Benji Naesen

Okay.

So this mano a mano fight we saw in Angoludo between the riders where Dario had a feeling like, oh, riders dropping, riders coming back.

You always had one rider that had the upper hand at any point during the climb where...

was a far better stage for me today finesse today i won't lie i said three days ago that three days ago the stage was fantastic yeah better than any entertainment i had in the men's giro every single day yeah so today's finesse today was boring to me it was a bit of a deflating balloon it was yeah um and i don't care about can i be honest i don't even care that it stopped 1k before the top i don't think it would change anything

they're so close together on the climb that i also don't believe they would have made a difference in the flat section the descent maybe holmgren has trouble in the flat in the descent but i i think technically she's all right while holgrim's performance is out of this world etc in terms of like the level you expect from that age she's a super talent for the future she's not the person i'm looking at in this race because i'm focused on okay

is Voring going to put a minute into Anna van der Beek and is Niedermeyer going to win the stage, which would be a fantastic performance.

Yeah.

So I never really saw the ability of anyone here because Voring attacked multiple times before we got to the last kilometre of this eventual finish where she didn't look like she could drop anyone.

And if you can't do that during the climb, maybe you can do it at the finish here then.

But that doesn't change anything for me for the rest of the stage.

I think Von der Breggen stays in the Mallea Rosa regardless of how the stage is written out.

I do think we need to talk about the last kilometer now.

They go into the last K all together.

Yeah, Roycer is in Narnia.

ELB is in Narnia.

But going into the last kilometer all four together, and we've got this hairpin into basically the sprint towards the made-up finish line.

I'm always curious because...

I don't know what it's like being a rider, 7K from the top of Finestre, hearing that the finish is now 1K before the top of Finestre, and then having to figure out, okay, where's the actual finish line?

When do I need to start my sprint?

Because there's so many hairpins on Finestre that you only see her