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during the two-to-fronts with the other guys. They kept saying like who cares? Who cares about second?

You didn't win? You lost. Like who cares? Give up. That can't obviously cannot be the mindset because you're not going to be put out chart.

“That's the mindset you should retire because you're not going to be them.”

I would imagine that a lot of these guys are racing like second places first place in their mind. Yeah, yeah, that's correct. I mean, they said it. They said it. Everybody says it. And Rick Mas said it. It's Phoenix Golf said it. I mean, only said today also there's no way. I mean, we were just in an own race. You know, we're not sure what they're doing his own race and we are doing another race.

Everybody welcome back to the move. I'm Spencer Martin. I'm here with the O'Han Brineal. We're breaking down stage four of the Vulta Aspania as well as previewing stage five. I mean, giving out our outcomes picks, that I forgot your one stage four though. No big surprise. Yo, on that was our pick from yesterday. He wins by two minutes and 39 seconds over the Chase group, which was an ever-changing group of podium contenders. We had field of skull.

Followed by gotcha initially when he attacked on because the day's second climb. We thought you thought he

would wait till the third climb. He did not. He went early because his team looked a little bit under pressure. So he said, you know what? The best defense is offense. I'll go. But at first, Felix call follow. Then he was dropped back to the Chase group and then he pushed again and would got away with Oscar on Lee. But a group builds up over time with Primus Roglus, Bridged up with pretty good doing so in Rick Moss also, Bridged up with SEPCUS.

And Yarno Weed are, is that his name? The young Belgian on Lano in our shade looked really, really impressive today. Richard Caripass was dropped from that group last little bit. Time, so was Mattay's skill. And was it looks like the two of the fronts? It's not great preparation for the Valtza unless you're tired. I gotcha. But Yo Han, what was your eight-sleep

“move of the day? And if you want to get an eight-sleep, just like tired, I gotcha. I probably slept”

on an eight-sleep last night in Ann Dora to get ready for this stage. The cooling and heating mattress topper got eight-sleep.com/TheMove to get $350 off through the end of this Valtza, but Yo Han, what was your eight-sleep move of the day for today's stage? Move of the day has to be double gotcha, Spencer. I'm afraid we're going to have to say a lot of times that the eight-sleep move of the day is not a hit-art. No surprise today exactly as it was planned.

Yeah. As I said yesterday, maybe we expected him to go on ordino, but yeah, I mean that attack was, was it really an attack actually or just an acceleration? I don't know. And I'm really an attack. That's the crazy thing. Yeah. I mean the most impressive thing about Pogacharis and okay, we have to take into consideration

“the rivals. It's not, it's not Yo Nasi, it's not Rempco. It's not del Toro. It's not sex-ass, right?”

These guys are, I think, one level below those guys, but still, his attack lasted for five kilometers and he took 16 seconds per kilometer in that attack. By the time he was on top, he had one and a half minute in five kilometers. Okay, 16 kilometers, 16 seconds per kilometer uphill, but still, and then the most impressive is that he just keeps going, right? He keeps another, another time he takes a minute, 20 on the next climb and then kind of manages those three minutes. Finally,

it was 239, but it was always hovering around 240 to 53 minutes. This is by the way, as I saw it on TV,

his longest solo breakaway in a ground tour, 50.3 kilometers. He has one race with longer attacks, one day races, but let's still, half of the stage you did by himself. Yeah, 50% of the stage. I mean, the second longest breakaway in a successful solo breakaway in a ground tour was just last month, the two of the fronts, 42 K. My last stage to do my last total stage. And then his longest breakaway in any stage race was the month before that,

two of our Switzerland stage ones, 70 K. Long solo breakaway. So his three longest stage race breakaways have come in the last three months. Yeah, yeah. No, I mean, listen, the day was when he ascended before the, before the Volta already, that stage four was going to be very important. He did what he wanted to do is now, I don't know how much his advantages you have now, what in three minutes, right? Yeah, he has three minutes. Well, 21 seconds to Prima's mortgage. We got a Slovenian,

first and second. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's, I mean, that's also impressive. Rocknitch being there,

after his accident with a car, being hit by a car. And today, I think he looked good. He looked good. He's in there as obviously a lot of experience. So, knows how to pace himself really well. He was a

“few times. I think he was in a little bit of problems. But finally, good, good hanging there is now”

second in G. C. And what to say about Yarno Wiedar, Spencer, young Belgian guy, first ground tour,

ever, first mountain stage in a ground tour. And being second amongst those riders, I mean, those are all really legit podium contenders, right? And he looked really good on the climbs. And then finally, I mean, that's this tiny little skinny boy, I'll sprint at all these guys to finish second. That's that's the second place that tastes like a victory, I think. I mean, it kind of is a victory. You got to consider it as such. I mean, you're on, I was thinking during today's stage. When I was

in the basement, you left me in the basement all alone during the two of the fronts with the

other guys, they kept saying, like who cares? Who cares about second? You didn't win? You lost.

Like who cares? Give up. That can't obviously cannot be the mindset because you're not going to

“be put out chart. If that's the mindset you should retire, because you're not going to be.”

I would imagine that a lot of these guys are racing for like second places, first place in their mind. Yeah, yeah, that's correct. I mean, they said it. They said it. And everybody says it. And Rick must said it. Felix Golf said it. They, I mean, only said today. Also, there's no way. I mean, we were just in an own race. You know, Pochachar is doing his own race and we are doing another race. So, I think, I think, yeah, winning that sprint for radar was definitely, I mean, he did have

some problems this season. He had a very long knee injury. It took forever until he started racing. And then I think he got sick in Burgos. So, probably came into the vault with some doubts. But after the first mountain stage and what a hard mountain stage it was to be up there, being really, really present in that group, showing that you're, you know, one of the two or three strongest riders there and winning that sprint. That's, that's a really, really nice result.

We'll have to see now, of course, you know, how he will perform over three weeks. But it's definitely a great start for him. How does it get a prospect like that end up on that team? Is it just from

“being on their development team? And then he stays on that. I think it's his own choice. It's his own”

choice. It was on the development team. Wanted to stay there and knows a lot of people. And of course, you know, he got promises that the team will be built around him. I don't know what the merger did to that. But I think he made that decision already before the merger with the former management that he would be on on the pro team, a lot of intermarshi, which was back then, a lot was just motto, right? It was motto or destiny, I think. So, yeah, and I think it's a good team for him.

Spencer, you know, he's definitely the star, gets all the support and has a lot of talent. So, we'll see how he develops. But let's not forget, we thought it was the guy who was rivaling in the last year or two, the last year with Paul's Exas. I think Paul's Exas only won it in the last time trial in the last uphill time trial. So, that's a good thing. He's a year older in Paul's Exas, I think. But yeah, definitely a big talent. Yeah, to be 20 and get second on this stage and then to be

in the GC super impressive, we should say. So, I got your 321 up on Roglic, probably over for being honest. He's probably going to win the jersey line to line. I think that's probably going to be his neck challenge now, keeping the jersey. Well, we have a few stages now where it can get out of control, but at the same time, you know, there's already riders so far back that it should not really be a problem to control, you know, guys that are 7, 8, 9 minutes down. Yeah, because when

you've a GC day like this, the problem is anyone close is good. So, you can't give

subcose the jersey, right? Yeah, it's not up to you, you know, when anybody of those stop then riders gets in a break, the other teams are going to start the pool because they have aspirations for a top 5 or a podium. True. They're not going to let it happen, right? Like if even a feral to hot against in a break away, teams are going to pull them back because it's too close.

45 seconds. So we do have an exciting race for the podium. If things did not blow up to

“day in that group, we can assume that it's going to be pretty tight through the remaining mountain”

stages. We'll probably come down to the time trial as well as just people chipping away time at the top of summit finishes. Pretty exciting stuff, actually, for the podium, quite, quite interesting.

You have, let's talk about the podium after the ad break, but before we go to our first ad break,

we should mention. So, Pagotcha attacks on the, what's the name of this climb? It is the best, like, bexalus. How do you say that? See, yeah, bexalus is something like that. I forgot. Bexalus. So, he doesn't really attack. The deck half on leads into it. He goes to the front, happens to drop everybody. 17.17 and a half minutes, 6.9 watts per kilo, gets to the, the next climb, the ordinio, 9k long, 23 minutes, 6.8 watts per kilo. But the thing that, you know, stood out

to today, but we already knew is the special thing about Pagotcha is these stages that have climbs spread out throughout the day, help him significantly, because everyone in this race can climb pretty fast. Like, if this is a summit finish, he's going to have a bit of a gap at the top. But there's a limit. There's a cap on his gap, because there's just mathematics. So, no, Phil's goal can ride for a lot of watts per kilo for 30 minutes. He's not going to lose

that much time to Pagotcha in a single climb, but Pagotcha can just push over the top and continue pushing for, I mean, for 50k over mountains, like, how long do we think that was like two hours that he was, or maybe an hour, 40, that was okay. Yeah, an hour, yeah. That, to me, that, that's really what separates him from the rest. His ability to just keep the pressure on for over an hour, where most guys can't, apparently, or else they would could follow on.

Yeah, I don't know anybody else who can do it. I mean, we've seen Jonas do it in a few races where that day was not present. He's also done that. I'm thinking, you know, thinking in,

“like, well, like, at Alunia, he's done it a few times. I think in the past,”

maybe two of the boss country one year, but Pagotcha is still a level above that. It looks like he has it really mastered. You know, this, this attack, getting that minute, and then just staying there, and it doesn't necessarily go any faster, but the fact that he gets that minute and behind, they're, they're writing for second place. There's not the organization that he just keeps taking time, right? Yeah. And we should say that, yeah,

he looked super impressive because he's by himself. So he can find agreement with himself. The others are arguing behind that makes it very difficult for them. I mean, one thing that like really stuck out to me is his team, where, you know, they didn't look amazing at the beginning. The Catholicen gets to the front. It looks like the Catholicen is trying to capitalize on his team, not being great. They're pushing hard. And then what does he, he's like, oh, if you're going to

push hard, and I'm going to be isolated, I might as well attack. A little bit of debate online,

some decent points, like these things pointed out, where always most dangerous when he has a

week team, like world championships, where he goes early, here where he goes early, but it probably is worth pointing out that, yeah, it looks like the Catholicen is trying to capitalize on his week team, and it's easy to say, oh, they should sit back and let U.S. at the pace. But Yohan, do you think the Catholicen was trying to pressure Pagachar or everybody else today? And yeah,

“they were just collateral damage and Pagachar's move? I think the second option, Spencer Day,”

they didn't try to isolate the Pagachar. They just were trying to put other writers, it problems. They had a strong team that they were, I think they were four writers there at

some point. By the way, MoodBetter get was amazing today, doing the job for, for Phoenix Gal.

But it's true what you say, Spencer, you know, it's, it's, it's very easy to predict. Pagachar attacks as soon as his teammates are gone. You know, as long as he has teammates, he just stays there, unless it's a point in a race where you can see, you really see that they lounge in attack, right? That's Danita. But today, there was not the case. And he said it actually in his post race interview. He said, you know, when, when he saw that J vine had to get out of the wheel

and he was by himself, that's when he wanted to attack because he didn't want to deal with tactics from other teams. So, it's true when, when, when, when, when, when, when Dekatland started up to base, it was a hard pace. There was a lot of writers in trouble. So, that kind of, it's, it's, it's a knife that cut both ways. You know, you can try to put the hammer down and put

his team starts to struggle, then Pagachar is going to attack and then it's game over. And we saw also Philix Gal did try to follow what if he was a 200 meters max, not more. He has some more. So, um, so yeah, that didn't work out very well. Philix Gal looked okay, but, you know, not, anyways, in the zero, we also thought that then he got, he got, he got, I get better and better. But I don't think it's the same Philix Gal as in the zero. He was struggling sometimes in that group of

five writers. But his team definitely took the responsibility of the race already on the first

time of the Portoe Valera. They were setting the pace. It was really hard fast. So, they definitely had the intention of doing a fast stage and trying to get Philix in the best possible position. Worth pointing out that, so first mountain stage of the Vuelta, Philix Gal loses two minutes, thirty nine seconds to per gut chart. First mountain stage of the Zero, Philix Gal loses 13 seconds to you on a spinning guard. So, yeah, a little bit different. Delta, yeah, there. But is he leaving

with more burger? It's a little track. Is that right? Yes, yeah. So, and then pretty impressive that

“they're all working so well together. Yeah, I forgot, and that he was leaving. That's how good they”

looked. Yeah. Yeah, and the remaining writers of Dekatlone also do a great job for Philix Gal. You know, you could think, okay, these two Austrian guys are leaving. Be sure, I could say, for example, you know what? I'm going to write my own race, you know? Yeah. But their professionals, and they know what to do when it looks like he's leaving in good understanding. So, it's so much better for the race, you know? So, I think it's going to be a really interesting race

for the Portoe of Spencer. I think so too. Let's talk about, let's dive into that a little bit more right after our first outbreak. But we'll be right back. Everybody, this wealth of Spaniard coverage is brought to you by a presenting sponsor, Ultra Focus Pouches. Do you desperately need a nicotine pouch every 15 minutes just to feel normal? How many pouches cups of coffee and or

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powertures in first. Pretty pretty looking pretty confident. Looking pretty good up there. Three minutes, 21 seconds.

Three minutes, 44 seconds back. Oscar on late, 345 Richard Carapaz 350 Billis Gaul 357 Gaul is further back because he had those bad two days with the time trial and then last time in the sprint finish. Scomage of 406 weed are 406 Jvine, four 11 Jvine who rode the whole day by himself. Basically, extremely hard to stay in the top 10. I guess they're going for the team GC. I guess it doesn't really matter. So Jvine, you might as well go out there and write hard because

Picacher is going to be fine. Who were you most surprised by in that? Let's call it second through fifth. Who surprised you the most today? Well, first of all, Y'all, Y'all know we don't

“I think there was a nice surprise. And then actually, we can't really say it's a surprise, but”

a pretty much wrongly I expected pretty much to be better later and the fact that he was up there, he bridged up, he bridged up by himself to was it Gaul and I don't know who else it was. It was a Gaul and only. Only, and only. So Primoz Roglic, that was a really good move, shows that he starts to discover that he's okay. I think he's riding conservatively and then during the stage started to feel confident. That's why he belongs in an enormous circumstances,

preparation, that was kind of a surprise for me also to see Primoz there with such good likes. I thought so too. I mean, my Picacher probably would be in Rick Moss and I was not just as meta commentary, so the youth, the youth are taken over cycling, right? In sports in general, and that is true to an extent. But second place, 36 years old Primoz Roglic, third place, 31-year-old and Rick Moss, fourth place, 31-year-old subcoose. And we can't name him all, but I would also say

subcoose, huge surprise for me. I did not think he was going to be this good in a GC sense, coming out out of a zero, two or double, and then coming into his third grand tour of the year. Looking great, I guess he did win the Volta when it was his third grand tour of the year back in

23, freakish ability to recover. I mean, it's incredible today. It's incredible, Spencer. I mean, there's

not many riders who couldn't do that. First of all, to do three grand tours already, it's crazy, but to be at that level. Plus winning a stage at the zero, almost winning stage at the tour, without that crash, you probably have one, I love the US, and then, yeah, I guess he's probably

“going to win a stage here in the Volta. And I think he's going to stay up there in GC,”

you know, and for the top five, so that's incredible. That's amazing to have such an endure, and such a capability to recover between those grand tours. One thing to point out about today is it was the highest altitude today of the Volta. So that's like subcoose, lives in Endora, and grew up in a place almost exactly like Endora from elevation perspective. So that helps him. Today, I'm wondering if the climbing is going to change at all, you know, it's like, is, I don't know,

Inric Moss is a good high altitude climber. I don't even know. I'm not crunching at all. I think Moss and Rick Moss is probably going to do a really good Volta. Look, he looks completely different. He is, by accident, the Volta rider, right? Three times second, I think, in the Volta already.

You know, he's always at another level at the Volta Spania. And it looks, he looked confidently

before. It's very, very moderate in his interviews. You know, doesn't want to give away too much. You know, it's very like going to take it day by day. You will see, you know, but he looks, he looks really, really good. So I guess we have to count him also as a

“serious candidate for the podium. Who's your revised if you had to pick a podium right now? Who would it be?”

Oh, we got chair one probably, right? Yeah, but got chair one for sure. Okay. I think Oscar Rondi looked really good today. Yeah. He looked really good. Did we, did I, did I, I think I put him in third, no, for the before before the Volta? Yeah, you had him in third before the Volta. Yeah. I think I'm going to put primos up there. You know, primos is, you know, he's won this race four times already. So we have to, we have to put him, we have to put him up there. You know, by the way,

today we also saw that Joe Almeida is definitely not here for a G.C. Yeah, you know, has not, has not recovered from whatever he had. And you know, I saw some people, some of our listeners

being critical about us, not, not naming him as one of the podium candidates. Well,

I guess today they got their answer. Why? Okay. Guys, we've, we don't, we don't know everything. We make a lot of mistakes. We know a thing or two about 12 metre. All right. We're not, we're not going to miss a potentials while I made a podium. But yeah, I thought today he did, he did have a mechanical, I don't know if he saw this like first thing and then he changed back on and he was pretty impressive little chase. But yeah, he's, he does not have the depth of fitness

“right now to be contesting the overall finishes 23 minutes back. But I think on, I thought,”

only looked really impressive. He said he was sick. Like a stomach issue was up a lot last night. Looked really comfortable. The, the risk and when you're in the position, like, only you're away with field skull, field skull as teammates, other guys start moving up coming up, bridging up to you. You can kind of over commit and spend too much time on the front and only didn't really panic. I thought gall looked a little under pressure at times. So if I was repicking my podium,

it'd be probably, "Pugachar." Keep on the end second. And then we got to look at, we got to start looking at premiums, Roglic. I mean, this, he looks pretty good and things are quiet on the Roglic front exactly how he wants it. I think, and he's running for a contract.

while to where Ben O'Connor got a huge lead in Roglic just kind of methodically real demand.

And one of the race, that feels like that was 10 seconds ago. It's like you've done 24. It's only

“two years ago, Spencer. I think in Rick Moss was third that year, actually.”

In Rick Moss, good, good fault to rider. But now he's looking for a contract. It is, but this is the, nobody at the time, he's performing well at the Volta. It's obviously, because you know, it's going to be a balancing act, right? For, for Primus, if he wants to continue racing, he's going to have a team. That's for sure. The question is, what are the conditions? And also, his contract demands are probably going to be quite high. So there's not that many teams who can afford

him. So, of course, if he gets a podium, that adds, again, to, okay, Primus is not done, Primus is still up there, which is, you know, which would be true. If he gets on the podium of this Volta, then that shows that he's still a rider to be counted with in grand tours. And then one day race in one week, stage races. It is Red Bull. I mean, I guess it's not worth it to them, but let's say he gets on the podium here. Pretty significant for Red Bull, just to be able

to send your, your fifth best GC rider to a grand tour, and you finish it with home a podium,

“like that's not a bad turn on that. I think for Primus, also, personally, I think there's,”

there's no more, there's no room at Red Bull with, but Ramco there and Lippo. And he's never

raised with Ramco, right? I don't know. I don't know. I don't have ever had a race day together. No, no, no. I think this is a kind of guy. He wants to be the leader. And so I'm, you know, I'm still still trying to get my head around this potential move to Lotto Intermarsche, if that would make sense. I still can't see it, but we know, I first of all, I think the biggest problem for that move to happen is they're going to have to need, they're going to need to find the

funds to pay Primus, because it's a team that is known for to be on a tight budget, and they were not able to keep under the lead or letting them find eight felt. And yeah, Primus is a different level, rider, in other than those two riders. Yeah, yeah. I mean, he's a kind of a luxury item. If you're Lotto Intermarsche, and you need like they need riders to pull double triple duty, and it's like Rockets pretty specific skillset for a team like that. But so GC, we talk about GC, let's talk about

points for a second. So after today, Tadad Pagotra takes the point sprint at the top of Ordinia 20 points

20 points at the finish. He now is 87 82 points, Ethan Hader 37 points, Matthew Brennan 30 points, and then Woutbenart, we should call out 25 points in six place. Do we think Tadad Pagotra is going

“to win this point jersey? I think so, man. I think so. I don't know. There's not, I mean, there are”

differences between, you know, flat stages and mountain stages in the Valtava, it's not the same difference as in the two of the fronts. And so historically, the point jersey has been won by guys from the GC already in the past. It all depends what he makes at a goal or not. I would say, I would think, and I would hope he doesn't, you know, why would he want to win the points classification? But, well, yeah, I think he's winning the points. I think he's being the points jersey.

He is two stage wins by stage four. How many stage wins do you think he gets at this race? Five minimum five minimum five minimum. Yeah, minimum. And let's just say, let's just count it as 20 each. So there's people who are saying that he needs to go for the record, stage wins in the Valtava. That's not going to happen. What is it like 15 or something? 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 30 Martins in 1977. He won 13 stages and they overall. Let's let that stay.

Well, how many stages were in that race? I think it was 20 stages. 20 stages. Jesus. Let's not do that, Taday. Being a classic rider and somewhat of a sprinter. You know, this guy won the Green jersey in the tour. I think one year he won eight stages in the Tour of France also, Freddie Martin's hell of a rider. I mean, he had a rider. We're supposed to be the next Eddie Merks had a very short career. It's actually from the town next to where I'm

from. But had a short career. So, but yeah, 13 stages and winning the overall being

I mean, that's pretty good career. It's not like a good pan out. 13 stages of the single grade

do it in two world titles. People would take that. So on the K-O-M front, Pogachar 23 points, Lorenzo Fortune out of his actually looked really good 10 points. Do we think he wins K-O-M as well? I mean, I don't know. It's going to be, it's going to be, I mean, normally yes, I mean, there's more, a lot of points on those horse category

“clabs, right? Like I don't have, for example, I guess that's like double points or what is it?”

Today I'm Valida. How many points were there? Oh, in Valida was only 10. Okay, so, so maybe you're going to run into his, you know, like today that this points were spread like butter, evenly throughout the stage. You're not going to get a lot of stages like that because there's a lot of stages where the hardest climb is the last climb. Yeah. A break away is not going to be able to get away and get those points. I think you could be looking at red, green, K-O-M.

Yeah. The only interesting competition here is going to be the white jersey. Well, it's pretty close. Oscar only 21 seconds over. We are. So something to keep an eye on. That is going to be a good one. But we eat our still claims. He's not here for the GC though. I don't know how much I believe that. Well, he's going to grow into it. I

think it's the right approach. It's his first ground tour. He's never raised longer than a week.

“So I think it's the right mindset. Just look what it would come towards him and gradually grow”

in confidence during the three weeks. I think he can be a good GC. I mean, the way I saw him riding today is definitely very hopeful for for the next two weeks. You know what? I can't believe I almost forgot to say this. Do you know what country Tadate Pagatra won his first Grand Tour stage in? Yeah, Spain. Oh, no, I don't know. And the aura just like today. So yeah, he wins the day.

The sight of his first ever Grand Tour stage when it's 2009 at the 2019 Valtzau Spania. We should also start somewhere like the see this year. Was today his 20th victory or something, 21st victory after the of the year? He has a 50% he has a 50% winning rate. Spencer, including all the stages of the tour that he didn't contest. That's the phase. Yeah, like when you hear that, we really should filter that out.

Come up with a system to do so because like 50% win rate. He's losing half the time. It's like there's most stages of the tour. He's not even contesting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But here, let's do wins. Can we sort by season? Let's do 2026. He has 41 race days. 21 wins. Oh, my god. Yeah. That's over 50%. Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of days where he's not trying to win. Tadate Pagatra. I think last year he had he had 20 wins over almost 60 days of racing. I think

because he did do round tours. Yeah. There presumably will be stages of this fall to that he does not win. But actually tomorrow. So that that percentage will go down probably. But yeah, let's take a quick break and we'll preview tomorrow's stage, which he may, he may not win. Stick around to find out. We'll be right back. Everybody this episode is brought to by momentous. Creatine is one of the most research and effective supplements available. But as the category

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fourth country we visited tomorrow on stage five first first stage in Spain 173 kilometers

kind of a tricky stage through Catalonia. We start and then we loop back through like or some rolling hills, a big flat section in the middle with a sprint point and bonus seconds at the end of it. I'd assume the breakaway soaks all those up. But the last third of the stage is actually quite difficult with a the big headline is there's a third category climb with 24 k to go and it is a hard climb. I'm looking for the stats. It is 6k long. It's cut off on me.

I hope it's 6k at six and a half percent. That's not easy. I'm sorry, 4k at six and a half percent and then it goes down to the finish. How do you think this is gonna play out and who's gonna win? Yeah, I think if you look at the details of that glam sponsor, it's six and a half percent

“average but I think it's in two parts if I remember correctly. The beginning and our heart is like”

seven, eight percent. So do hard for the sprinters. So I think we can expect we can expect Visma and little trek trying to make it hard in that section to have the sprinters dropped and for their, for their guys, well, Van Art and Matthew Brennan and then Matt Spaderson to contest the sprint. I don't know, going off what we saw. It's not as much of enough. It's slightly uphill the last kilometer but not the same as the other day but still I'm gonna go for Matthew Brennan that kind of

power and today by the way. Today what he did on portal is part of it. He was in that breakaway and tried to get to the top of of the big climb for, I guess Ben to let for the points for the, I don't know exactly what that was about. But he was impressive there. He was impressive. So Matthew Brennan definitely on on great form and so he's my pick to win tomorrow. Well, Matthew Brennan a lot of people agree with you because he's minus 140 to win the stage.

Well, I've been our plus 600 Matt Spaderson plus 900. Jordi made his plus 1200. King grows plus 1600. I don't know if that could happen plus 1800 and it goes on and on from there. Brennan's a good pick because obviously as we saw today, he can get over that climb and

“I guess he's the fastest flat sprinter. Like, do we know that for sure? That's the only thing I'm wondering”

about in a flat sprint against Matt Spaderson. In a pure sprint, I think in a pure sprint probably gained growth, Jordi Mayos. I don't know who else is here. If there's another pure sprinter. Those guys are definitely also super fast. But I think with what Primes now is the physical

fitness of Matthew Brennan, he's an incredible shape. I can see him when this kind of sprint,

the same way he won, he won on stage two. But I can also see him when a flat sprint with these legs. Does Matt Spaderson stick around to let this be a sprint? Are we looking at like Matt Spaderson while I'm getting up the road? Either at the beginning of the stage or when it gets hard, when we get to the hill section. Because that's a tough section. It can be hard to control.

“Yeah. And the two teams that would control it would be Visma and little track.”

Yeah, they could go in and move for sure. And then it would be Walton arc versus versus Matt Spaderson. But Matthew Brennan can be in there too. Today, for example, he lasted longer than Walton arc on the Envalida. He even dropped his own teammate Bruno Amiral when Matthew Brennan was pulling. Did he pull too much? Did he give too much? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's way too excited. Way too excited. And then Ben Tula didn't even have a chance. I don't think he was even talking

five minutes in that sprint. So I don't know exactly what the thinking was behind that

setting the pace of Matthew Brennan. But at least he showed that he has incredible legs for the moment.

So in the last 50K of tomorrow's stage, here are the climbs. 3K at 6%. 3K at 6.5% 1K at 4% 1.5K at 5% 4K at 6.5% 0.700 meters at 6% and then flat for the last 20K. That's hard. I mean, that's good. I mean, really hard to control, especially if Matt Spaderson does not want to stick around for a bunch. Yeah, so that that would be my only concern. So I'm going to pick as a hedge. I'm going to pick well, Ben Art, that it does not get to a sprint. It's Matt Spaderson says,

get a classics race. I would love that. I would love that would be nice. I mean, the Vulta is actually pretty good. Last year was not their best route ever. They're pretty

good at throwing in these their sprint stages always have a twist, usually. And they can play out

really interestingly, probably because the teams aren't as strong are there. So it's harder to

“control. I think it could be a quite interesting stage. We'll be nice and take a little break from the”

GC as well. Yeah, get a little palette cleanser there, but anything else you're on on tomorrow. Yeah, well, Spencer, before I forget, I want to take the opportunity to make a correction

do what I said yesterday. Yesterday, I was critical of the organization to, you know, for not

making a responsibility for them making the decision. You know, it was straight after the finish, afterwards having seen the images and seen the situation. They are not to blame. They are not to blame. It all happened so fast. This hail storm. They had no way of seeing this coming. So I apologies for my criticism toward the organization. They are not at fault. The writers made the call.

“It was the right call. And it was the only way possible to cancel this stage when the writers”

were making the decision. The organization didn't have any possibility to see this coming.

Yeah, and that's fair. Also, they must have been, you know, that this hotel is getting a lot of good publicity. Oh, they must have been on the lookout for hotels. Like, what are the odds that they pull over right when there's hotel there? So it was pretty funny story that there's now I heard there's something like 5,000, 5 star reviews on this hotel. Yeah, but I mean, if you saw the condition afterwards, when you see the images and the footage, it was, wow.

You know how much that hurts? Like, they were like, I mean, I'm not going to say ping pong balls, but you know, they were big, big, big hail balls, you know? And you can really see that situation. You could hear the guys scream, you know, when they were hit by the hail. Yeah, I saw some bruises, some bruises on legs and stuff. Yeah, it was not good. It was not good. And there's just nowhere to go. You're totally helpless, you know? Yeah. So yeah, it's lucky they

found a place to go that worked out for most people, but anything else you're on before we take off.

“That's, I think we covered most of its Spencer. All right. Well, we hope for, and I don't know if”

people, I'm sure they've noticed the vaults, the oddity of the vaults are not televised start to finish today was televised start to finish, which was great. So we will not see probably a very interesting breakaway portion tomorrow, but around let's say in Europe around 3 p.m. The race comes on in the U.S. It's going to be around. I don't know 7 7 a.m. Mountain time 9 p.m. Eastern on peacock. If you're looking for it, but Johann, we'll, we'll talk tomorrow. We'll see how this race goes out.

It goes on. Okay. Previous stage 6. All right. Talk to you soon. Thanks. Right. Bye.