Benji Naesen
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No reaction.
But no, they didn't show it.
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%.
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.
An insect.
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.
But yet Torres, Torres had dropped Jorgensen.
Torres had done the lead out and dropped everybody, Pablo Torres.
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.
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.
Yeah, it's the opposite.
True, it's 50 seconds, so yeah, is he going to wait?
Let's say he runs out of teammates.
5K's pace comes out of the race.
Van Gils is there for Tuckwell.
Jorgensen's there...
Yeah, and they're riding defensive.
It's actually much simpler the way UAE did it.
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.
That's exactly what UAE did really well with Sivakov, Vermarker and Torres.