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Benji Naesen

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Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 5

I am not an expert in this specific subject, so I can't answer that question.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 5

Yeah, that's for sure.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 5

And then we came to a mountain time trial on day four, which I expected David Voting to kind of be destroying people.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 5

But on the other hand, Royster and Van der Breggen exist.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 5

And in hindsight, I look back to Van der Breggen in 2021, Giro, I think.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 5

Was that not the time trial where she OTL'd people?

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 5

Smoking might be an understatement to what happened yesterday, because Anna van der Beekens' performance on that climb was off the charts.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 5

Like, the watts were really impressive.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 5

Yes, it's a mountain time trial, so they're going to overread a little bit compared to if you had that climb at the end of a mountain stage, for example.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 5

But it's still super impressive.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 5

And the time gap's even more impressive, maybe.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 5

A minute four, a minute six, whatever, to Volring, and then a small gap to... No, Royster was second, and then Volring was third.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 5

I agree, but I need to see it on Finestre as well.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 5

Because that's where I'm like, okay, that's where the potential weakness lies with Wonder Dragon, that she does a fantastic DT.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 5

Yes, I did not expect this time trial to be this explosive, to be clear.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 5

From her, fantastic time trial, completely out of my expectation.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 5

But her most recent weakness at that Vuelta was that brutal mountain stage on Angliru.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 5

So that's why I'm like, yeah, got to see it first on the big ones in this race.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 5

Oh, I'm terrified.

Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Giro d'Italia Women 2026 - Stage 5

Multiple riders OTL'd.