THEMOVE - Tour de France Stage 3 | The Sir Wiggo & Johan Show

Episode Date: July 7, 2025

Johan Bruyneel and Sir Bradley Wiggins peel back the curtain on the tactics, strategy, and pivotal moments that shaped Stage 3 of the 2025 Tour de France, offering sharp analysis and insider perspective you won’t hear anywhere else. LMNT: Get your free 8-count Sample Pack with any LMNT purchase at https://drinklmnt.com/themove Be sure to try the new LMNT Sparkling — a bold, 16-ounce can of sparkling electrolyte water. Ketone-IQ: Take your shot: Get 30% off your subscription, plus a free gift with your second shipment at https://Ketone.com/themove Ventum: Enter Ventum Trivia of the Day for a chance to win the Grand Prize: $5,000 of store credit towards any Ventum bike. Don’t want to leave it to chance, 10% off sitewide using the code THEMOVE10 or 20% off any NS1 road bike build with code NS120  https://ventumracing.com/themove/  

If there's anybody who has helped Jonas win the Tour de France, it's Wout Van Aert. You know, he does have his personal ambitions, but what do you think of that? No, I mean, I think if it is directed to Wout, then I agree with you. I mean, Wout is the most selfless rider that I think there is. You know, this is a man who has, the last few years, sacrificed his own personal ambition, I think, and affected his own personal ambition. He's not the same rider he was three years ago, but he's great in the role of a team domestique at the Tour de France. And we saw that in a grand tour. We saw that what he did, the job he did for Simon Yates at the Giro. And Wout has been

the backbone of that team for the last four or five years at the Tour de France. I'm the 2012 Tour de France winner Sir Bradley Wiggins. And I'm Johan Bruniel. I directed my teams to nine Tour de France victories. Welcome to the Sir Wiggle and Johan show, our daily show where we dive deep into the tactics behind every stage of the Tour de France. behind every stage of the Tour de France. Okay, stage three of this year's Tour de France, breaking down the stage into Dunkirk. Our podcast is presented by Keytone IQ, Like Every Day. But Bradley, what's your takeaway, your main takeaway of today's stage,

extra part of the final sprint, of course? Yeah, I mean, there was so much that happened today, wasn't there? So much to talk about. But obviously the crash of Philipson and the way he crashed, you know, it looked a painful one that and you knew straight away there was something wrong with him because, you know, as is as is procedure when things like that happen, a few teammates stop, they hang around for as long as they need to with a view of chasing back to the peloton. And within a minute, they were on their way again, which told you straight away, they knew that this was serious. And he was out the race.

So you know, very, very unfortunate. He's my tip for today. And it's a sad way to leave the race. I mean, I've left the Tour de France like that when I crashed in 2011. I remember 2011, right? I still have the image. I still have the race. I mean, I've left the Tour de France like that when I crashed in 2011. I remember 2011, right? I still have the image. I still have the image. I see you sitting in the middle of the road, sitting there and you broke your collarbone, I guess. Yes.

Yeah. And you go from, you know, all these expectations you have ahead of the race, looking ahead and what you may do. And within a minute it's over. It's quite a feeling to abandon the Tour de France. I mean, I don't know, did you ever abandon the Tour? Yeah, I did, yeah. Oh, you did, of course, in 97.

Did you go over the ravine there in Rabatounki? 96. 96. 96. Yeah. It's quite a, I don't think until you're in that position, you can imagine just how disappointing it is to leave the Tour de France.

Yeah, it is for everybody because, you know because the Tour de France is such a big objective, but especially if like in your case, you were, I guess you had the intention, the objective to win the Tour. You had won the Dauphiné before. Yeah. So, and in Philippsons case, Green Jersey just won the stage. How it can change from one moment to the other. And over opposite, it's like, okay, from the heaven, from being in heaven to being in, I mean, not in hell, but still it's, it's, yeah, it's a dangerous sport. I personally think, you know, it was just an unfortunate event, you know, that they tried to blame Coquard. I don't think Coquard did anything wrong or anything on purpose.

It was just, he had to make a maneuver for the Inter Marché guy and that clipped. And yeah, I mean, it's crazy, but I agree. You could see straight away that this was going to be bad. You know, he got up and when you saw there was almost no jersey on his body anymore. So yeah, unfortunately he was out. That was kind of a little bit a changing point, I think in the race, because you could see for like 15, 20 K, the Peloton was shocked. Yeah. And then they slowed down and they regrouped again.

And then of course, one of the big favorites was gone. But today, I think, I don't know what you think, today was actually an ideal recovery day for most of the riders because headwind, it is nervous, they still go 44, 45, but you could see that in the back of the, in the second part of the peloton, it was easy cruising, right? Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, it was. Again, there'd be a lot of tired bodies already from the last couple of days of racing. It was a headwind most of the day and you could see that on the overhead shots. The teams were spaced across the road using the full width of the road and no one could really take up the riding on the front and it couldn't really because of the wind. That called program was in itself, which most notably in the final when it was funneling down into roundabouts and things with makeshift, makeshift barriers

and things like that. But yeah, they're the toughest days because, you know, everyone's there and everyone is able to be there because the speeds aren't as high on the front. But nonetheless, I think that would have been a welcome day for a lot of the riders that were sat back in the peloton. Yeah, for sure. Because of the wind. So, but I agree, you know, after that intermediate sprint when Milan took it

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and hydrates like this and also tastes really amazing. Before we get into some more details of the stage Bradley, I just wanted to point out one thing that we read in the press this morning. And it's this surprising interview of the wife of Jonas Vingergaard, she did an interview with the Danish, with a big Danish newspaper and surprisingly, and of course, you know, that I think probably this interview was done a few weeks ago and the Danish newspaper held it until to release it now until the tour, but it did create quite some some surprise. And she was quite critical of this Melissa bike, Jonas' team. She said, if I'm not mistaken, to boil down the interview that Jonas has to do too many altitude camps

and that the team tries to control his life too much because apparently the team was having problems with Jonas helping with some refurbishing of the house. And then that he doesn't have the whole team at his service in the Tour de France. What do you make of this kind of interview, Bradley? I mean, I take it as verbatim as what she said, really. I mean, he must be a very good floor layer. You know, she's complaining that he wanted to lay floors in the house. And I mean, it's a strange one. It's a strange one. And I can't see how it can be very helpful

in the opening weekend of the Tour de France. Visma have played it down and said that the comments have been taken out of context and taken out, you know, a bit sensationalized. I don't know. I mean, you and us is a unique athlete like Tadej is. And you know, most team leaders are certainly with the talent that those two have and you and us in particular, he's a two time winner of the Tour de France.

I mean, you know, it's just a strange one. I can only read it for what it is really. I mean, I can't read it for what it is really. I can't see it as being helpful, but at the same time, she's entitled to her opinion. And if that's her opinion, then... What's surprising is, well, first of all, I think it's surprising that she gives this kind of interview. I mean, I think we all can see without knowing the details of of course, of Jonas's family, but

Jonas really needs her. She's the force of the household, I think. If I'm not mistaken, she's a psychologist also. I mean, I've spoke with somebody who interviewed her and this journalist said that, you know, it was really interesting because she kind of redirected his mentality towards being stronger. I mean, Jonas has been around for a while now and we all see the change in his demeanor, in his attitude, in his confidence. And I think that's, that's majority thanks to her. I find it that that kind of interview, but I find it even more strange that the Danish media releases this because this is harmful for Jonas.

You know, it destabilizes him. You know, you can say, okay, you know, I don't read the media. I don't read the press. I don't read anything, but it does affect you. And, and, and so, and particularly, I mean, okay, you can say, okay, the, the critics about the training camps. Okay. Fine.

I mean, listen, if you're a professional cyclist, that's what you have to do. Nowadays, the critics about the team wanting to control and not allowing him to do works at the house, that's debatable. He's going to do whatever he wants. You know, but I was shocked by the fact that she said, Jonas doesn't have the whole team at his complete service. And I, you know, and in the, in the Belgian media, this has been referred to as a criticism to Walt Von Aert because there's nobody else in the team that has personal ambitions. And I find this

a bit, a bit strong, you know, because if there's anybody who has helped Jonas win the Tour de France, it's Walt Van Aert. You know, he does have personal ambitions, but what do you think of that? No, I mean, I think if it is directed to Wout, then I agree with you. I mean, Wout is the most selfless rider that I think there is. You know, this is a man who has the last few years sacrificed his own personal ambition, I think, and affected his own personal ambition. He's not the same rider he was three years ago, but he's great in the role of a team domestique at the Tour de France. And we saw that in a grand tour.

We saw that what he did, the job he did for Simon Yates at the Giro. And Wout has been the backbone of that team for the last four or five years at the Tour de France, aside from, you know, but we don't see, we don't see, um, well, contest in bunch sprints anymore. Like he did four or five years ago in the Tour de France. Obviously he won the green Jersey competition. He won on the Champs-Elysées. I wouldn't say he's that kind of rider anymore, but what he does give you is what he did on, um, Sestrier in the, in the judo and win, win the, win a grand tour for the team. that's what Wout does and that's what Wout will do. On Otakam for Jonas a few years ago. So you know that is that is a bit of a strange direction of a comment if that is towards indeed towards Wout. Yeah and I did see. I see it as nothing as a distraction for the team. The team have put out a statement to say that they've pushed back on it.

But it will be extra questions asked, won't it? As always, we know how many of the media are at the Tour de France. But so far, Jonas isn't showing any signs again today. He was there there close proximity to a very, very, very, yeah. And I think, I think the main thing is that Jonas knows that Walt is there whenever he needs him. He's solid. They interviewed Walt Von Aert about this and Walt said, well, you know, if it's directed to me, I find it a pity, but I think the performances for the team, my performance for the team speak for it for themselves. He's a professional. And I think if anything, it will, it could affect Jonas' peace of mind. But other than that, I don't think it's going to affect in any way the

dynamics of his money. No, no. Yeah. But it's, it's, and listen, this is also typical for the tour de France, right? They always need to come with some kind of sensational articles from anywhere. It's a bit, it's a bit, a shame that it comes from Denmark. It's actually, it's against Jonas, right? I know, but that's what, I mean, that's what certain elements of the press are like, you know, they're all blowhards that seek to make currency off someone and during the Tour de France and

it's, you know, they are a detriment to the sport in some parts. But another thing I was going to ask you about, and I saw in the press this morning is Decathlon upping their sponsorship next year of AG2R 40 million. 40 million, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're in this seriously, Decone and then so AG2R, who was actually the owner of the team, is selling the team. Because AG2R bought the team from Vinsal Avenue. They were the only... I heard he didn't even receive any money for that. Very little.

Very little. I mean, that's a completely different debate. I think the way they treated Vinsal Avenue with his history for this team, it's disgraceful. It's disgraceful what they did to him. But anyway, Decathlon is serious. And then I have heard another, so HD2R is actually going away as a sponsor. And apparently the one that comes in is L'Oreal. I've heard, which is a strange combination. But anyway, up to 40 million. So that comes in is L'Oreal. I've heard, which is a strange combination, but anyway, up to 40 million. So that brings them in the top three, in the top three teams. And that's with a view of trying to win the Tour de France with this young 18 year old French

rider, isn't it? Yeah, with Paul Seychasse. Yeah, still a while to go, but he's very talented. I'm curious to see what they're going to do on the transfer market with that extra budget. You know, reportedly they've signed Olaf Coy for a big amount of money. I think a little bit overpaid, but good for Olaf Coy. There's a big change in Decathlon, right? We've seen it already last year. They had a really good year. They're not really good, good with your then not the typical French team anymore. I mean, you've been on French teams, Bradley. My view has always been once you're on a French team and you're, you're performing reasonably and you're nice and you don't do anything wrong. You become an employee. You become

like a government employee. Basically. I think Athlon is different, I think. It's a different mentality. Don't you think? Yeah, it is. And it's gone way more international. I mean, they've got some like Luke Brode there now, who's exceptional at what he does and always was on the bike. He'd be in always my first ride on any Tour de France team that I'd pick, new road captain.

They employed his services this year for the classics and DS role and looks fantastic. But another thing I was going to ask you about what you thought about, obviously Remco hit the deck again today. And Remco always seems to be a little bit down where the mess is happening in these run ins. And part of that, of course, is that he's not really necessarily got a dedicated team like Pogacar and Wiesmaar keeping their leaders well to the front because they're split because of the job they do for Mérlier as well and having a disappointing opening weekend.

So that added to the news this morning that there's the rumor mill starting again that Remco may leave the team next year. How would you say that one now? They're so early into the Tour de France. I think there's no question that Remco is leaving the team. It's not a rumor. He's leaving. I don't know. I mean, I have a pretty good idea, but I'm not for sure where he's going, but he's not staying with Sadat Kvickstad. I think there's an agreement found there with another team already.

I think there's an agreement found there with another team already. So you can try to put two and two together. But yeah, I mean, he's obviously not going to make an announcement during the Tour de France. I still think that he's going to have the team at his service. Merlier has Bert van Lerberge and then everybody else is for Remco. I think today actually Bradley, it was purelyge and then everybody else is for Remco. I think today, actually, Bradley, it was purely bad luck because you could see that Remco really was fighting until the five kilometer sign. And then you could see him dropping back really fast, way too fast.

I think he went way back, way too far. And then so he was kind of in the middle of the peloton there, the crash happened. I don't think he hurt himself too much, but it's not good, you know, it's not good. But yeah. No, and part of that was the way that the running was directed, you know, with the, the barriers spaced out with the tape in between and the funneling and the road traffic, the road furniture. It looked like a hectic running today,

a very strange one as well, considering the finishes they have used in the past in Dunkirk which were big wide open boulevards which helped for a safer passage but today was a strange one. No it was. I mean like today I mean if you look at the finish they say okay there's the yellow card system, right. For the riders. I think today with this, with these slight bends in that last kilometer, I don't understand how they still this is unacceptable,

especially if you know, we're talking about safety. We know that the speeds are unbelievably high. They go 65, 70 km an hour every single sprint. These two slight bends and not seeing the finishing straight until 180 meters to go, I think that was the cause of that last crash. So in my opinion, yellow, not a yellow, I'm going to say a dark orange card already for ASO. Two yellow cards and you're out as a rider, right?

So let's also implement that for organizers and safety of the course. That was not okay. That finish was not okay. If you see that Total Energy rider being catapulted over the barriers, that was scary. He was the last guy to come in and he was all... He was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Another thing. I mean, we should, we should, of course, talk about,

about Tim Merlier. Let's talk about him first and his savviness to win sprints. You know, with Jasper Phillips and gone, obviously, the Alpecin train was derailed. Mathieu van der Poel tried a bit for Caden Grove, but it was really Little Track who had the lead. Ideally Milan was a position, ideally and Merlier was nowhere to be seen. He lost Bert van Lerberge and he, all of a sudden, out of 15th position, all of a sudden in 50 meters,

he was in fourth position on the wheel of Jonathan Milan. I call him the best artist in the world in the craft of sprinting. It's really amazing how he wins these sprints, right? Yeah, I mean, it was nice to see him win today. I still think that had Philipson been there today, Philips today, Phillips won. But nonetheless, you know, I think it was, I'm actually surprised that it's been four years since he last won a stage at the Tour of France. You know, and he's coming along in an era really where the sprinter sprinted at their all time high, you know, Cavendish last year, Jasper Phillips and with his 10 stages in

four years. So, you know, Binyam Gamai, I mean, he's come along in an era where we're unindated with world class sprinters, but it was good to see him win today and good for Sudhal as well. You know, but the first three stages to the Benelux regions, which is... And also if you look, so today's winner Tim Merlier won, it was four years ago. I think he won the first sprint. Yeah, four years, 21. Right? Yeah, 21 years.

So Merlier was led out that stage by the winner of yesterday and the winner of the day before. He was led out by Vonne Puhl first and then Hediosper Philipsen. They were teammates then. They were teammates on Alpecin. So yeah, I mean, I'm happy he wins. I mean, he deserves, he's a pure sprinter and amazing how he does it. You know? Then one other thing, Radley, my personal event of the day, and I would like to know

your thoughts about this, with about, was it 30K to go? We see that Tim Wellens goes upfront, talks to some riders, he goes upfront and initially, I mean, some of the commentators were thinking, maybe he has his family up the road or something. Because, you know, formerly- George actually said the same thing. Yeah. Yeah. Formally it happened that sometimes, you know, when deeper in the tour already, when you pass your region. But anyways, Wellens is not from the north, that part of Belgium. He's from Limburg.

So it was clear after a while that he was going for the KOM. And we have this little clip here. It's an audio of the team UAE race car. So let's listen to this first. And then I want to ask your opinion on this. If you put the cone, then you will have jersey. And if you win the cone, you will get the jersey. So guys, we go for the comp for Tim Okay, so we hear clearly that the director says Tim goes for the KOM

Tim goes for the KOM. What do you think? I mean, for me personally, my first reaction would be, okay, why are they doing this? It's Team UAE, they don't need this. I mean, they need to save everything they can. Okay, then I was thinking, it's a bit weird that a team like UAE goes for the KOM in the early stages. Then my second thought was, okay, maybe they want because Pogacar was in the KOM and nobody was gonna take it off him except the relents could take it off him except the well-educated

could take it off him. Maybe Pogacar doesn't want to go to the podium ceremony. But I think you have another opinion on that, right? Well, so my other view on that is, and it only comes from personal experience. So when you're a leader of a classification in the Tour de France, you will, bearing in mind the time trials in two days' time, Pogaccio at the moment is second on GC, so he'll be second from the end. And as the leader of the classification of the King of the Mountains, he will have to wear the skin suit, the race suit provided by the organizers, which this year the sponsor is Santini. So he'll have to roll down the ramp in a very important 33 kilometers time trial where he

lost time at the Dauphiné in the time trial. So this is of particular significance, this time trial in the race organizer skinsuit, which is made by Santini. And of course we know how important and how informed the riders are now and how important the aerodynamics and their race TT setup is to the riders. They would have spent some of these teams hours in the wind tunnel invested lots of money in the aero programs to make sure someone like Teddy Pagaccio loses the least amount of time or gains the maximum amount of time, depending which way you go in the time trials with their TT setup, positioning on the bike. And the biggest thing now is helmet and skin suit and the materials that they're made from the fabric that they're made from. Now I had this experience in 2012 when I was

lead I took the Jersey on the dofene on stage two. I lost the prologue to Derbysh Luke Derbysh from Green Edge. And I ended up taking the Jersey on stage two and I tried to lose it on stage three before the time to on stage four, because I'd have had to ride the cogs sportive which was, you know, I may, I may as well have worn a bin liner, you know, they were just not the best design. And we of course had the, you know, the team sky suits and things like that. So it, fortunately for me, it didn't, it didn't have that much impact. I won the time draw anyway. But you know, for these guys, this could, this might not be the reason why Tade wants to lose it

But I suspect it's got something to do with the time drop. Yeah, I think you know you have a good point I mean, I didn't think I didn't think about that initially. I was quite. I mean in my mind. I was quite critical I said, why are they doing this? This is stupid. You know, like Tim Wellens is one of the key guys Why would you want him to go for the King of the Mountains? Okay, personal glory. Okay, fine You know, it's it's it's always good to give these guys something to be happy about they will work a lot harder for the king of the mountains. Okay. Personal glory. Okay. Fine. You know, it's, it's, it's always good to give these guys something to be happy about. They will work a lot harder for the team, but, but still, you know, so early in the tour, spend that energy because even if he had a free pass, he went a lot faster than he should have during eight, 10 kilometers. So, uh, but now that you thought, yeah, I hadn't thought about

that, but that's, that's really a good point. It's still to be seen, of course, if tomorrow with the final of the stage, if tomorrow, for example, watch out in the front and let's assume, for example, for some reason, Vander Pool has a problem, whatever he has an issue. Yeah, he will take the lead anyway. So he's going to be in yellow. So yeah, yeah, but what I'm saying with that, they would have planned, as we did with Team Sky,

because by the time I got to the Tour de France, the first two time trials at Tour de France, when I won them both, we had our skinsuit printed up with Le Cops Sportif in our material. So we planned ahead for that. So they will have Tadej skinsuits in yellow made by UAE's people with Santinion, guaranteed. What they might not plan for is a King of the Mountain skinsuit. So that may be why. That's possible, yeah. But you know, we already did that with Lance in the 2000s. Something tells me Bradley, that lately the tour has forbidden this. Potentially. I know they did kick off a bit the year. They had something to say the year I did that. And they took our skins away from us

after the first one and dissected it. And I mean, this, it's hard, you know, but at the same time, it's actually, listen, if you think about it, you know, this is professional elite sport, you know, if you see these teams with this huge budget and you invest so much money in aerodynamics, wind tunnel testing, the right fabric, you, you, you just, there are a lot of resources to it. And then on the most important day of the year, you cannot ride it and you have to ride in another skin suit. It makes no sense. You know, that's just everybody ride their own with the right logos, the right publicity. But you know, anyways, you may have a point there. I think that's probably the reason. Yeah. Yeah. What else do we have?

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So that's ketone.com slash THE MOVE for 30% off your subscription. What else do we have of today? Tomorrow, obviously, is also an important stage, a tough stage, not a pure sprinter stage, I think. 2000 meters climbing. 2000 meters climbing, the final is very, very difficult. I think it's a bit similar to yesterday's stage, no? Yeah, I mean, yeah, the climbs are a little bit steeper in that final and they come short, you know, quick and fast. Yeah. Yeah. So we actually finished the same scenario, probably 15, 20 riders together probably. Tomorrow, tomorrow, fun fact fact Bradley, you as a historian of cycling starts in Amiens and I have a very good memory about Amiens. Do you know what it is?

You had the fastest record average speed of a Tour de France stage when you won in 93. Yeah, I won the stage in 93. I think it was stage six, finishing in Amiens. And it was by then, back then it was the fastest ever. And I remember, do you remember who finished second that day and thought he'd won? Because he didn't know you were off the front. Mario Cipollini. Yeah. I have a story about that actually.

A few years after I raced in a race in Germany with a mixed team. I was on Rabobank and so I was just actually, you know, it was 96 just before the Atlanta Olympics. I went to the race in Germany with the Coca-Cola trophy. And so we did, we did a mixed team and I was on the team with Mario. So he sat there. He said, you know, I remember that stage in 93. I came to the finish, you know, I remember that stage in 93. I came to the finish.

You know, of course, no race radio. So he had no clue. He won the sprint, you know, raise his arms. And he said, then I saw you there drinking from a bottle. And he said, what is this guy doing here? Did he get here? He abandoned and he came here by car. He didn't know I was ahead. But yeah, tomorrow, tomorrow starting from Amia. He didn't know I was ahead. But tomorrow, starting from Amir. Another anniversary tomorrow as well, Johan. The 8th of July, 30th anniversary of your stage with Inglis Age. When you went away to Figueroa.

You know more than I do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 95. Yeah. Oh, 30 years ago. For Figueroa. Yeah, that was a big day with Big Nick. With Big Nick and Inglis Age. I can still remember watching it. Did you watch it? Were you watching it? I was watching it.

I was 15. That was me doing my master's degree in cycling. Watching those. Let's finish off with our daily Ventum trivia. Yesterday's question for stage two was what was the distance of the longest ever Tour de France? Not the longest Tour de France stage, the longest ever Tour de France. The answer was or the answer is 5,745 kilometers in 1960. So that's about, what is that? 3,000,

570 miles. Yeah, but it's 3,000. No, it's 2,500 kilometers more than nowadays. Yeah. And they did that in 17 stages that year. That's crazy. That's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Um, the question for today, um, question for today is how do you spell Bradley? What's today's question? Today's question is history was made at the finish of stage three of the 2024 Tour de France. What happened? It's a tricky question. It's not, it's not what everybody would think. Send your answers or best guess to ventumracing.com to be entered to win this year's grand prize of $5,000 of credit towards any Ventum bike. If you don't want to wait for the end of the contest, we're going to draw the winner at the end of the Tour de France.

If you don't want to wait until then, Ventum is also offering a standing discount during the whole duration of the Tour. You get 10% of the whole site using the code theMOOV10. And 20% of any NS1 bike built with the code NS120. So NS120, at checkout, you get 20% off any NS1 bike for random. So that's it. Yeah, tomorrow another stage. Let's hope Bradley that we, you know, these crashes, man,

they freaked me out. You know what I mean? It's crazy to watch them on screen and when you see the helicopter view. Unfortunately, that's the Tour de France, the first week. We all knew this was going to be the first week. As soon as they announced this route, the first week, anything in Northern France, going across the top of Northern France, we anticipated this. It's still a while to go. I mean, normally the time trial in the middle there is going to probably calm down things

a little bit or it usually did. I think that's not the case anymore neither nowadays. It's just full gas every day. Anyway, we'll be back tomorrow for stage four and thank you for joining us Bradley. Speak soon. Okay. See you later. Bye bye.

Okay, bye.