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Today we are in Verbania.

Today we are in Verbania.

This is Peku DeCora,

Coz, Cicene, Coz, Bichina,

so you know,

the Isola Bella, Isola the Piscator, Isola Madre, Daniela in a sunny, lush, hot day.

Italian stays winning, cyclism?

Oh, 100%.

You could see the estate...

Yes, it was full of my friends, family, the family of my girlfriend.

And I spent many time here in Verbania.

My girlfriend's house is really close to the finish line.

And so I knew the climb, I knew the finish.

I point to this stage before the start of the Jirod Italia.

I'm at the arrival of my, maybe, if I see, I'll be able to salute them.

He won a big, a big, at the end.

Yeah, I've won, I've been, Albert.

He, for the most, even for him, a joy. Mikhaili Pelaci, three Italians. It was a day of him, day for the Italians, but not the Italian we thought it was going to be a day for Philippo Ganna, the local boy. It didn't turn out to be the Ganna festival, the Ganna Loving that we thought, but there was a rider with a local connection who prevailed today, Alberto Betiole, whose girlfriend is from very close to here, where we're seeing it at the moment. But Pelachi, we heard you there talking about your boat ride. You were chewing my ear off all day about this boat ride. I said, Pelachi, we're not in Disneyland now, you're at the Jir in Italia. It's time to do some Vero Gournalismo. And you continue to tell

me that, okay, you would do some journalism, but you wanted to go on the boat ride from the

press room to the finish line first. And I trusted you and it paid off in the end, didn't

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