Benji Naesen

They just haven't been able to...

of course, win the time trial.

I'm saying the mountain road stages they've won.

The time trial is where the hit was taken, and that's on a personal level with voting.

But if you then look at, for example, tomorrow's stage, I do want to mention that first before we dive into the discussions, maybe, is about 145 kilometers, has medium mountains in it, a proper mountain in the first half, the Montorso climb, 8.7K at 9.5%, but it's 100K before the finish.

And the climbs that come afterwards are easier.

There's one more decent climb with about 45-ish K to go, the Coletta di Brondello, which is 5K at 7.4%.

But, like, if you're FDG and you want to try and win the race, you'd say, I'll blow up the first climb in the first half of the stage.

Extremely far from the finish.

I think they need to do it.

But, based on what I've seen this week, I don't believe Ana van der Beek will lose from that situation.

Yeah, but it's also 40K into the stage.

Can you even get a satellite rider towards the climb to have them over the top?

I don't think so.

No, you can't.

If your SD works, you have to make sure no break with FDJ's Suez riders go before that climb starts.

It's just not happening.

Is there a world in which you can do a microsatellite rider?

Hear me out, hear me out.

So we get to the climb.