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Thank you. covered and claim your free NSF t-shirt. Terms apply. Well, good morning, people of the Giro de Tal. It's the morning of stage six. It's the Napoli stage. Skirting around, Mount Vesuvius, heading towards the coast on the other side

of the Italian peninsula for the first time. It's a touchstone of the Giro de Talia, Naples, a wonderful city and a slight change in the

pod situation today because we're going to give David Miller and Pete Kenneke a day off a morning

off. In fact, I'm giving myself a morning off because in a slightly cheating way, even though

I've just said, good morning people of the Gita d'Italiaalia I'm actually saying this at 10 o'clock at night the night before pretending

that it's the morning and that it's the morning pod which it is come on you're listening to it

in the morning and you had no idea until I admitted that I'm cheating about when I'm recording

it that I was cheating about when I was recording it a couple of big climbs on the way today.

A bit of a patchy forecast.

A couple of days ago, they were storms forecast for Napoli,

and I think there might still be rain on today's race.

We'll have to wait and see.

But there you go.

In the meantime, though, the reason it's slightly different today

is because I wanted to recap a little bit of yesterday's stage 5 and in particular showcase the speaking and human talents of the marvellous man who is my co-commentator, Jakbo Guanyeri.

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