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due to slippery roads, the bad weather protocol has been applied. Times will be taken before the finish (3k if it's dry, 15k if it's wet), and there's no bonus. As far as I understandd, the stage win will still be contested, unless it starts to rain again.

early start in Turkey today, with Munton, Ridolfo, Ozkalbim, Pomorski and Killy a minute up the road. Stage will finish in around 2 hours. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpimdUpnlO8

okay, well, we will see, I guess. That part of the city is not on street view, and the Tour of Turkey hasn't come here for almost 30 years. This is the finish (from the bottom right corner to the palace), but hard to estimate the steepness from a photo, of course.

the roadbook has the finish at 870m altitude (instead of 900m here), so honestly not sure a climb this steep even exists. It seems to be a rather new, four-wide road up to the presidential palace, which may have caused a bit of a glitch on la-flamme-rouge. Usually stages like this are for the...

he is one of the fastest GC riders on the flat, yeah. Hard to explain, but it's been more or less the case for two years already.

The chief of the German Grand Depart initiative was interviewed during the Eschborn-Frankfurt coverage today, and sounded hopeful that it will work out for 2029. Contrary to the initial plans of racing through the eastern German countryside only in 2030, the route would now include a prologue in...

not that it makes much of a difference anymore, but turns out they were chasing for Raccagni.

Quickstep is chasing, so Dainese must be there

maybe, but Zimmermann is at home, and tends to be fairly confident in his sprint. Lotto may sacrifice Gualdi.

they finally found the group behind, with Laurance at the front for Turner. Didn't look too organized, though

John Degenkolb will stay in the bunch for another year. He didn't specify which team with, but sounds like it'll still be PicNic...

last year he had no sprint at all, so I wouldn't be too sure. I think he lost it

They just showed very brief coverage of Voigt commentating the kids race. There was a crash early on, but apparently without consequences.

2nd Lotto guy is Rota, I guess?

it's already improved significantly, though. Normally they used to show Kittel 15 minutes behind at this point of the race, or interview Tony Martin's mother.