🔥 Buckle up for an intense ride through the 2025 Czech Tour—the most thrilling cycling action you won’t want to miss! From dramatic sprints to brutal climbs, this race had it all! Watch as Junior Lecerf pulls off a mind-blowing comeback to secure victory by just 7 seconds in a final showdown on the Pustevny climb! 🏆🌟
🎬 Highlights include:
Stage 1: Luke Lamperti’s sizzling sprint 🏃♂️💨
Stage 2: Lecerf takes charge in the mountains 🏔️💪
Stage 3: Liam Walsh shocks the sprinters 🚴♂️⚡
Stage 4: A dramatic collapse by Uijtdebroeks, and Lecerf’s last-second victory 🏁😱
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Up to the top and [Music] [Music] heat. [Music] Welcome to Prague. It’s our jumping off point of this the magnificent Czech tour. A country in the center of Europe which very much feels like this is a drawing point not only for sport but historically for art and just about everything else as well. It’s a fabulous roster of riders that are going to take it on a race that quite frankly uses the very best of its uh rolling terrain. So, we’ll start off with a sprinter day uh followed by indeed a run to the mountains. Party atmosphere as you can see right from the very off and something for absolutely everybody as far as this is concerned. Same could be said for the Pelaton itself. Fast men have come, GC riders as well. 14 teams from all over the world, including two world tour teams. They make up the pack in this year’s Czech tour. Very solid pelatin indeed with some big names and young up and cominging riders as well. It’s a great blend of talent and experience right here. Red Bull Bora Hansrower, they come here with a rookie team, but with Devon Donati for the sprints, Hayek, Yans, and Palsa as well for the overall. That is strength in depth. Sudo Quickstep led by the mighty Joe Churnney. They’re looking to loop Lamperti of course in the sprints. Junior Lassurf overall backed up by James Nox. That’s going to be interesting. Fishman Lisa Bike. Well, they come with the out andout favorite. Jan Utbrooks is here. Will Smith, Damon Kat, and Thomas Globe backing them up. Keep making use of himself for the quick stop as well. Another strong team. And this is what we are dealing with. Golovi Valley is our destination, a spectacular fantasy spar town. And along the way, we’ll be playing with mountains. It’s the most action-packed of all of our days if you’re looking for action points, three climbs, and an intermediate sprint with 3, two, and one bonus seconds on those intermediates. And of course, a mountains jersey up for grabs for the brave. And that is usually a breakaway. I can tell you that we have one. But before we go to our live pictures, we’re going to have a look see as to how things settle down at the sign on this morning. Here’s Joe Churnney, familiar face and of course almost a virtual ambassador for the race here. And this was lining up just a little bit earlier on today. Beautiful weather conditions I must say. The Alwin flag just about to be waved by Leopold Koig, our race director, just to get proceedings off and underway. It was a long, long roll out this morning, I must say. Few little nudges as you can see within the pack because everyone was mobbing the team director’s car just hoping to get ourselves off and underway once Leo waved us underway. The pace well it was a reasonable one to say the least. Didn’t take long for some of the ambitious to show their hand. Don’t forget on a day today we have more climbing than indeed on any other day. three K points out there which means a Mountains jersey and that’s a coveted prize for some perhaps of the smaller teams and as it was they represented themselves extremely well rocking and rolling to get into the break and quite the roster we had including an out youngster Christian Vavro just 18 years of age from Pierre Baguette Cycling I know who sponsors them Bernati Bold were there with Jano Krishi Michael Fan Fleet from the solo outfit. Uh Vanek as well was the Boston ATS. Uh we had Gism from Vorlberg, Shiran from United Shipping and Nico Gibbo from team Ukio. Our first KM point pled its way into our intermediate sprint as well. This was our latest clim. So two completed plus an intermediate sprint. We’ll get to those with you in just a few moments time. But it’s been extremely busy. Niko Gibbo it was that took it ahead of Shaman Gism and Vanfleet. We have got inside 60 km ago and already and you can see that some of these riders in the breakaway don’t want to hang around. Here’s my man. Uh this is Valinac the time trialist. He’s not happy with the pace here and he’s basically saying look this is how fast I’m going to ride. If you want to ride with me cuz I’m a bit of an engine then you’re welcome to come along for the ride. He doesn’t want to be caught. But he wants to stay out there as long as possible. And I can understand it, Brian, if his palmares, which includes a lot of pretty feisty riding. I must say he’s out here for a reason. He wants to go all the way. Beautiful day and a fabulous day to go racing. The Czech tour destination Carnovi Valley. There’s one more climate remaining. As you can see, it’s lumpy terrain there. Out of the saddle. Still got six riders up the road as part of our breakaway. And it’s been an ebbing and flowing gap as the chase has been invoked and held steady, you might say, by the XDS Astana development team, hoping that Kleb Zeritza can come to the four a little bit later on. Likewise, Sudo Quickstep with the day’s favorite of Luke Lamberti on board. Vman Lisa Bike don’t want anything silly to happen as our breakaway just starts to struggle ever so slightly as you can see. and it’s guest uh from the uh uh the Borlberg development team who’s just starting to struggle ever so slightly going the same way as Christian Varro who went off earlier from the Pierre Baguette cycling team. Back to those out front and the uh race favorites with Kan Uts on board and plenty of other talent likewise but for today David Donati from Red Bull Bora Hansro they’ve been helping out as well. So indeed, Aston, the aforementioned Sudol Quickstep. So it’s a controlling moment at the moment with 40 km to go. You’re looking at the head of the race. The gap is 1 minute and we are expecting fireworks when we get to the magnificent and beautiful Kuvi Vari by the end of the day. This is a super hilltop castle built in the 14th century. Um it burnt down unfortunately in the 17th century and they thought you know what should we repair it? No, let’s just leave it. It’s a beautiful ruin. Um the castle elevated position of course giving you phenomenal views. Look at that perfect null to defend all the terrain around you. You got a uh an uninterrupted view of just about everything. So yeah, I’m glad they didn’t renovate it to a certain degree because the last thing you need is a roller disc on the top of it uh at moments like that. Gary B for Yukio team and the the Reds. He’s the person who’s been taking the two king in the mountains and leading out here is Shiran. Yeah, sure wants a piece of it, but Gary Bo is coming around him. He’s just his teammate Ishibashi has been on the deck. So, he’s he wants to bring some cheer to the team and he’s doing it. He’s dominating this mountains competition. Yeah, active in the breakaway now. I think this is for the most combative. you know, the gaps come right down and think the riders in the breakaway already know with Sudal Quickstep really kind of pushing hard and that information will be given to them that you know they’ve started to attack each other. They’re thinking about that most combat even the effort of Sadal Quickstep especially James Nox um has done this to the Pelon. It shattered. It’s in three largeish groups. Two will uh reconfigure. They may all come back together, but it’s a note of just how hard they want to make this day. Sudo Quickstep, Luke Laeti must be feeling okay if he’s said to his teammates, “Look, let’s destroy the fast men’s will by really going for it cuz I’m coping with these climbs.” Brian, in a sprint scenario, is about 18 km to go. I think I mentioned that to you. It is Fleet that wants to take the competivity award. Um, who would vote against him? Uh but right now he’s one man against the pack, the type of motivated and it’s it’s almost come true. Brian altogether with around about 18 to go it will be he’s going to hang out there for as long as he possibly can. But there’s a lot of teams here getting themselves in color order waiting for the big scenario. This man has just hit the barriers. I’m afraid metaphorically I should say he’s out of the saddle and is it Karn Farmer that are on the stretch here and this is a flyer. This is good work by Eloggi. Now, we’ve seen him go strong and long in the past. This is ambitious, Brian, but he knows what the geography is. He’s done his homework. Big left hand swooper. You almost double back on yourself, but uh to actually do the full 180 takes a long time. And suddenly you see the rather spectacular uh Carlo Var where we are playing the game. It’s an absolutely beautiful part of the world. Here’s the 500 to go marker. And indeed they hit the front right now and Astra may well be in a party spawning moment. Let’s have a look. It’s a good place to be almost blocking the vision at the moment of Noman who just sits behind. Norm’s going freestyle. He wants to get onto the back wheels of Sudok. Quick step hook the barriers and he’s gone wide. Oh, that’s no good at all by the Eston man. Got it out of shape. Hit him up and indeed went for it and now it is unleashed and Luke Lamperty has decided that this is now to be taken all on my own. Who needs company when you can do this? punches the air says thank you very much Donati for Red Bull Bar hands score I believe it is are coming in just behind got a crash just on the right hand side of the road as well takes the day ahead of Donati Zritza Noman and Stolich very good work as well by dove lassurf Mashlak Konichef and Bjinski and indeed here is our day’s winner yeah I think I can say now chakur is one of my favorite races but no it’s nice to get a win after all the work that team did uh today and also for me it’s been yeah a long season since since the very start chasing a victory. So it’s nice to uh have actually my first victory of the season here. If you got a plan and it comes to fruition then all’s good. After the first stage of this year’s check tour, the yellow leaders jersey goes to the stage winner Luke Lamperte as well as the green points jersey. The best climber in the polka dot jersey is Nicolo Gibbo of the Yukio team. The under23 white jersey is David Donati from the Red Bull team. Best check rider in the red jersey is Dominic Newman. A very fast start to this year’s Czech tour. Let’s see what the next three days of racing bring. [Music] [Music] Welcome to the Czech tour. The second stage to Distraani. 173 kilome in total today. And beautiful sunshine with the temperature just coming down a little. 3 Celsius less, but still 31. The wind blowing up to just 5 kilometers per hour coming in from the south. So, not exactly a challenge windwise. But today is the big one. Huge finish at the end and starting off in the magnificent city of Paradichi. Ancient times, ancient place, but absolutely beautiful. A modern heart to it as well. A great jumping off point for today’s race. So this is what stage two looks like. Povichi, it is a destination ultimately. D str a very high mountain lake or reservoir uh used for hydro power and you’re going to need plenty of power to get up the big kicker at the end of the day as the alimmetry unwinds there on the bottom of your screen. You will see it’s a bit like a hockey stick ice hockey you understand that’s the game in these parts and it really does kick up to the sky. Some ramps of 9% on that final climb and you’d better be quick at the very end of it. Once you’ve done the climbing, it flattens out and we may well have a mountain sprint. Lampertie unlikely to still be in the golden journey at the end of today. He’ll be thinking about the sprint and the points jersey proper on Saturday. So they rolled out and indeed it was likely to have been a busy one at the top. Could a breakaway succeed? Well, it was surely going to be controlled by the likes of Sudal Quickstep, Visma Malisa Bike, maybe XDS, but certainly Red Bull Bora Hasgro as well. So, if you wanted some slip room, you needed to get off and up the road. And that’s precisely what happened. And indeed, we join them now. Eight in fact, and there it is. Sereno um was very much part of it. Um Sato was there, Zaka. Uh Villainyak as well, who was up in the break yesterday, the 23-year-old TT champion. uh from indeed Poland was up there and when it came to the intermediate sprint, well some quick men indeed were in there. Yan Kaspar it was that that took it ahead of uh indeed the spirited time trialist Villain who I was telling you about. We had a uh Glossup was also there in the frame to pick himself up four points. 321 bonus seconds as well at the intermediate sprint and it wasn’t long before which came very quickly afterwards our categorized climb of the day. Category 2 test this and the wind upon the peaks just blowing up ever so slightly. Strongest rider from the breakaway Senko the Ukrainian on the nose at this point but will he have the kick to actually make this one count? Bounder Va um the Dutchman from Matetech Solowatt Mantel also here but looked outclassed on the uh incline at at this point. The man who started the move to break down the breakaway indeed decided it to finish the job. That chalk line on the road was our KO point and indeed they reassembled as a trio up front. Maximum break on the day had been around about 5 minutes 17 that kind of margin but uh that Zahala it was that took the six points ahead of Sankov and Van Deer Va it was a good sizable um breakaway that you know took off right from the start and you know eight riders is significant um but it’s the teams that were riding at front Vizma Lisa bike but they rode at the front without actually going onto the front yesterday in the in the yellow jersey sau Quick step again. They’ve got the leaders, Jesse, but they also have a rider, Junior Lurf, that can really fly up this final mountain here, do Stranny. Well, he’ll be king of the castle today. Um, I can tell you that the Lithad Castle here, absolutely spectacular. It was first built in 1554. The more modern conflicts didn’t exactly um hamper too much the beautiful surroundings of the Czech Republic. Some spectacular citadels. You can see the more modern part as well, but it is very beautiful. It’s a cultural center. Uh likewise hosts concerts, workshops, that kind of thing, and community events. And of course, bike racing as well. 2 and 1/2 minutes with 38ks to go. The terrain does start to pick up from about now really um until our delivery. So, you don’t want to get you don’t want to make any errors with this breakaway. Yeah, very difficult to see on on the camera. Uh but like Carton says and I mentioned it, it kind of kind of drags up very, you know, kind of 1 2% but it does drag up all the way to the the bottom of the climbing. But uh yeah, it’s under the heat as well. It’s 31°. It’s not going to be easy. It’s knocked back just a little bit, Brian. They’ve got the holding distance they want. 98 seconds only. So the chase has kind of done its job and now they’re in that holding pattern before it all hell breaks loose. This rider here for for Solution Tech, the Italian second division team is the the young 24 year old Ukrainian is the strongest rider there. And at that moment there, he just flicked the elbow and it was a case of no from from both riders behind. So he’s pretty much on his own. He’s trying to get a little bit of help. And this often happens. You know, you make the effort, you pay for it, and unfortunately Senko is um in front self. You will get a little bit help from time to time, but when you are the strongest, you have to take the bill by the horns. And look at it. This is what we are dealing with. This is the chatau uh lashna that I was telling you about. This is the one where they said, “Do you know what? I just don’t like the look of it in 166008.” And so they started a rebuild. And the Barack style that you see here, they finished in the 17th century. They had a race with a very modest margin. It’s uh soon it’s going to be trimmed under a minute. And you feel that I’m afraid the basking shark of the pelin is going to have this krill. This is Seno. Zahala just behind him and indeed our time trialist Vilyak. They’ve worked very very well. Double golden shoulders though of Senko. Um and indeed the man from Ukraine would probably garner a lot of sympathy just riding that center line here and they’re exchanging nicely. They’ve got a bit of a margin. The rest of the breakaway have already been absorbed by the pelatin. Meanwhile, back downstairs, Joe Churnney, who’s done a massive job on the front. Yeah, back to the car. Had every right to be here. Has a brief chat. How did things go? It was pretty tough. Why’d you leave me out there for so long? Because you’re good at it, mate. You’re good at it. Brilliant. Do it again tomorrow. Have a drink. And here he goes. Here’s Soreno. said he was the big danger within the breakaway and right now he’s decided the only thing to do is try and help himself try. Well, he was the strongest. Yeah, it was inevitable. This is what he was going to do. Uh unfortunately at this stage he’d been wishing he had about 3 minutes but 11 seconds from the head of the pelaton and you know there’s still a lot of riding. This climb is like I said earlier not the same climb as last year. is a little bit more steadier. This goes up in in different increments, so you’ve got different pitches the whole time, and that upsets a lot of people. They want to get into a rhythm. You can’t really get into a rhythm in this one. This is possibly about 3 to 4%. This is indeed at the head of the race today. Quite remarkable. Um, this is the uh DUI Stern uh reservoir that you’re looking at right now. It’s a hydroelectric plant. So uh the water is drawn off and indeed pro uh goes onto turbines with an altitude of 1350 m making it the highest water surface in the Czech Republic. 10 km to go. They’re starting to worry about Senko and what he can deliver today and although the pace does not look at its highest from this kind of altitude, I can tell you it is. They are on full chat at the moment with only 10 km to go. Kilometers are clicking down and Seno’s good for this. At the moment we have got a group of about possibly about 50 riders now left at the front of the race. So it is that Senco is absorbed and so are we. It has absolutely snapped Brian. We’ve got eight gone clear here and they could possibly define the day. Is it eight or seven? Seven as we look at it right now. They’re powering away and I don’t think all this group are going to come home together either. This is remarkable. What a display of power by Visma Lisa bike. on it. No, this is full on. Um, you know, there there’s no hanging around here. Uh, that’s for sure. And you know, this is setup. This is this corner here. So, for the next 3 to 4 km, this is the hardest part of the climb. A very, very brave push. And looking behind, he’s got a trio of riders, including the two favorites for the day surf. He had no choice really, Brian, other than to dig in and go. Meanwhile, coming over is Nhon Zahe. And that the way he came over that swiftly, Brian, shows he’s got something in the legs here. And he’s going to he’s got a teammate with him here in the red trade kit. Here’s national champion Zahe, of course. Let’s see what the damage is today, shall we? Uber’s looking very very handy. One of those at a very close margin as far as the overall is concerned. Uh just relaying back now. Teammate drops back. Fentulu just has a look at his principal also off the back saying you can slot in here. I’m going to stay with this racing cleverly. If Omba’s got the kick that he had at the beginning that started to break down that the front of the race, he might have an option here as well. This is no done deal, bro. And here is that little kicker. Around they come. This is your last hair pin. And then look at the way it picks up and the surf goes to the front and takes Pella with him. Utre’s angered by this but can’t get back. He’s done a lot of work as far as this climb is concerned. It may well indeed be a throw on the line. Let’s have a look who gets there first. Lasserf takes it ahead of Fella. Brilliant work by him. Utre was effectively mugged there. Forced to do too much work to the benefit of others and Lasserf royally took advantage. That was brilliant. It feels amazing. Uh I worked hard for this and to be rewarded is is perfect. Also the team they did again a great job controlling also. So really thanks to them also. Uh Lasser takes it ahead of Fanchel Utar of course. Uh Balabio it was that came through Katruchi. Uh we had Krat Hayek was up there. Aria Janis Peter and Umba Lopez who was very much part of the front drive today finishing 20th place. Super win. Clever win as well in very difficult circumstances and richly deserving of the title of race leader here at the Czech tour. Sprint classification junior surf also leads the points here. Lampy will be carrying the green jersey on behalf of his pseudo quickstep teammate and cello still well placed in this competition as well. As far as the climbers are concerned, Goribo on the opening day amassed so many points. There was three category 2 tests on that day. Don’t forget under 23 riders. John Udubs has the white jersey today leading Hayek in that competition. And we have of course Martin Barta who is our best Czech rider by a margin of 23 seconds leading Thomas Pria. Can you take me higher? Higher. Higher. Can you take me higher? [Music] Welcome. Another beautiful sunny day. Prostio to Ostraa today. It’s the shortest stage of this year’s Czech tour. Always a festival whenever the Czech tour comes to town. It’s been extraordinarily well supported. 31 Celsius however is not an inconsiderable temperature and in fact this race has been run in absolutely glorious conditions starting in Prostavoy uh heading off towards Estraa and indeed when you look at the terrain it doesn’t look overly challenging however um a be breakaway being begged by a first climb then starts to get just a little bit lumpy intermediate sprint has already been dealt with and then sort rolling terrain really that will bring us in a couple of little plets to be dealt with. They can often be action points as well. And then it’s downhill to our finish, a finish line that we are familiar with having been to Ostava last year. Technical towards the end, but an impressive place indeed to hold a bike race. They flagged them away this morning. Another absolutely impeccably beautiful day and stellar surroundings once again. the chat Blumoff. Um indeed there originally a castle from the turn of the 13th century. So there’s been the great, the good and the powerful have lived here for for many many a season. Not exactly the most violent start, but certainly a pace about it. And if we were on the slowest pace on the opening day, this has a different complexion about it entirely. We are racing. We’re rolling. We will pick the gap up for you in a short while, but it’s been a reasonably handsome one. I can tell you today these guys been given a bit more leash than perhaps we’d had thought. Gallibbo after mountains points and indeed Julie secured some today and it looks like now that he’s on 24 points that that jersey might just belong to him. Well, Gary dropped back and when we came to the sprint um he was no longer part of proceedings. Constanti Bettoadorf and Robber uh were indeed those that came to the line for the sprint. 3 into one voter seconds of no consequence to them at all. Robert the best placed of those who are up the road at 4 minutes and 24. We have um these this quartet that is still going. We’ve also got some stunning sights along the way. Junior Lurf um John Dick a little bit sore yesterday about the way that Lurf took it. didn’t do any work on the climb, but to my mind played it clever and everyone has to be uh fair and square in those kind of moments appreciating what your rivals are going to do and for very good reason. And they lined up today and looked actually reasonably at peace with what had gone on. He leads the young riders classification. He’s actually uh um installed not that too far away from uh from indeed the surf on the yellow jersey. It seems like they buried the hatchet overnight. not in each other, you understand? But um but yes, just called it a day and they’re still friends by the looks of the way they lined up today. 32 kilometers to go, dappled sunshine. Um take the sustenance wherever you can get it. And indeed, Vanderval says, “Thank you very much. I’ll take one of those bottles. It’s either for him or for Rinder who’s trying to get up and over the top, but he only has about nine or eight or nine seconds on this chase group, I’m afraid. So it hasn’t quite worked out for him. security. It’s been very well marshal this race actually. Um, super organization I’ve got to say and there’s been impeccable pictures. It’s been beautifully delivered to us. So, all credit to everyone involved in the Czech tour. It’s a handsome race and we have loved being here. And of course, we still got Postni tomorrow. Can’t wait. Today, we run into these guys are racing for one prize only and that’s the most combative. the red numbers. Um, that’s the only reason they’re doing this, you know, to to do this now and attack each other with 25 km to go. It It’s not It’s not helping the breakaway. I know they’ve only got 30 seconds, but this is not helping the breakaway. So, in my mind, it’s all four riders knowing that they’re going to be caught. There’s only real one prize up for Gramps and that’s the red numbers. Do you know what Brian? If you’re hungry, one sardine left on the table. It’s worth going for. This is one of them. The Fred Castle Museum of Morovian Sillesian uh biscuits a really beautiful it’s stunning medieval castle dating to the early 14th century. It was uh rebuilt in the Renaissance style as you can possibly see. Um housing the museum of uh Based uh the Based region uh featuring prominent exhibitions of local history, art, nature and um yeah guess what a beautiful Englishstyle castle park as well. Amazing. 34 seconds is the gap. 18 kilometers to go. This is where it gets serious. This man’s giving a serious shake of the stick quite frankly. A guaranteed combativity award. By the way, do you know that the lead team at the moment by a margin of 58 seconds is team Ukio. I wouldn’t be surprised if they even try and go for it. 16 km to go. Uh looking at the pelatin, they’ve got a deficit of 31 seconds to Mr. Bondorf. He’s 9 minutes and 28 up the road. Here we go. Luke Lamperti and quick step out to stop them. I presume Luke Lampert is your pick for today, Brian. Yeah, definitely. I think he he’s got the best lead out time team team. He already knows he’s already won here. He won stage one. He is the man to beat him. But I hope he is going to be challenged and it looks as if he is. What I was talking about before outside the top 10 where we had a bit more of an arrowhead formation. Now the teams are starting to come up. I just hope they’ve got the firepower because this is the only way to do it. You have to be in a position. Thankfully, everybody stays upright just for now, but it is busy, busy stuff. We’ll sweep down and then we start to take that uh that opportunity to get yourself into position for the big turn. And here it comes. Right now, it’s going to be a left-hander. There’s only 300 m to go beyond this. You have to be in a good place. Oh, that’s a super super corner here by Lamperty. Everybody else manages to stay upright. They scream over the river here. He has gone for it. The green jersey is going to come home here shortly. Oh, he’s going to be getting under the line. This is absolutely fantastic. Brilliant work here by Glenwood as he timed this absolutely perfectly. Let’s have a look at the line. Oh my goodness, what a steal that turned out to be. That was absolutely brilliant. Cameron Scott was in a fabulous position for Cash Body Wrap. Said that he and Leon Walsh would be in a place to actually make a noise. And when it came down to the tough stuff, the tough guy came forward and did a job. Liam Walsh, in fact, of the pair of them, it was always going to be one or the other. And Cash Body Wrap, well, we said they were engaged in some shoulders out there and they absolutely muscled their way through. And they have delivered. Wow. Sudal quick step for one two and he thought that this man here was in prime position but unfortunately didn’t have the legs to to stay in front and a brilliant win there for um Cashi. What an amazing finish. Great mix and match as well and it just shows you Brian um you had your favorites but it’s all very well having a door open for you. Credit to the Brisbane bullet. He’s hit the target again. It was really chaotic. Um the Astana and uh Sadal were fighting for the for control through the corner and I was caught of kind of caught in between with um sprinters on their own on either side and yeah I had to punch through a few gaps and make some space but um yeah the corner opened up for me and I’m really pleased that when the road straightened out on the cobbles that I had the legs to to come over the top and to hold on cuz it was rough and Luke was really really quick. Wow, what a win. Le Walsh, Luke Lamperti, Buglavski was in third place. Uh, Avanito was also up there. He’s been strong all day. Konichef Donati Stolich Zitz also. And look at those who missed out today. That was a battle, a proper wrestle for that final corner. And what a finale we have had. Here is your overall classification. Junior Lurf leads this race going into the big finale into Postni tomorrow by 4 seconds aheads of Fanchello and Sean Utri who will be hoping to find 9 seconds on the big climb tomorrow. He’s got some strategizing to do. Lopez and Kuchi leading in your top five. Then come Hayek, Peter Krat, uh para and Gutierrez. the Czech tour. It’s produced some fabulous um I guess festivals really almost a festival of cycling here that we have in the Czech tour. Liam Walsh delivered today. Super win for him and a great race we are having here at the Czech tour. [Applause] [Music] And so it comes down to this. The final day of the tour of Jezeia, the fourth stage karates to Pvni. A climb that we are well used to and everyone is going to get a preview of today. Taking the test twice and of course drawing this day to a close. Temperature 24 Celsius. It’s actually warmer than that in the valleys and cooler than that on the top of the hill. Uh breeze has come kicked up as well about 13 km an hour and a big party atmosphere not only at the start today but also on our mountain top finish. Uh certainly something to celebrate. It’s been a fantastic race. This is what we’re dealing with on our final day to draw this great race to a close meandering through the foothills as we headed to the high ground and indeed the border very close to the border with Slovakia. sister nations. I think uh they would be happy to be called. Great countries and uh superb climbing today. But Stephanie first before we engage in a big loop to finish off the day back up the mountain in the same direction as they take it first time of asking. It’s been fantastic. It has constantly entertained this race. Always provided drama it did last year. It has this year too. And so sunshine, not quite the punishing temperatures that some places part of of Europe have indeed suffered, but getting ourselves ready to get off and up the road. Artimba from ATT and Investments. They’ve been ringing the bell rather loudly themselves. They’ve had some very good finishes. In fact, yesterday Booski coming home in third place. Lamperty didn’t get the win he was hunting for. Still owns the points jersey. John Udirect in the young riders classification lead as uh indeed our overall leader Junior Lasserf. Well, how would it how will it pan out today? Lasserf should indeed stay in yellow, but by what margin at the end of today? Starts off as a favorite to hold that. Let’s wait and see what happens. Anything can happen on a day like this. And as we rolled out, the jerseys on display for you. [Music] flagging the winwin flag to launch users. And this was to be a busy old start. Now we’re kind of getting used to this the composition of that breakaway. It took a while for uh indeed everyone to be absolutely happy with it. And in the end, it was quite a big group that went off and up the road, including yesterday’s winner, Liam Walsh. Why was he here? An intermediate sprint added to his tally of 25 points on yesterday’s stage would indeed mean that he would move into the podium of the points jersey competition. Well, Julie, he took that intermediate sprint and then of course we had the climb for the first time of asking and this was indeed a bit of a wrestle. If you thought that Gabriel would be gifted this then think again. He really had to fight for it, but still came home in second place on this mountain to assure himself not to be beaten in that King of the Mountains competition. But it was a spirited drive for the line. I must tell you, it was good to see. Nice work. Stolish taking it ahead of Gary Bo who was uh troubled almost, I guess you might say, needled really on the way to the line there by Shirant, who came home in third place. And the gap which had been up around about 4 minutes absolutely tumbled back to a pelatin that itself was starting to fracture on the climb. Highpaced descending and as you can see almost into treble figures here. This pacy Luke Lamperty saying just uh edge out would you come to that side of the road clearly knows the roads around here as well. And this a chance for those who’ve got some legs left after what’s been a difficult race to indeed push on and indeed absorb what remains of the day. The palatin unconcerned. I think they made up so much ground when we got onto the climb for the first time of asking that they’ve decided that um for the sake of calm they would leave the breakaway uh to continue to have some fun. And who’s having great fun at the moment is Liam Walsh. He didn’t look happy on the climb, which suggests he won’t be happy on the climb a little bit later on. But should this breakaway, just imagine for a moment, go all the way. If he finishes eighth, he wins the points jersey. There he is. Number one 37 just gone off your screen right now. Yesterday’s stage winner did a good one. The gap had gone up to over 2 minutes. Um, that’s going to tumble down very, very quickly with this kind of action. And a bit more cohesion for Visma Lisa Bike. They’ve clearly listened to you here, Brian, and they’re going for it. Yeah, but the breakaway haven’t listened to me at all. Um, you know, they they’re wasting a big opportunity. 240, I know that’s to the front of the race, but even 2 and 1/2 minutes, they’re they’re wasting a huge opportunity here in my mind. I just don’t understand um why they’re not all riding because it’s two riders here and I know they’re riding to bring the brake back purely because of the the bonuses come the end. Um, but for the riders that are in the breakaway, there’s there’s one ride in front, Le Liam Walsh, here won yesterday’s stage. Very difficult for them to win this stage today, of course, with a hilltop finish. Well, we did say geography would be their friend. We’re on a flattish section at the moment, and this is where you all need to work extra hard, I think. Um, a flat section is kind of where you can ease up. You don’t want to be doing that. Uh, you need to be driving into it. Even on the descent, you saw that Liam Walsh was actually pedaling. There’s not much freewheeling going on. This is the Archbishop’s Castle and Gardens. Absolutely brilliant. The Wellington open air museum as well um is uh to be seen in Rashnoff. This is the Centry Reservoir. Of course, there it is built in between uh 1964 and 1969. I was getting around the edge of uh the man-made lake here and the cars. Not much stress for them at the moment, but that will change. Meanwhile, amongst this trio who remain out front, Liam Walsh got up for the intermediate sprint today and moved into second place in the points competition, but he has run out of resources as soon as the terrain kicks up. Michael Van Vleet has now struck off. He has gone off alone and now ditched Betonorf who had the competivity award yesterday and Liam Walsh. He wants to try and make this home. It’s a very tall order because 31 seconds in obeyance is the palatin. They’ve already reabsorbed much of the breakaway. It’s now down to the run for the line. The white jersey is just asking for a little bit more. Uh, and he’s getting a little bit more, but he’s just kind of priming himself up to launch an attack. Coming. And here goes over the top. And of course, Fanchel goes with him. Likewise does the surf in the leader jersey. And it’s as you were this trio that went up of course up earlier in this race on Friday. All of a sudden, the the Distrammy boys are at it again. Brian, um, quality will rise. The cream rises to the top and that’s what we’re seeing. This could get cat and mousy a little bit later on. But once again, I’m afraid Kudris is the man that’s being traced by Junior Lasserf. This is fabulous by Konuds. That was real strength. Junior Lasserf looked equal to him. He may well work with Fanchel who’s going to come back. I think they’ll regrroot themselves. But we’re not that far from the top. You might think there’s a lot of riding still to be done here, but riding away is Kudra. It’s a whole scene of pain that we’ve got here with pages being turned at every pedal stroke it seems. And the man who’s on your screen at the moment wearing the young riders classification leaders jersey. Uh he owns that at the time being. You never know. He might turn it to gold by the time we get to the top. Let’s see. And let’s see what the margin is. And these guys are going to get caught. And Lasserf now has got to start surfing other wheels just to preserve second place. Fanchel comes through offers him up a little turn. But they’ve got company. drive. I tell you what, they’re coming from behind and it’s going to be close this one. He’s still going to hang on for the victory, but it’s going to be close. Well, he needs a uh a margin. Don’t forget the 5 seconds as well. And this is Lasserf that’s being dragged in, but the bonuses have gone away from Ler. This will be absolutely crucial. They’re folding over in the attack here. Stuzi wants to come and join the fun. This is amazing. Here’s the white jersey. Stus going to take the the main bonus seconds on the surf gets back at this. This is what a finish we’ve got here. He takes it. But look at what’s happened behind. Oh my goodness. And I believe that Lasserf has just preserved his winning margin here. And Junior Lasserf crosses the line. I believe in third place and takes the title, rips it from John, who at the very last ran out of resources. What a dramatic finish to this race. That was amazing. It was super hard, especially the end um of the climb and yeah, it’s it’s unbelievable. It’s my first pro victory for ever. It’s Yeah, it’s unbelievable. What a finish and what drama we’ve had here. Official results get as Peter takes the day. He had a decent finish at Dwey Stone as well in ninth place, but nothing like this. That was superb. This is how the Czech tour has finished. Junior Lurf wins it by a 7-second margin from Utre. Fatello stays on the podium. Uh Janice Peter moves to fourth place only 26 seconds off our winnerless surf. Umba got a top five. I think uh I showed I was uh quite good in this race and uh now I can go uh with with this confidence of this win to the to the VA my next race. Garibbo got in the break today made absolutely sure and it was by a an enormous margin as you can see twice the points of the nearest man to Michael Shiran but Nicola Garibbo is our king of the mountains man points making a big one junior lassurf on 49 beating Luke Lampertie his own teammate by a margin of four points here so in green lassurf as well as being our overall champion of Course Udbrooks will be on the podium to pull on the white jersey beating Alexander Hayek by a margin of a minute and four but would have loved to have taken the title but it crumbled through his fingers. Our top check rider Thomas Pidal a huge margin for him a minute and 42 to Martin Bart who’d done well in this competition as well. That’s the red jersey for the best Czech rider. What an amazing race. The Czech tour has been spectacular winners at every single corner and the title decided only in the last 50 m. Our thanks to the organizers. It’s been amazing. Our thanks to Brian Smith and indeed our thanks to you from me, Carlton Kirby. What an amazing race. Let’s do it all again next year. For now, stay safe. [Music] [Applause]