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I don't know in that situation.

That is for sure.

And I think Demi Volring has now won the Vuelta to the France and Giro d'Italia, so has done the treble in similar fashion as Jonas earlier this season throughout her career.

That said, Patrick, I cannot wait for the Demi Volring AI-generated LinkedIn post.

Remember when Pedersen drew something himself as like the start lists for the Tour de France or something for Little Trek?

That was great.

So basically, just to like contextualize the interview, the way I interpreted it was Tixoff said that

He doesn't necessarily want the jersey as a team on stage one.

Perhaps to not have to control massively tomorrow is my assumption there.

But on the other hand, spoilers, they ended up controlling the large majority of today's stage regardless of not having the jersey yet.

You can also just not control tomorrow.

Well, that's a bit tricky if you're the favorite.

Well, then the jersey doesn't matter.

That's my point there.

But on the other hand, the other factor is Rikitello is out of the race before this race even began for food poisoning, or at least went into the stage with food poisoning and then abandoned halfway through.

I assume that the food poisoning came so late that they couldn't get a substitute in before the race started.

Then the secondary follow-up is...

Sixers also mentioned that for that team time trial, they want to limit the tiredness of their riders.

That's how I interpreted it, at least, towards that team time trial, which I do get the point there a little bit.

It's, to be honest, I've been very much against team time trials being beyond stage one in a stage race ever.