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with a bit of cautella,

you know, there's a bit of catala.

Yeah, there's a lot of cliques,

the saliates long, are always different from those courts, obviously's obviously, you don't you can't do you know the pass more long of the gambah, but... Brian, Woonasera. I don't know what language I was speaking there. Goodasera. And I've every good-sera to you, Daniel. That was, that was. We heard first from Junior Pellizari today, and that was him speaking yesterday, yesterday morning to me, Brian, promising me, promising me that he wasn't going to follow, wasn't going to commit the Cardinal sin and follow Jonas Vingegar when his, Vingegar did his big attack today on the state of block as. Should we hear what Giulio Pellizziari in Italian said after today's stage?

I know that part very far, then, of the sort, then, of, I'll see it, I've got to exaggerated, and just.

I'm just, I'm just a bit of a spoiler, but Pelitari said, I will translate loosely.

I will paraphrate.

He said, yeah, well, sorry about that, Chaps, but I did actually follow him.

In spite of what I said yesterday, in spite of what I told the Cycling Podcasts,

Cats, Chaps yesterday, I did, I committed the Cardinals, and I did follow Yonis Vingergaard, and I paid for it, and I threw all the good work away. He did a scale, most. Well, Brian, there's a whole catalogue of riders, isn't that from the last two or three years that have followed, particularly Tadipagia. And that was, I prefaced my question to to Pellizadeu. Yesterday morning, I said, look, Julia, old son, a lot of people in the last couple of years. And so we can go back to, I mean, one classic example was Ben O'Connor at Europa in the tour in the Jira in 2024. And he tried to follow him. And again, he got he got it I mean there were even some quotes

I can't remember who was no that's why I said he did a skelemose because

Kelmosa tried to follow Pogaccio on La Redud two years ago and then when he eventually made

it to the Finnish Kelmos he said well if you come too close to the sun there you get your

wings melted so he actually gave did he actually mention Icarus? Yeah, exactly. Okay. So there are lots of writers that have done it, and I said to Giulio Pellitari, well, basically I said, you're not going to do this, are you? And he said, no, no, I don't. Well, rest assured, rest assured, I wouldn't do something so foolish. Maybe he should have, like, an alarm on his power meter. Yeah. Because, I mean, that's what they all do now. Like, I mean, I'm not going to accuse Pellissari of riding just by numbers because he clearly didn't do that today. Some alarm woulded went off I suppose but that's maybe he

went like there was too much Ciglismo in him today and he couldn't control

it definitely and Brian before we talk more about today's stage and what we have

just seen just to explain to the listeners described to the listeners where we

are please yeah so we are actually on the other side of where the stage finish.

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