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Welcome back to the Spin Cycle Podcast, everybody.

I'm Kaylee Fretz.

Today on the show, Alla Believers rejoice the greatest Vuelta podium on a shortened final stage.

And what does this all mean for pro cycling let's get to it

welcome back to the show kit nicholson hello how are you i am damp in autumn is arrived in Scotland. That's rough.

And welcome back. Day and Cash, do you have a baby? No baby yet. I think she wanted to wait for the Vuelta. She knows how much it means to me. Respectful. Yeah. Yeah, very respectful. Yeah. Well, should we start with the Vuelta? I think we should start with the Vuelta today. You know, the final grand tour of the 2025 season was won by Jonas Vingigo. Could have called it. Probably did call it. Not a

whole, not a whole lot of surprise really there. There were some surprising things in the racing,

right? I mean, you know, we had the IUsso stuff, which was both surprising and unsurprising. Yeah, surprising. But the racing, right? I mean, you know, we had the I. Uso stuff, which was both surprising and unsurprising.

Yeah, surprising. But absent everything else that happened, probably would have been the story of the three weeks, right?

Like, we would have been chasing that one down for the remainder of the race and instead, everyone just ignored I use so from that point on.

I mean, let's not, okay, for anybody who's not remembering what I'm talking about here, his team quite unceremoniously just kind of told everybody, dumped him in the

middle of the race, basically, but he had to continue racing and to stick around. My favorite thing about

the Iuso stage win narrative, though, is that apparently he was told by the team that if he won a

stage or helped the team to win a TTT and or get on the podium, then he didn't have to go to the tour of Guangie. We talked about this on Friday because we missed it last Monday when you were last on Kit, and I was deeply ashamed that we had missed it because it is one of my favorites. That's one of the highlights of the races. So good. So good. But he did win two stages. So. You had two stages. Yeah, he had some fun, did I think, yeah. He should have set it up. He should have set up the bet so that one stage win was he didn't have to go to Guangxi. Two stage wins. He gets to pick someone else. No, he gets to pick a teammate. Ooh. Send that. He actually said to be rangji. Or Al-Mada. Would have been very fun. Well, he did, he did, speaking of it. Okay, so something new about I user then, he did actually do some work on Saturday. Not that it came to much of anything, but he did do some pretty, you serious gurning on the front on a couple of climbs. Yeah. So there we go. Good for him. Good for him. He didn't turn up to the party at the end though, but hey-ho. We still don't really know where he's going, although we've had, we've had heavily linked to Little Trick. A little birdie told me over the weekend. A little birdie. A little birdie told me

over the weekend.

A little birdie.

No.

A large

some sort of

Land Rover defender-shaped birdie.

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