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Welcome back to the spin cycle podcast, everybody. I'm Kaylee Fretz.

Today on the show, Tatea Pogra is tired.

There's been a punch up in Portugal, and Kit went to a show.

Let's get to it.

Welcome to SpinCycle, reclined Johnny Long. I'm doing what the pros say you do.

I'm just trying to be professional here.

Don't sit when you could lie or whatever it is. Yeah, between grand tours. Where to be. And we just heard Kit Nicholson, welcome. Hello. I was also in the intro, so, you know, they know. You were. You get double introed today. Where should we kick off today's show? We had a bit of racing over the weekend. We had Leadville over the weekend. We talked about that a little bit later. But we also had some sort of like Tadi Pagacchargad event of some sort. He described as his criterion in Slovenia. His criterion. Did he get to win? Did they let him win his criteria? He was delighted to win his own criteria in front of his fans, yeah. Was he more or less delighted to win that than the Tour de France

compared to the Tour de France?

Johnny?

I would say it's just good to see him

happy again, maybe. If only fleetingly, as

he once again descends back into

the enwee, is it pronounced,

that has become the lifestyle of one of the best cyclists all time and multi-multimillionaire.

Do you know what I noticed from you? You know these criteria, these post-tour de France criterion.

Yeah, I love them. I mean, even Ben Healy turned up in the yellow jersey to race one and then celebrate twice.

That's a story from a few weeks ago that you need to refresh your memory of.

But Tadabigachia decided not to race in the yellow jersey.

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