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All right guys, Matt Dixon again.

Welcome to Meribel.

Yes, stage five of the alt route.

Today was the time trial stage.

We're staying in an absolutely lovely village here.

A gorgeous hotel.

It's a fantastic setting.

And today was a very short stage, only 10 kilometres.

The problem was it was all uphill. And so this morning, we got up, nice relaxed breakfast. We were set off at 30 second windows, so we had a long staggered people starting from anywhere between

8am and 11am. We were setting up and stage right

next to the finish line. As you can see here, Simon getting his pre-race briefing from Ian

from Lefuga. Let's check in to see what Martin felt like before the stage. Let's get Martin

here who's busy doing, is it? Hello, Martin. Oh, hello. They say you've got to be in it to win it.

Is that your mindset today? Oh that's a great saying and I embrace that sort of thinking.

Unfortunately, easy tiger, know your limits. That's my phraseology for the day.

All right, let's talk about the stage itself. So 10 kilometres uphill starts in the town and it goes up the Kord de la Luz.

It's a really famous Tour de France climb, incredibly difficult.

It begins with about 5 kilometres ranging between 6% and 10% grade, pretty steady, and goes on to a narrow path, from which point the last

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