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pro, elite and Olympic teams trust science and sport. Well, before we get into all of that, though, welcome back, Jakopo. We had a couple of days off from podcasting, haven't we? Yeah, from podcasting. Yeah. Yesterday, thanks. I mean, we arranged because we had a very long transfer. Didn't quite manage to go to ride with the timing and the position to sleep but we've done it we survived six hours six

hours six hours it was more than six hours like how they were divided four hours yesterday almost

yeah and then we thought we had a half an hour this morning yeah thank god you checked over breakfast

because that was an hour and 50 minutes and it was long because it was an all-uner-normal oh yeah

you got so italian behind the wheel as well no come on come on. Yeah, you did. Oh, you do a good job. I mean, I was one moment that was really annoyed by, yeah, one person was driving just a little bit too slow. No, no, it was not slow because she was smashing on the accelerator on the straight lines and then really 20 per hour on the corner. So I was really struggling because she was going too fast and too slow at the same time. It was not even. It was... Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the highlight of last night's drive was we stopped off. Where did we stop off? Where was it? We were in Valtellina, so near Sondrio. So those of us who don't live in Italy,

can you describe roughly where that is? Yeah, Valtalina, basically, if you looked from Como Lake, you know, there is this giant valley that connect Como Lake to Bormio. So it's really at the bottom of mighty mountains, like Bormuio, you know, like Paso Gavia, Aprica, which we did on the car. And it's basically on the flat, but with high mountains.

And the moment you get away from the lake... know, like Paso Gavia, Aprica, which we did on the car. And it's basically on the flat,

but we hide mountains. And the moment you get away from the lake, it just had to be like cruising

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