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in the world and happy Kato jouy to everyone the 14th of July the national day of France and uh yeah we have a very exciting stage courtesy of the tour to France and uh yeah we’re going to see exactly what’s going to happen today a very very uh wow mountain stage if you will and uh let me just correct our board a bit here as well but the yeah the riders are getting into the groove here 145 km still to go here of the stage. There’s a long way until they get to the finish. There’s plenty of catwise climbs. No cat one climbs, but I mean, there is still an incredible amount of climbs here. And let’s just make sure everything’s intact here. Um, yeah, but hope you’re all doing well. And yeah, who is in the break is the big question as well. Who’s going to be doing something? Who’s thinking about the stage win? I mean, for me, this stage screams breakaway trying to do something. Uh, that polka dot jersey. Obviously, I’m wearing a polka dot jersey as well. No haircut still, but I just got out of the shower. So, yeah. What was it someone said? They said, uh, I looked like Ringo Star doing a tour of France commentary. So, I thought that was quite funny. Nevertheless, uh, we are just seeing a lot of riders trying to do something here. We’ve lost Jon to Milan already, but in terms of that front group, obviously with Kato Jouier being a thing, we’re waiting for the French to do something here. There’s a large breakaway up in front ahead of the Pelaton. They’re really trying to do something here in that group. There’s Victor Campon, Simon Yates, Van Pan, so obviously Sudal Quick, Visma Spike trying to send riders up the front. Um, Tobias Annas Hal Johannes, uh, Joe Blackmore, Alexi Lotenko from Israel Premitech, you’ve got Ben O Connor trying to get in the break with Luke Plapp and Maro Schmidt, Julian Phipe, obviously we said he was probably going to do that. Quinton Par. Uh, Quinn Simmons, the American National Champion, Tian Arensman, we kind of expected that as well because he’s nowhere in GC. Lenny Martinez, absolutely expected that one. If we were doing a bingo, which riders were going to try and get up in this break, Ivan Romeo, we knew that was coming. We knew that the Bruno Mariah was coming. Oralian Panumpan with Valentin Panump in this break and Cleman Chenson said that in the break said that in the preview that that was going to happen. So uh very predictable uh to be honest, but obviously with this being Kato is the the French riders are obviously going to try and get in the break and do something here. But uh yeah, Jacob Oola, they’re just trying to move up here. It looks like Luke Pop here, but we still have so many climbs to go. Let me just make sure I have pro cycling stats on the right page as well. Proycling stats. A bit of controversy for them as well. Not because of them, but because of Yeah. Um ASO not wanting them to actually give let them show their caravan logo uh on the cameras, which I think is absolutely disgraceful. Well done, ASO. Um, yeah, Pro Cycling Stats, the best uh cycling data website as we know. Great to have Vera as well. Wing at work, so I’m in and out. I should take the day off for some of these mountain stages. Yeah, I mean, some of these mountain stages we got coming up is absolutely impressive. We got a few abandons as well. We spoke about Almeida leaving the race yesterday, but San Baron has left for Uno X. I think that’s the first rider that’s actually uh gone for the Norwegian team. But um yeah, they’ve already done the first Cat 2 climb there. It was Lenny Martinez who took the points. So Lenny Martinez getting the five points there. Bruno Mariah three points. So maybe that’s an indication of who’s actually trying to get this jersey. But Julia Ala Phipe, can he actually win this stage? Don’t know. He was good in the tortois twist but uh finished in the top five but obviously there was that breakaway stage that we talked about as well. So that kind of skewed the results a bit but uh 40 seconds here they’ve got on the breakaway working quite well here. Aanana are really trying to do something. They haven’t really got anything here to show for Clemon Champson and Simony Vasco are the two riders the best rider in GC Ben Healey at 3 minutes 55 seconds. Uh other rid I mean there’s 28 riders here and we haven’t really gone through them. It will probably take the whole stage just to get through them one round and then well maybe like half the stage and then the next half to get through them as well. Great to have so many uh of our regulars here. Space, Marco, Ronda, Ammon, Vera, Carousel, Vertigo, Peter F. Uh we’ll wait and see what’s going to happen here. Um yeah, what are we saying? A lost Jim Milan crashed or dropped. I think dropped. I think the Grapetto taking easy. But that intermediate sprint is coming up next. That’s our next interesting point for the stage. So the riders with 140 column long to go. If Macho Vanipo had made himself into this group, I don’t think any of the G the green jersey riders are in this group here. Uh but yeah, we might as well go through it. Victor Kenards with Simon Yates. So obviously this my loose bike trying their tactic of the jury to send uh a ride up in front. I mean Clem uh Valentin Valentin Panapan and Ian Manilda for Remco Venipo they’re doing exactly the same Ben Healey with Alex Boddan Nilson Prowles Harris Sweeney so that’s a good quartet by EF Education Easy Post maybe they’re trying to go for that polka dot jersey obviously Tim Wellins is not up here he’s in the Pelaton at the back here so that that polka dot jersey is lost that’s disappearing for sure Nielson Niels Plet is the one driving the pace right But Lenny Martinez on his own here. I thought maybe Bahrain would try and send two riders up here. So just one rider to help him a bit, but no one really fancing to help the the young Frenchman here in his second tour to France and first one for Bahrain victorious. Um Ironsman, the only rider as we spoke about the Dutchman who has finished in the top 10 twice in the durayire. Um yeah, didn’t he? Yeah, he’s won a welter stage. She’s won a Jurro stage I think. Um yeah, what are we saying as well? Uh fact about Nils Plet here from Pro Cycling Stats. Nils Plet is part of the Kulner trainings tier together with former pro Andre Griel, Rick Zabel, and Yori Hollerman. I’m not quite sure what that is. Training tier. Uh maybe it’s like a training program, but we’re seeing at the front here Tuda Pro Cycling. They’ve also got two riders here. Quinton Basher is the only rider for Groupame Z. Quinn Simmons is the only rider for um Little Trick. Julian Phipe with Michael Store. That’s a pretty good pairing. Michael Store was in the breakaway and finished third behind Quinn Simmons on that stage. Where who was it that won that stage? Oh my goodness, that really escapes me. Who won that stage? Chat, please help me out. Who won that stage? I can remember second and third, but I can’t remember the winner. Uh, who was it? Anyway, that aside, I’m sure you guys will tell me. But then we’ve got group Jacob Aula who haven’t really had anything out of this year’s tour to France with Ben Okconor up there. Luke Plop and Mara Schmidt. Uh Raul Garcia, we’ve seen him in the breakaway before for our BNB. Ivan Romeo for Mistar. Bruno Mariah with Aelian Panipan. Clemon Champin with Simon Velasco for Estana and Steph Kas who may or may not be bound to be going to Quickstep as we know. Michael Woods as well with Joe Blackmore, Alex Lotenko, all of them for Israel Premate. So that’s a really strong trio I have to say. Alexio Loenko has won a stage in the Torah France before. Adas Halle Johannes the winner of the Taurus Slovenia here as well. So uh a strong break. So uh we’ll wait and see what’s going to happen here. And uh yeah, it should be quite interesting here. But great to have so many people in the chat and so many familiar names. So that means I’m not completely talking pure garbage all the time. But uh yeah, we’ll wait and see what Yeah, Healey. Ah, Healey. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Healey won that stage. Of course, of course, of course. Um, Silent Owl Scribe is saying T needs to become Yonas for the rest of the tour. A wheel sucker. Might happen, you know, might happen. Uh, we’ll wait and see here. Let’s just change the zombies as well. I’ve got a bit out of drift here. So, welcome to everyone who’s been subscribing in the last few days as well. And uh yeah, the 10th stage of the tour of France. It should be a very interesting one. Thank you, Armen, as well for a bit of coffee money. Oh, well, actually haircut money as yours pointing out. Uh my rolling contribution for the man bun. Can I do a man bun? Not quite. Not quite. I can’t quite do a man bun. I could do like a front bun. Is that a thing? Um, but yeah, let’s not. But, uh, yeah, it’s getting quite bad now cuz uh, cycling I’m I’m starting not to be able to see as well. So, I need to do something about it. Maybe on the rest day. 15.4 km until the intermediate sprint here. UA, Tim Reates here. Have they got a rider up here in the break or Red Bull? There’s no Red Bull riders up here. There’s no interm riders obviously into machete. They don’t really have any climbers. Uh, another disappointment for them yesterday because yeah, Bini was just missing that one man, one leader man. He didn’t really have that. We talked about that in the recap race analysis, but Atleti Loenko moving to the front here. And we’ll see if they can do something here. How are they going to play this the breakaway as well? They’ve got 57 seconds now. So, the lead is building up a bit. They’re on an uncaterized climb here. So many climbs on this day. They’ve already done one. The next categorized climb is a 4.8 km climb at 7.3% to be as fast here in the breakaway. He’s trying to do a counter move here. Ward there as well. So yeah, a bit of splinter move. Pablo Castillo. He’s trying to move up here as well. If they can get Pablo Castillo with Ian Romeo, I think. Did I mention maybe I mentioned that in the preview? I’m not sure. Uh while Venard looking around here at the front of the Pelaton here, they’re just easing into this. So, we’ll wait and see. But at the front, they still have that comfortable mar. Well, not really, but they’re going to build up that margin for sure. 135.6 km now. And the Remco Veniple lookalike of Vilda, he is just pushing on a bit here. Obviously, he wants his own chances. And this ah I don’t think this is his own chance right now. I think this is satellite movements happening here. Is Sudal Quickstep just were they just thinking at the morning table? Whatever Bisma do, we do as well. Obviously, they have some good climbers. They’re missing that Malander. They really needed Malander for this. I think last year’s Malander was absolutely incredible. Top five finish for him, but yeah, they haven’t got him in this race unfortunately after that Jirro crash. Ben Healey. We’ll see what he can do here as well. Can he get a second stage? Obviously, he’s the rider sitting highest up in GC. I wonder if UAE Emirates would throw the jersey to him. Yeah, probably. Wouldn’t they? I don’t think he’s going to survive in the big high mountains. But yeah, the Jewish tire champion of Simon Yates up there. The former Yeah. Uh was Ben Oconor wasn’t on the podium, was it? You know, it was Danny Martinez, then Garen Thomas, and then you finished fourth. Um, but there’s a lot of good riders here in this break. A lot of good climbers. Ben Oconor, yes. Michael Store, 10th place finisher at the Jirro. Ironsman, as we said, top 10 finisher at the Jirro twice. Lenny Martinez, a very good in Yeah, the tortois Swiss. Well, no, the Tortoy. He went to the Dane where he took the final stage. And which other climbers are we looking at? Valentin Panipat obviously taking a stage win in the Jirro. His brother is here as well with Bruno Mariah. So I think Bruno Mariah he is going to try and go for this. Bruno Mariah has had a bit of a mountains jersey expedition this year. Uh he won it in the tour of the Bass Country. He won it in the criterium to do and I think he’s going to try and do it here as well. So the mountains classification is certainly a target for A2R. I think obviously they’ve got Felix Gal as well. So Gal, we’ll wait and see if he’s going to be able to do something here in the race later on. Remco Veniple here, seeing him in the white jersey. He’s got that outright. There’s no one ahead of him in that classification. 46 seconds here. They build up on the Pelon. Castillo. He’s almost bridging up to these guys up in front. 13 seconds here. Such a strong rider. I think it’s not even 13 seconds. It’s uh 12 seconds. he kind of made his name. Uh was it last year’s welter? I think it was last year’s welter where he won two stages while riding for Kern Farmer. Um yeah, it was it was last year. So he’s a very strong rider and already doing his first tour to France. That was his first grand tour. So even Romeo, he drops back there to just pace him into this as well. So yeah, we might do the vote of which team has disappointed you the most as well. And uh yeah, we’ll we’ll keep the polls rolling as well just to keep ourselves a bit uh entertained. But for the time being, Tadpagacha winning the stage, 68% of you think that is going to happen. I mean, which other teams could you kind of throw in that disappointment category? Who has been the biggest disappointment so far? There you go. We’ll do that. Obviously, I’m going to put Inos in there, but I don’t know if we were expecting too much of Inos. Um, who else can we throw in there? The French teams, not really. Visma for sure or not. They’ve been doing very well to be up there. Uh, who are we thinking of? Red Bull, I think. Red Bull, they’ve got two riders in top 10, so maybe that’s a bit unfair. Uh, picnic poster now. Um they’ve got Oscar only on there. He’s doing a good job. Uh Graham Dier, do we really expect too much from them when they don’t have Well, I don’t know. I think they’re doing an okay job. Lotto, I’m not going to put any Procontinental teams in there because that feels unfair. EF have done a good job. Little uh Alperson, good job. We know that. Yeah, I think it’s these teams. Mistar could maybe be thrown in that category as well. They’ve not really been as good. So maybe I throw Mistar in there as well. Uh I don’t think we’ve had anything really from Mistar, have we? Uh they’ve got a very interesting box of tricks, I would say, in terms of the team, but yeah, there we go. We have a new poll. Great to have 200 people in the chat. Let us know where you’re watching from as well. This is uh Kato day. It is going to Oh, Uno X. Ah, that’s mean. That’s mean, Vera. Well, we’re not putting in proc continental teams in there. But okay, I I see what you mean. Uh yeah, I think it was very disappointing that they didn’t take friend of the channel Alexander Kristoff with uh there were a drop bottle by Tim Wellland’s there. Drop bottle. So obviously they have more they have more uh swanas on the road as well. So they just managed to get a bottle. But it’s the polka dot jersey for the last day today. Tim Wellland in that all polka dot outfit. 133.3 km 54 seconds here. The Mayo therea is already gone 3 minutes and 7 seconds. But we have got the intermediate sprints coming up. So I mean Machu Vanipol should have made himself into that break. Binyum Gay should have gotten up there. Um just just climb over, get in that break and then your finish line well it isn’t obviously your finish line isn’t at 40 km. you still have all the rest of the stage, but if you could just make it into that u for someone like Binyam Gumar, who probably is a more resilient uh climber than than Jonathan Milan, that would have been a very good move. But uh yeah, we will wait and see. Uh the boats are going, the boats are flying in the poll. 0% of you are going for Jacob. 0%. Okay, fair enough. Uh I do like Jacob. They’re very, very friendly. They’ve be managed to go to their team presentation in Spain and that team gave me any ride I wanted to speak to. So that was very nice. Uh spoke to Michael Matthews, subscriber of the channel which was a big shock to me. Ben Oconor, extremely nice person as well. So obviously we want to see Ben Oconor do well here. If he could get the stage win, I think that would really just help Jacob a bit here. So they are they are committing to this. So we can see that even yeah he’s sitting 15th. So they would need a bit bit of time here for him to jump up here. But he’s not even he’s not even I think he’s the third highest in in this group in GC cuz we got Palantra in 7 minutes and 23 seconds but still Ben Healey is sitting highest up here. 54 seconds here. Nils Paula and Tim Wellins are working at the front. Mark Solair is there as well. Obviously UAE they are a bit weakened after losing Joa. Adam Yates they still have as a climber. Pavo Civikov as well but obviously they have Tarot. So do they need anyone else? Great to have Doug as well watching from the Netherlands. Um yeah friend of the channel Yensf on the motorbike as he is. Actually last day he’s on the motorbike. He’s not going to be in the tour anymore. I think they change it to someone else. So we’ll wait and see. Clem is saying what Inos where they used to do so much to influence the race but I agree Moistar as well. Yeah, we’re saying which team has disappointed you the most so far. Uh I think kind of all disappointed me to some extent the four that we put up. But yeah, Uno X they have been a bit lively but we’ll see if they they’ll do something here. Maybe maybe they’ll get involved. Maybe not um in later stages, but sending an Halo Hanison here probably could be them doing something to yeah do something in terms of try and fend for that stage. We’re only at 38 likes here. I have to give my vote as well. I’m going to vote for Was I expecting too much from Inos Grenades? Um I don’t know. 55% of you have gone for ins here. So, we’ll wait and see. We’ll wait and see. But for the time being, it’s looking very good here for many of the riders in this break. This break hasn’t quite been let go yet, so there’s still a bit of time before we see them just let go here. Uh Shane saying, “I’m love watching Machu Vanpo. However, he’s not a Grand Tour rider. He was dropped quickly on the first climb. Remember in the first week, everyone was asking what was wrong with Wild? He’s fine now.” Yeah. Watt Vanar is absolutely a grand tour rider. He’s a machine. That is the difference between these two. Macho Manipul is brilliant on those peak efforts, a one-day race. He even said he just enjoys the classics way more than the Grand Tours. But obviously, this is the biggest platform for these guys. So, he almost has to ride. He has to be here. I wouldn’t be surprised if we don’t see him uh be there from this second rest day as well. Hello from the Yanni Bryovich fan club as well. Go Pagatcha. Good luck, Bini. Yanni Bryovich, do you remember him? A former winner of the Dofane. Uh 129 km to go here. We’re just seeing the gap increasing a bit more now. 1 minute and 12 seconds being driven on by Quinton Par. They’re trying to split up this break as well. Are we going to see this? Yeah, I mean, I was in the room when that question was asked. It was so funny to binomay the journalists because these journalists many of them just go from team presentation to team presentation. So they don’t actually care too much about the writers and they asked Benny if he had actually gone to altitude and he said I live at altitude. So obviously in Ara so that was quite funny. Uh in terms of virtual classification here Machuanop has dropped out of the top 10. That means that Oscar Hley has moved up one place. He’s up to virtually sixth. Ben Healey has moved up four places with the current situation. So, we’ll wait and see if Ben Healey can hold it here. But the bunch the the breakaway is just splitting up a bit. They are just fragmenting. So, we might see some selections being made from this break here uh very soon. I think maybe the next few rolling climbs could do something here in that green jersey or in the a group a big group that’s been dropped out of I mean interesting riders in there Tim Wlands no Tim earlier uh Tiboness Jung Milan I don’t see Binyam Gumay there but obviously it’s a bit irrelevant if he’s in the pelaton or not because we are going to see that swept away from the break but I mean this is the kind of stage of intimash we’re really going for that green jersey. They should try and get Binnie in that front selection, but obviously it’s easy to say, hard to do. Uh that’s for sure. Um yeah, we will wait and see here. We will wait and see. Yeah, Binium Gumay has had a bit of a rough few sprints been out of position. and his team just lacking that really experienced lead out man that could just put him the right place at the right time. But at the front of the race here, we’re seeing Jake trying to make moves here. It looks a bit like Ben Oconor. This I think it’s Ben Oconor with Nils Powless here. It looks like these two guys. They’re just trying to They say it’s Ben Oconor, Luke Plop, and Alex Boddan, but there is no Luke Plop there anymore. So, I think Luke Plop dropped back. But they are trying to make a move here. So Ben O Connor 128.4 km still to go here. Tom is saying biggest disappointment is Aana. Are they even in this race? If not, explain how I ended up uh work two of their riders in my fantasy team. Stupid American. Uh yeah. Well, let’s see. Maybe they can do something here. Oh, it’s Harry Sweeney and Ben O Connor. So Pro Cycling Stash just corrected it. It’s Harry Sweeney with Ben O Connor. two Australians working together here from two different teams. There is also Michael Store and Luke Plap as Australians in this break. But we will wait and see now if these guys can actually make the move. There’s 1 minute and 36 seconds now to the bunch. So yeah, they’re coming up to the peak of this uncashized climb. Then there’s a long descent. This climb was 2.2 km at 5.7%. Who knows what a cat 4 is anymore? That seems like cat 4 territory. But yeah, the organizer seems a bit um yeah, they make it up as they go along with these categorizations. I think uh we’ve seen Quinn Simmons here up towards the front. Bruminar Mariah just trying to push on as well. Um did they bring them back here? Because uh now they’re saying on the TV that this is the front group, but I don’t think it is. I thought we saw Harry Sweeney and Ben Oconor go off the front. Maybe they did drag them back here. Maybe they just did just raise the pressure there. But Bruno Mariah here in the picture 5% 25 km an hour. Ben Healey just closing the gap here to the Frenchman. And that uh polka dot jersey is certainly going to be up for grabs here because even the next points is five. So like if you took the first two cast two climbs, you would already have more points than Tim Wellins has done. So yeah, we’ll wait and see. Um, where is Yeah, good point actually. Where is the proycling uh van here? Maybe they’ve just been told off again by the ASO. Great shame that story. Okay, they’ve updated it now. So, they’re saying Ben Healey, Connor Swift. We didn’t have Connor Swift in before. Now I’m completely confused. Um, yeah, we’re just going to wait and see. We’re going to let Pro Cycling stats just update itself a bit here because the race situation seems a bit all over the place. Uh the Pelon is 1 minute 41 seconds down. 1 minute 41 seconds down, but I think there is a bit of fragmentation going on here at the front. We’re seeing Victor Campernad here. We’ll see what they’re going to be doing here. They could do something potentially. And uh yeah, it could be one for the breakaway. this. We haven’t done that breakaway versus the Pelaton poll as well. So, we’ll do that as well. But we’re on 48 likes, 52 away from 100, and right now 55% of you are believing that Inos Grande has been the biggest disappointment so far. I don’t think they have anyone in the top 10. They haven’t taken a stage win. Ghana not there in the race anymore, obviously, and wasn’t there for that crucial stage, but there is no riders up the front here. So that attacked by Sweeney and Okconor did apparently get brought back. But Neils Plet, Tim Wellins, and Marx are the ones driving this pelaton behind. Abn also up towards there as well. Obviously, they’ve got Kevin Vlan to think about. So I don’t know if uh Raul Garcia is also just a satellite rider. So there could be a few satellite riders up here, but we’ll wait and see. 5.5 km until we get to that intermediate sprint. Quite devilish to put it. so deep. Well, so well not doing it so early. They should have done it in like the first 10 km for the sprinters and then we would have got a nice sprint. They could pack up and then we could enjoy the rest of the climbing. But they’ve decided not to do that here. Proycling stats is still updating. They’re saying about 23 riders in the break still. So I think we’ve lost about five riders. I don’t know what the Connor Swift was. Uh yeah, I think it is Tiam I Arensman, Arensman or however you want to pronounce his name. Uh so we’ll wait and see here. We’ll wait and see what’s going to happen here on the stage. 1 minute and 48 seconds here. The lead is coming up here ever so slightly. 29 riders they’re saying now in the break. Obviously we got two riders from Mistar, Pablo Castrio, and Ivano Romeo. But uh this day is going to be fascinating. I don’t know if UAT Emirates are going to go as hard on this one or they’re just going to be more defensive. So, thank you Carl as well for giving a like. Smash the like button as well, guys, if you haven’t already. And uh we’ll wait and see what happens here on the stage. Um yeah, Tabaga, is he winning this stage? You guys are saying Tatagacha is dropped. Typic dropped. Maybe you’re a bit ahead of me here, but typic that seems no. Um, obviously he’s in the pelon group. I’m just waiting to see if my my cameras are a bit behind. Um, no, Tik Catch is there. Tip catch is there, guys. Uh, but UAT Ma is congregating at the front here, but he has he’s not behind his riders, that’s for sure. He’s just uh a few he’s behind the Visma Lisa bike team. So maybe he’s following your update here or your advice. Um yeah, potentially doing something here. But 3.3 km still to go here until the intermediate sprint. 124 km to go. Um yeah, I don’t think Pagata is ever going to be dropped in this race this year. But 1 minute 51 seconds. It’s looking quite calm here. and the break. We’ll do a break poll as well. So, I think that was just a bit of trolling by a few of you there in the comments, but uh yeah, we’ll wait and see what happens here. But new poll break, who will win? Who will win the stage? Uh Pelaton or breakaway? Are we going to think the breakaway? There is a huge breakaway here. Uh so, we’ll wait and see here. We’ll wait and see. But for the time being, it’s it’s a close one this uh for sure. It’s not quite like go here the break. They probably would want maybe six or seven minutes to play with here. But it is a very hard stage. Uh but yeah, I think they need about three, four, well five minutes into that sec. Well, I don’t know into that cat three climb. Maybe five minutes. Maybe that’s enough. It depends how they’re going to play it from behind here, but 122.6 6 km 1 minute 1.9 km until they get to that intermediate sprint here and we’ll wait and see but almost 2 minutes of an advantage here and we’re seeing the group being driven on here by Maro Schmidt. Maros Schmidt doing a good job here at the front here for Jacob Aula. Ben Oconor crashing Luke Plap not having the best tour as well. And we’ll wait and see. This is one of the slowest uh first hours of racing in this year’s Tour France. Obviously, there’s climbing there as well. Stage seven was 53 km an hour and in that first hour. That was absolutely remarkable. But yeah, we’ll wait and see what happens here. But uh yeah, who’s going to be winning that intermediate sprint? It’s a very inconsequential uh sprint for sure. But right now, 1 minute and 54 seconds here. 1 minute and 54 seconds inside the last 800 m for this green well this sprint. This is there is of course money available here as well. So I think Israel Premate are just trying to drive this to try and get those points as well. Is this Joe Blackmore? H it doesn’t look like Mike Woods. It doesn’t look like Alexi Loenko here. The 20 points and the money who’s going to take it a just coming up towards the front as well. Uno X here with Andreas. Halo Johannes. I mean, it’s crazy how they just don’t really care about this. But guys, it’s still like easy money. Easy money for these guys to just add to their teammates pot here. Obviously, that they add up between themselves after the race. But, uh, inside 200 m, is anyone going to react to this? Quinn Simmons looks a bit hurt here as well. Bruno Mariah looks interested in this, but Annas Hannan is just going to roll. Oh. Oh, Bruno Mariah going for it. Bruno Mariah. No, Andreas Halanison takes that in one of the most pathetic intermediate sprints we’ve seen. So, uh, yeah, no sprinting going on there, but everyone here is of course trying to conserve their energy for this very big day here. They’ll see what they can do. Jim asking how MVDP is doing. MVDP has unfortunately dropped already. So, I think he’s taking this as a recovery day and we’ll see if we see him at all towards the pointy end uh in any other stages. Obviously, there’s that stage 21 in um Paris that is very exciting to look out for. But 120 km here, 1 minute and 57 seconds, 1 minute 58 seconds. This will be quite exciting to see what happens here. But uh the riders just coming around the corner here for the UAE moments riders. They are in the descent. They will come to that intermediate sprint soon as well. The speed so far is 41.2 km average. Obviously increased a bit ever so slightly because of that descent that we had as well. But they’re still going quite fast as well because we had that 4.2 km uh climb. So yeah, they’re certainly going at pace here for sure. going at pace. 4 minutes and 8 seconds for that green jersey. Uh they of course hopefully going to make it inside that team uh inside the time cut as well. But 2 minutes here, 2 minutes that will be fascinating here. Growing ever so slightly here. So those 20 point or actually that intermediate sprint uh eight points went to Quinton. So he actually moved himself up in the green jersey. He’s now in ninth moving ahead of Remco Veniple. We will wait and see what happens here. But uh for the time being, we’re just seeing UAT Memor working at the front here with Mark Sair. Pavlov, Tim Wellland’s in there as well. Pavlov I think is the man that’s at the front here. Adam Yates there as well. But where is Tade? Tare is behind the Visma Lisa bike. his team. He’s just marking them ferociously. The next climb coming up is 4.8 km, 7.3%. And we’ll see if anyone really does something here. Great to have 300 people in the chat. Um, what are we saying as well? Does the photo that you have on all stages represent your current favorite or is it just the best picture of the tour? Um, h I can find I’ll find a better picture as well. Okay. If we’re going for the if we’re going for the best photo. Um, yeah, we can do that as well. Best photo of the tour. I think it’s one of the best photos I’ve seen in a long time. That’s why I’ve just kept it on because it’s like the two of the biggest stars in in the sport. Uh, doing so well or going headtohead. You see the suffering on their face as well. But happy Kato Juier 14th of July, the national day here in France. many parades around the country and also a day off for the French people. But uh the Pelaton here they have rolling I think this is the Pelaton. Is this the Pelaton? Uh no this is the green jersey group I think. Green jersey group rolling across the line here. Yeah. Uh we were talking about the most disappointing teams as well. Which team has impressed you the most? That’s probably what we should throw ahead as well in terms of yeah in terms of being a bit fair as well. 66% of you are saying that it’s going to be a win for the Pelton as well. So no breakaway. So the 29 riders up in front would be very sad to see that poll. But there are a lot of strong riders in this in this breakaway. We haven’t talked about them for a while so we might as well. Victor Campernard Simon Yates up there of course for Yonas Ving. They’re all in for Yonis Vingo. And then we also have Valentin Pan and Panthrop there with Vanielder. They’re in there for Ramco Venpol. You would assume you don’t think that they’re going to throw these guys up to try and go for a stage win when you’re trying to go for GC. 117 km to go for these guys. They’ve got Luke Pl. He’s here with his teammates of Ben Okconor and Maris Schmidt. You’ve got Ben Healey with Alex Bodan, Nelson Prowles, Harry Sweeney. You also have Lenny Martinez for Bahrain Victorious in here. And the green jersey has now crossed that intermediate sprint here. So 4 minutes and 26 seconds down there. Um Jan Ironsman is the only rider. I was thinking that maybe they were going to send Gar Thomas up here, but that didn’t quite uh happen. Quinton Quinn Simmons as well in there. Uh Quinton Pashe potentially could be quite good on his own. Julian Alf Lee together with Michael Stora. Michael Stora could be the favorite for this stage win maybe. Ben O Connor, Luke Pla, Marish Schmidt as we said, uh Raul Garcia, Pablo Castillo with Ivan Romero. I think that’s a very dangerous pairing. Bruno Marai with Aelian Pantherra for a Cleman Champon with Simon Velasco. And then we’ve got uh yeah, Stefan Crass, Michael Woods here as well. with his teammates of Joe Blackmore, Alleti Loenko, former top 10 finisher at the Toronson stage winner at the Tour as well. Andreas Halison to France stage uh tour of Slovenia winner this year and of course the brother to Halio Hansen who’s probably sitting a bit too high in the GC and he’s a good rider as well. So we’ll wait and see what happens here. But we’re seeing Arensman here. We’re seeing Ben Connor. We’re seeing Ludenko as well. the Kazak Superstar. But uh are they going to be able to keep this up here? 2 minutes and 3 seconds now. They need a big lead here. The Machuvan group is 3 minutes and 12 seconds down here. 115.9 km still to go here on the stage. So still quite a way here. We’ve got seven more cast climbs to go. The next cast climb is starting momentarily with 4.8 km, 7.3% and it should be quite a strong one. Maybe we will just see the break just being spread out a bit more. Great to have almost 400 people in the chat. Let us know where you’re watching from as well. And we will wait and see if we are going to get an epic stage here. Ver saying, “I like what EF are doing, but I’m biased.” Yeah, I think EF are going to potent. Yeah, maybe they’re going to be there in the crucial moments of this stage as well. Uh Israel Premier definitely trying to do something. They asked Remco Vampire at the start of the day, how is he feeling? I think Remco is one of the guys who’s going to be a bit nervous about this stage maybe after what we saw in the Dun. Who knows really, but he’s looking super lean as well. He’s looking like he’s lost a bit of weight as well. Flat tire for Oscar only. Uh Oscar is doing very well, the Scottish rider. So, we’ll wait and see if he’s going to get caught out by this as well. But for the time being, it’s it’s looking it’s looking calm here for the Pelaton. They’re doing a good job here um to just manage the gap. It’s not kind of ballooned out to something uncontrollable. They are a bit worry about Ben Healey in there, of course. So, we’ll wait and see if Ben Healey is actually let go. We had some a non-starter Gorg Simon, but we kind of said that that was probably going to happen today. So, uh yeah, big shame. Alex Boddan. He is the man who’s going to try and do something here. Um, yeah. We will wait and see if they’re going to do something. Who know that Bisma Maisa Bike have a podcast? Does everyone just have a podcast these days? How many podcasts are there in the world now? Even in the cycling space, there’s too many to follow. I think uh personally, obviously, Cycling Dane podcast, that’s the one you should go to. But I think my favorite podcast right now uh is the one with Bradley Wiggins. Bradley Wiggins or who’s the other one? What’s my go-to podcast in cycling? Uh there’s a Danish a few Danish ones that I quite like as well. But uh yeah, happy Bastia Day as they said in the chat as well earlier, but Castillo uh managed to join the breakaway. That was a very good move I think from Mistar uh to just get that very strong rider in the break. Um, yeah. I’m trying to think who’s I really like. I used to listen to Ned Bolting had one with Chris Borman. That was a really good poll uh podcast as well. Uh, Veloc brilliant podcast. That was what really I think got me into cycling completely. 4 minutes and 4.8 km now. The Pelon are on this climb here. 4 km left for the breakaway. 2 minutes and 2 seconds. 140 114.6 kilometers still to go here of the stage. So we’ll wait and see here. But Nils Plet here just absolutely uh putting uh some big what numbers potentially but they are just managing the gap here. They are just managing the gap doing their best here to keep control of what’s happening. Great to have Leviti as well in the chat. Great to have so many people here but we’ll wait and see here. But uh flat tire here for Tobias Foss. Tupius Foss. Uh yeah, not good here. Not good for Tobias Foss here. But Saran Varenald has abandoned at the start of the day as well. So that was a big big uh yeah, loss as well. Big loss to say the least. We’ll wait and see. We’ll wait and see. But this stage is going to be an interesting one. A surprise package potentially. Maybe something’s going to happen that we weren’t expecting. But for the time being, it’s uh it’s looking quite good here. Um yeah, for the breakaway, there keeping their nose in front, but obviously there’s a big there’s a long way to go here. So it’s it’s definitely not over. It’s not even started yet. So yeah, we’ll we’ll wait and see. But so far so good. That’s probably the best way of saying it. And uh yeah, there right now it’s Allet Lenko and Ezra Prem just trying to keep the pressure up at the front here. Allet Lenko. Is it that the guy they’re working for? Probably not. They’re probably thinking about Joe Blackmore. Maybe. Maybe. I mean, if they give him the opportunity, that would be very good. Um yeah, I think that would be very good. What are we saying as well? I think they’re all add up to uh more than 100 subs. So, they don’t they qualify for a Scott haircut. Uh maybe maybe not. Maybe not. I think they’re Yeah, we’re not quite at the 100,000 subscribers yet, I think. But we’ll get there. We’ll get there, guys. Don’t worry. Uh we’re moving up in the ranks, that’s for sure. Who knew that we could get Yensfuck in the previous show? That was crazy. I’m still shocked by that. Yensfuk, the tour legend, the one of the guys I looked up to when I was a kid. And uh yeah, him appearing on the podcast was crazy. 113 113.9 km 3.2 kmters still left here. We saw Maui Star get riders in the break. I think that was a very good move here. And yeah, we’ll wait and see here. We’ll wait and see. Garren Thomas’s podcast that we need to get try and get Garen Thomas on the podcast. I think he’s going to retire soon, so he’ll have a lot of time. He needs to get on the podcast. So yeah, we’ll wait and see. Um yeah, 3 kilometers is going a bit slow here. The second cat 2 climb of the day. Obviously there’s five points available here. So we’ll see what’s going to happen here on the stage. Um are we going to get this? Are we going to get this? Clifton Dun saying I agree. I like UCI President Scott. I mean if I was the UCI president, I would be bringing back the tour of California and potentially the Super Talk as well. and uh make it a bit more exciting. Some of the things that you could do, but obviously it’s easy to said say that from the side. Well, wait and see. Uh some of you saying the Lance Poncast as well. Yeah, I think Lance Armstrong’s podcast is very exciting. Apparently, we got mentioned on it as well. So, get Froom on the podcast. That is a shout. Get Wiggins on the podcast. We yeah the we almost got Greg Lamando on the podcast. That would have been absolutely epic. But yeah, didn’t have time for it unfortunately. But that would have been a great episode. But yeah, Yens Poke though that was that was some guest and a half I think. We’ll wait and see. But Tagacha here, we’re seeing him here. They’re about two minutes behind here. Bad is on the side of the road here. Newly retired rider. Obviously, he finished after the doofen. It’s shame that we haven’t got Roma badday in as well. Uh we have actually had Bday on the channel twice, but uh yeah, one of them was a group interview, so I don’t really count that. That was just me sitting asking like one or two questions with a bunch of other journalists, so that doesn’t really count. We want the like the raw personal interviews, but we’ll wait and see. Okay. So, well, we could do a poll on that. Who do you want on the in an interview on the podcast? I’ll ask you guys that in the chat as well. Lance hates Scott though. I heard this before. Why? Why? What have I done to Lance? What have I done to Lance? Uh 113 km to go here. We’ll wait and see here. We’re seeing is this Pavo Civic? O if Pavlo Civic is having a bad time here. Yes, Ver as well. I would make it mandatory a team time trial in every single stage race and in the tour to France mandatory uh team time trial in the third week up mountain as well. So we’ll wait and see. Red Bull made a mistake. Yes, I think that’s true. There’s no Red Bull riders here in the break with their R riders sending riders up there. So uh yeah, we’ll wait and see. Um we’ll ask you guys who should be on the podcast. Who should we try and get on the podcast as well? I think that that would be quite funny. Uh Chris Horner. Yeah, Chris Horner. I mean, he is quite funny as well. Um recently, Chris Horner got sacked from Red Bull. Obviously, it’s not the same not the same Horner, but it’s it’s still funny. I think it’s so funny that two uh prominent figures in each of their sports in a way. Um yeah, have such similar names. So, we’ll wait and see here. But Pavl Civikov, this is not good. Not not good um for UAT members. Obviously, they’re weekend after Almeida and uh this Yeah, this could be very very bad. Who do you want on the podcast? I saw Garen Thomas mentioned um we have actually had our MA on twice uh on the podcast. Super nice as well. So, I’ll put our MA in there. We can put Roma by day because he’s probably quite uh not as busy. Maybe maybe he’s more busy. Many of these pro riders are very busy. And let’s put Chris Rum in there as well because you guys mentioned Chris Vroom. So, uh I mean he’s practically semi-retired at this point unfortunately. Uh great career though as we know but for the time being 112.3 km still to go here of the stage. Get Andy Schle Andy Schle all time hero for me. Him and Cont Fabian Canelara. Ah yeah. Oh my god, guys. The names here. Perfect. Yeah, I’ll do my best here. But 112.2 kilometers here of the stage. 1 minute and 47 seconds here. So, it come down a bit here. Lenny Martina still up there as well. They’ve not really uh splintered yet that uh group up in front here. So, we’ll wait and see. And uh actually, we should also do like I don’t know how we would do that. Like you guys send in questions as well. I don’t know how. Well, we’re trying to get the name first. So, get Yens. I mean, Yens would definitely do another one for sure. Uh 112 kilometers to go here. We’ll wait and see. 1 minute and 50 seconds. And uh this could be a very interesting battle here, I think. Ah, Peter Sagan. We should put Peter Sagan on, shouldn’t we? Um get Chris and Sagan together. H that’s a running joke here on the channel now. But Jacob Ola, we’ll see how they play this. There’s plenty of riders that could be up there to be as fast. We’re seeing him as well towards the back. Clifton Dun saying, “What’s Nibbley up to these days?” I swear at one point I was going to get a restraining order. Uh well, Nibbley against me because I bumped into him four times, not intentionally, but he was at four different things and in Spain as well. So that was that was funny. But nimblely, all these guys are obviously ambassadors for the various different things as well. Peter Gan specialized ambassador, Yens, a TX ambassador. So, we’ll wait and see. Rhonda saying, “I would watch 100 interviews with Yens.” Yeah, I mean, I really enjoy their podcast uh Julich and uh Yens Booked. They had a podcast. I don’t think it’s going to happen anymore because of the American team going forward. I think Julick has a role within that team. So, yeah. Odd tandem I don’t think is anymore unfortunately but maybe maybe more opportunity for having Yens here on this channel. 111.6 km still to go here of the stage. Pavle Civikov team radio coming up here. This is going to be a good one from UA memories here. Oo Tony Martin that’s a good one as well from Vera. Uh guys Pavle will go easy in the groupto today. Ah okay. So they’re saving they’re saving uh Pavle Civikov now. So he’s having a bit of a bad day. Pavo Civikov, former stage well former well he’s won a lot of things in his career. Former top 10 finisher in the tour in the Jirum former under 23 Jared higher winner as well. But we’re just seeing pictures of Arman Julian Phipe up towards the front here and we’ll see if Julian Phipe has the legs to be there in the pointy end in this stage as well. So, most of you are going for Joa here in the vote. So, uh yeah, try and message him and see if he has time after the tour. But, uh we’ll wait and see what happens here of the stage. 111 kilometers to go here. This is a very exciting stage to say the least. the Kato Jouier bit flat stages in the last two days and uh right now it’s looking very good here for the break. It’s well it’s not looking too good. Let’s let’s not kid ourselves. It’s not looking too good. It’s not the best position here uh to say the least. We’ll go through the teams as well in terms of who’s lost riders, but yeah, right now it is Marish Schmidt, AJ2, all of these guys getting involved up towards the front. Just making sure to keep the pressure on here. Just keep that force a bit more and we’ll wait and see if they can’t actually just increase the effort here. So, Binium Gay, we’re seeing him here towards the back here. He’s despite being a train is feeling the heat here as well. So yeah, obviously he’s very well-versed in the Belgian cold weather as well. He’s a very good classics rider. So yeah, we will wait and see here. Clifton Dunn met Yensfucked 25 years ago. That is pretty cool as well. Uh he seems very very genuine, I have to say. Uh which is good to see. He’s not two different people, one off the camera, one on the camera. Uh so I quite like that as well. What is Tom saying? Scott, Lance doesn’t like you because you can’t handle anyone else playing in his sandbox. Plus, you don’t have to sling male beauty products to keep your podcast going. Oh my god, that was hilarious. Uh, yeah, we missed the mountains points because of that. I think Lenny Martinez took that. Lenny Martinez, I think, just nabbed that in front of Andreas Halian in here. So, Martinez is in that virtual mountains jersey, I think. Obviously, he took a few points, I think, as well. There was an strong attack here. They were really going for it here. Andreas Halle Johannes opened it up. Lenny Martinez scrambling to get on his wheel. Bruno Mariah going for it as well. Andreas Halan then looks behind, but it was a bit of a mess up by him cuz he didn’t see how fast Lenny Martinez was coming as well. So yeah, that was uh that was a bit of a mess up there by Andreas Helens. He probably could have got it there, but he takes second place here. We will wait and see what happens. Um yeah, we will wait and see what happens here. Who is going to win here? Who is going to win the stage? That is the big question. Breakaway or is it going to be the bunch here? Breakaway or the bunch? We will wait and see. But for the time being, we’re having quite a funny poll. Uh which guest Well, in reality, I’ll try and get all of them, but we will wait and see. Uh Chris Horner should get his knucklehead comment copyrighted. Yeah, I mean Chris her question marks over his welter obviously as many people have talked about, but great to have 500 people in the chat and we’ve got a 109.7 km still to go here of the stage. Are we going to see some fireworks on the next castrise climb as well? The K the Sha Shahad at 5.2 2 km at 6.7%. I mean, we will wait and see what happens here on the stage, but it’s looking very good for the riders right now. Potentially, they are going to be able to stay away. I don’t know. I don’t know. Um, the Pelaton are still keeping this leash quite tight. I think it’s courtesy of those riders out in front with Bisma Lisa bike being up there as well. We’re one like away from 100. So, whoever hits the like button now is going to be the hundth. Um, yeah, we’ll get some competitions as well out on the rest day. So, uh, yeah, whoever smashed the like button right now, you sir are the 100th. Uh, yeah, you guys want to see Yensfoke come back on as well. Interviews with Rogich are the best. Isn’t he quite concise with his answers? It’s kind of like, uh, yes, guys, it was good. Uh yeah, I don’t know. We’re not going to do We’re definitely not going to be doing uh Yeah, we’re definitely not going to be doing me trying to do impersonations of writers. And uh Clifton Dunn saying Scott should have shirts made. Okay, we can do we can do that. We can do shirts with that. That would be quite funny. But uh yeah, we’ll wait and see what happens here on the stage. 1 minute and 47 seconds here. 108 km still to go of the stage. the green jerseys well and truly out of this and we are yeah let’s let’s get the let’s get the virtual classation as well on the screen for the polka dot jersey because that is one of the running competitions of this stage that is going to be quite exciting Mario Schmidt here just pulling on the front here we’ll wait and see what he can do here but uh for the time being it is Lenny Martinez leading that jersey so let’s just get that up as well so we can see that we can just follow along as a community see who is having who’s in the best position there. So, you can see 10 points there built up there. 10 points built up. So, we’ll wait and see um what’s going to happen now. 10 points uh has gone to Lenny Martinez. He took those two first uh casized climbs. So, very good ride by him. Taga here uh seventh place Tim Wellland second place obviously with eight points. So, uh, yeah, this this could be quite a good day for Lenny Martinez if he can keep this up, but obviously each sprint is going to take a bit of energy out of him as well. So, uh, yeah, it it could be it could be a quite intense day for him if he keeps this up, but we’ll wait and see. We’ll wait and see. 107.4 km still to go here. Maybe Lenny Martinez has just relaxed over the last two days. gone in the grapetto on the flat days. But Mike Woods as well quite I didn’t even realize he had a point. So Mike Woods actually moves up into fourth place. Bruno Mariah actually didn’t have any points here. So despite I think he was in the breakaway, he didn’t actually get any points there. Great to have so many people in the chat. Smash the like button if you haven’t already as well. Uh MTK uh new person here. Hello. Welcome. Welcome. Always great to have new people as well. very friendly chat as we know but right now we’re seeing UAT Emmeritates being well the Pelaton being led by UAE with Nils Pollard and Tim Wellins we saw Pavlov Civikov drop back here so a bit worrying times potentially for UE mentally [Music] I don’t think they need anyone well T is absolutely incredible so we’ll wait and see what happens John Kelly saying Did UAE splitting effort splitting effort in the tour of Austria hurt them for the tour of France? Maybe. I mean, Felix Groshhatner, you probably would have put in this team or Rafa Micah. Obviously, you couldn’t have predicted what happened with Ala. So, yeah, it’s a hard one, isn’t it? It’s a hard one. It’s easy to say afterwards, but for the time being, it’s looking very good here. uh for the riders in the break. They built the lead a few more seconds up here to 1 minute and 25 seconds here. And uh yeah, are we going to get a stage win? That is the big question here. Are we going to get a stage win from the break breakaway? It would be great to see uh to say the least, but uh yeah, might not happen here. I think uh UAE are a bit too worried about what’s happening up towards the front here. Um yeah, with this Melissa bike, they don’t want to get any attacks. Obviously, Tadikacha, I think he can absolutely match Yonas here. So, but there is a Jurgensson as well, so they could maybe do the one two attack here. So, we’ll wait and see. We’ll wait and see. But for the time being, 1 minute and 55 seconds. It’s It’s a bit, but it’s not as much as probably what they would have wanted. Tabach is quite far back here as well. So, uh, yeah, we will wait and see here, but it’s going to be a good one. I think this I think we are going to get a very, very good effort here by the breakaway to try and stay away for as long as possible. So, uh, yeah, 104 km still to go here. We’ve still got many riders up towards the front and uh, yeah, I think this is going to get sliced into a few chunks here by the next few categorized climbs. Maybe we’re going to see H maybe um yeah I don’t know but I mean we have actually had one project um mentioned well no I don’t know where I was going with that but um yeah Roman B you guys were talking about him earlier in the chat so I’ll share a video where I was actually riding with Roman Bad on the rest day yes last year in the very city I’m sitting in that was quite a incredible feat. Um, they just came past me as I was riding and Roman just shouted at me and said, “Come on, join, join, join.” He said, “Spread, spread, spread, spread.” So, uh, that was very, very funny to suddenly be within the DSM team. But yeah, we’ll wait and see what happens here on the stage. We’re still waiting for that next cat climb coming up as well. That’s coming up shortly. The start of it, the Katu the Sharat 5.2 2 km at 6.7% and this is going to be maybe a bit of a testing one. Maybe we are going to see the 29 riders we still have in that breakaway. We haven’t really talked about them in the last well a few minutes. So we’ll just give a roll call. Victor Campernads in there. Simon Yates for Visma Lisa bikes our quickstep have Panopra and Manilda in there. Healey has three other riders for EF Education the Easy Post with him. Bodan, uh, Powzles, Harry Sweeney, Lenny Martinez is on his own, Kieran Arensman for Inos, Simmons for Little Trek, Quinton Pashe for, uh, Grape, Julia have Phipe with Michael Store. So, a good set of riders there for Tuda Pro cycling. And Jacob have Okconor, Plop, and Schmidt, Garcia for our Airbnb. And then Pallo Castrio and Ivan Romeo for Mistar which looks to be quite a good duo. Bruno Mariah is together with Aelian Panto the brother of Valentine. Cleman Chin is together with Simone Velasco and then Steph Crass is on his own for Total Aist. Michael Woods is in there with Joe Blackmore Allet Lutenko and the last rider is Andreas Hal Johannes. So we’ll wait and see what they can do here. But UAT Emmeritates, we’ll see if they can actually pull this defense off. They’re coming in towards this as well. Uh Paul Kimage, yeah, I absolutely remember who he is. Uh wasn’t it called Rough Ride, his book? Um yeah, very interesting guy for sure. Uh Paul Showin as well. Uh no, not Paul Showing. Paul, what’s the name? Uh the other one. Uh David Walsh. That was the one. But 102.5 km to go here. 3.9 km left here. Marish Schmidt is driving the Pelaton here. Oh no, the front riot is. So, anything can happen here on the stage, but Yas been. We’ll wait and see what they can do here. Um, yeah, Pagatra to win the stage. Well, we can say Poca jersey. Who will wear Who will wear the Polka Dot jersey at the end of the stage? There you go. Lenny Martinez is currently leading it. We’ve got the classification there in front of us. Uh Andreas Hala uh Jay, let’s just say that Pagatcha could equally wear it as well. Or is it going to be other um or Bruno Mariah? Maybe Bruno Amarai is thinking about it. So yeah, we’ll see if these guys get involved, but it’s it’s going to be a fierce battle judging by what happened in the last in the last few sprints as well. So we’ll wait and see here, but the pace is being increased here. 1 minute and 57 seconds here. So it’s not quite at the top here of the climb. 3.4 km left here. It is going to be a very interesting one to say the least. And uh yeah, we could see some real big uh moments here on this stage. What’s going to happen? That is the big question here. But uh big shout out as well toraer.com uh the app that has been sponsoring majority of the streams in this year’s Tour of France. Binyam Gamay has made his way up uh into the Pelon group. So that was a good climb back by him. 2 minutes and 13 seconds. So it looks like they’ve just taken the sting out of the chase a bit here. So yeah, they’re doing a good job here. Oliver’s at the medical assistance car as well. So uh we’ll wait and see here. We’ll wait and see. But for the time being, it is a bit of calm right now in the Pelaton now. Bit of calm in the pelaton. Neils Plet and Tim Wellins, the two figures up in front. They’re still pushing on here. And now we’re getting attack here. Attack, attack, attack. Ben Oconor. Ben Oconor is doing an attack here. We’d love to see this. Ben Oconor just accelerating a bit here. So, this is good. Jacula are getting involved here. They are getting involved now. So, we’ll wait and see um what’s going to happen here. We are waiting to see what’s going to happen here. They’re just pushing on a bit here. Good to see here, but uh we’ll wait and see if this comes to anything. But, a good little move here by Ben Oconor here. Ben O’Connor just lifting the pressure. No one coming with him here. So the second place finisher of the world test last year has just upped the tempo but no one choosing to go with him here. No one choosing to go with him. So is a 100 km a bit too far out for Ben O Connor here? Could Ben O Connor if he does this? Wear the polka dot jersey. We haven’t even put him on here. So Ben O’Conor could maybe be doing something. We will wait and see what happens. But 101.3 km still to go here and 2 minutes and 18 seconds for the Pelaton. 19 seconds. Ben Connor has already built up. 2.6 km still to go here of the stage. Who is going to be winning this? Ben Oconor throwing his hat in. He has won a stage before at the tour to France back in 2019 the year where he also managed to finish in Sunday the top five. Is he going to be doing it here? Did manage or did unfortunately have a bit of a crash on one of the stages but Ben O Connor doing a very very good job here if yeah if he can pull this off but 101 kilometers that is a long way out. Maybe he can pull it off. Not quite sure. Thank you, Amen, for joining us so early as well. 6 a.m. in the morning. Um, yeah, I I did feel your guys pain in a way, the different way when I was following the tour of California. I had to stay up very late sometimes uh to watch that race. Absolutely love that race. But, uh, yeah, I don’t think we’re going to be seeing that race come back, but for the time being, Ben O Connor, I don’t know if this is too early. Yeah, maybe that got over the next climb and then well I could say get over the next climb as well and the next climb but obviously that doesn’t work. Maybe he was thinking that he needed to get rid of the other riders. Maybe maybe Horsep is saying Lenny Martinez wants to win it in honor of his grandfather. A that has he got any uh family relations that are quite famous? We found out that Machu Vanderaport had an uncle as well. Oh my goodness. He’s related to Yanik Martinez. I didn’t realize that. Wowza, that is quite funny. Martinez. Wow. Didn’t realize that. 100.5 km still to go here of the stage. Ben O Connor looking very good. He Well, we’re just seeing a slow-mo of the attack as well. No one really following him when he did that attack. Not quite sure why Andreas Hallehan was on his wheel but decided not to really go for it. So the Norwegian not really doing it. We will wait and see if he will do it. But yeah, I was saying as well I managed to suck wheel sucken all the way up the finish early one day at the 2011 tour. He went mad when I rolled up alongside him on the finishing line. That’s quite funny. That’s quite funny. But we will wait and see what happens now. I mean, Ben O’ Conor is in clean air right now. No one behind him, no one in front of him. So, Ben O Connor, is he going to be able to do it? That remains to be seen here. But no reaction from that bunch behind. Interesting, isn’t it? Quite interesting that no one Yeah, maybe they think this is a bit too soon for the Australian to attack, but he did that longrange attack in the Welter Espña. Everyone underestimated him there as well. 1 minute 1.4 km still to go here and 18 seconds. 18 seconds that is the gap. He looks behind, but Ben Connor, I mean, they still had two riders in there, so maybe they should have just increased their tempo a bit and then uh just yeah, kept it up. But not sure if this is the best tactic uh if I’m honest. I think maybe they should have used their two riders, increase the tempo, but there is a reaction going on behind. There is a bit Well, no, this is the palaton. Is this the pelaton? I think maybe they got it a bit wrong here. I think this might be a reaction from the other riders. I think this might be a reaction from the other riders in that group. So, the organizers are not giving Yeah, it’s the pursuers. So, the little light that shines up or the little highlight around which group it is just got uh was a bit wrong there. But Ben O Connor has built up a lead of 2 minutes and 38 seconds. 2 minutes and 38 seconds. So yeah, it’s ever so slightly increasing now. So it is just it is just increasing. It is just increasing. But they need to get rid of the Visma Lisa bike. Well, Simon Yates maybe and also Ben Healey. He’s a bit of a danger. But uh Arensman and Quinn Simmons, they’re just trying to form that counter move as well. Did they bring back Kconor? I think they did. Yeah, they did bring back Okconor. So Okconor has been brought back by a a small select group here. So this group, we will wait and see if they are going to be able to do it here. Um I think they they have just fragmented the group. Proycling stats hasn’t updated, but Simon Yates is not in this group. He’s just struggling behind. Ben Healey is definitely there. Simmons is there. Um, is that Kenards? I think Compenards made this selection. Arensman driving this. Lenny Martinez as well or Connor in there. Uh, yeah, Arensman just flexed the elbow. But good ride here from Quinn Simmons. But they are Yeah, it looks like they’re about 10 riders now. So, they’re not 29 riders. So yeah, right now it’s it’s an interesting one, isn’t it? Towards the front here. Um, yeah, Ben O Connor, I think he has been brought back. So he was just feeling out the break there. Feeling out the break a bit and uh looking very good here for the front group. If they can do it, if they can pull this off, it will be a very big win. I think a weakened U memor certainly throws it in their favor. 300 meters until we get to that castrise climb as well. Lenny Martinez up there. Ben Healey up there as well. So, who’s gonna really fight for this now? Lenny Martinez goes for it. Lenny Martinez, he knows that there’s a Polka Dot jersey point uh jersey up for grabs here. He probably Yeah, he looks behind. There’s no real counter here. No real counter. So, Lenny Martinez, I think he’s going to take this relatively easy now. Relatively easy. Great to have over 500 people in the chat. We’re almost at 200 likes as well. So, smash the like button as if you haven’t already. But Lenny Martinez takes the five points there. So, we will have to update that intermediate sprint competition as well. I’ll make sure to do it as uh throughout the stage. But yeah, Len Martinez there doing his best to try and get that polka dot jersey, take it to uh Bahrain victorious. But h yeah, he’s a very strong rider, but hasn’t left the tour to France with anything significant so far. So leaving with the pocket jersey would certainly be a very big result for him if he can do it. But still a long way to Paris. Still a very very long way to Paris. 98.3 km still to go here of this stage. Uh what are we saying? Shane Yates already breached. Yates is just pacing. He knows when he burn when when to burn matches and when not to. Yeah, he’s probably doing some temper riding here. But at the front here, there is some very good riders. Just making sure that they’re in bit of an elite selection. They have got a bit of a gap here. 13 seconds they’re saying. Uh we got Kenats in there. Not the Visma rider that you thought would have made the selection out of the break. You also have Ben Healey, Lenny Martinez, Arensman, Quinn Simmons, Ben Oconor, and Michael Woods. I mean Israel Bremate. Um yeah, I mean Tuda is the team that missed out. Marstar as well uh Quinton Bash the only rider and it also Sural Quickstep. We’re waiting and see if they’re going to do something here. Smash the like button as well if you haven’t already. We’re almost at 200 likes and great to have so many people around the world. Let us know with a flag where you’re kind of watching from as well. So, we will wait and see what happens here on the stage, but I think the break has a chance. They have a chance, but they need to take it. They need to really work together here. They can’t start attacking each other. They need to get a very coherent uh teamwork or it is just going to be out the back for them and they’re going to be caught by the GC riders. It’s up to 3 minutes and 24 seconds. So, it is just extending ever so slightly here. So, we will wait and see the next the next uh climb to go here. Oh my goodness, there’s a circuit up here. As Carousel Vertigo is saying, the circuit de Shahad is the track. That is crazy. We’re quite high up in elevation, I think, as well. So, yeah, it’s above 800 m. Wow, that’s that’s incredible. 96 km to go here. 96 km. Oh, we’re going to get a stage win from this breakaway. It seems like the break have come all back together as well. I promised you update of the mountains classification, the virtual one anyway, and it has just been updated courtesy of pro cycling stats. So, yeah, it’s a very interesting situation now for the break. It’s kind of ding-dong battle now for the guys thinking about the stage. The guys being virtual uh well, not virtual but being uh satellite riders for various GC riders towards the back and then obviously the ones who are wanting to go for the polka dot jersey, the stage hunters and yeah, as we said, the other ones. So, um yeah, we will wait and see. We will wait and see. 3 minutes and 38 seconds. 3 minutes and 38 seconds. Uh Lenny Martinez now need leads that competition courtesy of winning those free cat 2 climbs. 17 points. A bit of breathing room down to Tim Wellins and Tabacha. Mike Woods getting some points as well. He moves up into third. Uh yeah, Andreas Halle Johannes getting three points as well. So he moves up into seventh, taking that second place on that stage. So we will wait and see. But, uh, there’s certainly some riders that could be in the mix here for that polka dot jersey. So, uh, yeah, great to have so many people here in the chat. Let us know where you’re watching from as well. Alexi is saying, “Visal bike needs to start stage hunting.” Yeah, maybe. I don’t think they’re going to get a stage win if they’re headto-head with Tarvaga, but uh, yeah, we’ll wait and see here. 94.5 km to go here. 3 minutes and 36 seconds. 3 minutes 35 seconds for the UAT Memories team. Tim Wellins and Nils Polllet. These two trusted riders still doing well here. And uh yeah, they’ve got Mark Salair still as well. They’ve got Adam Yates, but that Almeida loss yesterday, well, it wasn’t really yesterday, was it? It was stage seven. That was a huge blow for the team. Huge, huge blow. And commiserations to them. But for the time being, it’s looking very interesting here in terms of the situation, the potential for the breakaway to take the stage win. But they probably need to get around 5 minutes here into the last 60ish kilometers, maybe 40 km if they’re going to take this to hold off the the accelerations from behind. Most of you going for Titagatcha for to potentially um yeah do that. Yeah. Okay, we’ll do that poll as well. U how many stages will Visma win this year? Um of course they won with you got last year, but do you think they’re going to win stages this year? They’ve not won any stages in the first nine stages. Came close with Wenard. A very good run in for him the other day on stage eight, but uh yeah, no win for him. So, we’ll wait and see here. 3 minutes and 37 seconds. The polka dot jersey leading the Pelaton right now. 92.6 km still to go here the stage. And the Pelaton have been Oh, no. The leading group have been split a bit here. we’re getting from the race organizers. Uh but we’re not getting that on pro cycling stats. So I’m a bit confused what’s happening here. I think some of the riders are just uh yeah uh are getting splined off from this breakaway group. There was 29 when they got together here. I don’t think there’s 29 anymore. I think it is Victor Kenard. He’s just pacing here. Simon Yates. Can he get a stage win? Maybe. Maybe Simon Yates can get a stage win for them. But Bisma Malisa bike, many different tactics as we know. Many of them not working out too well, but they did a good job to manage the Tataraga onslaught that could have happened in the rolling terrain. I think they did very good there, but obviously in the time trial, it kind of went backwards. So, they kind of ended up in the position that we were all predicting that they were going to lose about a minute in that first uh real week that in in the rolling terrain. So Tadpagacha just needs to ride defensive all the way to Paris. That is that is the sad truth unfortunately. And Visma Lisa bike it’ll be good to see if they can be aggressive here if they can really throw something at at UAT Emirates. We want to see that close battle. But do they have the resources here? Sepkous. Is he great? Is he feel is he top form? Seuss. You need a top form Sepkus. You need a top form. Um yeah, Matteo Jorgensson, he looked very good at the Dofane looked very good a few stages ago as well, but for the time being, we’re just seeing Bahin Victorious with Lenny Martinez driving this pace on. 90.1 km still to go. Every climb they’re going to feel the well is going to build up the fatigue as well for these guys. The next climb, we haven’t talked about that one yet. It’s 3.4 km at 7.3%. So it’s similar to that Katu climb we had earlier. A bit bit shorter but same gradient. So just uh sapping the energy out here of the riders. Uh proycling stats is saying something here that we got Simon Yates Ben Healey. Um Alex Boddan and Tim Arnman with Ben O Connor up towards the front. They’re leading this group with coinciders in there. We’ve got Michael Store, Andreas, Halle Johannes in there as well. So yeah, a lot of these riders just keeping up the pressure here. They’re keeping up the pressure now. 90 kilometers still to go here of the stage. Thank you to every single one of you who have joined today. I know it’s a Monday. It is Kato Jouer uh the 14th of July national holiday. They are on the next climb now. They are on the next climb. So we’ll see if they’re going to be able to do something here. the riders who’s going to be taking the five points at the top of this cat 2 climb coming up as well. There is a lot of things that could happen on this climb. Lenny Martinez will try and do his best here. Maybe he can just get the best better of many of these riders. Um yeah, we’ll wait and see, but Lenny Martinez so far so good. We’ll see if it pays off in the end, but yeah, Polka Dot jersey points galore for him. And uh obviously it’s not one I lost today, but he takes a good step in the right direction. There’s so many mountain stages as well um to come. So there’s a lot of points up for grabs. We will wait and see if they’re going to be able to finish this one off for sure. Yonas don’t have teammates right now. Um yeah, when we see the Palon next, he probably does have T-spin, don’t you think? Matteo Jurgensson Cus you would assume but Tarvagacha was just hiding behind these teams as well. Great to have uh Madison Madison Wisconsin in the house as well. Great to have so many people around the world in the chat. Obviously we’re all united by a love of cycling. 89.4 km still to go here. There is a bit of split up towards the front of that breakaway. So we’ll wait and see what happens to this break as well. Um yeah, this will be interesting uh to say the least. What’s going to happen here on the stage with the riders up towards the front and also the GC riders from behind. Marish Schmidt here struggling to towards the back here. He’s of course been doing a lot of work, a lot of work to say the least uh for Jacob Aula. So we’ll wait and see here, but it’s looking fairly good here for the riders. Quinn Simmons up towards the front here in that group. We’re seeing the front shot here. Simon Yates up there. Ben Healey, Ben O’ Conor, Valentine Panopan, Victor Campernon as well. It’s really starting to trickle down now the numbers in that front group now. So, are we going to see something here? Maros Schmidt goes pop. So, the Swiss National double champion here, he just goes out the back here unfortunately. But they have of course got more riders in there as well. So yeah, Lenny Martinez maybe would have enjoyed having one more rider in there uh for yeah for him, but for the time being, we’re just going to see what’s going to happen here. Uh Valentin Panapan upping the tempo here as well. He’s just trying to see what he can do. Uh is he going to be able to do something here? That remains to be seen, but uh yeah, right now it’s it’s looking fairly good. Now the gap has gone up to three three uh minutes and 30 seconds here. 3 minutes and 30 seconds. So fairly good here. Fairly good here for these guys. Um yeah 1 minute 1.9 km still to go here but the bunch are just loosening that loosening the slack here. Anas Andreas Halhan doing a very good job climbing up towards the front. Quinton Pache up towards the front. Simon Yates looking very cool. Kill relaxed here. The Jur tire champion and 88.6 km still to go here of the stage. 3 minutes and 30 seconds. And behind we have got Tim Wellins absolutely just motor well not motoring keeping the pace up here. He’s keeping keeping it up. Keeping the yeah a tight leash to that breakaway up towards the front. They’re on this climb now. 3.4 km as we said. Cat 2 climb and 7.4% average gradient. So yeah, another one to kind of just sap away at the energy for the riders here can just re absolutely just hurt the teams a bit here. And we’ll wait and see if they’re going to be able to get them back or maybe they’ll never see the break again here. But uh shout out as well to veloproacer.com the cycling app the road racing uh app simulator app and of course they’ve been supporting the stream uh thus far in the tour of France. So help them out as they’ve been helping us out as well. So right now we’re seeing Alleti Loenko is the first rider to drop back and he might be caught by the Pelon very shortly as well. So I was hoping more from Alleti Loenko but yeah it wasn’t meant to be for him. former top 10 finisher as we said, former um stage winner in the tour to France as well, but I think he’s just moved to um yeah, Israel Premate as more of a retirement home. Um yeah, the rolling retirement home as Israel Premate sometimes is referred to. But for the time being, it’s uh looking good for many of these riders here in this group. Are we going to see a stage win from Israel Premate? Even though Let’s Lenko is not their chosen son. Maybe Joe Blackmore will be able to do it. But uh yeah, great to have 200 likes as well. Well done to every single one of you. But in our poll, 32% of you believe it’s going to be one win for Visma Lisa Bike at least at this year’s Tour France. So it’s very close poll this very close. Uh 87.9 km Tan Irishman up towards the front here. He’s just trying to get busy or making sure he’s uh just towards the front here. What can he do here? Uh very very interesting rider as we know. And uh yeah, maybe he’s just being uh given a bit of an opportunity here to fight for his own chances, take a stage win. They desperately need this. Uh as we know, they really do need this. But are they going to get the win? That is the big question here as well. Nevertheless, EF Education East, they’re just driving this on. Of course, they had a multitude of riders in here and maybe they will just be able to do something about this. Um, they won another stage win. Obviously, it was an impressive win by Ben Healey a few days ago as well, so they’re happy about that. But for the time being, it’s looking Yeah, it’s looking pretty good here. It’s looking pretty good, I think, for the breakaway right now. uh they could potentially get this. They yeah, five minutes would be a bit more comfortable for them because obviously everyone’s suffering in the climbs. It’s not like when you’re on the flat stages and uh you think yeah, they’re going to benefit from the draft, but that that’s not really the case. Not really the case. Um 3 minutes and 38 seconds here. As we said, there’s less than 700 m to go to the next castrise climber. We’re going to get Lenny Martinez winning this again probably. I’d say probably we are going to see him taking a stage win. Uh not stage win but cashrise climb. More points for him. We have him currently in the leaders jersey. Virtual leaders jersey. We’re seeing Neils Paula and Tim Wellins. They have to do a lot of work here courtesy of Pavlov losing out here. So we’ll wait and see here. We’ll wait and see. But for the time being, it’s looking very good here for the breakaway. EF Education Easy Post really just driving this on as well. Um, yeah, Neils Plet definitely needs an extra drink at the at the table in in the hotel riding super well. Super strong ride as we know. But uh 87.2 km still to go here of the stage. 370 m to go here until that catch climb. the fourth cat 2 climb of the day. They’ve got four more cats climbs left of the stage as well. So, there’s no rest for the wicket here. They’re absolutely needing to find something if they’re going to be able to win this stage here, the breakaway riders. But so far so good. So far so good. We’ll see if they can keep this up, keep the momentum rolling. But uh yeah, right now it looks like it’s Nilson Powz here, the American who’s just keeping the tempo on. Absolutely doing a solid ride here. Can they get a big result here? That is the big question here for Education I suppose. They’ve got a lot of strong riders. Obviously, Carropas is the man that they would have wanted in this breakaway, but obviously he didn’t start this year’s tour of France because of illness. But they’re doing a good job here. Very good job here towards the front here. And are we going to get Lenny Martinez winning this? Yeah, he goes for it. He goes for it. Uh Lenny, maybe this is too hard here. Blackmore behind him trying to respond. Lenny, take take the pace out now. Once he’s gotten rid of them, he just needs to Yeah, absolutely hit the hit the break. But yeah, Lenny Martinez takes another five points here. So, we will get an update of that. And uh yeah, good result here by Lenny Martinez to just get another five points. There’s Yeah, now we got an uncatasized climb coming up as well, which is annoying. Just let them have points. just get more points as well. So, Lenny Martinez takes the points here once more and yeah, good good result by him. Climbing his way up in that polka dot jersey, getting ever ever ever more points added to his account. And Lenny Martinez, is he going to be has he has he sealed that points jersey yet? There is 15 how many points left? I think there is, let’s do quick math. I think there’s 17 points left here on the stage. Maybe they give double for that final cat two as well. But uh Nils Poll and Tim Wellins are the two riders at at the front of the Pelaton here. Very good riders these two. They were very good as well in the Dofen. But the the man in the polka dot jersey, he’s Yeah, it’s going to be his last day in that jersey. But doing a good job here for his team leader of Taragatcha. Tarpiga is just hovering around, but we’re getting Here we go. Uh Visa saying that UAT memorates are starting to speed up now. UAT memorates are starting to speed up now. Why? Why are they starting to speed up? That’s a big question as well. But great to have almost 800 people in the chat. Do smash the like button and hit the subscribe button if you’re new here. It is the Kato Jouer. It’s the mountain stage. It’s the big one. T of Gacha in the yellow jersey. We’ll see what he can do here. But right now, it’s a very very interesting stage to say the least with so many small cat 2 climbs just hitting away, knocking away at the at the energy levels of the riders here. So are we going to see a big big fight for the yellow jersey later on? We have got satellite riders up towards the front. We haven’t spoken about that breakaway in a while. So we can’t just give an update of that. We still have the satellite riders of Victor Campernon and Simon Yates for Visma Lisa bike up here. Valentinian Panapanta who did crash a few days ago. He’s up here for Remco Veniple you would presume. And then you’ve got even though he has won a stage of the Juraya in the past last year I think but that was where you two are. And then we got Ben Healey together with Alex Boddan, Harry Sweeney, that trio from EF Education Easy Post. Laney Martinez who’s been sweeping up the first place points of the cascading up. So maybe Vismo would just I don’t know. Weird weird team message. Maybe weird team message. So 85.2 km. We also have Tion Ironman up there. We have Quinn Simmons as well for all our American friends in the chat. And we also have uh Michael Store. We have Quinn Simmons, Luke Plap with Ben O Connor, Raul Garcia still up there, Pablo Castillo still up there. So we lost Ivan Romero. Uh Michael Woods up there, Joe Blackmore, Andreas Halohan up there. So riders that we lost from the break. Astana fans turn away because Astana absolutely disappointing this but Astana both their riders of Cleman Champions and Simon Melasco they’re out the back. Maybe they can recover maybe but this is this unccastized drag all the way up. Um yeah Julian Phipe dropped as well. Even Romeo Bruno Marel Panress Steph Manilda that’s a bit of a shock. Neilson Prowles. So yeah, they can obviously get back, but they they are about 50 seconds down now. So this is uh not a good one to say the least for these guys. 3 minutes and 56 seconds here. 3 minutes and 56 seconds. Anything can happen on the stage here. Um yeah, who is going to be winning this stage? I don’t know. I don’t know. It could be a good one. This it could be a good one. I think uh it’s yeah it’s kind of a slow buildup now but I think we have had a bit of interest to say the least already. Are we going to get yeah asking as capital of what is happening to Bidabay? Um yeah I think he’s still in the pelaton obviously he’s not really relevant on this stage unfortunately didn’t get that uh intermediate sprint. I think he should have gone for the breakaway and tried to get the the intermediate sprint points. I think that would have been a very good tactic, but that didn’t quite happen. So, uh, yeah, we’re just seeing one of the riders who went up a bit too far. I think that was Neilson Prowles just waving to the rest of the group. Was that Nilson Prowace? Maybe Harry Sweeney. But 56 seconds here, 83.8 km still to go here of the stage. Who is going to be winning this stage? That is the big question. And are we going to see maybe uh some of the breakaway riders getting their opportunity here? But for the time being, it’s looking very good here for the break in terms of that polka dot jersey for sure. Confirmation there. Laney Martinez uh pro cycling stats haven’t updated yet. So I’ll just or mine hasn’t updated yet. So I’ll just try and get the update here so we can get that on the screen. Um yeah, Lena Martinez is doing a good job to just keep out of trouble here. What is he going to be doing here? That is the big question. How far can he keep into this stage as well? Very good rider as we know. But uh for the time being it’s looking very good for these riders. 3 minutes and 44 seconds. Tim Wellins and Nils Pot they are looking like they are motivated here. They are motivated but the riders caught by the Pelaton Vana court Romero caught Panipanra court Cleman Chinong Simon Malashko and Steph Krass all of these riders have been swept up by the breakaway so that was a bit unfortunate we’ll get you the top five as well in terms of that mountains jersey but yeah that was very disappointing by Astana and now I want to throw Estana in the disappointment category. Are we going to see a big big movement here by Visma Malisa bike? Are they going to try something? Probably. This is an opportunity. There is a rest day tomorrow. Um yeah, I don’t know about you, but I normally get quite fatigued when you’re traveling a lot. And these riders are not just traveling, they’re also uh racing very hard every day. So, fair play to them. I have to say fair play that they are able to sustain this in quite rough conditions for them. But we’re talking about the Mantis jersey as well. If you’re new here as well, subscribe to the channel. Help us get towards 100,000 subscribers. Maybe we can get there at the end of the tour. Maybe not, but we can at least try. For the time being, we’re seeing EF Education Easy Post. They are just uh keeping the pressure up here. Messages coming for TU Pro Cycling. Yeah, I think the messages are not instant. Obviously, they have to get get them programmed and all this. Bravo, Michael. Super important. EF for working well. EF are working well. You stay in the wheel. Now that’s what True to Pro Cycling was saying to Michael Stora. So benefiting of the work of EF Education Easy Post who still have three riders in there. They’re probably working for Ben Healey maybe. 81.7 km still to go of the stage. But Lenny Martinez has a firm grasp on that jersey now. 22 points. So, I think Tadagacha, unless he gets all the points remaining, he’s not going to be wearing that polka dot jersey for sure. Um, yeah, stay hydrated as well, guys. It is a very warm summer, I think, for many people. And, uh, we will wait and see what happens right now, but for the time being, it’s a very stagnant situation between the breakaway and the Pelton out towards the front. Are we going to see a stage win from the breakaway? Is it going to be one from the Yeah. Is it potentially going to be one for the Pelaton? Are they going to get this back? I don’t know how many people are in the Pelaton as well. I would kind of want to know that. We’re seeing the helicopter shot now, but they’re not quite showing all the riders in that Pelaton. So, yeah, it’s uh it’s a fascinating situation because they haven’t quite let go yet the Pelaton. They’ve they’ve loosened the the rope a bit, but they haven’t quite let go. They haven’t given the breakaway complete power and control here. So, yeah, it’s definitely a tense situation here. Definitely a tense situation. 81 km to go here. Tim Wellins is still at the front here. I’m not sure if Neils Plet has managed to do something here, but even Romeo here and Vana, they’re going to get caught shortly as well. So these two riders, Van Vilda probably would have wanted him a bit deeper into the race at Remco Veniple here, but Van Vilda is being swept up here. But at least they’ve got another rider alongside Remco Veniple. But Van Vilda, not quite sure why he dropped off there, but Valentin Panopanra is still up there for Sudal Quickstep. So for sure they can do something here. for sure they might be able to do something with Valentin Panapan. He wanted to have that support later on maybe just not even to attack just to have some support deeper into the stage here as well. Wild Venard is suffering you guys are saying is what Venard suffering but uh yeah for the time being it’s looking fairly good here for the breakaway 3 minutes and 36 seconds. It has come down a few seconds as well but we will wait and see. Subscribe to the channel if you haven’t already. A lot of you have subscribed already today. So, uh, welcome, welcome. Uh, very friendly community as we know. And we will wait and see what happens here on the stage. But for the time being, it’s looking very good here for the breakaway. Well, very good is probably a bit too much, but it’s looking fairly good, let’s say. But uh yeah, I think uh UAT Mirates maybe doing a bit too much work. Okay, there is a rest day tomorrow. I would be very defensive if I was them losing Joel Maida. Marish Schmidt here. He’s just coming towards the well he’s out the back of the Pelaton here. So he had a very big day and the Swiss national champion doing his best here to keep up towards well he did a good job for Jake anyway. Oh, close call there from Matias Laval. Almost get taken out the Israel Premate rider, but we’ve got a bit of a wait until the next castrise climb. This is the uncatasized climb coming up here and we will see what happens at this moment if there’s anyone who’s going to get caught out by this. But, uh, yeah, close call there between Isra Primite and Astana Rider. Almost our first crash of the day on a roundabout of all places. So yeah, we will wait and see. Uh dudes overestimating the breakaway. I mean I have a name. Um overestimating the breakaway. I mean the breakaway is uh quite incredible to say the least. The amount of riders that have good AC well good performances. Good. Pal Maro is in there. But Luke Plap going out the back here. Luke Plap is done. So Marish Schmidt done. Ben O Connor is still up there as well. Quinn Simmons up there as we said. Arensman up there. Lenny Martinez very very punchy today. Raul Garcia goes out the back here. Rahul Garcia. So they’re dropping like flies now. They are starting to feel it. The break up towards the front is starting to feel the pressure being put on by EF Education Easy Post. So they are just whittling this this down. It is just whittling down now. So we’ll wait and see what’s going to happen now. But uh yeah, Raul Garcia out the back. It’s about 19 riders in that group. They’re saying 18 riders. No, 17 riders. It has to be cuz two riders dropped out the back here. Um yeah, I’m impressed by uh Victor Companards. I have to say Victor Companards absolutely doing a great job here. A good good job to sustain himself, be up there. But Ben Healey’s up there. Uh Quinn Simmons up there. Uh Simon Yates, is he kind of the man that they’re looking towards to be the last man standing? But Victor Compan joins the rotations here at the front. Ben O Connor here, he’s riding solo. So Ben O Connor, no rider around him to help. So we’ll wait and see if Okconor can actually mastermind uh stage one here. But he does get involved in he does just get involved here. He’s getting involved in the rotation. So is Arnman. So is Joe Blackmore, the Total Avenir winner from last year. Arens, no, Annas Halanison, the Tour of Slovenia champion, also wanting to try and do something. But we are about 5 km from the foot of the Cold Dea Moreno, which is uncrise climb for the riders. It’s 1.6 km at 6%. I mean, what is a cap 4 if that isn’t a cat 4? So the organizers being very very what stingent with the points. Simon Yates looking very good. Ben Healey looking very good. Mini Ride is now well solo riders here. Arensman no teammates. Lenny Martinez no teammates. Valentine Panopra no teammates. Quinn Simmons no teammates but he hasn’t had any teammate for a long time. Pablo Castillo obviously Ivan Romero he did a turn to get him into this group as well. But Tim Wellins is just pacing the bunch now. There’s plenty of riders now getting swept up. The Astana riders getting swept up as well. So yeah, Aana fans will be very sad about this. But Aana will not be featuring here on this stage. It’s not the Aana like we saw in the Jirro Dalia. They were very very good. Took a stage win as well. This is a bit of a toothless Astana to some extent, but Arensman still in this group. Ben Oconor is still in this group as well. K Simmons still in this group. So, there’s plenty of riders in this group here. Victor Campernard’s in there as well. Quinc Quinton Basher still up there. And we’ll see what Vismalis bike can do here. But you guys, a very close poll. Maybe we’ll give it a bit few more votes here. zero stage wins and one stage wins is very close between you guys. It’s a very tight poll here. Less than 1% between zero and one stage. So, do I think they’re going to take a stage? I think there might be an opportunity. This could be an opportunity if Simon Yates does something. So, we’ll see. We’ll see. But right now, we’re seeing the front group trying to do something. We’re seeing a red helmet from Michael Stora. He’s a bit of a danger man, isn’t he? The man who has already tasted top three on the stage on a breakaway stage where Ben Healey of course took the stage win. So yeah, there’s a lot of things that can happen here on the stage. But yeah, breakaway versus Pelaton, that old rivalry on the tour to France. Will it happen for the Pelaton? Will they get them back here? Lenny Martinez, very lively. Very, very lively. And a shame that he didn’t have a Jack Hey or someone like that in there. That would be very good for him. But 76.6 km still to go here of the stage. 3 minutes and 51 seconds. So it’s just opened up a bit. Just open up a bit the gap ever so slightly. About 20 seconds added on to the count of of the break here. EF Education Easy Post doing one heck of a ride. Whoever wins the stage, if it is from the break, they are absolutely going to have to give a drink here to EF Education Easy Post because they are absolutely motoring here. Are they going to be able to do it? That remains to be seen, but they are doing a very good job here to keep the pressure on, keep it tight, keep it rolling. But we’ll wait and see if they are going to be able to do something. But yeah, for the time being, Victor Campernuts, I think, is doing a very good ride as well. Just keeping the pressure on, doing anything he can to just keep it up, keep this very, very um Yeah, this pressure is looking very interesting. Now, here’s Rob Premitech saying, “Okay, good. Woodsy, looking good. You don’t do more than the others. Don’t do more than the others. You know the danger, man. You know the danger man. Uh so they changed. Who is the danger man? Lennu Martinez, Simon Yates. Is that our danger man? We will wait and see. But for the time being, it’s a good situ Well, fairly good situation for the Pelton. Not quite where they would have wanted the margin, but h yeah, Red Bull. Yeah, that’s true. Amen saying what’s up with Red Bull this year? Same as last year. Uh yeah, we can ask you guys what do you think of Red Bull as well in the chat. You guys said that there is marginally that you think they’re going to win a stage here. So great to have everyone in the chat. We’re on 900 people in the chat. Great to have you all here. Smash the like button as well. And shout out to Velop Pro Racer as well, the cycling app sponsoring uh these streams of the Tour of France so far. So we’ll wait and see what happens. But uh deeper into this race, this uh this stage might be felt. So we’ll wait and see. But are we going to get a stage win from the breakaway today? Many of you think yes, many of you think no. So uh but we’ll put Red Bull Bhansa under scrutiny. Uh grade grade uh Red Bull in the tour of France this year. Great to have so many of our regular Ronda as well. Ricky I saw earlier we had Patty as well with some rubber shark carousel vertigo. Great to have so many familiar names and that of course means that I’m not completely completely talking out of my behind but 75 km to go here. 2 minutes and 30 seconds for Julian Phipe. He’s out of the picture I think. But um yeah, we’ll wait and see what’s going to happen deeper into the stage. But for the time being it’s not a pretty picture. Not a pretty picture for many of these riders. So yeah, Red Bull, great Red Bull this year. That is what we’re seeing. Nilson Prowa’s here. He’s just suffering as well. He did a lot of work. He’s being swept up by the Pelaton. So great, great ride by him. Good work there. They’re trying to get uh I think maybe I think it is Ben Healey that they’re working for. Even though there was talks about Alex Boddan uh being the favorite because he’s the French rider that that was the guy that they were going to be working for. But I don’t think that’s the rider. I think it is Ben Healey. But Lenny Martinez, that is the man that we’re thinking about. Is he going to be able to win this the stage? He’s certainly putting himself in contention for that jersey, the polka dot jersey at the end of the stage. That’s for sure. We’re waiting to see if he can do it, but there’s so many riders who are poised for potentially doing something on the stage in that breakaway. A lot of danger men for sure. So, uh, yeah, who’s going to be who’s going to be showing the hand first? I mean, we have seen Eve, Education, Easy Post, just keeping the tempo on, and that really does indicate what they’re thinking about. Of course, a second stage win for them would be absolutely amazing. One stage win last year and the Polka Dot jersey with Richard Carropas, that was a phenomenal result for them. But are they going to be able to keep this up? That remains to be seen with Ben Healey, Red Bull Bour Hanser, that is the team under the scrutiny, under the microscope for you guys. uh who is what do you give them out of uh grading system but 74.4 4 km. The next categorized climb coming up short. Well, not really shortly. We got this uncast climb that the riders are just tackling now. So, we’ll see if uh they can do something about this as well. But for the time being, they’re coming to a fast section now as well. So, that is where we’re going to see maybe something being done here. Maybe we’re going to see something um being done as well. I mean Nelson. No, I think this is Alex Bodan just enjoying himself at the front here. We’re seeing Ezra Permitic. The riders have come down to 16. They’re saying now I think this is Joe Blackmore. Maybe Joe Blackmore is working for Woods given that radio message that we heard from the team. So Joe Blackmore is probably in services of Mike Wood the Canadian. So that will be music to uh Vera. Well, not Vera. Uh that’s more your education east post but uh Ronda’s ears and all everyone who’s from Canada in the chat if Mike Woods is actually the chosen son for your education east post but 3 minutes and 37 seconds here we’re seeing our BNB um Raul Garcia getting back into this group here. So Raul Garcia the RKBN RK BNB rider who was dropped he just gets back into contention here. So, uh, good ride for him to get back in that front group, that front. Yeah, I think that’s very good by him. So, we’ll wait and see what happens. We’ll wait and see. But is he going to be able to take the stage win? That is uh Yeah, we’ll wait and see, but it’s looking fairly good here for for him. But 72.5 km still to go here of the stage. Simon Yates looking very comfortable up towards the front here. Wanar in that Pelaton group and Remco Veniple has free riders around him. So that’s very good for him. But I think they will disappear very quickly I think over the next few clims potentially. But Remco Veniple yeah he’s he’s been uh talked he’s been focused as well. We’ll see if he he’s going to be able to do something as well on this stage. But 72 kilometers to go here of the stage. What is going to happen? That is the big question. Uh 1 minute and well 3 minutes and 42 seconds. Julian Philip is going to be caught momentarily as well. So it’s going to be Yeah, it’s a fascinating one for sure. 3 minutes. Well, not really for Julian Philipe. We would have wanted to see more, but not quite being the same Julian Phipe. 2019 Julian Philipe. That’s the one we want. Or even 2021, 2020 Julian Phipe. So yeah, we will wait and see where his career plays out with Tud to Pro Cycling, but they still have a shot. Tud to Pro Cycling at the stage win today with Michael Store. Came fairly close at the stage win where Ben Healey took the win. Uh finishing in third place. Obviously Ben Healey attacked at the right moment. Luke Plap, he’s getting absorbed into the Pelaton momentarily as well. Um yeah, we’ll see what he can do later on, but the job was to get Ben Oconor in that move. Ben O’ Connor. Can he repay his teammates Maru Schmidt and Luke Plap and take the stage win? We will wait and see. We’ll wait and see. But for the time being, it’s looking very good for the Well, it’s looking fairly good for the breakaway. Let’s Let’s not exaggerate too much. So, the breakaway, many riders in there thinking about this opportunity. It’s very hard to get in a stage, normally a breakaway stage on these mountain stages. A lot of teams want to be in there, but we’re getting coming to the kind of the start of this rising incline that the riders will have a net incline, shall we say, all the way up to the cool uh cula qu moran morad morad. Is that how we’re saying it? Um, which is the cat 3 climb, but that is obviously after the cat 2 climb that we got at 3.3 km at 6.8%. There’s a bit of an incline between those two climbs, but EF Education Easy Post asking for some help as well. They’ve got free riders in there. So, they still have Harry Sweeney and Alex Boddine in there with Ben Healey. So, uh they just did this. This is the universal sign to come on guys. Let’s do something. Let’s do something. But we’ll wait and see what happens here on the stage. Many many people are interested in keeping this break alive for as long as possible here. But Luke Plop caught by the breakaway as we said. There is 17 riders in this break still. Victor Campernard, Simon Yates as we said earlier. Uh Valentine Panopra the only rider. Then we got the trio of Ben Healey Bodan, Harry Sweeney, and then the lone rider of Len Martinez. Tian Ironsman another lone rider. Quinn Simmons another lone rider. Quinton Par, another another lone rider. Michael Store, loan rider. Ben O Connor, loan rider. Raul Garcia, loan rider. Uh Pablo Castillo, lone rider for Mobistar. And then Michael Woods with the very young uh Joseph Blackmore, the 22-year-old who won last year, the tour of Taiwan, the tour of Rwanda and the tour labir. So impressive run and wins last year. and Andreas Haloh Johannes, the twin brother of Tobias Halo Johannes for Uno X or is also up here. But a lot of points available still on the stage. So, we’ll wait and see if anyone’s going to be able to pounce on this, do something better. But great to have so many people here. And uh yeah, we will wait and see. We will wait and see. Great to have so many people in the chat. Almost a thousand people in the chat. So, we will wait and see if there is going to be an absolutely legendary battle here at the end. Subscribe to the channel if you’re new here and you want to see a zombie flash up as well. We have had plenty of you subscribing today as well. So, thank you to every single one of you who has done that. But for the time being, it’s uh yeah, it’s an interesting one in terms of the stage. This is the Kato Jouer. We had two very quiet stages yesterday and the day before, but this one could absolutely deliver. Absolutely deliver. Brit is saying that the Kul dequa sad is going to end the breakaway. H that’s a very sad forecast if that does happen. But uh 67.5 km still to go here of the stage. Are we going to see a stage win from that breakaway? That remains to be seen. But for the time being, it’s looking very good right now. Well, not yeah, hyperbolic statement again. It’s looking fairly good. It is just plateauing a bit around that 350 mark. They wouldn’t want to get into the 4 minute 5 minute mark if we’re honest. That’s why EF Education Easy Post are very uh eager at the front to try and do something here. But for the time being, AA, they still are very strong here. Okay, BNB very strong here. Of course, they’ve got uh Kevin Bllan that they’re looking for looking towards the best place French rider as well. What are we saying as well? Pagatcha, please gain some time today. Visma will bully you next week. Yeah, we’ll see. We’ll see. I think uh the doofen gave us a bit of an insight of what could be happening as well. And uh yeah, subscribe to the channel if you’re new. It would be very very nice to see more faces in the community as well. We’ve got plenty of videos coming up in the rest day as well on this channel, the Cycling Dane Extra channel and even the Cycling Dane action channel is coming out of its hibernation. 66.7 km to go here. 3 minutes and 55 seconds. They’re getting ever so slightly closer to that 4m minute mark as well. London Martinez obviously wants to keep this break alive for as long as possible because uh he’s thinking that those mountain jersey points. Can he potentially do something here? We will wait and see. I mean, if he gets the Pogo jersey and the stage win on Kato Jouer, I think his status as a as a rider is absolutely solidified in French culture. But uh for the time being it’s looking very good here. 66.3 km. This is going to be a late finish I think for the stage maybe. Um yeah, Civicov dropping back. That is of course a bit of a worrying one. Maybe we are going to see um yeah we will wait and see. We will wait and see. But many things can still happen on the stage. 66 km to go here. Lenny Martinez, I think, is going to be an interesting rider to follow throughout this stage. Now, because there are still points up for grabs here for the young Frenchman. Is he going to be able to take all of them all the way to the finish line? He might not take the final one or even the penultimate one as well. But for the time being, 66 km to go and we might as well have a bit of transfer speculation as well. Where do you think Remco Venopol should be next year? Um yeah but uh 65.9 km it’s still year for education easy post uh up towards the front um yeah where should he be next year that is the big question so Sudal Inos Red Bull uh who else has he been linked to I think he got linked to Israel Premier as well so yeah plenty of options for him on the table potentially. It’s 4 minutes now the gap the 4minute gap now between the breakaway and also the front group yellow jersey for yeah for Ben Healey potentially if they can stick this. So Ben Healey doing absolutely everything they can to just keep this push going on and we’ll wait and see what can happen here on the stage. Anything can happen as we know. Are we going to see a stage win for potentially Tad Gacha, for potentially Yonis Vingle, or is it going to be someone else here? The Breakaway are very intrigued in this. Smash the like button as well if you haven’t already. We’re on 252. We’re nearly a thousand people in the chat as well. So, great to have so many people in the chat. And uh maybe we can get a few more as well. It might your grandmother, your your cousin, your friend, your spouse, all of these, your cycling club. Uh but yeah, 64.7 km still to go here. And great to have so many people in the chat. But for the time being, 4 minutes for Julian Philipe, he’s losing out a lot. That group is going to be swept up momentarily. The almost French group here because Bruno Mariah in there as well. Julian Philippe. Bruno Mariah bit of disappointment. And I thought he was going to be hunting for those polka dot jersey points. So, uh, yeah, that was a bit of a shame. We will wait and see here. But 64 km is all that separates these riders from the finishing line. Still four more categorized climbs left of the stage. So, something can happen. Welcome Frank Mosa as well to the channel members. There will be a competition as well for the channel members for subscribers on the rest day. So uh that will be available in the community post uh tomorrow. So that that will be good. But 64 km as we said 4 minutes and 12 seconds here. 4 minutes and 12 seconds uh for the nils plet le pelaton to make up if they are going to be doing something here. Who is going to be winning this? We will wait and see. But UA doing a lot of work here. Admittedly it’s not with all of their riders. It is principally with these two riders just keeping the pace up. They just wanted to make sure that they’re not losing out, just keeping that pressure on. So, we will wait and see what happens here, but they are doing a good job just to keep it up. Just keep that Yeah. Uh what are we saying? Keep the chain tight as you would say in Danish. So, anything could happen on the stage as we always say, but yeah, for the breakaway, I hope it’s their day. I really hope it’s their day. We We saw too many wins from Tadpagachi last time, and it would be good to see some of the smaller teams just get a stage win as well. It means so much to many of these teams. Means so much to riders who have never tasted success as well. Welcome Armen as well to the channel members. And uh yeah, right now EF Education Easy Post are really just pushing it on here. They’re really just pushing it on. 10 km until we get to the start of that next cash climb for the riders. But it is a rise all the way up. So it is a very long climb this. So it should maybe be a cat one climb. If if that part is a cat 2, maybe this whole stretch should be a cat one climb. They’re being very stingent with those uh polka dot jersey points as we know. But polka dot jersey is my favorite jersey. So we’ll wait and see who’s going to be wearing that. It looks like it’s going to be Lenny Martinez, but right now it is here for Education East Post just adding a bit of sting into this this leading group here. 4 minutes and 15 seconds. It just increases ever so slightly. Thank you Armen as well for another kind donation. What we’re saying, how about you shave your beard? Okay, I will shave my beard since you sh said it. I will shave it on the rest day. So, I will do that. Nevertheless, 4 minutes and 15 seconds. It is creeping up ever so slightly here. Ever so slightly. We will just see what’s going to happen here. Come on. Come on. Breakaway. I believe maybe not many people do in the chat. Uh but yeah, we’ll give a bit of a update as well. Who’s in the breakaway? We’ve got Victor Campernard, Simon Yates, Valentine Panopatra, Ben Healey, Alex Boddan, Harry Sweeney, Lenny Martinez, the virtual polka dot jersey wearer, Tian Ironsman, the only Inos Grande rider, Quinn Simmons, Quinn Quinton Pache, Michael Store, Ben O’ Connor, Rahul Garcia, Pablo Castillo, Michael Woods, Joe Blackmore, and Andreas Halehan the Toros Slovenia winner as well. So, a good good job by by many of these riders to just keep that keep their slack not very loose. They’re really doing everything they can here. As John Kelly says, #team breakaway. I’m absolutely in that uh group. So, we’ll wait and see what happens. But you guys are saying that Remco should go to Remco Event. Remco should go to uh Red Bull. So, uh we’ll wait and see. DB Cooper, thank you for a kind donation as well, saying don’t shave the beard. Now, it’s going to be shave the beard. Don’t shave the beard. Yeah, we’ll see where we end up there. But Neil’s Plet here, he’s pushing on here. Neil’s Pard just pushing on that grimace. We see those very white teeth. The tongue comes out as well. He’s really on on the uh Yeah, really on the hurt hurt locker here. We’ll wait and see what he can do here. But anything can happen on the stage. That is why we’re watching. We want to see what’s going to happen here. But uh Neils Pard doing an absolute crazy ride here for his teammate of Tarabacha here. Are we going to see Tadatcha getting involved in this stage win? You never know. But 62 km now. So he is coming down. Obviously the 10 km for a minute rule of thumb doesn’t quite work out on a mountain stage here. So we’ll wait and see. I think the mountains stay the the they should do something maybe. Maybe maybe 61.8 km still to go here. Um yeah, it’s just creeping up ever so slightly. Neil’s pilot versus the breakaway and right now it’s the breakaway winning. So the breakaway are doing very well. Um yeah, as Chris says they should chill out. They don’t have Almeida and we will wait and see. But uh Oh, that’s a good one. Worst team jersey in the tour of France this year. Yeah, we’ll get we’ll vote for that. Give us some contenders. We need four four teams. So, who’s the worst team? We need four options and then we can vote on it as a community. Who’s been what’s the worst jersey that you’ve seen in the tour to France? This We will wait and see. We will wait and see what’s going to happen here. Are we going to see a stage win from Barin Victorious with Lenny Martinez? They would desperately want to take a stage win. But worst bespoke jersey, that is what we’re asking you guys for in terms of the jerseys of the tour. I mean, there’s Israel Premier, there’s Graham, FD Ara. Uh, yeah, we will wait and see. But 61 km to go here. Quinn Simmons here. He pops up to the front. He’s just injecting a bit of pace here into this breakaway. He wants to get involved. the American. He’s just managing to force a bit of a selection as well. I mean, does Quinn Simmons think he’s going to win this stage? I mean, they don’t have the best mountain support little trick. So, we’ll wait and see what’s going to happen. But the stage win is very much in the balance because the breakaway 4 minutes and 18 seconds. Now, EF Education East Post just pushing on a bit more. They’re just keeping this gap or extending the gap ever so slightly. A few seconds at a time. It comes out here. 60.7 km still to go on the stage. 60.7 km still to go. What is going to happen? That is the big question. Are we going to see a stage win from this breakaway? They’re very motivated for education supposed to drive this gap as wide as possible. But it is UAT members trying to respond. But Bahin victorious with Lenny Martinez will definitely try and do something. Are they going to be having that jersey? There’s that cat. The cat climb is coming up as well very very shortly. They’ve got a bit of an incline to go well a bit of a descent first and then they have that rise that we were talking about. So they are about what have we got nine? Well, 10.3 km until the top of the climb. 10.3 km. What are they saying here? Lealle Trek radio message. Quinn, you should just you just need to follow there. They’re look, you’re looking super good. You’re looking super strong. So, uh maybe they’re thinking about an opportunity here for Quinn Simmons. Miasmoen, I think, would have been a better option, but he’s sitting quite high up in GC, so obviously he wouldn’t let be let go here. But yeah, there’s many people that could do something. Many people that could do something here in this breakaway. Ben Healey, a good option potentially. But how is his climbing legs towards the end? There’s very, very good riders in this group. Very great riders to say the least in terms of climbers. Ben O’ Connor top five finisher in the Wild Espña and the Juraya last year. That was incredible to say the least. So, we’ll wait and see if he’s able to do something here again. But for the time being, he’s just yeah, keeping a bit of a incognito figure. Not doing any real work. Just making sure to benefit of the labor of uh yeah of the EF Education Easy Post team. So, uh Oh, that is Ian Romeo. Ian Romeo out the back here. Ivan Romeo is out the back. So, he’s gone. Noan Romeo, the Spanish national champion. And for the time being, it’s looking very good for many of these riders. Neils Plet still at the front here. Neils Polllet doing a great job here at the front of the race. But are they going to be able to do anything? That is the big question as well. EF Education East Post doing a very good piece of teamwork here, but will they be able to take the stage win? essentially 4 minutes and 29 seconds they’ve grown the gap out to now. So yeah, this is going to be a nervous one for them. 5 minutes, 6 minutes, that would be a very comfortable margin, I think. But they still need to work hard obviously, but yeah, when this Maliss bike come from behind, maybe they drop back some of the other riders as well. We will wait and see. We’ll wait and see. But for the time being, it’s looking fairly good here. Not quite sure why we lost the pro cycling stats here. So I’ll try and get that back on the screen. But for the time being, it’s a very good situation for the breakaway. A very hard fought effort. Obviously we know that by uh EF Education Easy Post, but right now they’re doing the best to just try and keep the pressure on, keep everything going here. And Harry Sweeney is off the back now. So Harry Sweeney has been dropped. Harry Sweeney has been dropped here. So, we will wait and see. We will wait and see. Are we going to see this now? I think it’s Alex Boddan here. They are working for Ben Healey, I think. Yeah, Ben Healey is just slotted in a bit further down as well. So, maybe they are just Yeah, I think they’re definitely working for Ben Healey. He has been up towards the front as well, but h yeah, Ben Healey doing a great job here to keep out of trouble. But for the time being, it’s looking very good here. very very good for for many of these riders and we’ll wait and see what’s going to happen for Ben Healey. Yeah, he’s he’s trying his best. He’s trying his best to just conserve energy but also still getting involved in the chase. I think this is Joe Blackmore just get getting the orders to keep this going as well right now. 4 minutes and 38 seconds now with Harry Sweeney not there. That is a bit of an alarming situation for many of these breakaway riders because it was education easy post really driving that gap. And now if that is not going to happen from them, they will need to try and get some other team doing something. Yeah, I mean the radio messages that we want to hear is the likes of the riders, but uh we don’t get those messages. We only get like very select messages unfortunately. 57.6 km still to go here. Oh yeah, the Inos Grande kit. That is terrible. Um, yeah. Well, I promised you the poll of the worst to France kit. Obviously, Valita bikes. I think that’s one of the best ones. Very good kit. Who has the worst uh tour to France kit? Uh we didn’t really act we didn’t see a new one for uh EF education the easy post but uh you guys said AA you said Inos Grande we said who else we’ve got Israel has a new kit as well Mistar I don’t think have a new kit um that’s kind of who I can think about. Um and then FDJ I think that is Oh Red Bull has a new kit as well. Red Bull. So, I think I’m going to throw a out because I’m not sure they actually did a bispoke kit. But yeah, we’ll wait and see what happens here on the stage. But it’s looking very good for many of these riders in the break now with the gap almost moving up to five minutes now. So, it’s almost 5 minutes. I’m trying to sort out our problem here. I’m not quite sure what happened with pro cycling stats, but it seems to have just given up a bit. At least the stream is fine. that I I’d rather take the stream over uh pro cycling stats right now. But for the time being, 56.9 kilometers still to go here of the stage. Are we going to get a stage win from many of these riders? Uh that is the big question. Uh maybe, maybe not. Maybe, maybe not. That is the big question. Um yeah, 44 4 minutes and 44 seconds. That is quite a sizable gap now. quite a sizable gap and who’s going to be able to do something about this. It’s looking very good for many of these riders now. Um yeah, EF Education Post probably should just chill out a bit. As we said, uh they have they are a bit on the back foot because they don’t have their man uh out towards the front. So, we’ll wait and see if they actually do something here later on as well. They have of course got a depleted force. thighs, the big danger part. And they’ve been doing a lot of work. Obviously, they wanted to try and throw the yellow jersey a few days ago. They did manage to do that by a solitary second, but then did a lot of work on the the Britannia stage anyway. So, it wasn’t quite the plan that you would have thought from them, but uh let’s just put the Yeah, we’ll put the stage there. So, at least we have something there. But, we’re looking out for the polka dot jersey. That one’s certainly very exciting. And maybe it’s going to be Yeah, maybe it’s going to be Lenny Martinez taking the points here as well. A very quiet figure in it. And he probably is going to throw the card of being like, well, I’m just going for the polka dot jersey. I don’t care about the stage win. So guys, you do whatever you want to do, but I’m going for the st I’m going for the polka dot jersey. And then he could be bluffing and then just attack everyone. So yeah, we’ve got the poll open. Most of you Inos Grande is getting a lot of abuse in the poll. Isra Premate, Red Bull, Kama FD, but Lenny Martinez taking a turn here. We will wait and see where he kind of ends up on this stage. Yeah, 55.6 km. Uh ourman up there, 5 km from a summit here for Neil’s Pollen and the gang. So we’ll see what they can do here. UAT mermaids very strong team as we know and Shane is saying Lenny and Yates will probably light this breakaway up both pure climbers. Yeah, probably Ben Oconor as well will try something for sure inside 5 minutes now. It’s five minutes. Five minutes. We’ll see what happens here. Five minutes almost. It just touched the five minutes and then it disappeared. So it’s looking very good here. Looking very good right now for the riders. But are we going to get a stage win from any of these riders? That is the big question. Great job so many new people in the chat. Make sure to smash the like button as well. And why not check out Battle Pro Racer, our channel sponsor for these streams. So, um, yeah, very good to get them involved. Uh, app, a cycling road app, a race simul race simulating app. That is very exciting to see. And a new app, a British app. So, we’ll see where they go as well. But for the time being, it’s yeah, just dipped down below uh five minutes. Dipped up to five minutes now as well. So, we’ll wait and see if they’re going to be able to do something here on the stage. 54.8 km still to go. It is this climbing part now. And maybe something will happen. A reaction from the Pelaton. Maybe some of the lower top 10s will try and do something. But yeah, we’ll wait and see. We’ll wait and see. And we’re seeing the back end of this front group as well. We’ve got groupame FTJ rider Quinton Pache still in there as well. So maybe he can do something here. Maybe he’s just keeping it quiet. Obviously Len Martinez is the French rider that we’re looking out for in in um yeah in that group. But is he going to be able to do something? That remains to be seen. But for the time being, it’s looking good for many of these riders in this group. They’re doing a good job here and working fairly well together, I would say. Not quite sure where this will end. Rasmus saying when will Visma attack? That’s a good question as well. They probably do have to attack on this stage. Every every stage is an opportunity for them to attack. Marco is saying tomorrow on the rest day they’ll attack. But we have of course got a podcast as well. So check that out. We’ll have a interesting one on the rest day. But Alex Boddan, I think he’s going out the back now. No, Harry Sweeney. Harry Sweeney. This is Harry Sweeney, the EF Education, East Post rider, just doing his best to keep within the cars. So, we’ll wait and see where he ends up at the end of this stage as well. But there’s many riders who are doing very well. Victor Kenat’s pulling his turn as well. I’m quite shocked Victor Compan is doing so well here. He’s climbing very well, Victor Kenats. So, maybe he can do something. Kappa very strong uh very uh versatile rider as we know stage winner last year at the to France our record holder in the past as well and he has of course also been uh yeah very strong yeah in time trials double European champion we will wait and see if he can do something here on the stage I think Simon Yates is the guy that they’re just going to pull along and then he’s going to be doing something maybe for you want Bingo if they’re going to do something, but I’m not even sure that they’re going to do anything on this stage. We will wait and see. Matt B saying, uh, here’s a question. Best personality from anyone you have met in the Pelon. Oo. Um, best personality to Lon is an absolute diamond. I love him. Uh, he’s in this race of course. Sprinter for picnic personnel. Super nice guy. Yens [ __ ] I think is just absolutely like he is on the screen. He is in real life. But uh yeah, I think there’s a lot of interesting characters in the sport. We need a bit few more interesting uh to be honest. We need a Taga seems quite interesting. Never really met him, but yeah, we’ll wait and see what happens here in the stage. But yeah, favorite personality in cycling right now. uh open to everyone in the chat as well. Who really excites you? Who gets your blood excited? Uh Peter Sagan obviously he was so interesting. But Quinn Simmons, he’s just pushing on. The rotations are doing very well at the front here. They got 3 km until that next Cat 2 climb. And uh yeah, this is looking fairly interesting now for the riders. 52.8 km still to go here. Are we going to get a stage victory from anyone in that breakaway? They are hoping so because they are very much riding for the stage and maybe they can pull it off. Who is going to be winning? That is the big question. I would love to see a breakaway stage win, but uh yeah, I’m not quite sure if it’s going to be happening on this day or the Kato Juier Kato Juier French winner. Lenny Martinez, if he wins this, he would absolutely cement himself into cycling folklore and the French one. But uh it is a hard one. It is a very hard one for him to do that. Neils Per and Tim Wellland still working very hard at the front. Uh it’s around four minutes and 59 seconds and it’s 2.6 km until the top of that Castro climb the next one. So we will just see what happens here. But it’s looking very good for the breakaway. 5 minutes now. 2.5 km still left here. 52.3 km. Neils poll and Tim Wellins plus Mark Sallaya behind them are doing their best to police this gap here. Not quite sure why. I mean they could maybe let this go. They could maybe let this go. I think we will wait and see what happens. But yeah, they they’re worried about Simon Yates. I think they’re worried about Yeah, many of these riders as well. I think 52 km to go. 52 km to go of the stage. 2.3 km. Still three or four cast rise climbs left for the riders. One cat three climb and three cat two climbs. So a lot can still happen on the stage. 2.2 km still to go here. They’re working very well at the front. The breakaway riders. You’ve got Quinton Pache in there. You still have Ben. He wait actually I think this might be Harry Sweeney who’s gotten himself back into this. Or this is Alex Boddan. I’ll double check who that is. But we have got another year of education. easy post rider. It’s Alex Bodon. So, there is still two EF Education Easy Post riders in there. Uh Pablo Castillo, a bit of a danger man after taking two stage wins in his first Grand Tour last year. Not for Mistar, but for Karn Farmer as well. Yeah, UAT Memorates. I think they should just take the foot off the pedal there a bit. But 51.8 km still to go the stage. Two kilometers two kilometers here up the climb. Simon Yates just talking to the team car as well. That is the conversation we really want to hear. What are they going to do? What can they do to try and get the better of potentially Yeah. Um yeah, I’m not quite sure. We’ll wait and see. But Tim Wellins, there is no Neils Pollard now. So it’s Tim Wellland and Markair at the front here. We still have plenty of riders for Remco Venol. Nils Polllet the domestiggo last year for many people he just goes out the back but Ben Healey is just coming to the front now he’s just increasing the pace he’s got Victor Kenard on his wheel both of these two riders have both taken a stage win and we’ll wait and see what happens here but Raul Garcia who goes out the back once more the rider who was dropped and then came back but he’s out the back for our Airbnb so 1.7 km left still of this climb we’ll wait and see what’s going to happen now. But yeah, 1.6 km. Are we going to see any reactions before that last few hundred meters to go? We will wait and see. We will wait and see. Are we going to get a stage win here? This would be a great one for any of these breakaway riders to remember on Kato Jouier and Lenny Martinez. We would love to see him take the stage win. He might get the polka dot jersey. I think if he takes the points at the top of this one, I think it is a locked in. I think it is locked in uh if my calculation is correct. But the Pelaton being led on by the polka dot jersey here. He’s going to lose that polka dot jersey at the end of the day. We will wait and see what happens. But for the time being, it’s looking fairly good for the breakaway. 5 minutes and 3 seconds now. And uh yeah, Richard Carass, what could have been if he was in the race? Is Tadpaga gonna win this stage? I’m not too certain. I mean, maybe. You never know with Tadpaga. He can absolute make a breakaways advantage disappear. Um, yeah, doesn’t quite like to give gifts away as well to the uh breakaway as we saw last year in both the Tour of France and the Juraya. But for the time being, it’s looking fairly good here. Fairly good here for the breakaway. They would have taken this scenario if you told them this at the end of at the beginning of the day that you’re going to have 5 minutes with 51 km still to go here. 1.2 km left of the stage of the climb. The fifth categorized climb of the day and of course right after we got a bit of a descent and then it kicks up to a cat 3 climb where there’s I think two points or three points available. But right now it is Ben Healey looking very good. also the V the virtual yellow jersey. I think Clem was just asking in the chat as well. I think he is the virtual leader uh because he is 3 minutes and 55 seconds down. So he is the leader right now. Virtual yellow jersey for him. If we got him in the yellow jersey, that would be something, wouldn’t it? Tarbacha desperately wants to get him in the yellow jersey, maybe. Um, yeah, Ben Healey, I don’t think he’s got a last in the mountains. So, yeah, maybe it would be a good call by UAT Memor to throw him in in that jersey. Just let the gap grow out. But, how much time would you be willing to give someone like Ben Healey? Ah, I don’t know. Give him like three, four minutes maybe. We will wait and see here, but we’re almost inside the last 50 kilometers here on the stage. It’s great to have almost 1,000 people in the chat. Smash the like button as well. Let’s see if we can get to 500 likes on the stream. I’m sure we can get there, but great to have so many people in the chat as well. But Healey just pushing on a lot. EF Education Easy Post a bit giddy about this situation. Doing their best to uh just focus on the stage, but they they of course want to get something out of this if they can. Can they potentially get something out of this? That is the big question. They would love to get something, but are they going to be able to do it? That is another question. A second stage win for them. I can’t remember the last time they had two stage wins. But uh right now it’s uh yeah, 52 km to go still of the stage and anything can happen. as we know the green jersey. If you’re wondering about John Milan, he’s way down, way down still. But h yeah, it’s hovering around the 5m minutee mark. 300 m left of this cash price climb. Lenny Martinez moves up towards the front. Ben Healey just trying to answer here. Ben Healey just getting on the wheel of Lenny Martinez. So that bit of acceleration by Lenny Martinez was just marked by Ben Healey. And are we going to get another acceleration from the Irish rider? Guys, you have got a stage win. Maybe up for grabs as well if you play your cards right. So, don’t go out all out for a cat two here. Lenny Martinez a bit worried about Ben Healey. So, he just ups the gap a bit more here. Ben Healey looks behind and it is Lenny Martinez who takes the five points. Five points goes to Ben Healey. No, three points to Ben Healey and five points to our man Lenny Martinez. So, we will just get an update of that as well on the screen. the virtual classication of that jersey. So, Lenny Martinez is doing a good job here just getting the better of many of these riders. Watt Vanar has dropped from the Pelaton. So, Wana doing very good to be so far into this. But, uh yeah, Laney Martinez doing a good job there. Bit of an acceleration. EF Education, the Easy Post doing a good job as well to keep this breakaway alive for as long as they have because that margin is well and truly their work. So, we’ll get you the top five of the virtual classification of the points classification here. Um, yeah, Ben Healey who had some points before going into this day, but what out the back here? Ben O’ Connor just lifting the tempo a bit himself. He just wants to try and accelerate the gap a bit more. Feeling out the other riders as well. But yeah, looking pretty good right now for the breakaway. Every kilometer with this gap will look better and better for these guys. But uh yeah, Ben Oconor, EF Education, these come to the front with Alex Boddan again. So, uh yeah, they’re just continuing this pace work at the front. nobody really helping EF Education too much for most of the time and when they do come to the front it’s a bit of a halfass um effort just because they know that there’s a sprint there’s a stage win potentially up for grabs so obviously you want to keep your options open here so it’s it’s looking good here it’s looking very good for this breakaway now are they going to be keeping it all the way to the finish that is another question I’d love to see it. I think many of us would love to see it. Um, yeah, not quite sure it will happen, but the poker jersey has just changed a bit more in that virtual classation. 25 points now for or 27 points even for Lenny Martinez, courtesy of winning those five cat 2 climbs. Rider is suffering at the back of the Pelaton as well. We saw Julian Phipe, he’s out towards the back suffering a lot here. So, not quite his day. But Tim Wellland here, he is just absolutely murdering at the front here. They’re inside the last kilometer of that cap climb. So Solair behind him and then we’ve got um uh Quickstep, they’re just congregating behind UAE Emirates. Aa behind them as well. Bisma Lisa Bike not on the front. So we’ll wait and see what’s going to happen here. But the rider is coming down here. the breakaway. 47.3 km to go. They’re going to enjoy this bit of a descent now. And it’s looking fairly good for these guys. They are looking pretty good now. And maybe maybe we’re going to see a stage victory for them. Who knows? We we should probably do another poll with you guys. Oo, this poll is quite close. The worst kit of the tour of France. This poll is very close between you guys. Um yeah, but we’re inside the last 50 km. Another cat three. Well, the first cat 3 climb, the first cash prize climb that isn’t a cat 2 is coming up. And now Quinn Simmons is just injecting a bit of pace here. Quinn Simmons is not too happy about this pace. So, he’s just injected some pace. Uh EF Education, EF Education, Easy Po, quick to respond to this as well. So, uh this is Yeah, very very interesting dynamic here at the break. They they shouldn’t really be attacking each other like this cuz they have a long ways still. So they should really be working very well together and keep that cooperative effort that they have been doing for most of the time. So we’ll wait and see what they can do here. But they are doing a good effort to keep this pace up. Lane Martinez five points, Healey three points. Ben Oconor getting two points for himself there as well. So maybe he’s just thinking about a cat climb. So yeah, maybe maybe maybe. But oh, Ben Healey attacking now. Ben Healey attacking. They all know how dangerous this kind of move is. It was around this mark that he attacked, but Ben Healey is going for it. It’s all or nothing for him. All or nothing potentially here. He just attacks. He’s just attacking here. What can he do? He can’t get the gap. It was marked by another rider who has won breakaway stages of your man. Um, yeah, Ben O’ Conor. Ben Oconor just doing his best here to mark that move, but Ben Healey first signs of attack there. Wasn’t quite as he didn’t get as much of a uh leeway there as he got on the other day. So, Ben Healey, everyone’s kind of aware of what he’s thinking about, what he wants to do here. So, Ben Healey not quite given that leash that he wanted, but great to have over a thousand people in the chat. Let us know where you’re watching from as well. Smash the like button and do check out our sponsor as well, Velop Pro Racer. And why not check out um yeah, many of the other things as well, but Pro Cycling Stats doing a very good job on this day as always. and they had a bit of drama with the ASO. So, that was a bit of a shame to say the least, but great to have so many people on the chat and we’ll see what happens here on the stage. But, uh, anything can happen. 44.7 km still to go of the stage. Are we going to see a stage win? Yeah, I don’t know from the breakaway. It’s looking very up in the air right now. Um, but right now, 44.6 6 km still to go over the stage. Are we going to see them doing something here on the Cat 3 climb? 3.4 km long, 5.7%. Lenny Martinez moving up towards the front here. Maybe he’s going to be able to do something. Maybe we’re going to see some movement by him. But uh yeah, for the time being, it’s looking Yeah, it’s looking interesting. That’s for sure. It’s looking very interesting. 44.4 4 km and the pace is still being dictated by the riers of EF Education Easy Post here. So, EF Education East Post just doing their best here to keep the pressure on, keep that pressure tight, keep the chain tight and are we maybe going to see something happening? That is the big question now. Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe. But for the time being, it’s looking very good here for the riders. They’re just keeping the pressure on in the breakaway. They’ve increased the gap to 5 minutes and 9 seconds. So, every single gap just increasing the likelihood of them winning the stage here. So, doing a good job, you have to say doing a good job. Three three kilometers until they get to that cat 3 climb. EF Education Easy Post with Alex Boddine. Absolutely just doing what they can to keep this breakaway alive. What a day it’s been for the breakaway right now. But 27 points for Lenny Martinez. He’s hoovering up the points on this stage. And Tab Gacha, what’s he going to do? They’re going to be thinking about what they can do to play out later on. But great to have so many people in the chat. Smash the like button as well. We’re about 170 away from 500. I’m sure we can get there. And if you haven’t already, why not subscribe to the channel? Help us get to 100,000 subscribers by the end of the tour to France. That would be very funny. Uh what are we saying as well? John Kelly, this might be the hardest stage of the tour. Pelaton chills out all day. We’ll see if they really go for the uh hit here later on. They really come with that that charge, the GC charge later on. Maybe there’ll be an attack by Yonas. You never know. You never know. Is this one of the stages that they felt could be something? We’ll wait and see. But yeah, Alex Boddan absolutely just on the limit here. Doing his best, putting it on everyone. And maybe he can do something here. Maybe, maybe, maybe. We’ll wait and see. But doing everything he can to just keep this up, keep this pressure on, keep this rolling. And uh yeah, it’s looking very good. It’s looking very good here. Are we going to see a stage win from EF Education? needs a post with Ben Healey once more. We’ve seen that already. Ben Healey winning a stage in the tour and the Juraya, but for the time being, this is looking good. It’s looking very good right now. Great to have people from all around the world. Why not throw the flag of your country in the chat just to see all the flags turn up? I’ll try and do that as well if I can. Um, yeah, it’s always very fun that game when we say put your flag in the in the chat and we’ll see a lot of flags. But 43.2 kilometers, two kilometers left here of that cat 3 climb coming up. But uh yeah, Alex Bodon absolutely doing a sterling job here in services of Harry Sweeney EF Education Post trying to really get the most out of this stage and maybe they can just get a stage win. It’s going to be close. It’s going to be close, but uh yeah, we’ll wait and see. They passed a P do as well. Uh wasn’t that where Mike Woods took the stage? But yeah, this is looking very good for the riders. Quinn Simmons just grabs a beat on as well. Uh but Bordon, he is just keeping the pressure on here at the front. Just keeping the pressure on. Are they going to be able to hold this charge here? Keep that. Yeah, maybe they can get up to 6 minutes. It’s 5 minutes and 15 seconds here. 1 minute and 7 km to go. Well, 1.7 km. So, let’s just get the right units as well. They’re just doing a formidable job here. The breakaway keeping this charge up. We’ll remind you all of who’s in the breakaway as well because a few of them have fallen away. We got Victor Campernard, Simon Yates, Valentin Panra, Ben Healey, Alex Boddan who’s doing a great job at the front, Lenny Martinez, Jian Arnman, Quinn Simmons, Quinton Pashe, Michael Store, Ben O’ Conor, Pablo Castillo, who I think is a big danger man from Marvis here. Michael Woods, Joe Blackmore, and uh Anas Hal Johannes as well. So, there’s a lot of riders that can do something potentially on the stage that can be danger. So, we’ll wait and see what happens, but for the time being, it’s looking very good for many of these riders. Who’s going to really react to this situation as well, uh, who’s going to make the mo first move? We saw Ben Healey make a bit of a move that was kind of squashed, but uh, we might see another move from him as well. Maybe we’ll see that happen. But for the time being, it’s looking fairly good here for these riders. We could potentially see a reaction from Yeah, Lenny Martinez. How is he playing this as well? Um here we have Israel Premitech saying we’ve got to match Healey. Quinn’s strong as well, but you know Healey when he goes he can’t miss. He’s always super strong, sharp. He’s got a strong attack. So Isra Premier are saying the deja man is Ben Healey in this situation. Rightly so I think now we’re getting Victor Kernat doing a bit of move here. Is he coming to the front? Let’s see what Kenats does. Are they thinking about a move? Everyone’s just reacting to the move by Kenat. So Compenats moves and everyone else moves as well here. So a bit of urgency being put on by the other breakaway riders courtesy of Victor Compenats. He’s just accelerating a bit hard here. Kenats, what is he thinking? Absolutely crazy what he’s doing right now. I didn’t think that Kenat was going to be here and so deep into this, but Kenat just reacts. And we’ll see what he can do here. But Campards just lifting the tempo ever so slightly being met by Quinn Simmons who drags the rest of the group back as well. So many of these riders just get Yeah. Well, they they responded to the move here. They responded to the move. So, we’ll wait and see what can happen here on the stage, but it’s looking very good now. It’s looking very good for this break now. 5 minutes and 20 seconds. We will wait and see what happens now. But, uh, yeah, that was a bit of an acceleration from Camponauts. Campernards just increasing the acceleration a bit there. So, we’ll wait and see. We’ll wait and see. But, for the time being, it’s looking very good here for Camponauts and here his Breakaway Companions. What is going to happen on the stage? 41.4 km still to go here. 41.4 kilometers still to go. Campernads just lifting the tempo. Ben Healey now lifting the tempo as well. There is going to be a selection made as well here. Uh welcome to Ernie. Of course, we have got competitions happening on the rest day on the for the subscribers of the channel and the members. So, look out for that as well. Giveaways of uh various different things. But 41.2 2 km 5.5 minutes and 25 seconds still to go here. But riders have been sheded off the back here. I think this is Joe Blackmore. Ja Blackmore’s been shed off the back, the youngster. But right now, we’re seeing Quinn Simmons just trying to guide them down this descent as well. We will wait and see what happens. But now the selections are starting to be made here. Who actually took those points as well? That is a big question. We’ll get the update as well. I don’t think Laney Martinez got those points. We’ll see who got those points. It’s about 2 km the gap between the Pelon and this group. They’re inside 40 km and they’ve got more than 5 minutes of a gap here. More than five minutes of a gap. So, we’ll wait and see what happens. But right now, it’s looking like a very very interesting Yeah, very interesting scenario right now. But great to have so many people in the chat. Let us know where you’re watching from as well. So, we could maybe get a bit of a surprise here on this stage. It is looking in the balance now. Maybe we can get a stage word. Maybe for the breakaway. We should probably probably do a breakaway versus the Pelaton pole. Now, number 14 just um towards the back here. I think camps I think he just lost out a bit courtesy of the accelerations there that he actually started. Um yeah so this is interesting but for the time being the breakaway are in a good position. Who will win the stage? That is a good question. Now is it going to be the breakaway or will it be the pelaton? Where is that win going to be coming from? Tim Willins and Marker, they’re looking at each other. They look a bit spent if I’m honest. They’ve been out there towards the front guiding this Pelaton as close as possible to the breakaway. Doing a good job here, but 5 minutes and 32 seconds. It’s increasing ever more. We might get Ben Healey taking over that yellow jersey with this calculation right now. He is going to be doing that. Um, Victor Campernad goes out the back as well. So, that was a bit of a hot and cold move there. He went hard and then goes backwards. So yeah, fair enough. Fair enough camps. But yeah, Campernards, we’ll see what he does later on as well in this race. Obviously, his role is very important within the team. He was very good in that first week rolling uh for the riders. But for the time being, it’s yeah, it it’s looking good here for the riders. It’s looking very good. But Campernards, that was a bit of an effort there by him. But he is rolling slowly back here in the group as well. We’ll wait and see if he can do anything. But for the time being, it’s yeah, it’s a fairly good situation now for the riders everywhere in this in this well for the breakaway anyway. Anyone who is feeling fresh in the break will certainly be eyeing up the opportunity here. So, uh yeah, it’s looking very good here. It’s looking very good. But who’s going to be winning the stage? That is the big question. Who is going to be winning this stage? I think, who do I think? I mean, I’m thinking I would love to see Lenny Martinez win the stage, but yeah, maybe that’s not going to happen. Maybe that’s too wishful thinking here, unfortunately. But they’re doing a good job here at the front of the Pelaton still with Tim Wellland, Mark. The gap is widening, though. The gap is well and truly widening. It is about what is it? We’ve got about 5 minutes and 36 seconds here with 36.7 km still to go. We still have a few climbs to go as well. But uh yeah, Mini Ride is struggling a bit here. Mini Ride is struggling to hold on now on this pace being put on. Um yeah, this is absolutely a stage in the balance for the breakaway and any riders wanting to win the stage from the front group. Alex Boddan and Joe Blackmore have been br dropped from this front group. So we have Victor Campernon, Simon Yates still in there, the Bisma Lisa bike riders that we were thinking were maybe going to be satellite riders, but who knows maybe Simon Yates is going for the stage win. Valentinian Pan and Panta as well. We see him as potentially being the man um for Remco Veniple as a satellite rider. Ben Healey who’s riding in the virtual yellow jersey right now. And then you’ve also got Lenny Martinez who’s riding in the polka dot virtual virtual jersey. Arensman, he desperately wants some success here for himself obviously on Inos Grande. Quint Simmons as well very close to the win a few days ago. Pashier as well. Obviously a Frenchman would like to win on Kato Juier and end that draft drought that they have since 2020 since Top Pino took a stage win. Ben Okconor as well wants to get something out of this tour. So does Michael Store. So does Pablo Castillo in his first ever tour to France. Michael Woods wants to add another tour to France stage to his account. And Andrea Annas Halle Johannes, I’m not even sure if this is his first. Yeah, Anas Halle Johannes, this is his first ever grand tour. What a grand tour to debut in the tour to France. So, good good by him. 140 likes we’re missing until we get to uh 500 likes. I’m sure we can find people uh to hit smash the like button and subscribe as well. That really helps us out as well. Let’s try and see if we can get to Yeah, I don’t know 56,000 subscribers today. That would be very good. But of course, we got many many things coming up on the channel as well. So, there’s a reason to subscribe. It’s not just uh for the hell of it. But uh 5 minutes and 56 seconds. Shout out to Velop Pro Racer, our channel. Well, our stream sponsor as well, but Garen Thomas, we’re seeing him struggling towards the back here as well. 5 minutes and 57 seconds. Are we going to see some movement being done here? We will wait and see. But for the time being, it’s looking very good here. It’s looking very good for the breakaway. Now, I said they wanted about six minutes, and here we are on the verge of six minutes. So, yeah, we didn’t even get an update of that uh cat 3 climb, so I’ll get an update for you guys as well. Um the virtual classification as we said, so I’m not sure who got the points. Oh, it was Ben Healey got two points and Quinn Simmons got one point. So it doesn’t really change uh much. Ben Healey is Yeah, he got he jumps up into third place. So I mean it did change it a bit, but yeah, for the time being it’s interesting an interesting scenario that we got right now. So yeah, are we going to get a stage win from the breakaway? It’s certainly looking a lot more likely than it was earlier and 73% of you believing that it is going to be a stage win for the breakaway as well. So we’ll wait and see. We’ll wait and see. But there is of course also uh potential for Yeah, we’ll when we get a bit closer, we’ll see which rider that is your favorite. Who’s your ri favorite to win the stage here? I’m leaning towards Simon Yates. Simon Yates potentially could do something. Lenny Martinez as well, but Simon Yates, he knows how to win breakaways in the tour of France. We haven’t spoken about riders in the stream too much. Simon Yates, such a prolific writer. Former white jersey winner in the Tour of France. Former fourth place winner uh finisher in the Tour of France. Taking stage wins, I think. Is it three? He’s definitely taking two in 2019. So, uh yeah, very prolific rider. Winning the jury this year as well was a crazy moment. We’re one like away from 400. And how many subscribers can we find as well? We got plenty of things to come. Let’s see. Ben O’ Connor. Can he win? Clifton Dunn saying any Ben. So either Okono or Healey. Um yeah, Ben Ben Healey for the yellow jersey maybe. And then Ben Okconor getting a stage win. I think that was that would be a a very popular uh result as well. But Quinn Simmons if he wins this stage that would be absolutely shapo to him. They’ve got two more cast climbs, two climbs to go. So we’ll see what they can do here. But Raul Garcia, he’s getting swept up here. But now, bang. Ben O’ Conor. He’s just trying to reduce the group here a bit. He he thinks the group needs to be trimmed down. Bit too fat here for his liking. And uh yeah, it’s looking very interesting now. It’s looking very interesting. Uh but Ben O Connor gets a selection here. And uh yeah, it is Mike Woods, I think. Is this Mike Woods or is this uh Joe Blackmore? Joe Blackmore. The two Benz, Ben O’ Conor, Ben Healey with Joe Blackmore here. They’re doing a very good job here of just maintaining this. They’re just keeping the chains very tight now. Ben Healey versus Ben O’ Conor with Joe Blackmore. They’re scrambling behind as well. They’re absolutely scrambling to try and get back on this chase. This is danger times for many of these riders in the break now. You can’t let a rider like uh the world spania stage winner from last year of Ben O’ Connor and the stage winner of this year’s tour of France of Ben Healey. These guys are absolutely danger riders and yeah, Simon Yates coming to the front here. He’s trying to do something here. The gap is 5 minutes and 51 second here to the yellow jersey group. Maybe the yellow jersey group are just taking a bit easy. But Ben Oconor absolutely driving it now. Now he wants to get rid of some of the other uh riders in this group. So absolutely scenes the two Benz uniting here. Absolutely uniting. But 30 km still to go here of the stage. 30k is all that’s left. 30k is all that is left for this stage. So right now it’s looking very good for the riders out in front. They are building up a bit of a gap here. They didn’t attack on the on the uh on their scent. They attacked on the descent. Quinn Simmons, Michael Store and Simon Yates have managed to make the gap and so has almost Andreas Halo Johannes. So this group has just slimmed down a bit here, but Ben Healey looks behind. The attack by the two Bens absolutely did string the group a bit out here. So we’ll go through that group a bit more as well. But they just just trimmed the group ever so slightly here on the descent. So, Ben Oconor making sure to keep the pressure on, keeping the chain tight as you would say in Danish. And uh it’s looking very good right now. It’s looking very good. It’s also looking very good for how many likes we’ve got. We are 80 likes away. And shout out to Ronda, our uh what a captain of the likes. And right now they’re getting onto an incline now. Now we’re seeing Ben O’ Connor really driving this on here. Beno Beno Connor and Ben Healey really driving this pace. They really want to try and make a selection, drive that selection if they can. But other riders, they are just answering the call that they are putting on them. The second group, many riders got caught out here. Valentine Panapana, I think Lenny Martinez has get got caught out here. So Lenny Martinez is one of the riders who’s in the wrong group. So it is a bit worrying times for Lenny Martinez fans, myself included. by Lenny Martinez, the polka dot jersey virtual wearer. 28.3 km here. Ben O Connor screaming at the guys, pointing at Joe Blackmore, saying, “You need to do a turn. You need to do a turn. I don’t care that this is your first to France. You need to do a turn.” So, yeah, it’s a heated tempers here in the to France. We’ll see what happens here. But Bener Connor not happy with some of the riders not pulling their way. But uh yeah, very good writing here. Very good writing. Michael Store, Ben Healey. Oh, Lenny Martinez struggling. Lenny Martinez is struggling. Lenny Martinez might be struggling now. So, Lenny Martinez, it might not be his one now. And uh yeah, we’ll wait and see here. We’ll wait and see. But Lenny Martinez is one of the victims of this Ben double attack that we’ve been seeing. But yeah. Oh, what a shame. What a shame if this is the end for Lenny Martinez. But Ben O’ Connor, Ben Healey, they’re all attacking here. They’re doing a good job to just keep the pressure on. They’re making sure to keep everyone a bit. Yeah, keeping the chain tight. Keeping the chain tight here at the front. Are we going to see something happening? We will wait and see. But for the time being it’s very tight at the front. Very tight at the front. So uh 27 km to go. They are just slowing up the front half of the breakaway. So I think they are just going to bring the other half of the group back into contention. I think it is just going to happen. So anyone who was thinking that they were going to go absolutely hammer until the end, not happening. Not happening here. But uh yeah, I mean Arensman sees an opportunity, so he attacks a bit, but the attack goes off. So it’s a very on andoff attack situation now. Everyone’s just a bit nervous. They know that the stage win is up for grabs now. 26.8 km. Quinn Simmons attacks. Who’s going to respond to the American National Champion here? This is absolutely dangerous. They’re letting Quinn Simmons go, guys. Did you not watch the Healy stage? Oh, mistakes being made here at the front. Mistakes being made. And it looks like Quinn Simmons might have gotten a queen. Yeah, a golden opportunity here. We will wait and see. We’ll wait and see. This is looking interesting. Quinn Simmons just upping the tempo. Quinn Simmons just upping the tempo. Just doing his best at the front. What can he do here? Quinn Simmons just keeping the pressure on at the front. Keeping the pressure on. But it is being met his call. There are riders suffering from the back here. Alex Boddang going out the back now. Many of the riders suffering towards the back here. So uh yeah. O absolutely. Yeah. Worrying now. Lenny Martinez fighting his way back into this group as well. Victor Campernads very very Yeah. Very calm feel to him as well. He’s just making sure he’s getting back into this group. So everyone Yeah. Quinn Simmons. It is Ben Healey just doing everything he can to try and get on the American’s wheel. Are we going to see an incredible win here by the American? He’s trying to drive out a a break or an advantage, but he can’t quite do it. The gap is just not closed yet, but he’s not getting Yeah, the elastic hasn’t snapped yet here. So, it’s looking very close now, but he is getting a bit of an advantage here. Bit of an advantage. Great to have about 1,300 people in the chat. Stage 10 of this year’s tour to France, but Quinn Simmons is looking like he’s going to take us. Well, he’s leading. He’s leading right now. So, we’ll wait and see. We’ll wait and see. But for the time being, it’s looking very close now. Victor Kenard suffering a bit. Panipantra suffering. We’ve also got Lenny Martinez suffering. And a lot of these riders who were in the breakaway earlier are starting to suffer. We’ve got Quinn Simmons out in front. He’s got about 5 seconds of a lead and the American is really just pushing on here. The last time, when was the last time we had an American leader? I’m not quite a stage winner, but these guys are absolutely just pushing out the front now. This is the real danger zone. Real danger zone now for many of these riders. Quinn Simmons absolutely just pushing on as strong as possible now. So, are we going to see something happening on the stage? Is there going to be a counter move? We’re waiting for that as well, but right now it’s looking fairly good here for him. Just keeping the pressure on, keeping everything as tight as possible. But Quinn Simmons has really thrown his opportunity up in the air. Is he? Yeah. Well, he needs to. I think he’s probably not the best pure climber, so attacking around this point is probably a good good movement by him. We’ll wait and see. We’ll wait and see. But Quinn Simmons is being hunted down by Ben Healey here behind Ben Healey, chasing down the American, the red and white stripes. Not his national day, but the national day of France. But uh yeah, what can he do here? Quinn Simmons just trying everything to keep this gap up. keep this gap off before as long as possible. What can he do? That is the big question now. Are we going to see a Quinn Simmons victory? But he’s got about 4 seconds. They’re saying Lenny Martinez struggling here, but I think he has just gotten his podium spot locked in for today. Uh very red on the arms. I don’t know if that was blood, but uh yeah, Lenny Martinez just battling with his heart on his sleeves on Kato Jouer. The French public are absolutely going to be loving the scenes of the young Frenchman. Only his second ever tour to France. His first ever tour to France for for his team of his new team of Bahin victorious. Absolutely incredible ride by him here. And we’ll wait and see what’s going to happen here. But Quinn Simmons is the first rider under 25 km to go. Absolute scenes. And if you are enjoying the commentary, why not subscribe to the channel and check out our channel stream sponsor velopraer.com as well. But Lily Martinez is absolutely struggling here. 24.9 km is all that separates the riders from the finish. It looks like we are going to get a Ben Healey yellow jersey, guys. Ben Healey is going to be in the yellow jersey. What a absolute result that would be for him and his team. Absolutely extraordinary scenes if he pulls this off. Lenny Martinez, unfortunately, it’s not going to be his day. The French are not going to be getting a French winner here on Kato Jouier, unfortunately for them. But they are going to get a French polka dot jersey. I think Riders are being dragged back into contention. Maybe I was too soon because they have still got Quinton Pache in here. Tieman Ironman, he’s been just attacking. Michael Store Quinn Simmons looks absolutely fatigued. And this isn’t even the categorized climb. This is the uncatategorized climb part of the climb here. So, we are very close now. We’re very close to that top of the f well the penultimate cat 2 climb for the riders. So, these riders are going to be very nervous about this. Very nervous. But Quinn Simmons has been brought back by the virtual yellow jersey. Not Tigatcha, but Ben Healey. Ben Healey drags this back in contention now. So Ben Healey ends. Any hopes for the Americans for this stage win? Potentially Quinn Simmons looking very fatigued. We’ve got Simon Yates in there. He’s been a very quiet figure. We’ve got Arensman, Ben O’ Conor, Michael Store, but I think now Simon Yates is a very, very dangerous figure here. Simon Yates could be our stage winner here. Simon Yates is looking very dangerous. So yeah, we’ll wait and see. We’ll wait and see. But uh yeah, time for a new poll. I think I think we have just um seen that the stage win is going to be from the breakaway. T Bisma Malisa Bike are lifting the pace in the Pelton now. So Bis Malisa Bike, they’re coming to the forefront. Who will win this stage? Let’s ask you guys that. Uh we can go for the breakaway now. Will Healey win? I don’t think Healey will win. And I think it’s a bit too much effort by him. Simon Yates, whether it be Ben O’ Connor. Uh who else have we got here in this front group? Uh Michael Store as well, Jan Arnsman. Um so Arensman as well potentially could be doing something. But now Vince Malisa Bike are worried again. We have been in this situation before. They don’t want them to lose the yellow jersey. They don’t want them to lose the yellow jersey. We saw this on the Healey stage and this time it’s Healey. It’s not much of Anapul, but it’s Healey that they’re worried about. They don’t want to see Uat memorates a weakened UAT Meritz um not doing the work. Maybe they’re going to try and launch Yonas Bingo here, but Tish Bernu is the man at the front here. He’s very interested in just trying to up the tempo. Are we potentially going to see Yonas Vingle attack here on this stage? 23.7 km still to go here. They were very good at lifting the tempo a few days ago, but are they going to be able to do that enough to get protect the yellow jersey of um of Tadaga essentially? That’s the one that they’re trying to defend here. But uh yeah, for the time being, Tim Wellins is out the back. He did a very good job. But uh yeah, Tibbo Ness here uh no Boot Sept Cous and Oscar Onley have just distanced the rest of the Pelaton. So yeah, strange one. Strange one and we’ll wait and see what is happening right now on the stage. But yeah, that was strange. Bit of a strange move from this Mita bike. Strange tactics we’ve seen a lot of times from them, but that was a weird one as well. Is Wingo gonna attack up to Seb Cus? Is that the plan? But Samik, they’re the ones now hunting down this Visma bike group move. This is tactics. Yeah, experimental tactics from Seus and Visma Lisa Bike. Um, yeah, of course it’s been uh under scrutiny a few times, but Oscar only is with Seb Cruz, so this is a strange times in in GC racing, GC tactics. But, uh, yeah, we’re seeing a number of riders here just struggling here. But, uh, what are we saying? Barto saying, “We’re not losing. We’re not losing. We want to come come back. Come on, Lenny.” So they want Lenny to come back, but I mean that’s easier said than done. This guy’s been out there almost from the gun sweeping up polka dot jersey points. So he’s done a very good job, Lenny Martinez. But uh yeah, right now Pablo Castro unfortunately wasn’t his day either. Many of these riders just feeling feeling the burn as well. Feeling it. But uh yeah, we’re intrigued to see what’s going to happen here with that little move there by Seb Cous. Red Bull Borah I think struggling a bit here. Seb Cous being brought back by Lipovitz and Red Bull. So yeah, that was weird move. Uh Visma Lisa tactics as we said have been a bit weird. Um yeah, they have Simon Yates up the front so if they wanted a satellite rider they could have brought him back. So, I’m not quite sure what what is going through their head, but Adam Yates is coming to the front here. Adam Yates coming to the front now. Adam Yates, we’ll see what happens. But Tad Baga wanting a bit of an easier day here. We’re 31 likes away from 500. I’m sure we can five 31 of you who haven’t smashed the like button and hit the subscribe button. Of course, we got the two giveaways coming up tomorrow. So you have to be a subscriber or you have to be uh yeah you have to be a member as well for that. Now we see an attack here from Jurgensson. Jurgensen is attacking. So this was that ding-dong battle we’re thinking that could happen if if they were going to use Jurgensson and use Yonas Bingle Jungen of course up there in the GC. And this is what they were going to maybe try and do to isolate Tidabacha. They look like they have isolated Tidabacha. But uh yeah, Tadagata answers the call straight away. Not even breathing, not even opening his mouth. But uh yeah, what are what are they doing? What are they actually doing? Visma, this is strange tactics. You you sent Simon Yates up the road, bring him back, tell him to sit up in front, and then they could do the attack with Yas Vingal. But they’re trying. They’re trying. Obviously, it’s a hard task to try and get rid of Tarabacha obviously, but we’ll wait and see here. But Bingo and Taragatcha, Bingo and Tagacha, obviously, we’ll see what they can do. Navias comes to the front here. Navias with Adam Yates. So, now another attack here from Sebus. Sevkus lifts the tempo here. Adam Yates just tells the troops that what’s going on here. But uh is this the big colder uh big slam of a tactic move that Visma Lisa Bike are trying to do? It’s not really done anything. It’s a attack without real merit, if you will. But uh for the time being, it’s uh 21.4 km to go here. It’s looking very good. Great to have so many people from around the world. Let us know where you’re watching from as well with a flag in the chat. 21.4 km to go here. 24 21.4 4 km. Uh, Septu is trying to get up the road here. UAT mermaids take the charge at the front here. So, we’ll wait and see if Visma’s PL plan pays off here, but they are burning a few bullets here. Just trying to lift the tempo, put UAE under a bit of uh scrutiny here. They want to try and isolate Titab Gacha from his riders, but I don’t I don’t know if it’s going to work here. Taibacha is absolutely absolutely uh yeah um what were we saying matching every single Oh, here we go. Seb Cous, Matio Jurgensson. These two have managed to get a gap now. So, Jurgensson just bridges up to Seb Cous now. U moments are answering the call with Adam Yates with Tadatcha on his wheel. So, they have just managed to block that move again. So, a lot of attacks here happening from Miss Melissa bike, but it’s answered by UAT Membrance. Obviously, UAT memorates are burning bullets as well, trying to close down these gaps. But, uh, yeah, for the time being, I don’t understand why they didn’t let Simon Yates drop back. They want him to take a stage win instead, I think. Um, I thought, yeah, I thought that was the whole point that you go full in for Yasol, but maybe they just want to try and get a stage win instead. So, Simon Yates, many of you think he is going to be taking stage win here, but a bit of a move there that we saw was uh yeah, they tried, they’re trying, they’re trying to burn the matches of UAT Emirates, but Tabaga obviously as well. So, we’ll wait and see. But the breakaway, we haven’t spoken about them in a while. Ben Healey just pushing on the gap here. He knows that there could be a yellow jersey. Probably doesn’t care about the stage win too much. He’s had that stage win already. So, he’s just trying to lift the tempo ever so slightly. He’s working for this yellow jersey. It would be great for uh EF Education Post if they can get that jersey amongst their own rank here. But uh yeah, right now it’s looking very good here. Ben Healey takes a drink here as well. A beat on Michael Store is on his wheel. We got Quinn Simmons still up here as well. Ben O’ Connor, Tian Arensman, and Simon Yates, the big danger man. I think very punchy ride on his day and knows how to win a breakaway in a grand tour as well. So, I think Simon Yates is our big danger man here. But, uh, yeah, interesting, interesting, interesting. Will we see a stage victory here for Visma Lisa? It’s looking like it could happen, but not with Yonis Vingle. probably with their their brilliant simoning of Simon Yates. Simon Yates looks like he might just be taking this. Um yeah, a lot can happen still on the stage. A lot can still happen on the stage. Great to have. What are we saying? Guys, stay close with TAD and communicate between you. That is the radio message we’re hearing from UAT Memor. So in UAT Emirates are alert to this danger. They know that they’re trying to do something here. So they’re just keeping their foot on the throttle as well. They want to make sure that they can just keep the pressure on. They can keep the pressure on here. But UAT moments have now come to the front here. 5 minutes and 32 seconds. That’s gap between them and the front breakaway group. So they’re doing a very good job here, the breakaway of maintaining that gap here. They are well and truly maintaining that gap. They’re inside the last 19 km now. 19 km to go here for the riders. They are inside. Well, what have they got left of the stage? They’ve got one cat 2 climb coming up at 5.1 km at 6.3% and then they got the final one, the final kick up to the line at 3.3 km, 7.7%. So, we are going to see a very, very close battle here. Are we going to see any chinks in the armor for many of these GC riders? Great to have so many people in the chat. Smash the like button if you haven’t already and subscribe to the channel. Let’s try and get to 56,000 subscribers. And of course, we got those two giveaway competitions happening tomorrow. So, be sure to check that out as well. But 18.3 km, 18.3 km, that is what we got left here of the stage. Oo, this is going to be one incredible finale here for the breakaway for the Pelaton as well. It’s very tense in both groups. Nobody knows who’s going to do anything here. And what are we seeing as well? John Kelly cycling in 2025. Do strategist Chachi BT tells them what to do? Maybe. Maybe. But Mark Sala, he’s absolutely just lifting the tempo here. Making sure just to keep control now. The former to Lavan winner, former Movar winner, former Walt Espia stage winner, and top 10 finisher in the tour in the welter. But uh 18 km to go here. Ben Healey just driving this pace now. He knows he’s fighting for the yellow jersey. He doesn’t care about the stage win now. He’s focused about that yellow jersey. He wants the yellow jersey. Ben Healey just absolutely driving the pace now. What can he do here? What can Ben Healey do? That is the big question. What can the writers do in that group as well? Simon Yates has been very rested in this group. hasn’t attacked, followed the moves, but kept to his own power and made his way in. So, I think Simon Yates is an absolute lock in for potentially a stage win here, unless some of the other riders have something they can give. But Ben Healey just driving the pace here. Quinn Simmons, how much can he recover as well for potentially another stage win? Arensman as well, what can he do? 17.3 km still to go here of the stage. So many riders could be winning this stage. This breakaway is very spicy. Simon Yates, Ben Healey, RNsman, Quinn Simmons, Michael Store, Ben O’ Conor. These guys came to the came to the top after so many attacks, so many back and forth ding-dong battles happening. But we will wait and see what’s going to happen. Right now, Ben Healey is our man who’s driving this pace. He’s got 17 km to go here, but we might see some reactions done on this next cash climb. 5.1 km at 6.3% is for sure going to be a bit testing for these riders. Ben Healey doing an absolute incredible ride here at the front. He’s got a gap of 1 minute and 40 seconds. 1 minute and 40 seconds is what they’re saying. So, we’ll wait. Well, actually, that was 8 km ago. Maybe the gap is a bit better here. Nava is doing a very good job here. Nava is looking very good right now. Um really just calm here. Really calm. And uh yeah, we’ll wait and see. We’ll wait and see. But are we going to see a reaction? That is the big question. Are this Melissa bike going to try something again? Um yeah, Mark in there. Taga, Matteo Jorgensson all in there. A2 looking very interested in this as well. Well, they have of course got Felix Gal in there. So, Yonas Bingo not being covered by anyone. Matteo Jorgensson just getting a beat on here. So, are we going to get a stage win by any of these riders? That is the big question. I don’t think so. It’s a breakaway. We know this. But Visma Lisa Bike still could win this stage with Simon Yates who is in a great position in that front breakaway group. So, Simon Yates I think is our pole position potentially taking that stage win unless someone attacks here on the cat 2 and gets away. A bit of group two dynamics. Michael Store, how much is he got left in the tank? Ben O Connor as well. Quinn Simmons did do a heroic attack but was it a bit too soon? Arnman did a bit flirted with an attack but didn’t quite commit to it. So, there is so many riders who have done something. Well done to every single one of you. Hit the subscribe button as well. Smash the like button as well and subscribe if you haven’t already. Let’s try and get 500 subscribers on this stream. That would be very very good for the channel. And of course, we got all the different things coming up. Rest day uh video here on the channel as well. So, uh yeah, it’s not all about streaming. 52.2 km. Oh, 15.2 km. Not 52. We haven’t just gone back in space here. or space and time but uh 15 kilometers here uh it is Ben Healey just driving them under that banner they’ve got the called the qua s rober 5.1 km at 6.4% 4%. So the organizers are saying it’s a bit bit harder a bit harder than what pro cycling stats are saying. So they are just driving this pace now. They’re driving their advantage that they have. Ben Healey absolutely just keeping the pressure on. He knows the yellow jersey is in the balance potentially for him if there is a bit of a surge behind in that GC group. 4.7 km to go here. 4.7 km to go. Are we going to see a stage win here from any of these riders in the breakaway? Of course, I think that is going to happen. But who is it going to be? 4.5 km still to go. It is AG2R now driving the Pelaton. AG2R driving the Pelaton. What can they do? AG2R deeper into this race. They’re thinking about Ben Healey potentially. They’re thinking about many of the riders thinking about their rivals as well. just keeping the pressure on as well, deterring any of the other rivals from attacking. While you have the domestics, you might as well use them up. But Taragacha looks like he’s had a fairly comfortable day. Not really put to the limit here. And that yellow jersey might be going to EF Education Easy Post for the first time since last year when Richard Carropas wore it for a solitary day. So is Yonas Bingo going to attack? That is the big question as well. Is Yonas Bingle going to be attacking today? We’ll wait and see. We’ll wait and see. But great to have so many people in the chat. Smash the like button as well and we’ll see what happens here. We’ll see what happens on the stage. Anything can happen on the stage as we always say in terms of that breakaway group. Are we going to get a stage victory from the front group? It could be a very interesting one to say the least. Uh Quinn Simmons is dropped. Quinn Simmons is dropped. And uh yeah, this is worrying times now. Quinn Simmons has dropped now. So Little Trek, their card is gone. Their card is absolutely gone now. Uh now Ben Healey’s pace is being felt by all the riders doing their best here just to absolutely increase the temper a bit more. Can they just just tighten the screw ever so slightly here? Tighten the screw even more. Can they just tighten it ever more? We’ll wait and see. But for the time being, it’s looking very good here for Ben Healey’s yellow jersey aspirations. Simon Yates in there, Ben O Connor still in there, Michael Store Arensman. All these guys might be licking their lips for potentially a stage win. Who knows? Who knows? Maybe that’s what they’re thinking about. But for the time being, it’s looking very good here for the riders out in front. Who is going to be winning the stage? We will wait and see. But you guys, many of you thinking that is going to be Simon Yates taking the stage win as well. So, we’ll wait and see. We’ll wait and see. But we have, of course, got a third channel as well. So, check that out as well uh in the chat. But, uh for the time being, it’s a bit of a stalemate what we’re seeing. So, check out our third channel. I’ll put a link in this description. There’s plenty of rides with pro cyclists in there, but Ben Healey is just upping the tempo. He’s got Simon Yates on his wheel now. So Simon Yates maybe a bit poised to attack. Are we going to see a stage win here? We could see Taragacha attack as well. Best form of defense is attack. So we’ll wait and see. We’ll wait and see. Of course, also a big shout out to Battle Pro Racer, our sponsors uh of the streams. Uh very exciting road cycling race simulating app from Britain in its infancy. and we’ll see what they can do, what they develop to. It’s completely free, so check that out as well in the chat. But for the time being, 13.3 km to go here. 3.3 km left of the climb. So, it is very, very interesting now if we’re going to see any of these breakaway riders attack now or is it going to be on the next cat’s climb, the final one. The gap is 5 minutes and 32 seconds. Martinez is also about 2 minutes and 8 seconds down. So, we’ll wait and see who’s going to be able to do something here. Are we going to see a stage win from Tuda Pro cycling with Michael Store? Is Ben O’ Connor going to turn around his tour to France here as well? Is Simon Yates going to win his first stage with his new team in the tour to France? He didn’t win a stage in the Jurro Daya, but when won the GC, so maybe he could do it here. 12.8 km to go here. 12.8 8 km. The the chat is shifting a bit here. The chat is shifting a bit. Maybe we are going to see Ben Healey going for the stage win as well. Um yeah, but behind we are seeing Marker just upping the tempo here. He’s just upping the tempo just trying to deter any attacks or visa bike strange tactics from happening. Agent riding behind as well. Uh Simon Yates. Oh, wait. What was this? Here we go. This is perfect, boys. You’re riding like buses. You have ridden like buses. Very, very good, guys. Good job. Really good job. That was AG2R’s team car saying that. So, they’re very happy with what’s going on here. So, we’ll wait and see. We’ll wait and see if they can gain something out of this damage limitation potentially. But, uh, yeah, we’ll wait and see what happens. Um, are we going to see a stage win from Visma Malisa bike from uh Story and Tudtor Pro Cycling for the first time in their career? But UAT Memor just keeping the pressure on, but they’re still saying it’s 5 minutes and 32 seconds. So, anything can happen right now. Um, yeah, we will wait and see. We will wait and see. But for the time being, they’re driving on the pace right now. They’re driving on the pace in both groups. Ben Healey is sacrificing his stage chances potentially here. And I think he is all in for that yellow jersey now. He’s locked in for potentially getting that yellow jersey. 5 minutes and 32 seconds. I’m not sure that is correct now. I’m not sure that is correct. We’ll wait and see if it is correct. But uh yeah, this is looking good now. It’s looking good for the breakaways chances. It’s been looking good for a while now. But for the time being, Ben Healey is just upping the tempo here, trying to keep this at bay, trying to make sure that he can do something. Ben Healey will absolutely adore if he can take this yellow jersey. Year of Education, Easy Post will love this. But is their fantasy or their ambition going to or ambition going to be a reality? That is the big question as well. Will it see way and see but it’s looking very good. Anything can happen here on the stage. They’re coming very close. 12 point 12 km still to go here of the stage. Anything can happen. And are we are potentially looking at a stage win for many of these riders? 11.9 km is all that’s left here. 11.9 km is all that’s left. 1.9 km with Ben Healey Arensman in there. He’s looking very poised as well to do something. Are we potentially going to see a stage win of this stage for Inos Grenaders? They could potentially do it. Inos Grenaders, are they going to win this stage? We’ll wait and see here. But they’re pushing on a lot. They’re pushing on a lot here. They’re doing everything in their power to just keep this pressure on, keep the chain tight and maybe they are going to be able to win it. I mean, Michael Stora coming from behind. If you could do it, that would be an absolutely sensational result here. Smash the like button as well if you haven’t already, hit the like button. And of course, we have got many things happening here on the stage as well. But for the time being, it’s looking very good here. 11.6 km left of the stage. Who’s going to be winning it? Is it going to be Tyler Gacha? No. Is it going to be his teammates? No. Is it going to be Yonis Bingle? No. But it could be Simon Yates, his teammate and debutant at the Tour to France for Visma Lisa Bike. You see, I turned it around. But the GC group is also going to be very interesting, of course, because we’re looking at what what will impact um the lower ends of top 10 as well. But for the time being, it’s looking very good right now. It’s looking very good. Great to have so many people in the chat. Smash the like button. Subscribe to the channel if you’re new here. And Ben Healey has got a 2 minutes and 6 seconds virtual leaders jersey on his back here. They’ve got 6 minutes to that leaders group uh to the yellow jersey group. So 1.3 km to go here. 1.3 km to go. Bisma Lisa bike tactics did not work. Absolutely wasted opportunity for them. But right now it’s looking interesting for them potentially taking a stage win with Simon Yates. So uh the satellite maybe was a bit of a ruse that uh yeah but for the time being it’s very touch and go here. It’s very touch and go here. We’ll wait and see what happens. But for the time being it’s looking very good here. It’s looking very good right now for the stage. Are we going to see someone winning it? We’ll win and see. But for the time being, Ben Healey is just driving this on here. Are we going to see a stage win? That is the big question. But for the time being, Ben Healey is just driving this on. He knows that there’s a yellow jersey. He’s trying to get big a gap as possible. We’re trying to get biggest gap as possible here as he can. Uh but now Jorgensson just lifts the pedals a bit. Jurgensson just lifting the pedals. What can he do here? We’ll see what he can do. Jurgensson just lifting the pedals ever slow slightly here. Um yeah, this is looking interesting now. Less than 700 meters now of this second cast or penultimate cashwise climb left of the stage. So anything could happen still on the stage, but they are really going for it now. They really are going for it at the front. But uh who’s going to be winning this stage? That is the big question. Now we’re seeing riders suffering here. Who’s this? Matias Kosensen, one of the GC riders. He’s struggling struggling here. So, uh, not a great support for him in terms of the mountains, but Jurgensson just injecting a bit of pace here. Jurgensson just taking over. Injecting a bit of pace. He’s got Taragach on his wheel. 500 meters until they get to the top of the climb. Valentin Pan is getting swept up here by the yellow jersey group. So, uh, yeah, he’s going to give a beat on to his team. Remco Venipo obviously being in there, his team leader. But who is gonna make a move here? Are we gonna see a move here from these riders? Five minutes and 57 seconds. But scale not good here. So many of the GC riders just in the red. Many of these GC riders in the red. So great great shame for many of these riders. What is going to happen here on the stage? That is the big question. Many of these riders intrigued what will happen. But for the time being, Matteo Jurgensson just trying to put some of the lower end of their top 15, top 10 in a bit of trouble here. But uh yeah, Bisma Lisa by tactics not quite being played out once more. So they’ll have to go back to the drawing board as one of you said, ask Chat GPT for how to get rid of Tagacha here. But uh yeah, for the time being, they’re inside the last 200 m of this categorized climb for the breakaway. Don’t think anyone’s really gonna contest this. I think everyone’s just gonna let Ben Healey roll over the line. Give him his plaudits for that as well. So, yeah, absolutely great writing from Ben Healey. He knows that there is a jersey available. Great to have almost 2,000 people in the chat. Smash the like button if you haven’t already, and we’ll see what happens here on this stage. Interesting. Interesting stage to say the least. Wowza. Absolutely wowza. We’ll wait and see what happens deeper into this stage as well. But wow, what could potentially happen for Tar Baga and the Yeah. Well, no, for the breakaway. That’s what we’re saying. But great to have so many people in the chat. Smash the like button and we will do a bit of a recap here after the stage as well on the stream. But uh yeah, it’s absolutely close now. Bisma guy at the front here. Tagach’s got Navayz left. I think he’s only got Navias right now left in that group. So, we’ll wait and see. We’ll wait and see what’s going to happen. But for the time being, it’s looking uh it’s looking good here for this Melissa bike to keep the situation under control at least. They’re not going to be gaining any time. They’re trying to reduce the gap now to uh Ben Healey who is going to be taking that virtual jersey, we think, but they have to do some moves at that final club if they want to deny Ben Healey that yellow jersey. So, we’ll wait and see here, but we’ll wait and see. But certainly, yeah, Simon Yates could be taking the stage win though. So, they that would be quite a good result for Bis Le at least they take a stage. They haven’t taken a stage so far. Came very close with Venard two days ago. But, uh, yeah, a lot of the GC just put it in a bit of trouble here. 8.8 km still to go here. 3 minutes and 16 seconds. 3 minutes and 16 seconds still to go on the stage. Who is going to be winning this? This is the big big question now. Are we going to see a stage victory from many of these riders um in the break? Well, the potential I meant there’s a potential for any of these riders to win. We will wait and see. But Ben Healey took those five points over that Katu climb. So, he adds five points to his mountains classic polka dot jersey. He’s not going to take the jersey. Obviously, that’s going to go to Lenny Martinez, but he’s definitely going to throw himself more into the mix of that jersey for sure. And maybe that could be a target. They won it last year with uh Richard Carropas, but right now 8 km to go. They’re winding down this descent now. They’re winding down this descent. So, we’ll wait and see what they can do here. What can they do? 7.8 km to go here. 7.8 km to go. Absolutely incredible scenes here for the breakaway. They didn’t think this was going to happen many of the times. They weren’t given a lot of this. Uh yeah, a lot of a slack, but they have been given it now. Uh shout out to our sponsor, Veloproer.com. Absolutely great sponsor, new cycling app, completely free to download, road race simulator. But right now, we’re seeing the descent being um being um what we saying dealt by with Ben Healey. He’s just doing his best here as well. We’re seeing riders struggling in the yellow jersey group going at the back here. The yellow jersey group just tightened the chain a bit. Just doing their best. Uh we’ve got Maui Star riders at the back as well. Here we’ve got Kevin Vlani in a bit of problems. We got Gregor Müberg as well. Roglitch, no news. So no news is bad news. No news is bad news. He’s setting up there. Rugglitch. He’s very much up there with the key riders, the key heads of states. Nava, a very good ride by him as well. We got the American duo of Sebus and Matteo Jurgensson in front of Yonas Vingo. This is when we want to see the radio messages. ASO, what is the radio messages? Kavan Vlan is in trouble. Kevan Vlan is in a bit of trouble. It seems he’s suffering. He’s suffering, but he’s staying on here. The Frenchman, he wants to be the best placed Frenchman in the classification. What can he do here? Smash the like button, subscribe to the channel. We are of course doing more streams uh along the tour to France as well. So incentive to come back as well. But uh yeah, what is going to happen on the stage? Many many riders in that breakaway are thinking of a stage win. A lot of them have recovered courtesy of Simon Yates. No, not of Simon Yates. Of uh your man Ben Healey who’s absolutely just pushing it on as fast as he can. Every single what he’s got left in his chamber, he’s pushing on here. We’re 250 subscribers away from 55,000 subscribers. I’m sure we can get there. But uh yeah, for the time being, 5.5 km to go here. 5.5 km. Bisma Lisa Bike have taken control of the front of the pelaton here. What are they going to do here? Any attacks? Any late attacks? There is a 3.3 clump to climb. Uh coming up. Here we go. Here we go. Attack, attack, attack. They’re responding now. Tadatcha completely responds to that attack as well. Absolute cool calm collect to that Jurgensen acceleration. They are trying to just isolate Tardaga even more. A lot of the riders behind are just losing out as well courtesy of this uh acceleration being done at the front of the race. But Jurgensson just opening a bit of a gap, but Tibagacha shut it down immediately. He wasn’t having that. The Slovenian national, the Slovenian world champion absolutely just thumped that down, crushed the gap. But Jurgensson, Taracha, Yasbing with the Red Bull Borah riders up there as well. So they’re doing a very good ride as well for them. Adam Yates getting in back into this as well. So the white jersey has been dislodged. Ramco Veniple is struggling. Ramco Veniple in danger here. He’s losing out. Tobias Halio Hannison up there. That’s a good ride by him. Oscar only up there as well. No, Remco Veniple is still up here. Remco Veniple is still in here. He’s on the wheel. Yonis Wingle. So, Matteo Jurgensson is currently leading the top three of last year’s tour of France in order. Then we got two Red Bull Bora Hunts riders. Then we got Oscar only. Then we got Tobias Halio Hannison. So, it’s a very interesting situation there. So yeah. Oh guys, this is a very good situation for many of these riders in the GC group. Um, Enrich Mast is losing time. So a bit of bad tactics there cuz Castillo is in that front group with Targa. There is a bit of a split from that yellow jersey group. No, Castillo is further up. Castillo is further up, I think. Now attack here from Simon Yates. We thought it was going to come. Nobody looks like they’re going to be able to respond to the Jurro’s Italian champion. Are we going to get our first stage win from Simon Yates since 2019? The former wearer of the yellow. Is that true? Former white jersey winner. Former fourth place finisher of the tour France, Simon Yates, absolutely attacking hard. But Ben Oconor is trying to answer his response as well. What can he do here? Ben Oconor trying to close the gap here. Ben Oconor versus Simon Yates. These two riders have a connection because Ben Oconor was the replacement for Simon Yates over the winter. Simon Yates has been caught by Ben Oconor. What a move by Ben Oconor. Absolutely bridging up to the man, the myth, the legend Simon Yates. But now it’s Ben Oconor versus Simon Yates up towards the front. Simon Yates or Beno Ben Healey needs to continue. Michael Store is struggling. Simon Yates just lifts the tempo ever so slightly once again putting Ben O Connor in a bit of bother here. Oh, this is careful careful management of Watts and Simon Yates. Ben O’ Connor who’s got the best snap out of these two. There’s 2.8 km still to go here of the stage. Is it going to be Simon Yates? Is it going to be Ben O Connor? This is Mano and Mano. Mano Mano from these two riders. Who’s going to be able to take it? Ben O Conor. Simon Yates looks around a bit here. Oh, this is very, very close here. This is very close between these guys. Uh, yeah. Are we going to see a stage win here? Is it going to be going to Juula? Is it going to be going to Visma Lisa bike? None of these teams have taken a stage win in this year’s tour to France. If you take a stage of the tour to France, you take a piece of the tour with you home. But who’s it going to be here? Simon Yates. reluctantly goes to the front. Arensman, he’s just a vacant shadow towards the back. He’s trying to crawl up to these two riders. All three of these riders have had success in the jury. Ben Healey is doing his best as well, trying to stay up towards the front, dragging riders back here. But in the yellow jersey group, it is Visma Lisa bike. They’ve gotten the gap down to 5 minutes and 17 seconds. They know that Benu Healey has been dis dislodged here as well. So, they are trying to force Tida back in that yellow jersey group. Oh, this is great scenes here. Great to have over 2,000 people in the chat. Subscribe to the channel as well if you haven’t already. Let’s try and get to 55,000 subscribers. And as I say that, we get Simon Yates attacking. Simon Yates lifts the tempo here. Our Rensman, he’s trying to answer this call as well. Ben O’Connor, how much has he got left in the tank? These guys are absolutely taking chunks out of each other here. But now I think it’s a done deal. I think we can say Simon Yates, the Jera champion, taking his first Grand Tour stage win for Mismelisa bike. Didn’t win a win in the Jera, but won the GC. Here he is not going to win the GC, but he is looking like he’s going to take a stage win. We’ve still got about 2.1 km to go here. 2.1 km still to go here of the stage. Anything can happen here on the stage. Who’s going to be winning it? That is the big question. Many of you subscribing to the channel today. Absolutely. Thank you for that. And uh right now we’re seeing Simon Yates absolutely attacking. It’s completely free, guys. And there’s many good content coming up here on the channel. But Simon Yates lifting the tempo. Looked like it was going to be Ben Oconor rivaling him here for the stage. But Ben Oconor distance didn’t quite have enough left in the tank. But Simon Yates stealth operation from him. Thought it was going to be one of a satellite tactic. Wasn’t quite that. And then Simon Yates just hit at the right moment. Perfect timing from Simon Yates. But Ben Healey here, he’s struggling. He wants to maintain that gap as well. Um, yeah, what can he do here? That is the big question. Arensman trying to fight back here as well. He’s got a few seconds to make up on Simon Yates if he can make it up. There’s still 1.7 km to go here of the stage. That very steep final climb here that the riders have. They tackled eight cascars climbs today. This is the final one of the eight. So, uh, we’ll wait and see what Simon Yates does later in this year’s tour of to France, but Ben O’ Conor has been brought back by Ben Healey. So, the two Benz are forming a bit of an allegiance here to some extent. And a great work by the two Benz here. Ben Healey and Ben Oconor doing their best here to keep the chain tight. Eek out as much of an advantage as they can. Push on the pressure. Really pull it off if they can here. Ben O’ Conor. Some pain faces from him. Ben Healey doing everything he can to really keep the pressure on as well. Who’s going to be winning this stage? That is probably set in stone now. But Visma Lisa Bike from behind there trying to do something as well here. 1.3 km from for their teammate. Is he going to be able to take the stage win Simon Yates here? It’s looking very close that it might actually happen here. But now Victor Kenat who has is it Victor Kenat? I think it is Victor Kenat who has dropped back here. He is just doing his best here for his team leader of Yonosingo and his team 1.2 km still to go here. Arensman’s 5 seconds back they’re saying but uh he’s rocking a rolling Simon Yates is looking very cool. Kam K. He’s got 1.1 km to go. He’s distanced the Inos Grande rider. One kilometer banner is coming for Simon Yates. What a win this is going to be for him. Jirro Tatalia stage win already and now he’s going to do this absolute brilliance from Simon Yates. We’ll see what he can do deeper into this race as well. For sure he’s going to be working for Yonas Vingle and for sure he’s going to try and get some more opportunities potentially for himself as well. But Tian Rensman, he is not giving up yet. The Dutch rider, he knows that there’s a stage. So, he’s trying to absolutely find every ounce of of what within his body to try and just creep out, get this advantage, see if he can get it. And we’re almost 200 subscribers away from 55,000 subscribers. I’m sure we can get there, guys. But right now, inside the last 800 m, 800 meters, Arensman is agonizingly close here to Simon Yates. You can see him. He’s going to see him celebrate the most torturous feeling for a rider in a break. But Ben Healey dispatches of his other namesake of Ben O’ Connor. So Ben O Connor finds himself in more trouble here. Ben Oconor struggling struggling struggling. So Ben Oconor is going out towards the back here unfortunately. But Ben Ben Healey, we’re going to break down all the things of course after the stage, but Simon Yates just managing to distance our endsmen here. Simon Yates doing a great great job here. Great job. Uh we’ll wait and see what he can do here. But oursman not able to catch the Brit here. The man from Berry, the man who changed teams from Jacob Alula out with Visma Malisa bike. Absolutely incredible to see what can happen. But it’s almost inside the last 500 meters. He didn’t win a stage in the tour of the Jirro dataya. He’s come to the side. He’s come to the tour of France for the first time in his career with this Maisa bike. We thought he was a satellite rider. He proved everyone wrong and now he is going to be winning the stage. But we might not see his victory lap here. Wow. Wow. Wow. This is a win that Simon Yates is not going to forget here. A victory from him. And Remco Venipo just lights it up again here. Remco Venipo is trying to light it up. Simon Yates wins but Remco Venerable stealing his thunder here. Remco Venipo Tarvagacha not responding. No response from Yaspingo either immediately. So Simon Yates coming around the corner here. Looks like he is going to be taking the stage win here. Are we going to see a stage win from him again? But it’s going to be its first stage win since 2019. No wins in the Jirro. Taya did win the Jirro for the first time in it for his new team and here in his first tour of to France with his new team he wins of to France stage commiserations to Tion Ironsman who comes in second place absolutely agonizing only 10 seconds separated him and stage glory but right now we’re seeing Tarvagacha he just came to the front here so that Remco Veniple attack did just get nullified here but Ben the man who might just be in the yellow jersey by the end. He’s coming towards the finish as well. Is he maybe going to get it? So, the clock stops starts now. Taga. There is a bit of a Yeah, a bit of a lenience here. We’ll wait and see. But Ben O Connor, what could have been for Ben Oconor, friend of the channel, but we’ll wait and see. Can we get to 1,000 likes here? We’re in 660 likes. Oh, T B P B P B P B P B P B P B P B P B P B Pacha attacks. T B P B P B P B P B P B P B P B P B P B Pacha attacks. The yellow jersey attacks. The best form of defense is attack. Does he want to hold on to that yellow jersey? Nobody’s able to respond to him other than Yonas Vingo. Everyone’s just being ridden off his wheel like they are absolutely nothing. Taga. Wow. Yasving trying, but I think Tadvacha is just trying to distance Yonis Vingle here. What is going to happen? And we see Michael Stori just coming across the line as well. Many of the riders cracking now. Yas Vingle Tarbacho. We’ve seen this duel so many times on the tour of France since their first rivalry in 2021. But these two are coming up towards the finishing line as well. But where will the clock stop? Kevin Vlan distanced. Many riders distanced. But now it’s Tagacha versus Yonas Wingle. Who is going to be taking the chunk out of each other? Can Yonas distance T here can T distance Y Jonas they’re looking at each other almost mano mano Tacha saying come on then you want to attack but Lenny Martinez comes back defiantly Lenny Martinez what a ride by him as well distance the Red Bull Bansro distance so many of these riders just doing their best now Lenny Martinez is guiding up Tiga they’re guiding up Yonis goal. So, what an honor for Lenny Martinez. He knows he’s going to take that poker jersey at the end of the day, I think. But Ben Healey is looking on nervously. Is he going to be taking that jersey? We will wait and see. But Lenny Martinez, yeah, the gap that Tare needs to make up if he’s going to get Healey at the line. So, Healey, this is looking very close now. Healey, is he going to get this? We’ll wait and see. But Lenny Martinez guiding up uh yeah he’s guiding the man up here. But Ben Healey 3 minutes and 55 seconds. So that is the timer. 3 minutes 55 seconds. We’ve got 3 minutes past since the winner. But obviously Ben Healey wasn’t the winner on the stage. So uh how many seconds? I think it was 30 seconds. So we I think we need about 4 minutes and 30 seconds. We’ve got 2,000 over 2,000 people in the chat. Make sure to subscribe to the channel. Smash the like button if you haven’t already. And of course, it would be great if you do subscribe because we’ve almost hitting 55,000 subscribers. But Tagacha, Yonas Mingo are being guided up by Laney Martinez. My calculation says it’s 4 minutes and 30 seconds if he’s going to lose that jersey. So Ben Healey, is he going to get the jersey? Don’t know here. Tacha, is he going to attack again? We’ll have to wait and see. But for the time being, it’s 3 minutes and 40 seconds. They have about 45 seconds to get to the finishing line if they’re going to deny them this. They’ve got 370 m. It’s going to be close this. It’s going to be close. We get uh Joe Blackmore crossing the line as well here. It looks like it could be a yellow jersey going the way of of uh yeah, EF Education Easy Post. This is absolutely electric. Absolutely electric. Lenny Martinez is potentially going to be pulling on that polka dot jersey. Tibacha doing his best as well. Tare Pagacha, what can he do here? Yonis Vingle, what is he going to do here? These guys looking around. It’s Mano Mano here to be as Halio Hannison, he’s crossing or the Annas Halio Hannison crossing the line here. So, we’ll wait and see what’s going to happen. Ben Healey knows he is going to be wearing that yellow jersey. What a day for Ben Healey. Wow. Wow. Wow. Ben Healey Tarvagacha plan completed. Visma Malisa Bike tried just couldn’t do it. Just couldn’t do it. But they crossed the line. Yonising and Tarvagacha shake hands here. Ramco not losing too much time there. I think it was a few seconds there. But uh yeah, wowza. Wowza. Kevin Vlan here. He’s battling to the end here. We’ll get you the top 10. The top 10, the top 10 of the GC, the top 10 of all the things. But yeah, wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. That was absolutely incredible to say the least. So, uh, yeah, that was absolutely incredible to say the least. What happened there? Oh, yeah. Wow. You can’t really say anything other than that. really impressed by that by many of these riders. But Kevon Vline just battling his way there to the finish. We’ll get you the top 10 of the stage of Yeah, of all the classifications. We’ll go through that as well. Um yeah, great to have so many people in the chat. And uh yeah, do check the cycling Dane podcast out as well. Do check that out. We’ll have the podcaster. Um, yeah, we’ll have a bit of a chat later on as well here on the stream because, uh, I don’t think I’ll have time to I don’t think I have the energy to edit a recap if I’m honest. So, uh, yeah, I think we’ll just do it on the stream. Um, yeah, but Adam Yates will be happy about this. His brother Simon Yates taking a stage win, but Adam Yates coming to the finish. We’re 200 likes away from uh subscribers away from 55,000 subscribers. I’m sure we can find 200 people smashing the subscribe button. It’s only 10% less than 10% of you. So, uh yeah, great great ride there. Simon Yates, what an emphatic finish by him. Fireworks being done by him. Fireworks done by the team as well. And uh yeah, we’ll get you. Yeah, let’s I promised you the top 10 as well. So I’ll see if they’ve confirmed the top 10 of the stage. But uh yeah, what a stage of this year’s Tour to France stage 10 on Kato Shuer. Absolutely incredible work by many of the riders. The breakaway that we saw was incredible to see that early on what they were going to do. There was a big break. As we said, um about 30 riders got into that break. They looked like they weren’t going to get that margin but then eventually they did did get that margin and the UAT mermaids and Visma Lisa bike did just relinquish the hold that they had and Tagacha wanted to get rid of that jersey. Then we had a bit of a battle when the the Pelaton realized that it was gone. This Malise spike tried many things from behind as we know and then obviously in the breakaway we saw Ben Healey and Lily Martinez just sweeping up all those points as well but we saw Ben Healey absolute trooper them and EF Education Easy Post knowing that there was potentially uh opportunity to get that yellow jersey so they were just trying to do everything to keep that up. Many talking points from this stage as well but uh I’ve always almost got us this top 10. So, uh, I’ll get furnish us with that information. But Simon Yates kept very cool in that breakaway, attacked at the right time, but Ben Healey, despite doing a lot of the work towards those last few climbs, absolutely just keeping the tension high and getting that yellow jersey. So, great ride by him. But the top 10 of this stage and stage 10, absolutely remarkable to see this. Simon Yates taking the stage win uh first stage grand tour stage win for him. I think it’s the first victory for him. That is Grand Tour stage or his Jurro win for Simon Yates. Tion Ironsman 9 seconds down. Commiserations to him. Enos Grinders rider and what could have been for them but obviously no more energy left there in the tank and was absolutely excruciating for him. Ben Healey, third place on the stage, rode Ben Oan off his wheel, rode all of them off his wheel despite doing a lot of the work at the front. So that was absolutely incredible to say the least as well. But what was incredible to see was the youngster Joe Blackmore staying up there. Actually the best Israel Premier Techch rider even though they were riding for Mike Woods. Andreas Alio Hannison staying up there as well being in seventh place. Lenny Martinez struggling. We saw that after the number of bursts that we saw that he picked up a lot of points. We know that in the Padot jersey. We’ll go through that as well. But that was a bit of a shame to say the least. But Taragacha getting ninth place. Yis Vingle as well in there. And that also means that Tardaga is going to take some green jersey points here on this mountain stage. But he did lose it. He did lose the jersey. confirmation that Tadagacha is no longer in the yellow jersey once more. So, we will just get a update of that situation. We’ll get the top 13, but many of those GC riders struggling towards the end to keep up there with that acceleration being played out by many of the riders. We know that, we saw that it was absolutely chaotic scenes there. But for the time being, we’ll wait and see if any of these riders will recoup some of the losses that they got in the GC. But uh yeah, I’ll go. Yeah, we’ve got the top 10 of the GC. Let’s just go through that as well. Top 10 or top 13, shall we say? Top 13. Ben Healey moves up 10 places. He takes 29 seconds of an advantage now on Tara Baga, who loses that yellow jersey. Moves down one place t. absolutely to his plan. Once again, getting rid of that jersey. Good work by UAT Memor to kind of manage that. They didn’t really go too hard at the beginning, but they were just trying to keep it kind of yeah, keep keep it tight, keep the work tight, but they just didn’t want to let go of the jersey too much. They didn’t want to give them too long of a leash. And then obviously Remco Veniple um still maintaining that well falls down one place but relatively to the GC riders 1 minute and 29 seconds down to Ben Healey. Yasving same time as well. Matteo Jurgensson in fifth place. Kevan Vlan the one who actually did lose out here. So he did lose uh positions and time. So that was a great shame for the ArbnB rider. Of course there’s a rest day tomorrow. So they’ll be very happy about that. Oscar only still sitting inside seventh place in the GC. So that’s very good. The man that they were saying was more going to be a a stage poacher, but it looks like he’s more of a GC rider. So we’ll wait and see. But Floren Lipovitz as well, eighth place, still holding on to that position. 3 minutes and 34 seconds. The best card for Red Bull Borans. We saw when the accelerations were being done towards the end by Remco Venab by Tarvagacha by Unesvingo. They just lost a bit of touch but they still managed to fight back here. So they are doing a very good job to say the least just to keep that pressure up and keeping the chain tight. One man that will be very happy is to be as Halio Hannison. He moves up two places in to the GC as well. The top 10. I can’t remember the last time we’ve actually had a Norwegian finish inside the top 10 of the total of France. So that’s a very key target for for them for Uno X. So we’ll wait and see if they can do that. But to be a Halio Hannison obviously will be sad that his brother Hal Johannes didn’t actually win the stage. So we also had Felix Gal moving up three places. AG looked fairly strong. They had very many riders up towards the front and did do a good job to kind of solidify where Gal was. And then we have Carlos Rodriguez despite not having the best day actually moving up into 12th place. And Enric yeah um didn’t look too strong towards the end as well. So Healey in the yellow jersey that is a very very big story. Absolutely incredible ride by him. We’ve already seen him taking a stage win with EF Education Easy Post. He’s done a very good result in here well in the classics in the Juraya last year taking a stage was it last year or the year before? But he’s been on the podium in one day races and is a very good rider and here he absolutely just shows it wearing the yellow jersey. Not many riders do that in their career and here he does it. Absolutely astonishing scenes. But uh yeah, let’s see if we can get the yellow jersey as well on screen. But EF Education Easy Post very very happy with that day. They will absolutely love this. This is marketing goal for them. The way it was done was absolutely incredible. But UAT Memorates throwing it away again. Obviously, it was one of their plans. They want to try and get rid of that yellow jersey, not have all the media attention on them. Obviously, they’re always going to have the media attention on them because they have the yellow jersey, well, the yellow jersey winner of three to Frances of Tabaga. So, we see what you’re trying, but we’re not we’re not uh we’re not falling for it. So, many riders uh getting involved with that. Simon Yates, what an incredible uh feat by him. Uh let’s see if we can get the video on screen as well of him coming to the finishing line. But uh yeah, that was an absolutely incredible result by him. Uh Visma Lisa Bike will be very very happy about that result. Um yeah, not taking anything out of Yasping. That move was interesting because uh many people was thinking that maybe they were going to try this satellite rider roll. Maybe that was the intention. But uh at in the end it wasn’t the case. They absolutely just yeah they didn’t really do anything in terms of drop back. Camponauts did drop back. So you can say that that was actually uh the satellite rider dropping back there. But what what can they actually do this Misa bike going forward? Typicatcha looks very strong. Still has very strong riders. We saw Pavlo Civikov was struggling a bit early on. So maybe yeah that is a bit of a worry for UAT moments. Obviously there is now the rest day and yeah very very good to say the least but we’ll wait and see what happens there. Lenny Martinez I think is one of the more interesting riders of today. Absolutely incredible ride by him and uh really just keeping on to that polka dot jersey and uh yeah we haven’t talked about the polka dot jersey. Let’s see if we have the classification of that as well. Um yeah, absolutely incredible riding by many of these riders um in that breakaway. But yeah, Lenny Martinez is really riding with his heart on his shoulders there. Kau Jouier, French rider, and he has been rewarded with a polka dot jersey. Only 22 years old and this is only his second tour to France. Remember, he got his first one last year. It was a bit of a late call up. Probably wasn’t the best idea for the team, but I think they needed someone. But he has had a very good season this year. Lenny Martinez. And um yeah, it looks like uh yeah, the polaroid jersey. Is he going to be taking that all the way to the finish? I mean, that could be a bit of a exit pole as well for us. But yeah, great great effort there by Lenny Martinez to fight for that jersey. He actually took five five of the eight cash flows clubs went to him. Apologies. Um yeah, that was absolutely remarkable by Lenny Martinez. And we’ll see how far into this he will take that polka dot jersey. Um yeah, you can see that Lenny Martinez 27 points. We’ve got 16 points for Ben Healey. So he did actually sweep up some points as well even on that third place. Obviously took some points from the riders. So Lenny Martinez, how far can he keep that jersey? Let’s do make that the exit poll. Uh will Lenny Martinez win win win? That is probably the big question. Uh will Lenny Martinez win the polka dot? There we go. Will Lenny Martinez win the polka dot jersey? I think that is a good exit poll. But uh yeah, it’s it’s certainly a day where UAT Merrmmets they did a good job. They took the stage win. No, they didn’t. Visalisa, but they defended their relative position in GC towards Remco Veniple and Yonis Vingal. I think Yonis Vingal and uh Vis Melissa Bike, they need to go back to the drawing board. They need to think what are they actually going to do? What can they do? So, we’ll wait and see. But I think Vera, if Vera is still in the chat, will be very happy about this. Many EF Education Easy Post uh fans will be very happy about this. Patty Dunn will be in happy. Many Irish fans will be very interested and happy about this. How far can he take it? We should look at the stages coming up as well. Um yeah, we’ve got plenty of stages coming up on the to the to stage looks a bit weak in terms of action. I think it’s going to be a a flat affair there. So don’t expect anything to happen at stage 11. Uh but stage 12, that is the key stage for us. That is the real meaty potential plan for this Maisa bike. Maybe that is the one where they think, “Okay, this is where we go for it.” So, uh, yeah, maybe that is the plan that they’re thinking about. I’ll get the two stages up for us. First, I’ll show you the Tulus to Tulus. So, yeah, I’m not quite sure how far they are away from Tulus right now, but uh, yeah, the Tulus is also going to be the rest day tomorrow for the riders. So, you can see here, this is stage 11. That is stage 11 K Clema for and there’s a couple of cast climbs. C four climbs up for grabs. So there will be a break but it looks like it will be one for the fastman. Maybe Binium Gumaray can get his chance here if they make it a very hard day in the bunch into Mache all the way. Maybe they can get rid of Janat Milan and Tim Muria. But yeah, that is quite a hard ask. We know that it’s quite a hard one to say the least. But uh yeah, let’s see as well. Let’s look at the other stage as well. Um this will probably be the final thing we do before we head off. I’m absolutely drenched right now. I’m hungry as well. It’s very hard. Uh one man showing this. But yeah, it’s great. It’s always fun. The banter in the chat is very good. And uh yeah, it was great to see so many people in the chat. But this could be the stage where BMA bike try and do something. the horse to come. I wouldn’t be surprised that they try and get satellite riders up in the break here. I wouldn’t be surprised to see UAE absolutely not letting them get that up there as well. But you have four cast climbs here. We’ve got the cat 4 climb. Doesn’t really matter. We got intermediate sprint. It doesn’t really matter. The first climb is a cat one climb. 11.8 km. Wait, can I point at it? 11.8 8 km at 7.3% that is going to be a quite hard climb. That is where maybe the GC is going to soften up some of the other teams and then they’ve got that bit of a descent and then they got a kick up to a cat 2 climb and then going all the way down a long descent and then they have the to come. So maybe the move is done near the top of the first climb of the cat one climb or near the top of the cat 2 climb as well. So yeah, could happen. Could happen. But I think Yonas been they’re thinking about this, but U members obviously know that they’re going to do that as well. So yeah, anyways, with that, that’s basically it for this stage. Thank you to every single one of you who have subscribed, hit the like button, and gotten involved in the chat. It’s been a pleasure as always, a great Kato. Um yeah um happy 14th of July to every single one of you and I will see you all again on their stage 11 but of course we have got content coming out on tomorrow. So there’s a lot of things to look forward to there as well and maybe we can just get a famous face as a video as well. But until then thank you very much every single one of you. Have a good evening, good afternoon wherever you are in the world and stay hydrated and I will see
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What a day for team EF-EasyPost! I think Visma also got exactly what they wanted. A win, and even more pressure on UAE and Pogacar. Vingegaard knows he will win this on Stage 18 and 19 if he wins. Until then he just lets his team grill Tadej.
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Pachacha he loos the yerllow.