The Ghost

One of the youngsters that are a joy to watch

Porte off. - back on again This is hurting

Landa falling off.

UAE doing the setting now

He’s looking good and there’s no need for JV to chase, whereas INEOS need something from the tour

I think Pogacar is going to win this one today even though I’d like to see Roglic win it by a few seconds.

Pop for JA

I’m on 31-34 and I know I wouldn’t be able to even consider going up 24%

Commentators speculating if the likes of Lopez or Porte will be allowed to go to neutralise the points / time bonuses. I don’t think so, what do you say?

36-30 for some today apparently.

It’s just having to deal with that gradient and the lack of oxygen, so yeah like being underwater [emoji1]

JV must be happy with the work Bahrain are putting in. I think they did too much too soon but we’ll see.

Up to 24% at altitude ahead, good luck to these guys.

Well that ended up being a non event then hey [emoji1]

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Along some canal and country roads. I came across a guy at a bridge taking photos, had a bit of a chat and it turns out he is one of the now many Saffas here. I also learned that the odd colour in the middle of the road (especially under the trees) is moss and should be avoided as it’s slippery as hell

How big a gap to this group of leaders is too big to bridge on the final climb?

He did

Rain starting apparently. It must be very light, can’t see it and the roads still look good

Feeling overshadowed by the other 2 countrymen and needed to lift his game? [emoji1]

No pressure here Landa

Strength to you. Hopefully this is one of those things that won’t take too long to get past and will be worth it when you compare to the benefits later. Good luck.

Tomorrow is going to put a bunch of people in a pretty dark place I recon.

Possibly, waiting to see

Well they tried, but I don’t think there were gains for anyone