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sort of it's not historical but traditional stage 19 transition stage where every single

ruler in the peloton tries to get in the breakaway. I don't know I can't remember who won it in 2021.

Maybe it was I think it was Moritz in 2021 because he was in a group with like

Irvity or Pollard and yeah was a servant and then last year stage I can't remember there was

another one of these breakaways huge break and so we knew it was coming because it was really

hilly. The sprinter's teams got exposed yesterday on the actual easy sprinter stage so there's

no way they're controlling this one. 173k's from Moriahal, Montana to Pulling Yee and it's got

you know over 2000 meters elevation just up and down all day on these horrible dragy climbs.

The last climb is the the ivory coat 2.3k's at 6.2% but it's actually five

kilometers that near enough 5% the categorization begins halfway up this climb which belies how

difficult it actually is and then from there the crest of that is about 29 kilometers to the

finish which is up and down a little bit but again not too difficult mostly flat straight roads

tied peloton Benji and you know after yesterday to me it was like and everyone finally

wanted to get in the breakway because literally every team was jumping including UAE including

YUMBO there wasn't a single team not jumping I don't think. Exactly and also important

Alpasin as well trying to jump into breakaways with all the providers at first it was more that

they were following attacks but towards the later phase of the break formation they tried making

breakaways themselves and there was so much attacks like for like 50 kilometers I swear to break

formed with 120 kilometers to go roughly and this is after 50 kilometers of racing every time I

looked at the TV I still saw the same view people attacking people attacking and the same people

the same teams and Paterson was very active in the in the break formation phase we saw loads

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