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Today we are in Potenza. Gooda-sera.

Buonastara, Daniel.

I'm in Potenza.

We are down in the lower town, aren't we?

The impotenza.

The impotenza.

We're not actually sure where the finish...

Well, we do know where the finish was because we were up there earlier, but we have

been lurking for the last hour or two down at the buses.

Well, where the buses were part, because that was where we were sort of picking up our intelligence, hopefully it is intelligence, about today's stage.

And now we are, well, we are watching the rain fall, and the rain has fallen most of the day, has it not down in the

sort of lower scruffier part of Bortenza, but ready to tackle, ready to talk about another

cracking, cracking stage in the Giro de Italia, for some, in some instances, in some respects,

for the wrong reasons, it was a cracking stage, but it was certainly a very dramatic stage brian certainly was once again the jiro took us by surprise um when you i mean it was also a little

bit written in the parkour in the stars it was really on stars wasn't it of this too little bit of

it was hard to imagine after yesterday that today wouldn't be similar type of stage or could hold an upset in the hiding probably also a little bit.

Indeed, Brian. And Brian, I traded my assets for pity in a cassette. Let's admit I'm the best at this game of regret, said Chikone.

That was not his post race quote. It was her line. I'm talking about Madonna, of course, Chikone,

Julia Chichonnet's namesake in the song, American Life, but that was the most apt line I

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