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Then, well, it was hard, of course, at the start of the tour, but you seem to be improving

every day, mostly, and today is the big day.

Yeah, I hope so. I mean, yes, I didn't have very good legs after the rest day, but today

is a much better stage for me, and we'll see what we can do.

It's very, very hot, and it's the third week, but the climbs...

We haven't really hit any climbs of this difficulty yet, with one hour long, you know?

And the Madeline is a horrible climb to my side.

It's very steep in long periods, and there's no rest by.

And then the last climb, obviously, I don't know it.

I know the road up until Merribele, we didn't 2016, but the last part is a bit of an unknown,

and obviously nobody's raised up there.

So even if you've done a recon, it's still very different when you're racing.

So the Alistair is going to play a big part as well.

I think if you're making an attack, you could really pay for it afterwards.

So, yeah, it's going to be a very tactical battle for the stage victory and for the GCU guys,

but yeah, I just hope we come out of it well.

What we opened tonight with Dan Martin,

you were speaking to him at the start of his mind, Francois.

He was to play quite an active part in the stage, but also quite pressy in talking about the impact

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