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R.H. with Benji as always for the Movistar team preview 2023.

Lot of changes transition.

Men's team, by the way, in this team.

With the retirement allegedly, which has been walked back a bit of Alejandro Valverde.

Bala the green bullet and not too many signings and by my count.

I can't count over like 15 plus over half the roster is out of contract at the end of 2023 according to PCS.

So this is a team in flux with a lot of guys writing for contracts next year.

They survived the relegation battle.

I don't think at the start of the year.

And that feels like sort of a victory in August and September.

But really at the start of the year, their goal wasn't just five relegation.

It was to improve and progress as a team.

But how did they actually go in 2022, Benji, maybe compared to previous years and other teams?

We always start these discussions by discussing the cobble races, but let's be honest about it.

The team did nothing at the cobble races.

Arambudu and the other guy Garcia Cortina didn't deliver in those races.

Although I don't actually know if they were sent to those races in the first place.

But outside of their cobble race, looking at the other classics, Hill classics, for example,

I'd say they delivered relatively second at strade is a really good result for Valverde in the last season.

If it's the last season, we'll talk about it later.

Second at flesh, Valverde, that's a good result.

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