Is Tim Merlier Cycling's Next Great Sprinter? | TdF 2026 Stage 12 | THEMOVE

well he has got a team, but they're doing their job way before the final kilometre.

“And so he's pretty much left, he's owned devices in that final 1500 meters.”

And he finds the right wheel when he finds a way out and he is almost trusting that a gap is going to open, he's going to get out of there. And to do it three times on this tour so far, when we've seen how chaotic it is and how little spring stages there are, Tim earlier for me. I'm going to go against the grain. I'm here a bit and maybe perhaps a little bit biased. I'm going to go with Captain America, Quinn Simmons. I mean, you amount of aggression

and the lack of fear that he rides with attacking on these climbs. I mean, let's make no mistake that it may look easy on TV, but when you're able to have that sort of power and split

on the second to last climb, make a group of what was it, 14 guys, 20 seconds up the road like that is

one of the hardest things to do in cycling and then he gets caught and does it again on the second and last climb. I mean, this guy had a team that was behind him. He would have a couple stage wins in his bank account. Welcome back to the move podcast. I'm Lance Armstrong joined by Sir Bradley Wiggins. He's in a bit of mourning. We're going to talk about that in just second. Mr. Jordan Kappie and the professor. So in second day in a row, he goes for a pre-show ride,

not even an invitation. Nothing. Pretty with you one time, the store. I, you know, we had a call in, a call in a question on our voicemail yesterday about mental health and, you know, in about this, these teams have sort of sports psychologists and so I've decided that this early morning ride

“on these days, I don't know that nothing's going to happen. At least we think, I think I know,”

but, um, and so I'm, I'm getting out early and just getting a little, little thanks for the thanks for the mess getting some alone time. And yeah, I wrote two hours this morning on the mountain bike. But anyways, and the professor Spencer Martin, pulling double duty today has got a little, yeah, full high stakes here. I'm, I'm doing the peacock ad breaks. We'll see how it goes folks. Of course, with our last stage to all the land, what, what, what, what, what happened?

For the 12 from Syracune Vermanycourt to Charlottesville's son. I mean, just, that's one of the things. From Syracune Vermanycourt to Charlottesville's son.

Okay. Of course, Tim Merler, when he says third stage of this tour, his sixth stage,

uh, ever for him in the tour to France. Um, but before we get into it, we just have to go back and, and, and I just want to check on, you know, wellness check on Bradley. I don't, you know, again, everybody that's listened to this show. The soccer thing is new to me. I've watched, you know, watch a lot of these games. Certainly these, the ones in the final rounds here. But this messy, you know, and I also said on this show just a matter of days ago, the Tate Pogatars, the most

dominant athlete in the world. When I watched this messy guy, uh, I almost have to walk it back with Pogatars. This guy, I don't even, it's like he, it's like he just has it and knows what's going to happen or is this, help me and, or, you know, he's the greatest of all time. He really is as in terms of football. And, uh, the way galvanizes the team, they all play for him, the passion they

“had and they never give up as well, which I think is what won it for him yesterday and they,”

amazing. There was a cut on it, Twitter. It's got taken down, but it was every messy touch

after they went down. And it's unbelievable. I mean, what he's doing and like how he's orchestrating. If I don't see him, yeah, it's, it's gochish. I didn't like, yeah, it's, it's, it took it, that's, that's after the, um, I think I said this after the, the game against Egypt. They're down too nothing and just the guy just snaps his fingers. And I'm like, shit. This is just goat, goats doing goat stuff. Yeah. I've had, uh, so it looks easy. And you know all the guys at the

Tour de France are watching this and I, I believe in one of our early tours, I think France was playing Italy in the finals of the World Cup, which is super fun. Being around Italian writers, French writers. But now we have, it's probably not one Argentinian in the Tour de France, right? That can, I don't talk smack in the peloton. So unfortunately, then I can be able to do that. But of course, all this Spanish writers will be pulling for the 13 months Sunday.

That was an insane World Cup final. Yeah, France versus Italy. Yeah. And how was that hotel with a team with a bunch of French writers and Italian writers? And they were going nuts. Yeah. No, yeah. Um, I don't, did you know that George as well, it's been, you know, because he moved out of our house moved into his buddy's house? I guess he's having, uh, and this is, of course,

the combination contrast therapy of these, where he's been having these, these cold plunge parties. You know this is not known. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And we did not get invited, but look at the guy, he did invite. What's run this clip? Whoa. That was last night. My wife and I were just sitting outside chillin and this dude just walks up jumps in the little pond next to us. It was amazing. The beautiful moment. My wife said, can we feed it? I might not don't feed that thing nuts. Definitely don't

feed that. Yeah. Yeah. We didn't get the invite. Of course, then again, we watch it tonight. If you want, but brother, will you come back? Decision. So they go up. One, no. Start putting defenders on. But what would you have done? If I mean, I don't know, it's be honest, everyone's going to

feed you now. Have they, that we've lost and everyone's an expert. The reality is, Argentina

“would have found a way to win, I think, you know, they have the best play in the world. Ever.”

But yeah, I mean, you can play it back and say, oh, we shouldn't have gone five at the back. We should have played more attacking. But everyone, no one's saying that before, are they, you know, at the end of the day, the manager's paid to do that job and I'm not an expert by any means. So he is what it is. And it's going to be a great final. Do you know? The thing I found most annoying, yes, see, we watch it along. This is a George or sat behind you for Argentina. Well,

you know, if I, you know, being a South American, you're not a South American, you're not a South American, you know, you pick a Jews when you want. No, it is Bradley. Did you notice this? This is a man who went by the nickname of Captain America, he's a professional career. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'd like to the gallery now, place to the gallery. No, and he, and for most of the game, it would make it quite fun, actually. He didn't say anything. We had the Frenchman, Alain,

“it's the Englishman for the day. Yeah, well, he's married to an English woman. Alain, who of course”

joins us every day for the stage announcements would join us. Yeah. But everybody was cheering for England. But after, you know, it was one or nothing for almost seemingly forever. And then and then it got to be one one. And all of a sudden, we started here in the person in the back of the room, cheering for Argentina. Like you were such a bitch. Like what are you, you can, and then first of all, you put me back in the kid's table, like I had to sit back in the dining room, like

I don't know, 50 feet away from the TV, while the adults that I'm like out. It's because you're sorry for yourself, didn't. Okay. But this isn't a progress from there. Just saying, you know, you just make real good. So the other day, I leave, this was the other day that I wrote without you. I leave the house and I'm pulling on. There's this dude walking down the street. And he sees me and he goes, "Bamos!" It's catching on, you're thinking it is. And you're, people have been

“all nice. You know, I keep getting constantly yelled at on the bike pad. Like I yelled that again,”

yesterday, if we're going too fast, I was going like 5k an hour. I don't know. I don't know. I'm getting providing a factor. They see the bike. Yeah, they see the bike. It is quite intimidating. Looking, I have to be with you, Bradley. All right. Let's talk about this stage. Timmer there. Kind of came out of nowhere. This was also an effort for those who watched it. And for me,

I'm not, I'm not, and never was. And obviously never will be a field spinner. But every time I watch a

field sprint, I'm just like, "Oh God, just everybody stay on their bikes." And it's more common than we would hope for that there. This today was the first big crash. It looked like we lost two guys with broken collar bones, not surprisingly crash like horrible, but merely I got through. All the big ones got through. And he's just a class ahead. Well, I mean, the unique things about these field sprints and the tour de France is like, there's such a small minute differences between

the winners and somebody crashing. You saw the same exact scenario happening to Millir, 100 meters after what happened to Fernando Groverier, where the guy in front of him was kind of slowing down, moving through right, and Gavaria was trying to go. And just wasn't able to anticipate the move. That was about to overlap the wheel. Cross, unfortunately broken collar bone. But theoretically, the same exact thing should have happened to Millir. But he was super aware. Was able to anticipate

that wheel coming over his front wheel and slowed down. And in most cases, most cases, like your sprints over. And when you slow down, it's free with 150, 200 meters ago. It's done seeing the

duches. But the power that Tim Millir has right now is absolutely incredible.

Bradley and I can't find him in these bunch prints. He just comes out of nowhere. Yeah, it's and then how much? Like, I had a project once where a team hired me to watch like 400 bunch prints and then analyze how they were one in common themes. And it looks kind of like nothing, like these new bunch prints looks so different than anything I would have looked at. You had an amazing point during the while we were watching the race. Is that not having the GC teams

up there fighting for position? I mean, we would have been up there fighting for position until about one K to go because that's when that at our time, that's when the time stopped. Now it's three

you a team like Luis Melisa by team like track. They can be up there fighting as much as these

other teams. So what happens? It makes it faster. It makes it more stressful, more dangerous. Instead of having two or three teams fighting position, you have six to eight teams. And that completely changes the game. And that was a great point that you shot it out earlier on.

“I think it means they're like, they're basically running out of gas. That's why Bradley thought”

it was so slow yesterday in the last year. Yeah, because they have to pick it up way further out than me. Today was quite exciting. In the last 25 K watching this counter attacking and pedicom was attacking and little, we didn't know what little we're doing and you said what the fuck of vision we're doing. It was all like this, wasn't it? But it actually made for an exciting running. Captain America, the new Captain America, Quincements. The attacking like

crazy. The Russian fans. His dad was there. Hopefully he's riding failure. I don't know if he is, but yeah, it was very exciting like you said. Yeah, it was really good. And the field looks tired. Like as these attacks start just going off in the last 2020. It was all day. Again, wasn't it? It's strong out. I mean, you see this group showing the fatigue. I think they, I think they did get a bit of a break in the heat today. But yeah, little track like obviously Quincements. His natural

instinct is to attack. But you saw a Peterson attack and you saw a scale mosa on the front. Yeah. They had a plan clearly going in. By the way, Alpsen had, I mean, Philipsen can't look at anything today and say, well, this could have or should have been better. Me had a perfect lead out. He's just, look, 26. It's not it's here. He actually said that in his posteries interview, he said the team did an amazingly lead out. Like I was there to win. Unfortunately, the guys are better than me right now.

“Yeah. That's what he said. When you saw the band forward on it. Perfect. This is it.”

And he just kind of ran out of juice before they got to the finish. There's also the eighth fastest stage of all time after the fastest stage of all time yesterday. Yeah. So they're cooking along here. Uh, eight sleep move of the day. Uh, brought you about eight sleep. The, uh, also exclusive sponsor to UAE, they are customizing their sleep. They are optimizing their sleep, coal plunging with bears, sleeping on coal mattresses, 55 degrees, 200 degrees, 110 degrees Fahrenheit.

By the way, either side. So you, your partner, whoever else over there, they can customize it. Use the code the move at eight sleep dot com slash the move for 350 bucks after the end of the tour. Move the day. Adley. Tim earlier. Yeah. Um, one of the things that's really impressed me with him is his, he hasn't got the team. Well, he has got a team, but they're doing their job way before the final kilometer. And so he's pretty much left. He's owned devices in that final 1500 meters.

And he finds the right wheel when he finds a way out. And he is almost trusting that a gap is

“going to open. He's going to get out of there. Um, and to do it three times on this tour so far,”

when we've seen how chaotic it is and how little sprint stages there are, 10 more years from me. I'm going to go against the green. I'm here a bit and, uh, maybe perhaps a little bit biased. I'm going to go with Captain America, quincements. I mean, the amount of aggression in the lack of fear that he rides with attacking on these climbs. I mean, let's make no mistake that it may

look easy on TV, but when you're able to have that sort of power and split on the second

last climb, make a group of what was it in 14 guys. Yeah. 20 seconds up the road. Like that is one of the hardest things to do in cycling. And then he gets caught and does it again on the second last climb. I mean, if this guy had a team that was behind him, he would have a couple stage wins in his bank account. I don't know. I don't disagree with any of that. I might add that if he just, uh, just were able to pick and choose a little better. These these accelerations,

these moves, these breakways after three weeks, they catch up to you. You know, in this sport, especially, you know, as I view it now, you just have to be so careful and cautious about these efforts. They're not endless, right? You're your piggy bank, your gas tank, your whatever, it's not endless. So it's, you know, I would, I would urge him to just be a little more selective find that perfect moment and then go. So thank you for agreeing with me on the movie today,

but well, I didn't agree the same time. I, I'm going to disagree with you slightly in the fact that if he had a team fully behind him, he would have the luxury to pick and choose more. Now he does not have the luxury because it's all on him to get make these breakways. I did have Lance's thought. I was like, at some point, you kind of want to pick your spots because it's impressive. Using a lot of energy, I would go Timberler though, six, six tour win has only started three tours. Yeah.

So he's averaging and he's never done a tour without winning a stage. So he's averaging two wins per

tour start and you have a tough day yesterday's world in it. Yeah. I mean, he's a brutal last few days. We'll talk about the green jersey here in a second. Today's show brought you by Timeline. Timeline is focused on something. Everybody wants more of staying healthy as we get older, not just living longer, but actually feeling great and staying active. The science behind Timeline starts with something called EuroLift and A. It's a nutrient that helps support your mitochondria. Basically,

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“Pederson 357. Germine 317. Phillipson, I think we can put two notes, 311 and earlier 307.”

That sounds close, but maybe not. I did take a peek ahead of a few stages. We'll look at tomorrow stage here in a second. The intermediate sprint is late, but after that, they're early. I mean, these are going to be like literal failed sprints. I didn't realize until it's morning. There's 25 points to win, one of those. After tomorrow's stage, they start, I mean, they're at 12 kilometers. Yeah, 20 kilometers. I mean, these are ones on mountain stages. Yeah, on just, um, so,

you know, I don't, I don't remember a green Jersey battle having such a dramatic effect on the Tour de France, the way it's being raised. I would say teams controlling it. Yeah, come here. 2020, I think things changed because Sagan was really going at, I believe it was Sam Bennett, and it was just this new clear start. And then it did. That's when I first noted it,

“noticed it really changing the race. But last year too, remember, because little track”

would hold it together from a lawn early and then it does. But here's the question I would ask, how many more stages could someone like Merleor Phillips and Win or Germir? Are there any sprints stages left at this race? No. So it might be, could be over unless there's an intermediate sprint where Philips and flats and he can't test it. Or Patterson, Dyson Philips. Yeah, you said. Patterson and Patterson. Yeah. Um, hmm. In this Patterson going to win stage 21,

it would be the question. Well, our guy like, I mean, can Germir ride that, that circuit in Paris better than, or competitors and ride that circuit better than others. I say, right now it's training towards yes because of the way he's riding, but I mean, Germir is once in big classic races before we can't count him out. But Pearson, I think it's got this light edge right now. When you look at it on paper, it looks like oh, Germir, could win that. But he gets remember how violent that was last year.

“Well, I'm sad I got ridden off the wheel last year. Yeah. And if you want to talk about him in this”

revenge mindset, that was the other one where he got ridden off the wheel last year. He has definitely going to be going for that. Who knows. I mean, that's based on your theory that he doesn't forget

these things. Well, he was at Switzerland and Romney this year, because he won it. He'd never

won them and hit an annoyed him that he hadn't won them. Right. So, the tour Switzerland? Yeah. So he said I got to go win it. I said I haven't won it. Yeah. He hasn't won stage 21. He's

Yeah. He could be in Philly. He could be in Philadelphia. Well, he's got modern venture to do with there. That's right. Coming after him. Goodness. Drive sign him. Yeah, just like a one day contract. No. Yeah, that would be something. It would be like a one month loan. Well, I can soccer. That's just how you feel working. We can work on that. We've been francoboed. We're in the thick of a now boys and girls. It's that's that time of the tour.

You know, yeah, we're starting to move. We can only show so many bare videos. Yeah. It does. He's going to please get to the mountains again though. Yeah, it does start to go really fast. Yeah. But he doesn't want here. All right. We will be back in two minutes and 32 seconds. And we are back. Um, just there on the commercial break, catching up with the open. I should have said, come out soccer. I spent a lot of time

soccer. I don't care about soccer. I love golf. I do have the open on right here on the iPad. Looking at a lot of stuff here, but um, started today. George hates these four days.

Let's do it over here. I know. I mean, long glad I'm not that existing with you because you never

watched the tour. You watched the open. Yeah. I got it on. I got it. I got it. Let's talk about tomorrow.

“Stage 13. This is officially the longest stage of the tour. Which I think is is someone know”

where they're these stages where we had 205 kilometers. This is back in the day. We've been like, oh, all right, cool. Albert's length. This is the longest day. Of course, we've seen 220s into 40s and even 260s. Um, so, uh, and in really, I don't know, an event full day. It does start to get interest. This is, this has just been an interesting route. You know, I said it at the start of the tour. Uh, and then I almost wanted to walk it back because the first couple days were actually

very, very exciting. Yeah. And since it's just been, um, I'm sort of, it's kind of a head scratcher. This stage and even Tadie Poguchar said, in his post recently interview today, he was sort of questioning or would it, would it, Bradley, what did he say about? Well, he kind of said something along the lines of, um, you know, tomorrow, this is a strange stage. It's strange to it. And in that, you know, I think a lot of the riders don't know how it's going to pan out. It's a long way to all that

sprinted to immediate sprint. It's for teams to keep it together. So you would expect to break away to go. And then we've got those two climbs and succession and downhills of the finish. I can't like it. I think it's interesting. Yeah. Yeah. But I think, you know, could a break go tomorrow, a big enough group? Because would someone would a sprint team want to hold it together? No, no, no, no, especially for that climb. What's it about you? So then who would hold it together? A GC team? That seems like

a lot of work for one 10k long climb at 7%. That's not even at the finish. So probably break away and then the question is, does Petterson go? And then what does that break away formation look like? Yeah. I mean, there's no doubt that we're saying that's on the show. All the tacticians are the teams right now are saying, this is the best chance for a break away to make it.

“And the teams that have not won a race, you have to be in this break away. So it's going to take”

a long time for this break away to make it go. Yeah. It might go with me. Yeah. Exactly. I mean, it's going to be really fast start to the tour or to the stage. And there's so much on the line for the teams that have not won yet. This is like a big opportunity for them to make it to the finish. And Lance was complaining about the lack of prestige climbs, but I think

this is the first mountain ever climbed in the tour of France. We've certainly done this climb.

It sounds very familiar. Yeah. Another x-factor for tomorrow is there is a steady chance of a break forward the day. So, you know, long, long flat, unadventful day, fairly serious climb has to be a fairly serious downhill. Yeah, that's up. Yeah. You don't get what the rain in the tour these days. Do we? You don't get a lot of rain in cycling these days. No, I'll make up that. What's the last time you're going to tell me of watching? Yeah, I remember watching it on the early 2000s. There was

days in the in the in the messy, some trouble. Rain all day. Yeah. When mentioned to a

“greaty, but in that break and took the jersey, you know, remember 2001. And it was like they took 20 minutes.”

You know, but nobody that you've grown up following more cycling than anybody that I know. And if you just think, and I mean that, like if you think about the spring classics, right, that even San Remo. But but flanders were bay. I mean, when we were growing up, this guy, I mean, Andre Schmiel Winnie and the Snowdy Rugby, Jeff. These guys are running right around 75 degrees. No, our mormous flanders. One's last time we had a really rainy tour funders. Yeah. How many

times is it rain, since we've been doing this show this year? Yeah, up here. Yeah. Like any. And then

weirdly, it rained in Paris last year, which never was. Yeah, I think of rain in which

break away as a way. Is there any GC action on this climb? Well, but this guy is for for second. And third, or do you wait till tomorrow or the day after tomorrow? I think they wait. I wouldn't see you a doing trying to do much damage. I don't think these mo would think that they can gain an advantage by doing anything on that climb. Do you know what I'm saying? It's kind of

neutralized, but you never know. And you know, this could be waiting for this last half of the tour.

You know, I mean, I keep reading things that like he came on, like great format, the end of the Jiro. They've been waiting for this end of the tour to France to start making moves. Let's see. Back at over there. Yeah. Our master plan. We lost four minutes to the best right of the whole thing. It's all we wanted. Yeah. We just got them right where we want them. But hey,

“that's what we're going to have the races. Yeah. And they're going to take the time of the start”

and the finish and, you know, it's one bad day away or one crash away. It's not that, you know, certainly that sounds bad saying that. But that's the shows you how. I mean, look at today's finish. I mean, you know, people, you know, they're there's crashes. And by crossing. I think what's essentially, it let's say God forbid it happens. We hope it doesn't happen. But let's say something

happens to be got you. It's interesting that this is the first year that it's not an automatic

yellowness win that I think there would be quite a bit of competition there behind them. So yeah, I can see a lot of there, you know, at least my GC guys like set where climb or guys like set up or Matteo trying to get in that break way more to perhaps hopefully go for the stage when put a little pressure on you, A. Yeah, I'm excited about tomorrow's stage. I think you're getting you really good one. The brakes. So no riding. That was good. You cool if I get up early. I know,

“you need to start at the stage. Am I coming? I'm not going to hurt anybody if I'm out there by myself”

riding my bike. Believe me, if something crazy happens, I got the airbods and you call me. I can turn on peacock, I'll my phone and listen and ride. Let's take your calls. As we've been doing every day here is the hotline if you want to call us, leave us a message. That number 970 7182736 collar number one. Hey guys, this is Greg from Fort Collins, Colorado. I want to hear from you. What would you, I'm curious what would you tell Paul sex us? How would you coach him as he gets

ready for the out? What are one of the ways you're going to coach him in this current position? Thanks. Bradley? Well, I think he's natural talent and this is his domain. You know, when we get to the Alps, it's actually the safest part of the race for him because he can just be in position and thrive and do what does what he does best on the climbs. In some ways, the stages we've had up to this point have been the most challenging to navigate for him getting into position so he can be with

“the stars. So I wouldn't worry too much about him. The only thing is he's going into unknown territory”

in terms of the distance into the race now. We're nearly two weeks in. He's never been that far anywhere,

but I don't see it being a problem for him and I think he's done well to be where he is with the challenges he's faced up to this point and this far into the race. I would say similarly that he's 19 years old. He's never done a tour to France. It's super easy to get caught up in like the hoop law and the craziness of the Tour de France and the pressure from his whole entire country just do what he's been doing. I stick with the basics. Don't change it up. Do what he's been doing

to get him to this point thus far and he shouldn't be able to ride amazingly, but just don't get cut up and caught up in all this outside pressure and stress that the Tour de France provides. I think he's Greg, I think he's for a 19 year old kid. He's got he has a strong mind. This is by all accounts and there was a lot of debate and there was a lot of opinions out there about whether not he should even start the tour at 19 years old. I mean, many 19 year old actually can go

start the tour but being that you're the great French hope in the last 50, 60 years. It was highly debated, right? He knows was on the record saying this is a mistake, but Paul Sassas actually overreheaned those closest to him actually overruled everybody and said no he is doing the tour. Which is I think it's kind of fascinating. I think he's done a hell of a job so far. Do you think having him there in the position he's in with the hype that's around him particularly

in France adds to the booming of Taday progression? Oh yeah, I said better this turn. I mean in the second. Yeah, if it's interesting that isn't it? Had he not been at this race? Taday wouldn't I said there's not booming Taday because they want me on us to win, are they? No, but keep it and listen and I sort of I'm even reluctant to acknowledge the booze that Taday is starting to hear. Keep in mind, this is the tour to France. This is July. We're getting towards peak vacation

people, right? They could be Spaniards. They could be Germans. They could be so it's not. It doesn't have to

be a French person who's now super, super loyal to Sashas who wants to be critical. They come from

all over the continent. And I speak from experience. It always kind of figure out pretty quickly who's a guy who's spit on you where he's from. But I will say the media influences the public of France. And that article, particularly in the keep the other day was double page spread. It had

“comments from various riders, David Miller, a few others about his dominance. Was it killing the sport?”

And just that narrative now creeping into it to the public's mind, that only adds to being into this messy killing soccer. He wins too much. Yeah, but they never do that. I know. So ridiculous. No, they protect messy. Yes, because they celebrate like this great feat for what it is. Oh, and it's not like only one two world of cubs in a row. Oh, that's so lame. I guess it's ridiculous. I was cycling media does that. But yeah, that on Paul success. Also, Ted is going to lose one of these.

It's not, he's not Lance. He's not going to win seven in a row. Oh, well, he stays already lost. We already created an internet controversy. Yeah, drop two of them. God, don't get me started again. But I do have thoughts, but have you seen him lose his cool at all this tours?

Think about a competitor, Remka, who's always losing his cool. He's ice man. Ice man. You

“don't even notice he's there. It's Bradley said he's getting to his best terrain. Yeah, by the way,”

Greg, my wife was gripping for Collins, went to high school for Collins. So I could have talked to you homie. Number two, caller number two. Hey, just Jeffrey from Minnesota. Love to show a long time fan question for you. What is your favorite nickname of anyone you have written with? Thank you, much for all your comments. Wow. Oh, that's that is a damn good question. So I've got one. Can I go first? The Falcon. Yeah, that's good. Pablo Salved the

definitely. Yeah, he was that was a favorite nickname. And they call him that because he was just like a beast on the downhills. I had like the pleasure of once getting to the top of the Pojo and Malon San Remo. And he attacks and I just challenged myself. I said, I'm not going to let him drop me on this descent. The best to send in a row. And I hung on his wheel and it was, I pretty much risk my life to hang on his wheel. And I understand why they call him the Falcon. But very impressive

descendor and one, the jury told it because of his descending skills for the most part. But that would be my favorite nickname. Yeah. So I mean, my name is a funny one actually because

so Fabian Cantulara have a huge amount of respect for Fabian, great right. And so I would never

use this for him because it was quite derogatory and he hated this nickname. But Juan Antonio Fletcher, who I was teammates with was teammates with Fabian at Fassabortalor. So they obviously had a kind of piss-take, you know, relationship. And Juan Antonio would always call him Barulca, which in Italian I believe means week. Because he's here look like a week. And Fabian hated it. But Juan took great pleasure in calling him this whenever he was living. And I would never use

me. It was always made until today. It was made. We've been like a, we've been acrosswinded in Qatar or something, going through an often need to go Barulca, Barulca. And to get here. Yeah, that made it. We're going to talk about Jimmy Casper again. Balloon, which means wine cream French. Well, actually, you would have had to listen to last year's, one of the shows last year. I don't have a best-tick name. Look, let me before I, it's kind of hard to say,

“but here's the thing about nicknames. And we've seen guys over the years and”

I won't name names who gave themselves a nickname. Yeah, okay. You cannot nickname yourself, but that's against the rules. You were just qualified. So somebody else or the public or whatever has to give you the nickname. Having said that, I don't know. I mean, I'd probably go with the Lion King, I mean, a chipboard or even keep poochy back in the Lion King. I like that one. Yeah, I held the Abroath. I could put you, I think this, and correct me if I'm wrong,

or you guys might know this. I mean, this goofball that stands on the roadside every day during the tour. Dee Dee. It's a German guy with a devil outfit. Yeah. It got robbed. And Barulca, he got robbed. They stole everything out of his car. They're sad. He was still to this day, runs around with the little fork, pitch fork, and he dresses like the devil. I think he got inspired to do that because he put you here, put you here. Um, it's one of those too. Good question.

Los Angeles, California. What's going on with the bins? Then O'Connor, Ben Healy, you know, they've both had a couple of standout seasons in the last few years, but seem to be nowhere in the Peloton right now. Do you think they're holding out for the mountains? Or maybe just don't have what it takes this time around? Would love to know your thoughts. Thanks so much.

“Thank you, Shannon. I almost thought she said, what is going on with the bins?”

Be ENDS. A good buddy of mine. Who's, I think you've been to the studio and watch the show. It's nephew who went to LSU, and all his buddies went to LSU, had these great, these great career path post college, but they were also musicians, like a college band, making a run of it. Well, the bins, and you know, you see them in a lot of videos, with Zach Bryan, like these kids are killing it. And I thought, wow, how does she know about the bins?

That's pretty amazing. Anyways, the bins, Ben O'Connor, and Ben Healy's a good one. I mean,

this kid was, I mean, you couldn't go a day last year without talking about Ben Healy. Yeah. Well, one thing's for sure is they're not, they have no choice. It's not like they're holding off of the obbs. Like, that's their only option right now. These guys get paid a lot of money. They have huge expectations from their teams, and I would, I would guess that will start seeing them in more breakways coming up in the final week in the mountains, but they have no choice. They got to go

all in from now on to the finish. Ben O'Connor. Yeah. He's been trying, and he just, I mean, it's not really been the root for him up to this point as in terms of that big mountain day. But I, I've show will see Ben O'Connor in that third week. Yeah. I remember last year, he was nowhere,

“and then he went to toughest day, so are there any other bends that were for going around? I think”

it's because Shannon didn't get them. I would say the answer to this question is almost always

illness that you're not that, like, you're not aware of, but like Ben Healy, I would guess had some illness. Yeah, because Sean Quinn just said the other day that he had a cold during the rest day, so perhaps he's going around the team. Good question. Yeah, great question. Good question. There is time, right? We've got, uh, got what is today? Today's Thursday. There's Thursday. It's not coming on us. It does sneak up on you. Uh, but, but there's time, and also running out of time.

It's a good one. Ben Healy, he was such a, he was fun to watch. He's a monster last summer. Ben stopped 10. It was just, I mean, it was like every day you looked up and I was like, well, there he is again, like the energizer bunny. Yeah. It's hard to get it right. It got like that. It's hard to, you know, you have a magical tour like that and you leave and you think, okay, I'm going to build off of that and come in. I'm going to repeat it and do even better.

And it's hard to time it right at the start of this thing. And, you know, obviously, if you're, if you're a guy like Tata, it's not that hard to time. But for others, it is. I mean, how many breakaway wins that we've seen? One, the Vanderpool one? Yeah. So it's tough, uh, tough line of work to be in. Breakaway artist at the moment. Well, students and trivia. So Bradley wants to get to the gym and get out of that frustration. I did last night after the football. Actually, I went to

a great session because of it. Wow. Well, you were, and you were burning rubber out of the house. I was like, well, get out of the way. He is out of here. Yeah. I mean, it's just, just,

“to find the way the referee, the, the, the England didn't get screwed by the ref, did they?”

I, I'm not, I'm not aware of that. Because that ref is from Austin, Texas. I did hear that. I was going to apologize, but I didn't feel like there was anything,

the fucking guy at this message. I didn't feel like anybody, although I'm in a messy. Never,

like, hugging it out of bunch in the field. Well, it's weird that they launched that business together, too. Uh, let's do our event. I'm trivia the day. Answer the day's trivia question correctly, and get entered for a chance to win $5,000 credit towards event and bike your choice. Yesterday's question, this is a real home dinner. The best friend of all time Mark Cavendish holds the all time record for tour stage runs. What's the answer to answer?

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