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Tour de Pologne Stage 3 Highlights.

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The third stage of this year’s Tour to Palonia always looked like it would be a big shakeddown in the general classification. It had the most climbing of all seven stages and yet it didn’t turn out quite like that. Let’s see how it unfolded. We knew there’d be a big battle to get in the breakaway on the day and that is how it proved. Yesterday’s break on stage two was seemingly so easy to get into. none of that today because they knew they had three big loops of this big uh mountain circuit taking them into the Valriski Mountains and then on the final loop going off south to take in a really nasty kicker uh before going back over the Valima pass for the final time running back through the finish and up the final climb. Nowhere near as big as yesterday, but so much climbing between start and finish. It was due to be a big sort out. We went into the stage, by the way, with Paul Laera as the race leader in the yellow jersey after his fantastic dominant win in Car Patch at the end of stage two. And this is how the big opening group formed. Initially, it was enormous. Some 14 15 riders went clear, seemingly far too big to be allowed. And it did prove that way. However, as they were caught, another group rolled forward and it was pressed on by Tee Oilich and Fabio Vandenbos of the Alpasindernic team. Those two were a key pairing in driving things on and formulating what would then go on to be our group of 10 riders who would gradually start to extend. Paul Lapera sat off to the left hand side, winner of stage two in the yellow jersey. He, his teams and representatives of other teams, Happy just let the breakaway drift and it drifted pretty quickly as well. They built up a big lead as they helied up into the Valriski Mountains for the first time on the first of one big lap of three. The group was also fed from behind as well and there were really strong powerhouses in there. Team Oilich one of them. Pepine rendering the Dutchman looking really good and Teim Oilich started picking up well pretty much everything. He took the first categorized uh second categorized climb after the day after his own teammate Fabio Vanderbos had taken the first one. There were lots of classified climbs on this day by the way. And then Team Oilich set about trying to make that white mountains jersey with the blue dots his own. He took yet another set of points being chased by Matas Gahud Gadulovic, the uh Polish national team rider. We started seeing attacks from the group behind which was really nice to see. Chris Hamilton giving it a go as well. Not the only one though. It seemed they uh they sensed that even though it was still nearly 4 minutes the gap, it was an opportunity to put time between themselves and others. None of those little breaks worked though. And actually what was starting to happen was out front our breakaway was really whittling down all the time. Kellen O’Brien was particularly impressive today the Australian for Jacob Alula. He kicked over the top of Teimo Keelich going for the mountains points that Kelich desperately wanted on the little extension that took them southward. Somehow Kelich revived himself from that though and took the points ahead of Kell O’Brien who looked like he was starting to pay from that effort. Pepine rendering as you could see there riding across those two as I say was very impressive today the Dutchman. However, all of Kelich’s hard work did start to tell in the last 30k and things were coming back together. It was looking ominous because UA team Emirates have chosen as they have on all three of the stages so far to wait for the second half of the stage to really start to wind things up. We were seeing riders being dropped left, right, and center. The chasing group, the main pelaton, was getting smaller and smaller and more general classification focused. But as I said at the beginning and hinted at, this race was not to have the ending that we thought it might. And it happened on this corner here. A nasty looking crash that took down Paul Leera, uh, the race leader, and three or four others. Um, Raphael Micah, the Polish champion, was also in there. We started to wonder what was going on. The Pelaton was talking about, should we ease up and wait for the yellow jersey? And the race direction then took the decision to neutralize the race, stopping the Pelaton and stopping what was then our three rider breakaway of Kell O’Brien, Lorenzo Mlesi and Diego Elisi who jumped across. There was a lot of conversation. The race was stopped for about 10 minutes and in the end the decision was made to restart the three leaders with what appeared to be a 40second gap over the Pelon. 40 seconds not much when you’ve been standing still only about a third of the way up the climb. They had the other twothirds of the climb yet to go and as you can see Menowing there for Vizmissa bike set off like a rocket. The reason for that is because while they were waiting there were riders coming up behind and rejoining the group. As far as we can tell one of them was young Matthew Brennan. There he is. This is a bit further on now. Five just under 5k to go. Matthew Brennan sitting in this Melissa bike putting everything into trying to get him into the perfect position. Such was the pace coming to the finish. As you can see, there were splits in there. Inos Grenaders getting caught. They were trying to lead out Ben Turner. They’ve been dropped, but it came back. Diego Yulissi looking around, seeing Lorenzo Millesy trying to raise a sprint just before the finish as well. But this was how it went. Second day in a row where Miha Quakoski had let out. Ben Turner jumped and Ben Turner immediately getting a gap, extending to the line as well. and the British rider getting the second win of his professional career and the biggest by far too. It was not the ending to the race we were expecting. And I have to say above all the racing and the brilliant performance by Ben Turner, we do wish the riders involved in that crash the best because it didn’t look nice. We don’t know yet all the ramifications of it and that will unfold over the next day or so and I hope everyone is well. There’s the top 10 result. Ben Turner ahead of Pale Bill Bao sprinting well at the end and Andrea Bagioli also there for the battle. Yan Christristen likewise as well. There it was Turner uh Bil Bao and Badioli in the uh the stage result and the GC standings also staying exactly as they were at the end of stage two. No general classification changes today. The race organizer decided to race just for the stage result and neutralize the general classification. Seemingly a sensible decision, not least because the yellow jersey was involved in that crash. A messy day, but we look forward to the rest of this year’s race. Join us tomorrow. [Music]