Jonathan Milan

He needs kind of a Ganna, I think.

Him and Jonathan Milan working for Pedersen, Lidl-Trek could be a monster team in the classics.

Um, yeah, that, that would be quite a monstrous trio if you could find them for, like, a Paris-Roubaix.

So I think Mads Pedersen would be quite happy about that, but he would be quite sad if Skjelmose goes out the door, obviously, to INEOS.

You have...

Who better for Big Johnny Milan, his team pursuit companion, who better to pull from 1.5 k's to go to 500 metres to go in a sprint finish for Milan? than Ghana.

So, unlike Mayers, I do actually really see where Ghana fits in.

I will also say that the Classics depth of Trek this year was much worse than last year.

Like, Pitcock's racing this year has been so good, but victory-wise? Yeah, it's because he's always isolated.

He's always second place.

He won the Andorra Motorbank Classic, a stage of the Tour of the Alps, Milano Torino, and GP Industria.

He deserves a proper victory, man.

I think it's important to work on your weaknesses a little bit, but not to the point of saying that there's a sprinter that needs to improve.

Jonathan Milan, I don't have the impression that he works on being able to push a steady for three hours.

It's a good example, because before, I think he was climbing, it was crazy what he was doing, he passed the bumps, there were 40 guys left, I think, and he was still there, and then I looked at him, and I was like, you're a douche, 90 kilos next to you, and I was like, come on, we just did a 10-minute bump, but he was there, but there, he sprinted less well, and there, at that time, it's perhaps one of the best, if not the most powerful sprinter in the world, and you see it, at the level of passing bumps, he's much less comfortable than he was before, But he took a step back.

And then the sprints, he's still there.

They've actually netted out quite good.

I mean, because think about a lot of Jonathan Milan's failures are him finishing like second and third in races.

So he's still getting a lot of points.

Yeah.

And so I just, I only, you know, I didn't win a full, full genetic hand.

I'm not Jonathan Milan.

I can't, I can't, I can't have a 400 watt FTP and a 2000 watt sprint.

Like it's just not in the cards for me.

So we've got a transfer on our hands, and it's ironic because I think we've spoken about this before Goll had the perfect year in terms of opportunities.

Yes, Paul Sixhas gets the Tour de France, but Felix Goll got leadership in both the, the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta, and I look at Trek and I think to myself, Mads Pedersen, Jonathan Milan, Juan Ayuso, Martial Skjelmose, Derek Gee, and I'm probably still missing-

Ciccone

... one or two riders.

Or Milan

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Jonathan Milan for the sprint with a, with a full lead out, so he's not gonna have a full team in, in dedicated support.

And then, um, I...

You c- you can't win five stages of a Grand Tour [laughs] without being really good.

I think the question is more when you put him up against, like, the other true fast men of the sport, when you've got Jonathan Milan there, and we've got, you know, Mads Pedersen at, on, on top form there.

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Jasper Philipsen.

These were the sprinters in Renewi Tour.

Tim Merlier, Olav Kooij, Jonathan Milan, Jasper Philipsen, Arnaud De Lie, Dylan Groenewegen, Bittner, Van Scholl, Biniam, Corbin Strong, Kubisch.

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