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Johan Bruyneel and Spencer Martin break down Paul Magnier's perfectly-timed sprint to win his second Giro d'Italia stage after a straightforward day before Monday's rest day. They then preview Tuesday...

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Unfortunately Adam Yates did not start apparently the consequences of a concu...

so stage 3 and already 3 UAE guys out of the race you know Adam Yates is out

β€œMark Seller who by the way we now know he was the first rider to go down yesterday”

apparently he has a pelvic fracture and then J-vine also concussion and an elbow fracture who j-vine that he's yeah but anyway so they're down to five riders really after three days everybody welcome back to the move plus I'm Spencer Martin I'm here with you on Bernille we're talking about stage 3 of the Zurda Talia one by Paul Manier in a sprint finish ahead of Jonathan Milan Dylan Gironovagan in third place a very close finish finishing

in Sofia Bulgaria our last stage in Bulgaria of this yearo quick stage recap we had again no fight for the early breakaway they're letting these breakaways go and for the third consecutive day Diego Pablo Sevilla was in it from Pulti Vismalta he had a teammate Alessandro Tonelli

β€œand Manuel at towards towards Oli from Bardani CSF”

this guy these guys were pretty impressive three riders in the breakaway their gap is like never

massive but it was harder to pull them in than I thought the teams of the sprinters each had a rider up there pretty much all day keep an in check the red bull kilometer goes buys they don't catch them so those guys soak up all the bonus seconds I was assumed the GC teams were happy about that they don't have to fight for it two-door missed I missed the opportunity to try to take to try I guess attempt to take the Magaleo Rosa with Florian Stark but another question if he

actually would have been able to sprint to get it and then we go into a sprint finish Milan and little check were up there early suit all quick step brings up Palmanier going into the final few hundred meters though it was all about when a bet rose rockets they were up there they had grown a vegan in perfect position Milan overtakes him a 200 meters to go manier is right on Milan's wheel grown a vegans on manier's wheel they take out the left it was weird weird finish because

Milan has to start his sprint before he can see the finish line they turned left on to these brick cobblestone they were loose like you could see a loose they were Milan slipping all over the place Manier looks unfazed pretty impressive like ride from this guy and he sprints around wins the stage but Dillon growing a vegan close behind in Milan overtaken we looked at the power data Johan Manier actually the lowest power which tells us he probably managed the draft

and the timing of that sprint the best Milan was putting out massive lots like 1900 watts like peak in that sprint and then growing a vegan was slightly more power than Manier exact same speed though showing us that Manier really won that sprint between three hundred and two hundred meters to go but what were and no change in the GC what were your takeaways from the stage yeah well Spencer I expect that you know typical yesterday we predicted bus sprint

it was clear you know like same guys same two teams again in the break away as every other day so three days in a row the same two teams nope well actually you know yesterday was two two riders from one team right from a Balti yeah but man Diego Sevilla yeah he needs a rest day his guy needs a rest day tomorrow and they they only got real in in the last kilometer really today I mean that was I think 500 meters they were still ahead you know one

β€œday it's they're going to miscalculate and it's going to work out but yeah um when you have to you”

know as as a rider on those team obviously it's there objective right Balti and Bardiani it's not

it's not a coincidence that it's always those two teams who are in break away since I think

it's probably part of the deal yeah Asia there's no big ice you know we invite you but every time you have an opportunity you are in the break away it's great for the sponsors also for their sponsors I'm a lot of TV time but yeah then another other than the race Spencer you know we can be brief about the race but I think interesting to know unfortunately Adam Yates did not start apparently the consequences of a concussion so stage 3 and already 3 UAE guys

out of the race you know Adam Yates is out Mark Schiller who by the way we now know he was the first rider to go down yesterday apparently he has a pelvic fracture and then J vine also concussion and an elbow fracture who J vine and he's yeah with Daga has no luck but anyway so they're down to five

Riders you are after 3 days also um vendrame the Italian rider was also in th...

not start right he finished the stage yesterday same as Adam Yates but I've read that he has a fractured several vertebrae which is you know something very serious so yeah I think I just wanted to point that out before we we started to talk about today's stage I mean other than other than you know what happened in the break away there was not much else going on I mean I have watched the whole stage I just saw the final I just saw that on that

long climb that cat to climb nobody was really in trouble Arnold the lead was a bit in trouble I saw yeah one guy was in trouble and that was about it yeah I mean we know Arnold the lead has started I mean he barely made it to the start of the giro if I'm not mistaken so the purpose of the lead being at the start is we all know that he was out after a few races in the spring

β€œthey decided okay you need to stop racing there was something wrong he trained came back”

last week his first race he once straight away in Valonia so everything you know indicated that

he was back on track with a decent condition and you know the purpose of him being here you know they announced already he was going to do 10 stages or 9 stages because I think after 10 days it's a rest day again but but with the purpose obviously to get some competition in the legs it gets a good intensity but unfortunately we got the news after this race in Valonia and Belgium that several riders on Lotto Intermarsche and Hutterteams were hit by this bug stumbled bug

due to debris on the road in that area in Belgium and the lead was one of them they had to I think they had to pull out one rider and bring in another rider and they before the

β€œgiro and that the lead barely made it to the start so he's obviously weakened”

because you know nobody got dropped so the lead normally should get dropped either I will let's see now with the travel day in you know with a rest if he can recover and at least finish another seven stages so he can he can get some form again but under that I think he was yeah go ahead well what's the benefit of keeping him here versus like you just hope he gets better and can because he can't compete for a stage in the condition he's in right now

are they just hoping he's all better but don't count him out it's you know if he

recovers from this from his stomach bug things can change you know I think what first of all I think

he needs he needs competition I don't know the lead personally but from what I can gather the team is probably feels better about the lead being at the races than being at home training that's my take so they know when he's gonna train and and and do the work

β€œof course you know you need to be in an acceptable condition to be able to use races to get some”

rhythm and I think he was in a decent condition but now he's obviously I think he had fever you know he had stomach problems had the vomit that's not a good way to start a grand tour right

even if those first three stages were not very hard it's still it's not good and on top of

that you know the weather's not great so far from ideal but I'm confident that if he can turn it around he's still gonna you know be able to get a bit better and then work towards some other races before the tour because I think the purpose for the lead is to race the tour of France don't really know what's going on with him personally you know because everything points into the direction that he's not staying at a lot of intermersche that there are

several interesting offers for him I read about Red Bull I read about Sudau I read about Alpacin but apparently all of those three are not in the running anymore and both position is now to door which is probably potentially ready to make a green really good interesting offer for him so then the question is where is the lead mentally right is he thinking about his next contract and knows everybody knows that the lead is super talented and if everything is right for the lead

that he can win big races he's shown it already right he's showing I still remember vividly that

Win in Canada was it was it wasn't Montreal or Quebec I think it was Quebec i...

too but I I was thinking of the same thing I yeah I vividly remember this probably one of the most

impressive sprints I've ever seen from anybody because you know coming from where he came and winning against some really good riders that's the potential of the lead so that potential everybody still sees that potential he's young so there will be a very very interesting contract also then of course the risk is you know it is that now his main occupation thinking about where I'm going to ride which contract I'm going to sign I'm going to sign a great deal for three years

probably then you know it depends on the state of mind of the rider right how hungry is he

to really perform or saying okay you know what not really care they want me anyways you know I'm going to

β€œsign a great deal I've seen these types of situations in the past that's why I'm I'm not saying”

that's the least case but it could be what we do know is that the lead needs a guidance and you know if he gets everything if he's healthy and he trains properly he can win great races the potential's there my question is why doesn't it happen more often there's a reason for that so that's I hope we can find the answers you know are those questions breezy there's a team in the US the Miami heat basketball team and they've like heat culture so

they test your body fat once a week and then they write the percentage on a t-shirt and you have to wear that t-shirt around a practice all week and they're known for turning you know they get people like delay and they kind of turn their careers around it's pretty interesting to watch I feel like Al Pacin is that team in cycling maybe he should have explored going to Al Pacin feel like that

β€œwould be the best place for him I think sure the thing is you know I think that for the moment”

Al Pacin Premier Tech you know they don't have the financial leverage to compete with other teams with two door obviously it's it's it's not a world to a team yet but they do have a great budget and they got horses as their team cars so yeah setting the tone with that I saw the other day they were to raise them they definitely had horses as their team car so it definitely gives off an air of we have money it's kind of like Switzerland and general you're not quite sure

how they have so much money but there's money yeah they've got money I mean listen it's a great project and you know they have ambition also to grow they've got not ready to a very high level in a very short time because you know they're not world tour officially but they are world two level like organization yes you look and you know if you look at the image of two door it is a top level world two team it's all really really nice and you know so that's obviously

very attractive also to to a rider so I mean if I can you believe the rumors that's where the Lee is headed I mean hopefully I'm wrong and we can still see some great results we need if the manager of two door which is Fabian Kanchilara is and he is pretty smart there's probably incentives

β€œyou know like okay and his agent is the brother of much of a poor David von der Pooh I think”

so you know he's also pretty smart guy so there will be incentives for the leader of the season if you do this and this and this your future deal increases so let's hope that that works all right yeah we need them like he needs to get a sleeping bag and just start living in Vanderpulse garage so just follow this guy around doing every he does that's but we got to go on a Vanderpool bootcamp

you know that's not always a great idea you know I mean you have these like from the

multiple of the footage such a big edge that's like very good point yeah that's not many riders of containment I mean they're riders controlling with him but they're usually are dead after you know I don't think the league would actually suffer from that because that guy's strong strong strong boom so he could maybe benefit from it so on on the sprint you pitch Paul Manier he wins I mean this guy this is what we thought Delie would be french rider on Sudal quicks

up second stage when in three stages really impressive did you think Jonathan well I thought Dylan growing a vegan had it with 300 meters to go his teams on the front he's in perfect position

It kind of flip flops 200 meters to go now Milan's in the front Manier we mis...

happened the camera missed it Manier's behind Milan growing a vegans behind Manier looking back

that reshuffling is where the race is one because growing a can never overcome because they turn

and then they don't have that much room to sprint around each other what did you who did you think was going to win this like how did you feel about Manier winning it but I thought Manier was in great position you know so initially the unit but rockets did greatly doubt and then so it

β€œthere was two riders from unit but rockets and then Bruno being was in third position I think Bruno”

vegan gets surprised a bit about with Milan coming at a higher speed and he loses the battle for the wheel of Milan to Manier that's where the sprint is one that's where the stage is one I think when Manier gets the wheel of Milan you know Milan started early some people say too early I don't think so because you know it was very close yes and and if he's in top shape no one's coming around him yeah I know he did lose a bit of traction twice on those you know bricks

I don't think that really that's not the reason why he lost I think he lost because Manier was just faster but anyways there's a movement for Milan it was closer they you know it was very hectic just that the lead out into the the the way they came into that lost kilometer Spencer was it was crazy fast there was slight slight downhill I've seen speeds like not and the sprint but just before the sprint you know like three three three percent downhill is 75 kilometers per hour

before the sprint starts almost 50 miles an hour yeah and then the sprint was 68 69 70k an hour so you know I mean there's not much there's no room for any error I mean you can't go all of a sudden three kilometers per hour faster at those speeds yeah so yeah I mean I'm not surprised that Manier wins you know as I said yesterday great motivation you know the team is unbelievably behind him second win man second two out of three it's a great start for you know young Manier who

by the way we found out is French but was born in Texas L'Arrido Texas I don't know where L'Arrido is but that's right on the border it's a border town it is not so he moved when he was four years old he moved back to France with his family to Grenoble okay just imagine the inverse of Grenoble

β€œhowever amazing Grenoble is think of the opposite of that and that's why you know he was four years”

also he won't remember he won't remember apparently his parents were working at the time in Texas and then they moved back to France his dad by the way was also an ex cyclist on the track I've read somewhere but yeah I mean this and Manier we've talked about him for two years now already you know today has 28 victory in his very short career and there's many many more to come yeah I mean this super impressive from this guy first Texan to win a geostage someone asked me

a listener asked me do we think probably right probably yeah yeah I think so yeah L'Arrido stated the zero and I don't think he ever won a stage of the zero he did lost and it wasn't a chart Haga think is a Texan but I can't say that yeah I don't believe he is but I don't know no no he's my color springs or something so we had Kevin Livingstone we I don't

if he's a real Texan or an adopted Texan I don't know that's a good question I always thought

of him is from remember this guy Chan McCray was he from Jay probably the zero I don't think he won a stage so no that's going to be the first Texan we got to get this guy in the U.S. National

β€œteam he's still a citizen I mean you got to pay the only thing you got to pay income tax to the”

U.S. no matter where you live in the world if you're a U.S. citizen but we got a nice tax treaty with friends so he could be okay yeah yeah yeah they're in the same bucket as us they they can't run away from that tax service I thought I looked into this because

think of all the French cyclists and all the French Fondravers they never live in

Monaco but they but there's a few a lot quite a few living on Dorado so yeah it's good but maybe there's not a tax treaty with and/or though Monaco and France have a yeah yeah

Exactly yeah I mean I'm just like blown away by this and not just in Grand To...

classics and years to come I would watch he's he's not a big he's not a big one-dimensional writer he's very nim bit of a writer yeah absolutely no doubt that is this guy can win lots of

β€œramele and do I think I feel like it all quicks up a little bit of a page turn here they kind of”

have their stage win mojo back this is not even their best springer that's the really impressive thing they've temporarily are waiting around for the Tour de France presumably so and kind of similar sprinters you know off-road background very good bike handlers they can handle a lot coming at them even though they are very fast in straight line sprints yeah question for you where does Casper van Oden did it to like he was taken out by that crash with picnic like what's going on

with him well no no no no no no there was there was actually a writer wait oh wait van Oden van Oden yeah yeah I remember he won a stage at the show last year he was not taken out he was not taken out but yeah I haven't seen him he just he won a stage just we before

β€œthe duo and to a third you know I think yeah the duo is not the same thing I mean it's all the”

quote their answer is it's all positioning right if you don't have the team to get you up there as you said the speeds are too high you can't it was me it was it was so fast so wide

it's in a fraction of a second of a hesitation and you're out of the top 10 and there's nothing else

you can't you can't you can't even ground up at those speeds and but I think I thought I thought Bruno Megan you know Bruno Megan did a good sprint he himself was disappointed he said you know obviously we came here to win the stage today was you know he was in there did a great came back he had a lot of speed at the end that exactly the same sprint as Manje in terms of speed but he himself said that he you know he blamed it on himself by waiting

β€œtoo long but you know third place so close to to the victory I think Bruno Megan can”

win a stage in this year when great lead out from unit bet rose rockets first grant to our

in the team's history that what they've done the first few stages it I mean today they were the

dominant team and that lead out in the final few hundred meters so I mean kudos to them not easy to do that little little trek I mean this is this is the season from hell for them they were third and wins last year they currently only have eight wins six of those coming from Jonathan Milan two from one of you so one of you so not having the season he wanted to have Milan got most of those wins in the middle east has as only one one time since coming back to Europe this is an

and Derek G West losing time crashing yesterday not looking himself even outside of that cannot be where little trek wants to be right now definitely not I mean that's you know but things happen you know they have they have I used to out with a first but a crash in in Paddy niece then the illness I think when he came back in was it that balloon yeah yeah yeah so crash is a pair of niece and then when he was in the leaders do is he wins all got me

yes the things are looking great outgarve wins all garve it goes to pair with the leaders that in these crashes out and then comes back and mean yeah let's let's get that's weight of it let's wait so he came back to last country and then what happened there just didn't look good right he was sick the best country do we now see what country where he came back yeah and he just looked off right he's 38th down the first time trial yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

do we have any answer about that he did not do katalu you know no it was the basket where he came back after part of these exactly yeah yeah you could see straight away he was out of it to the title and then just after three stages I think he called it with but yeah let's wait listen I mean things happen look and look at UAE in this in this in this zero year let's see what what happens with them now you know after three stages down to five riders man that's

going to be a long three weeks lots of opportunities lots of opportunities for some riders but they have to you know switch switch you know switch off now and see what they do for some reason for some riders it could be could be a great three weeks or whatever is left

two and a half weeks left with many opportunities but it does not always go the way you want right

I mean already before this year we already talked a few times that UAE was unbelievably

Hit by bad luck in injuries and illnesses they had like at some point they ha...

riders not available well I'd three more to that list now with Yades and solar and vine

so well one of them is there was always the same rider so

J vine was presumably part of that list he's now just going back on to the injured list yeah I mean that is I think it's his third straight stage race that he's crashed and broken a bonus man not great not really bad luck yeah well yeah there was nothing he could do you know think it'll down in front of you and it's you know he was obviously in and dropped in great position and just you know I'd love I actually want to ask you let's take a quick break I have a

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β€œstage four we have a day off tomorrow we we do and the race does because we they transfer back to Italy”

Italy the riders left for UA at this point Igor area the Mikko Bergiana Kristen Jonathan Novaya sent Antonio more goto kind of interesting from if you imagine those guys have no response abilities anymore and they just go for stages that is kind of I'm interested to see what happens like I assume it'll be very aggressive in breakaways that they could actually win multiple stages even though they've had this terrible start to the race could be yeah it would be mean like a guy like

young Kristen is is very ambitious this could be you know this could be some great two weeks left for him for god oh oh yeah probably came thinking he was working for gc and then now it's like well

yeah I go out there and win as many stages as you can well I've always you know like winning stages

I don't love to hear that you know let's try to win one stage people winning one stage

β€œsome riders or some deep job we don't have anybody for gc we're going to try to win some stages”

well this is the one team that that can maybe pick it up yeah that was the stage winning was not the issue at the vault last year I would say everything else was the issue um so they are transferring I'll I'll go that's well go through tomorrow's stage in a second but something I noticed after the stage today that I didn't really think about first of all some teams didn't have a boss at the start so like EF is just sitting on the side of the road because their boss is already driving

to stage four 22 hour drive also imagine a gas bill that's going to be like a $30,000 gas bill holy smokes can you imagine me the one getting that assignment hey buddy you're going to drive 22 hours so here that there's some team let me not not everybody's doing it there are some teams for example that from today on they just leave their big vehicles there they have other vehicles already waiting in Italy and those are teams that also participate in what's coming now the tour of Hungary

that's interesting that's a good idea there's actually go from Bulgaria to Hungary yeah wait at the vehicles that are for the moments over there but listen logistically it's a nightmare for the teams and the staff and the riders it's you know it's not a rest day I'm assuming they've traveled tomorrow I know I bet the riders are fine right now don't you think okay get it done and then I would be good that would be good I don't know if that's the good

I don't actually I don't have any inside information on that I got well we'll see well I'll ask around we'll see what happens but something I didn't really account for and Yens Void was trying to interview mechanics after the race and none of them were like hey band we can't talk because they were hacking the bikes up into boxes like cardboard boxes that is a lot of work a lot of work it was pretty shocking to see yeah because you know so those are probably the teams that

Leave their trucks there and they they basically fly with the with the bikes ...

and I guess even if you I mean yeah maybe you could drive all the trucks if you left now

you could get there by the end of the day of the rest day but I wonder if everyone just flying with those bikes that is a huge amount of work I also heard last night that so you're not supposed to do two four and starts in a row this year oh kind of broke that rule did it the teams though asked for they all got almost like an extra hundred thousand euros from RCS to do this because they're all losing money on it I mean think of the money involved with what we just described

and but that's that's almost like two million euros over over 100 thousand euros well it was like say you normally we get a 40,000 euro a lot meant this is from Daniel this is reporting from Daniel Freeba so good reporter that normally it's 40 and then this year it's 120,000 euros for the three days from the rest organizers that's a lot of extra money but it's probably the lot more than they

get at the tour yeah around 50-60,000 for the last 25 years it's never changed I mean it isn't

that the fees the expense fees that teams get at those grand tours it's ridiculous I mean if you would know the cost the operation costs of a team which comes on top of what the organizers paid because you know like we know that all the lodging all the hotels in the food is paid for or riders and staff but it's that's also limited you know the way it works is that especially

β€œthe tour of France I think they pay for whatever like 20 people 23 people teams not what they”

they bring 45 people yeah that would everybody you know everybody extra so it doesn't even cover your your gas expenses basically with all the vehicles you have running around and driving around and big trucks big vehicles so listen I mean that's good I didn't know that but you know 120 instead of 40 that's that's pretty good I mean it tells you they must have gotten a really good offer from Bulgaria exactly yes we know otherwise they're not going to pay that well that's not going to work

yeah we all I don't know I don't even know if the story's true I had a crazy story that remember the UCI evacuated these people from Afghanistan and then they relocated them in Albanian part of the deal with Macron was if they got if they took the people he would consider having the tours start there they said no tour but maybe the zero and then that's partly how the zero got to Albania but yeah the funny stuff like that does happen I can investigate yeah always

like to investigate little things that the UCI is sneaky with so I'm gonna you know but I mean some some things of foot here because you would just never see two foreign starts like this it's very unusual if normally it's not allowed to have two foreign starts in a row and it happens

you know at first of all you know it's always the same you know like they they always make exceptions

for the power parties like you know ASO RCS if a team asks for an exception it's never granted no now yeah you can't do it it's in the rules sorry not our call I will I'll I'll the my bigger issue though are these courses so stage four tomorrow or sorry on Tuesday no show tomorrow by the way everybody 130 kilometers there is a mountain category two mountain 14k long sounds hard now it's probably not going to be that hard because it's

β€œabout 40 kilometers from the finish it's a descent they have the Red Bull kilometer it is I think”

where it's going to be a sprint but it's uphill which would be kind of interesting like a 4% final kilometer uphill but man the zero just loves these it does it feels like the tour and even some ways the vault of they don't waste kilometers and it waste days like everything is important the zero you get the feeling you're like is this just another stage like the moment we just saw I'm like frankly not that excited about it and then they're like okay we've gotten that out of the

way now it gets interesting around five stage five six or seven but what how do you think this is going to play out tomorrow and who's going to win yeah I think it's going to be sprint again sponsored same scenario as today the climb comes you know like a little bit after the middle of this stage it's short stage 1308k so that could be in the advantage of a breakaway but it needs to be a decent breakaway

β€œso I think I think sprint again finish likely uphill so it's going to be not not very high speed sprint”

and unfortunately I mean unfortunately I mean or unfortunately I'm going to pick the same winner

I think money wins again yeah I like that pick I'm going to pick I I'm just o...

I like that pick if you're going to bet money Paul my nail looks fantastic the guy looks unbeatable I'm personally going to bet on this guy Mattis Mikos from Estonia 22 years old was fifth on stage one was fourth today has no lead out there's nobody really helping him from EF he's

β€œin there doing it by himself I think the uphill finish could give him a could penalize him less for that”

and if you go back he has three wins his first pro win or like pro serious one is Deutschland Tour

stage three 20 23 uphill he beats Vanity Van Poppel and that so maybe he's an uphill sprint specialist I don't know but it's going to penalize him less for having no teammates helping him you know I mean if you could that kind of sprint or you actually can't wait you know try to find it yeah it's less likely to get boxed in when it's a slow sprint because it's going to be just strong as right as strong as sprinters at the front

I mean to be getting to be getting top five in these ultra high speed sprints with no team support

is really impressive yeah yeah that's good big okay well the odds are not up they'll be up

tomorrow by some money I off the top my head let you say he's plus 200 yeah money a plus 200 Milan will be about plus 200 and then Mattis might be like plus 3000 so I'm going to go with him I would not be shocked if we're standing here and Paul money is one you don't think that do you think anything else is going to happen no GC action because he gets pretty serious that the end of this coming week so I would imagine people just wait yeah yeah I mean it's not the worst

on a few days stage there's there's nothing to do you get this now you can't do anything what about the breakaways well there's been no contest to give him

yeah I guess you figure on a stage like because it's fly it's basically flat we're in this it's

the south of Italy so it's Contasaro to Konsenza Konsenza it's two two cities and southern Italy very featureless first hundred kilometers and then you start going up that long climb to send down with no feet with no real texture like that it's probably too easy no one's going to go in the breakaway because it's too easy to pull you back at will I assume especially with this many fresh riders yeah I mean somebody's going to go in the break those deals those same teams

even if they know they're going to get pulled back they're still going to go and the the peloton is going to let them go but you know same scenario I think three two riders three riders four maybe and of course I think so the quick step is going to be in charge of bringing back because you know

β€œif you want to have the clutch prints then there are possibilities on you there's also a lot of”

teams that think they could win this sprint so there'll be more teams to pull you back less teams that want to spend riders in the breakaway just so it all quicks up little track unobed EF Xies Estana UNOX Jaco Lula the Cathlan Bardiani as a sprinter here so they might not even be up the road to door Moves Star like all these teams can squint and in SN imagine themselves winning a stage from a sprint so they'll probably be no appetite for a big breakaway no for sure not

I don't well thanks Johan and we'll be enjoy your day off and we'll be back on you good day tomorrow you're going to ride tomorrow Spencer because I mean for the for our followers who have were I mean I don't think you might if I bring it up Spencer but yeah don't bring it up okay we have our you know our yearly challenge and let me say let me look

β€œI think you should definitely take advantage tomorrow to ride because let me check if”

I have 1,100 kilometers of advantage on you to I just let you a 1,000 kilometer day tomorrow ride to Kansas City for my house riding you've been riding a lot also you've you almost have 4,500 kilometers I have 5,500 almost 5,600 already so but you're whether it look like the next few days tomorrow let's see tomorrow should be okay let me see yeah tomorrow I'm definitely riding because it's raining on Tuesday so

tomorrow I'm riding you're on a pace to be sure distance from last year by like 4,000 kilometers it's my goal it's my goal but be interesting to see like can we actually cheat the

System or are we destined to ride the same kilometers every year no matter ho...

to see what happens here it feels so hard to actually get ahead of where you were the

β€œyear before it feels harder every year I've been riding a lot I have to admit I have been riding”

a lot more than last year so far well you look you look thin you look in shape we were joking

before if we you're we were talking about a big rider weighing 70 kilos and I was saying if we

β€œshowed up weighing 78 kilos people would think we were sick are you okay where do I sign”

right well enjoy your day off don't ride too much and we'll be back on Tuesday tomorrow's

minimum will be 100k so minimum 100k that's when you're not in a race that is very hard to do all right we'll talk to you on Tuesday you're on okay thanks okay bye

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