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We come to you after stage 15 won by none of them, Tim Wellens, another UAE victory, but a different fellow this time. That was exciting. Big breakaway day. We're coming out of the Pyrenees. I'm joined by Johnny Long. Welcome. Hello. I'm Ian Trellor. Hello. And Joshua Robinson of the Wall Street Journal. Welcome back, Josh. Good to be back. It's so good to have you. Let's talk about the stage a little bit. Kind of chaotic breakaway stage. Obviously, won by Tim Wellens in a pretty significant gap, actually, in the end. But we saw, I don't know, how many different iterations of that breakaway?

A few, that's for sure.

10, 15, something like that.

I'm not going to obviously run through all of them.

I think that would be maybe a waste of everybody's time.

But needless to say, it took a while for the break to not fully form, but then it

started to come back, and we had a Jonas Vingago crash early on in the stage, to which

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