Patrick Broe

no and it's because of the hills because they're two best tt riders don hola and stefan bisica and so it's very tricky and complicated to know exactly how you're going to pace these hills because ideally do you go slow enough that you have bisica for the false flat 12ks but if you go too slow you just lose too much time

If you go in the middle, maybe you go kind of slow and you drop him anyway if he's on a bad day.

Maybe he's on a magic day and you can get him over and he can still pull.

It's really hard to know a strategy here when you have a course like this, which is why I quite like the course.

Exactly.

It was either that or he was surging.

Either way, it was Dan Holler telling him to relax.

And that's where I think UAE, for example, they just pulled with Del Toro a lot.

They just really pulled with him a lot.

Although it looks like they're trying to keep the market in GC, which was bizarre.

100%.

I mean, that Col du Pre stage is...

crazy hard like it starts with a 30 minute nine percent climb i think ua with kevin vermarker again unfortunately to give them props i know i have to drop the bit sometimes like with kosnifar they've done a great signing with vermarker and he is improving there and they've looked like they have quite a good rider and i'm telling you now kevin vermarker is probably going to be in their tour de france team next year yeah i think um

I think he could be reserved.

I think he could write himself in.

I mean, if I'm trying to think.

His level's good.

He's better than Zivakov right now.

Yeah, for sure.

Not close.