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You know, the only guy who kind of skipped a few turns, now and then was Alex Bodant, which was his right.

“But the other three were riding for a purpose, you know.”

And so, yeah. Yeah. Once, once Derek G and Quincymens were back in the main group already, Tobias Fos and Volkalan, they were toast because they had been doing it for a while. And he had been a few A joint that they had a chance.

But no, there was no coming back. On the pool have this, had this in the backman. He was not going to lose his stage. Everybody welcome back to the move plus. I'm Spencer Martin.

I'm here with Johan Bernille. We are breaking down stage nine.

Matthew Vanderpool's incredible stage win out of the breakaway.

I would say early breakaway, but it wasn't really early. It took a long time to get going. And then we will go through tomorrow, not tomorrow's Tuesdays. Stage 10, which rehashes an iconic stage from 2024. But Johan, just a quick, quickly recap the stage.

Then we'll get your takeaway. The stage started. It was shortened due to the heat. So 154 kilometers. It meant that the sprint point was really pulled close to the start line.

Like maybe even 12k in. Little track controls it. No problem. But it does make the pace quite hard because the sprint point is on a climb. Matt's putters and takes Max points with.

Benjamin Burmai coming in second.

Yes, for Phillips and third, and the attacking started right after that happened and continued for what felt like an hour and hour and a half. Some of the hardest racing I've seen at this tour. Finally, a move gets away. Extremely strong move. Then Matthew Vanderpool tack attacks that a move.

He's followed by Tobias Holland Johansson, Tom Pickock and Alex Bodon. Those are for the strongest riders in the race. Quint Simmons was up in that move with him. Was dropped. He drops back to pace little track who is not far back.

Or pace Matt's better son is little track teammate. Who's not far back because of some odd pacing from UAE throughout the day. They kept the gap really close. We get this thrilling race into the finish where Vanderpool is just a few seconds ahead of the chasing peloton, which is reduced down to around 30 riders. He doesn't panic though.

He wins the sprint with ease over Holland Johansson and Pitcock. And Philippa Gana wins the bunch. A head of Matt's better son and Michael Matthews behind.

“Kind of an interesting twist there, but Johan, what was your takeaway?”

Your move at the day. Move of the day. I mean, move this and move of the day has to be Matthew Vanderpool in the way he had this stage in his control. You know, he was basically in all the moves tried a few times at the beginning already. He was, you know, he was in the break away straight away.

And he made it back to because I think initially. I'm not mistaken was Queen Simmons and Johansson, who went away. Pretty early, actually, with about 80 K to go. They went away from that 60 man break away, which I thought was a bit. Yeah.

But then from the pool came back on on a climb, which was really hard. So there you could see, okay, from this guy, this guy, this guy is going to be difficult to beat this guy today. Because, you know, I mean, 2,000 meters over 150 kilometers. That's not Vanderpool's favorite terrain. Also, you know, reportedly doesn't like the heat.

Couldn't see that today. He did pretty well in the heat today. So he did a great time trial and he just a few weeks ago. Yeah, so yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe he should write that. So he said that a few days, like the last three days, he started to feel back.

He has started to feel better. That initially the first week he didn't really feel that great.

“So I think we're going to see more of him in stages like this.”

You know, probably not the next stage because that's really hard. But other transition stages, it's not the last thing we've seen about, from from the pool, it's of course. And it's also, it's not easy to frame to win from a break away because once he's in the break away, of course, everybody looks at him and they don't give it there 100%.

Other than that, Spencer, my, my, I mean, not take away a question of the day, actually, is what was you are you doing? You know, there was this 16 riders then it went down to eight or nine. It looked strong guys. It looked like, you know, nobody was in there that there was a threat for the yellow jersey.

And yet, you know, they started to ride really fast. Tim Williams was going crazy fast.

And they kept it always around a minute, 15, 20, then one minute.

So, you know, that's not controlling the break away. That's riding to win the stage. So I found that a strange observation. And then after the stage, I listened to Adam Yates, Adam Yates said initially, you know,

or the total could win the sprint.

You know, when when you see that, my spaders are there, Ghana's there.

“I mean, still it's because that I mean, he could, he could have won, right?”

My question is, is it worth it, you know? Then I saw Tim Williams had a quote and said, Before the start, we had discussed that Isaac, the autoro, might be able to sprint if it came down to a small group. I mean, yes, of course.

And in my opinion, that would be like 10 or 15 riders of the climbers. If it's because I think that was probably like 40 guys there. And if you see that at least Pedersin is there in Michael Mathews is there. And then other guys like Adam Buru and, you know, like other riders that are punchers, they definitely have a chance.

The autoro and even more so pull out char, but my question is, is that really worth it? Is that really worth it? Yes, tomorrow's the rest day. Again, you know, I criticize them after stage three or four. I don't remember which stage it was.

It was the Pedersin stage three. Yeah, yeah. But, you know, and yes, that afterwards they gave the jersey away. And they had a few days off, but still these, I mean, they are in a position, let's say, that they can actually take the luxury to make these decisions,

because if you look today, at some point when the violence was still there, they had six riders of UAE, where Visma was already down to four. So, you know, nobody else was even close to, I mean, little track had a few riders, but they're not a threat to UAE and to the classification, I think, not to pull out char's position at least.

“So, yeah, I mean, we should not be surprised because that's how they race,”

and they want to win as many stages as possible. But, yeah, I mean, my, I have an other opinion I wouldn't have done it that way. But anyways, luckily, they don't think like me because it makes the racing very, very interesting and very, very entertaining. Yeah, well, the people we were watching with, like, Bradley was saying,

"Oh, this is so boring." I'm thinking like, "This is way more interesting than I remember your tours being because now we have this thrilling, unnecessary battle between the break away and the chasing peloton." And just to give a little more context on this Johan. So, like, on it not being a Vanderpool day or the climbs not being good for them, that's true, but also the harder climbs were earlier in the stage.

The final third of the stage, you know, but one climb is one K-long.

The other climb is two K-long. That sounds like a classic to me, which helps Vanderpool, but also, I didn't understand the plan for UAE. So, you pull this, but move back and then how do you win? Because it's not great terrain. You're with some of the best classic riders in the world.

What was the path to winning? I was like, "I think a lot of our winnings that up, he'll sprint."

“That's the only thing I could have to think of.”

We did already beat Vanderpool in a sprint like this. Last year, he didn't beat him. It was not, it was probably not as hard as this. But is he going to beat... Yeah, it's better to say Michael Mathieu's and Flip it on.

Yeah, those guys are fast, they're really fast, but here's a theory from me. Let's say that's a bluff. They didn't want to win the stage. Do they have data over there? Do they have a theory that it's hard to shit?

It's a hard day, or the strongest? Let's pummel our competition, so they can't attack us later. Is that... Does that even make sense where you could just ride your ride Jonas into the ground? So, he cannot attack, at least ride Jonas's team into the ground.

So, these can't bother you later in the race? I don't think they're worried about that Spencer. Then I don't really have... I think I've been... I don't really have it.

If you look at them, they're man for man. They're stronger on every single position. Then Visma and any of the other teams. Man for man. I mean, their best rider is the best.

Their second rider is the best second rider of all teams.

Their third best rider is probably the third best rider of all teams. You know, they don't have much to worry about, you know? Yes, that's a good point. But... I don't know.

I don't get it. I felt like it probably wasn't... Like, are the other teams happy about this or no? Um, and this, I mean, listen, it's the race, you know? It's the right to do that.

They're not getting any gifts.

As a GC team, for example, you're trying to control the race, you know?

And then you kind of try to get into a situation where you let the break go after an hour of super hard racing. Everybody's, you know, saying, okay. And then whenever you decide, okay, this is the good break. Then there's still going to be teams who are attacking.

Then also pisses them off, you know? The team that is controlling the race. So there's no gifts, you know? I mean, it's like... Or sometimes they want to let the break go.

And another team doesn't agree. And they bring the break back. And then they have to start over again.

“So that also sucks if you have to control the race.”

So no, I don't think I don't think... Anyway, it was going to be difficult. But I mean, what I don't understand is that what they did, and then finally they gave up. You know, if they really wanted to win the stage,

when, and also, for example, emails, emails, that was also a question. You know, initially, because you know, I started to pool, right? With Vokala and Tobias Fos. Yeah.

I was during the stage, I was questioning also. Okay, why are they doing this? Is this to protect the 10th place of eggumber now? Because Johannes and Pitcock could come in the top 10. I wrote down here, I said, well, it's...

It's, it's come far at a team like, not company in Ailes with a budget of 50 million.

Right, in stage nine for a potential top 10. But then, at the end, we saw that people Ghana was in there, which I didn't, I hadn't seen. And he won the sprint against Mats Peterson. But yeah, I mean, it's also...

That's super, super impressive for people in the other way. To survive that stage. And then win that bunch of sprint.

“And I mean, you are right, I think it was a two-fer.”

I think they were controlling for Ghana, but also, they don't want to let Tobias Holland, Johansson and Tom Pitcock get to die. Well, you did hear on the race line, you were right. The director, I think it's, I think it's MP. Who said, you know, we are losing time on the GC guys in the front.

Which obviously means that they're concerned about trying to get in the top 10. So, you know, this and if it's Bernal, if Bernal is good enough to be in the top 10, he's not going to lose the top 10 in a stage like this. That's a pretty good point. Yeah, maybe he's not good enough.

And he has to take advantage of getting to break away. He's like this to get in the top 10. It's also not obvious. I mean, you look at this top 10, you know, like, you would be like, wow, trying to get in the top 10. That's kind of sad. It's a lot of riders.

Yeah, top 10. It's maybe the most stacked top 10 I've ever seen. So finishing the top 10, it's not top 10 in a two-erspenser. So it's starting difficult.

“You have to be a very good rider to be in the top 10 and the two of the fronts.”

No matter what they say. Like right now, yeah, you have flooring lipo, it's sitting seventh. And flooring lipo is one of the best stage racers in the sport. You know, Lenny Martinez, huge, huge talent. Scalemo is a ninth.

But in all 10, like he's amongst the best riders. So the top 10 is important. I was a little confused about the pacing, but when we saw got us for him. You know, why, why not pace? Because a few of a chance to win the stage with Ghana.

You should probably do it. And you get to pull back. I mean, the thing is, these aren't these are no panic cookies. Like Tobias Holland, Johansson, that guy is a really good. Yeah, you might not get back the time you give to him.

Same thing with pitcock who knows where his head is at. At any point. Well, he's really good. Roger podium. Speaking of pitcock, by the way, I wanted to mention, you know, impressive.

When the 15, 16 man break away was getting together. He was not there. And he attacked from the from the Peloton. And on the moment that they were trying to get create the gap. He bridge 20 seconds by himself on all these good riders by himself.

That was an impressive move. There's not, there's this and there was guys trying to follow you. It's real. Just in the whole Peloton who can do this in pitcock is one of them. Well, we need you to be meant because Lance keeps saying.

I don't understand. But that like right there, it's like he will. He can do stuff. Yeah. And then you know, the question is, what would have changed?

What's it?

So basically it was his the the the normal shift.

It didn't work, but the ones on the top of the. Break lever worked. It's what I can make of out of his interview. Because yeah, I mean, they didn't work.

The rail with his foot and all of a sudden starts working. That's. That doesn't really make a lot of sense. And so must there must be a short circuit there in the on the shift or I don't know.

Yeah, in the actual shifter. So he was using the button at the top. The button. I mean, maybe keep your hands on the hoods. If you know that.

What does he know? He seems to forget. He said. Yeah, I mean, he was definitely sprinting. He was sprinting on the.

On the on the hoods instead of in the drops. But, but yeah, I mean, that was unfortunate. You did a great stage. But go. Great stage.

And it was a great stage. I do want to ask you about. Little track. So they get commitments is up the road. And this move worked there with their G.

So it's a good situation. But number one rule of bike racing. Don't get dropped from the break way. What happens? He gets dropped from the break away when Vanderpool attacks.

“I didn't honestly didn't think he was in great position.”

I maybe would park myself for out of Vanderpool's wheel. If we were going to that climb, because you know the attacks coming. He gets dropped with G. They fall back. They're pacing from ads, Patterson.

Should they not have gone on the. Should they just have focused on that, Johan? Because I think they potentially win that. I mean, do they win the stage or do they lose to go on? Maybe being in the break was different.

Different Spencer. You can.

You can not judge because Ghana won the sprint off the first group.

I mean, if it's for the win. It's a different. Different story. Yeah, it's a different story. I think Patterson would have would have gotten it.

Yeah, I have questions about the tactics today of little track. Honestly, it was okay to be in the break. But then when you see the composition of the break away and you see that. Vanderpool and Pitcock are there. I mean, how are you going to win from Vanderpool and Pitcock?

If you have their G and win Simmons. At least for starters, don't collaborate. You have to excuse that much. Yeah, I mean, that much Patterson is going through. How to stay with those 35 riders, which is impressive.

By the way, impressive performance of much Patterson to be with all these. G.C. riders. That means that he's really in good shape. And you know, then at least the first of all, if you're there. Don't collaborate.

“But you have to excuse that you have your leader in the back.”

And they did, they did write, I didn't see them skip turns in the front. When they were with these 12 riders or anybody. They were pulling hard. Yeah, yeah. So, and then yeah, I mean, this and the moment the moment they drop back.

That's too late, Spencer. It's very simple, you know. The four guys who were in front drop these other guys. So their G and Quinn Simmons were dropped. So a guy who gets dropped from the break is not going to bring that break away back later on.

You know, it's not complicated, you know. Yeah.

Well, it's a, there's always a thought of like, well, there's numbers behind.

It's like, well, that they're all weaker than the person in front. They're not going to catch them. Because they can't go. These four riders. Yeah, and the fact that, you know, and the fact that it was one minute,

50 seconds, 40 seconds, they had to keep going until the end. And the fact that also I think pitcock definitely thought that he had a chance against the underpool. There was cohesion, you know, the only guy who kind of skipped a few turns. Now, and then was Alex Bodant, which was his right. But the other three were riding for a purpose, you know.

And so, so yeah, once once their G and Quinn Simmons were back in the in the main group. Already Toby has forced hand walk around. They were toast because they had been doing it for a while. They would only have been a few a joint. That they had a chance.

But no, there was no coming back. Underpool had this, had this in the backman. He was not going to lose his stage. But you feel like this speaks to little tricks issues sometimes. So you have riders up in the breakaway polling.

You have Matt's better some back in the peloton, wanting the breakaway to get caught.

“And instead of leveraging that where that's a great situation, right?”

Because the guys in the breakaway can use Patterson as an excuse to skip turns. Sit on gives him a greater greater probability of winning in the sprint against Vanderbilt. Because they've done less work. Do you feel like sometimes a little track they just don't. There's doesn't feel like they're ever on the same page or doesn't even feel like it's a team.

It's just a collection of riders.

They're riding, I mean, no, I don't want to be too critical.

I have the impression and it's just outside of observation. I don't know if it's true or not. But my take would be that today, since the other day, Quinn Simmons and Vachik killed for Matt's Patterson in the breakaway.

They wanted to let them have their chance in the breakaway.

Quinn has been quite of spoken about his own ambitions.

“And I think that's probably the reason why they didn't hold them back.”

They let them collaborate to at least, you know, nurture the ambition of the riders of the track in the break. But you don't have, yeah, you don't have to collaborate. No, no, yeah. And then Quinn Simmons was, there's no riders, there's no position. I mean, I would have to look back.

But if they were eight riders, I think he was in six or seven position when they turned. And that was a short climb. And that was, you know, Mathew on the pool terrain. He dropped everybody. Nobody could stay on his wheel.

You know, if you're not on his wheel there, you're done. You know, I mean, okay, these three guys came back. But if you're in, if you're too far behind that, you know, I'm going to close that gap. Yeah, I didn't really understand that.

But anything else, I mean, were you surprised that this is Vanderpulse, it's just this third stage win in the tour of his career? Well, we said it the other day, you know, in that he only won two stages. I mean, I mean, Mathew on the pool is not, this is not his favorite race sponsor. You know, sometimes it looks like he's there because he has to be there,

but doesn't really want to be there. But, but man, when he wins, he does it in unbelievable fashion. That was a great win today. Also, another interesting impressive stats, Spencer, is that it's the sixth time that Alps in participates in the tour.

And every single year they've won at least one stage.

They've always won stages.

That's impressive. They always won stages.

“Yeah, I believe their first non-vanderpool win was Tim Raleer.”

I think. Wait, who won a stage for them in 2020? I didn't have the tour of France. Let's look at it. I don't know if they want to do it.

No, I don't imagine TV today, so. Well, we'll we'll call in with that. Do you know, it little quiz for you. Do you know the last race the Vanderpool won before this? E3?

E3. Yeah, so it's been a bit. Yeah, actually. Yeah, I think he won.

Yeah, so he won a stage in Tirano.

He won E3. And he won, it needs blood. I think. Yep. That's the hardest one to remember.

The first one. I was blocked out. He has a funny history with the tour where he's only finished it twice. But the tours that he's finished are his worst tours. He's not really contended for a stage in them.

He's done better on the tours where he doesn't finish. Do you think he's going to finish this? I think so. I think he's going to finish. Yeah.

“I think he's going to finish and interest him.”

I think he's going to win in Paris. Yeah, yeah. I think that's a quite a good prediction. I could totally see that happening. Anything else on today's stage?

I think that's it. Yeah. Green jersey. I mean, good day for not, I mean, not a huge win for better. But for better some at least he wanted to meet its sprint and then he got.

He got fifth. Now six, he got six, right? He got six. So six on the stage. So he gets 40 points.

Okay. 40 points where the other Scott's. 20. The best scoring one was Benjamin. Yeah.

At Tim earlier got zero. Yeah, well, Tim earlier. It's pretty good. It's never been. I mean, he said, he stated publicly also that he has no chance to win the green jersey.

That, you know, he would need to change his whole training and he's not interested in doing that. I guess so let's pencil him in for. Two more wins. Bunch Prince. Then he would be 40.

Yeah, two more Bunch Prince would be like 45 points up on Patterson. And you know, today he just got four. Yeah. I think, you know, he probably. More 45 points out of the same one more.

I would say one more. This, I mean, Bunch Prince are obviously something can go wrong. Something can happen, you know. Yeah. I'm just saying if he won, he'll be available.

Bunch Prince remaining.

Yeah. Because another, another two minutes. But Scott points on in Patterson. Yeah. He could.

He could. He can win there. That's good win. And then Banyam's 45 points back. What do we think about him? Listen, I mean, I'm surprised.

I'm surprised about Banyam's shape. Did not see that coming. I mean, I was not an easy start today. And he's right there. Yeah.

Yeah. It was. Yeah. Definitely. Yeah.

You can never count this guy out.

You know, he can look as bad. Yeah.

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All right, we're back. Yo Hans back. Bobby's back. We're ready to go. We're going to preview stage 10 before we do that, Johan.

I wanted to ask you question from the listeners. Okay, so. We want to add this into the rest of the episodes for the tours. So if you have questions for Johan, email them at we do. It's sorry info at we do.team.

And if we can, we'll put it on the show. I thought this was a good one. This is from Mike. I've forgotten about this. Um, this was in in response to us talking about the one by.

“He says, are there any teams or writers using the classified rear hub?”

I believe any of us was testing it a few years ago. I do vividly remember this or vaguely remember this. What happened to this? It's still around. It's still around.

But it's not getting the. Yeah.

Riders or investors in the company.

Uh, I think. I think Tom Bonin, uh, Philip Gilbert. And if I'm not mistaken, Marcel Kittle or investors in the company. Um, so, so, I mean, it's, I think it's a great system, but. Um.

The only way that they can stay around if it gets bought by one of the big manufacturers.

“I think, uh, because that's the only way that.”

Professional teams are going to be allowed to use it. You know, if you if SRAM or Shimano buys it. Other than that, how are you going to. Are you going to justify using it? Uh, I mean, the.

The components, manufacturers, sponsors, not going to agree to. For the writers to use it. That's a very good point. And I guess the hub that design was it allows you to run a one by.

But then you switch, you basically change the gear.

Yeah, you have like a virtual second chain ring. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I kind of like the idea. But again, it's like then you're introducing a lot of cars.

The thing is also to, uh, I think the problem with the problem with that system will be. And we see it, you know, and it's, I think it's unavoidable that it. The tendency is going towards a one by. With, you know, 13 years in the back. I've seen a new manufacturer lately.

The new Chinese components manufacturers, they have 14 years in the back. Uh, then you can start thinking about a one by right. Um, and so that makes basically the classified system. Absolute, I think. Uh, very sad too bad.

But it's a very good point. Yeah, the more you can add the one by. There has to be a limit there, right? We can't just keep adding. Like, let's just go straight to 24 times.

14, 14 years already. That, uh, that starts to be interesting, you know, like two for a one by. Then these gaps are coming. By the way, my, my take on the one by of Jonas on the two molestage was identical to Tom Dimura. He had the same questions about it and the same reservations about using that.

So, uh, that was, I mean, this year's a guy who's been recently in the Palatom. And thinks that it's also not the smartest, especially for a big mountain stage. Yeah, well, Tom Dimura says it. I support it. So he's, he's a, he's our mascot at the moment.

We love Tom Dimura. But that is interesting. Because he would know he'd been, I mean, he raced in, he's raced in a two or two year difference that Taday has a one. So recently, been competing. If he has doubts about it, then it's probably legit make questions.

But should we pre be stage 10? Yeah, let's do that after the rest day. So it's a 166 kilometers. And it's through the massive central. It is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven categorized climbs.

And a little bit of an uphill finish goes over Poemary. Finish is at La Lorraine. If this sounds familiar, it's because this was stage 11 of the 2024, two to France, which was the famous stage where Pagachar attacks on Poemary gets realed in by Jonas Finigarde and then loses in a like a bike throw to Jonas. And I think that's the last time Jonas has begun.

Taday Pagachar last time. Yeah, I mean, he's been in front of Taday Pagachar a few times. Yeah, because the Pagachar just decided to stay on his wheel.

“But yeah, that stage banter, I remember that stage.”

That was not a hard stage, man.

And very important stage 10, today after the rest day is always,

you know, always comes with some surprises. It's a super end stage, 4,000 meters of elevation. Yeah, 4,000, I was just going to say that 4,000 meters of elevation. And there's only one two stages left in this race after this that have more elevation gain. So it might not, I think the crew over here looked at it like, yeah, that's pretty hard.

But I don't think they fully digest it. The profile doesn't do it just as about how much climbing there is in here. And the climbs are not very long. So that means if the climbs aren't long and there's a lot of elevation gain, it means you're always climbing, right?

Because you've got to make that elevation up somewhere. The finish is really tricky. It's this people will remember there's a descent. And then, pretty much, Roger, crashed. And there's technically a climb up to the finish.

“But he was given the same time as the, I believe he was with remember.”

Yeah. Even a pole, even though it was an uphill finish because it was classified as a flat finish. And they changed the rule actually because of this. But it's a really tricky finish.

Do you think this is going to be GC or Broadway today?

I think so too. I think I've got to go ahead. Go for it. I mean, if you see how dominant they are and how, you know, I can't imagine if they wanted to win today, which didn't make much sense to me,

I cannot see any reason why they wouldn't want to win on Tuesday. It's a lot easier to control. If you have the strongest team, maybe we've got your wants to make a statement. Because of what happened in 2024, I'm just thinking out loud.

So I think we've got your wins. I think you're right.

“Because I think he's going to want to make a statement.”

I think he's sick of hearing about that. They get to write up every time. It might be the last time he did a, no, no. At least in a stage race, it's the last time he did a break away and was caught, because Amstel Gold, he was also real.

It doesn't happen very often. I think he's going to want to win. Put this to rest. Get this question over with. I don't know if gaps are going to be big,

but the gaps were, if you remember, 2024, the gaps were not insignificant that day. It was, you know, there was people pretty far behind like, I'm just going to look up right now. Stage 11, 2024.

How far back room coven up old 25 seconds back. But then everybody else was two minutes back. So it, you know, this could be bigger time gaps. And we're going to see on some of the summit finishes later in the race, because it's more dynamic racing.

That's more, basically, more surface area for the,

for the favorites to put time into the others. If you want to bet on it, though, we have a partnership with next bets. So go to nxtbetts.com/betoutcomes. And it will show you exactly where you can bet.

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So it shops for you. But here's one of the bets they have up here. This is margin of victory. So just anyone first to second. So the options are less than one minute.

That's plus 1800 basically. That's crazy. So if you bet $1 or sorry, $100 on it, you would win $1,800 in profit. One to three minutes plus $4.99.

Three to five minutes plus $2.28. Five to seven minutes plus one away. More than seven minutes minus one 22, which one of these would you pick for the margin of victory? I would.

With between three and five or over five. And this is fairly overall, not fast stage on stage 11. Three and five. Yeah. Well, let's just see right now.

So right now, But got just 242 up after how much do you think he's going to win? I think he's going to win it. What on five? Five out of five minutes.

More than five minutes. No tomorrow. On Tuesday. No, at the embarrassed empire. Overall.

More than five minutes. I think he could be. Yeah, I think he could be up by almost four minutes after stage 10. So yes, I think by more than five minutes would be the safe bet.

“Plus one away probably is the only way it's less I guess would be.”

He've put got your crashes out. Yeah. And then Del Toro and Vinigard aren't separated by very much. So that would be there. Yeah.

If you think that's going to happen, you should start fishing for the lower ones, but probably won't happen. Because favorites don't crash out as much as people think they do. Especially after the first few days.

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of a climate Miguel Enderane was. Today's question is, I have a story about this. Yeah. And then we can. Yeah.

I've budgeted it in. Okay. I've budgeted it in. Okay. We're good on the story.

So Paul success. The 19 year old French writer could still wear yellow at this race in theory. Who's the last French writer to wear the yellow jersey in their tour debut?

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Okay. What is your story about the 1990 Tour de France? Yeah. That was my 1990 was my first Tour de France. I was racing for Lotto.

Yeah. I mean, I mean, I had my leader, the leader of the team was clearly all who I think he finished six or seven in that Tour de France, sadly passed away already.

And I was always kind of the last guy with him.

So I remember that stage. I came to the bottom. To get a win, to get a win, main group. And then I had to let them go.

“I think I finished like 14, 15, I don't remember exactly.”

But the day after was the famous stage, which I showed the picture the other day, where I lost to Cony Chef in Paul. Which, yeah. So and there was at that time there was a classification, which I didn't know of, but I only found out after the stage of Paul.

There was a classification for the opportunity we can't. So the best place writer in the two stages of the Pyrenees. There was a hundred thousand French francs price, which, you know, translated to, back in those days, it was kind of a substantial amount of money. At least for me back then it was.

And so there was only, so I came, I came to the finish in Paul, got second.

That was, I think the remainder of the breakaway came to the finish. I think we were like 13 writers. And then the Peloton, the main group came to the finish. Like today, for example, like today, the main group of favorites. And it was not an uphill finish, so it was a sprint, right?

And yeah, there was only one way for me to not win that price. And if that, it Miguel Inderine won the sprint of the Peloton. And he sprinted and he won the sprint of the Peloton. And I didn't get a hundred thousand French francs. Yeah.

But anyways, you know, it's not a shame to lose from in the right. Yeah. No shame. I didn't do it. Well, by the way, it's not, you know, the question is, is not, is not who dropped Greg Lamont.

He just kind of outsprinted him and then there was a small gap. I think Inder, if I'm not mistaken. So I was the tour de France that Kippuchi was in the lead. And Lamont was chasing and trying to get time back day by day,

which actually finally he only took the yellow jersey in the last time.

The second last day. Yeah. Because Kippuchi got a massive break away on stage one together with Steve Bauer and drawn on Pasek. I do remember that. So yeah, Lamont was doing the majority of the work Inderheim was basically following him.

And Lamont was just riding to get time. You know, he didn't ride for the stage. And so then Inderheim passed him at the end and took like three, four seconds. I don't know how many, but he didn't drop him. He was, he was sitting on the wheel.

I mean, his uphill was already not easy to stay on the wheel. And I don't think he relayed on those early then. Well, like we, yeah, we debated this. So after the stage, he was Lamont was five seconds behind Kippuchi. So then with a TT left, he must have felt pretty confident because Lamont finished his fifth in the final TT.

I guess this is what people mean when they say, oh, these races were interesting. Like that is kind of interesting. The GC guy comes in, he's got to make up time. He doesn't win the time trial, but he puts enough time in the Kippuchi. But he puts like three minutes in the Kippuchi in the time trial.

So you're right.

“Who probably was just trying to take the time trial?”

It was, yeah. But you almost doesn't happen anymore. That you get non GC guys winning the fucking trial. I think broken to the front. Third.

In GC. Well, I should have said, the guy that's not winning the race. Usually what happens now is the best GC guy is better in time trial. Yeah, in climbing. You don't get this hodgepodge of, oh, I was the best time trialist.

But I wasn't the best gamer. Yeah, we debated whether we should say dropped or not. And we just said, because it sounded more impressive from a gallery. That with that with throw Miguel a bone on that. I must have done the two more minutes.

Yeah, for sure. We must have done the two more minutes. Yes, because I was actually still going. You must have done it.

“Now I remember, I was actually in that stage.”

That's, I mean, I'll try to, I'll send the picture now. So if Gabriel couldn't put it up at the end of the show here. I have a picture. Capucci in yellow.

And I was with Capucci in a break.

He was in yellow. And he was the whole stage escaped. We got over the two more.

“With Capucci and then we got caught in the, I just before those are the then.”

This was on this stage. Yes, it's a stage. I was a way with Capucci. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We got four riders over the two more. And the favorites were not there. And this was your tour day. Yeah, yeah. Big star breaking out there.

Yes. You know what I mean?

You don't do it on your first tour.

Yeah. Yeah. Get the winning the nine tours as a director. Jeez. That's kind of crazy that Capucci was in the way as the race leader.

Yeah. He did not start the two to France as one of the favorites at all. I don't know.

He just, you know, got that massive time gap.

“I think six, seven minutes on stage one.”

And he just kept it. You know? What a wild man. Yeah. That's crazy.

Yeah, we got to see this picture. Johanna way with the yellow jersey over the tourmalay. I'm going to have to go back and watch this race now. But anything else, Johanna, before we take off our rest day. And we'll be back on Tuesday for a very, very interesting stage.

I'm looking forward to seeing that stage. That's going to be.

“I mean, that's, that's what I need to say from the beginning.”

Yes, so no, no show tomorrow. Sorry. Don't show up here. Ready to listen. But we'll be back on Tuesday to break down.

Yeah, what? Which should be a great stage. But enjoy your day off, Johanna. And we'll talk to you next time.