Welcome back to the segmentist podcast everybody. I'm Kaley Fritz. I'm here with Ronan.

Hi, Ronan. I just want to say that our analysis of today's stage yesterday, I feel like we're pretty spot on. I think we said

definitely a breakaway, right? Yeah, what do we say? It was a snowball's chance and

hell of a sprint? Yeah, I think that's exactly what we said.

Yeah, just rewriting history here.

Well, we are, we're standing at the finish line as 10K to go.

We're doing a little roadside pre-chat before the chat again. At the moment, Mate Mohorich is off the front with

43 seconds and we were just saying that the group behind the closer they get to the finish line, the less they're going to be working together so seems pretty likely you might make the line at this point

Yeah, it's it's one that's another one of those scenarios where you know you look at it on paper and you go write a group chasing a solo rider,

it's surely the group is going to catch them, but there's so many different dynamics

of play, so many different tactics and exactly as you said, the closer they get to the

finish, the less guys are going to want to use their legs, the closer they even get to the finish the less guys are going to want to use their legs the closer they even

get to the sole rider in front you often find that a group you'll start saying

guys started thinking we're so close to this guy now we're gonna catch catch him I'm going to hold off and save my energy and

and that sometimes can mean that the group doesn't catch a solo writer as well so

Certainly looking good for my heart at the moment, but there is 10 kate ago and I think he has if I remember one more lump

to get over. Let's talk about the reasons why we were so right today

meaning that you know the reasons why a breakaway succeeded so I think the

assumption coming in from from obviously much lesser pundits

than us was that, well, the quick step would hold it all together, that they don't, would have enough

reason to do so,

given that there's only two more shots for Cavendish to better Merck's record

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