THEMOVE - Pace, Heat & an Emotional Comeback Win | Giro d'Italia 2026 | THEMOVE+

Episode Date: May 27, 2026

Johan Bruyneel and Spencer Martin break down Michael Valgren's incredible win via a late solo attack from the breakaway on a hot, hard day through the foothills of the Dolomites. They discuss what the win means for Valgren, who has had a long road back from a terrible crash in 2022, and how important this is for his EF team, which has struggled to make an impact thus far at the race. They also preview tomorrow's Stage 18, going into why they think will win and how it will unfold. Buy tickets to THEMOVE's Final Giro Stage live show on May 31st https://www.myticketshop.be/event-details/wattage-festival-2026/777 Become a WEDŪ Member Today to Unlock VIP Access & Benefits: https://access.wedu.team  

Let's not forget this guy has been around for a while. He's 34 years old. One Amstel Gold, one Omlop with Newsblood, one two of Denmark several times, I think, other big races. And then I just checked. I mean, he hadn't, before today's, this year's stage win in Tireno, he hadn't won a single race since 2021. You know, we saw that when he crashed, I think it must have been 2022, this accident or whatever it was, and then he was kind of forced to go back to the Devo team of EF to get a lighter program and get back into it. So it must have been a really serious, serious injury.

And, you know, after all these struggles to be back and win a stage like this, it's nice to see. And it's nice to see a veteran like him win against, you know, into day cycling where, you know, the young guys are dominating and also winning the way he won, you know, with really, he was really smart. Everybody, welcome back to the Move Plus. I'm Spencer Martin. I'm here with Johan Bernil. We are breaking down stage 17 of the Giro Detalia, won by Michael Valgrin with a beautiful late move out of a breakaway to win the stage. put an exclamation point on the second end of his career has had a lot of injury problems in recent years. We will talk about it. Andreas Lechnutson was second. Damano Cruzo was third. I know Rubio, who was kind of the strongest guy in the split of the split, was fifth.

We'll get Johan's take on that. No change in the GC, except we had a few people in the bottom half of the top 10 drop down, because Caruso jumped up so much. He's now ninth overall because he was in that move. Just a quick recap of the stage. It starts on the flat. The Giro loves these flat starts. It just makes it super fast.

They're going 60, 65K an hour in the first 30 minutes of the race. It was really hard for a break to get away. A small move kind of noodles off the front before the first climb. But the big hitters like Jonathan Narvaez and Giulio Chocone, just wait until they get to the climb. They attack. Get a counter move up the road. Ben O'Connor tried to get into the move, but was marked out of it aggressively by Vizma,

who was almost knew that was coming. So before the stage, I would have said, oh, watch out for Ben O'Connor in the breakaway, but he had the idea. They knew it was coming. Didn't work. Tricone, Narvias, get up the road. But before they get there, Remy Kavanaugh, who was already in the front group, attacks before they bridge up with 138K to go, he gets a massive gap, like two-minute gap on the

breakaway. I'm thinking this guy's going to stay away. It starts to hail, rain. He starts to come back. It was also about 35 degrees Celsius. So boiling out there, hard to stay away that far. Break gets reeled. That gets reeled in. Break starts to break up. It's hard for a breakway of that size to stay together. And then on the final Klein, Rubio and Vagrin are away.

Igor Erieta bridges up with Caruso and Lechniksen and then Vagrin. Beautiful attack with 1K to go. No notes on the attack. It was they watched him going. By the time they responded, he was gone. Johann, what was your takeaway on the stage? Yeah, you summed it up perfectly, Spencer. I mean, take off the stage, obviously, you know, it was very entertaining to watch this breakaway.

You know, first of all, get together, 11 riders up front, 18 riders behind with Chaconan Arvice and then others, strong, really strong riders. Kavanaugh goes by himself, which, you know, I don't know what he was doing. that was, I mean, obviously, I think he, you know, one of the ideas behind an attack, it wasn't really an attack, you know, all of a sudden he was like 10 meters in front and he just kept going. One of the ideas behind that is, okay, let's see if I can find three or four companions because this group is way too big. There were multiple teams with multiple riders. Movistar even had, I think, four riders in there at some point, Movistar, at least three, maybe four. Four.

UAE had three riders in there so I think Kavanaugh thought by himself okay let me go here and see if I can get one of each with me that didn't happen and then yeah I mean what you could really see was that both Chikone and Narvaise were the two really marked riders in this breakaway you know whenever

whatever they tried to do they were on them the other teams with multivore multiple riders. So yeah, I mean, from the moment these, what was it, like six or seven riders went and Narvaise and Chicona were not in there. You could see, okay, that was, that was it. That was the Fuga de la Fuga. Yeah. And yeah, I mean, it's true. I mean, Rubio seemed by far the strongest rider on all the climbs. Valgrin was strong also. Arieta was, you know, coming back, getting dropped again. But man, what a win. What a win for Michael Valgrin.

And he was suffering, suffering, suffering to stay on Ena Rubio's wheel. Several times we could see Ena Rubio asking for collaboration. Walgren just said, no, I can't. And it was not because he didn't want to. He just could not physically. He had to do everything he could to stay on the wheel. And, you know, it's a nice win for him. You know, we have talked about him in Tireno Adriatico this year.

He won a nice stage there. Really hard stage, by the way, he won. Really hard stage. And that was kind of his moment back from, I mean, I don't exactly know the details, but I do know he had a career threatening a crash. Let's not forget this guy has been around for a while. He's 34 years old. One Amstel Gold, one Omlop with Newsblood, one two of Denmark several times,

I think other, I mean, other big races. And then I just checked. I mean, he hadn't, he hadn't before today's, this year's stage win in Tireno, he hadn't won a single race since 2021. You know, we saw that when he crashed, I think it must have been 2022, this accident or whatever it was. And then he was kind of forced to go back to the Devo team of EF to get a light, program and get back into it.

So it must have been a really serious, serious injury. And, you know, after all these struggles to be back and win a stage like this, it's nice to see. And it's nice to see a veteran like him win against, you know, in today's cycling where, you know, the young guys are dominating and also winning the way he won, you know, with really, he was really smart and knew to find his exact moment to go. And the moment he went, Spencer, it was not really a surprise. I think everybody was just ran out of

legs and that that's when that's when these guys can go. So yeah, really, really nice win for for Volga. And also really nice win for EF because until now they haven't done that much, not in this zero and not in the whole season. So it kind of makes their zero this stage win. And that's it I win that they really needed, I think. Yeah, they have three wins this year. This stage.

Volgren's stage at Torano and then Luke Lamperti stage won a Paris. I forgot about that. Good job. I forgot you won that. But that's not a good showing for that team. They needed something out of this race. Volkeran delivered.

It looks obvious when you go back and watch it. You're like, hey, why didn't everyone just attack with 1K to go? But it also, it's like quicksand. It's happening so fast because I rewatch the attack right before he recorded. And they have maybe two seconds. And once that's elapsed, it's too, it's too late.

You saw Leibnison and tried to counter. He doesn't make it. Nobody wants to respond initially because if he respond, then maybe someone follows you and then they win. So, I mean, it's a beautiful, beautiful move, 34-year-old veteran here. Listen to these injuries. This is in 2022 at Oxatani. Bogran crashes, fractured pelvis, dislocated hip, torn ACL-MCL,

meniscus. So that's pretty much your entire knee as well as pelvis and hip. Wow. Yeah, that's normally, I mean, that's game over. Yeah. To come back from that, that's, wow, I didn't know it was that bad. Wow. And I mean, which I didn't know it was that bad either. It explains why he was on the develop. Can you imagine he must have been what in his third, he must been 30, 31. Yeah. Yeah. 29. 30 years. Yeah. Yeah. And like the maturity would take even just traveling around with, you know, you're traveling around with kids, basically, doing kids races. That would be difficult to swallow.

Yes. The nice thing about this system is that you can ride on that divot team, but they can still switch you over to other races. Is that only a non-world tour races or is it all races? So only non-world two races, but still, there's a lot of nice races. And I think he actually needed that. I don't think that his state and his physical fitness was ready for the world two races. So I think it was, I mean, it was nice from the team to keep him.

And I mean, I'm catching myself saying nice things about EF and everybody knows how I dislike the manager of that team. But it's nice of the team to keep him on board and give him that opportunity because there are teams. that actually, you know, when a rider is injured, they kind of try to give him the opportunity. And then, you know, when after a few months, when it doesn't work out, they just say, okay, you know what, it's not going to work out. We can't renew your contract. So, um, Volgreen, I think Vagrin is going to be very, very grateful for that. And, you know, you can expect him to finish his career on that team and then probably even go

into a management role later on. Anyways, let's not talk about that. He just on stage in the stage. She can win a tour stage. But, yeah, it was nice. And he was, you know, you know what? Rubio was physically the strongest. Valgrin was combined physically and experience-wise, the strongest of the breakaway.

So, well done. And so tell me, so also Scandinavian won two. We had Danish win, Norwegian runner-up. What is the sixth Scandinavian win of the stage win of the zero? because Jonas has four. We have Norwegian on Sunday and then Vagran again today. Second time.

Second time for Lekneson, if I'm not mistaken. Yes, it is. Poor Lekneson. I thought he had this one. Tell me, I mean, this shows you why you should study your racing tactics. Tell me, I'm going to list these guys. Tell me if they're a stronger climber than Vagrin.

Lec Nixon, you would say yes, right? Top 10 overall at the Giro in the past? Probably, yeah. Caruso. Yeah, definitely. Vlasov, definitely. Rubio, definitely. Arieta, yeah.

Definitely. Davidela Cruz, definitely, right? Narvias, you probably say, yes. Florian Stork, Jan Hurd, Julia Chaconne, and he wins out of that group. Yeah, that is super impressive. No, it was, it was. I mean, okay, today is, was definitely a stage where, you know, a strong puncher can keep up with climbers. but yeah i mean listen you have to be you have to be able to manage your efforts and be smart

and really know when to go when to sit back um he was he was by himself there was no other eF in the break no there was initially initially and then yes and i mean i think it was key too to be with rubio when the climb starts because those guys bridge up if valgrin has to bridge up does he make it you know maybe not I don't know. So he had a little bit of a head start on those guys. Just, yeah, impressive all around. Nothing, nothing really of noted in the GC, right?

Except, I mean, what do you think about Visima? Why are they the ones marking O'Connor? They don't want any monkey business? I mean, O'Connor, he's, what is he? What is he? Six or seven minutes down already. He's more than that. He's nine and a half minutes down.

I would have, you know what? I mean, I would just let him go, man. Let him go. And then you kind of, other teams will come. come. Other teams will come, you know, who are threatened by O'Connor for the top 10 or top five. That's what I asked. Yeah. Yeah. But listen, I mean, listen, they, they're in control. They know what they're doing. They didn't spend. I mean, it's, well, I haven't seen that moment when O'Connor attacked. It was a brief moment. No, they just shut it down and that's it.

Yeah, it's when all the good, the good guys went. Like Chaconne Navarre is because they were waiting for the climb. O'Connor said, hey, I'm going to jump into this move. But, you know, I was thinking about George when that was like, no one's going to like us. It's like, he's not going to have a lot of friends after this. Those times are gone, by the way. Those times are gone. You know, people just ride their own race. There's no more politics.

There's no more, you know, giving stages away. That's over that those times are gone. Yeah. I even saw a headline. What was that? It was the other day, like no gifts. It's like, well, no, I think it was about Jonas. It was like, you know, what are you talking about gifts?

There's no, there's no gifts. Like, that's not a thing that would happen anymore. I mean, another highlight of the stage today or the day, Spencer, for me, was that Jonas shaved off his mustache. I kind of liked it. I liked it. You know, there's not a lot of, a lot else to talk about, about the stage, although the, I mean, the writers who have raced it will disagree with me that there was not much going on.

But, you know, I don't know why he was growing up. that mustache and then he was I mean it's a different yonnas we see I think in this race you know he's I mean at least when he's talking to his Danish uh the Danish commentator Anders from uh Eurosport he's uh he's always trying to be a bit funny so he said that you know this morning he looked in the mirror and he said he thought by himself you know I look like a teenager who's trying to grow a mustache and doesn't really work out so the mustache has to go that's pretty funny yeah I think he looks it looks better like this It's like the Scandinavian mustache where it's so blonde.

Like you're like, is there a mustache there? What's going on? And they're doing the heat kind of broke. Like it was 35 degrees at the start, which is very hot. You could tell people were uncomfortable and hot. There was people pulling over to take number two bathroom breaks, which is something that happens when it's really hot. And you're slamming a lot of carbs like these guys are.

I assume it's like I'm looking at the weather tomorrow. it's like down to the mid-20s, like 26. So normal zero heat. Those five, six degrees change a lot. Yeah, like 35 is really hot to be racing. And then the thing in Europe is you're not cooling down as much as you would in North America. As in North America, every building you go in, it's freezing cold, no matter how warm it is out.

These guys, like, who knows if their hotels have AC, like, you're kind of always uncomfortable and it can make it harder to perform. but they should be getting a slight reprieve with the weather. Should we preview tomorrow's stage? Anything else to say about this one? I don't think so, Spencer. I think there was a lot going on, but I think we covered everything.

A team that had won wins. So we finally are getting someone else in the mix there. That's good. That's good. And the usual suspects were there. You know, I mean, it's these kind of stages, it's the strong guys. I mean, if you look at the composition of this group, man, you know, initially you have, you know, you have Valgrin, Kavanaugh, Yennylinson, Leknesund, Caruso, Chicone, Enric Mazz, Enrubio, David de la Cruz, Blassov, Arieta, Narvaise.

I mean, that's just the ones that for me, stand out. So initially there was 29 riders together. So that was a difficult one. I mean, it was a very, a very costly one to win. You know, it was never going to be easy to win this stage from that group. No, it's actually you read that list and you're thinking, that's impossible. It's impossible to win that stage. And then Balgern does it. I mean, also just on this comeback, so we don't gloss over it. So he has four world tour wins in his career. 50% of them have come in the last two months, you know? Yeah.

Torino and the zero. And so the other ones is what Amstel and Omlop? Yep. In 2018. Okay. Wow. Yeah. Yeah.

A long time ago. I remember those vividly. And it's like, oh, this is going to be the next great writer. And I mean, he took, I think he had a bit of a, some sort of issue or he was it. He was off form for a couple of years. And then he had the crash, which set him back even more years. So it's great to see him back. I think we can't say enough nice things about him.

Sure, for sure. Well deserved. And the Peloton, we should say, like, nothing happened, but Visma was pacing pretty hard for the first half of the stage. Like, if you were in that group, you would not say nothing happened. It looked kind of miserable, actually, until the rain came. Let's see. Let's have a quick look at the average speed of today. It's probably pretty fast. 43K an hour.

Wow. That's really fast. It was 3,250 meters of elevation in total. So, yeah, that's not a walk in the park. man, that's fast. And the GC group finished. Do we know how far down? Five minutes around.

That's not that far behind. No, no, no. No, you would expect like a big group like that. They could take 10, 12 minutes. Then of course, you know, the GC, the top 10 comes into play. Now we have one rider, Caruso. He was strong. I mean, you know, like 38 years old, man.

He's his last year, his last Gero. I know, I thought he had the stage. It would have been really nice for him also to win. Yeah. And, you know, when he went, it was really the right moment, you know, 1.7K to go. That's when Valgrine knew, okay, if this guy doesn't make it, I'm next and I'm winning. And that's exactly what happened. Yep.

I thought, too, I thought we had that. Would have been a beautiful story. Last year, oh, yeah, 38 years old. He wins. I'm 38. wanted to see a 38-year-old win. Not a young guy like Valgarine. He's only 34.

It is kind of unbelievable. These guys are competing against, you know, Arietta. Like, if we had, if you and I had to go on a ride with Igor Arieta, we'd say this is, this is the worst experience of our lives. And there's these guys in their mid to late 30s competing with them and beating them. Super impressive. Oh, yes.

By the way, have I seen something, have I seen a rumor or is it that he's leaving UAE for little track? Did you see that? I didn't see that. It kind of would make sense. You know, like there's so many of that. He gets along really well with Ayuso. Interesting.

We'd be on Ayuso's request that little track goes after Igor Adieta. Because this is a great Giro for him, but this is an unusual situation on UAE. It's probably not going to be like this for many grand tours where you'd have this freedom. So unless he wants to be on a leadout train for Isaac del Toro, I don't know if there's a big future there. for him. You remember his dad was a D.S. at Moves Star and he kind of got screwed over with the documentary. Did you watch this documentary? Oh, no. I mean, it's not he didn't get screwed over by the documentary. He, uh, so he, um, Jose Luis Arieta was a professional cyclist. Uh, I think he won a stage in the Vuelta, if I'm not mistaken. Uh, was really good domestic.

He was on Banesto and then on, on Cas de Parne. And I think even on Movistar, it, I don't know. I don't know how long. No, probably not. Probably not. I think he finished his career on AG2R. Then became a DS for GASD Pard and Movistar. I think then I think there was a conflict between him and Pachivilla.

Pachiavilla came in and took over like the whole performance area and they didn't get along. And Jose Luisareta left. left voluntarily. And then he got picked up by AG2R, decathlon, but now he's not there anymore. Today I found he's not there anymore. Oh, bummer.

Yeah. Yeah. And they've had a lot of turnover too. You know, they've like new management, new ownership, come in, change a lot of things. I love Pat Chavila. Pat Chavila knows what he's talking about. People should listen to Pat Chavula.

But let's take a quick break. And then we will preview tomorrow's stage 18 okay yohan stage 18 171 kilometers transition stage we're just kind of skirting because we went into trento today trinino and we're not going we could go right into the mountains into the dolomites no they're saying no you don't get to do that we are like skirting the the foothills the edge of the mountains back down to the plains i'm not quite sure why we're doing this on stage 18 but it could be there's two categorized climbs a cat cat 3 mid stage, a cat 4, which is 1.1 kilometers at 11.5% average. This is around 11 to 12k

from the finish line. That could really trip up any sprinters that get all the way to the finish. You would think this could be a sprint stage, but could also be a breakaway stage. How do you think is going to play out and who's going to win? Yeah, well, initially, I mean, I hadn't looked at the detail of the profile. So initially, I would say, you know, 1,800 meters elevation. normally it's a bunch print now that you say this about this 1.4 kilometers what is it 1.4 kilometers at 11% yeah it's hard average average 11% and the sprinters no but let's say from the top of it oh there's only yeah 9k remaining no no no no no somebody's gonna I mean could be a sprint but like a guy like

I mean, this guy from Astana there, Thomas Silva, would be one of the guys who could make it. I personally don't think that Manier or Milan, and definitely not Grunovig can make it over a 1.4 kilometer climb at 11%. That's like the Mird of We, almost. I mean, it's a bit less, a bit less, but not much less. I mean, you know, gain, I'm looking at the profile right now, and because of the metric system, this will be obvious.

But basically in a kilometer, you gain over 100 meters. That is a lot. Yeah. No, no, the sprinters, I don't think the sprinters can, I mean, and also, you know what? You know, what's the problem, Spencer? At this point, you know, stage 18 tomorrow, these guys are tired, you know? I mean, if this is, for example, in week one, I say, you know what? a few sprinters can get over it.

They have this power to do this. Yeah. Three minute, three minute, three and a half minute effort. At this point, I don't think the real sprinters have it. So if it's the first week, it's, you know, one, one point four kilometers, maybe a three and a half minute effort. Some sprinters could potentially get close enough that they can come back. But I don't think so. I think this is too hard for the pure sprinters.

If the profile of that last climb is really accurate, then I have difficulties in seeing a bunch sprint. And here's the next question. So if it's not a bunch sprint, I agree with that. I thought Manya looked, you know, the guy obviously is incredible. He's got a great career ahead of him. He looks tired. Like you get to see at the, when they hit the climb today, can you, I mean, I can't imagine 35 degrees. You're 22 years old, a sprinter, and then you're going 65K an hour on the flats going into the climb.

That's unpleasant. But if they know they can't make it over, does it mean that no one holds the race together and a breakaway gets away? And this is a breakaway stage. I don't, I mean, you know, I'm just thinking now, Spencer, you know, so we have, we have, so we have, after this days, we have Jonathan Narweiss back in Chiclamino. Okay. tomorrow is an amazing opportunity for Narvaise. The thing is they only have five riders left, but they had five riders and they had three of them in the breakaway.

So if they make it hard on this claim, make sure that these sprinters are dropped, Narvaise can definitely podium if it's a sprint of 30, 40 riders. He has won already a stage like this in the sprint. Right? Against or Luis Olaar earlier on his first stage. Yeah, it was very similar actually. Yeah.

Yeah. So tomorrow is definitely a way, a good opportunity for Narvaise to score more points. And Manier won't score points. And, you know, not having to wait until the last day in Rome. If Manier wins and takes 50 points, then he maybe loses the Chiclamino jersey. I haven't done the math, but the more was a good opportunity to get some more points for Narvaise and UAE. Well, now he reminded me I forgot something on the stage. Another thing about the stage today, Narvaez wins the intermediate sprint and gets ninth on the stage.

So the points jersey standings are 157. Narvias is now the leader, Tamayay 145. Okay. Half points. would it not just be easier for Narvaise to get in the breakway though? But the terrain tomorrow is not, you know, he's going to be marked. I mean, like the Sudal guys are going to be all over Narvaise. You know, like that's their opportunity.

Tomorrow the task of the Sudal teammates is be on Narvaise and don't let him go on the break. That's their mission. Yeah. You know, so on a stage like tomorrow, for a guy like Narvaise, it's not that simple to be in the break, especially because now, you know, he's one three stages already. He's the marked man. Everybody knows he's on great form.

And then on top of that also, you know, I couldn't help but notice today that Narvaise, although he was the favorite, but, you know, the resources and the energy are, they are not unlimited, you know. He was good, but he didn't have the super-level. legs like we've seen him in other stages. Otherwise, he would have closed those gaps with the legs he had when he bridged that, what was it, 40 second gap in, in, in an 800 meters or something. I remember that.

Yeah. He didn't have those legs today. And so, you know, at the end of the of the three weeks, it starts to add up. So third place on the stage is 12 points. intermediate sprint is 12 points. Yeah, is he better off just treating the intermediate sprint point like it's the finish. It could be, yeah. Yeah.

Well, now, okay, well, let's do some math. So let's say he scores 15 points tomorrow. Like, same thing as today. He gets top 10 on the stage, Winsie intermediate sprint. So right now, he is 12 points ahead. Let's say he scores. Let's just do 12 tomorrow. So he's 24 ahead.

let then say he scores 12 more in one of the next two days. 36 point league. That means if Monnier gets second on the final stage, he wins the jersey. But Monier will also go for like intermediate sprint points in that final day too. Yeah. Yeah. So, God, he needs to get in the breakaway pretty much every day. He gets points basically.

That's like the only option. Wow. Also, the neutral start tomorrow. is a 900 meter descent. Is that crazy? Like, but why, Yohan, why are we doing this? Why are we not just going to the mountains? What's the thought process here?

I don't know. It's Italy, man. Don't try to find logic. There is none. It's like, yeah, we could have a beautiful mountain stage. Let's do a sprint stage. But the more we talk about it, this is kind of an interesting. It's a little bit of a riddle.

And I'm curious to see how it plays out. Who do you, if you had to pick. a winner who do you think is going to win um hmm i kind of think it's going to be a breakaway man i think so too it's difficult it's going to be somebody who was in the break today if it's a breakaway yes yes like mark donovan or someone you know yeah something like that yeah i don't know i don't know i'm going to i'm going to say breakaway or or late late split. But, you know, I can't imagine

Visma keeping it together. That makes no sense. And then the thing is, Spencer, you know, at this point in the race, there is not enough manpower and energy and left in the teams to do it. So there's some teams that, you know, that they're very aggressive. Movistar, super aggressive. The day, four guys in the break. Tomorrow they're going to be back.

So yeah No no Who of who of you He hasn't won a stage Morgado And Morgan and Morgado We haven't seen that guy at all No

I don't think it's going to be him No no no no no no I don't think so I don't think so What about like David de la Cruz He was good today He was good today But there's there's the writers who are stronger you know i mean

what about chakona is he just yeah chakona let's go for chikona okay because it's a little a little bit different than today you know it will just be about that that final climb is so important yeah but that that that means that chikone is in the break and then goes away on that climb yeah yeah the front of the break too if there's no break and it's that 1.4 kilometers with at 11 percent

is DC guys. Yeah, but they won't be. Vizma won't want it. Like, what would Vizma have to gain by? No, nothing. You know, that just introduces variables they don't want. Yeah. Yeah.

So I think it will be a break. I'm going to go Lechnitzen. I feel bad for him. He's got two seconds. He's got to win a stage. Come on. It would be nice. Or Caruso.

Rubio? He gave a lot today, man. I know. He gave a lot. Tomorrow is not hard enough for him. It's not hard enough for him. What about Jan Kristen? Kristen, yeah.

Did also a lot of work today for Narvaise? A lot of work. Yeah. I'm going Leibnizsen. Yeah, I think Kristen is not in great shape, you know, because we haven't seen the young Kristen we are used to see. He did bring up to the breakaway yesterday and then start pulling immediately. Not so easy to do.

You know, we have, we've seen, we've seen him once like really good, which was stage two, when he was a stage two or no it was a stage it's actually a stage at narvaise one when he attacked in the last k and then narvaise won in the sprint finally that was a good move yeah stage four first day in Italy yeah and stage two he also he also he also he was the guy who bridged up to the three riders uh in front yes yeah the very end of the stage in such a long time ago already yeah i know i don't even remember that well Bulgaria i barely remember you. Anything else, Johan?

Or should we let you go? I'm sorry, we're a little bit short today. I have to go to a wedding. So we're going to have to leave it here. And then let's see if tomorrow is going to be challenging also because it's going to be a wild ride. It's, you know, you're traveling to Europe. I'm at a wedding. So I may be coming on screen with a bow tie on.

The horror. But yeah, you'll be finding a quiet corner at the wedding to come on to the show. You got to tune in to see this, people. But we'll be back. It's actually, they've, they've synced to this. Maybe RCS did this because they knew we had a travel day slash wedding day tomorrow. So this is the perfect stage for us to be busy during because then we've got to get serious on stage 19. Okay.

Thanks, Spencer. All right. Thanks, Johan. Bye.