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Benji Naesen

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5994 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 3 (TTT)

Yeah, he's not a GC rider here.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 3 (TTT)

That's fine.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 3 (TTT)

But the fact that they start the last climb and go individual for Del Toro and Vermarke, because the last climb is the indicator, right?

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 3 (TTT)

Every single team wants to get their GC rider to the final climb or their GC riders to the final climb.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 3 (TTT)

And the fact that Vermarke did not just...

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 3 (TTT)

do massive pulls before that final climb, but genuinely try to go for his best possible time in a kind of 1v1 up the last climb against Del Toro.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 3 (TTT)

Shouts to me that they want to keep Vermarke in GC, which I think that's brave with the parkour that we have in this race.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 3 (TTT)

I don't see the value in that, if I'm being honest.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 3 (TTT)

Vermarke for me is domestique.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 3 (TTT)

Is there a world in which he's in the Tour de France team this year?

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 3 (TTT)

I would pick Vermaar or Zivakov for the Tour de France.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 3 (TTT)

Pass two hills.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 3 (TTT)

And even the thing with Decathlon, for example, is that one of the trucks didn't make it, Bissiger.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 3 (TTT)

Horlo was the big truck.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 3 (TTT)

Like, you looked at their actual team on the road, and Dan Horlo was twice the size than all the other riders combined.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 3 (TTT)

He got no draft.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 3 (TTT)

He got no draft.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 3 (TTT)

He got no drop, but he's giving a lot to the rest of the teams.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 3 (TTT)

And that's where the value lies for Dunhall in this team time trial.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 3 (TTT)

And that's where they got it out of him as well.