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Benji Naesen

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Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 8

your finish line at a certain point.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 8

But clearly Wollring and the rest of that group clearly knew when the finish was coming because they all started trying to dive bomb each other into the final corner.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 8

Wollring did so perfectly.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 8

Niedermeyer in second position and Wollring dusted them, to be clear, going for the finish line.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 8

She looked completely done after the finish, though.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 8

And van der Breggen as well was struggling in that last sprint and lost a bit of time by the finish line to Wollring.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 8

But to me...

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 8

Vorin winning the stage, first of all, nice to see.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 8

But the fact that she dropped people in the last sprint here doesn't show to me how she could have dropped Van der Breggen and the rest for the whole stage.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 8

No, no, no.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 8

She was also done.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 8

If anything, if the stage finish is not 1k before the top, I think the difference in how it plays out is that I'm not sure Anna van der Breggen does that pacing tempo until the stage is so-called wrapped up.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 8

Because you have often in these situations also, but in these kind of situations, you sometimes have the tempo completely dropping for a bit, which van der Breggen wouldn't have minded.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 8

Yeah, but it's also...

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 8

There's a bit of a difference between a super domestique and a leader in the sense that when you're a super domestique, you know your finish line on the mountain as well.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 8

So there's that element added to it.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 8

If you have Demi Volning in your team, especially with the level we've seen of her in the first half of this season, then I'm sorry, but I don't believe you would do a multi-leader strategy.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 8

Just go for it.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 8

And let's be honest about it.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 8

They have basically won both mountain stages.