Patrick Broe

In doing so, he drops off the back with Van Geel Swidim, who actually supports him for the rest of the climb, pacing for him.

And I think that mattered a lot.

Because yesterday he cracked in the last 3K.

It helps a lot with cracking if you have a teammate with you, even if it's just mentally.

So in this stage, you could argue that whatever position Tuckwell ends in, got to give credit to Von Hills for that performance as well, because otherwise it might have been lower because...

In hindsight, looking at the overall GC results at the end of this podcast, the gaps are pretty small when it comes to the potential podium.

But 9.1 kilometers to go, Keon starting to drop, Ineos gets caught from this breakaway and dropped, and it doesn't take too long then.

Maybe another 300 meters, Patrick, and Isaac Del Toro attacks.

What did we see then?

It's 10% maybe in this race.

And he didn't need to.

We usually see him being the,

You're right.

Like, usually we see del Toro taking up the Jebel Moubra strategy, is how I call it now, but he's done it before Jebel Moubra.

It was literally the way he lost the Giro last year as well, if you think through it.

Now, today is the opposite, where he kind of does what Ayuso did in yesterday's stage, but it's also a slight bit of a different climb in the sense that the first half of Colombier yesterday was super hard.

This climb is relatively more steady than yesterday, I would pronounce it to be, but del Toro doing this is also...

I think it's also the right thing to do.

You say he doesn't need to do this necessarily, but that's half, half true.

I agree with you.