for modern cycling. It's my, you know, I mean, it has nice things to say about how it loves the show helmets and he goes, "Why does it look so ugly?" I'm like, but that's also because you see if you see the comparison with Felix Gaul and underneath Jonas Vingigar, the red. I mean, here you see the difference of what it did. So, yeah, that was, that was really, that was a joke man. That was a joke. I mean, I remember, you know, many years ago, I think it was, it was a 2020 or 2021 when, when Primos was riding that weird laser helmet in the tour.

That's too small or something. Yeah, it was like, you know, everybody's making kind of him, but then this, this, this is like, this is next level man. This, this was really bad, really bad.

“And you have to imagine, did you think the same thing?”

Yeah, I thought something was wrong. I was like, "Oh, no, he's forgotten something." I have to imagine it was a comfort decision. It cannot be speed-based, but there's just no, no, no, no. It makes it even more shocking, he only lost one, 22 to vinegar. Well, I don't understand Spencer because, you know, Decatlon is known now as, you know, the team on the up, you know, big budget. They brought in a lot of people, a lot of smart people. They invested a lot, they have apparently, they have great bikes.

And then you do this stupid maneuver. It's like, this must be, okay, Felix Gaul, it doesn't like the visor, but hey, man, listen, if it's faster, whether you like it or not, you should wear it, man. It's like, it makes no sense. I think he kind of marches to the beat of his own drum. It is the feeling I get. I don't remember there was no vaulto where he was, like, off the back every day when they needed him.

“And then he was almost 20 stages some days. I think Felix Gaul is, he's doing his own, he's got his own program going on.”

I think somebody should have told a man, I listen, we put so much research and then time in this, you're wearing this helmet, man. This is, this is where you're on goods. Yeah, I don't, I don't get it. It's kind of, it's definitely a little bit of an own goal there. I'm going to show also mention so much time and money goes into the skin suits, as we say. Arrow, trying to be arrow. And then, which learns on Malaysia, you're new best friend.

Yeah, it's night on the stage wearing his ice fest because he forgot to take it off. Can you imagine how un-error dynamic that is compared to the skin suit?

Yeah, that's, yeah, I saw his interview. He was, I mean, he was joking and he was, I mean, first of all, he was admitting he said, yeah, such a stupid mistake.

He was, so he had an ice cooling down vest on before the time trial.

Which is already out of me. Why is nobody telling him, hey, you have your ice fest now. He did the whole time trial with the ice fest on and he finished nine in the time trial. That's crazy. This guy, I mean, he's in great shape. He's in great condition. And that's not, this guy is an ex world champion time trial under 23 by the way.

So, but, you know, I mean, it shows you to, you know, it's, it's all, it's about the power, without the vest. We don't know how much fast, we would definitely not have won, but maybe he was in the top five without the vest. I would have to imagine he would have been. And just to get people of feeling for, you know, what was what people would run in here. So, Ghana, we have his power at about 460 watts for the effort.

And I mean, that may, there's probably people listening to this and saying, for 60 for 40 minutes, I could do that easy. It might sleep. But the thing is, though, you look at him in this time trial, he was so arrow, the whole time. It is not easy to produce that power when you're in that position. That's what makes him special.

“Like, that's also what makes for him go out and pull unbeatable, right?”

Because he can just tuck himself down and keep his power high. And Ghana almost, he almost appeared to be increasing his speed and power throughout the day. Like every time check, his average speed was higher than the time check before. I think his fastest time check was the a slightly uphill one. It was like a 2% uphill, he's going 57 can hour up that thing.

You would probably get pulled over on most streets because he's going over the speed limit at that speed. And his gear, it's kind of interesting gearing that Johan told me about. Ghana was running a 64 tooth big chain ring, single chain ring, I assume. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Haven't already been 66 toothed.

You own this vinegar, it's 68 tooth. So bigger than Ghana, significantly bigger. That's crazy. That's crazy. I mean, it's crazy.

I mean, especially like, okay, I'm, of course, I'm old school. Now, remember, I remember we were riding 53, 54.

I remember my first year on when I was on on stage, which was the time trial team back then.

You know, first first race I did was two of Valencia. And we had this special time trial by accident. I got on the bike and checked this 180 cranks and 56 chain ring. I could almost not move it, you know. Yeah.

But that was back then, right?

“I think it, you know, the big chain ring in the front makes sense,”

especially we've done a little bit of comparison. If you're, you know, 64, 66, 13 or 14, you can keep a high cadence. And then you, you go very fast and the chain is in the middle. There's less friction with a bigger chain ring. Because, you know, the circle is bigger.

You know, the circle is bigger circles at every point, basically. Yeah. So anyway, 68 looks incredible big. Especially for the chain rings. Like it's that it's ranked.

Yeah, there's pedals barely go past the chain right. It's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. But listen, I mean, I think Jonas had a really high cadence.

You know, he was always between 95 and 100 cadence.

So they've done, they've done the tests. It's a bit difficult for me to understand why Jonas, by Jonas would ride with a 68. Yeah. Yeah.

Or that makes no sense. Well, you know, and it would be a different story. If we said, wow, he looked amazing on that thing. He looked awful. He looked so uncomfortable.

And you're like, yeah, is that chain ring too big? Would be my first question. Yeah. I don't know if that's, I mean, it's, I mean, listen, it's, it's huge. It's huge.

I don't know what there is that's the reason of his average time trial. But, I mean, I think, you know, after all, he saved the day and he is where he wants to be.

“I think that's the most important after today's time trial.”

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Are you on before we preview tomorrow's stage? You mentioned that Jai Hindley and Julio Pelazari could not preview the course. Yes, because they were so sick, a stomach illness. I mean, if you've ever been traveling and you get one of these things, if it's so bad, they couldn't preview the course.

You'd imagine it's pretty bad. You feel terrible. I mean, Pelazari finishes 318 back. So, that's only 18 second slower than Vinaguard. And we know he was sick yesterday.

That would kind of suggest there could be sickness with Vinaguard.

“Do you think this is going to be a problem for the rest of the race?”

I don't know. I don't know. I mean, this is an if both Pelazari and Hindley were sick. It's not a disaster today, right? I mean, Pelazari loses 18 seconds to Vinaguard and Hindley loses 30 seconds.

It's actually a pretty good day for both of them. It's not bad. It's not bad. I mean, it helps. If you're when your weekday is, you know,

falling together with Vinaguard's average day, right? So, all in all, I think it's more or less zero operation. I think they both expected to lose time to you on us, and probably expected to lose more time to him than what they lost today. But yeah, I mean, you know, we don't know.

I mean, I've heard rumors already since two days ago that Pelazari was a bit sick. Now, I got this report this morning that both of them had to stay in the hotel. Then they couldn't leave with the course. So, it's not good. It's not good in the middle of a stage race. You know, it weakens you.

It's difficult to recover from it.

“And it's just a question of, you know, how deep is this in the team?”

You know, I mean, if one guy gets sick, now they're all the course going to take all the precautions, but the damage may be done already. Yeah, you just get. I mean, the thing is, if he is okay,

let's before we tease that out. Let's say he is sick. Let's say he has a problem. If you had to pick one rider that's going to challenge him, who would it be? Challenger, you're not? Yeah, for the GC.

Fake call.

Yeah, he's, he's two minutes back, basically.

And he's losing time on every uphill finish. So you start to actually get a little difficult to imagine how somebody else wins this. But the thing, I think, I think Phoenix Doll is going to stay constant on the uphill's. And, you know, he just has to hope that Jonas has a bad day. Yeah, sure.

Or a sick. I mean, it's nobody's free of it, you know? Are we underestimating Ben O'Connor at all? This guy is not that far behind. He's now 20, 24 seconds behind the village call.

And looked fantastic today. Yeah, I mean, Could be a podium candidate. I don't see him winning though. I don't see him winning.

It would be, yeah. I want to be surprised if he wins.

I mean, he did finish second.

So what? He did finish second of the vault that win. Premos won it in 2024, which reminds me of our leader, Ulario. Where does he finish after? He's still in the race lead.

He's still two, almost two minutes in front of third place. Yeah.

“I think he can keep it till the next mound stage.”

When is that in three or four stages? Stage 14. So, yeah, into the week. So, you know, of course, his team is going to do everything they can to defend. It is a gift for Visma that he's still in the lead.

It's great to have a team that they know he's there going to defend. So, I think he can stay. Yeah, he can stay in pink till stage 14. And I mean, he could finish top five. The thing is, I mean, Jonas is probably going to take the race lead on stage 14.

But he was out climbing almost everybody else. So, he wasn't going to drop that much further than. So, I can. But once he's out of the leaders jersey, it's a different game sponsor. Okay.

Yeah. I think, I think, you know, not now with the leaders jersey, you're surpassed your limits. And you go deeper and deeper as deep as you can. And then, you know, once you're out of the leaders jersey, you kind of.

Remember, who was it was Alaphilippe in the tour when he was in yellow? Yeah. He lost it and then I mean, that was a weird tour. And then they kind of called off all the mountain stages. I had a little, actually, suspect if you think about it, like French guy in the lead. Oh, he's dropped the stage off, cancel all the mountain stages.

No, only two. I mean, there was one stage that was canceled because of, you know, a landslide, I guess. And then they after they, there was a downward throw that was like a 40 kilometer.

“40 kilometer stage and I think Alaphilippe lost quite some time there.”

He still finished, yeah, he did fall off the podium. He still finished fourth over all, though. Yeah. Yeah. But had that stage run as known as finished fifth over all.

Had it run as normal, that was a big day that they called off. So, yeah, probably.

This is the most important thing.

Who finished fourth? That's a great question. And I love to use this as a trivia question to, to bend people's perception of reality. You have any recollection. It was not, it was not, it was not a bookman.

It was a manual bookman. A while finishes fourth. And I was like, wow, look at this. He's one 56 behind the winner of the two defense. This guy is a star of the future.

He never did anything. Never did anything.

“I would, I would assign this guy if I was a team manager.”

Oh, wow. Look at this guy. I was blown away by this. That is, I mean, everything changed, too. I mean, COVID happened in the sport looks totally different.

Yeah. The next year. So, you're not, you're not too worried about this. You think you're honest. I'm not worried about, no, no, no, no.

Okay, no, no. Unless he's sick. Unless he's sick. And he's sick. Of course.

But other than that, no, no. You bring us, though, to our preview of the next stage. And if he is sick, he's picked the perfect time to be sick. Because we have a few days of likely breakaway days tomorrow is 150. Sorry.

I'm going backwards in time. Tomorrow is 195 kilometers. Quite a bit of climbing. 3000 meters of climbing. But it's another one of these flat-ish starts.

Like flat-ish, first under K, one, two, three,

categorized climbs. And then a descent into the finish. We're kind of working our way up into the pre-elps up toward it. Torino and Piedmont, probably a breakaway day. And then we don't have another likely GC day.

So if that's Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday is the next big GC day. And then Sunday, Sunday, oddly a sprint day. And I don't know why they do that. Because that would be, would be when most people are watching. But how do you think tomorrow plays out, Johan?

And who's going to win this? Yeah, I think the most breakaway day. It's 108 kilometers till the first big climb. About 3000 meters, I guess, of elevation in total. But all the elevation is in the last, it's in the last like 90 km.

Yeah. There's four climbs, there's three categories of climbs. And then there's another climb. There's one climb with a two climb with a very steep part at the end. Like about three kilometers around 9-10%.

So of course, it's going to be more or less the same stage, like when the rice won his second stage. Strong breakaway, I think. But I'm also curious to see something might happen in the GC or GC group also,

because it's always a test the day after a time trial.

Especially the day after a long time trial like this. Some GC riders may pay the price. Some riders do not digest the effort of a time trial as well as others. So on that two climb, we may see some GC action. Or somebody who has been hiding it could be found out there.

So I'm curious to see what's going to happen there.

“But definitely, I think the stage win comes from the breakaway.”

Difficult to predict. We're going to see the same guys, you know. But guy like Chicona, Chicona needs to be in the break. And not a vice is probably going to be in the breakaway. Again, it's going to be the same guys we've seen already.

Relacy. Yeah, I think Malaysia has a chance. I would pick him. I think he could win the stage. I'm going to go with Gata Beach, Chicona is got to be up there, right?

Yeah, yeah. I'm going to go Chicona for the stage win. I mean, looking at his profile, if you do suspect vinegar to being sick, these are some pretty hard climbs. You start the day with the 7.5 kilometer long climb at 5%.

You're still pretty far from the finish, like 56K from the finish.

“But you have a plateau, you just send down.”

You have two more categorized climbs. One more categorized climb. Can that be right? And then they have a bonus sprint at the top of a 5K 6% long climb. So if it's not categorized, it should be.

But these are hard climbs between that and the finish.

So if someone's in trouble, you could put a lot of time into them.

But who knows how sick anybody is. I mean, if Emily and Pelazari couldn't leave the hotel room and then they're putting up

“those time travel performances today, maybe they won't be in trouble.”

I don't know. Pretty good. It's pretty good. If they were sick yesterday, it's pretty good outcome today. They could be happy about that.

So maybe it's just, well, I mean, who knows, it's maybe a 24 hour thing.

You never know with those stomach bugs, you know.

Sometimes I want to see all this information too. Yeah. Listen, we don't know. We don't know.

“But listen Spencer, automatically, where it's true or not, usually,”

after 10 days, half of the Peloton is sick anyway. Because they're so depleted, you know, and they're so at the end of their resources that whatever the tiniest little thing you're not, your body can't fight it anymore and you're coughing and you have, you know, you have runny nose or sore throat or, you know, everybody's half of the riders are sick off of 10 days.

And they're crazy skinny. That doesn't help either. Yeah. Yeah. So you're going my laser for the win.

Oh, yeah. And go, Julio Chaconay for the win. We'll see. Okay. How it will see how it makes out.

But anything else before we take off. That's it for me, Spencer. All right. We'll be back tomorrow to talk about the stage hopefully we have something to talk about and the GC group.

So perhaps not. And we'll see you soon, y'all. Okay. Thanks. [BLANK_AUDIO]