Benji Naesen

Talking about youngsters, to be honest, this is the year where Blasi's moving up, Horm is moving up into the ranking, Niedermayer is... She already was on the radar, Niedermayer, because she was maybe riding with Annemiek van Vleuten at the Giro.

Donna, two years ago, fighting for a potential stage and maybe winning a stage, if I recall.

Maybe three years ago, even.

So she's been on the block longer, but we are seeing a changing of the gods in the second row, at least.

and maybe in the fight for the podium, because I wouldn't write off Paula Blassie for a podium at the Tour de France.

Controversial take.

I need Pauline Franprevaux to ride more races on the road.

Yeah.

What I've seen so far this season of her has not been a level that I was hoping to see.

Paris-Roubaix was great, but she was aiming for LBL and the Vuelta wasn't great either.

I need more data.

don't do what men's cycling does and reduce your calendar to 15 race days a year i want to see more more cycling it works i don't care if it works i want to see on tv yeah but i know what you mean um but if your goal is winning the tour de france i guess it's hard to change the winning formula of last year um yeah but the goal was also to win lbl you know and that did not happen not close

So not every one of those moments where she hardcore tries to peek for something works perfectly.

And I don't like it when we have no clue where a rider is in terms of their preparation and their level going into a race.

Because it's very difficult to do a Tour de France preview, Patrick, and sit here.

Yeah, that's the same story.

I agree.

Yeah, it's actually like, what are we?

I think she'd still lose time on the Nivegal time trial for sure.

She'd get shredded by Von der Regen there.