Brennan Makes It 4 as Visma Dominate Again | Vuelta Stage 16 Breakdown

So Matt Brennan, David, he's done it again.

I mean, it was, it's just kind of speechless about it, how he's just making it look like such a formality.

I mean, you'd pointed out on a previous podcast how the confidence he has in Wout van Aert is, I mean, obviously you would, but I just see the way he just sticks to him.

You know, they were a little bit further back in the final few kilometers and he's just got absolute trust.

It happens very rarely that you see two riders of that caliber that Mathieu van der Poel and Philipsen are similar.

They're kind of a little bit like that.

And van der Poel and Wout van Aert are so similar in the sense that you can trust them because they can punch you out of any situation.

And I mean, not only that, Wout van Aert leads out and takes him.

Wout van Aert still gets sixth place.

And it was just a phenomenal, phenomenal display from them.

But also, I think I was watching and they had a kind of roadside camera, five kilometers to go.

And it was that you saw the peloton come by and you could see that it was still not going full gas in the sense that there's everyone's just waiting for this Melissa bike.

No one wants to lead out.

No one's got the absolute confidence.

They're just happy to kind of let Vismalisa bike do it.

So it was a little bit of a strange sprint in that regard, in the sense that it looked a little bit pedestrian right until like a K and a half, two Ks to go.

But hats off, four stage wins.

Phenomenal.

Yeah, I mean, that's probably, that's exceeded his expectations, I would imagine.

Although he's such a self-possessed rider.

Self-confident young man, isn't he? And he's still got this growing and extraordinary record that we touched on a few days ago or a couple of weeks ago in comparison with Tadej Pogacar and Eddie Merckx.

I've lost track of how many at the same age now.

He's won something like three times the number of bike races as Tadej Pogacar and about five times as many bike races as Eddie Merckx had won.

I mean, genuinely.

I know we're not comparing like with like.