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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 8

No reaction.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 8

But no, they didn't show it.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 8

I think the strike rate, by the way, on coverage of GC riders attacking on a final climb, it's got to be less than 50%.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 8

It's like they will cut away to, I don't know, a blade of grass that has some sort of religious artifact embedded into it.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 8

An insect.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 8

After six hours of nothing happening, and then as the final lead-out's happening, they're like, no, we should focus on this insect.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 8

But yet Torres, Torres had dropped Jorgensen.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 8

Torres had done the lead out and dropped everybody, Pablo Torres.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 8

So UAE set up Jorgensen completely and, sorry, set up Del Toro completely and then he just, he continued on and Jorgensen didn't react.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 8

Yuzo had been looking suspect at the start of the climb and I was surprised, honestly, because this is not, we've actually never seen Del Toro ride like this.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 8

Yeah, it's the opposite.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 8

True, it's 50 seconds, so yeah, is he going to wait?

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 8

Let's say he runs out of teammates.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 8

5K's pace comes out of the race.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 8

Van Gils is there for Tuckwell.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 8

Jorgensen's there...

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 8

Yeah, and they're riding defensive.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 8

It's actually much simpler the way UAE did it.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 8

If you have the best climber in the race and he needs to take time, make it hard at the start when you have the teammates.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 8

That's exactly what UAE did really well with Sivakov, Vermarker and Torres.