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We're on the top of the Oricam, the first true mountain stage of the 2025 Tour

France. We just witnessed, annihilation isn't really the right word. That's maybe a little bit

much, but we witnessed one rider being significantly better on the day, at least, than everybody

else. Tata Pagacra wins the stage, rode through that early breakaway that I think had 39 riders in it at one point, rode through that breakaway, like it was standing, still dropped to Yonos Vingago, and where do we stand? Where do we stand, Ian Treloire? Tadeo Pagacha is looking like the rider to beat, even more than he has been looking like the writer to beat since the start of the race.

So that's, I mean, it's great for Tateau Pagaccia.

I don't know how good it is for the rest of the Tour de France in terms of maintaining things like interest and suspense and narrative.

We're staying positive, Ian. Sorry. We're staying positive. Yeah, no, let's reframe that. Well, Scores on the doors. Scores on the doors. Pigatcha. Also joining me, Johnny Long. Oh, hi. Well, hi. Well done. I don't know if I said, well done to you. I think I was looking at the results. Well done. I had taken two minutes on Vingo and internally was like, oh, well done. That's a good result. Yeah, two minutes, ten seconds. Which brings the GC2. Three and a half minutes. Evan Apoll is still in third, 445. But maybe we're going to have to do a bit of an F1 drive to survive where we get really into like, who's going to come fifth. I would say I would actually give you a corrections Cornelian doors. It didn't look like Pagatra was going through the breakway

while I stand and still. one drive to survive where we get really into like he's going to come fifth um i would say i would

actually give you a correction as cornered doors it didn't look like pagetra's going through the breakway while standing still it looked like piaacch was going through the breakway while they were going backwards um this is what happens in the mountains right it's where there's no hiding there's no hiding you know uh sep coos i chow was se after the stage, he described it as an honest stage.

There is no hiding, there is no trickery, there is no tactics.

I think I wrote in a story around this time last year that you can kind of hide bad tactics with good legs,

but good tactics are not going to hide.

Not necessarily bad legs, but not the best legs.

Unfortunately, for,

you know, this Viggo. So what's our, what's our top three on GCC now? So Pagaccia, first,

Vingo second, three minutes 31. Evan Nepal, four minutes 45. I'll give you a couple more. Florina

Lippewicz up four places to fourth, five minutes 34, Vokalanslow behind him. Oscar Onely also rises

after finishing fifth overall

to 605. We also have Tobias Hallin-Johannison, who finished fourth today and climbs to eighth.

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