Luke Tuckwell

Welcome to Stanley Street Social, Luke Tuckwell.

Thanks for having me.

Long-time listener, first-time guest.

Why not take him?

Yeah, but if you', if you're debuting one, you're debuting Luke Tuckwell.

Of course you are.

I'm not saying cut Tuckwell.

Um, which I think his dad appreciated.

And I also said to someone that the same applied to L- Luke Tuckwell, just extremely, just a quite charming young man in his dealings with the press.

And whether that affects how they're, they're covered, how we document their careers or not, um, it's just, it's just n- pleasant when you come across riders who are as, as I say, affable and well-disposed as those two in particular have been on this Vuelta a España.

Yeah.

So a big day, an emotional day for, for him, and, uh, well, you'll hear him speak emotionally after the finish.

Then we're gonna hear from Luke Tuckwell, Primoz Roglic's lieutenant, shall we say? Lieutenant.

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Lieutenant, I think you say in English, in English English, about precisely what they were up to today.

We saw them, as we said earlier, making the pace.

We saw Roglic having a little nudge with 107 kilometers to go.

So what were they doing? What did they hope to get out of today? Luke Tuckwell is the last voice you'll hear here.

Uh, I mean, it's always a bit dangerous, I think, to say that, uh, in the world of cycling that everything is, uh, at its place.

I thought I'd verify that with another of the Red Bull chaps this morning.

Luke Tuckwell, of course, Australian young Roglic domestique, I suppose.

He's a bit better than domestique, but that's the role he's playing in this Vuelta a España.

I thought I'd ask him what he thought Roglic had in store for us this afternoon.

So here I am talking to Luke Tuckwell this morning in Jaén.

Up until yesterday, it was pretty manageable, let's say.

I think, yeah, especially Stage 9 and some of the other days was teetering right on the edge of being a bit much.

So, yeah, he's waiting to hit go.

In the end, we had also Gregor there, came back with Carapaz, that could help with the tempo there.

Luke Tuckwell came back to help Roglic, so... yeah the timing pops not quite ideal from leo maybe a little bit earlier could have been there but if that would have made a difference at that point on with the gradient still um i'm not i'm not sure so um yeah i think we you know we do what we could with that No, no, no.

We had communication with the second car that was with Leo and it was basically a clear command, stop now at this moment.

And he stopped to a standstill.

And look, maybe we're underrating.

Maybe we've underrated Primoz Roglic's team in this World Cup.

Of course, very inexperienced with guys like Thornley, Van Dahl and Luke Tuckwell.

all young relatively inexperienced in grand tours but um they're coping pretty well at the moment i would suggest and tomorrow we go to la pandera last time the weta went there in 2022 the rog montada started he took quite a lot of time back on rimco evenable he subsequently crashed out of the race roglic did a few days later however it's a climb that may suit him and it's a very tough day short sharp not a meter flat all day really lionel what are we going to see do you think

So we're gonna hear from Felix Gall first.

Then we're gonna hear from one of those satellite riders, those sleeping satellites, Luke Tuckwell of Red Bull Bora-Hansgrohe, who was very valuable for Primož Roglič.

And then finally, we're gonna hear from a sort of wistful Pello Bilbao, who was pretty important today for Jakob Omrsl, and who, of course, was the victim of yesterday's encuentro del día as well.

The goal, uh, the objective was to, uh, yeah, to drop one of the, the guys, uh, who are currently, uh, uh, in contention for the podium.