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Benji Naesen

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Appearances Over Time

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

gap of maybe 20, 25 second growths to Jorgensen and del Toro behind.

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

After that, we see... But yeah, Tariq doesn't wait for Jorgensen.

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

Immediately, no.

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

Exactly.

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

That's the way this climb goes.

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

Now, because Paul Success is the big guy that crashed and the big guy that France is following, we have a time gap to Success.

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

We don't have a time gap to Luke Tuckwell on this last climb.

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

He's literally the yellow jersey.

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

Yeah, he was on a minute, a minute 40 for a lot of the climb.

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

And then those last two kilometers were too much to the point that he does not lose the yellow jersey.

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

That's important to note.

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

He does lose a lot of his feathers to the point that if this time loss happens again tomorrow,

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

He's in big trouble for not just the victory, but a podium.

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

I still do think he might potentially top five this race, but we'll get into the GC standings in a bit.

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

But like you said, Del Toro wins on top of Gran Colombia, the hard version of it.

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

It is, I saw the estimated watts by Nijako on Twitter.

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

the greatest climbing performance of all time but yesterday i think yeah it's a decent a decent climbing performance right do i have you put del toro based on this in your he can climb roster yet or does he need to do like 640 aslp this is del toro's level he does 625 630 all the time um

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

Catalonia last year?

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

that's pretty good from kahara for sure that is that is really like like we know these guys can climb a bit but this is a really good level this is like a really good level but i want to dive into a couple of those riders in the top 10 there because for both gc and the stage we've got some interesting performances there in terms of johanneson we got to talk about this man like

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

At Itsuiya Basque Country, he lost time on, I think, stage two, lost four minutes there, then went into the breakaway on the last day and multiple days to move back into GC, ended up on the podium of the race.