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I'm sorry, I'm just eating my lunch.

And it was a, just had a quite heavy Italian salad with a fairamander

a mozzarella and I'm just eating.

You don't need to know that. it's finished and it was it was pretty much the show we expected

We had to wait a little bit longer on the climb than we had anticipated, but um

I'm happy that. I think that's been I think that's been a really good

addition of the race I mean strange in all sorts of ways but as a you know if we if we remove the parentheses of worry that seem to encapsulate the entire human experience at the moment and just concentrate on the minutes of commentary we've done when we've honed in and forgotten about the

rest of the world and just watch the the race I've been very pleased with it as a

spectacle I think it's been amazing. Yeah it's lived up to expectations you say

Parneses renowned as being this type of race where it's always animated racing, and that goes down a lot to the kind of the very nature of the course. There are very few definitive moments, so it forces good bike racing.

And we've seen, as usual, as sometimes happens, we've seen some new names come out

and some old names reaffirm themselves.

And we saw today and saying the final stage was this weekend

was supposed to be the kind of the the shootout if you like with the big

summit finish today and then the classic hellish lap around niece tomorrow.

But it all came down to today and very much as he said, it happened kind of like what we expected it would in that

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