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Benji Naesen

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5994 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Women's Giro Stage 9 & Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 1

If you're second or third, I'm sorry, buddy, but... Exactly.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Women's Giro Stage 9 & Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 1

But wouldn't that be a problem for Wismar?

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Women's Giro Stage 9 & Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 1

Because Pogacar is better at sprinting at the end of Muda Britannia.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Women's Giro Stage 9 & Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 1

Should the winner of the stage have reduction of seconds?

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Women's Giro Stage 9 & Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 1

Yeah, but we both know the organizers won't put them in a spot where it actually matters.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Women's Giro Stage 9 & Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 1

For a rider like Alex Baudin, who was within reach of a potential World Tour victory in the first two years or something of extending that contract, a World Tour win would be a bonus in that contract, is my assumption.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Women's Giro Stage 9 & Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 1

What would trigger a breaking open of a contract hypothetically for that level of a rider?

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Women's Giro Stage 9 & Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 1

But on average, you think, for that kind of ride.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Women's Giro Stage 9 & Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 1

Expected is a big word, but that's the goal, the objective of that contract.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Women's Giro Stage 9 & Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 1

So I agree with you in that sense.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Women's Giro Stage 9 & Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 1

Is there a possibility for a break and open of the contract based on UCI points?

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Women's Giro Stage 9 & Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 1

And, ball-down-wise, it's not just break-hunting.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Women's Giro Stage 9 & Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 1

Top 10 at Parenis.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Women's Giro Stage 9 & Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 1

Top 10 at the Zulia Basque Country.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Women's Giro Stage 9 & Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 1

To the point that, having these 42 seconds, I don't expect the F... He'll try and... No, no, he will try and stay in GC now.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Women's Giro Stage 9 & Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 1

I'm looking at their team to try and figure out their abilities in the team time trial.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Women's Giro Stage 9 & Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 1

It's going to be fine, I think, their team time trial.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Women's Giro Stage 9 & Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 1

Yeah, I expect him to finish top 10 in the Dauphine, similar to those other World Tour races, to be honest.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Women's Giro Stage 9 & Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 1

It's a higher level of competition, though, right?

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Women's Giro Stage 9 & Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes Stage 1

If you go to the start list, because Pyrenees, half of them crashed out halfway through it.