One Week Stage Races Reveal Little (EP 319)

The classics kicked off the official cycling season but now we are into the big one-week stage races – Paris-Nice and Tirrenico Adriatico. Almost all the big Tour de France hitters are here (except Pogicar). We review the races and analyze the prospects for the TDF. Can America win in France?

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Room now he goes on the offensive he goes on the attack over the top of this final climb and nobody at the moment can go with him they had 75 km to go and now under the flam Rouge there he is still the virtual Malia Rosa on the road who

Would have thought it at the start of today but Chris broom masterful performance takes the win on top ofely Welcome everybody Tyler Yony between two wheels podcast we are doing some cycling here cuz two big races uh look we started the classic everyone’s like oh my God it’s Kern Brussels K you starting the whole uh classic season yeah sure we had the UAE tour we had a few other tour

Of Oman H and then these two weeks that we had just back toback well it was the same week uh two races one week Races they are the big kickoff of kind of what you’re going to see for the upcoming Big grand Tours the big those kind of riders

Come out now look we’ve had these kind of races you start to do well a grand tour and by the way hi Victor I saw you had commented in here thank you uh yeah we’re like I said we’re going to try to do this uh on Sundays um you’ve got

People back in the history that were potential winners of grand Tours um Richie Port uh Bobby julick those kind of people win these one day or sorry one week races The Grand Tour Racers win these as well but these guys are also able to to Richie Port has won

You know perin as an example uh and it doesn’t always transpond and translate to being able to win tour uh tour to France or a grand tour uh sometimes it does um oh Fox and Suns well coffee I’m drinking cfee coffee here 18% or more

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Don’t hear that well coffee yeah coffee in the afternoon that’s just the way the kind of day it it’s been for me okay so look this season happened there were transfers in the offseason the big ones uh kind of surprisingly one of the big ones was Matel Jorgenson

American he had been um been with first ag2r I’ve got his list of teams here 2015 he was with hot tube cycling which is development team in the US their big time he was three years with them in 15 16 and 17 then he signed with Jelly

Belly which is a pro Continental team pretty good team in the US uh and then he was with Van Ry ag2r LEL which is ag2r we’ve heard about them and he was with them on the club side and then he went to World Tour as a

Trainy uh in January part of them in 2019 and then he signed with movie and I didn’t know anything much about him uh it signed with movie star uh M Star for 2021 22 23 and now he’s got at least a three-year contract with v team Visa

Visma Lisa bike okay he was a big transfer had done some interesting things in movie star remember he was up the Pua doome stage in the tour to France he was up there then he gets caught by woods and mahori and one other guy and ends up fourth on that stage uh

He’s got a big big uh engine behind him I think he won the Tour of Oman last year he gets a lot of these white jerseys um because he’s only how old is he he’s 24 so usually those go to 25 and Matel Jorgenson uh famously um funded

His own camps team camps camps everything and he was doing every he said he put his entire salary back into himself uh extra of all these experiment you know doing altitude all this stuff spending all his money to be as good as he can but this year he and and he had

Some um he had some potential you know uh we’ll look back through some of his things then he transfers over to visma Lisa bike and everyone’s kind of like hey this is a big deal I was kind of like okay well I think it’s a good deal

For him I don’t know if it’s a big deal that seems a bit much but uh probably I mean he’s he’s consistently been a good climber he’s he’s got a good time trial on him so possibly and then they come in and you know he he lights it up this

Season on some of the early Classics and you’re just like whoa okay I got it and then he comes into um perin and we will talk about that but I think first of all so there’s that perin coming on and race to the Sun as I say because it starts in

Paris comes all the way down to e and you’re supposed to be beautiful weather down there in the Mediterranean uh and the other one we have is out there in uh Italy which is toro ad Ado another 7 Day 8 day stage race and so who are the

Protagonists in all of these now we just had strata Bianca strata Bianca was just dominated by pagach what attacking 50 80k I think out from the Finish soloing his way in no big deal he’s looked exceptional he’s not in either one of these races but you have everyone else

And when I mean everyone else you have uh jonis vingo he’s over in trener adriatico you’ve got aen pole and perones you’ve got we don’t have seus here but let’s talk about the big ones um then you’ve got rogich in peran as well so avental po pogl polit rogich uh

Vino over in torreno and so then who else well you got uh Fred Rodriguez I think he’s out here in perin ao’s over there in Toro attico J Henley’s in trainer out ATO bernal’s in Perry Felix Gul Ben o Conor um Jala I mean almost everybody is kind of

Starting to come into play but how are they actually doing and that’s the that’s the big question that’s what we’re going to take a look at there and so we will take a look first of all let’s take uh what we can here and go to

Trener out ATO and I’d say that because I found that one to be the more uh how do we say a boring I guess race all so um let’s go to the start list here and I think we talked about this before but the kind of the writers and even some at

In hindsight so you know you got the sprinters thing and and look philipsson Caleb Ying uh bow house Jonathan Milan those types they’re all here so it’ll be some decent sprinting but for the for the overall situation you Alon doesn’t have anybody Jo doesn’t really have anybody

R BNB doesn’t have anybody aana doesn’t have anybody kofus nobody Bora there you go Danny Martinez but ginley is really the guy here for them with Leonard camna that’s kind of their support sty side there over in da kathon you do have Ben o Conor Larry warbass is kind of his one

Of his domestiques uh groupama no one really that you would call here caraz Nelson Palace those are over there uh betal uh Ben Healey for EF education NEOS they have irman they have Pitcock and that’s look so we’re getting everybody involved that we’re looking for the T Frost Magnus Sheffield he’s

Also there little little Tre no when I said little Tre should I really say Lil L Tre tail gagin Hart um we’re still looking for him to come on up he’s he had an injury so he’s got a little bit of a late start Chris FR over for Israel

Premier Tech he ends I’ll just spoiler alert he ends up fracing his scaffo I think in his wrist on a pretty bad crash HRI Moss until he was out HRI Moss for team movie star um q33 36.5 no one reallying B Kevin vermak for team DSM lot sudal or sudall quickstep Julian Al

Filip look he’s still coming off of his drinking problem according to uh his team manager uh of course Vino and look at this team Robert hessing Steven cwick Ben tulik Kean UT bricks it’ll be interesting to see how he does he’s another big transfer that we had over in

The season coming over to team Vis Lisa bike um AA vter Dylan vomar so they brought a strong very strong team there to support Jonas they don’t want to have any messing around uh other than that team USC uh UAE IO Mikel beer uh Isaac Del Toro Mark Hershey Rafa Micah Del

Toro and AO those are the two you’re kind of looking at to say hey what’s uh what’s going to go on there Bahrain they no W poles but they really had their team I mean domiano Caruso has done well in the what is the top three

In the jural previously but um kind of looking for to see where he comes back on it okay so starts on stage one I Uso cleans up for everybody and uh Vino I’m kind of disappointing 22 seconds back here I think we talked about this last

Week uh because I think it had happen on Sunday a little bit of a boring time trial but that’s the way you started out and then you started having stage one Sprint W by yasper philipsson so all the sprinters are getting their their due Tim rero was second Phil bouse over

Jonathan Milan in the second uh stage there stage three second Sprint stage four Jonathan Milan for little Trek gets his win over yasper philipson and then we start in on stage five and I thought maybe we would uh just break down here with the we’re not going to play the

Video but we will play uh kind of how we do this where we just kind of H uh some of the scenes here so you’re able to take a take a what’s going on drop the flag nice nice decent weather over there at least a little better than what you

Had over in uh France for the Perry race the whole time um uh Tyler yonke as Victor saying uh what will be your next professional cycling you will extensively cover so we’ll talk about that at the end thanks for asking that Victor uh Milan sanos obviously

Happening uh you got some races there in Spain that are going to be very interesting sep cous and some of those other going to uh so that we we’ll get there we’ll get there we’ll get there to this pre ride up to ramping up and then we obviously have the tour of Flanders

We got Perry ro Bay I mean all the things are coming up we’ll just see what happens each week so hold your horses here okay uh 50 kilometers to go uh the teams are looking good you’ve got team um Lisa bike doing all the work that they can I don’t remember all the

Extents to this stage because it was for the most part you had the two different races uh going back to back uh so I was watching back and forth with him but with 28.9 kilometers to go you can see this here basically 29 kilomters to go

They had a big big ramp up uh climb they had 5.3 left to the top of the climb and then it was downhill and whatever to the finish and um yeah you had Vino just taken off and never not to be seen again

He puts on I mean it was a clinic he had who was this up there for him it looked like it was cwick but I don’t think it was I think it was Tuttle I mean he just he just Powers away from everybody and you have ji heinley and Ben o Conor

Doing their best to try to bring him in uh you also had arensman back here I think uh not sure who the movie star guys Sosa perhaps and Kean UT Brooks on I Uso’s wheel he was able to kind of hold on there now it was interesting

Here because you had this going on you had the Del Toro is off the back completely and at some point you can see him here on the UAE side he catches up to the ioso group okay and then he actually goes to work and he does a good job kind of an

Amazing job he’s kind of an extension of Alida uh where jaia Alida will get dropped and then just power his way to the Finish but this is a little bit more extreme I tend to think that um let’s fix this here so oops not that one there you go I tend

To think that um Del Toro is all about Strava segments so he gets dropped off to begin with he starts to climb in the back he doesn’t know where his positioning is next thing you know he just Powers his way up through there and he’s getting a bunch of KM that’s that’s

My theory okay uh point4 K they’re already 52 seconds back now this group kind of swells but then you just have uh them them the the Bane group basically with Del Toro really helping out iosu trying to catch and there’s a little bit of a climb up to the finish here trying

To catch Vino but he’s got no problems wa making the way up to the Finish looks very strong this group Sprints into the finish here and ji hinley takes it off I think I IO ends up clipping him at the line though yeah IO over ji hinley and

There you go there’s the uh uh wi 12 back for those guys arens men uh at all all in the back there and Jonas takes over the uh little leaders jersey so um there’s the stage results let’s see if we can get there you go the GC 54

Seconds over IO who would beat him by 20 or so seconds on the time trial over jien Lee Del Taco I call him Del Taco down there uh in sixth place the Mexican uh the done you know looked pretty interesting at um T down Ender Keanu

Brooks for team Vis Malisa biki was one of those transfers we talked about remember him um kind of an antagonist in the valalta uh when seus won that but there you go that’s uh it’s it’s done and dusted already so you’re like okay well they do have one more uh kind of

Clim stage and it’s already done it’s in the books o grand Camino that we saw vingo basically have two stages or three stages just killing everybody there this is that similar look uh bik I don’t know why I’m laughing it’s horrible uh bike wrecking all over the the ground it’s uh

Not to good there’s a break up the road uh and I’m just really going to finish off get up here I think caraz gets up the road he ends up crashing out today by the way pretty hard uh 16 kilometers he’s still off the front um and then

You’ve got ji Henley’s team the Bora team coming to the front but Cory Wick decides to do what he can do for uh vingo and next thing you know he gets up there and then ji hinley takes off and we missing we’re missing a rider here I

Think uh I think vingo had already uh launched his attack so everyone’s just doing what they can to try to get vingo back there he goes he’s in blue it’s kind of hard to see at this point he goes IO goes with him jinle is able to

Go a little bit and this attack is what’s interesting about it it’s about a 20 second extended Sprint and these guys can climb they could jump but this momentum and his ability is it makes you want to go what this seems impossible but he’s got pretty big legs and he’s a

Really small guy and he’s able to really put down the power this is important because this is what we saw on the tour uh vino or even paga can do this we saw this at strata Bianca where really puts down the power but then sustains it

Doesn’t go into the red these guys are like Henley you know he’s won the what 22 Juro I Uso who’s the by the way is a young guy he spent he’s a Spanish guy he spent a lot of time in the in Florida when he was younger so he SP his English

Is like accent free uh so I do like him for the fact that it’s a interviews are really pretty good with him he um you know talks pretty easily but vingo just slowly rides look at this Henley’s got a little Gap I’s got a little Gap and then

It’s gone but they do a pretty good job of trying to hold him when check now back behind there arensman drops off a little bit pitcock is able to help he gets up there at the end pitcock actually has con comments about this is one of his best climbs he’s like I

Actually had you know the feelings today and what I was able to do with armsman I think I could have been up there in the front with uh vingo okay that’s that’s pretty strong language uh but you weren’t and so we don’t necessarily know that once again Del Taco Del tor was

Dropped off the back uh but next thing you know um I is up there in green he doesn’t have Del Toro with him and um he’s trying to make the go for it or is this Del Toro I’m trying to remember one of those guys basically uh

He he makes his oh there it is that is Del Toro in the green he is off the back once again he makes it up to the group then he goes through them with Kean to Brooks he goes all the way up to his teammate and uh there we go Figo winning

On the stage quite easily what is he got about 30 seconds seconds or so uh at the finish here and Del Toro um I don’t think Del Toro actually quite makes it up to those those two yeah there he goes comes across the Finish himself 35 seconds down but it was pretty pretty

Interesting because he was well off the back uh Pitcock who was doing a lot of work for his teammate ends up distances him at the very end with Ben o Conor arensman comes through and uh today we had a stage Jonathan Milan ends up winning that and there you go Vino Vino

Looking uh very good and ready for his Onslaught at the tour to France once again okay uh I’m going to bring up now we’re going to go through here and share the screen and do the same exact thing that we just saw for pinise so ol of Koy wins stage one

For visma Lisa bike over mods Patterson piy remember piy was up there pretty good uh stage two I think py is also I think he ends up getting himself in the in the leader Jersey after this arv decline L for the tutor cycling team gry wagan and third Danny vanon poel Sam

Bennett so pretty good smattering of sprinting then you had the team time trial I thought this was very interesting uh Brian zimney had commented about this last week saying hey what do you think about it I actually really liked it which is um basically you get your time coming

Across the line remember before it’s always like the top you count back to the last fifth Rider of the of the group that’s the time for the team unless you’re behind that and you get your own time this is they had a little Sprint up to this hill it was about 20 some

Seconds or so that took them to get up to the top of it uh at the Finish where the Finish Line was and guys were you know kind of leading them out and and it was it made it more exciting which is I I’m having a bad team maybe and at the

End I can really push forward and drop these losers and come through or we down to two or three now it didn’t work out for a team as example of Bora uh they lost a ton of time where are they at here uh not quite the last team alon’s

Down there DSM little Che didn’t do so good with skilos uh who won the what tour of Switzerland last year groupama total energies Bora there we go they are down 54 seconds Primos they they they’re basically ended with three Riders they they dropped holler was their fourth Rider he was four

Minutes back uh Bin they had three Riders up there Fred Wright dropped off he had only a minute down on him next team coming in was kofus they looked like they had three four five Riders at least to cathlon one two three four and then they dropped the fifth Rider Sam

Bennett with losing just a minute um estana 1234 team Visa bike they had Jorgenson kelderman Bowen Tim van djk uh then they started dropping off a little bit so they they came in with basically three Riders there at the finish uh but they had at least bled them out a little

Bit better where you get a minute and a half minute 52 246 not the four minutes that you saw with the Bor Riders here where they dropped him over the the middle climb uh inos they’re coming in with four Riders all at the finish a fifth Rider 12 seconds back a sixth

Rider 40 seconds and an eighth Rider 128 so I I mean you’re starting to see the better smattering here same with lot sudal they had rain they kind of had rain here it was a different times of rain on on for different Riders but they it was a little bit worse for like

Sudall and UAE um Remco comes in 22 seconds back uh easy post they come in 20 seconds back uh Team ja Lulu they come in 15 seconds back and then there’s team UAE uh Emirates they ended up dropping Neil’s pet uh he was the first Rider to get dropped he’s comes in four

Minutes back gner at 341 but then Solair jayvine Finn fer black Brandon uh mcnolty and J ma all coming in together with the stage win on the individual time trial or the team time trial I don’t really usually go over that but but I thought it was a it’s an

Interesting little display there for them uh to have the next day um Without Really seeing who here it’s it’s pretty nasty climbs a lot of them and we have three straight days of climbing we’ll just do kind of the same thing that we just saw before because I thought it was

At least somewhat interesting um to go through some of these so stage four here uh there you go tons of climbing uh out on the road and uh breaks up the road blah blah blah we don’t care so much about that we want to get to the Finish but the weather is

Playing a part here this entire time okay and what you saw that was interesting here is I think this is the first stage uh is it this one yeah this is one with Beto um this one is is is very interesting for the fact that you

Had two quick climbs up to the last you know 20 some kilometers the and you can see it right here on the on the screen it’s it’s full screen this year which is uh Ryder goes up the road and I think it’s a PL uh a Australian champion and

Vermac I think it’s ver vermac is that his name uh or van welder maybe for uh lot sudal goes up the road with him now pla is pretty good time as far as the overall uh you know threat for the the leader Jersey and um you’re seeing mistakes made all around here this

Entire race uh from at least this point on from from Evano okay this is one of him from his team which is instead of the guy back there helping him pull he actually helps this Rider plap and they get about 15 seconds up the road or so

Uh before the other Rider just basically kicks out there’s 8 seconds there but he ends up got 15-second Advantage he got him up the road and then the the saw L Rider goes back to his team and what he basically done is help the Jac Rider up

The road on his own now there was a rider going down here I think that was David gadu he ends up getting up he I think it fell over just from that brago ends up uh linking up with PL they have time going over the top of the climb and

They’re not really getting caught then they go into the last climb now the sudall teams on their on the Rampage trying to bring them back but those guys are pretty much gone and pl they have 35 seconds here pla ends up uh not being able to hold the wheel of

The B rain Rider and but hold on enough to keep the yellow Jersey uh in the end uh event aole doesn’t even really make any uh strong efforts until I want to say like the last you know 300 meters you can see 34 he kicks pretty hard and

This is just a real topheavy a steep climb you got a little distance with or Jorgenson stays on his wheel to begin with but then ends up uh losing just a bit of a gap with skilos going over the top with vinole uh in the end PL 10

Seconds down 37 seconds down the skilos and aenul Bernal 39 you got G rogich Matel Jorgenson tahada and MCN 46 seconds back so it look at that pla goes into the lead betr goes was in second mnti is up there in third he got Almeida

Still aen aole uh but yor gets in down at 52 seconds so there you go after stage four now we’re going to go into stage five just once again we’re going to keep walking our way through this and then we’re going to a little bit of a conversation about what actually took place

Um uh that’s that’s one we just uh talked about I believe okay so here we go stage six soorry we got stage stage seven stage eight a lot of climbing coming in here uh stage six uh looks a little bit better uh you’ve got leading into the

Climb 30 kilomet to go here uh you’ve got Remco uh I’m sorry rogich making an attack for Bora and it really it kind of Lights things up there’s a few climbs still left to go uh and Ryder goes up there UAE Ryder goes up to him um and

Then he I think it was jayvine I’m not really sure or maybe it was brago but they bring him back and it doesn’t look super strong and then you had Jorgenson over here he ends up making an attack up the road he goes up the road and next

Thing you know uh you know the Riders are trying to obviously bring that situation back uh aole gets on the front he’s doing work Beto’s there you’ve got other UAE Riders just sit it in skilos tries to help out a little bit and next thing you know skilos goes up the road

Brandon MCN sees that that’s a fine thing to do and he and skilos take off they go up and over the top of the CRI climb you got 26 kilometers yet to go there’s only a 7-second gap between mcnolty Jorgenson and skilos 15 back to the yellow Jersey which is PL and you’re

Really looking at aen aole but then uh Jorgenson does a smart thing here and sits up now this is okay hang on we got then they got uh ads that are coming through sorry this is this is way we have to do it um what you have is a

Interest is the body types here so you know one we race lot of bad weather the weather can really take effect into your legs and whatnot but you’ve got kind of like steam engines here uh with mnti you’ve seen him climb look I had a

Watched him uh out there at the UAE tour he wins a time trial then they go up to what jabel hit and he loses a little bit of time in the last one kilometer didn’t quite have the kick uh that you would hope he would have uh at least you know

To be able to hold onto the jersey and he loses it to Ben o Conor and he just didn’t quite have that and then up the the last day I’m trying to remember was that Green Mountain or which one was that um another jabel something or other

Uh he just he he gets sick and he’s not he’s not even there able to do anything about it so but he’s not that kind of climber that he’s able to get these punches and you see that uh in here today Jorgenson can punch a little bit better skill most definitely has that

These guys they get over the top and now you’ve got a little descent going on down here Pago gets down you got a little bit of a descent and then you’ve got this other climb back up and then down to the Finish or climb up to the to

The finish and and um these two guys being mnti and Jorgenson can time trial they’re beasts so this is made for them and this this uh this Gap just keeps going out and and skilos helps a little bit but Jorgenson by the way uh very Adept descender okay we’re going to see

That uh multiple stages here so who’s got the big things to lead well you’ve got MCN he’s going to be uh the one that’s really in because he was only what 27 seconds down or so his team had won the team time trial he’s got the

Most to win out of this stage so he’s drilling it like crazy Skil mol is hanging on other Riders are trying to come back from behind but they’re not really making much end roads and the the benefit you have from this is skilos okay he’s going to probably these guys

Will try to take the stage win but they’re looking for the overall them being MCN and Jorgenson they’re going to go as get as much time I think there’s 20 some seconds or so between them there’s much more time between skilos are not as worried so them being the two

Big beasts time triers those two MCN and Jorgenson can really just put on the power and there’s no infighting they’re not worried about taking polls they never P missed a pole and the guys behind a little bit different you got vlasov you got rogl in there but evole

Is isolated everyone else is isolated uh Ben o Conor actually has another teammate in there kerman’s back there but he’s not going to do any work so um they’re just all sitting on and in the end here come up to the Finish skilos is able to jump around

Them uh mnti I think ends up getting uh the spot over uh Jorgenson and then eventa pole brings it in for the other guys so uh there you go skilos winner of the what 2023 tour to Swiss ends up getting the win uh skmel mcti in second place and

Jorgans and 52 seconds over Avent pole tahada parapente G kelderman rogich and Bernal quite amazing so you got the World War One veteran uh Brandon mcnolty uh being the leader of the tour and very impressive we’ll get into Stage seven and then we’ll do stage eight and

We’ll then we’ll be done because what I think is interesting here is some of the more once again the team tactics you’re going into the 68 kilometers to go uh where do I really want to go on this one once again the rain was just horrendous

Guys were having all kinds of trouble uh you had uh brell’s Team inos for some reason doing a lot of work not sure what that was all about Bora up there not sure what that’s all about cuz really it should be UAE it should be uh maybe

Visma Lisa bike but Bernell I guess he was feeling like he was uh got something to go so 5 kilometers the team the the the group just keeps getting shredded off here and what you end up having to just event aole trying to do the attacks

But he’s not really able to get any distance between himself and um Jorgenson he finally is able to that well what happens is vlasov then attacks up the road he goes up solo cuz rogl is kind of sitting sting back there and um you just uh who was in the middle I’m

Not sure who was in the middle but Brandon MCN ended up faltering a little bit CU you had here we go uh aopo rogich skilos Jorgenson and one guy just dropping off the back there but they did end up gapping over MCN who had a little bit of

Trouble which you’re starting to and by the way I saw Brandon MCN at the Finish Line uh little interview that they talked to him and he did not look look well he was very cold and that plays a lot into this now he came out of the UAE

Tour a little sick so I get that some little bit of problematic stuff um but I for the most part I didn’t think his his team was a did a disservice for him they think they did as much as they possibly could and uh Brandon MCN isn’t quite

There now some of these Punchy climbs I think he is more of a rider where you’re going to benefit from the long sustained climbs that’s my belief at least anyway Jorgenson looked uh fabulous he wasn’t there was no nothing coming he’s got a good team Kellerman’s kind of always

There when he has needed him and he’s taken the initiative he’s gone up the road he’s attacked he’s putting time in he’s not making any of the mistakes and the biggest thing is every time Avent pole is attacking which you know we know aent Pole from his ability to really

He’s kind of like uh um R he’s like the top four Riders pachar ruget a Veno uh uh Vino they all have like a punch to them and a hard long sustained so that is interesting to have and he’s got that and what youve been able to see is at

Least in this race he’s not at a quite at a level uh that allows him to do what we saw with yonas as an example so he’s not able to get rid of uh our man Matel Jorgenson coming into today Mattel Jorgenson lives down by the prominade

There in nce uh he’s very familiar he said with all these climbs the one they went up with yesterday the the Mone he’s like I train on this all the time it wasn’t a steep one to you you saw that with avenol trying to get away and it’s

Like it’s like a 5% climb it’s just long slog I personally I was shocked that that was the one that MCN had trouble on he got dropped there he was fighting for like the last two kilometers really trying it’s coming back to my mind the race last two kilometers really F trying

Fighting to get on he ends up losing a little bit he’s got four seconds on M Jorgenson going into today’s stage I was I was surprised that that was the kind of because it’s a big ring it’s a time trial type of thing and I just think

That the cold and maybe his Fitness wasn’t quite there but who is he getting he’s still racing fairly good uh okay so today’s race phenomenal course set out there was only 109 kilometers so it’s pretty short I mean it was dangerous and I’m like this is uh you know you can see

Uh a ven aole attacking from you know 60 km out and just solo his way in and the weather was abysmal as you would expect as it has been uh Victor campen Arts he’s off the front uh they’re coming in there’s a Time bonus Sprint by the way

At to last second to last climb up the CES uh 64 and two so that’s a big deal because you know Jorgenson is only down by 4 seconds uh little Trex um mads Patterson’s leading the group in here at 47 something kilometers as they hit this

And that’s right at 47 km his wind aole makes his first of three big attacks on this climb immediately on his wheel is Matel Jorgenson you can see him there in the young leaders jersey the the white jersey with the vest on behind you’ve got Skil MOS ways back I think Brandon

MCN at least for this first attack he was right on on board he didn’t have any trouble Vass off is there uh they kind of separate the the the the field a little bit and with that it all comes back together and um then who’s who’s

Going to be taking charge and this is what was interesting here the UAE ends up being they had a split in the group and and they had three Riders still jayvine I think Almeida and maybe Gartner or Gartner is actually here trying to catch up and gr shner comes to

The front and just pulls I think to try to stop this change of pace but the problem you have with that is that there’s UAE writers that are trying to come up and catch and so they missed that opportunity of possibly doing this plus um you know I don’t know is it is

It on you Landon to really be doing the work here but doesn’t matter cuz ven aole ends up taking another shot at it once again Jorgenson’s r on his wheel uh Brandon mcnolty this time well this is the one he had trouble with this is number three here there’s 43 there was a

Second one in between he was able to catch on as well this is the one though snaps the ra the the rubber band uh who comes up on his wheel but Vass off no it’s happened the day before here are sorry we remove this here um

Has happened the day before he had a similar situation with skilos and skilos ends up jumping his wheel and goes up to the the main group up above and um that’s exactly what ends up happening here today with you had uh skilos ends up jumping up the road getting up to

Matel and ven aole they’re coming up to the top of the climb here and and and and vlasov hangs in there but back here you have rogl you have skilos and um Brandon MC so he got he has a little bit of help bernal’s back there and still

Looking for it but they immediately put like 50 seconds on um you know look 59 seconds this group is just cruising up the road they got to come up over the c e and in doing so um Brandon MCN is well I’m sorry Jorgenson does a lot of work

Here now I don’t know why event Paul ends up getting on the front because he does a lot of pulling on this thing for me it’s like look Jorgenson has no choice he needs to he needs the win okay I mean he needs to get time over over he

Hasn’t got the time bonuses yet and he has to get the time over his boy uh MCN from behind so he is should be employed to do a lot of the work and he does a decent amount of it but avop pole does a lot well now I just think ventile I

Think was going at a limit and he noticed that um at sometimes yorgan City would just come around and take PS himself or he would pull beside him and he’s probably like I I don’t have the ability matter of fact I think at this point I’m not going to get rid of him

And what the I am risking is for him to uh take the stage now a guy of you know AV vle stature should probably not really be concerned about that but that’s what it was matter of fact um uh Jorgenson’s ends up taking the time bonus here but when they come up

The quatri Chimes I think that’s the climb they’re on here that we’re showing here 10 some to go yeah they end up dropping blast off and ven pole actually said afterwards in his interview that he’s like I go I I I wasn’t wasn’t able

To get rid of and I know I wasn’t going to be able to get rid of uh Jorgenson so I rode hard to get rid of vlasov now they immediately put him not only a lot of trouble but a pretty good amount of time you’ll end up seeing here at the

Finish now they have to come down into the main part and I was like it’s a little sketchy because it’s still wet but I will just say Jorgenson there were times where he was starting to distance uh aent aole and it was really looking good he gives a thumbs up here coming

Back down into the last kilometer so he ends up taking the taking the lead and um here we go there’s a Sprint whoops we missed it there’s a Sprint for the finish and Aven pole has no problem beating Jorgenson Jorgenson also does a fist pump uh avole does a some sort of

Phone hangup thing but Brandon MCN due to the fact that Vasa was up the road was actually taking his third place but got dropped he ends up losing like almost 50 seconds uh so mcnalty really takes a lot of time back on Blas off who who just really faltered over that last

Climb the the quatri chus and uh skilos comes in PL comes out here at the end you have a bunch of other Riders and um there you go our our boy Jorgenson American Top Aventa pole in second Brandon mcnoldy in third skilos in fourth who wrote a great race Blast Off

Hope there’s going to be some sort of like controversy between vlasoff and uh rogich now who was down 5 minutes 33 he really faltered today but here we go skilos vlasoff plat Bernal Gul rogl Almeida wo that was rough okay uh we got a little thing here uh

Brian says thoughts on Jonas crushing it versus TT sorry versus rugit claiming he’s not in the best for him until July that was an interesting thing look I me Jonas is just uh flying right now we saw that in o grand Camino we saw it here in

Tro Rog glitch was not the same and Rog glitch is look it’s his first race but even being his first race compared to Jonas I don’t read too much into it in March okay you’ve got to had some things going on these guys are probably going

To get sick along the way they’re going to maybe have a crash or two I think rugit is one of his big deals and maybe we’ll take a look here at what his race program is coming up because that that to be could be you know what what is he

Planning to do now he did say that uh you know look it’s a it’s a lot of lot of things going on totally new team New Riders uh you know there’s there’s problems got going on here and I’m not really I’m I’m trying to figure it out

Okay well you know you made this leap from your team to the others so he’s got coming up here uh tour of the bass country then he does lefes wone he does le bason the age Criterium Juda in the tour to France so not a big heavy race

Schedule coming up let’s look at uh Jonas and see what races he’s got going Jonas uh tour the bass country so we’ll have that we have the daan and then the tour so he’s not doing leetch or what was the other one that um rogl was doing

Here flesh Lon and liage Bash Le uh we can take a look at pogacha okay did I spell it right there we go uh so he’s doing Milan Sano which is what this next weekend uh he’s doing catalunia so he’s at catalunia the other two at the bass country then he does

Have a Li and then he’s going to the jro and then the tour so you know that whole Juro time a lot of those writers are not uh we just saw with Jonas uh and and rebco I’m sorry we’ll do Remco too here Jonas and pogacha they’re not really

Doing much so we’re going to have the bass country we’re going to have Remco we’re going to have rogl we’re going to have vinago H and I believe um I think that’s where sep cous is going I’m trying to remember if sepkus is going but any before we peel off this uh he’s

He being uh Remco is going to amto Gold he’s going to flesh rone leage crer Juda and T so he’s got more races than those other two going up here but you know that’s could be just look I think he was too overdone last year going into the

Jro uh sepkus is going to catalunia so he’s going to be there with pachar uh wait he’s catalunia and then he’s at the bass country so he’s doing both of those and then doing the Defan a and the tour so he’s kind of got it’ll be interest

Okay that that looks solid uh I’m liking a lot of that uh let’s go to Matel Jorgenson how come I don’t spell that right TT e o there we go oh oh you’re get there we go okay so here coming up he’s doing E3 saxo bank so he’s going kind of Classics

Back and forth here and uh then dwars van vadin and then the Flanders and then robe and T of France now I looked back I hadn’t seen where he’s ever done robe he being um Jorgenson what is interesting though looking at last year he does toan

He ends up winning that overall uh he goes into Hamlet Head News blot gets 18th there ker Brussels Kern gets 65th Perry n he ends up with eth and that last stage where pachar took off he looked really strong there going inise so that was you know makes sense he was

Fifth on that stage uh E3 saxo Bank he was fourth Flanders he was ninth that was an impressive Ninth Place uh let’s take a look here and see if we can get the pagota Vander Vander pole mads Pon wout Palace k as green Fred Wright Jorgenson Matel Trenton van hyunk I mean

TSH that was a really solid uh Flanders and then we know you know he went to Romy not so hot there oh he was second on the uh on the GC I’m sorry he was pretty hot there um I do remember that he didn’t went well and then what was

Different he went there well at romandy and then went to uh the dfan and I was thinking he was having a good chance but he didn’t do so good there he was 60 some 63rd there and then we we talked about his tour to front didn’t finish

But had his uh fourth stage or sorry fourth place on the pued Dome actually had a better result uh on this stage which had some climbing on it too under behind um Ian is Gary and Matthew bergo so there you go so we had it um here’s Brian zimney are you coming out

To Lamb Park this Saturday to do interviews I should I should do that um I think Chico was today and I actually looked they had a live stream and I went to look at it and then it made you put in a card or whatnot any new cycling

Components to see soon says Victor well um this is this is very where Chris would uh shine into this one I saw that there was a Taiwanese company coming out with a new shifting component group that was supposed to be well priced so perhaps we’ll maybe we’ll get Chris back

On the show here and we can take a look at that now um there was what race do we ex cover extensively to cover okay so that was that was one that um you would you Victor had mentioned so we’ve got Milan Sano next week then tour to

Catalunia then Deon and then E3 saxo Bank wev gum dwars Dan Ven and then Rond van vin with is tour Flanders and then the bass country Perry Road Bay amst gold so those are coming up um so next weekend we’ve got Milan Sano that’s really the one we’ll talk about next

Week so maybe I’ll come out we’ll try to do some interviews at L Park uh maybe I’ll race uh it’s going it’s going a little rough I had to take a little time off but um and then talk about Milan Sano so uh cuz that’s going to be the big one next week

And and you know I like that race but really it’s what 200 and some kilometers it’s a real slog 13 some miles or so and then it comes down to here we could just actually take a look at it um where is the profile I’m not seeing it because it’s not a state

Race there we go there’s a profile okay so it is 288 kilomet and you know it’s got this big climb in the the middle uh it’s got the I should know these the names the suppressa but then the poio that comes down to and then it drops down into and

That’s the big one and that’s look it’s it’s kind of a it’s a race where get up early in the morning and watch it all probably won’t happen but I will get up and end up watching it uh at least for the last bit because that’s really what

You’re going to look at you’re going to see the rider and and do you bet against pachar I mean you know I love this where you get pachar uh Vanderpool maybe a wout all coming into their to the finish and with that let’s what do we have the

Who won it last year I should I should know this off the top of my head um let’s go to 2023 Vanderpool yeah Matthew Vanderpool over that’s right filipo Gana was up there wow pagar uh sa CW Anderson Matts Pon they were in the next groop nilson

Palace top seven uh he had he did dip out of the uh tour he being Nelson Palace he dipped out of the uh Toro go a little bit of knee problems so not so good I I will say this so um look I’m liking more and more uh Remco of enole

He’s not he needs to learn how to do tactics and I don’t think he complained about some of the tactics like I said we talked about what a stage four there where his teammate went up the road pulled PL and by the way people who call him plappy because he’s Australian so

You can put a y at the end and it’s like your buddies with him stop that’s horrible that’s worse than angel angel angel um Lopez you know when he nicknamed himself you’re not Australian you’re not in his team you don’t get a call him that now we call G gr Thomas G

Because it’s easier than writing than just saying the whole hold garant Thomas but I’m not saying ghee and putting a y on the end you’re not Australian Australians do that I I I like the lanon rou guys but Benji you’ve got to stop calling him plappy he did that a few

Times he text it on there but then what’s even maybe worse the SBS is the podcast that comes out of Australia and I listen to them McKenna and this french guy that’s in lives in Australia and they are Australian but they consistently call him plappy it’s not plappy it’s plapp

It’s so FR frustrating and I’m annoyed with it and uh it’s just my cross the bear but I will say this yonas Vago I go back I I really deviate here uh Aventa pole I I like his interviews I like I said I think he’s wrong with some

Of his tactics and he didn’t have if he had land as an example and I know the land R guys pointed this out he would have been in a much different position Landa is very good at tactics better at tactics uh at least and so does help

When you’ve got a rider in you’re able to take control but you didn’t have to do some of the stuff you did this week I think you blew it on stage four with PL going up the road PL and Bago um went in that stage and you lowed your teammate

Drug them uh 15 seconds up the road before he came back to you and then it was kind of in a State of Shock uh you also blew it uh the next day when Jorgenson and MCN went why didn’t you go I think if did you not have the legs you

Blamed it on on on strategery and not being able to do the right thing there and then today um you know if you’re going to throw it all in and you’re going to do it at like 30 some 47 km to go uh why are you working with Jorgenson

Jorgenson should be doing that work and you should be attacking him more and not really caring about vlassoff coming over the top and winning the stage but it’s what it is uh but I like him I do like him I like his brashness I think he says

The wrong thing at times you know it was interesting to hear the interview with Jorgenson today and I wish that they would do like they had it and then um talk to him tomorrow and they’d have a full-blown interview tomorrow and the reason being is because he was so shocked about the

Overwhelmed and I think the emotion of winning he said my house is right here I mean is right down there you know it’s pretty cool I imagine being able to win right there like that that I his interview just wasn’t it didn’t snap right and sometimes you’re like you want

To take some time away now that time do you take away would do a disservice to Remco cuz he says what he says and it’s fantastic I’m saying all this because they talked to yonas the other day after he won the stage and uh whoever the announcer guy was asking him question

Asked him about hit the helmet okay it was either after the win or before the stage and he’s like um those TT helmets that’s uh that’s pretty big now what are you going to do you are yonas vingo you’re the you’ve won the Tour multiple times now no you know you’re

The big big guy out there you’re not going to crap on hero who makes this helmet for you so it’s it’s almost a horrible question right cuz what is he going to say if he’s got if if he’s Remco or you know like maybe a Sagan or

One of these guys he might make more of a joke about it but he’s not he’s boring Jonas vingo I’m taking my wife’s name when I get married yes I I think he actually did that uh uh that’s pretty bad so that’s how boring he is okay he’s

So boring that he he thinks he’s going to spice up his life by taking his wife’s last name so with that in mind he tries to answer this question and you can see he’s annoyed and he’s just like well it’s safe yeah no the guy’s like

Yeah but it’s so big is it like uncomfortable and he’s like it’s comfortable it was really uh it made me feel awkward and um it was pretty good okay uh PL zimy in here PL jaacks luky van plle and Luca platell yeah solid PL Armstrong I don’t know um what do we

Talk about last week so this was I was say the last thing here and then we’ll be done here almost an hour in here thanks for joining everybody you’ve got um I I played that clip last week of uh Greg lemond on with the podcast sorry did do doing a disservice by not

Actually saying the name of the podcast I forgot what it is I would totally say it I don’t really care um it’s some uh Irish guy is pretty good actually and he talked about and I played clips and I still can’t remember but he talked about

Bob roll trying to Wi being wired up at the Wheatland cycy there in Colorado Ron Keel shop wired up to try to get Greg lemon to say something defamatory against Trek because there was this lawsuit and this whole issue with Trek and then Armstrong and da d da and I’m

Just like what a piece of what a absolute piece of crap Bob roll is I mean that’s and and now I’ve got to watch and and so look we’ve got cycling on TV I’m able to watch uh on peacock you had perin and then on Max you had uh

The um the Tren rad radico and I Bob R and Christian Vandal sometimes I wonder if they legitimately RAC bikes they say the dumbest things their strategy their their the way that they talk it blows my mind at times and it’s embarrassing and uh they are boring and I’m going to say

That maybe every week that I have to listen to them on TV along for the days of Phil leot and Paul Sherwin screwing up everyone’s names because at least they do it with an English accent and with that English accent I feel like it’s not reflected on me and I don’t

Have to listen to it that’s how bad it is uh yeah he Anthony Walsh thank you he did interview Tyler Hamilton he’s done he’s done some good good stuff so there you go that’s that is my rant for the night um yeah get back on the bikes everybody

Really appreciate you joining us here on the what is this called between two wheels podcast and um Brian I will make an effort thank you Victor vict says thanks for live streaming between two wheels podcast I will make an effort to get out to Land Park next week uh and do some

Interviews we’ll talk to you Brian I’ll give you a big hug or something too so with that in mind everybody have a great week take care