How Can Visma Pressure UAE & Pogačar at This Tour? | Tour de France 2026 Stage 3 | THEMOVE

We saw Quinn Simmons up there today.

Jurgenson, I mean, the ride he's not in the last three stages. Shawn Quinn was up there yesterday and Brandon McNulty, you know, the ride of the day. For us yesterday as well. So four of our seven Americans are having a great ride at Torso Far. All right, well, good morning, everybody.

Welcome back to the move podcast. I'm Lance Armstrong, joined by Sir Bradley Wiggins. Mr. George and Kathy, and the professor Spencer Martin. We are going to talk about stage three, which is, you picked it, Sir Bradley. I mean, you picked.

“I think everybody on this desk and the professor himself really thought this was a perfect”

breakway day. You called it yesterday, said no, and you saw the team, you just, I was sort of, I was a why are they riding Sir Bradley, well, they want to win the stage and that's exactly what happened. Yep.

But, no, go ahead, because I keep forgetting things, but you know, I mean, it just seems like the norm now in the modern day cycling and the way the Tour de France is ridden, which is very different to our time in your time. And we were talking about it when we spent the weather, you know, that it seems to be the way that Taday wants to accumulate as much time now in the first part of the race

when possible. And so we could take his foot off the gas and less pressure in that third week. That's, that's the way it's looking that he's going to pan out the same as last year. Not only that, we're seeing the big teams like Beesman, the Giro, UA here, they're not, they're not conserving energy.

They're not conserving their riders energy more. They see if they have a chance to win the stage, we're going to go for it. I don't remember Team Sky, I have a race and like that, or our team back in the days, like

third stage of the Tour de France, three weeks ago, we would never have done that.

Yeah.

“And I want to talk more about that, because it is a, it's just a fundamental shift on the”

way that the tour is approached and enraced, but I don't want to leave out our friend alone. We could never leave out a land stage three. I'll land what did we do? Stage three from Granoye to Les Angles, from Granoye to Les Angles.

And we're getting there. Okay. We're back in France. Back in France. Yeah.

So it feels good to be back. Well, in the French guy, it's just better. Yeah. The stage today went through a bunch of our old training grounds like Vic, like Redout's at a Corona.

Yeah, they went through the, you know, at the bottom of the profile, always tells you

the probably went through, I guess sort of the, as Americans would think of it almost as a county, but yeah, right, right in the old neighborhood, but yeah, I mean, like we said this, I don't know, seemingly dozens of times, that whatever the playbook was in our generation and in our generation, subreddally is a little different, you know, maybe half a generation removed from yours.

Whatever we did or thought of how you approach a race and you budget effort and allocate effort over the course of three weeks, how you try to distribute that within a team.

“I don't, I think we, I think we just have to kind of throw that out.”

I mean, this is, yeah, this is different. Well, it's telling you, on yesterday, I was like, imagine what you think the most logical course of action for the day is and just reverse it. And that's what's going to happen. And that's what happened today.

Did you guys notice though, Mattel Jorgensen was trying to get nearly moved? Do you think that was a bit of a provocation that UA said, okay, you're going to want to put Mattel up there and, and, and F with us watch this, I kind of wonder if that's what happened. Yeah.

I mean, I wouldn't put it past today. He's a mean guy. He is. He's got his head. Yeah.

We saw that last year playout on, you know, the meal to pretend that stage, you remember when there's a bit of sort of tension in the air afterwards in the interviews and yeah, you know, that was all over a missed music if you remember at the time, refit a bottle. Yep. Yep.

But Tadda, yeah, when he gets it on him, you know, he's a different animal on the bike to off the bike. Also, you're, you're against it almost won the mountup finish. Yeah. They seem really decides to just chase him down last minute.

Yeah. Probably try once the stage. Well, like, there's no love loss here. I mean, in your instance is, uh, is outspoken. I mean, he's not afraid to speak his mind.

There's, there's, there's been some back and forth in the press. You see some back and forth in the peloton sometimes, uh, which I love that. I mean, it all sports need that, right? I mean, you see that, we see that in the world cup going on. Yeah.

Yep. Congratulations by the way. Okay. Positive side of all this is, I mean, four, four out of our seven Americans, I've really had had a significant impact with all quinsuming up there today.

You're good. I mean, the ride. He's not in the last three stages. Quin was up there yesterday and Brandon McNulty, you know, the ride of the day that for us yesterday as well.

So four of our seven Americans are having a great ride at Thorce Ovar. Tough stages. I mean, it's the stage three. It was 104 degrees Fahrenheit. Yeah.

That was, I don't know.

Three thousand, it was over 12,000 feet of climbing, 3,000 meters vert. And it's 70 kilometers before the breakway went away. That's just, that's, you know, that's it. And then gets really smart as it gets.

And gets really long. So I mean, and there was a crash right at the beginning with, like, took down Matthew Ricottello, Bruno Amorive from Visma. Boss.

And then, you know, Tobias Foster was riding amazing.

And then they're, like, dangling 18 minutes back. Like that, that must be miserable. Poor Matthew. Well, it's, it's, I mean, you a, he's just on another level.

“I mean, I think, yeah, as we, as we just acknowledge with them, that they're just”

going to ride the race the way they ride it. That doesn't mean that everybody is going to allocate energy over. You saw, I mean, there were bodies everywhere. There was, they were down to 40 guys the last close to an hour. This is day three.

Day three. Yeah. And it's, and, and it's, you know, projected to continue to be hot. This is, Daddy Poguchar. I wonder what, I mean, you kind of run out of superlatives.

This was his 22nd stage win. And the tour de France spends her how many, and he does go, it's worth noting, he is on the same time as you want to think of the guard. But he takes yellow. We looked that up apparently.

It's, it's based, they don't go down to 10th of a second or 100th of a second.

They just base it on the best finish on the, the most, well, I think it's like, you mean that it's stage finishes, but even that's tied. Okay. So then it's like, tiebreaker from there is that is the most recent stage finish, which it was today.

Yeah. Yeah. Is he bummed about that? Stick around and do the yellow jersey. He didn't say that in his post race interview.

Yeah. He said he was excited to be in the old jersey, with it comes a lot, a lot of extra time. You're going to, you're going to postpone your evening. I guess it depends on some of the transfers or just how efficient things are, but you're going to postpone your evening 45 to 60 minutes.

Yeah. He's used to that. Yeah.

The great clip of him on the home train of warming down after yesterday's stage, playing

to the Mexican crowd with the, you know, with the flag and stuff is great. He's in such. I mean, he seems so relaxed, but did you see the, so you had Pagatari's, he's messing around with the fans. He's got a Mexican flag and then you own his boom, in 95 mask on right out to the stage, looks

kind of miserable. I'm going to be honest, like, it's just a interesting contrast between them. Yeah.

“Um, tomorrow's yellow jersey for them, do we, do we have any idea for how many days?”

I mean, we just said, so there's 20 seconds stage when, I mean, he's, look, I mean, cab has 35. We covered that two years ago very well, our last year, whenever that was, but Pagatari just kind of clicks them off. Like, there's a world where you say, we're going to get another five, you know, something

to finish this year, how many of them to get a week? I think many of you are going to win six. I'm going to finish this. Okay. So anyway, there's a world where we're not that far from the six total.

Six total. Yeah. Yeah. So all this is well by the end of next year's tool. Right.

We're going to be in the bullpot. That's right. Yeah. That's right. I think it's a 160th day in yellow in yellow.

Say that one more time. 160 yellow. 160.

“I believe so, because he has 207 total grand tour leader jersey days and 47 of them are”

outside the tour. Wow. Yeah. That's what it's done. I mean, it was clear they had one goal in mind today was to win the stage.

And I think that the yellow jersey was a byproduct of that, but we saw what midway through. They started to take over the work in the front. When the break way of 18 guys are strong, very strong break way. If a break way goes to 70 K into a 200 K race, you know that's not a panic.

It's a broken break way, that's like a really strong break way, break way, especially as a drop there. Very hard to control that. These ma was keeping them in two minutes or two minutes plus them. And then they just took over with the clear goal of winning the stage.

Sorry guys, that's total leader jersey's not yellow. So yellow is less than that. Obviously yellow is I believe. Where do you find this stuff? I believe it's a 50/15 yellow.

Okay. Because 160 that would be like 26 average a year. So not possible. So one and the last 55th, but 22 of those 22 stage wins. So 75 total GC days like leading a GC race with 20 of them at the WALTA.

Sorry, 20 of them at the 0, which is kind of crazy to think about it because he did one year to Tanya and he is 20 year leaders, days in the leaders jersey. Let's talk about the move of the day. So Bradley, what are you the move of the day? By the way, folks, just the move of the day doesn't have to be a stage when it doesn't

have to be an attack from a break away. It's just sort of a, I guess, just a general impression of who was with some performance that stood outside of, I mean, we obviously can't keep talking about poker draw, but outside

Well, mine has to go to Delta Room today.

I mean, he rode at least 800 meters on the front on that last climb, leading out to how the damage he was doing while setting that pace and still finish nine four seconds behind Tanya. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean, that, that means he probably could have won the stage, well, I got to go back to my four Americans that have performed really well.

So far, Seb Cust was also up there today, leading out with about 1500 meters to go. So that's five out of seven Americans that I have in our huge impact on this race.

“But I think Seb and Matteo are looking to super strong today.”

I was proud to see them and quincements being up there with less than two K to go leading out there, their captains. I'm going to zag here, Alex Bonan, the last man saying like the way he looked miserable. He's a tough guy, really good writer, salted up, cramp it on the bike. I mean, that's, that's pretty impressive to be out there.

At some point, there were just a few teams. Guys, the questions for your question. All of you guys. When they start getting pissed off, like, this is a typical break away day. Like, they're going to make a big energy.

Yeah. So, they started to be like, is there, are they going to start creating more and more enemies because they're just keep trying to win every moment anymore? Or does it even matter?

Everything that fit their critical mindset.

I can't see anyone. I don't think they'll create enemies at all. I think there's so much respect for them in the palace one. I think that is, you know, that people are in awe of them. And they do it in poker chart and you can even see Del Toro as sort of adopted this

jovial, at least from just sort of sitting on the couch here in Colorado. But he's political in a good way. And I don't know. We'll see tomorrow. Yeah.

I think they'll start tomorrow. We'll create tomorrow's stage later.

“I think they'll start to feed the break away from chances.”

Yeah. Yeah. Right. We'll let you guys have some. I mean, you came all this way.

Got to get them and just chum it a little bit.

I'm going to go with Del Toro too. This is interesting. Watching. And if you watch sort of the live commentary, you know, people say they're sitting here, you know, so-and-so is in perfect position there, buddy, there's nobody.

It didn't matter. I mean, there was nobody. There was only one guy who could accelerate from that. And it was poker chart. I mean, the pace that Del Toro is able to do.

And, and again, we're only three days in, but this morale is already there looking around going, what, what you got. Yeah. I mean, that they are firing. Yeah.

All cylinders. Three days in. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's still in a good position.

I don't think he's that happy about being essentially really not the wheel the last two days. And a relatively short mount-top finish. But he's still there. Tie it for the yellow and steam looks really good.

So it's still a battle going on. Well, he said yesterday with that circuit and with that finish, acknowledged that while he wasn't able to necessarily fall the wheel, that that wasn't a circuit or a type of finish that suits him. Today, he could make the same argument, I agree.

Same argument today. And I don't disagree with that.

“I mean, I think you give the guy an hour-long climb, you know, halfway, two-thirds through”

this tour of France. Yeah. That's that those are different. So it's where nobody's discounting him, but is he too light? Like, if he's really 57 kilos.

Well, if it's too light, then that would explain sort of why he can't follow that initial acceleration by Poverchard, which is probably somewhere over 12 or more watts on a final of a mount-top finish. So if you're that light, you can't produce that amount of wattage, which potentially could mean he's faster on the one hour climbs.

Yeah, I guess we'll. Do you think the same applies to Remco as to why he's not I think so, too, and Remco was a bit further behind that. I think it was like ninth place. He looked fine up until then, but yeah, who knows, it could be that they're just

all in on these. That real chop end. And these guys like Del Toro and Pagotra bigger than the other GC contenders. So it's less load on them to get into the climb in position, like they're not writing as close to the threshold as Remco and Jonas, because they're so light, they've like

are maxing out just to get to the base of the climb versus these bigger, like, bigger. They're like 64 kilos. Guys, it's less, they can get to the front easier. Just the parents and fence are also on your teammates, and how good you are, and navigate your way around the peloton, I think while the guys you just mentioned are really good,

so I'm not sure that there's spending more energy than Pagotra or Del Toro, especially in a group of 30 to 40 guys, which we were looking at today at the final. Not very stressful. All mound guys is not like going into the ironwork for us, or the combat burger, Quarimot and Flandertis.

It's different. I think they pretty much got there on the same term. But how much load do you think the threshold of Jonas is, then Pagotra could be 50 watts? Or more? Or more?

Especially, even on the bottom of a climb like today, Rimco and Jonas could be over the threshold, because they're thresholds so much lower than those guys.

Again, I mean, it's not like they're T-T into it, and it's like, it's a very, it's a not worse.

“It's very, it's very, yeah, you're following the wheels.”

You know when to move up, you have a teammate that you trust more than other teammates. There's a lot of variables that go on as opposed to just like who's spending more watts in the final 5K to the bottom of the climb? Richard Carapass. How do you survive?

I mean, we have to give him his props, we look great. You know, we thought he was one of the days. Yeah, that team's coming out really happy today. Mountain jersey. Break away the hardest.

Break away the past. Third on stage. Paul Sashas look good. Yeah. Was there lipowits was there? Well, I looked it up lipowits last time I went back to last

year.

Lipowits lost two minutes to the first four stages.

So and finished third at the end. So there's a better start to the tour for the boots and last year. Yeah. Speaking of that team, we spent a lot of time last tour talking about Ben Healey, who had a tremendous race, finished talk 10, was seemingly in every break away, in every conversation

tough day. That's the weird thing. That's the thing about these days. You can just have a bad day, yeah, like in today was his bad day. So maybe he's now going to have to sort of reset his gauge and think about stage

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Boom. Boom. I feel it's, I mean, I'm a little worried, I mean this, not worried, but I mean, this is, look, let's just level, I don't know what you're going to say. And I feel, I feel my, my, my soulmate here, so Bradley, I feel it.

What he's, I mean, this is just, this is the punch in the nose that all the other. Are you feeling this? What's that? The poker char factor. Yeah.

Yep. I do. Um, this is what we're going to be talking about for the next three weeks. Okay. What, what would prevent that?

What would prevent? What, what, what, what, yeah. I think, like we said last year, Visma are going to have to rethink their strategy a little bit compared to last year,

because they've tried and how many tours now to sit in second place on GC and hope that something

happens to be a pagaacha.

“I mean, we've said it all the time, but what can you do against pagaacha?”

Unless he has an injury or a crash or illness. There's not much you can do against this going.

Yeah. No, I know.

“This is, we're talking about like he's just writing and I agree with you.”

It's looking that way, but at the same time, what we have seen the last two years is Visma going on the offensive. Trying to make it harder. That's what they need to do more. Well, I don't know about that.

I'm actually kind of liking that now. UAs on the offensive. They go on for the wins. They go on for the yellow jersey early and Visma's getting to sense a sit back a little bit more than the half last two years.

Yeah. Maybe that's going to make it a bit more dynamic, exciting race. Because we get past day 10 of this. Well, I guess it's targeted sitting back because they are trying to put a guy that could be a GC leader.

I'm that's very unusual for yellow jersey team to try to put a co-leader into the early break away on stage three. It's strange actually. Not really. I mean, now we've done it before, back in the day, just if we get one of our climbers out

“there, then our guys can sit in the whole day.”

It's not about like, did you have anyone on the team that would be a legitimate threat to win the two of the fronts? I mean, people close to your distance, you know, status I would say, right, top 10 of the Tour de France. You don't want to give them 10 minutes.

You don't want to give them 10 minutes. You want to give them five minutes. So then it's going to make the other teams have to work a lot more. So it's actually, and it's like it's so hard that it's 104 degrees super aggressive. It's not like it's much easier sitting on a sitting back.

Like for someone like your against in whose top 10 right in the world, for him to just flow with break away attempts, it's not that much harder than him sitting 10 to 20 of the wheel, because it's super hard either way. So you want them to sit back and do less. Yes, because last year, then last two years, every time they made it harder and harder,

it made it easier for public try to ride away. So why not take a different approach to make UAE, make it harder, and maybe, well, that's the way it's pounding out. Yeah, that's why it's getting out. Maybe they start relying on their guys starting running out of energy, making them more

like open to attacks, you know, I don't know, I'm just thinking I like sort of the change right now. And do we think, yeah, let's just imagine, if we can, that we were in the team meeting for UAE this morning, was the plan, let a break away go, keep them at a reasonable distance, obviously, bring them back and poke a chart win in the stage.

Was that the plan before the stage started? Probably, right? Yeah, I mean, I would imagine. I don't know about that, I would, my guess would be, like, if there was then a reasonable gap after halfway more, then let's go for the stage.

But if it's some crazy break away, it's got 20 minutes, are we gonna, like, put our guys on the line the first 50K to chase us down, I don't know, I think it was like a, I'm just a couple different plans. I'm just imagining for a second, right, this is 2005, your hand comes in the team

bus and says, all right guys, here's what we're going to do, stage three, that is no

way. We would be like, George would have gotten up and walked off the bus, so no, no, I am not going to be a part of this, everybody's going to dislike us and hate us, shit about us. Yeah, this is to me, this is what he, we've never done that day, no, this is what he would

have, he would have, wholeheartedly objected to that. But yeah, but so, but last year, Visma was very aggressive and they did force a pagachart crash because if you remember, they were really pushing in, but they set up. Well, okay, they're not going to ride away from them, but what if he would have broken his collarbone, you know, like, they need to introduce as much chaos as possible.

I mean, that's the only way, right, like you introduce variables that could take pagachart out of the race, like, I don't know, Ebola, anything that I can, you got to, like, start thinking outside the water.

“I don't, I don't think it's that, I think Ebola has, that maybe that's why he's wearing”

the mask all the time. Is that it? Yeah, because you know, he had this, Bradley, that's not, I mean, when you're in control, you're in control. I don't know.

Yeah.

And these things don't happen, these aren't split second decisions.

They have time to think about these things, they have time to, to use their horsepower and their experience and their strength, and their confidence. Yeah, they're kind. And they see how the confidence is sky high. See how good Del Toro and Poguchar, right?

I mean, Del Toro road backwards on the course yesterday, there's team car road. That was crazy. Right past them left them inside the road stranded. He was admitted to have back came back and still won the stage. So yeah, these guys are like on different level.

We were talking a little bit about, before the show about the time cut, Arnold Deli was getting dangerously close. The time cut was according to prosikon stats was 48 minutes, he actually made it by seven minutes. He must have, either had a little help.

Towards the, he was selling the cameras ago. Yeah, he was when those cameras go away, he all of a sudden gets a new, a new energy source, but he finished 41 minutes down. So he's, nobody knows the time cut. Wait, are you?

I'm seeing that he DNFed.

Like I said, hold on, hold on a second.

Oh, it does. He did DNFed. So do we think he missed the, no, because it would be out of the time.

No, I thought he would finish.

“He made's, did they then have to just motor and finish?”

Yeah. And try to finish this out. That's miserable. Can you imagine that you're back there knowing that you're digging yourself in this huge hole.

And then the guy you've been pacing gets on the car and it's a good luck. We are going to take a little peacock commercial break. We will be back in two minutes and 32 seconds. Okay. Welcome back everybody.

Before we get to a few other things here, I touched on it. Big night for England. I'm just, I'm so shocked as well.

I always thought soccer was just, and you still see it.

I got a man as part of it. He didn't even get touched and the guy's rolling around on the ground. That's the part that always bugged me. Yeah. Like that, that's not hockey.

That's not cycling.

“I think hockey and cycling are the two tough sports in the world.”

This is guys rolling around. But man, this is so fun to watch. We had a whole crew at the house last night. England versus Mexico in this insane environment in Mexico City. As tech stadium had to delay the game an hour because of lightning again.

Great. When it two goals within, what minute and 38 seconds, we were, you know, as a matter of fact, everybody there was cheering for England, except one, but no, two. Super. Liz Kruits in a Holland trip was cheering for Mexico. He's Liz.

And George, George just sat on his hands, he was quiet.

And finally I said, let me ask, who are you cheering for?

I get it. The Colombian thing, same language, and he confessed that he was cheering under his heart of heart underdog. They were not the underdog, but in his heart of heart, he was cheering for Mexico.

“Anyhow, I am obsessed with the world cup fast forward to today.”

All right, one o'clock, Spain, Portugal probably won't watch that one. Six o'clock, local time, big one. USA, it's Lance versus Johan, tonight, six o'clock, been a lot of controversy. I'm sure everybody's, if you, unless you live in a cave, our guy, our best guy, I mean, no, it's name, I don't, I just know he's our best guy.

They took back the red card, a lot of international controversy about this. But I am, I will be parked on that couch, watching the stars in the sky. There's some controversy about your guy's red card last night, yeah, well, they're all different. This is the thing that I will, I will, I will say that bucks me, like if you watch,

and there's one ref, and there is this review, but he goes over and watches, typically, I, but I know, but just what I love about, your newfound love of soccer is you're now open to logistically how we can get to Miami next Saturday, and get back for the show to watch England Norway. What time's the game?

Well, no, we're, we're going to have a discussion on that. Well, I had, you know, we don't, and we are going to get the business back to talking

about cycling and the Tour de France here in just a second.

I, I, I, I instituted a rule last tour, of course, we're down here in the basement below Aspen Mountain Fitness, and, uh, was, uh, to our studio, and I, last, last year I said, no visitors, there will be no outsiders. Nobody can come in. Got a stay focused.

Well, we had an interloper this morning, our friend Todd, well, name it a name here because we're starting to get into the, to the lumenati, uh, okay, uh, but he tips me off that he is leaving in a couple hours to fly with a friend, another friend of ours, uh, on a dizzy to the USA game and fly back on Georgia plane. No, no, believe me, but potentially the same plane that we filmed that really funny.

Oh, yes, no, it's a different, it's a different plane. I've been on this jizzy, this is some different, this is a real jizzy, this is real hardware. Anyhow, he says, oh, and we're also flying, yeah, to Miami for the England Warway game. Now, I will not be, I have to, I'll be here, folks, now, we're just going to put this

out there. There may be a day where somebody needs to sit here because if Sir Bradley can hit your ride, we throw a band in there, Ben's been not shooting us in. Oh, Ben would, Ben would be a crime if he couldn't go with this dad, but it's true. So that's, you're right.

Now we're getting to the meat of it, you know, jizzy's hardware in and out, but we could get Trump to bring up the ASL and change the rest day of the Tour de France this Sunday. And, uh, yeah, uh, Quinn Simmons, overall winner of the Tour de France, everyone else is disqualified. Wow.

Crazy. Yeah, you got to go to this game.

If the tool is one at the end of the third week, why today, there's not much to talk

about. Yeah.

“The third week or the end of the first week, okay, yeah, let's hope that doesn't”

happen. Well, I've got the Tour de France coming out this week. Yeah, let's see how that's all around the world. I don't want to be a buzzkill, but there's two guys sitting at this desk who pretty much just dominated tours line the line.

Right? Who's good in the first week is usually the guy that's good in the third week. There's not a lot of, like, didn't you come out? You got the second to cancel out at the prologue, but yeah, with the only two to have yellow that, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. It was pretty much done. So. Okay.

Now, let's talk about cycling. Yeah. All right. We're going to talk about the stage four week. We do have a stage tomorrow.

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Check it out van Duitt.com. Let's look at stage four. Another hot one. 102. Would you say Spencer?

102 at the start. 97 at the finish? Yes.

“Another, you know, I think it's over 2,500 meters of vertical.”

2,800 meters. 2,800? Yeah. In that temperature. Not going to be easy.

Like. I assume fought. It's like you go into the pier and he's a little bit. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Hence the slightly cooler temps. Do we have the profile handy? I see shuffling back there. Running.

I mean. That's okay.

It's not the key thing is it's not.

It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not a summit finish. Which will probably dictate how it's raised.

Yeah. Yeah. Here we go. Look at that. Cat four, cat three.

Cat two, cat two. This is a hard day. Hard day. This is just a. Well, let's go to Sir Bradley.

I mean, is this. You called it right? Yes. Well, I mean. So this region caucus on.

We normally, you know, two weeks into the tool. We get to the pier and even this area. Right. Fair. And so to have it on day four.

“You know, that you have to sort of rip up the textbook of what could happen.”

And I still think that. I would say most people are still fresh with day four. I know it's been hard, but the natural speed of the peloton. Everyone trying to get in the brakes. The kind of, you know, the jossling and the battle in between Vizmere and UAE.

And what's going on there in the dynamic. I think that it will naturally just cause the speed to be higher the whole day. And we could have a bunch of brinigan. No. I've lead it.

Come on. I've got to go. You keep saying that. But we've said that. Great.

That's two weeks and said that. But let me like make it more exciting. Like the anticipation of a potential break away. Cargasone. Super hot.

Like we said, also could be potentially very windy. You just remember riding into Cargasone like exposed roads. So yeah, it's going to be really hard to control. I mean, if the team like UAE wants to control it, they can do it. But you think they wouldn't prefer a breakaway to go.

Maybe get some other person in the yellow jersey. Let's see, let's see. I've not a short stage. 182 kilometers. So you know, in this sort of this generation of cycling.

This is long gish.

Today was the second longest stage of the tour.

But back to back hundred. The final climb is 30 ish kilometers. Do you have the finish? That would be something. If we got your attack there.

I don't see that. That's not possible. Could you see him riding away on stage? One of the two are Switzerland. You know, there's things that are happening.

Yeah, that's five days long. That's not the difference. Yeah, I think I think. Yeah. Come on.

I'm now realizing. I'm now realizing why. Because I screwed up the whole thing. Because as we were coming out of the peacock break, I had an order of things we were going to talk about.

And I completely didn't look at it and forgot it. Yesterday, we announced the creation of a voice. A voice mail line. Oh, yes. So you guys just guys gals.

Kids. Whatever. Just give us a call. Leave. Leave.

I even left the recording on there. Thanks for calling. Yeah. Do we have the number to plug? We have to plug it.

Yeah. We may as well plug it again. 970. 7182736. That rings straight down into Georgia's room at the house.

That's a direct line. If you don't pick up, it goes to the voice mail. So that's up, George. But anyhow, I mean, we opened this thing up. And it was like phone caught on fire, which is kind of cool.

So we pulled a couple. And just so you all know.

But we're not listening to these before.

“The team is listening to, I suppose, all of them.”

And over here in some today. Yeah. I'm building up time. You're building up. But just know.

So the team will pull a couple to a tree. Messages for us to listen to or answer whatever. But we've not heard them. So who knows? Right?

This is this raw. And just the all know. The last time that Lance Armstrong responded to one of my voice Mills. Nineteen.

Oh, no. I tried to 2002 early 2000. Last time. You should feel very fortunate. It's going to respond to somebody else's voice message.

Do you have a voicemail block set up? Like, do you have a thing on there? Like, that is Bradley. Thanks for calling. No.

I don't either. I don't understand. Now, I want everybody to leave messages here.

Or questions, comments, concerns.

I don't understand why people leave voicemails. Like, why are you? That's like the Liz crew's thing. Liz calls people. I'm like, why?

Are you calling me? Don't call me. Text me. Okay. All right.

Let's do the first one. This is first message. What's up to move? I was wondering, do you think there was a small, I release from Cavendish when Poguchar gifted the Wayne

to Del Toro with the record. You know, he's going to have to get everyone he can and not get anything away. If he's going for that record, do you think that record is even on his radar.

Right now. Thank you. I love the show. Thank you. It sounds like too.

I don't know. He sounds like Georgia. All that guys from that boy is from the south. Yeah. I'm just going to say.

I agree.

You know, there are, I'm from Kansas.

That's maybe a little that draws a little strong. There's people in Kansas. No, it's here. That's.

Georgia. Louisiana. Mississippi. Carolina's. Maybe.

Maybe Northern Florida. Yeah, if home does a segment like this on his podcast. I mean, there's a lot of people, I've been sleeping with my sister. New York. You're a guy.

It's a good thing. We'll show we get him back on the line. I don't know. Well, we talked about it earlier. And we can all chime in here.

But. Well, I guess, you know, let me just add to that question. Is this something that Cav is paying attention to? Do you think Bradley?

“I think Cav is achieved what he's achieved this sport.”

And he's satisfied and happy with that. Cav looks at Taday with the utmost respect. Yeah. And I don't think he's. That's the main thing.

If anything, he would welcome him breaking his record because it shows the sport is moving on. Yeah. And I think Taday's soul focus is the sort of front stage or sort of front GC win. And the stage wins is just a byproduct of that. I don't think he's even thinking about the record.

Yeah. And that was that was what he said at the start of his question. Did, did Cav breathe the sigh of relief. And that's. There's the answer.

Yeah. Yeah. All right. Who else we got? Colton.

This is proof from New Jersey. I'd like to know if George Dyson's beard. Oh, you're going to go, go, go, come on. A lot. Drew.

I jersey dying. What a heater. I burnt. All that stuff. Yeah.

Well, did you answer the question? Yeah. I do occasionally. Yes. Wait.

You. Yeah. Well, Drew. Drew. Yeah.

You actually got me. That's definitely a Jersey question. I've got you, Drew. You have at times died your beard. What is wrong with you?

Are you kidding me right now? I'm going to get it flooded. Bradley, would you ever die your beard? No. No, I mean, that is the weirdest.

I don't have beard and beard. Bro, you're blushing. You have died. What do you do with like, Greeceian? No, no, not Greeceian.

I do the natural ship, bro. Just women. Would you die your hair? No, just a beard. Yeah.

Interesting. Drew, thank you so much for that. I did George did send me this. This fool. Oh, no, don't go.

No, this fool. No, no. Down to my left. All the way to my left was, you know, he's sitting around the house. And his.

This was a true story. Just on the. On the couch every morning. Watching. Yeah.

He started to tell me the thing, oh, I did this. You know, this like challenge just journey to turn yourself. Discovery thing down in the Amazon. And I went and did 10 days and talk 30 days 30 days, 30 days, whatever. And so he.

Which was all bullshit. But he sends me this picture. He goes, and this is how I came out. Now, I don't have that. We don't have the picture ready to queue up.

But since you're talking about. And we're going to wait and die next year.

“You should see this photo that he created up himself.”

Of what it was like after 30 days in the Amazon. You would not be surprised the man dies this year. Not to not. You keep part of the story as you should. Part of the story is they.

So when you see the story that all the picture of how I came out. Then it just makes a lot more sense. You know, when hopefully we forget about this story in different 10 days.

Here's what I'm going to talk about.

I'm I'm at the man in 1989 now. I'm 55 years old. I still cannot grow a beard. If with my life dependent on it, I couldn't grow a beard like that.

You got to like the patches. It's our horror. I can't do it. When I met the man in 1989, I was 16 years old. He had a full beard.

And I'm like, oh, what is up with this? The Quincyman's the full beard in 1989. Wow. That's impressive.

“I mean, you know, I think we're all going to be a so proud of these bearded.”

We should set that out there. Let's do a little, let's do a little. By the way, keep on keep on coming. These are great. This is kind of shit we want to hear. And we can even go easy on me, please.

It's very focused on these guys a little bit. Dear George, do you shave your. It is time for Venton, trivia. Yesterday's question.

2026 marks the third time the Tour de France starts in Spain.

What were the other two years? Answers. 2023 as we got in 1992. On stage three, here's today's trivia question for Venton. And by the way, to submit your answers, head on over to Ventonracing.com/TheMove.

While you're there, do a little shop and you get 10% off with the code. The move, 10. Here's today's question. On stage three, the race makes an early entrance to the Pyrenees. The cold storm, this is not stages.

Six, right? Nonetheless, what doesn't matter whatever stage it is. Forget the stage.

Early in the tour, they make an early entrance into the Pyrenees.

The cold at tour in the late just nearby is the single most climbed mountain in the tour to France history. Roughly not roughly. How many times has the tour crossed it?

“How many times has the tour climbed the tour on my?”

Both sides? Or more in particular sides? Of course. I think you got to count both sides. You can do both sides.

There's a traditional iconic side that they like to go up, but either side. I looked at the answer that they gave us. I'm going to fact check. It seemed like a lot. I would think it's a lot.

When did it first? When was it debuted? Do we know? Early. Okay.

So yeah, it would be a lot. Okay. Any, I'm sure I have forgotten.

“I can't get over the beard die question.”

This is cold. I do need to perfect the method. This would like a lot more. A lot of ways to do it. I can shoot it up.

Let's just do it. What's that just shave? This next week. I don't know. All right.

Don't shave. Don't shave. Cool. Well, that does it for us. Thanks for tuning in.

Everybody, we will see you all tomorrow for stage four. [Music]