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Episode Date: May 20, 2026

Johan Bruyneel and Spencer Martin break down Jhonatan Narváez's incredible stage win over Enric Mas from the breakaway to get his third win of this Giro and get his UAE team their fourth stage win since Stage 4. They look at how the winning move was formed, how Narváez played his cards well, and what we learned from the GC group behind. They also look forward to tomorrow's Stage 12, giving their picks for the win and if they expect any teams to attempt to shake the sprinters loose on the mid-stage climbs. Become a WEDŪ Member Today to Unlock VIP Access & Benefits: https://access.wedu.team Hims: For simple, online access to personalized and affordable care for Hair Loss, ED, Weight Loss, and more, visit https://Hims.com/THEMOVE Blueprint: Science-backed, precision-dosed, no BS. For a limited time only, our listeners get 20% off + free shipping at https://blueprint.bryanjohnson.com by using code THEMOVE at checkout. That's code THEMOVE at https://blueprint.bryanjohnson.com for 20% off.  After you purchase, they will ask you where you heard about them. PLEASE support our show and tell them our show sent you.  

Jonas publicly said after the finish that he regrets his tire choice of today. He was using time travel tires. So this is now the third time that we see that UAE is using the time trial tires of Continental. I know another team where the riders constantly push the mechanics to put the time travel tires on their wheels. because they're obviously faster but I think in the case of a writer like Jonas who's the heavy favorite you have to go

for safety. You have to try to control the controllables. Everybody, welcome back to the Move Plus. I'm Spencer Martin. I'm here with Johan Bernal. We are breaking down stage 11 of the Gér de Tadio one by and then we'll also preview stage 12. People are asking where's outcomes?

Outcomes is at the end of this episode. End of every episode. We do a mini outcomes episode. But Johan, Jonathan Narvaez, wins from the breakaway. His third win of the Zyrid Italia, fourth for UAE. This was no accident. This guy was the strongest guy

of the day. He was unbelievable. Beat Inric Moss in a two-ups sprint. I don't think Enric Moss really believed he could win. I kind of look like he wanted to get caught so he wouldn't have to sprint against Narbias. Diego Ulysi, blast from the past, finishes third, 11 seconds

behind. The breakaway splintered. There was a chase group coming after them. The GC group comes in three and a half minutes down without issue. Net company Enios kind of taking control the front of the Peloton. Jonas Finnegard, he's so good, so good at hovering around. I don't know if you've noticed this, but he's always, always seems to be in the right place in the group. The day, just a quick summary of the day started. It was one of these very similar parkours to stage eight, I believe, where it's a fast, fast, flat start for the first half goes into Mountain Hills.

the second half that has an odd dynamic of everyone wants to get into the move, but it's very easy to mark people out of the move, the type of riders that get into the move, aren't the type of riders that can stay away on the mountains. Pretty interesting to watch, actually. I'd had a great time watching the beginning of the stage. There is a breakaway with a small gap going into the climb with around 90K to go. Jonathan Arvias is back in the peloton.

He's been marked by Egan Bernal all day. Probably thinking, oh, this guy's probably going to win. I'll mark him. Also, if I get up the road, I cause problems for other GC teams. Win, win. There seemed to be, Vizmo, though, was not allowing this to happen. There seemed to be maybe even a conversation. Narvias eventually float, like this guy was going so good. He floated off the front. He didn't even attack off the front with 88K to go on one of the climbs. Inric Moss is off the front. And then he's in a chase group behind the breakaway that's riding away 40 seconds behind with 83K to go. he starts sprinting. He attacks across, gets across clean by himself one kilometer later. So

closes 40 seconds and one kilometer on a climb. Very impressive. And then it was just a game of sitting in not doing too much. There was a crash of Leonard Bennett felt, Philippe Bazana, Christian Scroni, showing you how hard this breakaway or how talented, how strong this break was, if those three guys were in it with Narvaeus, with Inric Moss. Inric Moss attacks on the final climb. Narvaeus marks them. They descend down to the finish. And then there was a two-up sprint. It kind of looked like Moss could have closed the door on him, but he didn't, Narvaeus wins the sprint for his third stage.

But, Johan, what was your takeaway from the day? Yeah, Spencer, I mean, I think the takeaway is how strong Narvaise is and how much he was in control of every single situation in this stage. There was no way he was going to miss the breakaway, unless the breakaway would have gone on the flat a lot earlier and you're caught out and you're all of a sudden you're a minute, two minutes behind. and you can't you can't close the gap but but yeah I mean he was the strongest in every single situation he said in his interview that Enric Moss had him on the

limit on the climbs I don't believe that yeah I don't believe that not not on these climbs you know it would be a longer longer steeper climb maybe but by the way great comeback from Enric Moss man I mean he was he's out of the G. He was very very aggressive today. And, you know, being in front with Nervais, he knew he was not going to win. But I think for his morale, it's good that he was fighting for the victory because he really disappointed in the first two mountain stages. And he came here for G.C. So that was good for him. Also interesting to see Chris Harper in that breakaway, who was basically the only guy who was interested in having the gap as big as possible because he gets into the top 10 now.

That's for some riders a goal on itself. Don't know if he's going to stay there, but Harper's a strong rider. So he was always trying to keep it going. And you could see that Narvaise was basically always looking. Whenever there was a situation that he knew he let Harper do a lot of work, He let Enric Maas do a lot of work. But every time he needed to correct the situation, he corrected it in no time. In no time.

I mean, at least that's what it looks like. I'm sure he was also suffering and going full out. But yeah, I mean, listen, three stage wins for Narvaise. That's really impressive. Four stage wins in the last eight stages since their three riders crashed for UAE. That's incredible. And, you know, I think a few podcasts ago we said, you know, this is not the last stage win for UAE. So, so yeah, I mean, here we go.

We already have another one. And we were just past halfway now. There's still 10 stages to go. The atmosphere in that team must be incredible. And so there's probably going to be another stage win for UAE at some point. But they can ride relaxed now. It's, it's, yeah, I mean, being in that situation in a team, it's really nice because from now on in a grand tour, the suffering is physical, but above all mentally, you know, and there's a lot of riders who are now basically already so tired that they want to drag themselves to the finish in Rome. This is not the case in UAE right now.

So listen, I mean, great win for him, whatever his situation is for the future, his market value keeps going up and up and up. He's out of contract. Maybe he has signed a new deal yet, or maybe he hasn't. We don't know that. But anyways, whatever he's going, it looks like he's not staying at UAE. The biggest rumor is that he's going to net company, Ineos. comes from there, by the way, three years ago he was riding there. Yeah.

And so I guess his value goes up and up and up. Why is he living in UAE? I still don't. I think it's for opportunities, Spencer. I think it's for own opportunities. You know, I mean, he's now, what is he, 29? 29, yeah. Yeah.

Especially for the classics, right? Yeah, I mean, and there's a lot of races this rider can win if he, if he's the protected rider one day races stage wins and and i guess also uh you know any other team who is in need of a rider who can win races that's not the case in uae but that's the case in in neos uh and so i think if he goes back to uh in aes or net company in aos i think that makes a lot of sense and the contract will obviously be very interesting so it's going to be that contract was signed before this year to tell you. Well, you know, I don't know who's agent is.

It's probably going to be either Carrera or a quadro. Both of them, they're smart enough to put bonuses in there, running bonuses, you know, before the season finishes. So if it's signed, it's still going to go up. Oh, man. Yeah, this guy is, he's incredible. I mean, we actually. It's like, you know, when you're a team manager,

of a team who has signed this rider. He said, okay, great, we have it. Please stop winning. Stop winning now for that team. Ben Turner, beat this guy. Come on. We can't afford this. But we could talk for two hours about the stage and we wouldn't do what he did justice.

I mean, it was so impressive. He was marking, you know, they only, what, five guys on the team. So they don't have a lot of firepower. He's marking a lot of stuff himself on the flats. Doesn't work. And it's like, yeah, I'm not going to worry about it. because I'm just going to break away when we get to the climb. And you have Enric Moss.

Like, Enric Moss was working hard to get away from the group. And he's one of the best climbers in the world. And Jonathan Norvias goes with him, doesn't get dropped by him, wins a sprint. Is there anything Moss could have done? Like, what is the plan there? Yeah. No, there's nothing he could have done. Nothing he could have done.

I mean, the only thing would be maybe, you know, try to put him on the limit in the downhill and try to, you know, make him take risks for him to crash. But I think Narvaise better dissenter than Enrique Mas. And Narvaise was actually leading the downhills. So, no, there was nothing Enrique Mas could have done. He did everything right. No, nothing he could have done. Maybe you could say maybe he would have had a better chance

if they were five riders together than just a two. But that's also debatable. Because for Enric Maas to get away, he's not punchy. You know, he's a diesel. He goes away, you know, on rhythm, not with an attack. But no, I think Eric Moss did what he had to do. It was nothing he could do to win the stage today. And you noticed Red Bull had two riders up there.

They had Alexander Vlasov with Nico Dense. Yeah. Really actually good tactic. You send a bigger, a big round rider with a skinny rider. He helps him get in the move and then he drives the move. Is this, what did you make of this? an admission that maybe things aren't going the way they want the GC? I mean, obviously they know they're not going to win the Gero.

I think that's clear unless Hindley kind of has his last week, which would be incredible, but I still think it would be very difficult. So on stages like today, guys should go in breakaways. You know, you can't just, if you have a rider who's, especially, it depends. the team Spencer, right? I mean, Red Bull, okay, they may have a possibility to have somebody on the podium, right? Whether that's Hindley or Pellizari, we don't know yet. But that's kind of expected from a team like Brad Bow. So, you know, you can't just play all your cards and dedicate all of your riders to that one rider who maybe is going to be on the podium. You have

to go for opportunities. I think today, the fact that Lasso was in there was good. Although I saw he was struggling a few times. And, you know, it's not the Vlasov we've known. You know, Vlasov, today he did okay. But Vlasov has been on a higher level than what he's riding now at this Giro. And since, you know, since a few races already. Even last year, I didn't see Vlasov on the level we knew from him a few years ago.

But never, never count out a guy with, with, with, class and talent, which plus of definitely is super talented writer. He could have won the stage, but he, yeah, on the claims, he was too much on the limit, I think. But at least they were there. Other teams didn't have anybody there, right? Of course, I mean, Bahrain didn't have anybody. Visma didn't have anybody.

That's on purpose. De NEOs didn't have anybody, no? No, they didn't have anybody. Yeah, there was a bit of a. I don't know. I think that a deal was made because they were trying to get in the move and Vizma was marking them every time. Yeah. And then I think a detente was called perhaps. And then I saw that in some sections, Ineos was basically driving the Peloton. I don't know if that was with the intention of bringing the break back or just keeping Ardansmal in good position.

I think I don't think they were because if you look at the times and the climbs, they got to the front at the bottom of the hardest climb of the day. And I think the gap actually went up on that climb. So obviously they're not pushing. I think people can scoff at this. We've scoffed at it of like, you get the writer to believe. You show them that you believe.

But Aronsman is a guy who I think he was open about this before the zero that he is. The main thing he struggled with is believing in himself and kind of get in his own head. So maybe that is what they were doing there. They looked good. Yeah. What did you make of, so Vizma in the, like in the final, first of all, Jonas Vindegard sprinting himself to the front of the group for the final descent, leading down the descent, no teammates with him.

And then he only has two teammates with them when they get over that climb. What is that a tactic by them to save riders or are they hurting right now? What's going on? I mean, there's, you know, two riders left. Who was it? It was Sapkusen and P. Danzoli, the climbers. That was a hard climb.

That was, what, 30, 35 riders left. They've done already quite a bit of work in this, in this Giro, although a lot less than what a big favorite team normally should have been doing because of circumstances, because other teams were either in the lead or came up in doing the job for them. But still, they're down one rider also. They lost Calderman very early. So I think it was normal to have only three riders there. Didn't look like it was never a problem for them.

I do have one. I remarked one thing. I saw a quote from Jonas, which surprised me and keeps surprising me, not just about him, but about choices, some riders and some teams keep making. And I was thinking, was that maybe also one of the reasons why net company Ineos was trying to drive it especially on the downhills

is that Jonas publicly said after the finish that he regrets his tire choice of today. He was using time trial tires. So this is now the third time that we see that UAE

is using the time trial tires of Continental. I know another team. where the riders constantly push the mechanics to put the time trail tires on their wheels, because they're obviously faster. But I think in the case of a rider like Jonas, who's the heavy favorite, you have to go for safety. You have to try to control the controllables.

I mean, at least, maybe I'm old-fashioned thinking, but, and I said this already, you know, that's what we always did. You know, we, back in the days, it was different. It was 23, 21 and 19-millimeter tire. completely different story, but still. And he said that Yona said he regrets the choice and he didn't feel confident in the downhills. You know, that's something that shouldn't happen.

First of all, he should not write time for all tires, especially not in the stage like today. Well, today, yeah, what did he have the game by going fast? Exactly. Yeah, exactly. So is that also, I mean, my second question is also, is that also because he feels a little bit off that he wants a little bit extra advantage with better tires or faster tires, it shouldn't really make a difference for him in a stage like today.

I can understand that a mountain top finish, you go with, I mean, but then he still have the, if it's basically one, one climb, you can go with time trial tires. That's fine.

But, you know, today was good weather, you know, there was no rain prediction. And still he said he felt he didn't feel safe. And obviously, that's also an information that the other teams have. Because, you know, I mean, in the in the bus parking in the morning, people go and, you know,

they go check out the bikes from other teams. And they look, what gear do they have? What tires are they riding? So for sure, Ineos knew that Fingergarde was on Pamphral tires today. Is that a reason? Well, I mean, I'm just thinking out loud. Maybe not. Well, that would explain why he then sprinted to the front of the group for the last descent.

Like, I'm going to slow these guys down. Well, he definitely wanted to be in front, but didn't feel comfortable. So I don't understand these choices in stages like today. Yeah, I would just ride the normal safe tires, which are also pretty fast. Very fast, yeah. No, no, they're riding, they're riding Victoria. No, I think they're riding Victoria tire. But yeah, stuff like that shouldn't happen.

Super technical dissents, too. It is a strange choice. Very strange. Net company Ennio has had five riders in that front group, and they've not been great as a team. So it shows things are turning around. Here's the little, you said, Aronsman's not going to win this race,

and he's probably not for being honest. But I went back and looked at this. 60% of his career wins, not just Grand Tour stage wins, 60% of his wins have come in the last seven days of a grand tour. So I do wonder if Vizma's feeling a little, like, I don't know, I wouldn't, I wouldn't love having him 90 seconds back, especially if Yonis maybe is trying to half speed his way to a zero title. That would give me a little bit of pause. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, this is something to have in mind. You know, the guy is obviously, you know, he started this Jero really well compared to other. other occasions where he lost time in the first two stages. This time he didn't lose any time. He's now also virtually in second. If we don't count Eulalio, and I think normally,

Aronsman will finish ahead of Elyle. But yeah, I mean, it's definitely, I just don't see him good enough of a climber to make life difficult for Jonas. 90 seconds is hard unless someone totally falls apart. Like even think about Pagachar when he was at, you know, 20, 24 tour to France and he's blowing up the Pyrenees. He's not finishing that much far.

He's, you know, Yon is still in the vicinity. And those are some of the best climbing performances we've ever seen. So it actually is hard to pull back. Even Philo Scull, think about Philist's call. 157 back. It's hard to pull that back on a guy like. Yeah, I think it's on, especially on on on on on on on on on on on on on on. I think it's more going to be more of the contrary Spencer is that Jonas is going to take time on Aronsman on the climbs.

That's true. That's what happened normally. Here is the only thing today made me think about and it reminded me of. Jonas right now reminds me of contador when he was not at his best, but he's still winning grand tours. Do you remember the stage in the jiro? where Landa, it was Landa and Arru get up the road. Conthador is isolated. He does a great job. He limits the losses and wins the race.

Could we, like think of like stage 14. It starts on a 16K long climb. It's one of these classic alpine days where you just have like up down, up down, up down with some valleys. Is Vizma going to be there in force? Like what happens if Bernal gets up into the breakaway? Like, do they have, that's the only thing I'm kind of thinking about. Bernal is not a problem for Jonas.

Well, let's say, I mean, eventually he would be. I just wonder if they clearly didn't want him in the break today. They didn't want to spot him three minutes, that's for sure. But I don't know. Now that I'm thinking about old Contrador victories and how he, how people kind of went at him, it does make me think about these alpine stages and if how Visma is going to approach that. realistically in modern cycling doesn't matter. Sit back.

Someone's going to pull for you. Bahrain's going to come to the front. Who cares? Whatever. So yeah, maybe it won't be a problem. No. No, I think, listen, I mean, even if Jonas is a bit off, he still, you know, if he just backs off a little bit, he's not going to lose, if he lose his time at all, it's not going to be

not going to be a lot. Yeah. I mean, that was weird. Weird with the time trial tires. I don't get that. Since if you looked at the parkours for today, you'd say pretty technical descents. I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure you.

He was riding the TT tires again today also. They. It's a word for, work for, yes. It has to be mostly mental, right? It cannot be that fast. I mean,

listen, no. I mean, and also, but also, you know, the, the,

the, the TTI tires are also, they have good grip. You know, it's, I think it was just a bit of a risk in the, in the rainy stages. for for UAE but but yeah I mean I don't know the fact that he said it himself today I think was telling there was obviously I mean otherwise you wouldn't say that you know whether you would say you would just keep it quiet or he doesn't care right I wouldn't win this race I don't give a shit he only said it to the Danish media not not to the international interesting yeah interesting that does happen that people there's like an NBA

player who went home to German and he was saying all this stuff he shouldn't have said on the podcast but I'm like and his mind he was like they're never going to hear this they don't speak German they can't figure this out yeah so only five teams of one stages we're at stage 11 five teams of one it feels like we say this more and more in grand tours we're like oh it's only six teams that won a stage UAE's won four sudal's one two astana's one two vizman's one two net company anyos the little engine that could with the getting a stage one yesterday doesn't bode that well for smaller teams i mean sudal would be the smallest of those teams but they're very specialized in what they do yeah no it's listen i mean there's a lot of teams

who are going to get away with nothing here you know if you look uh i mean red bull hasn't won a huge team huge track hasn't won a stage uh and the thing is you know it looks like they're going to have to be very lucky to win a stage actually these teams yeah so well uh Yeah, we'll see. We'll see. I mean, we still have 10 stages to go, so plenty of opportunities. But the hard mountain stages are going to be won by the big teams, right? I guess sometimes no, if you think about stage 20 last year, what Chris Harper wins from J-Co.

Like sometimes those actually are the optimal stages because the GC thing, you know, the GC situation is its own ecosystem. them. But that takes us to tomorrow's stage. Do you want to talk about it or do you have anything left for today? For today, not really. Not really. No, I think we've covered most of it, if not everything. I just people, I don't have the power numbers in front of me yet, but I bet someone like Narvaez, the power numbers were ridiculous. Like even before he gets into the breakaway, it was so hard for the first hour and a half, two hours of racing. Yeah, I think they did. 46, 47 kilometers per hour or something. They were like, I think they were like at some point, one hour ahead of the fastest schedule.

Yeah. And then obviously in the last part of the stage, it slowed down because it was hilly. But again, again, a super fast stage. And it takes a toll. I mean, you can just, you could see people being fatigued. So that's only going to get worse and worse. But let's take a quick break. Then we'll talk about stage 11.

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Okay, Johan, tomorrow's stage, 175 kilometers. It has a, it has two categorized climbs, an 11K climb at 4%, and then followed immediately by a 5.5 kilometer long climb at 6%. And then it descends in the last, like from the top of the last climb, it is roughly 50 kilometers to the finish line. You mentioned Little Trek, one of the teams that needs a wish. win here. This could be a good stage for Jonathan Milan, even if it's not, they need it. They need to make it one. How do you see this playing out and who do you think is going to win?

Yeah. I mean, there's several scenarios, right? I mean, I think a breakaway is going to be difficult. Still possible, but difficult. A complete bunch sprint is a possibility, those climbs or cat tree climbs. but I see it more as a sprint of a reduced peloton, Spencer. I can foresee a scenario like we had on, was it stage? I don't remember what stage it was. When the guy from Astana won, what's his name, Thomas Guillermo Silva. Yes, yes. So I mean, and especially with the performance of Enric Mast today,

Maral and the team I think I think tomorrow Movistar is going to drive a hard pace on on that on those climbs especially on that last climb but did you say 5.5 kilometers 6%

yeah yeah and so it doesn't descend immediately which makes it more difficult tomorrow is is or Luis Olaar to win in the sprint okay yeah I like that I guess I would say, well, that's a long way from the top of the climb to the finish,

but that's essentially what they did on stage. Yeah, stage four. I think it's probably a bit closer, but still, you know, people are tired now. It's teams are not complete anymore. Some guys are, you know, it's difficult to organize a chase from now on. So, yeah, I think that's probably going to be the scenario. It may still all come back, right? And in that case, I'm giving my preference if it's a sprint to Paul Manier, because I think he's in better shape.

And he climbs actually better than Jonathan Milan in this year. He is a very good climber, very good climber. How do you think he's been handling this race? Yeah, I mean, you know, it's not his first grand tour, right? He already did the Giro. But, you know, he's still young, so he might get, he might be tired. but I think Paul Manier is doing, he's been doing all right, man. Tomorrow's a great opportunity for him if there's a chance to stay close and make it back.

And he has a whole team dedicated to him. You know, they have nobody for G.C. And they have a few guys who really are riding strongly, you know, like Stuyven is riding well. There's a couple of Italians there who ride well on the team. So, yeah, I would say if it's a sprint or if a sprinter can make it back, it's probably going to mannier who makes it back before Milan. So we have the betting odds. They're out.

Paul Manier plus 275 is on draft Kings. Draft Kings, sponsor of the move for the tour de France. Paul Manier plus 275. Jonathan Milan plus 350, Ben Turner plus 400, Gronezegam plus 1,200. Tobias looned. apparently you don't say the and drison you just say tobiasloom plus 1,200 ular is plus 1,200 so that's a very good pick actually for a wild card if that plays out so the the betting the betting companies

assume it's going to be a pure bond sprint yes okay and i do think i'm not so sure i i think ular's a great hedge on that um i i is what do you get beat by nervius though is that the problem because he got people by him last time what's the finish like we haven't checked the finish the detail of the finish it's kind of slightly uphill okay okay that's obviously but just very slightly uphill let me can I see vela viewer let's see if it's uh slightly uphill then of course it's a different story here let me no no no it's fine it's no it's no I can tell us exactly the grade for this final. It was 2% max. So in the last kilometer,

yeah, it's like a percent. Yeah. So if anything that's better for like, it's one of these roundabouts within inside the funnel, okay, like why do they do this?

But if anything, that's better for like the Pierce brunters because then they can really separate themselves. I do, I'm having a hard time between you. I bet, the last two days, I got Ghana right, I got Narvaise right.

Norviz was plus 800, interestingly, and Chaconay was plus 300. But then Chaconay rolls up to the like the mix of this morning and goes, yeah, I'm sick. Like, well, okay, why was he plus 300? Did no one have this information? You can't always trust that. Marnier versus Milan, I mean, that would be something. If Manya, I do tend to agree with you that Monsier is probably going to win. That would be pretty credible.

if he did win, I mean, he looked so fast the last time we saw him back in Naples, he didn't win the stage. I'm going to go Milan plus 350 because he needs it. And, you know, same as I always say, Spencer Milan is already, he's still, I mean, he's not, how old is Milan, but he's, I have 26. He's like in the prime of his career, yeah, I think he's mid-20s. But he's, you know, he's already done a few, like a bunch of ground tours, has the engine. You know, these guys tend to stay at that level, you know, They don't lose any speed, if not the contrary.

When everybody's kind of fading away, guys like that, you know, stay the same. So if Milan has a chance to beat Manier, it's going to be in the second part of the Gero. So tomorrow could be an opportunity for him. What about Grunnevagan on that note? Yeah. Obviously, Grunovigin has, you know, he has been struggling more, suffering more. to get over the climbs so far. Like today would have been hard, you know?

These are not DC days. No, no, no. What was today? 3,000 meters? Yeah, like a mountain stage almost. Yeah, that's a hard stage. So it depends. It depends.

But listen, I mean, last time we saw him sprint, he definitely had the speed to win. So, I mean, I wouldn't mind it to be a pure sprint tomorrow that we can see all the real sprinters fighting it out. That would be nice. something we did notice though like today was four and a half hours the time cut was 35 minutes so it's more generous than the tour might be yeah so i guess that makes it easier but i'm gonna go milan you're going manier ular's the wild card yeah i like i like that a lot frankly i don't know if narvaez should be my wild card what about corbin strong not corbin strong yeah corbin strong although i think corbin strong is probably a bit stronger in harder finishes.

Yeah. I think he has less speed than these big, big sprinters. Corbyn Strong is not a heavy guy. He's pretty lightweight for a sprinter. Yep. Okay, well, thanks, Johan. Anything else before we take off? Nope.

Let's see what tomorrow brings. Thanks, Spencer. All right. We'll be back for stage 12 and previewing stage 13 tomorrow. I'll see you, Johan. Thanks.