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🗓️ 29 May 2025
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Johan Bruyneel and Spencer Martin break down Nico Denz's ride to win Stage 18 of the Giro d'Italia, where the GC contenders sat back and let a large early breakaway duke it out for the stage win. They discuss a few main takeaways from the stage before previewing tomorrow's massive GC mountain set piece, predicting who will win, how the action will play out, and which riders present the best betting value.
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0:00.0 | Hats off to Nico Dance. |
0:02.0 | I think Red Bull Bora, they were really in need for a win, a stage win after Primos quit. |
0:10.0 | And, you know, that's obviously a boost for the morale. |
0:14.0 | They have two more stages. |
0:17.0 | They have Pedigzari now also that probably would move up and have some good results. |
0:22.5 | So maybe they can still make the best of it under the circumstances. Red Bull. |
0:30.5 | Everybody, welcome back to the Move Plus. I'm Spencer Martin. I'm here with Johan Brunil. |
0:34.3 | We are breaking down stage 18 of the Giro Det Talia, which just wrapped up, one by Nico |
0:38.8 | Dense, and then we will predict tomorrow's major GC set piece, stage 19. |
0:44.3 | But first, let's go through a little bit of the stage, just to give a little background. |
0:48.3 | Also, full disclosure, Johann was on an eight-hour bike ride across the region of Spain that he lives in. And so I'll be filling him in |
0:56.4 | as well on this, as well as asking him some questions about the stage. Before you start, so I just want to |
1:01.1 | full transparency. I haven't seen the stage. I just got to the hotel. We were, yeah, I would say |
1:07.9 | seven and a half hours on the bike, probably nine hours in total from start to finish with stops. |
1:13.4 | Long, super long mountain bike ride from Madrid to Segovia with two friends. |
1:17.3 | So unfortunately, I haven't seen anything of the stage. |
1:20.8 | So I'll let you take the lead on that and I'll just give my idea on what I hear from you. |
1:27.0 | I know Nico Dance won. I know it was a |
1:29.1 | breakaway stage. I know nothing happened in GC and I know that Kona Yus dropped out. So those are the main |
1:35.2 | Yeah, that sounds. I watched to start to finish. You might know as much as I did. I also used to work |
1:40.8 | at a major, major cycling magazine and you watched about as much as people that work at cycling magazines watch about cycling. |
1:47.6 | So we're at a good place. |
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