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A (0:00)
I mean, the lead out was amazing. Philipson, basically. And it was a slow sprint also, because until the last 200 meters it was slightly uphill and then it flattened out a little bit. So I would say impressive, impressive sprint from, from Philipson you can clearly see. And he also afterwards said in his interview that he's not in great shape during the half Vuelta already, but yet he wins three stages and maybe a fourth one in Madrid. So that's quite the comeback, I would say, you know, after his unfortunate crash in the Tour de France.
B (0:39)
Everybody, welcome back to the move. I'm Spencer Martin, I'm here with Johan Berniel. We are breaking down stage 19 of the Valta Espana before previewing tomorrow's incredibly critical mountain stage, the final GC stage, stage 20, which finishes atop the Bullo de Mundo, which is right outside Johan's back door. So he can give us some information on that. Just a quick rundown of today's stage 19. Pretty simple. One rider goes clear. Sleepy sprint stage. The the crosswinds did not really come to fruition with 60k to go, though there was a bonus sprint with time bonuses, or there's a sprint point with time bonuses, of course. The breakaway takes the six seconds for first. We're not quite sure what happened, but UAE seemed confused, didn't know it was there. Same thing with Tom Pitcock and Jonas Vinegar just goes to the front, rolls over, gets four point, he gets four seconds, he then eliminates. But think about that. That's like a 50% of the gap. That or 50% of the time that Joel Ometa took yesterday and probably spent six figures, hundreds of thousands of dollars refining that position, that time trial position, just to give half of it back up by not paying attention. 34k to go. There's some, a little bit of crosswind, some echelons. Jonas Finnegaard really attentive up front, like one of the first few riders in the first split. And Almeida's behind. Jay vine has to pay some back on. It was maybe not quite hard enough, even though it looked hard, was not quite hard enough because they go into the finish. And Jasper Phillips and Johan's pick for the stage just absolutely toasted. Everybody on the uphill sprint. Mads Patterson second, Ular third from Movistar. Movistar really putting a lot of power of energy into the lead out because they need a stage one at this Vuelta. They could not get close enough though. Johan as GC is unchanged. Johan, what was your takeaway of the day?
A (2:34)
Well, for me, obviously the event of the Day is the sprint with Philipson, but especially I would say the way Alpecin has orchestrated this approach. I don't know, I mean they, they obviously were the favorite, but it's. For me it's a bit unclear why these other teams were doing such a huge, huge lead out and Alpecin was just sitting back. I mean I, I rechecked the, the images and. And with 1.3km to go, there was not one single Alpecin rider in the top 40, which is crazy. And then they had. All of a sudden you could see there's four guys. I mean I know there's Richard and Eduard Plonkart and Philipson. I don't know who the other guy was but you know, they just come and Ricard just gets under the flag. He gets to first position or to almost to first position. And I mean the lead out was amazing. Philipson basically. And it was a slow sprint also because until the last 200 meters it was slightly uphill and then it flattened out a little bit. So I would say impressive, impressive sprint from Philipson you can clearly see. And he also afterwards said in his interview that he's not in great shape during the half Vuelta already, but yet he wins three stages and maybe a fourth one in Madrid. So that's quite the comeback I would say, you know, after his unfortunate crash in the Tour de France. But yeah, I mean, yeah, I don't know opposing they have this way of. They've really figured out how to get to the front at the last moment with four guys and I can't see any other team able to do that.