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Tour de France Stage 7 | The Sir Wiggo & Johan Show
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Johan Bruyneel and Sir Bradley Wiggins peel back the curtain on the tactics, strategy, and pivotal moments that shaped Stage 7 of the 2025 Tour de France, offering sharp analysis and insider perspective you won’t hear anywhere else. LMNT: Get your...
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UAE was saying or hinting towards, okay, they absolutely wanted to avoid me losing the jersey. They wanted to keep me in the jersey. Then I saw an interview, one of the directors, Arturo Van Dongen, who's been there all the Tours, you know, really, really a clear vision. And he said, no, it never came up. We just ride our own race and we wanted to make the race hard the same as yesterday. And then I'm thinking, okay, well, making the race hard one thing. But is that not playing in the favor of Pogalia? Of course it is.
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B
Because, you know, I mean, the harder.
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A
The race is, the hard, the better support are they without him having to spend his teammates.
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B
Absolutely. But also by trying to make it hard for the greatest cyclist in the world, you're making it hard for your own team. And why on these stages? What have they got to gain? I'm the 2012 Tour de France winner, Sir Bradley Wiggins.
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I'm Johan Brunhil. I directed my teams to nine Tour de France victories. Welcome to the Sir Wiggle and Johan show, our daily show where we dive deep into the tactics behind every stage of the Tour de France. Hi everybody. Welcome back to our show, the Sir Bradley and Johan show. Or should I say Sir Wiggle and Johan show. What do you prefer, Bradley?
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B
Sir Wiggle's fine.
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A
There we go. Talking about stage seven of today's stage. Very famous climb. Bradley, I'd like to first know what's your take of the day?
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B
Well, my take of the day is I picked him yesterday. But of course a 19th Tour de France stage win for Telepagaccio back in yellow. And we could. We'll chat about it later, but I think there's some. A few things I took away from today with his victory. But first, Johan, I'd like to talk about one of our sponsors of this show. It's element, of course. Thousand milligrams of sodium, 200 milligrams of potassium, 60 milligrams of magnesium, no sugar, no gluten, no artificial ingredients, no bs. The real deal. And best of all, if you don't like it, give it to a friend and Element will refund you. How it works, of course, is Element sample pack doubles down on our.
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B
Yeah, I mean, groin, you know, it's his last Tour de France I thought, you know, based on the average speed of the first hour and a half. I mean, we know having seen the last few days just to make the breakaway shows, you know, you have to get there on force. So those guys that were in there, you know, there was, there was no easy breakaway to get into. And, and at certain time as well, you know, based on yes day there was a chance that a break and the peloton knew that a break could go to the finish potentially again today based on the fatigue that the riders have now up to this point and the way that we've raced this Tour de France up to this point. But it wasn't to be you. Alpecin Road, of course, and then UAE put Nils Pollitt again there and they didn't really let that gap go more than 1 minute 30 all day. And that was a tough stage. And we saw first time up the Mirabatan, there must have been 30 riders left, which, I mean, we spoke about this yesterday. Johan, you said had this, had this been a stage 30 years ago, there'd be no gaps. It's incredible now that you know, 25 30k to go, you've got 2530 riders.
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A
Left, that it's, it's. It's amazing. It's amazing. But coming back on, on Grain Thomas, you know, I mean, I think it was very, very brave of him, but I mean, don't you think he should wait for stages that are more within his capabilities? I mean, obviously we don't know how he feels. Right. And sometimes, sometimes it happens that you, you kind of get, get into a group by coincidence because you're just following the wheels.
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C
Yeah.
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A
Today stage for. For Grant was, Was not the ideal stage. And I felt kind of bad for me, you know, when there were. When there were four guys left, right. Because Holler was dropped already. There were four guys. And then on that little kick was third category climb, or was it not the fourth category climb? He just couldn't hold the wheels.
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B
No, I mean, I mean, it wasn't probably a thought process as well with the break. And we know Dave Browser's on the race. You know, they haven't had a great tour up to this point. There was a. Probably a thought process of, you know, getting. Making sure we had a ride in the break with a view of it taking more time than it did and maybe going later on into the stage and getting over the mu to pretend first time and then potentially having bodies in the front when the race came up to them and that might have been their thought process. It wasn't to me, but you don't know until you try. And yeah, I mean, they obviously G was dropped before the first time up the mu, which wasn't, you know, probably wasn't. The plan was. I imagine they would have at least hoped to take a few minutes and then the race would have come to them and G would have been in that 2530 man group. But As I say, you can't plan for these things. You can't plan for the speed of the race and just how hard it was going to be. And. And the other thing is, is part and parcel of this Tour de France is we. We, you know, we think it's predictable at times, but there's been nothing predictable about this start, this first week of the Tour.
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A
That's true. No, no, no, no. And I think in. In G's case, I think it's also probably a bit mentally, you know, you. You're in that break, it's hard to stay up front, and then you get close and you already. He already knew they were going to get caught. So, you know, and then he probably. He probably said, okay, why bother? Why should I try to, you know, stay here? It's more a case of pride, I guess, to not get dropped. But, you know, at this point, G doesn't have to prove anything to anybody.
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B
Also, isn't Direct Energy. Isn't this their home region?
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A
Probably? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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B
I've got a feeling Direct Energy, they. They are, you know, from Brittany. I might be wrong, but I know.
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A
I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I think it's more Normandy. But, uh, anyway, it was. I mean, it was. It was a nice try, but I think that there's other. Other stages that he probably should look at. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I was. I was thinking, you know, if you see the difference, I mean, Grantham is such a champion. He's won the Tour. You know, he's. He's been on all the podiums of every single Grand Tour. He's been on every step of the podium of the Tour de France. He's been on the podium of other Grand Tours. And now you just really start to see the difference. Right. Like, these young guys, there's. There's just that gap that it's just, you know, you cannot not see it.
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C
Yeah, yeah. You know.
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A
Anyway, so that's. That was as predicted as it could be foreseen, this scenario. And then we get towards the circuit, as we said yesterday, extremely, extremely fast approach. And the first time of the Britannia.
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B
We see.
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A
Visma Lisa bike coming to the front. And I thought to myself, what are they? What are. I mean, like, they came so aggressively.
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B
Yeah, they've done it every day.
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A
My first. My first thought was, you know, they're helping Visma, they're helping uae. Now, what did you think when. When you saw that?
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B
Well, I mean, it was a big, select region. They've done it every day. And you know, there's two, there's two thoughts with this as well. Is, is. Is if they're confident for Eunice, for the mountains, which they will be because I said today, you know, Eunice, I actually thought Eunice had a good day today. I, I was, I was, you know, surprised that he didn't try something different today and just test the legs, you know, when he, they, they waited for Teddy to open up the sprint. Now when Tadde opens up the sprint, Yuna stays with him. And again, the gap doesn't get any smaller or any bigger unless it's going uphill. So I thought maybe Jonas might have tried to get the jump on today in that sprint and just try and see because if you take Tade out the picture of this Tour de France, Jonas is by far and away stronger than anyone else, barring the time trial that he had the other day, which we seem to think there might have been some issue or Visma have released a statement to say they know what the issue was, but they won't say what it was. So unison, you know, said a good day today. But Visma, yeah, I mean, I'm not too sure what their tactics are. I mean, you'll know better than me as to what, what they're. They're doing at the moment. But regardless of anything, when they do ride on the front the way they do with Campenaerts, Matteo Jorgensen T, you know, they, they, they, they, they take the speed up quite a lot, but they only do it for a short period and then UAE end up taking it up anyway. And we saw Tim Wellens do what he did. Now, the thing that surprised me with Tim Wellens, when Tim Wellens rides and UAE make a statement like that and they ride that aggressively in the final of the stage, it's normally for one thing, it's to launch Tade off the front. Now the thing that disrupted that and I think had they had to have a rethink of that strategy, was when Joe Almeida went down in that crash for sure. And they also didn't know his condition at that point as to whether he'd made back on the bike or what, because, you know, for a moment it looked quite bad and he was pretty cut up at the finish and Joel Mader would have took over from Tim Wellands at that point. So I think when Tim Welland swung off, 1.4, 1.5k to go, Tade didn't know what to do and he actually played it quite calmly there and waited for the Ecuadorian to come up and give some assistance. But you could see in today, I mean, the rest of the race knew what they were or anticipating what they were going to do and that Taddy was going to attack, but there was a. There was a stalemate and no one knew what to do when Teddy didn't attack.
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A
Yeah.
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B
So Remco ended up riding on the front.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Remco almost didn't know what to do himself. And. And it was all a little bit strange and unusual to see that. But today, I think that that shows how today's tactics have changed over the years. Because at one time, today just rode smash and grab. That was it. That's all he did. But he played it really well today. He waited. Yeah, he used his teammate up right to the last minute. But the thing that surprised me in that moment is no one took the initiative when Tade did. Wait. Not that it would have made a difference, I don't think. You know, we know Tadde's got the legs, but you would. You have to ask the question as to why Visma didn't plan to do that later once they knew.
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Well, I agree. You know, I think. I think there's. There is a change in his tactics because he looked and control the fact that they were able to adjust so quickly after Almeida. Because it's clear normally with the. What we've seen from Almeida and the legs he had, he would have done like 7, 800 meters and it would have been four guys instead of 20 guys. Right. And then so obviously that's, that's, that's. They had to rethink. But today was. You could see that he was in control. He was looking behind and his acceleration was incredible. Incredible.
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C
Yeah.
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A
What I do not understand, however, is to come back on the Visma Lisa bike tactic we saw yesterday today was a bit annoyed and he said, I don't know what they're doing. I don't understand what they're doing. They were. UAE was saying or hinting towards, okay, they absolutely wanted to avoid me losing the jersey. They wanted to keep me in the jersey. Then I saw an interview. One of the directors, Artur Van Dungen, who's been there all the Tours, you know, really, really a clear vision. And he said, no, it never came up. We just ride our own race and we wanted to make the race hard the same as yesterday. And then I'm thinking, okay, well, making the race hard one thing. But is that not playing in the favor? Of course.
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B
Because, you know.
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C
Yeah, yeah.
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I mean, the harder the race is, the hard the Better support, are they, without him having to spend his teammates?
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B
Absolutely. But also by trying to make it hard for the greatest cyclists in the world, you're making it hard for your own team. So it, and, and, and why on these stages, what have they got to gain? And, and it's. Yeah, I mean, I mean, hey, I think all this will be irrelevant come Monday. I think Monday is going to be the, the first proper day of this Tour de France where we see what both teams have. And, and you'd imagine that if they're going to make it hard, that's where they need to make it hard. And you know, there is, there is a thought that Monday is where we really see the true Jonas. Because, yeah, it's fair to say up to this point that none of these stages have suited Jonas.
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C
Yeah.
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B
And he's still been there.
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A
Maybe, maybe not, maybe not yet. Monday is really hard, but it's not, it's not a high mountain stage. It's. It's a mountain stage. In the race book, they call it a medium mountain stage. One of the things that they may be thinking also is, okay, we need to make it hard day after day after day to accumulate fatigue and make the teammates of Pulachar. But it's not by doing the work for them that they're going to wear them out. So anyways, something that we both saw to come back on today's stage, we saw this little clip that it was the, I think the director of SUDOK Quickstep talking to Remco, saying, hey, I spoke to Alpecin and they're going for the stage.
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C
Yeah.
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A
And so does uae.
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C
Yeah.
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A
You know, so that was clear from the start. Now, I mean, that's also something. I mean, I would never have said that back in the days. I would never have revealed my intentions. They just say it, you know, I mean, obviously with a guy like Bugachar and a guy like Vomberpool, there. There are no surpr. You know, it's just. They just take it, you know, face first. They go into the, into the war. But I think it comes back to what we said yesterday, Bradley, that there was yesterday an agreement already and that, I mean, if you think about it realistically, if you're in opposing shoes and Vanderpool, I mean, he must know this morning how he feels when he wakes up. What we saw today with Mathieu was the most normal scenario that we could. We could think of. He did not recover even. He went very deep, was completely empty, did not recover. And he knew this. Normally when you, when you wake up in the morning, you go down for breakfast and you, you know, when you walk from your room to the breakfast table. Yeah, you already know. So something tells me that it was a deal that was made yesterday and that they kind of had to return the favor by helping today.
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B
But that's the way it looked.
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C
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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A
And then, you know, so we go up the first time, surprisingly, with that high pace of Visma, it was down to 20 riders. I guess then if you came back, Mathieu was dropped already. Was Primos still there the first time?
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B
Primos was.
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A
Yeah, he was still there. Okay, okay. But then again, you know, again that's also. Then again, you know, they get over and Vanart goes after the first time. Yeah, which is. Which is. Make me think. Okay, that's their strategy. They want to make the race hard, but it's not going to go anywhere at that point, you know, there was no way of escaping anymore. Anyway. Talking about music, I forgot to. I forgot to mention Bradley. It's been a few times. A key point sometimes. I remember when I raced, we went over it, but it was. The finish was further down and it was actually Abdul Japarov who won the stage in front of Cipollini. But I found a little interesting stat here and if Gabriel can put up this picture of the profile. So in 1947 there was a time trial, individual time trial with the Mure de Britannia in the middle. And the time trial was 139 km long. Individual time trial.
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B
This is the stage I spoke about the other day. This is the biggest, winningest margin in a time trial was copy spun by seven minutes that day.
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A
No, that. It must have been a different one because that stage was won by Belgian Remo in Panis. And second was Jean Robic who ended up winning. Winning the Tour de France. He won by five and a half minutes or something. There must have been a different stage with floppy. You know, there was these crazy long time trials back in the day. But yeah, you know, because this. On some TV channels they said that it was only in there since the 70s, but in 1947 they. They already went over it.
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B
Crazy.
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C
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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B
One thing I was going to ask you, Johan, which I. We all found. We spoke about it a few days ago, didn't we? About the crashes now. And they. When they seem to crash, they seem to crash hard, you know, and they do. Whether it's a dis. But we saw that crash in a straight line after the first time up the Muran, a group of no more than 28 riders. And we saw quite a crash. No one else to blame, no road furniture, nothing like that. And I. I mean, that was the crash that took Almeida out.
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A
Yeah, we saw.
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B
Lenny Martinez was quite beaten up, but I think.
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A
I think it was not Lenny Martinez. I think it was B. Yeah, but.
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B
Yeah, what, What? A, that's the. You know, in a situation like that, you've made it over the climb. You know, no one's panicking about riding in the front because it's easy to move up. And the last thing you're expecting is a crash of that nature.
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A
I think also, Bradley, I mean, I don't know, I may be wrong, but I just think that nowadays, man, they go so fast every single stage, that the guys who were hanging there in the back, except maybe Almeida, because he's not great at positioning, but they were just hanging there. We're all on the limits.
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C
All.
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A
Everybody's on the limit all the time, you know. You know, that's the way cycling has changed. It's full gas from the start. You never see any more stages where the first 100km, they're chatting, they're joking. Those days are over. So in the final, when it really matters and when they're. When they're nervous and stressed, half of the peloton is dead already. And one little. One little deviation. And on top of that, with the disc brakes, it. It breaks a lot harder and faster, you're out, you know, Anyway, talking about that. So we have that crash. Enrique Mas was in there. He was not hurt, but he lost time. The biggest victim was Almeida, in my opinion. We'll see now, maybe as we speak, we'll be getting a report he was really banned up. So I think for uae, that this changes a lot.
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B
Well, we saw today's interview at the end, he was quite concerned, wasn't he?
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A
He was very worried. Yeah.
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B
Because, you know, we know how important Almeida is going to be for the next two weeks in this race.
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A
Yeah, but hopefully he's still there.
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C
Yeah.
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A
You know, if. If that's. And this is the Tour, you know, I mean, you can. You can lose one of your. I mean, first of all, the leader can crash out or you can lose one of your biggest. You know, your omaid is the joker for. For. For uae. So this may change if he can go on. First of all, the question is, will he be able to recover? Because the Tour is ruthless. A big crash like that, you have no time. It means two flat stages now. So that's. But anyway, it Takes longer than two days to recover from a big hit like this. And on top of that, he's now also out of gc, which means that, okay, it's only for Pulachar now. That's the only strategy. It was always the case, in my opinion. But, yeah, they could have used Almeida in some circumstance to put pressure on Visma.
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C
Yeah.
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A
And this is gone now. Now. Now it's now. Now Almeida is at the same level as Simon Yates in gc.
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C
Yeah. Right.
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A
So, yeah, that was definitely. Yeah, I was. That crash was amazing, man. It was. As you say, there was less than 30 riders and there was like 10 guys on the ground. If you see all those bikes hooked into each other, that was. That was a really, really bad, bad crash.
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C
Yeah, yeah.
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A
Another thing, Oscar only again, third. Yeah, it's incredible. This is a guy nobody talked about before France. No.
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C
No.
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A
Was he. He was. Was he second or third in the Tour of Switzerland? He was third. Third of Switzerland, yeah.
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B
Won a stage.
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C
Yeah, yeah.
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A
On a stage. You know, he's there. I mean, to be there. He's been there already a few times with the big guys. When, you know, not by coming back, but actually being there all the time.
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C
Yeah.
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A
How will he do in the high mountains, do you think?
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B
Well, I think. I mean. I mean, whatever happens in the high mountains, this tour has been extremely successful for him. But, you know, he's in the top 10 now, GC, after the week we've had, which is no mean feat to.
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A
Be where he is now.
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B
He's placed on a few stages, you know, fourth, fifth. He's been third today. So, you know, I. I wouldn't put it past him to maintain his top 10 overall position.
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C
Now.
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B
There's no reason why you can't. And also for that team as well, this is such an important. You know, Spencer mentioned it in the main show that they're facing a potential relegation from the World Tour. So this is huge for them. And, you know, in the post Ramenbalde era, when he's now retired, Oscar has stepped up to the mark now as the. The outright team leader of that team. So that's fantastic. Absolutely fantastic for him.
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A
Yeah, I think we should be the best of this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Before we go on and talk about tomorrow stage, also, I want to talk to you about our presenting sponsor, Ketone IQ. This here is my preferred format, 10 grams of ketones, which I kind of, you know, take it before my. Right and in the middle of my ride. But it's been scientifically proven that ketones, I mean we all know that they're widely used within the peloton. They do boost athletic performance. Ketone IQ has done a study in a placebo controlled environment with trained athletes and they found that it boosted the average sprint power by 19%, peak power by 13%, cut fatigue by 10% and spiked blood ketones five times in just 20 minutes. For the Tour de France riders, a three week stage race, recovery is key and it's been proven that ketones help with a faster recovery. Ketone IQ is teaming up with team Visma Lise bike and also with the University of Leuven to explore recovery and high altitude adaptation. And they found that it increases the improve the blood flow, higher muscle oxygenation and better endurance and stamina. So go to ketone.com and enter the code the move20 for 20% off ketone.com with the code the move20. Other than that, Bradley, what do you think now that again in the lead it's back to Pugacha Remco and, and Jonas. What's the way forward now for UAE in the next two stages? That, I mean we're gonna, we're gonna see sprint stages in my opinion. But overall I think they're looking now towards stage 10. Right? That's, that's where they need to be ready.
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B
Well, you know, I think they have to now assume the role of, you know, the, the stability that they are in the lead now. I think now the dist. The gaps that we have, I think other than a larger group going away like in the old days, you know, 15, 20 guys and letting the jersey go to someone who's already 15, 16 minutes down. I don't think that will happen anymore. I think those days have sort of gone. So they now have to assume the role as the, the main leaders in this race. And they've got two weeks now which is, you know, he's done it before. He's led the race for more than two weeks before. And they've now got to start thinking about how they get through this, you know, to the rest day. And they have to take the role now of riding on the front. Maybe not as hard as they have been. I think on that basis I think, you know, it will become apparent that they might have ridden too hard in some of the stages like today. I don't think they had to ride as hard as they did today for a stage and, and this is where it will. And, and no one had anticipated, you know, the, the crash of Almeida today. We don't know how he's going to be. He won't know how he's going to be and, and if nothing's broken over the next few days. But they now have to start thinking, you know, they have to start thinking, you know, kind of sensibly now that they now have to defend this race for two weeks.
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A
Yeah.
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B
So they have to be efficient. They have to measure their effort at times. And on that basis, you know, he's leading by 1 minute 15 from the main player in this race, Yunus Visma, in a great position. You know, they've got numbers.
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A
Yeah.
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B
It's just they've not, you know, we, we seem to think they've not been using their numbers wisely up to this point. But Mateo Jorgensen, they're in fifth place. Is he. I mean, this is a great position for them. This is fantastic.
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A
Yeah, I was thinking the same, especially now that Almeida's out. Visma is now in, in a better position because especially on stage 10.
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C
Yeah.
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A
A guy like Jorgensen can do a lot of damage.
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C
Yeah.
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A
And we've seen, we've seen that in some occasions. I mean, I think, yeah, yesterday it was actually Gotcha himself who went to get back Jurgensen when he tried. So on stage 10, I think that's going to be, that's going to be a key player. Before we talk about tomorrow stage, want to do the Phantom daily trivia. As every day Phantom has, we have a contest over the whole Tour de France Stage six question. Yesterday's question. The answer was. So it was. The question was a hilly stage. How many categorized climbs were Featured in Stage 6? The correct answer was 6. Six categorized climbs. Today's question for Stage 7, the Mule de Britannia is featured twice in the closing or was featured twice in the closing kilometers of Stage 7. A modern monument known for decisive moments in early stages. How it is. How is it colloquially known? So how is the Mu de Britannia colloquially known? We're going to get the answer tomorrow. So you can send your. If you know the answer or your best guess, send it to ventumracing.com the move and you will enter into this year's grand prize. It's $5,000 of store credit towards any Ventum bike you want to purchase. If you do not want to wait until the end of the Tour, Ventum is offering during the whole Tour de France a standing discount, 10% off the whole site using the code the move. 10 or 20% of any NS1 model bike with the code NS120. Tomorrow stage Bradley, 171 kilometers flat. It's a slight uphill finish, slightly in 2%. I mean the moment, for the moment, I think 2% is considered flat in today's cycling. So probably a bunch print.
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C
No.
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B
Yeah, we anticipate a bunch of sprint and also, you know, a continuation of the chase for the green jersey. Tade is now in the green jersey by quite a few points. But I expect that to change as Jonathan Milan has become, you know, the, really the, the number one rider for the intermediate sprints. He won that intermediate sprint today by quite a few bite lengths. Yeah, but I expect now, you know, the, the teams of Jonathan Milan, Little Trek and Bin Gamay one guber to now start to chase stage wins and, and push that green jersey even more. So I expect, you know, those to come to the four tomorrow. I think UAE will ride of course as they do with the yellow jersey, but I think they will get some assistance tomorrow from the sprinter teams.
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A
Yeah, I think, I think you will just put one rider as usual. I mean poor, poor Neil spotted he's the one that. How many, how many kilometers? Quite the job, isn't he already?
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C
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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A
And then I'm curious to see tomorrow what Sudoku step is going to do. Yeah, Tim Alir could win also. Yeah, they do have to look after Remco and today very importantly they lost Matteo Catano.
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B
Yeah, he's a big one. He's a big one for Remco.
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A
Yeah. So he was involved in a crash earlier on, did not recover. Yeah, so yeah, that's, that's a bummer for them. But, but yeah, I, I think it's Milan Girmai and Timberly tomorrow.
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C
Yeah.
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B
So my money's on Jonathan Milan tomorrow.
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A
Yeah, it's a straight. It's a straight. More than one kilometer. Yeah, don't, don't forget about Nilmai if it's slightly uphill.
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B
Yeah.
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A
And, and it is. I've checked the profile. I mean if you look, if, if you can trust the profile, it's about 2% this, the sprints are a bit slower and he's one sprints like this already. Yeah. One year he beat Matthew von der Pool in the Giro in a sprint like that.
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B
Yeah, he did.
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A
Yeah.
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C
Yeah, yeah.
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A
But yeah, I mean, I agree Jonathan Milan is, he's the pure sprinter. Merlier has won already and, and he tends to be better at the beginning, you know, like Merlier, probably after eight stages he will start to feel it already. Not that Milan doesn't feel it because that's hard for everybody. But anyways, we'll be back tomorrow to talk about Stage eight. Thank you, Bradley.
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B
Okay, thank you. See you.
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A
Bye.
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C
Bye.