THEMOVE - 85 KM Solo Break Steals the Stage & Yellow | Tour de France Femmes 2026 Stage 3 | THEMOVE
Episode Date: August 3, 2026Lance, Ali, and Mari break down Sigrid Ytterhus Haugset's stunning Stage 3 victory after a historic 85-kilometer solo breakaway. The crew analyzes how she held off Lotte Kopecky's late pursuit to clai...m the stage win and yellow jersey, discusses Demi Vollering's crash, and previews tomorrow's time trial, including the logistics of "bra-maxxing". Become a WEDŪ Member Today to Unlock VIP Access & Benefits: https://access.wedu.team Pioneer Pastures: Pioneer Pastures has an exclusive BOGO for listeners of THEMOVE. Go to https://pioneerpastures.com/themove to claim it. Evergreen Waffles: Head to https://eatevergreen.com/stores to find a store near you.
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We'll just finish with going back to Sigrid.
For her to pull that off to obviously, you know, have the nose of the race and the instinct of the race to get in that move, then go away.
But for her to drag race, Lada Capecki, one of the strongest women in the world.
It was awesome.
Never once looking back.
Never once.
Full send.
Full send.
Seagrid, wear that yellow with crowd.
She gets all three.
The boom stick, the see of the duches and the move of the day.
She totally did say see you in the duches.
And we are, oh, there's my volume.
Hello.
Hi.
Hello, everybody.
We're back.
We're back.
Welcome back to the move.
I don't know if you all caught that in the lead in there.
Shout out to Colton for changing the colors.
Oh, ladies?
Got the pink up there.
It's a good thing.
I love it.
Everything's starting.
It takes a couple days.
Our friends of Peacock, they got the right.
It's no longer those two guys.
Yeah, we don't like that.
Bradley and George.
Nice guys.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We finally dressed it up.
Got you all on the thumbnail there.
So thank you, everybody.
We are talking about stage three and the party has officially started.
Yihaha.
Mel, what do we do?
Stage three from Geneva to Polini.
Geneva to Polini.
That's so French.
10 out of 10 as far as I'm concerned.
I loved, I loved that stage.
I loved everything.
about this rider who
none of us had
on our radar.
Nope.
We just became her
top three fans, though.
Sorry, family.
Secret.
Fan club.
Secret hug set.
Yeah.
What, I mean, what a great ride.
She went in the breakaway
with 113 kilometers to go.
She goes solo with 95 kilometers to go.
For you folks at home, that's what,
yeah, 55-ish miles.
longest solo breakaway in the history of the Tour de France family back swine.
Mike drop.
I know.
We definitely didn't call that.
No.
It was super impressive.
She was being hunted down.
That's the best part.
By Laude Capecki, world champion, former world champion.
Hunted down to 10 seconds.
10 seconds.
Yeah.
I mean, we thought it was over at that point.
Yeah.
I mean, if we were, and look, hats off to Laudecapeche.
I mean, she, she, the, you know, the main field are what was left of.
of it, let her go.
And she just started this pursuit.
They were both time-trial and it got down to 10 seconds.
I mean, I think if there was live betting, there's no way we take that bet.
There is a 0% chance.
And she not only held her off, but, you know, as it got to 10 seconds, then she started to ride up.
It was unbelievable.
So far.
It was impressive.
Like when Laude Capeque was chasing her down, the first minute came quick because it was a two-and-a-half-minute gap.
The first minute came super fast.
And then they held it about a minute and a half gap for a long time.
And it just seemed like Capecki just dug super deep to get up to her and got to that 10 seconds.
And more power to see her that she didn't give up at that point.
When it was 10 seconds and you know that she's right there.
And for her to like decide I'm going to keep riding and go for it like that.
It was just, I mean, it was wild to see it start expanding again.
She's really dug down, 27 years old.
first year on the World Tour and Norwegian.
And she actually handled that heat pretty well,
which saw the salt coming up.
It was super hot out there.
She is the Norwegian national champion.
She's won the bronze medal at the time trial championships in Norway three times.
Never won it.
This is her first year racing on the World Tour.
And Torhu Shaf was very proud to sign her early on it.
And, you know, we're a big fan of Tor.
I know him as well as you do, Lance.
Like he said, you know, bring you another Norwegian rider to UNOX.
And I think it's also very interesting, you know X wearing the yellow jersey in the men's tour difference, as well as the women's.
And it does say something like what's doing with development for his own country, too, bringing on an athlete, a Norwegian athlete who might not have had the same opportunities on another team, but bringing her in and giving experience like that.
Yeah, and we almost glazed over it.
I mean, she is the new yellow jersey.
So she's trading her Norwegian national champions jersey, which she talked about a lot in her post-race interview.
of what it was like to be in the front with the Norwegian National Champions jersey.
That is always special.
Like, anytime you can do a tour, I remember my first tour in 1993, I had the Stars and Stripes on.
And it just feels different.
You kind of, you just ride with a little more confidence.
And as she said, now, she was just the cutest thing.
Oh, my gosh, she's so cute.
In the post-based interview.
I mean, she was so surprised.
happy, humbled.
Like, it was just...
Well, when they asked her if that was her dream,
and she said,
it really hasn't been my dream,
because I've never allowed myself
to even think about that.
Wow.
I couldn't raise my arms
because I was too tired.
It's like, sorry, team.
So I think that goes without saying
the move of the day, boomstick right here.
It's all, it's everything.
It's boom stick.
Move of the day,
seeing the duchess,
all wrapped into one.
But it also just shows, too, you know, a writer like Lada Capecki, I mean, she knows what she's doing.
Here, first year on the pro tour for Sigrid, Latakepecki knows what she's doing, right?
She's coming across.
She's saying, all right, I've got this.
She's seeing the time gaps.
And she in her mind is saying, okay, I've got it.
You still have to ride, right?
And you still have to budget your effort and allocate and know and get to the finish line.
And it just goes to show you.
Even a rider like that has a gas tank and a fuel tank.
And Sigrid looked like when she went away.
And as I was up in the gym, just watch it.
I was like, another day with another rider who looks effortless on the bike.
Gorgeous rider.
I was like, baby, this is the way to pedal.
I know.
And then at the end, I'm like, uh-oh.
She's sounding square.
It went from circles to squares.
And I'm like, that's a problem.
But then you saw a lot of Capekegee going from circles to squares.
And then we were watching.
It goes 15 seconds.
And I'm like, the GPS, by the way, folks, is not always reliable.
Right.
So we're wondering if, you know, it's off.
And then next thing, you know, we look up as 55 seconds.
Like, this is unbelievable.
10 seconds.
Folks, go out with your friends.
Let one of them go up the road 10 seconds.
They, you can touch them.
They're right there.
And by the way, and Sigrid knew that.
I mean, she could have looked back and said, oh, no, she is right there.
But you know what?
She didn't look back.
She didn't look back.
kept going and I wonder, you know, like, Butch Cassie and the Sundance kids are like, who are those guys?
I wonder if Lada ever got in the radio.
I was like, who is this guy?
Like, who is this up the road?
That's when we need the race radio.
Yeah.
Excuse me.
What is her name?
Who is this again?
Why am I not?
But I think actually we have a chance that she's going to be in yellow for a while.
She did place 11th overall at the World Championships and the time trial.
There you go.
And she did finish 12th overall at the Giro earlier this year.
and this is her third grand tour of the year.
So welcome to the World Tour Seagrid.
She is one of 17 riders in this Tour de France Fembeves' Whiff,
that this is their third grand tour of the year.
Wow.
17 riders currently racing out of the 146.
We'll see who is not in the race anymore today after that time cut.
To my point the other day, even on the men's side.
I think you shorten at least two out of three of them.
I could make the argument you shorten them all.
and you have people ride a lot more of the grand tours,
and you certainly potentially have somebody win the Grand Slam.
It's a great story.
Yeah, I love it.
Secret, we are a huge fan.
We want to see you in yellow for long and mid-stages.
Yeah, she's got over two minutes on Kim LaCourt, 206 on Dibby Ballering.
So she's going to be tired.
Look, she did.
I mean, we're in the second half of the show.
We're going to show you the time trial and talk about it.
Well, she deserves to be tired.
Yeah, exactly.
She did, tomorrow's time trial is, what, 21 kilometers?
She did a 95 kilometer time trial today.
Yeah.
She going to be tired.
Just bringing the old days of the tour of fronts.
Affect the men back right there, those long time trials.
Here we go.
I woke up real salty today.
I'm sorry.
Well, what's new?
It happens.
It happens.
I wanted to watch the start of the race, you know?
And it's hard.
You know, it's 5.45 in the morning.
Mari and I are texting.
And it was a ballistic, you know, start.
And I wanted to watch the start.
Well, you hear all this.
stuff happening a crash and this and it's like going straight uphill.
You're like, what's going on?
Worth noting, Demi Vollering did crash early on in the stage.
That we didn't catch it on the coverage.
But it was on Twitter.
I saw the video on Twitter.
It seemed, she certainly seemed fine at the end of the race.
Slightly concerning our friend Pauline was, and maybe she's, this is one of two things.
She's either just playing it really cool and knowing that these brink.
breaks are not going to, at the end, they were sort of attacking each other and accelerating over
some of these small climb, small hills. And she wasn't there. Like, there was a gap. That,
that concerns me. Yeah. But then again, you know, she's clever. She knows, she probably knows
that it's not going to go away. What I, you know, in that position, I wouldn't, I wouldn't,
let a gap open. Because you just never know. On that little climb, the cat four, they was so narrow
and step. Maybe she had bad position coming into it. But yeah, she didn't, when she didn't make
that, that was kind of, yeah, we saw two. That was the one before the one over the top. Yeah.
Yeah. It was a little concerned. It's worth noting. We'll watch it. We'll watch it. But, you know,
I do, we want to give a round of applause for Webus for two days in yellow. And Lance, I was thinking
about it watching this morning that I think I, well, probably done a lot of things you haven't done,
but one thing in like, Grace.
Let's start. Like what? Do you know? I'll throw out the first.
the first thing.
I haven't won the two
a difference.
Kid.
Okay.
But, no, I was thinking about this.
So, as we talked about, today's stage,
started out really difficult at this hard climb.
Category 1 climb.
And Wevis was in the group for a bit.
And then you could see the group Petto start for me.
And first she's there, like, 35 seconds.
Then it's like two minutes.
I'm like, maybe.
And then it's boom, you know, eight minutes.
And I'm like, okay, yellow jersey's done for the day.
Yellow jersey races up the road.
I was like, ooh, some of the teams were sending riders back to support their sprinters that were dropped in this gruppetto, if their jobs were done working for the climbers.
I have had to do that before, work for a rider in the gruppetto.
I don't need to be in the gruppetto, but it's nice to work for your sprinters in the gruppetto.
And I bet you have never been in the gruppetto ever.
That's not true.
Oh, really?
That's actually news to me.
No, no, no.
First tours, I was in the grubedo.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Oh.
Have you ever sent you back to work in the group of them?
Not fun.
No.
Not the party bus?
Not the laughing group, as they would call it.
But it looks like that groupetto finished in nice safe time.
So we have those riders for.
Oh, we're checking.
Yeah, I know.
I wanted you to check that out.
They're 138 riders in.
So it looks like they're going to make it.
Yeah.
You know, I think it just, it shows you, speaking of Lorraine and Wevis,
it just shows you how impressive, you know, not that we knew it was impressive,
but how even more impressive her first stage victory,
or that stage one victory was.
Yeah.
Uphill finish, a lot of climbers around her.
She just gutted it out.
She's like, I have to stay here.
Like, if I stay here and just hang on,
I can win the sprint, right?
As I saw her get dropped on the first climb,
I was like, well, it had to be really hard day one.
Well, it also probably took a lot out of her doing that.
And, you know, two stage run.
Yeah.
Yellow jerseys, I mean.
It's all good.
Now, folks, a day would not be complete here on the move if we did not talk about the UCI.
So as I was waking up, waiting for the coverage to come on, reading the live reports on the internet, reading the news on the internet.
I did not know.
And I've been tracking this just in culture.
I didn't know.
This is some weird shit.
Like they, you fall, you fall culture, like pop culture, all this.
Everything's maxine.
Maxine.
Maxine.
And weight, you know, I don't know what they are.
All these maxings, you know, social media, man.
Fuck, I don't know.
Well, I'm reading the news.
And the UCI is apparently cracking down on bra maxing.
And I'm like, I saw the headline.
I was like, I don't even know if I can clearly, if it's appropriate for me to click on this.
But I had to click on it.
And of course.
Talk about clickbait right there.
And there is, there's some stuff going on.
I guess some, I, maybe I'll stop.
Okay, I'm ready for this.
Go ahead.
I don't know what's going on here.
I am going to call it inflategate.
Okay, this is in flight gate, all right?
So this is where some of the teams are going up to the UCI comms worried about tomorrow
that women are going to be overpatting their bras in the time trial.
to increase their aerodynamics.
And actually that makes sense.
Normally, that could be not arrow in some situations,
but when you're down in the time trial position,
you are closing this air cavity.
Yes, it has been proven.
Just like in time trials in triathlon,
you can put a water bottle like down here.
Camel back or some sort of a bladder in front.
So it's chest faring and the physics is real.
It's a real thing.
And you can actually reduce drag up to 0.78 seconds per kilometer.
But my question is, like, so I think they're doing the inspection.
Well, yeah, like what they did they do?
Like you have to show up with your shirt undone or like they ask you to unzip when you get to the start line.
How bizarre is that?
Where are they doing it?
Are they doing it right when you're in the gate or whatever?
Like a minute and a half to go?
And how many people just put in their applications for tomorrow's time trial to be like, you know what?
I think I want to be a USA, like UCI commissaire tomorrow.
And then are they going to be like saying that a padded bra or something is going to be counting as,
inflating? I mean, what is counting as inflating?
We don't know. That's crazy. This is just
the headline is so, it was so
We'll see tomorrow.
Well, right now they have no clear enforcement
of it, but if they do discover
that you are doing this bra-maxing, chest-faring
thing, you can get fined $200,000
Swiss francs.
But how are they going to enforce it?
I do not know.
Listen.
But it's clearly very strange.
Now, I'm not sure of any riders for Saturday
night live or watching the show.
But if you are, this is a hell of a skit.
I would love this.
You imagine the S&L skit?
Women's Tour de France.
Time trial.
This lady shows up.
This is an S&L skit.
It is.
That's hilarious.
Including the commissar, like some skis ball.
Oh, no, I got this.
Come on over.
Come over here to my little 10, little girl.
Some greasy, sweaty.
Must make inspection.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
And then the women start going faster because of this aerodynamic advantage.
And then next thing you know, the men are going to be doing it, Lance, right there.
Braxing.
All the tours.
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It's hard to even go back after the bra maxing.
Well, we do have some updates.
There's so many things I could say.
And I'm just sitting here.
And I'm like, Lance, don't say it.
There's just, wait, just don't say it.
You usually tell me not to say what's on my name.
I know, but this, there's a lot.
Well, I think a lot of people thought that when they woke up and saw the headlines this morning.
Look, here's the thing.
It is, and I can only kind of remember or recall what was done in the men's belt.
It's real.
I mean, early days, guys were testing out and actually racing at times with a kid.
camelback in front of them that would create a bit of a foil.
And then even they crack down on that.
So you can't do that.
And then they were, then they had their race radios that were sort of overwrapped with
something as just even that much would create some sort of.
So it is real.
It's just, speaking to time trial.
Tomorrow we have a time trial.
And tomorrow we'll actually also find out the official route for Vantu on
the fire danger. So whether it's a shortened approach or not. But Marianne did say this morning,
officially we're doing Vantu, it just depends if we do Madeline and all these things before it
or if we have to shorten the route to the fires. So we will know tomorrow. T.T. Let's have a look.
This is not a, yeah. Got a little climb in the middle. And, yeah, 6.9% at 1.8K.
Total elevation gain is 255 meters.
The steepest section is 6.9%.
Yeah, the 2K at 7%.
That's kind of feel like a climb.
I'm curious about the route, how technical it is.
Three hairpins.
It's not supposed to be overly technical.
Point to point, pain in the butt for the staff.
Like a staff's worst nightmare, point to point.
Having to get staffed there, have people at the finish, get the equipment.
It's just typically they start in.
finished the same place, not overly technical in terms of the run-in or, but, but, I mean,
I guess the story to look for tomorrow is, and I think we know the answer, is, is Sigrid
with two plus minutes. Does she keep the yellow jersey, which just continues this great story.
And then, obviously, for the, for G.C., I mean, we, we talked about Pauline, and we talked about
in the preview show of if she has one weakness, it is the time trial.
And got you.
And, and gosh.
So the two of them seeing how they come out.
Those we have to see, because this is going to impact the race.
A lot to see.
A lot to watch.
A lot to look for.
And a lot to win and a lot to lose for these gals.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think like over 15 kilometers of the course, I think really reward like raw power and aerodynamics.
So I think it's really going to suit somebody like a Marlon Rouser, Damie Valerine, and then Zoe Baxter.
I think my three top picks, Vanderbergin could have a good T.T.
She didn't look so good today.
but Ati is a completely different discipline.
And the dissent, the last 6K descent, like I looked at all on Google Earth today and everything, it's not overly technical, which Kassia is really good on technical dissents and things.
But I think this is going to be more of a power descent.
So you're still going to have to put out a crap ton of power.
Definitely think it's a Marlon course.
Looks perfect for her to me.
Yeah.
Yeah, it starts to set up the second half of the race, right?
If somebody does have a bad day and they are an exceptional climber, it's just a guarantee that they're going to have.
have to animate the race, which is just sitting at home.
It's going to be awesome.
That's good.
Not great for them, but for us watching, this is good.
But it'll really dictate what the tactics are like, the second half and just how animated
the race is, which is, yeah.
It's super exciting.
Yeah, Sigrid, this is, she went straight to the top.
I really hope she's number one fan.
I mean, she should be able to hold it.
But, you know, depending on how she feels after me.
Just pedal like you were peddling today.
Exactly.
For the first 80 kilometers of your solo break and you'll be fine.
You'll be fine.
She'll very air on a road bike.
Yeah.
Very smooth.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, see.
And, you know, I think there was going to be a lot of women not racing the time trail,
just doing the time cut, just like the group pedal today.
So, you know, you're playing it safe, make the time cut and get ready.
In a time trial?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, Lord.
I mean, yeah, it's based on percentages, so you don't have a ton of time.
You can't go too easy.
Like, I mean, if they have to still race because the time cut's going to be enough.
Yeah, I mean, the first person is going to be so fast.
If you are trying to go for a time cut, you could mess it up.
27 minute effort or so.
Wow.
I guess.
I wouldn't.
You're the, you're the propeller head.
I don't know.
I love time.
I love time.
800 feet of climbing
Is it 138 women in the race?
Is that what we're down to?
So everybody did make the time cut today.
One person dropped out today.
Yeah.
Oh, no.
Yeah.
Sorry.
Dina Bowles.
Dina Bowles.
All right.
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Coltland, caller number one.
Hey, Lance, Kyle Gray calling from North Carolina.
I just had a quick question.
What do you think the ninth stage impact will have on the Florida-of-Rion spins?
Look forward to hearing you.
Kyle, I am going to also let these ladies answer this.
But I, and check out the preview show because I, by the way, a lot of calls from the Carolinas.
George.
You notice that George, this guy can't get away from him, his people.
The George effect is real.
The southeast.
I thought I've made fun of them enough that they.
They'd stop calling.
You know, talking about the balloon.
Don't shoot the balloon, y'all.
Whatever you do, do not go outside.
Hopefully everybody remembers that Chinese balloon that was flying over our country.
I do.
What?
It's this part of the show.
Just chill.
Anyways, Kyle, I, as I said in the previous show, I love the stage.
That part of France, south of France,
And when I think about the south of France, you really, there's kind of three main communities there along the water.
You have Khan, Little West.
You have Nice sitting right in the middle.
And then you have Monaco to the east.
And all of the riding between Nice and Monaco is that's where I trained.
Right.
I lived between those two places.
I think the writing is good, not great, out towards Khan.
but the riding behind Nice and Monaco is never flat.
Simply, never flat.
You cannot do time trial training,
you cannot go out there on a TTI bike.
There's no flat roads.
So this third stage is right.
And it is on arguably the most famous climb
and the most storied climb in the south of France,
the Kolda-ez.
Now, for those who didn't fall cycling 30, 40, 50 years ago,
Perry Nice would always finish on the Kolda-ez,
the great Sean Kelly, the great Irishman would, you know, I don't know,
one peri, nieces a zillion times, he would always dominate the time trial at Coldest.
They're doing it three times.
And you can see the profile.
It is never flat.
They go up, they go down, they turn around, basically, and they go up, and they go down,
and they do it three times.
Race isn't over until it's over.
I mean, I think...
It's going to be an exciting way to finish this race.
Unless somebody has such a lead and such a good team that they can control the race.
but I still think it's hard.
It's never flat.
No.
Like I said in the preview show, it ain't going to be no parade.
No.
No, which is.
Which makes it really exciting for all of us.
Yeah.
Because there is parade possibilities in Nice.
And we said that too.
I mean, the promenade is on the promenade is on glee.
To the finish.
No.
It's a, this is a race right, right to the finish.
So that's, yeah, it's not over until it's over.
Be a big day.
Mm-hmm.
Call her number two.
This is Harlan WF from Denver.
Has the sponsorship landscape for women improved
lading to more and better compensation for the racers?
I know that was a big subject several years ago,
and I wanted to find out if that's better now.
Thank you.
It's a great question.
You guys know this a lot better than I do.
I mean,
other than you guys have talked about some of the million-dollar riders,
which I love, by the way,
I think it's a great headline.
Like if you're just a sports fan at home and you read that headline, you're like,
okay, this is a real sport?
It's really exciting.
I mean, how many do we have now, Ali, over a million?
Is it three?
Three with Paula coming.
Coming that we think is going to be over a million also.
And so the salaries at the top are really great.
And a lot of improvement, that comes from the sponsorships.
But the hard part is, is the level right below kind of to keep feeding the world to our teams.
So we still have work.
work to do, but it's definitely improving.
And the budgets, like the overall team budgets, like if, I believe his name was
harder than like if I felt like he was asking about just, you know, across the
Peloton overall budgets of these teams, is that on the increase year over year?
Absolutely.
It's increasing now for sure.
And you're seeing more of these dual team programs with a male and a female team.
So that's, you know, sharing resources, increasing the overall budget and support.
also having a race like the Tour de France Fem of X,
which having sponsors like Zwift
investing in this for five years plus five more.
So this is showing what this viability of the sport is,
and we're looking at million-dollar riders out there.
But I agree with Mari like to keep that funnel coming.
So keep watching the FEM, guys.
But we also, it would be great to keep the media up on the same, you know, level too.
So having live coverage on a stage that starts in the morning
with the uphill start like we did today,
and we missed a good portion of what was going on in the beginning.
I almost got his fire during the men's race.
Don't start.
We don't want any trouble.
I woke up salty.
I'm sorry.
I don't want to cause problems, but I would love to beg for.
Listen.
You all call her.
Don't call me.
I didn't say nothing.
But it is.
Look, it's, look, and I will say, yes, of course, it would be great on these days
where you know there's going to be action.
on the gun. However, the race is streaming live on Peacock. And however, part two, we are streaming
live on Peacock, which is super, super cool. Well, and don't get me wrong. Like, the media coverage
has been a huge part of why the sport is growing the way it is. It's just to keep improving
on things. Yeah, and I'm curious, of course, we're sitting here on the mean streets of
Aspen, Colorado. I'm curious, you know, if we were sitting in Provence, right, and we
walked down for our morning, panacolat, and got Laquayette. Like, where does the, where does,
and we're just used Laquip as an example, since it's a French paper and, of course, really the home
of the tour, like, where does this race fit in that coverage? I would have to imagine, and we
could find this out, but I would have to imagine it features pretty prominently. And you also
got to look around the global sports landscape and say, okay, what else is going on, right?
Well, there's not a Grand Slam tennis final.
What is pulling from the attention?
I don't think there's a lot, which I think suits.
Look, we saw it in the men's race, right?
The men's race would have been down because the men's World Cup,
soccer World Cup was going on.
As soon as it finished, then, you know,
viewership probably went up in cycling.
Right now for the Tour de France family of Beck Swift,
there's really nothing else out there.
So that's good timing for them.
Well, and I mean with PFP, you know, she's a national hero.
So I'm sure it's prominent in the paper.
Well, she better stay up front.
She better stay up front.
Yeah, that's true.
That's true.
And, I mean, we are streaming what we are provided from the ASO.
So, like, everyone is getting the stream provided from the record.
Well, now, that's an interesting, okay.
So it's not, yeah, everyone is, it's not Peacock.
It's, it's all doing the best we can.
That feed is what's, that's when it's getting turned on by ASO to all the people around the world who are
buying the rights for the coverage.
Yeah.
So only stages five and nine are going to be broadcasted live from start to finish.
And all seven of the other ones are 2.5 hours of live coverage.
And so that is what ASO provides to all the distributors worldwide.
So that is what people are getting.
So that's why I'm on Twitter, like, following like the live feeds and all of that.
Well, at least we have the weekend because those two stages are going to be epic.
Yeah.
You're going to have to wake up early.
Well, I'm fine.
I get up early every day.
Whatever.
Today I had a hell of a good time watching.
I was, that, I'm just, we'll just, we'll just.
finished with going back to Sigrid.
For her to pull that off to obviously, you know, have the nose of the race and the instinct
of the race to get in that move, then go away.
But for her to drag race, Lada Capecki, one of the strongest women in the world.
It was awesome.
Never once looking back.
Never once.
Full send.
Full send.
Seagrid, wear that yellow with truck.
She gets all three.
The boom stick, the see of the duchess and the move of the day.
She totally did say see you in the duchess.
All right.
Well, you know what?
I'm going to go to bed tonight thinking about brawaxing and getting ready for the time.
I'm just reading the news.
Do not.
Maybe I'll try some bra maxing.
Do not start being inappropriate.
I'm just reading the news right here on the internet.
And so we got the time trial tomorrow.
We're excited for it.
Thanks for tuning in.
And we'll see you all tomorrow in three to one.
Bye.
