Benji Naesen
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But we would later...
on the next Glambler and why, right?
Yeah, for sure.
And we're now getting closer towards the, I would say, second last climb, but the last proper climb of this stage, which is, I think, 5k, 7% or something is my rough assumption of this.
And we basically see what we just said, which is Dixon pacing, Von der Breggen doing a few relays, Vorring doing quite a few relays, FDJ Suiz is doing more work now than Von der Breggen.
despite van der Breggen being the one that's actually in deep shit right now, because Hermann Llerosa is being caught away by Niedermeyer, and we start closing in towards that climb, and once we hit that climb, Dixon starts pacing properly without anyone taking over, and that's when FDJ Suez switches to the exact strategy that I want to see from them, which is, first of all, Dixon goes off the front, but Volring does not do any relays from this point onwards with van der Breggen.
And I think this is, well, maybe a full two kilometers on this climb roughly, where van der Breggen is literally just
basing at the front of the group, voring in the wheel, not taking over at all.
And that's kind of the situation that the VJ Suarez should be forcing it, because you want Von der Breggen to spend her blade before you spend yours trying to drop Von der Breggen to then bridge yourself.
And that's kind of what happens on this climb.
Exactly, the gap goes from a meter in that corner to 20 seconds in no time.
Arne van der Breken had a bit of a blow-up in this segment of the race, and then over the top of the climb, the gap goes to 25 seconds, and it stays around that for the descent of the climb, but then once we get to the valley, it starts expanding again.
And just to be clear, at this point, we are looking at a situation where, actually, the gap from Niedermeyer to...
At this point, everybody's closing GC.
Exactly.
Niedermeyer in the front group, Vohring in between, van der Breggen in the first series group, but she's losing time to Vohring.
She's at this moment, not necessarily losing much time to the front group, but she's stagnated, which it's still three riders at the front, 3v1, not exactly the greatest situation to be in if you're out of van der Breggen.
So we see Vohring gradually, gradually coming close to the front of the race and
We see van der Breggen losing time to Volring and starting to lose time to the friend of the race.
And it starts to become clear that van der Breggen is losing time as a whole.