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Lugo. I don't know where it is.'s in the north of Spain maybe Cantabria to the Puerto

de Ancarres 176 kilometers long 3,700 meters of climbing and we have before the final climb three categorized climbs

they're pretty easy on highways they're like 5k 6% 7k 5% 6.6 ks6.9% there's a false flat drag and then 7.5 k is at 9%

it's whoever made the whoever decided that was the cutoff point for this climb is a

is a jokester.

It's a 5K 12% climb.

Okay, 5K's averaging 12% of Puerto de Ancarres.

It's not so narrow.

It's a decent road, but it's steep as hell for 20 minutes and yeah we do we have any

pre-race shenanigans banji I know this COVID about Van about Van Aver abandoned was that last night?

I think that was two days ago but in the end nothing too crazy before today's

stage if I recall correctly I'm looking at the list we had Loster and Bedhe and

Bedhe and not starting today's stage so Dadzila is going into it but I was expecting a

five for the breakway because we made that conclusion the last few days.

Bora has realized after 11 days of racing.

We've seen that happen already that either they go for controlling

the breakway during the stage,

or they go for doing a full lead out on the climb because they've realized

that doing both isn't perfectly manageable especially because there's so

many teams that realize that breakways have been successful already so a lot of breakaway riders are going to be trying at the start of a stage so that's a scenario we're starting with so I expected a breakway to win as a consequence of that and I looked up my Welta thicker and I saw a large breakaway form.

First 18 riders including Waudfernard, J. Vine, Mark Soler, so two riders from UAE,

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