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Sant'um Amal Montrand was where Paranise started, we'll have Toreno-Adriatico as well at the end of this pod.

It finishes though this stage, the first mountain top finish, if we can call that between Pog and Vingigard since the Tour de France in a stage race if we don't count on Bardy, which Pog swept.

The floor, with Jonas Whitt, 7k7%, but it comes after like a stepped medium mountain section that I think was raised, well I don't think it was raised really hard, with multiple short punchy climbs and the intermediate sprint at the end of like a 9k false flat 3% section with 6 seconds on offer before it was sent into the base of the final.

Pedestan? No, not Pedestan, caught in a GC lead, Vingigard, I think it was 13 seconds or so in the end ahead of Pikachu on GC, Benji, we thought Pog would win the stage, were you surprised by the break composition because we sort of, I sort of said, oh, Yombo could get guys in the break to make it go all the way, it was still a pretty strong break.

It was a pretty strong break, but there were riders in there that, if for example, the Yombo Visma rider was riding on a different team, he would have likely gotten in the break way, I think.

We didn't see the actual creation of the break way, so it's difficult to say whether UAE neutralized any attacks by Yombo Visma at the start, whether some stuff was going on between those two teams that made the break way form later, because I did feel like the break way formed late into today's stage.

I swear it was like a solid 40 kilometers in, which means that it takes some time there, but there was also purposes in the peloton, because the first like 40, 50 kilometers of the stage had potential echelons, there was some echelon rumors floating around, so there was a possibility there, but that didn't really occur, that break out away and that break had like you said, solid riders to riders from UNO X, it also included, it didn't include this break away, Jesus.

Very good.

K-1 boy.

Yeah, K-1 boy, he was from UNO X, one of those two riders, but next to him actually solid climbers as well in Ugo-Ul, wanted to the front stage, Pasqualein, Corn who has been good at those Mallorca challenges, Galmujan, Warbass, and well, that's already a solid risk of success.

So those are riders where I would say, you still have to pace quite a bit after to get them caught in the end, so maybe it's a bit more dangerous, agreed?

A bit more dangerous than you way probably wanted in this stage, but maybe stuff happened before the broadcast happened, where they had to let this break go to make sure yumbo-rotted didn't get in there, we don't know that.

But anyway, this break got a gap, this break kept on going, but at 90k to go, something happened.

At 90k to go, groupama pulls, crosswinds, and there's a split in the peloton for a bit, and there was some unsureness on the internet, whether Vingigo was behind or not in that split.

We know that Pogaccia was in the front, Deschelon.

Some reports say that Vingigo was behind in the second Deschelon, some say that he was with Pogaccia, so I actually don't know where he was, but that on the side, they got caught again, but I do want to notice now.

The second to break, I'll start, one of the things that someone sent to me was, why is Vingigo riding with his aero-servelo bike instead of his climbing-servelo bike on this stage?

Do you think the fear for echelons might have had an influence on that?

Because 90% of the stage is flat, or written over 30km an hour, then the climb itself is written at 25km an hour.

I think 7K is 7% very steady, no steep sections, so the aero-bike is going to win out.

Wait, really only starts to matter much more above 7%, and you're going to save more before the climb by using the aero-bike if the aero-bike actually works as an aero-bike, which I don't know anything about that stuff.

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