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Now, maybe during the Tour de France, you thought, oh, you're overhyping this stage, but a lot

of the Tour de France stage is almost all of them delivered, unlike last year. And we hyped up

the potential of the stage fire from Irwin to Bilbao. They're a bit 188 K's. We have the

Alto Del Vero climb twice. They do a lap of the finish through Bilbao, 4.6 K's, 8%. There's

some medium mountain climb to preceding it. There's then the best part of 16 kilometres, which is a

highway, not particularly technical descent into Bilbao. And we said, or I said, maybe not expecting

it, but this could be a great launch pad for teams like Quickstep with an athlete and a pole,

and the team they've brought to take time. The man is once answer bastion twice. Even mobba

star yesterday, I said, if Enrich Maas feels good and your team is strong, which it does look

strong with Rahas, Oliveira and others, Mulberger, try something, thin out the GC guys. You never know.

But yeah, nothing of that sort happened today. Absolutely nothing on GC.

All we were left with, I think, coverage starting late was a delay in brake formation,

with, and I was curious to me, we don't really know what happened or why. It just took

ages for the brake to go, set on PCS lifestyles that Jumbo were chasing things back. Was it

hater? Why do you think Benji, because haters seem to want to get in the brake?

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