Benji Naesen

I spoke with the press officer of the team this morning asking an update because I was curious where he's at in terms of his return.

And he is coming back from a Sestriera training camp and his next training.

One of his next races will be the Giro next chance, so he's returning pretty soon, which I am looking forward to see, to be honest.

But any take on the Soler Tour de France team changes?

Yeah, like, the one I'm a bit doubtful about is what I already said a few days ago, is where Pavel Sivakov for me is not the most trustable in terms of format grand tours, is the way I perceive it.

I don't know if he's the best pick for that Tour de France roster, but we'll see when the Tour de France hits what they end up going with, and then we can judge that selection when it arrives.

But we've got a major topic today, but before I jump into the little trap topic, Patrick, I...

I see some change in head of performance and so forth.

How was your performance on the bike, Patrick?

You said Alpe d'Huez.

So you went to an event that is called Alpe du Zes.

The Zes stands for six times.

So your excuse is you don't speak Dutch.

And you didn't do the six times.

How has joint cycling helped you in the run up to that event?

The morning of that test, you said some Mickey Mouse number and I was like, bro, you're going to be 40, 40 watts higher.

I was on the ball.

Yeah, I wrote that literally directly from the press release.

I assume that's sports psychology.

I think he was already involved with Red Bull in some sense in the sport performance center, maybe.