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Join Cycling I'm in the midst of a rainstorm slash electoral strike Luke

reliably in four he is also in the midst of it. He says it'll be over in 10 minutes and that's almost what turned up at the end of this Dothane stage to finish which we didn't really see the last 500 meters up in the clouds or in the fog at 1251 meters from

Gana to Koldt aloesh. And it's like a 20k step climb finish very very we don't have too many of these

Benji this is like the in our Garve we have one of these sort of finishes in it's it's

almost beyond the climb climbing sprinty boy.

Yeah, it's true and it also kind of depends on the situation before the race because now we're going into the stage with multiple riders that think,

okay, I can actually get something going here while in the tour

of France there was that that stage that Magnus court was printing against Nick

Schultz also kind of a similar vibe but that's a breakaway stage because there's not too many teams that want to control a slightly harder stage than this, but with a similar finishing climb, if that makes sense.

So when I looked at the parkour, I was thinking, okay, which teams are going to be willing to control here?

And I thought it would either be Borah with Roglich. But then outside of that, we saw the likes of Roman

Greiguar, Magnus Court that writers that could potentially win this stage,

but I didn't anticipate those teams necessarily controlling, right?

Yeah, like I mentioned a million names yesterday, but I didn't, I thought it would be

Trek soft pacing. Okay. Bora forogler bones and in a normal world Peremco Boney's quick step but he's not going for

G. C here and then... We'll see. Yeah I definitely didn't think it'd be Israel Turns because as say it it's a flat finish in the end he's a

puncher not he doesn't have the best flat sprint I should probably go through the it's

a hundred forty three k's rolling terrain beforehand with a few categorized climbs and then the last 20-K, so

has a 7.5k 6% climb, a short 5k plateau, another 3.5k 6% climb and then the last 7k 6k2 to finish are like false flat slash a little bit uphill on like a decent road 3 4% and the last 400

meters or so flat so it really is a special finish in that you because a climbing

sprint you boy has to climb really well to make a flat finish which will be a sprint in the end like in Romandy.

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