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A (0:00)
I think Almeida looks in a good spot. I mean, he said himself that he feels great. Ayuso also said that. And actually Jay vine also said in one of his interviews that Almeida is on great form. So, I mean, having those two teammates say that publicly means that within the team they know that Almeida is in great shape.
B (0:24)
Everybody, welcome back to the Move. I'm Spencer Martin. I'm here with Johan Bruneil. We are breaking down stage seven of the Vuelta Espana won by Juana Uso. A resurgent Juana USO back from the dead from the breakaway. Marco Frigo in second. And then the GC group minutes behind again. Tom Pitcock led it home. 2 minutes 35 seconds back. Torsten Train still holds the red jersey. No time lost to Jonas Vagaard and Joel Almeida a little bit. Just mini tiny GC fireworks on the final climb. But again, another conservative breakaway. Dominant stage at the vta. And then at the end we will predict stage eight, tomorrow's stage eight, and who will win. So stick around for that. But Johan right up top. I mean, I guess here I'll give a brief, brief, brief summary of the stage. It starts, it's. It's suddenly broadcast start to finish. I did not see that coming, but want to use a 24 kilometer long climb. Attacks from the beginning. Johan, you told me that he did it because he knew he wouldn't be allowed in the break. So he thought, I will be the break. You can't miss the move if you are the move. He just, it was an unbelievable effort. He just is on the gas the entire time up this. It's like a 4 and a half, 5% climb. Crest the climb, but not much of a gap. Who's. Who's chasing him but Mr. Mads Pedersen. And then Pedersen pulls a group up. They connect with them. Once Pedersen is up there, he can blow the gap open because he's going for those bonus sprint points. At the base of the final climb, the group kind of Jay vine is in there as well. He's sprinting for KOM points. He's driving the pace a bit. And they get to the base of the final climb. A gets those sprint points and Ayuso says, see you later. Attacks, drops. Everybody wins the stage. But Johan, what is your take of.
A (2:04)
The day take of the day? Well, first of all, Ayuso did a great stage. We still don't know what happened yesterday, but this guy was obviously on good form today. It's true that it's different winning a stage from a breakaway, but if you look at his Performance today, man, the first hour, he just did everything by himself. He was. I mean, and I, I said yesterday on, on the podcast, I said Porto Canto is. Is a very annoying climb. It's, you know, proper for. For breakaways. For him to do that whole climb by himself and the effort he put in and then still have enough left in the final to. To go away from. From the breakaway. That's. That's impressive. And also, if you look at his performance on the last climb, he didn't lose that much time on the group of favorites. Okay. It's true that the group of favorites, there was no continuous pace. It was attacking, slowing down again. But I mean, I listened to his interview afterwards. He was, I mean, he was happy with the stage win. Obviously treats three stages in a row for uae, by the way. That's. That's quite the performance. Yeah, one team win, two stages in a row, team time trial. And then Jay vine yesterday, today, I uso. But yeah, he said, you know, he said he attacked and he. He had to do the first hour basically in front. He said he knew that what. That's what he had to do to be in the break because nobody would let him go. So he had to be ahead of the breakaway when the breakaway was formed. So obviously he's out of gc. I'm a bit. I mean, obviously it's. Listen, it's nice for him to win a stage, to bounce back after disappointment. It's great to win a stage. I hope that UAE also will put him now in. In a helper's role, because it looks to me more and more that Almeida is going to be the big challenger for Jonas Vingegaard, together with Chikone for the moment. But, you know, he needs people around him and, and I used to, as one of those guys who could potentially be very crucial when. When they're on, not for the next stages, but you know, on a mountain finish. And, and yeah, listen, great win for him. You know, we. We said yesterday he's not a team player. I still think he's not a great team player. But what do we know? You know, we don't know what's going on within the team. I heard also that Almeida was very complimentary of Ayuso after the stage. There must be. I mean, personally, I think that the whole Ayuso debate about whether he's a great teammate, whether he wants to leave the team, whether this or that, I think it's just we. If I say we, it's mostly on social media who are getting Sucked into that debate and probably within the team, it's actually not so much the case. That's what I think is happening and obvious course, you know, it makes for great titles and great newspapers and. But listen, at the end of the day, he's a good writer, right?