All right, we are back for a special Giro stage 19 edition of the Cycling Tips

Podcast. I am Abby Mickey. I am joined by Dane Cash, Dane. Nice hat.

Thanks. No one can see it. Dane, nice hat.

Thanks.

No one can see it, but.

Well, thanks.

Cayley never compliments my, well, anything that I'm wearing.

So thanks for that, I appreciate that.

You're welcome.

I mean, he always just asked me how I'm doing which that's fine I guess but

Kaylee. Thank you for joining us today. You're welcome Abby.

It's a pleasure to be here.

And Ronan, who has a little bit of background ambience, if you can hear the children's show playing in the background, it is, it's Ronan.

We have a special guest on the on the pod today

she's a little bit preoccupied with her iPad here but she she is here she'll if she's

something relevant to say I'm sure she'll pop her head up. Of course. All right so stage 19 of the Giro was really exciting. Dane, do you want to give us a little bit of a overview of what's happened since the rest day on Tuesday?

Sure. Well, we'll keep it quick. I think we can probably assume that if you're listening to a podcast about bike racing you probably have kept up with the giro but as a

as a little bit of a refresher I think that the general thought is that

Aigan Bernal has looked not quite as dominant in the past few days as he did when we last recorded a podcast.

He was looking very strong heading into this final week and then I guess

it was stage 17 on the climb to Seggadiala where he just kind of he didn't quite have the same strength that we expected.

Simon Yates gained a bunch of time on him that day, although he did have a bunch of time to make

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