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I'm Kaylee Fretz.

We are down from Montvant to where we went today. We got a fair amount of racing to talk about

today and then a lot of other things as normal. Valentine's Empire Pantre won the stage. It was a,

it was kind of an epic battle out of the breakway, actually. I ended up sort of nipping Ben Healy right at the

finish line. Tadipaccha obviously, obviously remains in the yellow jersey. In fact, he took a couple more seconds on Yonis Vingigo. Not for lack of trying on Vigigo's part. We'll get into all that. Joining me tonight. Johnny Long. Hello. Good evening. Ian Trellor. Hello. Patrick Redford. Hello. Hello. Good evening. and Joshua Robinson of the Wall Street Journal. What a day. Ian Trelor. Hello. Patrick Redford. Hello, good evening.

And Joshua Robinson of the Wall Street Journal.

What a day.

What a day.

Why don't we set a scene that we're not actually in yet first?

Could someone set a Montfantu scene for me?

The greatest place I've been to on a bike race.

Wow.

So good.

You have seen it on TV and then actually being there in person is bloody incredible.

It's got its own majesty which is different to Al-Duaz or any of the other big climbs.

It is just this big, I shouldn't swear, because it's not a quote, but it's a big

effing mountain, just rising up out of nowhere and down the bottom of it, it's all kind of piney

and cypress tree, really good stuff. It also looks nothing like anything else we've ever seen on the tour

or, you know, any other place on the

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