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Benji Naesen

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Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 7

So roughly six riders up the road, but...

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 7

quim simmons actually ends up waiting for the next group in the downhill or in the flat section afterwards and then starts pacing the peloton so it looks like trek realized okay at this point the boy's at six us we don't know if he's going back we got a race and simmons dropped back and started pacing there but about to return of the kaflon

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 7

There's a lot of steps here.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 7

I said earlier, when he crashed, Bissiger and Holle waited instantly and then paced in for the valley towards that climb, the La Salle du Grand Colombier.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 7

On that climb, Aurélien Paré-Panchoudrop back to help him.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 7

It's like the team car did not panic.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 7

If I was in that team car, Patrick, I would have been like, Poles down, everybody.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 7

Put your bikes down.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 7

Wait on Poles success.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 7

Panic, full panic.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 7

That's the wrong thing to do.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 7

The right thing to do is what I think the team card did here, which is the gradual pulling back of the riders and doing so, making sure that they can follow the peloton until they're necessary behind.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 7

And I think that's the perfect way to do so, right?

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 7

Well, I want to add a bit more there because there's a bit more to that story.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 7

sorry his right hip was was bloody like he's landed he slid out and hit his right hip pretty hard yeah he's got some blood on his side on his back a little bit as well there's some wounds there but after but then we also see prodom waiting and bizzio waiting who does the final push but there's also a small segment in a relatively narrow road it didn't take too long if i'm being honest

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 7

where the team of Decathlon, while trying to come back, was basically in the wheel of the team car.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 7

And it's a highly discussed moment on social media.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 7

And I do have something to say here.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 7

A lot of people are asking for a disqualification, a fine for success, stuff like that.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 7

There's two different pieces of car pacing to me, Patrick, and you have to tell me whether you agree or not.