00:00 Oh is he going to get there? Oh my goodness! The breakaway makes it!
00:05 He was playing a game there, playing with fire!
00:09 The breakaway.
00:15 This yellow jersey is riding his own strip here at the Tour de France.
00:19 Doomed to fail most of the time.
00:22 The spinters are coming right on him! This is a desperate moment!
00:26 A matter of 10 metres and he lost the stage. Incredible!
00:30 But when they do succeed, ultimate glory for the winner.
00:38 Oh my word! Tackle von der Horn!
00:41 Yellow awaits Greg van Avermaet.
00:44 What is the secret of survival?
00:48 It's about play acting, you know, ducking and diving.
00:52 For me, it was always easier to just let that break go five seconds
00:56 and then go straight over the top of that.
00:58 That's a really hard way to do it. That's a Thomas De Gendt way of doing that.
01:01 I couldn't do it the easy way because I was too easy to spot.
01:04 Yes, exactly.
01:05 I'm honestly like too honest person and I'm really sh*t at playing poker games, you know.
01:10 Every lap in the descent he was getting a gap and then the last lap suddenly he attacks me in the climb
01:14 and then suddenly he knows the perfect line.
01:19 And what are the essential qualities of the escape artist?
01:22 I can never beat Kev, I can never beat Kanzelar on a time trial
01:27 and I could never beat Kontador on a mountain.
01:29 So I had to do something else.
01:31 I never gave up and I always took this 1% chance over a zero chance.
01:35 He is incredibly powerful but also he's clever with when he puts the power down
01:40 and how he puts the power down.
01:42 Come on a quest to the heart and soul of cycling's most romantic and awe-inspiring feats of endurance.
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