Stage 4 - Tour of Austria - Innsbruck - Kühtai

10:50 AM – Live Stage 4 from Innsbruck
Commentator:
Lukas Ebenbichler

July 12th 2025
117,3 KILOMETERS / 3500 ALTITUDE DIFFERENCE
Start
INNSBRUCK
Finish
KÜHTAI

Point Classification
INZING, TELFS
Mountain Classification
GÖTZENS, KÜHTAI, ÖTZTAL SATTELE, KÜHTAI BERGBAHNEN

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Heat. Heat. Hey, hey, hey. Welcome to stage four of the tour of Austria. It is the queen stage and arguably the race defining day today with a brutal elevation, relentless gradient, and over 3,000 m of climbing. Yeah, this is going to be the deciding moment for the general classification. We are happy to have you guys all back here and we try to yeah provide you with all the informations we got and good morning for every to everyone who just streamed in and is part of that streaming of that broadcasting over a few hours today. Fabian, good morning also. Happy to have you here again. Hello and also warm welcome from my side. Yeah, as you just said, Insrook start of today’s stage with tons of climbing up to Koutai. They actually do the Koutai twice. One of the most iconic clims around the city of Insbrook. And we are looking forward to today’s action. Seeing the start list one more time here with number one Felix Grochartner who is in a not so comfortable lead in the GC just uh 6 seconds ahead of Isaac Del Toro uh which is going to be today uh for sure. As I said a deciding moment for the cheesy. Yesterday’s stage was incredible. We had everything. We had rain, we had uh breakaways, we had an intense mountaintop finish, and today it is even more intense. And it is truly tailor made for the pure climbers of that tour of Austria. But the weather has changed. So today they actually have nicer weather. The sun is not fully out yet, but it will probably be come midday and there is only the road ahead. So, we will see. Yeah, just to uh look a little bit on the stats of that stage here. There are 117.3K to go and 3,500 m in elevation gain. We do have two or categories in it which means are the highest categories of the mountain classifications classifications which provides them the athletes with 15 10 8 6 and four points in that category and also we do have one it is the last one with 12 8 6 4 and two our category one to the Kai Van that track you’ve said going up to the legendary Coutai and it is also well known for something special called the Coutai Rodeo and you as a local you probably know every cimeter on that track up there. You can probably tell us a little bit more of that stage coming up today. Yes. So as the insp community calls it is this the koutai rodeo. So you can actually climb the koutai up from three sides. So we do two climbs of these today. So the first one is up from Katan the HC climb with 23 kilometers of climbing. The second one is where we descend today down to UTS. So on the Rodeo, you usually climb up from Z again. And then last but not least, the famous satellite climb with,000 m of climbing and an average of 10% and most parts even higher than 12%. And then it is the last one. 5.99K, 428 m in elevation gain with an average of 7.1% maxing out to 18.5%. So it is an intense one. Seeing Patrick Conrad here in the lower section of the screen uh chatting with some spectators here at the 80 Val Nerf Bloods. It is right in front of the yeah the state house of t-roll Stefan Amenini. We are also able to see here he is the race director in at the tour of Austria. And yeah a lot of people are here at 11:00 we are about to start that second last stage of the tour of Austria. Felix Groshhatner we can see here chatting with a rider from EF Education Easy Post and Emmanuel Tangal who is for sure also trying to grab that first come at Gutson’s with that 3.8K 8K you said and it is a category 3 classification here which probably gives him a good a head space in front of uh Nikolai Vinurov. It will be an intense battle again for sure. I mean, the first climb is the shortest one on paper, but I think there will be some fireworks already early on for that KOM jersey. And they for sure have to be committed right from the start on, you know, six seconds. Just the advantage for Felix Gartner on his teammate. on his teammate. You can see here on on the left on the here we have them with the jerseys. So Inos we can see team for UAE UAE and Troll KTM Troll and today we are live from the start. So you will see the whole stage live here on our YouTube channel. Yeah, we do have a neutralized start rolling through Insbrook through the capital of the province Tiroll and then after 4.6 Six kilometers the race gets really started then it’s not an easy start today for sure not the whole stage is kept super short but it will be very punchy so after the first climb we will have some flatter sections up the valley intel valley to ts we have two sprint intermediate sprint competitions there. One in in one in Telves and then we are circling back towards uh Insro but then having an right turn up to Oba Belf and then starting the first real and deciding climb 23 kilometers. Yeah, the tension is for sure high there. Marosettle on the right with the best Austrian jersey next to Isaac Del Toro in the sprint competition jersey in the green jersey. Then Felix in the leading jersey in the red one. Then Emmanuel Tangal in the mountain classification journey. And in the best rookie journey jersey, the black and white one from an Grenadier. August. Andrew or Andrew. August. Andrew August. So the month is the second name. Yeah, month is the second name. 6. And this is it, the neutralized start of the fourth edition, fourth stage of the tour of Austria. And they are rolling out the Edward Val Nuva plat. Here we have Filippo Baroni with number two. Then from Jacu Elula Aspiran Elimos team for Alber Colinusi and with number 13 as you can see we have a lot of spectators already at the neutralized start and I expect no less on the Kai climb. There will be a lot of cyclists climbing up there, having a glimpse on the race and following today’s live action. Yeah, Insburg is the 36th time start city for the tour of Austria and it has a huge Olympic history. We had two Olympic winter games here in Insbrook. We have the four hills tournament insbrook and for sure also university city and some picturesque buildings along the city heart of Insburgh like the golden roof well known for the famous background of the north chain. Yeah. Traditional Christmas market here. And today it is really the hometown for our riders of the tour of Austria. And if you are into sports of all sorts, skiing, trail running, mountain climbing, road cycling, mountain biking, city, the city of Insbrook is the place for you to visit. You see 130,000 inhabitants are here and plus 30,000 more students from all around the globe. And it is the perfect mix between urban life culture and mountain sports with the ski jumping hill designed by Saha Hadit. And we are here on the at the cockpit 160 BPM right now. The chat is high. Still choking. I wonder how long they keep choking. You can see Estabban Chavez from the education easy post squad behind Philip Hoffbower who did a great job yesterday on that mountaintop finish and always with us Andre Triger. Andre Triger in loving memory last year’s tragic crash down from the close now. Yeah, right now at the end of the suit ring and then we leave this city of Insburg already and the race will start. Yeah. 4.6k 6k neutralized zone. And when the race director is waving the flag out of the car, we may see some early attacks there. Most of the riders who want to go for the early breakaway will already be up front right behind the car and maybe use the slipstream of the car to light the first attack and use every single bit of advantage you can get. So, two Conti teams in the first line and two pro team world tour teams and we have team Foral lined up pretty well again with Kian Foyerstein. Think of Advarics also with Paul Bushek. He was the one said he had a 160 PBM already at the 100 watts. 100 watts. So he was quite nervous. And Isaac Del Toro at the end of the payload torn. Freewheeling a bit. Yeah, he’s not in a hurry yet. Not yet. But we’ve seen it yesterday and the day before. In the last seconds of the stage, he always pulls to the side and start to really lay down the hammer and try to secure his stage wins there. And we are curious what he is about to do today. because maybe that stage is playing well in his carts. Yeah, it’s a perfect fit to his capabilities. Lots of climbing, super hard, super steep. So, he will be the favorite for today. But I wonder what the team orders will be. Will he have to stay with Felix or will he be free to go? That is the question. It is always that talk here between Felix and uh Felix and Isaac who is at the end of the day the true leader of the team UAE. And with just five seconds, the race is about to start right now. And there you can see it there hammering down some what’s already. So Alpatin now going for the group of the day. And here we have the first real breakaway action. I can see seven riders I think seven riders. Philip Hoff in the front then Rinkov Advarics team for KTM Tiroll cycling team. Then Coupe Repzol and another one from Rinkov Advarics. And now one from Jalula trying to bridge the gap. Will it already be the group of today? I don’t think so because the pelaton is also trying to not let them off the leash easily. They’re here back. It was an a brave move already from the start on but in fact though here are we have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 eight. Patrick Go was the last one to make the group now. Also kind of a local hometown hero. His brother sitting in the Troll KTM car. Yeah, I was on a phone call with him yesterday and he he said, “Yeah, here.” Troll KTM team is all in for Maros today. They lost Tim Baffla yesterday, the current national champ Patrick Conrad. And here we have the start of the KO up to GSense. So it’s 3.8 kilometers at 11.6% max gradient and 7% average. It’s kind of a flattish climb, so it will be fast and you certainly benefit from slipstream. But now we have two rinkov advarics riders trying to do the breakaway at that early stage. And they’re getting away quite good right now here. Now it’s a complete team play for Rinkov Advarics, one of the strong Austrian Conti teams. And here we have in it Pushek and Ricardo Verza. Those two trying to get that come up to Goodson. Yeah, it will be a back and forth probably between all those riders here with a lot of breakaway tries, I hope, I guess. And for sure also with uh with an intense finish, especially up to the coup for the first time when they go for the Orus category 23k long with an always painful uh climb up there. I wonder if they will let the breakaway go. Only two riders. A pretty strong move by those two. So once they survive the first climb up to good since they will have around 30 kilometers on the flat to try and build their their lead. You have a small buffer for the climb, but now the breakaway action is already over. Already over. They’re back and you can see Emanuel Tangal is lining up and also Nicolas Vinurov right on his wheel right on his back wheel getting towed in by one of Alpetine deco. Yeah, I was on a phone call again yesterday with Emanuel asking him about the tactics for today and he said yeah, he really targeted the first K competition because there’s still a few points up for grabs and afterwards it will be quite hard for him to stay on the wheel of the leading guys for Koutai. Maybe if the pace is settled for the first quai climb, he can still make it. But he said, yeah, yesterday was a super tough stage for him. He had to burn a lot of candles for the KM jersey yesterday, but wearing that jersey through his home roads is actually quite a big thing for him. So team for sending two up front with Colin Stusi and another one is lining up on the right hand side. All are working right now for Emmanuel Tangal. But Vinurov glued to his will to Ricardo Toyidal is up for an attack there, but dragging the Poton with him. And now the bunch is stretched out again. Yeah, they are halfway through the climb. So still a little more to go before we can see probably a sprint again for that jersey. Uh, do you have an inter interview interview with here the split screen in action to but we don’t Emmanuel Tang, one of teami is trying to go with Ricky Toidle here, but Emanuel Tangle is struggling a bit with the pace. The question also there is always to back towards Emanuel Tangle. Is he also in a bit of task to help Amy up there to to the com thousand meter until the first come of today? Maybe the Fr and Rinkov guys have built an alliance. I mean the smaller teams we speaking about the Conti teams here have to build those alliances to fight the bigger world teams but I’m not sure. It’s looking like Toy is really up for something here. Maybe he wants to go for the group of today. Stusy and Toidle. Toidle the current national champ in hill climb. Yeah. Close to where we are now. So the Austrian national climbing championships took place at Axamitum which we are going to pass in a few minutes. And Ricardo Toidle, he used to live in Insbrook, so he too knows all of these roads like the back of his hand. So he certainly knows what he’s up to today. And today it is dry, no rain, everything perfect, perfect weather conditions for an amazing day of cycling sport and also having here an amazing breakaway by the two Austrian Conti team. Stusy representing Switzerland and Picardo representing Austria. Here they are. Already can see the com coming up shortly. And now is taking away the points. So Emmanuel will still have the virtual lead on the KM jersey. There we have at the commit second and Tangal third. Nikol Nicol Minuro in fourth position. And here we have the big pack a bit tangled already there as you can see from the early on. Pretty high tempo by the payone. There also formed some groups already and now Toid is trying to bridge the gap to Ducey and maybe if the two of them can work together they will build a gap before they start the climb to Coutai. Also big historical background here in Gson a bit above ins. You have a beautiful view around the Intel old farmer’s buildings. Perfect roads. And now we go into a bit of flatter part. Then a little but spicy uphill. Then going down all the way towards in towards the first sprint classification. Then tosses and then it really starts Coutai back down to then again up to Coutai one more time. There you can see it. Here it is at the upper right part. the entry to the coupai with a bluebird heart on the sky and Ricky Toy is paddling hard. Yeah, to go back to calling Stusy. He he shaked his head and wave his hand. So he seemed to complain that Stusy is not waiting for him. Or maybe thinks that Toy is already glued to his back wheel again. Jula, William Holmes here from Australia then not at all. And here we are. I wonder what Ricky Toidle is thinking right now. Or maybe we can hear something he’s saying to Colin Stusy. Now he’s just uh override him. But the gap is not that big at the moment. It’s only around five seconds and then the pelaton is coming already. So they will have some work ahead before the group is really settled. The replay of Tom Gudson’s David Palman. who had a little crash at the first stage with also some mechanical issues then. But now today they are all working for the best Austrian at the tour for Malettle from Troy Katm cycling. And now we go into that downhill already. But here we are back with another bigger chase group. And now with that many people, they may can make it to a bit. Uh yeah, annoy the Pelaton EF education post. Easy post. UAE team emirate. Jacob Elula Rinko for sure. team for there is already a big split in the pelaton since the main bunch is still on the flat and there is a group already in the downhill. It looks like the bellin is already split in half. Yeah, they’re tangled therea. Then we also have seen Maros in that breakaway early break breakaway of today. And with eight people strong, they can really make things happen here on the first stage. Tris going through here and it is a spicy and pretty fast downhill and for sure also with some easy turns in it so they can really hammering down there. Yeah, we when we do this loop in training we usually hit 90 kilometers an hour going down here and the guys in the group they will probably go close to 100 km. Yeah. So definitely over the speed limit of 60k miles kil kilometers per hour there. And here we have a 92 91. There it is. They are quite fast. They are quite fast in a perfect aerodynamic position here. And the good thing for sure it is it is dry dry road. No way. And now we we ready to go to the 104 kilometers per hour top speed here. Going into a hairpin curve and 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 nine. Nine are in there. Sorry for that. So the riders really do have to trust their bikes and it’s not quite it’s not quite a big gap. It’s not quite a bit big gap. You can see them already up there. And also if they are 104k fast, the others will also be that or nearly the same fast here. Felix Gshot. Now you can see here at I guess it was Felix or Isaac. So now they are almost at the bottom of the descent and will start the flat part towards Tel and also that part between Ing and TS in the valley is also pretty much known for wind affected parts for sure there. So, so Ricardo Toy is struggling. Struggling. And you can see it. He is putting in some watts there. We always use the term vintal instead of intal because it’s so windy, windy, windy well. But it’s usually very predictable. So in the morning the wind goes down the valley. So now they will face a headwind. And once they do the turn in Talves, they will have a tailwind going back to Cam Mountain. So headwind, they have really put their heads down on that part. But I guess the gap is shrinking between here. But also Ricardo is a bit like like always moving on the bike pretty hard. There we have Pelus Pelus hometown of world champion in skiing Stephanie Venia and also the hometown for and also another famous athlete coming from Switzerland Bey and I know the veneer sisters from a cycling trip that we did. So maybe we can see her at the side of the road today. So she’s a cycling enthusiast herself. Yeah. Katton, well known for the Martins wall, famous climbing site. Famous climbing site. Famous Vafarata and that nineman strong breakaway. And now Tidle goes, he wants to keep the group alive. The Oh, Makushettle. Not always a good sign when he is like holding his head a little bit to the left. So, the breakaway is caught and I’m pretty sure we will see the fight for the next group. It would be amazing to see a first real Pelaton sprint towards the spring classification through this all through the stages here. We have so far are always little groups in front taking home the K K points or the spring classification points. And today we may have the opportunity to see a huge sprint. And the question also, Isaac Toro wearing the green jersey for the sprint classification. Is he aiming for that jersey or this like just a little benefit from all the sprint finish sprints he had, mountain top sprint finishes he had? to him. It seems like it’s almost handed to him as a gift. So, he’s just doing what he always does and then still wearing the sprint jersey. I mean, when we look at all the data we have from the stages, it’s not really a tour of Austria for the sprinters. No, not really. It is a hilly one. It is a spicy one. It is probably a 60% made for the punchy hill climbers. And also Julius Johansson from UAE is a time trail specialist. He was always up front. And I wonder when that is going to happen again to see him. Maybe now with the flat parts coming up and then probably on the first ascent to to Koutai. Looks like UAE is already lining up just now as we speak. It looks like they are preparing the intermediate sprint. Also a little interesting side note, Rafael Mah can score his 200th individual top 10 result on road today. We took the sprint now. It was tight battle. It was a tight battle here at the sprint, but we do have soon the replay again. Then we can identify. I think it was someone from the Turo KTM team. Now we can see it again. Oh, that looked close. That looked really, really close. Just a few cm were there. Still trying to confirm who won the intermediate sprint. We do not have the official results just yet. And another and another breakaway try here by four riders. Five riders. EF Education. Easy Post is closing in, but that wasn’t enough effort for them to get away from that strong pelaton which is already pretty much tangled up with pretty much stretched here cuz it is a it is an amazing sign that the speed is already pretty high due to the fact that we had also that ascent here descent here we are somewhere around 43.4 for average speed and under under 100k to go there. But another Varics is trying to use the draft bike, the motorbike to get away there today. Every team wants to have a rider in the breakaway. And I mean once the pelatin starts the climb up to Coutai, they will have another teammate waiting for them to maybe help them gain a few more seconds on the climb. They will use them as a relay station as they say. So the aim for the breakaway is a tough task for the riders today. And of course the Conti teams want to put somebody in there to present their team. Yeah, for sure. Also, Troll Katm cycling. It is the hometown of their team. And now we have the beautiful view to Hu Mund hometown mountain for all those Tel people. And one is really up front. Yaka Primosich from Brink of Advarics. He is a breakaway specialist. Yaka really good climbber, but he can push the pedals on the flat sections. And you can see a lot of people think he can be dangerous once he’s out there. Nine people are trying to get Yiana back into the fence there. And again, make sure to put your questions in the comment section of our YouTube video and we will try to answer them to our best capabilities. Yeah, that’s for sure. So, another one out of that nine head strong chase group is trying to go up to Yanka Primosich from Rinkovat Varic. And now we have the results of the intermediate sprint. So it was August Andrew with Andrew August. Andrew August and then Felix Gartner in second and Alessandro Kovi in third place. So it is also very crucial for Felix to get here some bonus seconds cuz two seconds are bonus. So which means he is now leading 8 seconds on the virtual GC classification but it is just 28 minutes in the race. So a tons of tons of things can happen in total there are 130 points to secure here. 130 points whether it’s a sprint classification or a mountain classification. So 130 points are up to grab for all those top contenders in the different classifications. We have 95.8 kilometers left. So on paper looks like a really short stage but again as we mentioned already and we cannot tell you enough of these three and a half,000 m of climbing and most of it is up ahead. So, oh, Ecto Alvarez little tech performed really well on stage one. Was there also in a breakaway group and now he is here in that one again. Hopefully there’s not too much headwind coming up there in the In Valley. You can see the fans along the road. It is a Saturday morning Saturday afternoon somewhere there. So we do not have the time gap between the leading group and the pelaton now. Yeah, Yanka is caught here. Brimosic in the second last position. There is Yanka Primosic. Uh we also have in it Eric Feta from team United Shipping. He used to be a great mountain biker too. So, we have a lot of mountain bikers in the tour of Austria switching to the road bike. Wonder what the gap to the Pelaton is. Obvious not more than than 30 seconds. Otherwise, the team supporter cars would be somewhere lined up there between the Peloton and the breakaway. And we are 10 kilometers ahead of the next intermediate sprint intel. And we are only half an hour into the race. Every so many action so far. Nearly five breakaway tries already. one was particularly successful right now, but we don’t have any time gaps yet here. So, it all is a bit of prediction here. Are there is it 20 seconds? Is it 15 seconds? Anton Stansby is in there. Filippo Baronini and with yeah Anton Sensby with the red number which means he was crowned to be the most active rider yesterday. So that’s why he is wearing today the red number also from Tier Matty dot is here in that breakaway and now we have the time gap. It’s nearly a minute. A minute already. The 57 seconds. So, the Palatin seems to be happy with today’s breakaway and they are letting them go. Mikl Goer is in the breakaway group for Alpatine the Kernik. Ruy Costa, Bucha Salvatore, Baroni, Philippo, Hector Alvarez, Paul Double, Baptist, Huyet, Yakab Primosich, Collins, Juicy, Matthew Dot, Anton Stansby, and Feta Eric. And Matthew Dot, he he resides in Insbrook for most of his racing season, riding for the KTM team. He is a British fella and he chooses Insuk as his training place. So we have a question that every team that starts what they do if a rider gets injured if they can be replaced. No, they cannot. Every rider that starts has to finish and if they do not they cannot replace a rider. So it’s not like in soccer where you can replace them. Every rider has to stay in the race. And there he is. Julio Johansson back in his favorite position of the payload. He’s doing a really good job of controlling the pace of the pelaton and nobody wants to interfere with him. Nobody. They just let Yulus do his job. M Gorg, yeah, he had a lot of problems with his knee in the previous years, so he’s still building back from those setbacks. I guess he has to trouble to get the support the car. Victoria being the neutral service of this year’s tour of Austria. So they are doing a crucial job once the teams do not have their car right behind them. The neutral service steps in and provides them with everything they would need in case of mechanical issues. Or as you just see feeding, handing them bottles helmet off for idiot. Rua, Ru Costa, the Portuguese, former road race world champion. And you can see it on the jersey there. There are the rainbow stripes. Rainbow stripes on stripes on it. You can keep these sleeves for the rest of your life if you become world champion once in your career. Ah, it’s amazing. Puff and Hoffen we see here. That leads us to the last 5k towards tel towards the SCOD sprint classification and after that we are really going towards the climbs. So Julius Johansson is keeping the gap at around 1 minute. So the breakaway group is not allowed to go too far up ahead. And here you can see the top of the quai climb where they will pass once and finish after these brutal climbs. Yeah, a lot of spectators riding their bikes up there and a lot of stal uh jerseys you can see here or from the style rat marathon. It is a kind of a community ride between the tour and the style rat marathon. more than 40 people I guess somehow started their climb up to the cout which is also a pretty crucial point at the style style marathon after an intense climb up which we are going down today. Um it is the first real deciding point for the earth style rat marathon. It is probably the most known grand fondo and on the world with also more than 3,500 m in elevation gain and more than 200k 200k to complete. So that’s also an amazing picture to see those communities getting together up on the top of the we can say cout rodeo rodeo. Yeah. And we also have the junior national or local the tiolian championship climb championships. So we will probably see a lot of kids racing their bikes up to the cout climb. They will do a slightly shorter version than the pros are about to do today. But the program around this queen stage of the tour of Austria is really big and there is something for everybody to join in or if you just want to watch the races, you are very welcome to go up to Coutai today. So we are in Telves which means the sprint classification is not far away here and we’ve seen already on the side the green sign which uh yeah tells us they are putting down their heads and hammering again into the pedals to secure those sprint coms. We are going through the city of Telves and also now there is a roundabout and then we are already on the straight road towards the sprint classification. But here you can see the speed of that breakaway while looking onto the Victoria car. Filippo Barchini just had his hands up in the air trying to call Victoria next to him and one is really trying to get away here. trying to secure those points which were successful for him. I think it was Hector Alvarez from the little track. Yeah, sure. He Hector Alvarez little track and now stepping a bit to the side. That’s the breakaway group passing him and then probably glue himself to the back wheel of Filipo Baroni from UAE Team Emirates XRG here on the Whoa, that was close. Oh, it’s Stansby in a chat with Alvarez nearly knocking off Matty Dot from the bike there. The motor one minute is telling them one minute ahead on the Tala LA. That’s what we call this road here. Bunch already at the intermediate sprint, but no more points up for grabs and the teams are already in order. Getting ready for the Coutai climb. Still around 15 kilometers to go. You can hear it. There is a bit of wind wind. Oh, Ecto Alvarez with an easy come win here. Sprint sprint com come com come com come com come com come com come com come com come com come com come com sprint classification sorry sorry sorry once we start tackling the koutai climb do you think we will have immediate response from the bunch or will they leave the leading group out there I guess my prediction but I’m I’m not an expert in it. I guess they will leave them out for a bit. Hoping they’re going to make them suffer by their own up to the coup, which is 23k long. And in the middle of it, they’re going to send up some chasers to get those breakaway back into the pelaton. The best place the best placed rider from our leading group is Paul Double from the JCO Alula squad with 2 minutes and 28 seconds. So they will keep him on the shorter leash and not let him go too far. But 2 minutes is quite a thing to keep that gap up to the coupout. So I’m for sure all the all of you are watching the stream. We will be happy to read your guesses in there. who takes home the victory of that stage. Isaac Del Toro is a name which is mentioned quite often in the chat. Salvador Buchio also from Anne in the chat with Stansby. I guess they’re discussing some thing. They’re not happy with it. and the young gun from the tiatm cycling team, Matthew Dot, doing a lot of work to keep this group going. It’s almost like the calm before the storm. Yeah, it is. 82.3k to go. And all of you wanted to know 3,54 m in elevation. Gain are still to go here. So the average speed is now at 45.4. Yeah. And still going up and soon we will see it going down a little bit. But now another road sign here on that stage. And the sun is out. The weather is good. Not too warm around 18° here, especially for the climb up to the Couta. The temperatures are perfect. Otherwise, they would be the guys would be grilled pretty hard there. So, let’s talk about the climb up to Coutai, our first one. Yeah, you can talk about the climb up to Couta because you’ve done it I guess uh more than uh 3,000 times in your life already. Not the one that we are going to do today because I think that’s the nastiest climb or the possibility to climb up to Koutai. We always compare it to a stairway. So it’s steep, flat, steep, flat. It’s there. It’s hard to find a rhythm there. Um, the gradient is up to 14%. With an average of around 6%, so you can kind of get the feeling that it’s ramping up from time to time. There is a road race going up there. The Kael Kaisa and the record time for this climb on Straa is held by Jack Burke, a Canadian fell and he did it in 59 minutes and 39 seconds. So that’s quite fast for a 23 kilometer climb. I wonder what the guys will do today. We will use our timing, our own timing gear, which means our phones. Yeah. To track that one to Felix Gartner here at the end of the payload tone. Next to him is Daniel from Arberry Canton Felt MC. He’s also a really experienced rider from the National Racing Circuit. And Felix was in the chat with Ricardo Toy. Now we do have 1 minute and 15 seconds gap. We are nearly along the Martins’s vant. It called. There’s also a funny story about the Martins van. Emperor Maxmillium was trapped in there in a cave for I guess 4 days in 1492. So, which means a a few decades ago. And he was then rescued by the people from Katan. And the name Keatton results out of the out of that rescue cuz he was screaming up there in dialect which is also pretty hard for us to to translate to translate. So it makes sense. Also over perus is also deriving from that myth. Yeah, the intel valley presenting itself from all its beauty. Now they take the right turn to go over the bridge, cross the highway, and then they are back on the road that they took earlier today. And then we are approaching the infamous Kai climb. 1 minute 25 gap for the leading group to the pelaton. collecting new bottles to be prepared. Getting all the nutrients in. You have all the energy you need for the remaining 3,000 m of climbing. We cannot say it often enough. A way to go here. But again, a perfect race of the tour of Austria. And as we all know, cycling sport is unpredictable. But right now having again a huge breakaway going hard towards the first climb up there. We are really curious about what is going to happen next. Was it a brave breakaway from them? Was it a su is it a successful breakaway or is it just or was it just a try? The breakaway has to work together really really well to stay out there. They will benefit in the flatter parts of the Kai climb. Maybe hold something back on the super steep ones so they can really work together and make it over the Koutai climb for the first time. Every single second they take to the next satellite climb will be crucial for them. No. And those are all question questions which are going to be answered in the next 77k because then there is that very last moment of those stage. But so far we are enjoying a bit the overview over the valley. Enjoying the pictures provided of our helicopter today and seeing those big breakaway group working good together rotating always. Mikorgi having his team car right now here. He seems to be nervous to me. So, he’s really he’s he’s opting for a mission. On a mission. Yeah, he is on a mission for something bigger today. It’s a sign that he cares what is going on today. We have here the the good opportunity or the the luck to have Christian Burma from team Rul Bahanska here also in the studio for commentating for the Austrian television and I’ve asked him before how long does a sticky bottle is allowed to last so he just that there is someone especially at the tour on the radio is counting down 3 2 1 thank you and then you know okay now time is up and now time is gone but is it really useful to have a slight moment of getting dragged by the team car I mean you go back to the car to grab bottles so you lose 10 15 m to the bunch And then once you want to come back, he’s grabs the bottle, stomps on the gas, and then pushes you back into the field. So, you don’t really gain a lot, but it helps you coming back to the bunch without losing too much energy, without needing to bridge this gap. So, as long as you stick to Christian’s 3se secondond rule, you should be fine. But yeah, don’t overdo it and grab five bottles on one climb. Is there a limitation there? Um we know nutrition and uh liquid is crucial on that uphill parts but is there any limitation or regulations that we can say the athletes are just allowed to grab three or four or five or six or seven bottles or or usually the race directors they will have a look on it and we’ll tell you to calm down and we’ll tell you yeah now it’s time for you to pedal on your own there. We’ve heard some cases where they were dragged back by the car and the riders are taken out of the competition. So, you don’t really want to overdo it and make use of this kind of unwritten rule of cycling. We are almost one hour into the race. For now, it looks kind of calm. Still Julius Johansson in the front pulling the pelaton. A sign we are used to by now. Yeah, they did yesterday. I guess 80k in front of the pelaton and also yesterday we’ve seen on the second position with Jac Lula and it is again the same picture of them. Andrew August also here in the third position with the best rookie jersey. 1 minute 18 seconds right now. That was that Fantala sprint come we’ve seen before. So UAE having one in the breakaway. Little track having one in the breakaway. I then t-roll KTM Pinkovar J Lula coup repsol team forber. So mixed up between conties and world tour teams alo the question pops up how much is or how many is the first mountain 23k long. Then we do have 266 mters in elevation gain, 7% in average, and maxing out to 11.6k. And we’re about to start it in 827 kilometers. And then we will see the first climb off today. And that one’s going to take us for a while. Just remember the com up there. Straa com up there is 59 minutes and 39 seconds. 39 seconds. So it starts off kind of as a false flat. So super low gradient and then after the first village it will ramp up already and as I previously mentioned it is kind of like a stairway up to Coutai. So we will see flatter sections and then super seeped sections again and again. So they will climb for approximately 1 hour before they reach the top of the Coutai climb. Last bottles for the riders of the breakaway. So in that part where the trees are, they are somewhat turning right. One minute change in the pelaton. Nothing changed. 1 minute 23. And you just ask me before what my guess will be if there is a breakaway uh or they’re trying to to to start a counterattack towards the breakaway group or if the pelaton let them go away a bit more or a bit longer. question is you as an expert what would your guess be up there? I think for now for the first climb the pelaton will try to keep the gap at around 1 to 1 and 1/2 minutes. So the palatin will stick together for the first climb. We maybe see some riders getting dropped already, but the majority of the bunch will stay together and then try to preserve as much energy as they can for the final two climbs. I mean we speak about two separate clims but when we really look at the profile once they did the HC climb up to the Hima to the famous satella they will only have a short descent of about two to three minutes and then start climbing again. So it really is in fact one big climb. So they will try to preserve as much as they can. Don’t burn too much energy on this first climb to really go go for it. So I really think the group will stay out there for the next hour or so. Okay. So we just all heard it what Fabian is predicting here at that stage. I guess it is earlier. Just let us know everybody what your guesses are. And here with the view to the famous Khalkle where the Axamitum is also known for the Olympic races, uh women races up there and technic races up there. Also right now known still for perfect skiing and a really famous mountain for ski mountaineering. And speaking of ski mountaineering, we have P Vak in the lead track team and he is one of Austria’s best ski mountaineer and now currently in the tour of Austria and he will be in the Olympic Games next year. Olympic winter games. Yeah. in the relay competition in the mixed relay competition with Johanna and he actually started at the little track within the development team and this is now his opportunity to shine here also on a yeah it is approach level neo here so he’s also did an fantastic job so far yesterday I said it was quite hard for him it was uh freezing Cold at the beginning with that rain, tricky conditions, but in the end with the sun up there on the Gisburg, everything played out pretty good for him and he’s happy so far with the performance, stepping into the footsteps of Anton who is right now up there in the Coutai doing his high altitude training camp after his crash and injury he had a bit ago. So he surely will be up there somewhere in the finish line cheering for his not his teammates cuz Rapul Bahan score is not taking place in that tour of Austria this year but for sure cheering for some of his friends there he met along his pro tour or world tour Hey, Yulus Johansson again making an incredible effort uh e effort for UAE team emirates glued to his back wheel from not just from complete because we know we have one in at the breakaway so three four athletes four riders from IO and also that one wearing the black and white jersey. and Julio Jansen still have his uh bike with the arrow bar on it. So you know for sure what his task is at the tour of Austria. Also with the arrow sleeves, arrow helmet. Pretty much the only one here with that helmet going full arrow for a mountain stage. Yeah. So now you can see we are in the flatter lower part of the Kai climb. But the funny thing is, sorry to interrupt you. Julius Yansson’s gota Aurios Julio Alvarez Meno a third place in the overall mountain classification and an A place in the points classification and he also got a second place in the second stage. So also he is capable of bringing home mountain stages. That’s for sure. I mean, he has to be the way he’s climbing and still being able to push his watts on the flat. It’s really impressive. He’s also a tall guy. Yeah. 188. Here we have the view of Hai finish. 1 hour and 8 minutes already in the race. 65.9K to go and it is already filling up there. So, a lot of spectators are on their way up to and also all of them pretty much with the bikes are at the Coutai and here we are stepping into the first meters of that climb here. You can see it is a gradient ascent right now there. So in I just said there are 7% average for the riders and still 1 minute and 10 ahead. Please still call. Fabian, your bet here. First one crossing the finish line today. seen incredible performances by for sure Isaac Toro whose name is written everywhere right now after his cheer Italia second place in the GC and being in the pink jersey for 13 stages I guess but we do have also Andrew August is capable of bringing that one home. Felix Gardner is capable for sure more than capable to securing that thing. Also want to keep have on the list is Hector Alvarez. Yeah, the my hat says Isaac Del Toro, my heart says Felix Groshot. about Hector Alvarez second in the youth classification of the Alwa Belgium Tour, third at the Olympia tour. So he is 18 years young and having such an incredible VA already with amazing results so far. And he we’ve seen it on the first stage. He is capable of big big things but also some underdogs could be here. There could be some surprises today. We will for sure kind of afraid to put a a name out there. There is so many guys who can potentially go for the victory today. So in also in that group we have Rui Costa in it. 33 pro wins already. So yes, he’s he’s I think one of the oldest guys in this race. I mean, still one of 38 years old, former world champion, three times GC tour to Swiss, five times stage wins wins at the tour to Swiss. So, well, and and so on and so on and so on. Colin Ducey. He can be dangerous from the breakaway group. He’s a really strong climber, too. He just has the head to push through walls. He is really mentally also super strong guy. He can potentially go for a great result for his for Alber squad. Now we are again in one of these flatter parts of the climb. 23 kilometers of climbing. Can you imagine that? No, not really. But for sure some of the riders said they are not quite sure what’s happening today. As you said before we started with the stream here, you had some nice calls, I guess also with Patrick Ga. Yeah. And he said that Yeah. that they know the roads really well and I asked him if he would use it to his benefit. I said, “Yeah, he was not sure if it’s a good thing for him to know what is up ahead because knowing what you are about to face is quite hard. But while we talking uh right now about planning or knowing what is about to happen, all of the athletes got their role book. They try to pretty feel into that what’s coming up. about how is really the planning of such a difficult stage with 3,500 m in elevation gain. It is not that long, but it is for sure a painful one. Yeah. I mean also speaking to to Felix Angelhart, he said that knowing especially the climb we are doing now like where to push, where to try and stay in the group like calculate your energy output where to to push super hard to to have a slipstream in the flatter section is necessary. So they really really try to make the most out of their knowledge. But still once you are on the second horse category climb up to Satle, it’s steep all the way up. So it’s again really a super honest climb. There is no hiding. If you have signs of weakness there, your race is done. Yeah. So, we hope that all of those contenders are plant that job here pretty well. We’re entering Celine village Seline which marks a little bit the start towards the Coutai. We then turn right into another into the valley. Actually, there is like a crossing here. And Sarin is the very first village in there where you can say actually it is the start of something bigger. So we pre previously mentioned that a lot of Austrian riders and also foreign riders go up to Coutai to do their altitude training there. It will be crucial for the riders today to be adapted to the altitude climbing up to 2,200 m. 2,200. Yes. So you will already start to feel the lack lack of oxygen from rule of thumb around,500 meters of climbing. So the riders who are adapted to altitude the best or the most will have certain benefits up there. And again as you mentioned Tony Balta a lot of the Bora team use the Ustal Valley or Koutai for their altitude training. Juula will be up there in the coming weeks. We’ve seen Chumbbo Visma up there. We’ve seen the women’s squad Canyon Stram the FT girls. And now we see Colin Juicy trying to get away here, but the breakaway is up for a counterattack. They’re not letting him off the leash easily. And up front there is I guess Jac Lula pushing hard. There is I guess Katm Tiro cycling pushing here, but Mickey Gogle just let them a bit uh yeah go here. Maybe it was a bit too fast from the early on of that stage. And here Julio’s Johansson again uphill in amazing position dragging in the pelaton towards the breakaway. 57 seconds. No signs of weakness for Julius. No signs of weakness. No signs of fatigue. looking strong and composed and how stretched the pelaton is again there. So that indicates a pretty high tempo even though we are going uphill in a certain gradient there. That is amazing. Look at that power Julius Johansson is bringing into the pedals. And also now the breakaway is tangled up. Here we have Yaka Primos, Ecto Alvarez, Salvator, Buchio from Inos. But you can see it. Everybody in bike clothes up there. All the main contenders now lined up in front of the palaton. You see Felix Groch. So you see Rafael Mah, you see Andrew August. Ah, you see also Isaac Del Toro in the green white jersey and in the backdrop and we are with Rui Costa EF education easy post trying to closen up the gap to Paul double and Colin Stissy. Colin Stersy. All of them opting for the lightweight climbers bike today. smaller rims all trimmed down to light weight, but still above the weight limit of the UCI, which is 6.8 kilos. So, that’s the least amount of weight your bike should have. Otherwise, you will get a penalty for it. Are there any tricks to make it heavier while on being on the scale and then at the end it is lighter? Back in the day they put ice inside the frame and then once they start riding it melts and trims down the weight. But nowadays they will weigh their bikes after the race and if your bike is below 6.8 8 kilos, you will have a problem. So they if your bike really is too light, they put extra weight into the bike. But you want to have your wheels super light. So everything that turns is supposed to be light because that’s where the weight makes the biggest difference. the tires, wheels, and then you try to put the weight down close to the bottom bracket where you lose the least amount of watts. So, having that uh stairway right now, it’s a bit flatter. Then it ramps up again towards Greece. But don’t get confused when we use the term flat because it is Nikolai having a mechanic here. You as a former mechanic. What happens there? Is there any? So he dropped his chain probably because his shifting didn’t work properly or he even made a shifting mistake. Not too sure, but he should be able to get the chain back on quite fast and and also a bad decision to be there. He is also trying again to hopefully secure some more points on the KO, but with having mechanicals on the early stages of that climb up, it’s going to be a tough task. It is also going to be a tough task there for Miki Goer from Alpetine the Coinic. He lost a bit the of skin on his elbow. Yeah, that’s also and the connection there cuz the breakaway also tangled or really stretched along. But still looking pretty strong here. nasal breathing on his lightweight canion machine 1 minute 37. Speaking of bikes, if you could choose one of the bikes of each team, which one would you want to have? I guess my own one. Um, it’s hard to say. All of those bikes are in the lineup are pretty much on top level. And I guess there are not many differences anymore between those those uh yeah producers or like brands of bikes. But which really looks cool is that one from Juula. Yeah. 58.tk. It is not that long anymore. But I guess that chess on the wheel is about to start pretty soon here. Also here in that chase group cuz we are right now having two groups out there leading. This is the second group. It is Ector Alvarez. It is Salvator Puchio and also from Rinko Vadvar Avaric Yaka Primoich and Necto Alvarez is fueling himself. Third group and there even is a third group there also. Salvator Bio So in the middle there’s another group. So we do have some of them out here trying to pull some moves here in that stage. But this is the leading one. Barini is in another group in it. And now we are about to go through the village of Grizz Ielin. And once we are through that village, it is where the steepest part of this climb up to Couts. And the gap is opening up. So they have approximately 20 to 30 seconds gap to the next group with Filipo Baranchini in it with Mid Dot with Anton Stansby and Eric Fetter as uh also with Mickey Gorger and then we do have the third group with Buchio Alvarez on Primosich. And now we are going towards that steeper part. Our helicopter having also a little break there spinning in the field. But as you can hear it rotating faster. He is about to start and we will have some amazing air. Yeah. So also that third chase group is entering Greece. Also great to see nearly half of the celline on the side of the road there. And I got some pictures from a lot of friends yesterday that they painted some names on the streets for the riders they are cheering for. And I think we will have a few fan zones along the way. Now we’re back with the heli there. ramping up towards Coutai towards the first Orus category of today and they’re just paddling in a pretty decent rhythm. Yeah. lots of awesome lots of people here. Oh, that’s typical Austrian culture and tradition having the orchestra sitting standing next to the track playing some traditional music. So, one more time. Welcome to Austria. Also always nice to see other teams feeding not only their riders but giving bottles to everybody. Moran Femoan, former expro in the team for Albaka also coach now. Uh four one really famous Austrian runner for Julia Maya Julia. Yeah Julia Maya and the brother of Austria’s best cross country skier Mika Mika 1 minute 42 Poton and uh 35 seconds and 40 seconds. So, we do have two chase groups out there. So, this really is one of the steepest part of this first Kai climb. And you know when you’ve done the climb before that this really is super steep. And you don’t have to do it before. You just have to watch that pictures. You can see them leaning on the bar. You can watch on the gear on which they are right now. Not really trying to work with the upper body too a bit here. So, it is one hell of a ramp. It is. And when you see the best riders pushing hard gears, you know it is steep. You can tell from their body language. the famous lane. What is it called? Laneik cross lean stitch uh 101 translated from German to English. They have the fans Go, go, go, Emmanuel. That’s his parents right there. Oh, the parents. Yesterday we saw his mother on top of the guys and now they are in Luta. Yeah, it is. Uh, she is following the whole tour of Austria. That’s what I heard. Go AO. Go Felix. Go Felix. I that that was you, right? No, it wasn’t. Go Felix. No, it was not me. I went to bird early yesterday, so I’m ready for today. Maddie Dot struggling. You can see it in his face. As we all know, Tro KTM cycling is mainly an under 23 team, Conti team here and they are producing amazing riders out there. Thomas Poop which is not just the director of the tour of ASIA it also the team manager of Tro KTM cycling is probably more than happy with the performance so far from his team especially from Marushett who is in the best Austrian jersey with the top 15 GC players right now and now the steep part is over and they will have a smaller flattery section for recovery if you can call it like that and then it will ramp up again and that is what I meant with the stairway up to Koutai the team uniat timma rockets number 73 Baptist Buy French rider, the only pro team in the lineup. There’s seven world teams, one pro team and 12 continental teams are in that UCI 2.1 race. Two stands for stage races and the point one stays for open to ponty and pro and work two teams. Now that’s that flatter part you talked earlier. And then it is going up again. We are nearly halfway through the first climb of today up to the Couta. And just to let those stats sink in once more, 2243k to go. 1,396 m in elevation gain. 6% in average maxing out to 18.4% 4 percent and that is the beautiful aerial view of the pelaton with still one in the lead with still Julius Johansen controlling the speed of the pillon with anos on his back wheel again. Then UAE with all the top contenders, Felix Gchartner, Isaac Del Toro, Andrew August and so on and so on and horses on the road now. Yeah, that is uh free grassing or free Yeah. feeding of the animals here in Austria. They are allowed to walk around freely, which is also a bit of topic in cycling sports for sure cuz it could be that the road horses are on in the middle of the track. And it looked like Fatistas is trying to come back to our leading trio. It will be a tough challenge for him. But I guess you heard him scream towards them. And now the pelaton is quite small already. And you can see some of the riders out there and they are going to be catched in the next few moments. Yeah. Here we are with the horses on the track now. Matty Todd having a little look over to it and a smile towards the camera. Yeah, we are in an alpine village or valley as you can see here. The gap is closing. The pelaton is rolling without any hesitations towards those chases. But you can see the Pelaton is already becoming smaller and smaller. A lot of riders struggling with the ferocious pace set by Julius Johansson. And we have now a leading quartet. Yeah. With Baptist Duier again here. He made the cut and is up there. But Colin Stusy is again on for something here. Opting up the speed. And now we are Medaton and UAE again there with the leading work. Ulus Johansson dropped because his job is done. He brought them back. He brought them into the mountains. He brought them uh some advantages uh gap wise there. But right now he is uh yeah trying probably to just survive that stage here after an incredible job. One more time. You have to say that pretty loud and clear. The cap is at 1 minute now. UAE is sending another rider up front. So now we have two UAE four from IO then I guess it is JCO Elula and we are hearing some informations from Sufi from the Finnish area right now. Yeah, awesome here. of Austria. Pictures are beautiful. Uh we are waiting for them for sure to go up there. We are in Sedmmont right now. The last small village before we reach Kai and also from here it’s going to be steep. Some climbing left. Yes, teamroll handing bottles to the riders. And we can see Mario Gumper, the brother of Patrick Gumper from the Jo Aluna squad, former racer for the KTM Troll team, coming from a family of racers. So it’s three brothers all having roots in the racing scene in Austria. Glorian Gumper being the other brother of the Gumpers working in the bike industry but not part of this year’s tour of Austria. 117.3K from the start inbrook and now we are at 51.9 one hour and 43 minutes already in that race. And you can see those fourman strong breakaway group here with a 1 minute and two seconds gap to the pelaton. But they are on a mission. They are trying to swallow everyone who is out there and getting them back. after sunk segment. They are working good. Not good. They’re working perfectly fine together and always up there in front from Jacula. Paul Dubo is doing the leading work here. Under a minute right now is the gap between a pelaton and those four baptisa Paul Dubu and we have one and two world tour teams, one continental teams again. Team Foralberg is doing an amazing job so far on that tour of Austria. Or Fab, what do you think? Team Fal and all the other continental teams are presenting them in a way which nobody would have ever thought about it. No, they are not hiding from the big teams. They are doing the best what they can. We’ve seen some incredible performances by the local guys. Great job. Fantastic. And I guess now it is really the time or not just now. It was from the beginning on all the world two teams are setting their top contenders into the front of the pelaton cuz it is a deciding stage. you may win that GC or when you lose you lose it big times there because if you have any issues equipment wise or physical wise it is probably decided by the end of that day here and it is a brutal day. It’s a brutal day that’s for sure. I think or I expect bigger gaps today than we had the previous days. The parkour like Thomas poop really prepared a hard stage for the riders. I mean it is called the queen stage of this year’s tour of Austria. And yeah, we are seeing nothing less. Now we are already in one of the steeper parts again. It was Baptist. And here you can see it also on the gear. Not even on the biggest rocket. He’s still pushing hard even on the steepest parts. So, you know, these riders still have something left in the tank. That’s amazing. Nearly 8 70 peoples are watching that tour of Austria. the queen stage today. UAE Inu Alula and you can see it is a kind of a small payton already. One of you guys counted it approximately 60 but now there are 40ish people 40ish people here. And we still have 450k to go. And they shaved off 30 seconds of the leading gap. It’s jumping around. Go, go, go. We could read here. And it is not that far anymore. Approximately 4k to go to the top from here on and one is really or two are really pushing hard. Baptist du and rui costa are on another break away or another attack try from those two. Yeah, strong and known athletes for sure with the rainbow strides on it. And for all of you guys wondering what that thing on the street is, it is a barrier for all the animals up there for the cows, for the horses to not Yeah. cross the road. Cross the road or running away. And also for sure in the downhill section it is going to be a bit of a not I would not say a problem but I guess it is a bit of a tricky part in the track. We will not see cows now not the cows the thing on the street. Oh yeah, but on the other side of the mountain there are not that many animals, but still we have the rails across the road and there will be some nasty ones. So the riders really do have to take care of that and it will be mentioned in the team meeting before each stage where the riders will talk through the strategies of the day. the director of sportis will also talk them through the dangers of the descents and the twisty turns. So I mean if we can’t speak of the downhill already before we reach the top it is really a technical one with a lot of switchbacks down they will hit close to 100 kilometers per hour again. So the really the riders have to be careful and not take too many risks. You will not win the race on the downhill but you can certainly lose lose it. Yeah. And we were also speaking about the switch to disc brakes earlier and Christian was telling us that they are stronger disc brakes but in his opinion they are not really safer since the riders can break later and hit higher speeds on the downhill. So the riders nowadays are they taking more risks on the downhill? I guess I guess so cuz as you mentioned they are uh it is possible to break later before they go into that turn. I guess it is more likely for them to speed up here and try to use the momentum of the descent to maybe build up the gap between them and the and the pelaton or for the pedon to close the gap towards the breakaway. But those athletes are complete experts in that what they are doing. It is their job and they know about the risk every every time something can happens and especially here for the next few seconds then Colin Stusi lost there the connection towards those two Ru Costa and Baptist Ru Costa in an amazing shape. Baptist also in an amazing shape. He did a great effort to close the gap to that freeman strong breakaway group and now he is on his way up to the coupai up to the horsey and we’ve seen the tunnels along that along the track goes to the top of the coupai climb. So, Bu Costa and Baptist, we can already see or have a glimpse to the top of the Coutai climb. And it’s not that far away. It’s ramping up one more time a little bit and then it’s flattened out up there at the very top of the Coutai at over 2,000 m above sea level and also for the Peloton. It is the time where they are able to see the tunnels over there like we are right now able to see it and this is really the moment where they knew okay soon we are pretty much up there. I mean they are already climbing for close to 50 minutes. So it is a long climb and then they have to do it one more time Baptist Ruik Costa France and Portugal. It was a dangerous move for sure for both of them, but the quality of that group up front of those two athletes up front is simply amazing. And so far, they are making an incredible job. They’re fully committed to reach that ORS category here on the Coutai. And now we have the overview over Coutai. also well known for its skiing, also well known for, as we said before, the Earth Stalarat Marathon and some more incredible winter events there. But today it is really the pinnacle of Austrian cycling sports and we are waiting hard for seeing those two up there. So let’s buckle up. We too are for sure buckle up in our seats here in the commentator booth and waiting for all the things are about to happen in the next moment. People are along the track and we see also not just the finish, we see the passing, we see the horse category and hopefully soon we are seeing those two. But there is something happened. Rui Papis cannot stand that huge pace Rui Costa is bringing on to the ground here and he is in an amazing shape. former world champion, pro world tour athlete. He is pretty much one of the oldest in the competitive field, 38 years old, but still hammering up there. And there’s one pretty well-known sentence from commentator. He is dancing on the pedals. And Colin Ji is still not letting the pace go. So he keeps the distance to Rui Costa roughly the same. So he is managing his efforts really, really well. His day is not over yet, but you can see it a bit in the cadence before he was at some part on the limits for sure. Uh we just heard it. He is approximately 17 kilometers per hour fast here on the climb. On the climb. Incredible. who even the motorbikes. Yeah. On the on his way to uh grab 15 points, but just stay inside the building. We’re not leaning too far wide out of the window cuz always something there always something up to something here. And if you are watching YouTube videos and are really into that, you have to follow the channel of the Titma Unied Rockets because they are really up to some incredible stuff and videos on their YouTube channel. Two one and a halfk to go here. Colinus back in his wellknown rhythmful cadence on the way to grab baptis. We are right now two hours in that fourth stage. always turning his head towards the pelaton and uh wondering where they are. Alo, we got now the view back. Aren’t able to see them cuz they are also in the tunnels right now. So the situation for the moment is Ruy Costa in the lead with a 13-second gap to Baptist Huier. Then it’s 5 seconds between Huer and Colin Ducey. And then there is still Paul double at 23 seconds behind Rio Costa. And the pelaton as we see it is 1 minute and 19 seconds behind. Yeah, but you can see it also here. Colin Stusy is working his way up to Baptist from Uni Totma rocket. Now the steepest part of the Coutai climb is over and it is a flatter section to the top. Now maybe they can regroup and then go for the downhill. Costa is not waiting for anyone. He is not waiting for anybody here. He probably can hear them already up there. Ru Costa. Now that would be a part for his followers or for his chasers to try to close that gap here. Colleen is probably aiming for it and trying to do that. So 1.8K until we are reaching the KOM or category, the highest classification in the UCI rule book. And that one probably goes to Portugal goes to Rui Rui Costa calling not far away from Baptist. So reca’s last win is one year and 19 days ago. So he really wants to have that win again. No, it is not that far anymore for him. And it’s super nice to see so many fans up on the Coutai climb rooting for the racers. And now he’s on his way to crown himself the first king of Coutai cuz we do have a second king already then coming up later when we are going towards the finish but now he even got time to put on his jacket. It is cold. We are above 2,000 m here of above sea level. So it will be slightly cool less than 10° or around 10°. Here we are. Amazing footage again and with him and then we will have some numbers on the real gaps between him and the pelaton and all of the riders in between. 2,20 m to be exact, above sea level here at the cutout. We can see all the team buses lined up there. They go little and here in focus for sure, Rui Costa crossing the Kita climb for the first time. And here he is, Ruy Coer. 2 minutes and four, 2 hours and 4 minutes in the race getting that 15 points on his back here. And now no hesitation. And Colin Stusy made it to catch Baptist. It is up there to grab 10 points. Bis Duier is really laying down his head here and trying to stay in the draft from Aolenusi. Well, you can see it. That was going for the K. And then there was a bit of a slowdown after that line, but not for Rui Costa. And now it’s all the way down to the Ustal Valley, 200 m of downhill. 20K 20 km of downhill. and he’s already up there next to the hut. So we have the Paloton rolling into Kai. There’s not many left and the commentators are up there making The crowd go wild. Yeah. So now it’s time to recover as much as you can in the downhill. Get some nutrients in again and then prepare yourself for the next climb. So, what you want to do in this downhill is try to pedal a little bit so the lactic acid gets out of your system and you are prepared once again because what you don’t want to do is let your feet just hanging down because you will not be able to recover properly. Here we are back with Rui Costa. Last KOM was for him Japan Cup cycle 2023 and Wela 2023. Then back to 2020 and his gab is at 28 seconds to Hu Baptist and Colin and then it is 1 minute 19 to the Palaton and let’s see how much of a gap he can take out of this downhill. So, as you can see on the road surface, it is a mountain road and the riders do have to be very careful on this descent. Nicolino Kurov as we can see here is also probably using now the momentum to catch maybe Ru Costa then he is also going for that mountain jersey. He is in second position in the virtual com classification. But if he is able to secure him the next or category, there are more than Yeah. 15 points added again on his back. And we have a question. Where is Paul double? He should be behind Colin Ducey and Baptist Huay somewhere in between or he is already swallowed by the pelaton. We are not sure about that. Here you can see the spicy downhill bit of flatter parts in it. And then they’re coming towards a really really steep one. And the riders will try to keep it in their memory because they will have to climb up this part again in a few kilometers. So they will now see the finish climb or the last climb of the day and have kind of a recon of this climb. Here you can see them one more time. Those rails along the track gathers. Yeah, they are on their way to Oxen Garten. Nicola Vinourov asking if those two are ahead in front of him. So now he has to do some calculations if it is worth it to take the risk and try to bridge the gap in the downhill or just wait for the pelaton and surf. Oh, he jumped it. There’s some fans of Immanuel Sangal. It was actually my parents there with the And Ri Costa already in the flat part towards Oxen Garten. So still some paddling to do in the downhill. And now on the right you can see where the riders will go downhill from the penultimate climb of the Satell and that’s where the roads separate. They go straight now into the stal valley but will come back from the right hand side in about an hour. Oh, okay. I just have to rewind a bit because Vin Kurov did an attack out of the Potton which brought him in fourth position which means he now took over the mountain jersey from Emmanuel Tangal and is now in the virtual classification of the K in first place. Heat. Heat. It is now on them to close the gap to Rui Costa and Vinurov have one minute. I have a one minute gap to Rui Costa and 40 seconds to Baptist Duier and Colini. We are at Oxen Galen with the Potton leaving already Oxen Gartner. Now there Colin Tissy and Baptist sprinting out of every corner and trying to bridge the gap to Rui Costa in this downhill. 34.5k to go. We are in a 20 nearly 20k descent right now. Spicy decent. Then it’s going down a little bit more for another 10k with a gradient. Decent. And done. We then we start with another spicy ascent. It is then the stal satell another category 9.7K with more than 1,000 m in elevation gain but here we have an average gradient of 10.3%. Just to remember, we had 7% at the first category 3 in GSON, 6% at the ORS category Q we’ve seen before, and now we’re maxing then after that to 17.1%. But in total, the average of that 9.7K long climb is 10.3%. It is your former training’s climb. You know, probably every tree or leaf or I don’t know whatsoever along that track. Would you mind taking us a little bit on that one while we enjoying those contenders racing towards that spicy one? So once you go around the roundabout, you know, it is going to be tough. So actually most of the climb is even steeper than 10%. Because it flattens off after the first 800 m of climbing. So as you said, it’s roughly 10k,000 m of climbing. And the Straa KM is also set by Czech Burke and it is 34.23 minutes and Jack Burke is well known for setting new Straa coms. Yeah. Uh I guess or Yeah. Yeah. Pastor. So this is a brutal climb and you are not done once you are on top of the satellite climb. It is a brutal climb and it is not fun if you’re not in really really good shape shape. So here we have another speed limit of 60ks per hour. Would be nice to see how fast Rui Costa is in that part. And it is also amazing to see how well those two athletes and Hu working together to closen that gap to Rui Costa. I wonder where uh Nicholas Binourov is right now because he had a gap from 1 minute and six seconds to Costa. And now this is pretty much the first little village above cuz we are now entering valley uh with the village down there called we stay a little bit in the flat I said for a few case uh out of direction out of the style before we turn right again up to the stal satell. And every rider living in that area knows how long they take to go up this climbs. And now they have the chance to compare themselves to the pros of this year’s tour of Austria and see how well they would do against these riders. And also the thing right now is that the pelaton is not that far away anymore. And I guess they’re aiming for that little um ready descent on the main road to catch or to try to catch uh Rui Costa. I don’t think they will able to bridge the gap all the way but they will narrow it down. They narrow it down. Yeah. towards the climb and then we will see once they catch the first riders if they manage to do so. Maybe OI Costa has still plenty of power left in his legs. But they will try to come back and then it will be a last man standing race. Oh, for sure. But Ruy Costa is really yeah digging into the rat right now. He’s uh putting down some pure what WS and for sure also willpower to have it to be that fast going down towards Earth. We are nearly at the bottom of the descent. It’s just one turn left here and then we will see the roundabout in a few seconds popping up. Hopefully he knows that that that one’s coming up cuz he is damn fast for sure. Now we are down there at the roundabout. Hopefully everything went well here. Holy smokes. What a speed he is hammering here down always with the look back calling the neutral supporter car in it or not his own car EF education easy post and yeah sure he don’t need any layering anymore because it’s from that point on It’s just uphill. Three times winner of the tour. The Swiss Costa and the two chasers still in the downhill. So he managed to open up the gap even further. Gaps out to 30 28 seconds. So now for them for sure it’s also time to dig in pretty hard and see how well they work together. Meirano of North Frontier. My climate, you are a bit shaking your head cuz uh because we say that about my home village of Himing. We call ourselves the man of of the north. Sultan, like I said before, not just famous for the Stala Rat Marathon. Also, uh James Bond movie was filmed in that valley using that high alpine scenery. We are surely about to enter soon. And also the halotone is done with very spicy descent and as I said Rat Marathon. We also have an interview with Dominic Kuan. He is the mastermind behind the rap marathon and with Oliver from the CEO of the touris office. social. Perfect. for this and perfect match. Perfect match. So, the community ride worked out well, but we leave it with that here. They are more than happy to be up there and all of the six local team clubs were invited to do there. And while we heard the interview of Dominic Kin and Oliver Schwadz, we have seen some problems with Colin Stusy here. Yeah, it looks like he cramped up and has cramps in his right leg. So huge problem for him in the flat. So he probably tucked down too much in the downhill which led to these crimes. It can happen in long descents. Ah, bad timing for him. That’s a pity for him. He put such a great effort in there and now he’s cramping up there. But we have again up here the gaps. 1 minute and 53 for the chases and 2 minutes 12 to the pelaton which seems quite big. And now Costa is at the end of the Utal Valley. So he will soon take a right turn and then he will have only 4 kilometers of flatter section before he will start the climb up to Satalan. Here we can see once again Colin Jissi trying to loosen up his legs. Uh Baptist always looking back to his companion here on that fight towards Ruri Costa. And as you can see, uh, Colin Stuty is talking to his team over the radio. And now it is maybe asking for something salty and something with acid, like vinegar. That’s what they use to loosen up cramps. But yeah, it is really the worst timing possible to have a cramp. It’s still looking unbelievable. Amazing. Ruy Costa. And we have a question from Jose Maria if we think Baptist has options to win today. I mean he’s looking strong. He came back really strong but I think his gap to Ru Costa is more than a minute now. And for sure also the Piloton is pushing really really hard because they are going for the GC and once they start the climb there will be no holding back. Team Falag waiting with the spare bike for Colin Ducey. Maybe he wants to swap bikes at the side of the road. It looks like his saddle was down a little bit. Maybe that’s why he cramped up, but we don’t know for sure. That’s your hometown right now. Team United shipping next to the road with the huge supporter car and with the view back to the pelaton. Nicholas and Vinurov got swapped in got swallowed by them and again team UAE is again working their 8 dot dot dot off in that stage. Matty dot still part of the palaton after being in the early breakaway and Louis Costa should be close to the start of the climb now. 2 minutes 15 19 per point he goes six and there we go. It is the start of the horse category up toal settle throwing away unnecessary weight here and it is as I said 9.7k long maxing out to 17.1 and having an average of 10.3% and I can tell you there is No flatter parts in this climb. What a beast. But they are there’s no stopping here. There is no stopping. Pelaton in preparation of the same climb. 20K to the finish, but 20 brutal kilometers. UAE is again riding hard. Team Foral Juula little track also here. Strong team composition. Here we are also they are at the start of the climb. Patrick Gumper leading out Felix Engelhard into this climb. The JO Alula squad still riding strong together and trying to match the strength of the UAE team Emirates squad. Felix Grochad now also in up front part of the pedon to find you can saw him also Isak del Toro which is also meant to be a perfect climb for him for sure. We have here Rafael Mah. We see we see Kovi. We see Baronini. We have juicy right now there with number 96 is back in the pelaton. Got caught by them. Matty dot and Bu Costa is out there for some moments alone so far. And the question is for sure, is he able to keep it? Is it a is he able to stay out there for the next 18k? And as we looking onto the profile, there are not many red numbers in it. Only black only gradients. Black gradients up there. So it now looks like Bu Costa is the only rider left in front of the pelaton. still looking strong, finding his rhythm to tackle this. I was always gonna say beauty of a climb, but now you can see the steepness already and it is the task for UAE to close that gap because Rui Costa is also in the general classific ification. He can use for sure that minutes here got but in total not a deciding man for the GC but on the paper it would look good if to he can secure some or minimize some of his delay here on the tour of Austria. So, we have a comment from Alpine Software Corporation. Thank you for the compliment on our coverage. and he’s from the hometown of AJ August and Magnus Sheffield. So, both really, really great and capable riders. And he is skiing and biking with AJ’s dad. And he’s asking what the odds are of him winning today. He has a fair chance to say the least. Sure. For sure. We’ve seen him yesterday with a good try right at the end of the Gisburg climb and we would love to see him up there going for the win today. But there are some contenders uh having some problems with that for sure. But one is here providing an incredible performance. Ru Costa. And look at him. He is looking strong. 38 years old. Three times winner of the tour. The Swiss. grabbed some uh important koims at the big tours like Vela and uh some more and you can see Costa was on the highest sprocket. So, trying to push the easiest gear possible, which you don’t see with the pros very often. 1 minute 30 is the gap. And they’re also hammering up to the stal settle. Still five guys from the UAE team. EF education also up front to find ideas still on the right uh hand part of the screen and some riders getting dropped at the lower part of the climb which means they are putting a ferocious pace in front and I It is hard for some of the riders to keep the connection to the pelaton. Now it is really a race deciding moment for sure for the chases. Then 17.2k to go. I know a lot of can happen in that 17.2 kilometers up there to the settle. And we know it is more than 1,000 m in elevation gain. And for sure Rui Costa have to bring that home in his uh capabilities. But sometimes there is someone saying no and that probably can be the body. Yeah. leading up to Coutai already having there an amazing or did there an amazing job but that was also a pretty hard ass ascent in that horse kit but now that one is even harder yeah I think so too and now he’s close to the first small village of Hookbug and now when he does the left turn it will ramp up again throwing away bottles to the fence and taking in a new bottle. And now he maybe be able to see the pelaton if he looks down. 38 years old, former world champion with tons of results in his VA. And here there are here are the chases. And look how small that pillon is already. My legs are already burning just by looking at him because I know how steep this section is. I’m getting more and more nervous by any second. passing by. 2 hours and 40 minutes in the race, 16.8 to go and Costa looking smoothly into the camera, but he for sure knows what there is coming behind him. The train, the unstoppable train. Off the palaton. Off the palaton with Ricky Toyidel Benstein. All those fantastic Austrian athletes are still in that data. Felix Angelhard from Germany. Everything is pretty much lined up. Filippo Paronini we see here, we see from Jac Elula, Julensen, Coupe Repsol. So the world two teams are making things together with the Conti teams here and that in an incredible manner. around 20 to 25 guys left in the palaton I guess and Costa still in the front. Still more than a minute. Still more than a minute. Herbert Ek past and also UAE. He’s looking a bit with this. There’s a bit of pain written in his face. But wouldn’t it be different? It is one of the hardest climb on that tour of Austria. And as you can see, saw it like shaking his head. Gap is still at a minute, but they can see him in front and try to narrow the gap down meter after meter. And now it’s also the moment where Ricky Toidel has to pull it. Then we have Patrick Conrad here. Floren Fish from UAE also can’t stand that high speed of his team colleagues and also Ric Costa is always turning back. Maybe he is thinking, “Oh, I did an amazing job so far. Now it is time to just let them come here. But there is another threeman strong group attacking right now. Ruy Costa Estan Chavez taking over Rafael Michael is it is in it. and Jacob Elula. Is that the moment where that glorious ride from Ric Costa is now over? Is it Pat Gampa or Felix Anger? Chris Yulansen. I guess it is Julensen. Yeah. Yeah. Julansen. Jo Elula and now Rafel Mah tries to pull a little bit more for Estabban Chavez. His day is not done yet. Outstanding performance. 30 seconds. The gap is here. Costa pulled out and here we have the next free breakaway in the breakaway group UAE EF Education Easy Post and Jo Lula 15.7K to go. What a heartbeat final. What effort they just put into that stage. And this is the test of threshold and mindset. Not just for the legs, it is a mental game. And let’s not forget there not even halfway through this climb. They are all fully committed and the gap is shrinking. It is shrinking. It is shrinking and in it Andrew August, Isak Del Toro, Felix Grochna, Luca Vgalito, all those big names. are in that Leonard Kea we’ve seen also in it. Yiannis beta in front of the pelaton for team for Alber still looking strong with Jiannis Peta Isak Del Toro here at the end of the the Pelaton. out of the saddle dancing in the paddles. Raphael Mica and Esteban Chavez. Same like from Jacob Elula. It is Elmo. Elmos. Aspiran Elmos or Elos. Norwegian names are always hard to pronounce. But what is not hard to see him working like a mammud here. Amazing. So now it is time for Ias to pull in front. Pull in front. Do I have my car in front? They are not putting the duty of the work here on themselves. Aspiran looking good. Looking strong still. 14.7 to go. We are halfway off that climb up to Stal Sati. And I know I said it tons before, but just to remind you one more time, 10.3% in average gradient up there, maxing out to 17.1. It is not just a few meters of elevation gain. There are more than 1,000 m of elevation gain to complete to get up there to the second or category of that day, which means 15 points are on to catch and we are close to halfway through this climb. So, still 500 m of climbing left. And look at that view here. Rafael Mah also out of the cell and looking back to the Peloton or not Peloton anymore to the chase groups. We can see here to the first chases because it was ripped in half that pelaton here during that stage four. 20 seconds of uh gap between them and the potone. Ah, heartbeat final is soon on for sure. And I wonder if we are able to see another attack here. I wonder if those three are able to bring that thing home or is it the time for those athletes down there. It would be a huge surprise to see someone of the top contenders falling out of that chase group. That would be that would complete turnaround. I don’t hope so and I don’t think so. But it will be a complete turn around here on that queen stage of the tour of Austria. Here we are looking definitely for the emperor of the coup. So now it’s about to ramp up again once they leave the small village of house. That’s where the nastiest part of this climb is. It would be nice to have a view from the back here to see if everyone is everyone from the top contenders is still in that chase group. 14K to go. 2 hours and 52 minutes already in the race and they were to predicted to be up there in the finish around 2:00 around 2:00. Now we are at 2:00. I guess the stats were lying here in that stage, but they’re still at an average of 36 kilometers per hour, which for a training ride is already pretty fast if you just stay in the flat. It’s to my shame I have to say I uh mainly use ebike when I’m out there. So we also have another interview with uh top athlete but in the winter Francisco. Francisco Austral For real. English. Um summer training. So, Franciscoc is happy to be part here use also the track up there as for training, but she is she just said she is far away from hammering it up there like the pros are doing it. But she doesn’t know her strengths are not in summer sports. They are in winter sports. She is a skier and she is happy to be here and happy to enjoy the venue and the in scenery. And we are more than happy to see those three guys. Now all of them were out of the saddle and dancing their way up. It looked like dancing, but it is brutal, brutal, brutal work for those three top athletes. Elimos, Micah, Chavez. So now they are in one of the steeper parts of the start of the climb. And afterwards you can kind of say it gets a little less steep to to use the right words. And the pellet down to 15 people. Down to 15 people here in it. Isak to for sure in it. Andrew August in it. Phyllis Gro Shartner in it, Fetter in it, we have Kemna in it. So all those and I’m super happy to see my flatmate Felix Angelar still at the back of this bunch doing an incredible job today. So the rockets are launched for sure to catch those three up front 12.8. Ak to go and we are nearly up to the set. Then we have a little descent and then we start the last climb which is which is also a category one climb. 5.9K 428 m in elevation gain 7.1% and we have just seen Leonard also from Aers in it. Michael Leonard. Estean Chavez, this guy from Colombia, still in front of this leading group. Three times Gio Dalia stage winner. two times Werta Espa stage winner and he was second in the GZ of the Chi Italia in 2016. So he is also one of the strongest climbers in this tour of Austria doing a lot of work in front. Now Aspen Helmosa doing the leading work right now. But Estbanchave is using the smaller radius of that turn or curve. Getting a bit flatter then it’s ramping up one more time. Oh, it’s D Satell. This is the end of that brutal, brutal climb. The come 15 points are up to catch and they are on their way up here. Finish area one more time. Everything is getting prepared to welcome the emperor of the Coutai Rodeo 2025. The last time we had someone up there at the Kai was 2013. 2013 was the last time we have seen a winner on the Couta. It was Kevin Srees representing Belgium back in the days Astana Pro team and he managed that one. The Couta Rado ahead of Ricky Toy. He was a second place there and that was the base for his uh tour win 2013. So now it’s starting to ease off a bit and they will try to build some more momentum to even go further away from the main contenders. It would be nice to have a little timing maybe 20 seconds, but 22k km per hour fast they are right now. Ka now pulling in the GC contender group. And there is a small gap building up there between those. Oh, go see a contention to the GC contenders. Oh, he is up for some struggle here. It doesn’t look like somebody from the UAE team is waiting for him. And now Isaac is trying to close up that gap. He is not waiting for no one. No, he he is in a forum of a lifetime. He is the probably the most talented rider out there. And now Englehart pushing in the front. And now it is they want to It is a a chess game on wheels right now. It is a chess game on wheels. Del Toro looking back if the other U rider was still waiting for Gotner. Now 40 seconds. 40 seconds is the gap here. That is a lot. That is a lot. So we are into something really interesting now. Go Shnock getting dropped from the main contenders is the biggest surprise we have seen so far today. Isak Toro is always looking back to his let me say that leader on the paper Felix Gartner and now it is again team Foralberg pushing in front Yanis Petis Peta and on his back wheel Toro Oh, so he’s not upping the pace isak to but he’s also not waiting for no one. He is on the hunt to get the third stage win in the fourth stage of the tour of Austria. He is probably the predicted overall winner. And with that, with Felix Goshard now dropping here on that climb up to Satelli and remembering the gap between those two at the start of the stage was just 5 seconds or 6 seconds, not more. He is right now probably leading that virtual GC. And we are And now he attacks. Here we are. Now he attacks 1,000 mters to the top of this climb and Isaac Del Toro decides now it’s time to go. But he got followed by two of EF Education easy post and then we have a counter attack. Probably not. Now they’re just waiting. They’re doing uh things together. I mean they both have a rider in front. That is that is one of a kind here. And with Rafal Mah in front, Del Toro will have someone to help him. Yeah. They’re starting to look behind. Let’s see how big the gap is. Archie Ryan is probably one of EF following Isak Del Toro. 500 m to the K. So now it’s almost flat. Aspen Elements is not happy with Estan Chavez, but the two of them will probably wait for their leaders today and only Helimosa will be on his own probably. Let’s see if Angelart can still manage to go over this climb. 10 kilometers to go to the finish line. Lena Kea also in it with Isak Del Toro. And here we are. Now it is uh Archie Rin. Archie did an amazing job also at the Porsche back. What the heck is Isak Toro doing there playing with? He’s trying to get rid of him before they close the gap. And now they will enter the small downhill section before it’s our last category one climb up to Couta again. And waiting until Felix Gartner here. And now they are in the downhill. Last time to take a breath and relax. Here we have one, two, three, four, five, six. in that leading in that leading group. It’s not a breakaway anymore. I can say that it is. And four chasers. Four chasers. And in it it is Isak Del Toro, Leonard, Kea, Espan, Elmos, Estean Chavez, Archie Ry. So they are almost down in Oxen Garden again. If you remember that’s where they descended earlier today and now they are back into the climb. It will start with a flat. There’s another breakaway try here. There is another breakaway try. Sorry to interrupt you but this is going to be H. That was a good try. It was a good try, but now now it’s flat, so it’s harder for them to get away before they enter the climb in this small tunnel, which is going to be extremely steep. What is happening here? What is happening right now? Six guys in the front. Where are our chasers lining up using that flat part two? Here we are with another two. So we are right now with eight riders. Eight riders up front here on the last 7.6k. Now, who is that person got enough strength in their legs to start another attack? It is full gas now. No second thoughts from them. Yiannis Pet. Yes, he is at the seventh position. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11. We are 11 head strong. Wow. Now it’s Ryan Archie pulling in front. Yeah, Archie. Archie is also a pretty capable contender to Del Toro, Isaac Del Toro for sure, but we have two from So, we do have two from Jacob right now. We have two from EF. We have one from Alpetine. Uh Luca Valito little track also in it. Leonard Kamna. And now the KM for this very last part of today’s stage is starting now with the stop for climb. Super steep one. Felix Angelhart pulling in the front. And now looks like Micah is taking over. Micah is taking over. Yes. But that stopper climb is also one of a kind here. 18.5% max gradient. It is like facing a wall. Cross shot left behind Punchina trying to help him. Yeah, he is at the very start of that stop for climb. Start of the K. 6k to go. And we have here another gap. Four of them are left behind on that stop for climb. Yanni pa. We have Veralotti, Helmos and Ka Ka 5.8 Bobby, your predictions here. Now it is time to probably set a good one. Rafael Micah is doing again an incredible job. Got followed by two of EF Education Easy Post. Felix Gorchard is probably out of that deciding uh I’m sorry but I am rooting for Felix Engelhart now. He is my flatmate. I’m training every day with him. There is nobody else I can root for now. I’m sorry. And we have them estab Chavez. But no matter the outcome, we are into something incredible here. Yeah. Agie Ry. So it’s two UAE team Emirates riders against two EF and Felix Angelhard from Juula and those four are dropped. But we will have some flatter parts in between climbing the damp walls of the Koutai water electricity area and in between those flat sections. They cannot allow themselves to have stand stills and do too much of tactical work here. I am getting goosebumps already. Unbelievable. And if you could see into our commentator booth now, you would see the two of us strangled to this screen. We are waiting for the first attack to go. We have four of them together. One is I think Chavez is having slight problems now following the pace having done some work earlier. And no. Yes. Chavez. Chavez Estban. Chavez. And as you can see now it eases off. Maybe he can try to come back a little bit. He is trying hard for sure and we have the finish uh sign 5k to go as the banchave made it back to those four athletes up front. Felix Angelhart is trying to let Rafael Mah now do the work. And here is Ka with Helos. With Hammos working there as off to close that gap here. And if those are together again when it comes up to the coupai, we know it is a pretty steep part up to the finish area, but it is for sure open for some Yeah. punchy hill sprint that we maybe can see Isaac Toro here in the middle with the green and white jersey sitting in a bit and letting Raphael Mah do the work. But also Rafael Mah is a mountain a climbing expert and also stage hunter also. He is capable of bringing that one home for UAE which would mean another UAE victory at that tour of Austria. But you are shaking your head. You’re always there. All of them are in pairs and Felix is on his own. I mean, he should not do this amount of work now. He should let the other guys do their work. 4,000 m. 4,000 m. And we are still having 300 and no two 300 m of elevation gain to go. Micah is still talking to Toro there. Toro is in the zone for sure. and Micah again the super domestique. And there we can see at the top of the screen Ka and Helamosa are clo trying to closing that gap approximately 60 to 70 m gap between them and then Yanis beta chasing you. I wonder when there is that point of that incredible finish where some of those top athletes try to start or not try start the attack up to the coupai. It is not that far anymore. It is 3.6k 6k to go and we are nearly under 200 m of elevation gain. And here we can see Felix Gartner is getting pulled in by Potra Beccala from ATMs trying really to narrowing the gap here in the GC. But this battle which we see right now on the screen, this is something completely different, completely new and it is just the waiting game. It is just the waiting game. When is that moment where an del Toro or Ry tried to pull something on them? Don’t forget about Felix in Don’t forget about Felix. But he has a pretty tough task for sure. He thought that Elos is sticking with him but Elamos is here with Ka and they can see them also up front here. It is not that much. It is not that much but maybe enough to not make it to get them back here. And Bensteinina here also from coming from mountain bike races used to go uphill pretty steep here and also putting on again a great effort into that race. Archie ride, 2.8k to go. And we have uh Estabban Chavez here pulling out of that huge base there hammering onto the surface up to the coupai. Two turns then they are able to see the finish already. It’s that one and another one. And then it is a straight view up to the coupai. No more no more turns, no more curves, no more any other distractions. Just straight ahead up. Jopped here, Felix Angle. So now after this turn, it will ease off a little bit. So they will ride along this artificial lake around the dam and then it will ramp up once again. So if they are doing tactical games which I don’t think Rafael Mah will be up to, he will try to keep the pace up so nobody can come back because it’s two against one now. Micah, Del Toro, Rhin. Those are the three in the lead. It is the final phase. It is the hottest part of that fourth stage. Two UAE riders against one EF Education Easy Post. 3 hours and 23 minutes, 2.2 km. It was in total 3,500 m in elevation gain and 117.3K. Two ORS categories, one category 1, one category 3. And now it comes all to an end up there at the Kai. to already down in the drops. So, he’s just waiting for himself to go. That’s the penultimate short little climb before another very short flat section and then we will have the final part of this climb, the decisive moment just in a few seconds. Del Toro glued to the back wheel of Ryan 1,000 meter. Then we have a com. Here it is. Then the Qban come, the last com of today. And then it’s up for the finish. Grabbing another 12 points here. But that points are irrelevant for those three top contenders there. And now they can see the finish line. They can see the finish line already. It’s easening a bit and then it’s ramping up one more time. That’s the camera from the finish here. And Flam Rouge. And now it is now or never. Now or never. It is on. Who has the bigger breath? Who has the bigger legs? Who is able to put down their head and hammering up there to the finish line? Is it Ryan or is it Deto or is it Micah? who made an incredible job here. He did so much work for Isaac Delawa. And now it is Delto’s time to pay him back by going for the win. So at any moment now he will try to go 800 m. 800 m. They are all three capable of crowning themselves up at the coup. Archie Bryan looking good. Looking really good. Micah is dancing on the pedals out of the cell and they are pretty much in the red zone right now. They’re putting down tons of watts and as you can see here it is narrowing. The street is narrowing. Tons of spectators here while they are soon reaching the top that come and it is to the France wipes. Is it Micah who is about to pull that finish come for them? 400 m to go. Rafa Rafa always looking back and now it is again that waiting game playing chess on a bicycle. It is amazing. Who is it? Now it will be time for Del Toro to snap. Or is it waiting? Ryan Archie is waiting for Del Toro to something. Now it is. Now it is. Is it too? Yeah is here up. grind Archie trying to get him a little bit back, but that was a moment. He nearly missed here. Another big stage win for Isak Toro here at the fourth edition, fourth stage of the Tour of AIA. And Archie Ryan in second position. Another amazing chop by the athlete from EF Education. Easy post and heads up to Raphael Mah. Super domic one more time here. And now the first three are in the finish here. And there is Jac and Lula Felix Angard securing the fourth place here at the Coutai. Amazing. Lena Kea also here and Estban Chavez in fifth position. That was again uh yeah we expected fireworks and we got nonetheless completely empty completely done Ka Lena Ka Yeah. And now it’s waiting time for Felix Gardner. How much did he lose today? Wow, del Toro again. Incredible race by Yiannis for team for Alber. Hats off to him. And here we have Andrew August back in the finish. So Del Toro. Unbelievable. What a right. Archie Ryan incredible strong. probably missed a bit the momentum or missed a bit the timing there, but he is also a top yeah contender to We’ve seen incredible performances. I mean, UAE were controlling the race for the whole day and everybody knew they were setting something up. EF responded really well. Jacob did an amazing job. But also we just have to say again Raphael Mah incredible incredible work for the team. Incredible work for Del Toro. There we have it. And Luka Valotti in ninth position. Here we have Felix Ghatnner on the way up to the finish. It was probably not the day for him. The pace too high, the others competi the other competitors too strong and unfortunately also lost here his red leading jersey. Yeah. Would it be any different? UAE had to win that. I mean, they came to this tour of Austria with an incredible lineup. I mean, it is amazing. Hats off to them. 3 hours and 27 20 seconds overall for Isak del Toro. 4 seconds behind Archie Ryan from Ireland. Then Rafael Micah 6 second Felix Angard on fourth on fifth position Estanchave. Sixth Espanel seven Lena Kea. Eight Yanis Peta. Nine Luca Ver Galito. And in 10th position Andrew August. Top 10 stage classification of stage four. And now we have the general classification. Isak Toro tomorrow in the red jersey at the final stage. Ai Ryan 29 seconds behind. Rafael Micah 47 seconds behind. These are those are the top three in the GC right now. But it’s not decided yet. Everything can happen tomorrow at the final stage in Foralberg Fel. Also here we do have some spicy uphills to the Fukaok up and also we are having there 3,388 m in elevation gain 144.1 K to complete at the final stage in total complete tour 14,000 m an elevation gain and 713k here the finish again. Isak del Toro. Yeah, we are into a real treat tomorrow for the final in for Alber. We start and finish in Felker with the Fukayor Fashayor. So it will be another tight battle for the GC and wow. I guess it was an amazing day. It was it was unbelievable. strong by all the athletes. Rui Costa with an incredible KO up to the Coutai from the Intel with a perfect descent and got caught up to the stal satell. He made an amazing job there. Wow. Yeah. And for us it is slowly but surely time to say goodbye to all of you guys watching the English stream here watching the tour of Austria. It was again an amazing day for us commentating at that tour and tomorrow we are back with kid and now it’s going on with the tour of Austria Cup. Thank you very much for having me and bye-bye. Bye-bye. Heat up here. Oh. Oh. Oh. Yeah. Turn it up. Oh yeah. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, I feel ready. Everyone Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey.

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@davidsotoemprendedor on July 12, 2025 2:21 pm

DEL TORO ♉🎯
@luisc.6151 on July 12, 2025 2:22 pm

🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽💪💪💪💪
@GuadalupeRT-n7s on July 12, 2025 2:43 pm

Bien del Toro 🇲🇽❤estamos orgullosos de ti . 🍀🍀🍀
@xtrujillo7791 on July 12, 2025 3:01 pm

Felicidades Issac 🎉🎉
@xtrujillo7791 on July 12, 2025 3:02 pm

Gracias a K19 por compartir su señal
@jdmoreno6434 on July 12, 2025 3:13 pm

Commentators are horrible!! They should be ashamed of themselves. Not giving Del Toro the credit he deserves.
@elizabethguadarrama6733 on July 12, 2025 3:40 pm

Felicidades a nuestro maravilloso compatriota, Isaac Del Toro Romero 🇲🇽👏👏👏🚲
Dios lo bendiga!!
@marthabetancourt4021 on July 12, 2025 3:42 pm

Congratulations to Isaac del Toro !!!Great work!!! 💓🇲🇽🥰👍🏼
@AlfredoNavarro-v6h on July 12, 2025 3:44 pm

VIVAAA MEXICOOOO 🇲🇽
@felipeor on July 12, 2025 3:48 pm

What time is tomorrow the last stage of the tour
@lilianagomez4059 on July 12, 2025 4:02 pm

🎉🎉🎉 🇲🇽 🐂👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
@marisezirre1971 on July 12, 2025 4:28 pm

( 1:48:06) The orchestra playing as the cyclists pass by ! wow you can just see how they were dressed ! Beautiful !! Cheers !
Y bravo ! Bien Del Toro !
@noni1532 on July 12, 2025 4:31 pm

Alter ist die Gegend hässlich
@abelmazuca8213 on July 12, 2025 5:00 pm

Que nunca transmiten la premiación ?
@klimcologne on July 12, 2025 5:24 pm

Rafa legend
@joshualing9967 on July 12, 2025 5:33 pm

Thank you for the broadcasting throughout the whole tour. Much appreciated, y’all are doing great
@alexrodv7592 on July 12, 2025 5:43 pm

Tank K19 from Mexico ,for the hig lights congratulations ❤.😅
@TheDiegales1 on July 12, 2025 5:57 pm

Spectacular stuff from Del Toro, 3 wins in a row!! Lets hope for redemption tomorrow, he really deserves it! Love to all from 🇲🇽❤🇲🇽❤🇲🇽❤!!!
@ARMYENERGY on July 12, 2025 6:00 pm

Outstanding job from Rafal Majka and incredible power of Issac del Toro ♉, in the moment he decide to explode no body can follow him. Austria is a beautiful country to ridding 😊
@oslecsamra5107 on July 12, 2025 7:28 pm

Vamos Issac Del Toro. Vamos México
@BlindtrailX on July 12, 2025 7:36 pm

Del Toro win!!!! Great team work
@AZAlkmaar13 on July 12, 2025 8:29 pm

3:44:00
@delorenzini69 on July 12, 2025 10:06 pm

Viva Mexico Cabrones!!
@mariac.a.2213 on July 13, 2025 12:20 am

🎉 🇲🇽 ❤ 👏🏼
@isabelnovelo8966 on July 13, 2025 1:18 am

Bravo Isaac del Toro !! ❤❤
@nortoledo on July 13, 2025 3:54 am

Gran trabajo de Rafa Majka. Bravo Del toro
@valerianonosti6492 on July 13, 2025 7:39 am

Es un monstruo en toda la extensión de la palabra no hay quien lo pare solo el podrá ponerse límites lo veremos el próximo año ganando el tour de Francia para toda latinoamericana tendremos un ganador por fin
@MCFoultier on July 13, 2025 7:52 am

I live in that area. Fantastic to see the pros going up that climbs.
Let me tell you, these climbs are insane…
For me its never about time, only about if I can even get up.
@alejandrohernaez3930 on July 13, 2025 1:23 pm

se fue matheus de entrada con su compañero a rebuscarcela a la chorga ahora jajajaja nada que hacer
@14Xaveco on July 13, 2025 2:17 pm

Seriously whoever this commentator is, please find someone who actually speaks English. This guy is a nightmare.

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Stage 4 – Tour of Austria – Innsbruck – Kühtai

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