>> BIG CROWD AROUND THIS SECTION.

>> LOOKS LIKE THAT GROUP HAS 35 SECONDS TO THE MAIN PELOTON THIS IS ON THE BACK WITH MEDELLIN.

HE IS A TWO-TIME STAGE WINNER OF THE COLUMBIA.

I CAN TELL YOU FROM DOING THAT RACE, YOU GOT TO BE A REALLY GOOD RIDER TO WIN ONE OF KNOWS STAGES.

SO LET'S LOOK OUT FOR HIM.

HE WILL HAVE A FREE RIDE HAVING OSCAR SEVILLA UP FRONT.

HE DOESN'T HAVE TO TOUCH THE WIND.

AND HE IS IN A GREAT SPOT.

>> 40 SECONDS BETWEEN THE TWO LEADERS AND THE CHASERS AND 40 SECONDS FROM THE CHASERS TO THE FIELD IS WHERE WE STAND AT THE MOMENT.

AND WHILE SEVILLA AND WEISS CONTINUE TO SET THE PACE AT THE FRONT LET'S GO BACK DOWN TO RASAN.

>> I'M WITH BRANDO OF KAISER PERMANENTE IN PATTERSON PARK SPONSORED BY KAISER PERMANENTE.

WHY DID YOU GET BEHIND THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC AND SPECIFICALLY HAVING THE BIKE HERE?

>> THANK YOU.

SO WE GOT BEHIND ON THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC AS A BIG HUGE EVENT HERE IN MARYLAND AND WE WANTED TO COME OUT AND SUPPORT AND BE BIG IN THE COMMUNITY.

>> I'VE BEEN AROUND ALL WEEK AND HAD THE HONOR OF BEING AROUND SOME OF YOUR COLLEAGUES AND THEY SPOKE A LOT ABOUT EQUITY WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.

AND THIS BIKE JAM SPEAKS TO THAT.

YOU HAVE BEEN HERE ALL DAY.

HOW HAS THE VIBE BEEN?

>> IT'S HOT.

YOU KNOW, THE PACE IS PICKING UP.

SLOWING DOWN NOW BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER.

BUT OVERALL IT'S BEEN A HUGE TURNOUT.

KIDS LOVE THE SPIN ART WANT TO COME OUT AND GET ON THE BIKES AND CREATE THEIR OWN ART.

AND WE HAVE A LOT OF GIVEAWAYS HERE FOR THE COMMUNITY.

AND JUST TO SHOW THAT WE'RE HERE TO BE SUPPORTIVE AND IF THEY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS WE ARE HERE TO ANSWER THEM.

>> KAISER HAS BEEN ONE OF THE BIG REASONS WHY THIS RACE EVEN EXISTS AND THEY ARE FULLY COMMITTED TO MAKING SURE EVERYONE WITHIN THE CITY OF BALTIMORE AND ACTUALLY ALL ACROSS THE U.S. HAVE HEALTHCARE AND PROPER HEALTHCARE.

THANK YOU BRANDO FOR YOUR TIME AND THANKS TO KAISER FOR SUPPORTING US AND I HOPE YOU GET DOWN TO THE FINISH AND SEE THE EXCITING FINISH.

>> THANK YOU.

>> THAT'S IT, GUYS.

>> SO WE ARE BACK TO THE CHASERS NOW.

WHO WILL, AGAIN, 40 SECONDS BEHIND THE TWO LEADERS BUT 40 SECONDS AHEAD OF THE FIELD.

JUST NORTH OF 40 MILES LEFT TO GO HERE IN THIS RACE.

AND WE ARE JOINED NOW HERE AT THE FINISH IN OUR LOCATION BY SOMEONE WHO KNOWS THIS RACE PRETTY WELL.

THE WINNER OF THE MEN'S EDITION IN 2022, SETH.

HOW IS IT GOING?

>> GOOD.

THANKS FOR HAVING ME.

>> NO, A PLEASURE TO HAVE YOU ON THE SHOW HERE.

AND PROOF THAT HE IS ACTUALLY HERE, SETH IS JOINING TAYLOR AND MYSELF.

SETH THIS IS A NEW COURSE NOT THE ONE THAT YOU WON ON BACK IN 2022.

THE SAME FINISH, HOWEVER.

FIRST OF ALL WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE COURSE AND THE LAYOUT FOR THIS EDITION?

>> IT'S ALWAYS NICE.

IT'S NICE FIRST OF ALL TO SEE THIS RACE COMING BACK AFTER WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR WITH THE BRIDGE.

I THINK EVERYBODY WAS AFRAID FROM THE OUTSIDE.

BUT I'M HAPPY THAT THE ORGANIZATION IS STRONG ENOUGH TO BRING IT BACK AND HOPEFULLY IT CAN LAST IN THE FUTURE ALSO.

AND OTHER STATES CAN JOIN YOU GUYS AND ORGANIZE RACES.

BUT, I THINK, IT'S INTERESTING.

LIKE TWO YEARS AGO, THREE YEARS AGO WHEN I WON, WE WENT IN THE COUNTRYSIDE IT WAS HARD BUT BEAUTIFUL PART.

NOW IT'S MORE CLOSER TO THE CITY MORE LAPS.

AND THIS CREATES LIKE A STRUCTURE FOR THE TEAM.

IT'S MORE HARD TO SPLIT THE PELOTON BECAUSE THE PELOTON KNOWS WHAT'S COMING.

WE SEE NOW WHEN THERE IS AN SPLIT AND IT'S INTERESTING.

I'M HAPPY TO SEE THIS DEVELOPING.

BECAUSE IT WILL CREATE A VERY EXCITING FINAL.

>> WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO HAPPEN THE WAY IT'S UNFOLDING AND WE ARE IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE RACE?

>> LET'S SAY IN THIS BIG CHASE GROUP THERE'S STRONG RIDERS AND ALSO JUST LIKE STRONG TEAMS INVOLVED ALL THE STRONG TEAMS WON GUYS.

IT'S LOOKING LIKE WHO IS GOING TO CHASE THEM DOWN.

>> THAT WAS WHEN SETH WON BACK IN 2022.

THERE WAS THE FINISH.

AND YOU WON IN BASICALLY THE FOUR UP SPRINT HERE AND THEN MATTIAS SKJELMOSE WON THE FOLLOWING YEAR AND MORE OF A SOLO FASHION.

BUT THE FOUR UP SPRINT A POSSIBILITY AGAIN FROM A SMALL GROUP IF A COUPLE GUYS GET AWAY WE CAN SEE THE FINISH IN THE SAME AREA AS WHERE YOU WON?

>> THAT IS TRUE.

AND ALSO THE FINISH IS MORE DIFFICULT LET'S SAY FOR EUROPEAN RIDERS AND EUROPE YOU HAVE THE SAME SPRINTS THE SAME LINES AND HERE IT'S DIFFERENT BECAUSE ALSO THE LAST TWO KILOMETRES IS A LITTLE BIT BUMPY UP AND DOWN, BUMPING UP AND DOWN.

IT IS A WIDE ROAD YOU CAN MISCALCULATE THE METERS TO GO WHEN YOU WANT TO START YOUR SPRINT BECAUSE IT IS A WIDE ROAD YOU CAN MAKE MISTAKES ON THE IMAGES WE SAW NOW FROM A FEW YEARS AGO WHEN I WON, I ALSO WENT TOO EARLY AND THE SECOND GUY JUST NEARLY CAUGHT ME.

SO IT'S VERY, VERY INTERESTING.

BUT LIKE WHAT THEY ARE DOING RIGHT NOW IN THE LEFT LEG THAT WILL BE INTERESTING BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN SUFFERING ALREADY AN INTERESTING GROUP NOW AND I STILL EXPECT THEM THE LAST LEG TO SEE BIG ATTACKS HERE.

>> YES.

WE ARE HAPPY TO HAVE YOU IN THE BOOTH, MAN.

AND I WAS WATCHING THE LADY'S SPRINT AND YOU COULD SEE THAT ALLISON JACKSON'S REAR WHEEL WAS SLIPPING A LITTLE BIT.

I WAS WONDERING JUST HOW YOU PREPARED YOUR SPRINT ON THIS YOU SAID YOU WENT TOO EARLY.

IT SEEMED LIKE THE LADIES WENTZ A LITTLE BIT EARLY ARE YOU LOOKING AT THE METERS TO GO?

ARE YOU LOOKING AT THE ROAD?

>> YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THE METERS TO GO.

THAT'S FIRST OF ALL.

BUT THEN ALSO IN MY CASE I CAME FROM THE BACK.

AND WHEN I WENT I WANTED TO MOVE UP BUT THEY SLOWED DOWN IN THE FRONT BEFORE I KNEW I WAS IN THE FRONT I HESITATED.

AND INSTEAD OF TAKING THAT SPEED FROM THE BACK EVEN THOUGH IT WAS TOO EARLY I HESITATED AND STOPPED AND WENT AGAIN FROM THE FRONT MY ADVANTAGE WAS GONE.

SO, YEAH, IT'S IMPORTANT ON A DIFFERENT FINISH LIKE SOME RIDERS ARE USED TO TO LOOK AT THE NUMBERS ON THE SIDE BECAUSE THE NUMBERS ARE THE NUMBERS.

>> AS FAR AS THE GROUP TACTICS WHEN YOU ARE IN A GROUP TOWARDS THE END OF THE RACE ON THESE BIGGER AMERICAN ROADS, I MEAN FOR THE MOST PART THESE RIGHTERS ARE USED TO RACING ON SMALLER ROADS IN EUROPE.

HOW DOES THAT AFFECT THE SORT OF TACTICS OF JUMPING FROM THE GROUP OR FOLLOWING MOVES?

>> IT AFFECTS A LOT FOR THE TEAMS THAT ARE HERE I WOULD SAY THERE'S NOT MANY TEAMS WHO ARE FULLY COMMITTED TO THE SPRINT.

AND THEN IT'S IMPORTANT TO RACE DIFFERENT AND I WOULD SAY IF YOU WOULD SAY IT COMES DOWN A SPRINT OF A SMALLER OR BIGGER GROUP, IN EUROPE THE TIMING IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU ARE EARLY ENOUGH IF YOU ONLY HAVE ONE-AND-A-HALF LANE OR TWO-LANE ROADS.

IN AMERICA, YOU CAN WAIT LONGER TO MAKE YOUR MOVE AS A GROUP TO GO TO THE FRONT YOU CAN SAVE YOUR LEGS A BIT LONGER AND COME AT ONE-TIME.

BECAUSE THE CHANCES YOU WILL BE BLOCKED ON THAT BIG ROAD IS VERY SMALL.

>> THE TWO LEADERS HAVE NOW BEEN CAUGHT.

WEISS AND SEVILLA ARE BACK WITH THE CHASERS.

NOW WE HAVE THIS LARGE GROUP AT THE VERY FRONT THAT CONTAINS MARQUEE NAMES IN TERMS OF CONTENDERS FOR THE WIN.

OVER 40 MILES LEFT TO GO HOW DOES IT PLAY OUT?

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

>> IT IS STILL A LONG WAY TO GO, OF COURSE AND WE SEE THE SPLIT AND ANOTHER SPLIT BEHIND IS IT COMING BACK OR IS IT A NEW SPLIT?

I'M NOT SURE YET I THINK GUYS ARE COMING BACK FROM THE PELOTON.

IT MEANS THE PELOTON IS NOT FAR AWAY.

ANYTHING CAN STILL HAPPEN AND IT'S GETTING EXCITED TO SEE THIS.

>> AND IT'S STARTING TO RAIN NOW IT'S COMING DOWN IN FULL FORCE HERE AT THE FINISH.

THIS IS AS HARD AS RAIN ALL DAY.

AND THIS MAYBE A SUSTAINED RAIN AS WELL.

IF THE FORECAST IS TO BE BELIEVED.

ENTER THE WEATHER AS WELL.

ADD TO THE SPICE OF THE RACE.

>> IT'S DRY WHERE THE GUYS ARE AT BUT THEY ARE ABOUT TO PLUNGE INTO THE BATH THAT WE SEE OUTSIDE OF THE COMMENTATOR TENT HERE.

AS THAT GROUP IS SWELLING TOWARDS THE FRONT.

>> IT IS A NEW GROUP COMING NOW.

AND ANOTHER SET OF BIG TEAMS COMING.

SO THAT'S VERY INTERESTING.

I SEE A TEAM OF UNO-X MOBILITY.

I SAW A TEAM OF ISRAEL THEY ARE GETTING STRONGER IN FRONT.

>> THE UMBRELLAS ARE OUT NEAR THE FINISH AND THIS IS WHERE IT'S POURING EVEN SOME PUDDLES STARTING TO FORM.

THIS IS GOING TO BE VERY DICEY AS THEY COME BACK IN HERE TOWARDS THE END OF THIS NEXT LAP.

THIS IS THE FULL VIEW HERE.

>> THIS IS QUITE A STRONG SUMMER STORM WE HAVE GOING ON.

AND THEY DON'T MAKE THE COBBLES MORE DICEY.

THEY DON'T HAVE TO DO TOO MANY TURNS BUT ONE TURN ON THE COBBLES IN THE WET CAN BE ENOUGH.

>> CAN BE ENOUGH, YEAH, OF COURSE AND NOT EVEN HOPEFULLY NO CRASHES THINKING ABOUT.

BUT JUST THE STRETCH IT IS PUTS THE GROUP ON THE STRETCH AND CREATES MORE FATIGUE EVEN IF IT'S LIKE NOT SO MANY CORNERS BUT STILL EVERY CORNER YOU HAVE TO MAKE A LOSE MORE METERS SOME GUYS TAKE BETTER CORNERS THAN OTHERS.

AND THE RIDERS WILL JUST GET MORE FATIGUED FROM THIS.

>> HOW DO YOU TAKE THE CORNERS WELL IN THE RAIN?

IT HAS TO BE A NERVOUS PROSPECT?

>> IT'S NERVOUS, BECAUSE MANY RIDERS DON'T KNOW HOW OFTEN IT RAINS IN BALTIMORE.

SO YOU CAN EXPECT IF IT WOULDN'T RAIN A LOT THE ROADS TO BE MORE SLIPPERY.

BELGIUM IT DOESN'T HAVE A BIG EFFECT YOU HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION.

YOU KNOW THE ROADS ARE ALWAYS CLEANED BY THE DAILY RAIN THAT ARRIVES.

AND NOW THE RIDERS WILL BE MORE CAUTIOUS WHEN THEY HAVE TO TAKE CORNERS SOME WILL BE CONFIDENT AND OTHERS CAUTIOUS AND YEAH, IT'S ABOUT BEING IN A GOOD POSITION ON THE CORNERS.

>> HITTING THE TECHNICAL SECTION OF THE COURSE AS THEY ARE ENTERING INTO THE RAIN.

OSCAR SEVILLA COMING OFF OF THE BACK IN THE GROUP.

THE TWO IN FRONT HAVE BEEN CAUGHT.

AND HONESTLY THIS WEATHER I USED TO LIVE FOR IT BECAUSE IT JUST MAKES EVERYBODY A LITTLE BIT MORE ON EDGE AND IT EVERYTHING BECOMES MORE INTENSE AND GETS TIGHTER.

AND CAN BE FUN EVEN THOUGH IT'S SCARY.

IT IS A SCARY KIND OF FUN.

>> SOUTH OF 40 MILES LEFT TO GO HERE AT THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC.

THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC IS PRESENTED BY... >> VERY STEADY HARD RAIN HERE WITH 38 MILES LEFT TO GO.

>> GREAT PICTURES.

>> AND WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE PROTOCOLS AND WITH INCLEMENT WEATHER HOW BAD DOES IT HAVE TO GET BEFORE SOMETHING CAN HAPPEN?

HOW MUCH CAN YOU RACE THROUGH BEFORE THERE IS A DELAY, SOMETHING LIKE THAT?

>> AS LONG AS IT'S NOT FLOODING, TOO BADLY, THEN THE BIKE RACE KEEPS GOING.

IF IT'S NOT SNOWING TOO BADLY THEN THE BIKE RACE KEEPS GOING.

THIS IS JUST PART OF THE SPORT.

AND YEAH, SOME PEOPLE RESPOND BETTER TO IT AN OTHERS.

>> AND IT IS AN INTERESTING PART ALSO BECAUSE, YEAH, LIKE I SAY PEOPLE RESPOND BETTER AND SOME ARE BECOMING A REALLY GOOD RIDER WHEN IT RAINS OR HOT OR OPPOSITE, THE HOTTER IT GOT THE BETTER HE BECAME.

AND THEN YOU HAVE GUYS LIKE ALEXANDER, THE COLDER IT WAS THE MORAS HE STARTED WINNING.

IT HAS A BIG EFFECT ON THE RATION AND INDIVIDUAL ON THE RIDERS.

>> I WAS CALLING A RACE IN PITTSBURGH ONE-TIME IN DOWNTOWN AND THERE WERE TORNADO WARNINGS NEARBY AND THE RACE KEPT GOING.

AT THAT POINT, I FIGURED WELL NOT MUCH IS GOING TO STOP THIS.

>> I HAD A RIDER WITH A FOOT OUT ON THE LEFT TURN THERE, MUST BE SLIPPERY.

THESE ARE THE CORNERS COMING IN TOWARDS THE FINISH AREA.

AND SAME WITH THE HOW THE RIDER REACT TO THE RAIN SOME ALSO CAN CORNER BETTER THAN OTHERS IN THE RAIN.

LOOK FOR THOSE NORWEGIAN RIDERS TO BE GOOD IN THE RAIN BECAUSE THEY ARE TRAINED IN THE RAIN.

OUT SCHMID AND THE WATER IS COMING DOWN.

>> BIKE HANDLING OBVIOUSLY IS SUCH A BIG PART OF DEALING WITH THESE CONDITIONS HOW MUCH OF IT IS PSYCHOLOGICAL THE MENTAL TOLL OF DEALING WITH THE WEATHER?

YOU CAN SEE THE GAPS BETWEEN THE RIDERS ARE BIGGER.

EVERYTHING LIKE I SAID IT JUST KIND OF BECOMES A BIT MORE TUNNEL VISION.

YOU CAN'T SEE WHAT IS GOING ON AROUND YOU.

I MEAN, YOU GOT BARRIERS BLOWING DOWN.

IT GETS PRETTY INTENSE.

BUT THAT ALSO ALLOWS YOU TO FOCUS IN AND SOME PEOPLE GET DISTRACTED BY IT.

AND SOME PEOPLE JUST DIVE RIGHT INTO THAT FOCUS.

>> TWO-AND-A-HALF HOURS INTO THE RACE.

WE ARE INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE COMPETITION LAP FOUR OF SIX.

STARTED WITH 108 MILES TO GO AND NOW JUST OVER 36.

AND IT MAYBE THE HARDEST 36 THAT A LOT OF THE GUYS HAVE RIDDEN IN A WHILE.

>> YEAH, IT'S GOT TO BE HARDER BECAUSE THE RIDERS PHYSICALLY CANNOT ALWAYS FOLLOW THE WHEELS ANYMORE BECAUSE THE WATER IS HOW DO YOU SAY GETTING UP BECAUSE OF THE BACK WHEEL.

IT'S GOING TO BE RIGHT IN THEIR FACE IF THEY ARE TOO CLOSE BEHIND THE RIDER IN FRONT OF THEM IT'S SPRAYING.

IT'S GETTING MORE AND MORE PHYSICAL BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO RIDE NEXT TO EACH OTHER AND USE THE LIFT STREAM OF THE RIDERS IN FRONT OF YOU.

>> MAN IT'S GETTING REAL OUT THERE, NOW THIS IS A BIKE RACE.

YOU CAN SEE THAT THE CORNERS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CORNERS THEY END UP GETTING MORE FLOODED THAN THE REST OF THE STREET.

>> THIS IS COMING TO THE END OF LAP NUMBER FOUR AND COMING THROUGH THAT FINISH AREA.

CAN YOU BARELY SEE A MOMENT AGO BECAUSE OF THE INTENSITY OF THE RAIN.

THIS IS THE LEADING GROUP THAT IS GOING TO BE COMING THROUGH HERE.

AND IT WILL BE TWO LAPS LEFT TO GO.

>> ANOTHER THING YOU DON'T THINK ABOUT IS VISIBILITY.

DEPENDING WHAT GLASSES THESE RIDERS ARE WEARING, IT CAN BE REALLY HARD TO SEE.

SO YOU REALLY JUST PUNCHING THROUGH LOOKS LIKE A PROBLEM TEAM USA THERE.

SCHMID ON THE FRONT.

>> THAT'S ANOTHER THING THAT ADDS UP WHEN IT STARTS RAINING ALL THE DIRT COMES UP FROM THE GROUND AND RIDERS START TO GO FASTER THEY DON'T WAIT FOR THE COBBLES HERE IT IS A CLEAN STREET.

AND, YET, IT STARTED RAINING AND WE GOT THE FIRST PUNISH TOURS THAT YOU SEE.

>> AND LONELY CHASE WE'LL SEE HOW MUCH TIME HE LOST.

BUT HAVING TO NAVIGATE BACK UP TO THE BIG GROUP HERE AT THE FRONT.

OTHER RIDERS CHASING FROM BEHIND.

NOW SOMETHING TO WATCH OUT FOR.

THE LEADING GROUP IS ABOUT TO HIT THE COBBLED SECTION 500 METERS THE FIRST TIME ON THE COBBLES IN THIS RAIN.

VERY WET, VERY TRICKY.

THIS IS GOING TO BE WILD.

AND HERE WE GO!

>> THE ROUNDABOUT THAT IS THE MOST TRICKY ONE OF COBBLES TO TAKE IN THE RAIN.

I MEAN ON THE STRAIGHT PART COBBLE SECTION SHOULD BE PRETTY SAFE.

OF COURSE, IT'S GOING TO BE DIFFERENT IF IT'S ROUGH IT CAN BE MORE DIFFICULT.

>> ALL RIGHT THIS IS WHAT IS LEFT OF THE FIELD.

AND THEY ARE COMING DOWN THROUGH THE END OF THE LAP RIGHT NOW.

SO THE FIELD IS REALLY JUST SPLIT WE HAVE THE LARGE GROUP AT THE FRONT AND NOW THIS GROUP BEHIND.

>> SKYLINE, NOVO NORDISK THERE PUSHING THE PACE FOR THE SECOND GROUP.

I HATE TO SAY IT, BUT I THINK THIS GROUP'S DAY IS OVER THAT GROUP IN THE FRONT IS PRETTY STRONG.

>> AND HE FELL DOWN ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE COURSE INTEREST THE SUN IS COMING OUT, THOUGH.

>> THE SUN BECAME REALLY SMALL.

>> THE THING ABOUT THE SUMMER STORMS IS THEY COME IN HARD AND THEY LEAVE QUICKLY.

>> ALL RIGHT NOW WE WILL MOVE BACK TO THE LEADING GROUP HERE ON THE COBBLES.

AND THE LAST TIME THROUGH, THEY HAVE BEEN RIDING ON THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE OF THE ROAD IT SEEMS LIKE IT MIGHT BE A SMOOTHER LINE AS THEY HUG THAT RIGHT HAND LANE TOWARDS THE BARRIERS.

BUT, BOY, VERY CAREFUL AND SLOW THROUGH HERE.

>> THAT'S ON THE BACK FOR UNO-X MOBILITY.

HE WILL BE A GREAT HELP ARE FOR JONAS HOPEFULLY HE CAN STAY NEWSPAPER THAT GROUP.

UP IN THAT GROUP.

>> YOU CAN SEE HOW DIFFICULT IT BECAME TO TAKE THE CORNERS.

YOU SEE THE FIRST ONE IN THE GROUP HOW FAR HE IS AWAY ALREADY FROM THE TWO LAST GUYS HERE.

THEY ARE ABOUT TO GET DROPPED BECAUSE OF THE RAIN.

>> HOW MANY RISKS DO YOU WANT TO TAKE?

THAT WILL BE THE QUESTION AS WE GET DEEPER INTO THE RACE WITH WET ROADS.

ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE END OF THE LAP AND THE CIRCUIT HERE WHICH AT THE END OF THE RACE WILL BE THE FINAL TWO K AND FOUR DIFFERENT 90° CORNERS.

IF THOSE ARE WET AND WE HAVE A GROUP COMING IN FIGHTING FOR THE FINISH THAT COULD BE TREACHEROUS.

>> STILL GOT THE COLUMBIAN FOR TEAM MEDELLIN ON THE BACK OF THAT GROUP OWE IS A FAST FINISHER.

I WILL KEEP MY EYE ON HIM.

>> THEY ARE GOING THROUGH PATTERSON PARK NOW.

AND A BIG GROUP AT THE FRONT OF THIS RACE AFTER CATCHING THE TWO-MAN BREAK AWAY EARLIER IN THE RACE.

SO WITH TWO LAPS LEFT TO GO HOW DO YOU MAKE THE CALL WITH THE WEATHER AND THE SIZE OF THAT GROUP?

YOU HAVE TEAMS WITH MULTIPLE RIDERS?

CAN YOU FOCUS IN ON ONE OR TWO RIGHT NOW THAT CAN BE THE FAVORITE AT THIS POINT?

THEY HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL MAYBE WE GET DOWN TO THE FINAL LAP TO MAKE THE CALL?

>> I THINK THEY HAVE A GOOD VIEW ON IT NOW IF THE LIST IS COMPLETE THERE ARE REALLY STRONG RIDERS.

NOT PARTICULARLY SPRINTERS.

THERE ARE A FEW GUYS WITH A GOOD SPRINT.

THEY CAN BET ON IT BUT THERE ARE KINDS LIKE ABRAMSON YOU KNOW HE IS GOING TO MAKE THE RACE HARD.

AND NEILSON POWLESS SAYING NAMES THESE GUYS CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IF THEY COME ALTOGETHER IN A GOOD ATTACK, YES, THEN IT'S REALLY NOT SURE IT'S GOING TO BE A SPRINT HERE.

>> NOW, THE FINISH LOOKS BETTER THAN IT DOES OUT ON THIS PART OF THE CIRCUIT.

THINGS BRIGHTENING UP AND THE RAIN RELENTING SOMEWHAT NEAR THE FINISH AREA.

>> I SEE RILEY SHEEHAN IS IN THAT GROUP AND IN GOOD SHAPE HE IS ALSO ONE OF THE GUYS WHO CAN FOLLOW THE BREAKS AND IS FAST AT THE FINISH.

I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM WIN.

>> THESE ARE THE UPDATED SPRINT STANDINGS.

THE CUMULATIVE TOTAL OF THE LAST FEW SPRINTS THE SPRINT POINT IS AT THE END OF EVERY LAP WHEN THEY WENT THROUGH THE FINISH AREA IT WAS HARD TO SEE IT WAS A GROUP TOGETHER.

THE VIEWING AND THE PERSPECTIVE WAS COMPROMISED.

BUT WITH THE POINTS THAT WENT TO THE FIRST THREE ACROSS, 4, 2 AND 1 PUTS OSCAR SEVILLA IN THE LEAD HERE.

IN THE SPRINT COMPETITION.

NEXT UP WILL BE THE BATTLE FOR THE KOM.

AND THE CLIMB THEY DO AT THE NORTHERN MOST POINT OF THE COURSE NEXT ON THIS LAP.

NOW, THE RAIN REALLY LETTING UP AND ALMOST STOPPING IT IS A MIST NOW AT THE FINISH.

>> OOH-LA-LA.

>> AND HARD OUT HERE AT THIS POINT ON THE COURSE.

>> TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION THAT YOU POSED ALSO THE RADIOS DON'T ALWAYS WORK IN THE RAIN.

MOST OF THE TIME THEY WILL STOP WORKING.

WHETHER THEY EVEN WORKED IN THE FIRST PLACE.

>> I WANTED TO SAY YOU CAN IF YOU SAY DON'T ALWAYS WORK YOU CAN SKIP THE ALWAYS THEY JUST DON'T WORK IN THE RAIN.

ESPECIALLY BECAUSE LIKE THE TEAM CARS ARE BEHIND THE PELOTON WHICH IS ALREADY MORE OR LESS ONE KILOMETRE OR ONE MILE BEHIND MAYBE.

SO THAT'S ALREADY A DIFFICULTY AND WITH THE RAIN JUST THE WATER GETS SOAKED BY THE -- THE RADIO GETS SOAKED BY THE WATER AND RIDERS HAVE NO COMMUNICATION WITH THE DIRECTOR IN THE BACK THEY HAVE TO RELY ON THEMSELVES AND TEAMMATES.

>> REAL RACING.

NOBODY IN THE EAR.

LOOKS LIKE TUDOR PRO CYCLING TEAM EF AND UNO-X MOBILITY HAVE THE MOST NUMBERS IN THIS GROUP.

THEY SEEM TO BE WORKING PRETTY WELL.

THERE IS A BIT OF A LULL AS A COUPLE RIDERS BOOST OFF THE FRONT.

>> ABRAMSON HE SEES A CHANCE AND HE WON'T WAIT FOR IT.

HE WON LATELY, IN BELGIUM REALLY HARD RACE.

>> ABRAMSON HAS BEEN ON A TEAR SINCE HE WON THE STAGE AT THE TOUR DE FRANCE AHEAD OF SCHMID ALSO IN THIS GROUP.

AND ALSO FOLLOWING HIM UP THE ROAD TRICKY FEED ZONE SECTION AT THE TOP OF THAT HILL COMING OUT OF THE PARK.

SO IT'S THESE RIDERS THAT END UP SNEAKING AWAY.

I DON'T EVEN SEE IT.

>> TRUE.

MAYBE ONE OF THE STRONGEST RIDERS IN THIS GROUP.

AND THEN IF THEY GET A GAP OF FIVE METERS YOU KNOW IT'S DANGEROUS.

>> THERE'S QUINN SIMMONS LOOKS LIKE HE'S PULLED OUT OF THE RACE ON THE WAY BACK TO THE HOTEL.

>> AND THE STARS AND STRIPES ON THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE OF THE SCREEN THAT IS INTERESTING.

HE'S ABANDONED THE RACE AND ONE OF THE FAVORITES GOES BY THE BOARDS.

>> I THINK HIM AND MANY GUYS THEY WERE IN A LOSING POSITION AND A BAD SITUATION WHEN THEY WERE STILL IN THE PELOTON.

YOU KNOW IF THERE IS A GROUP OF 20 RIDERS GETTING AWAY WITH ALL THE BIG TEAMS INVOLVED THEN YOU KNOW, NOBODY'S GOING TO CHASE IT DOWN NOBODY'S GOING TO BE CAPABLE OF CHASING IT DOWN HE KNOWS THAT CHANCE IS LOST AND WITH THE STORM, MANY RIDERS THINK LIKE I'LL JUST TRY TO STAY HEALTHY GO TO THE HOTEL.

MY RACE IS LOST ANYWAY AND NEXT WEEK WE HAVE A NEW CHANCE.

>> HE WILL BE IN THE SHOWER WITHIN THE NEXT FOUR TO FIVE MINUTES.

>> THESE RIDENERS A DIFFERENT SHOWER BUT IT IS SLOWED TO A TRICKLE HERE AS THE SUN HAS COME OUT AND NOW JUST A MIST BUT AT THE FINISHED CLEARING UP AND IT LOOKS LIKE ON THE RACE COURSE IT'S STARTING TO CLEAR UP AS WELL.

VERY WET ROADS WITH A DOWNPOUR THEY WILL BE WET FOR A WHILE.

>> MEDELLIN THE COLUMBIAN TEAM HE IS ALWAYS SITTING ON THE BACK OF THAT GROUP.

HE IS A FAST FINISHER HE WON TWO STAGES OF THE COLUMBIA TWO SPRINTS HE CAN HANG ON TO THE GUYS OVER THE CLIMBS I'M SURE ABRAMSON AND SCHMID ARE GOING TO TRY TO GO FOR IT ON THE CLIMBS I KEEP LOOKING AT HIM HE HAS THE SPRINTER LEGS AND EVERYTHING.

>> 17 RIDERS IN THIS GROUP RIGHT NOW.

AND PRETTY MUCH NO CHASE AT THIS POINT.

EVEN BEFORE THE RAIN, THE CHASE DIDN'T REALLY EXIST BECAUSE THE FIELD HAD BEEN SPLINTERED SO MUCH AND NO ORGANIZATION, NO ADVANTAGE IN ANY NUMBERS FOR ONE TEAM TO PULL.

SO YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE GROUP THAT WILL EVENTUALLY DECIDE THIS RACE.

BUT IT'S STILL A BIG ONE.

>> RILEY SHEEHAN SITTING PRETTY THERE WITH ISRAEL-PREMIER TECH HE IS FROM BOULDER, COLORADO.

GREAT TALENT HE HAS HAD A GREAT SUMMER.

AND IN HIS SECOND YEAR AS A PRO?

>> THE SECOND YEAR.

LAST YEAR, HE STARTED OFF REALLY WELL IN THE SPRING WITH 11TH PLACE IN THE TOUR OF FLANDERS.

THIS YEAR, THE START OF THE SEASON WASN'T AS GREAT BUT NOW LIKE I SAW IN THE SUMMER IS BOUNCING BACK DID A TOUR OF GERMANY AND COUPLE TIMES PODIUM COULD HAVE WON A STAGE BUT HE RAISED HIS HANDS TOO EARLY ON THE LINE AT THE END.

THE RIDER PASSED HIM AND PODIUM HE IS IN SHAPE.

WEARS NUMBER 79.

HE HAS A TEAMMATE WITH HIM.

O'DETTE AND IS ONE OF THE SPRINTERS ON THE TEAM THEY ARE THEY HAVE TWO OPTIONS AND BOTH STRONG OPTIONS I EXPECT ALSO IF O'DETTE OR SCHMID ABRAMSON WILL ATTACK THAT RILEY SHEEHAN WILL FOLLOW AND THEY KEEP THE SPRINT.

AND ALSO EF AS THE SAME BULLETS WITH NEILSON POWLESS TO ATTACK AND VANDENBERG TO SPRINT IF IT'S NEEDED.

>> OKAY.

JUST INSIDE OF 20 RIDERS IN THE DECISIVE GROUP HERE ON THE LAP AT THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC IN BALTIMORE.

STILL WAYS THIS RACE CAN BREAK.

A SOLO MOVE, A SPRINT BETWEEN A SMALL GROUP, A BIG GROUP IT'S STILL ALL ON THE TABLE.

HOW ABOUT THE FANS?

THEY ENDURE HEFTY RAINSTORM COULD STILL SEE MORE RAIN IT'S NOT LIKE IT WAS FORECAST TO JUST BLOW IN AND BLE OUT WE CAN SEE MORE RAIN LATER BUT THEY ARE NOT GOING ANYWHERE.

THEY ARE GETTING THEIR SPOTS FOR THE FINISH AND WE ARE NOT FAR AWAY.

30 MILES LEFT TO GO AN HOUR AND 15 MINUTES FROM THE FINISH.

>> THEY ARE LOOKING DRY FOR THAT STORM THAT CAME THROUGH.

THERE WAS A BIT OF AN EVASIVE TACTICS THEY MADE BUT THEY ARE BACK OUT ON THE COURSE.

NICE THING ABOUT A QUICK STORM JUST FRESHENS EVERYTHING UP.

RACE EXPLODES THE RACE AND GET RIGHT BACK TO IT.

>> EXPLODES A LITTLE BIT ESPECIALLY IN THE LAST LAP THEY WILL FEEL IT.

IT'S LIKE YOUR LEGS BECOME SLOWER MORE FULL.

NOW, IT'S DIFFERENT BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE RAIN IN WILL FULL FINAL FINANCE IT HAS TO RAIN IT'S BETTER IN THE FULL FINAL IF YOU HAVE IT IN THE START OF A RACE YOU SLOWLY COOL DOWN YOUR BODY COOLS DOWN AND IT'S TOO EARLY TO ATTACK SOME RIDERS I HAD IT YOUR LEGS ARE GONE.

IN THE FINAL, SOME RIDERS JUST GET MORE ADRENALINE.

>> IT CAN AFFECT THE EQUIPMENT AS WELL.

YOU MIGHT SEE SOME RIDERS GO BACK AND GET A LITTLE FRESH LUBE SPRAYED ON TO THE CHAIN.

>> ALL RIGHT.

SINGLE FILE HERE WITH OUR 17 RIDERS AT THE FRONT OF THE RACE ON LAP NUMBER FIVE.

ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT THE WEATHER IS THE FACT THAT THESE LATE SUMMER STORMS CAN SOMETIMES COME IN AND AFTERWARDS THEY CAN COOL IT OFF AND THE TEMPERATURE COMES DOWN.

OR WHAT WAS ALREADY A HOT AND HUMID DAY CAN GET MORE HUMID AND THE HUMIDITY CAN GO UP.

SO YOU NEVER KNOW WHICH WAY THE WEATHER IS GOING TO BREAK.

FOR NOW AT LEAST IT IS DRY NOT RAINING ROADS STILL WET AND WE'LL SEE WHAT THE WEATHER HAS IN STORE WITH AN HOUR OR SO LEFT IN RACING TO GO.

AND, AGAIN, WHO KNOWS RADIOS COULD MOST LIKELY NOT BE WORKING SO THE RIDERS FREELANCING IT ON THEIR OWN.

YOU HAVE EF WITH MULTIPLE RIDERS SO THEY CAN RELY ON EACH OTHER TO DISCUSS TACTICS AND FORMULATE A PLAN.

>> IT'S ALSO DIFFICULTY TO DECIDE THE TACTICS WHEN YOU KNOW THE PELOTON PROBABLY IS NOT COMING BACK WHEN THE PELOTON IS CLOSE ENOUGH YOU HAVE TO KEEP ROTATING YOU HAVE TO KEEP THE CHAIN GOING.

WHEN YOU KNOW THE PELOTON WOULD BE TOO FAR BEHIND WHICH THEY DON'T KNOW NOW BECAUSE OF THE RADIO COMMUNICATION, THEN YOU CAN START TO GAMBLE MORE YOU CAN SAVE THE LEGS AND TRY NOT TO ROTATE SO MUCH OR SLOWER TO SAVE THE LEGS FOR THE FINAL.

THAT IS SOMETHING THEY DON'T HAVE COMMUNICATION THEY WOULD NOT KNOW HOW FAR THEY ARE IN FRONT OF THE PELOTON IT IS A BIG GAMBLE YOU HAVE TO TAKE.

>> IT IS A VERY GOOD POINT.

>> AND ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE OF THE MAP IS DRUITT PARK.

ON THE OTHER SIDE ROLAND PARK.

MEANWHILE, IN DRUITT PARK, AGAIN, THE BIG ONE WHERE THEY EVERY YEAR.IG LACROSSE RACES AND THE NEXT WILL BE COMING UP IN THREE WEEKS' TIME THE SEASON STARTS TO KICKOFF HERE IN THE FALL.

>> YOU WE KNOW LOST SEVILLA FROM THE FRONT GROUP AND WEISS IS UP IN THERE HE WAS ABLE TO STAY IN.

HE'S GOT BOTH RIDERS FROM GERMANY AS WELL REPRESENTING TUDOR PRO CYCLING TEAM.

>> A LULL HERE.

NO IMPETUS TO REALLY RIDE AT THE FRONT STUFF LIKE YOU SAID IT IS A MATTER OF WAITING AND SEEING WHO MIGHT LAUNCH AN ATTACK WHO MIGHT TRY AND GET AWAY HERE WHO DOESN'T WANT TO SPRINT, WHAT TEAM DOESN'T THINK THEY HAVE AN ADVANTAGE OF SOME KIND.

>> AND I THINK BY NOW, THE DIRECTORS ARRIVED AND NOW WE SEE THE FIRST CAR AND THEY CAN TRY TO CONNECT AGAIN IS IT THROUGH THE RADIOS OR IN REAL-LIFE DISCUSS ON THE CAR.

WHAT IS THE PLAN WHAT DO YOU THINK I SHOULD DO?

WHAT DIRECTORS ALWAYS ASK HOW DO YOU FEEL?

YOU HAVE SOMETHING IN THE LEGS?

OR SHOULD WE WORK FOR YOUR TEAMMATE?

AND THEN IT'S ABOUT BEING HONEST TO YOURSELF AND THE TEAMMATE.

>> HOW OFTEN IS A CYCLIST HONEST WHEN THEY HAVE BIG AMBITIONS BUT NOT FEEL TO GO IN THE LEGS WHEN YOU ARE ASKED HOW OFTEN WOULD YOU SAY THEY ARE HONEST ABOUT IT?

>> IT DEPENDS IN THIS RACE, I WOULD SAY THEY WILL BE PRETTY HONEST.

DEPENDS IF YOU ARE STRESSED ABOUT THE CONTRACT YOU WILL RATHER SAY YES I HAVE THE LEGS.

BUT IF YOU ARE NOT STRESSED ABOUT IT 10 YOU CAN BE HONEST BECAUSE YOU ALSO DON'T WANT TO SAY YES I HAVE THE LEGS AND KIND OF FAIL.

BUT, OF COURSE, SPRINTERS WILL ALWAYS SAY I STILL HAVE THE LEGS THEY CAN PUT TOGETHER A SPRINT BECAUSE THEY ONLY HAVE A FEW OPPORTUNITIES IN THE YEAR AND IF THEY SAY NO TO ONE OPPORTUNITY IT'S GONE.

AND THIS SITUATION, SOMETIMES THEY HAVE TO RELY ON THEMSELVES AND ONE OTHER TEAMMATE THEY HAVE TO BE HONEST BECAUSE YOU WANT TO WIN THIS RACE.

>> THAT'S BRANDON MCNULTY OF THE U.S.

THERE IN THE BLUE, RED AND WHITE AT THE VERY BACK 193.

A BIG NAME COMING INTO THE RACE AND PROMINENT AMERICANS RACING AT THE WORLD TOUR LEVEL OVER IN EUROPE.

HE IS SITTING AT THE BACK OF THE 17-RIDER GROUP AT THE FRONT OF THE RACE RIGHT NOW.

>> VERY DANGEROUS RIDER FOR THIS FINAL.

JUST WON THE TOUR OF POLAND IN GREAT SHAPE.

HE DOESN'T HAVE TEAMMATES BUT HE'S STRONG ENOUGH BY HIMSELF.

>> WHERE WOULD HE GO?

WHEN ATTACKING FROM DISTANCE BECAUSE HE DOESN'T HAVE TEAMMATES PROBABLY DOESN'T WANT IT TO COME DOWN TO A SPRINT IF YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT BRANDON MCNULTY ADD VEEUZ ADVISING HIM WHAT WOULD YOU SAY?

>> THE THE OTHER TEAMS WORK LIKE THEY DO NOW AND MAKE SURE THEY LOSE ONE OR TWO GUYS AND THEN IT'S MAN-TO-MAN.

AND THE EASIEST THING IS ON THE CLIMB FOR HIM.

BUT STILL IF HE CREATES FATIGUE FOR THE OTHERS HE CAN TRY AGAIN AND IF THEY HESITATE ONE-TIME HE IS A GREAT TIME TRIALIST IF THEY HESITATE ONE-TIME HE'S GONE.

>> BUT FOR NOW IT'S BETTER TO MAKE THE GUYS WORK, DO THE JOB THEN YOU ARE ALSO SURE TO STAY IN FRONT.

>> THAT'S FABIAN WEISS ON THE FRONT CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF THE WIND TODAY.

>> WHY IS HE PULLING WHEN HE WAS IN THE DECISIVE TWO-MAN MOVE FOR SO MUCH OF THE DAY?

>> CAN BE HIS TEAM PUT HIM TO WORK HE HAS TWO LET'S SAY FRESH RIDERS.

COMING UP IN THAT GROUP NOW.

AND HIS DAY, YOU KNOW, IS PRETTY MUCH SHOT, LET'S SAY HAVING SPENT MOST OF THE DAY OUT FRONT.

SO HE'S GOING TO PUT IN THE WORK TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS GROUP HAS THE GAP THAT THEY NEED OVER THE PELOTON COMING INTO THIS SECOND TO THE LAST TIME UP THE CLIMB.

>> ANOTHER YOUNG TALENT IN THIS GAP IS TEAM NOVO NORDISK HE IS A YOUNG CZECH RIDER.

AND REAL TALENT GOT A GOOD SPRINT ON HIM.

AND ONE TO WATCH.

SURPRISE ONE TO WATCH.

>> ALL RIGHT.

THEY ARE HEADED TOWARDS THE KEY CLIMB ANOTHER KING OF THE MOUNTAINS POINT COMING UP JUST UNDER 27 MILES LEFT TO GO.

WEISS AT THE FRONT SO THE 17-MAN GROUP THAT IS ALL THAT'S LEFT OF THIS RACE AND THE 89 RIDERS WHO STARTED IT AND EVERYBODY ELSE MORE OR LESS OUT OF THE PICTURE AT THIS STAGE GOING THROUGH THE HEAVY RAINSTORM AND NOW ON WET ROADS BUT IT IS DRY MAKING THE RACE UPHILL TOWARDS THE KING OF THE MOUNTAIN BEFORE IT LOOPS AND HEADS BACK SOUTH TOWARDS THE END OF LAP FIVE.

>> THE SCREEN WAS SHOWING THAT LARRY WARBASSE IS IN THE THAT GROUP FOR TUDOR PRO CYCLING TEAM THAT IS GREAT WE HAVE SOLID AMERICAN REPRESENTATION UP IN THE GROUP WITH NEILSON POWLESS, RILEY SHEEHAN, BRANDON MCNULTY, LOOKS LIKE AR TUM SCHMID.

>> HOME RACE YOU HAVE TO BE READY.

>> THE AMERICANS ALWAYS GET GED UP FOR THE HOME RACE AND WE ONLY GOT ONE OF THEM THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC.

LARRY WARBASSE A NATIONAL ROAD CHAMPION FOR THE U.S. WAY BACK IN 2017, THE MICHIGAN NATIVE NOW 35 YEARS OF AGE.

ONE OF THE VETERANS.

BUT IN THIS SELECT GROUP HERE.

>> ONE OF THE NICEST GUYS YOU WILL MEET AND JUST TRULY LOVES CYCLING, TRAINING, RACING.

HE'S HAD A LONG CAREER.

HE'S HAD TO FIGHT FOR IT.

BUT HE'S A BIG TALENT AND A REALLY GREAT GUY OFF THE BIKE AS WELL.

>> THIS IS THE VERY FRONT.

AS WE COME UP ON THE FINAL 25 MILES HERE IN THIS THIRD EDITION OF THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC HERE IN BALTIMORE.

A RULE OF THUMB ON CIRCUIT RACES LIKE THIS OF ANY SIGNIFICANT DISTANCE SEEMS TO BE THE THINGS REALLY START TO PICK UP IN ERNEST ON THE LAP.

THAT IS WHERE WE ARE NOW AND COMING UP TO THE CLIMB VERY SHORTLY WHEN YOU EXPECT THAT TO BE DECISIVE IN THE RACE OR MAYBE A GOOD LAUNCH POINT FOR THE NEXT BIG MOVE?

>> IT'S A BIT STRANGE TO SAY BUT IT'S WAITING UNTIL WEISS HAS DONE THE JOB AND IT'S FINISHED.

BECAUSE KIND OF HE DOES AMAZING WORK AND AT THE SAME TIME HE BLOCKS THE RACE FROM DEVELOPING BECAUSE EVERYBODY IS WAITING UNTIL HIS JOB IS DONE BECAUSE THEN THEY LOSE A COMPETITOR AND LOSE ANOTHER GUY AND ATTACKS WILL FOLLOW AGAIN.

WHEN HIS JOB IS DONE HE DOESN'T GET HELP AND HE DOESN'T GET RECOVERY I ASSUME HIS JOB WILL BE DONE SOONER THAN LATER FROM LAP ONE HE WAS IN THE BREAK AWAY.

>> I'M GOING TO GUESS WHEN THEY MAKE THAT RIGHT HAND TURN ON TO THE CLIMB WHICH IS COMING UP FAIRLY SHORTLY, HE'S GOING TO SWING OFF AND THE RACE WILL OPEN UP AGAIN JUST LIKE SETH SAID HE NEUTRALIZED THE ATTACKS WHICH ALLOW FOR SOME BREATHING ROOM IN THE GROUP YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE SO ALERT AND AWARE OF WHAT IS GOING ON.

BUT YOU SEE THIS HAPPEN AS YOU COME INTO THE KOM LEADING INTO THE CLIMBS THE BIGGER PARTS OF THE RACE THAT THE RIDERS TEND TO WAIT UNTIL THOSE MOMENTS.

HERE WE GO RIGHT.

AND LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS.

>> ALL WE CAN SEE THE ROADS ARE DRY AGAIN.

NOT AT THE FINISH YET, NOT RAINING SUNNY AT THE FINISH BUT WHERE THEY ARE NOW, NO RAIN.

>> AND STARTING TO REALLY GO UPHILL HERE THIS CLIMB THAT IS JUST ABOUT HALF A MILE AVERAGES 7%.

900 METERS LONG AND THEN AT THE TOP THERE IS A FALSE FLAT.

>> HERE WE GO.

I SEE TUDOR PRO CYCLING TEAM HAS FOUR GUYS NOT ONLY THREE.

THERE WAS VERY STRONG IN THE BREAK.

>> I THINK IT'S ABOUT TO BE THREE.

>> IT IS THREE.

>> WHO IS THAT DONALDSON FROM JAYCO-ALULA?

YOUNG TALENT.

A LOT OF YOUNG TALENT IN THIS FRONT GROUP.

SUPER COOL TO SEE.

>> IT IS A MORE OPEN RACE WE DON'T SEE IT SO OFTEN THAT 20 GUYS GET AWAY AND THEY WILL DECIDE THE FINAL.

>> THIS IS BOB'S FIRST YEAR AS A PRO.

HE FINISHED SECOND IN THE UNDER 23 EDITION LAST YEAR IN 2024.

THAT'S HIS FAVORITE RACE.

>> ISRAEL-PREMIER TECH, I THINK.

I'M NOT SURE BUT IT'S ON THE LIST NOW ALSO.

THEY SPEAK ABOUT BUT NOT ABOUT THE FAST SPRINTER NOT THERE.

AND ANOTHER STRONG RIDER HE HAS BEEN TOP 10 WOO WILL UPDATE THE KING OF THE MOUNTAIN POINTS SHORTLY.

ON THIS FALSE FLAT BEFORE THEY MAKE THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE AND THEY GO BACKDOWN HILL GOING SOUTH TOWARD THE INNER HARBOR, CENTRAL BALTIMORE AND THE END OF LAP 5.

>> THAT IS A CLASSY RIDER FROM QUEBEC.

THE LAST 15 YEARS, HE IS A GREAT, GREAT TEAMMATE, HAS A GOOD KICK ON HIM BUT I THINK THEY'RE GOING TO BE GOING FOR RILEY, RILEY SHEEHAN OUT OF BOLDER COLORADO, AS WE SEE THE ATTACKS COMING OFF THE FRONT OF THE GROUP.

>> AND THERE IS A LITTLE SPLINTERING HERE YOU'VE GOT SIX RIDERS AND THEN TWO MORE HANDFUL BEHIND.

STARTING TO GO DOWNHILL, GRADUALLY TO PICK UP THE PACE AND MAKE IT SINGLE FILE LIKE THIS FOR A FEW GAPS TO OPEN UP.

>> SOME PEOPLE MIGHT THINK WHY WOULD THEY GO ON A FALSE FLAT DOWNHILL?

NOTHING ABOUT THE LEGS AT THAT MOMENT.

IF YOU WOULD ATTACK, WOULD YOU GET AWAY WITH FIVE OR SIX GUYS AND THEY HESITATE A BIT BECAUSE IT'S DOWNHILL.

BEFORE YOU KNOW, YOU GET 50 METERS AND THAT'S HARD TO CLOSE IT DOWN SO IT'S ALWAYS WORTH IT TO TRY, EVEN IF IT IS A DOWNHILL.

>> AND JUST TAKES THAT MOMENT, RIGHT, A LITTLE DISORGANIZATION OR GUYS NOT KNOWING WHO IS GOING TO CHASE AND PULL AND THEN THAT GAP OF TWO OR THREE SECONDS, BA HOONS ENOUGH THAT IT IS NOT WORTH IT TO PULL.

>> AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS SAYING BEFORE WHEN WEISS OF TUDOR WOULD FINISH THE JOB.

IT COULD BE A WHILE THAT WE SEE ATTACKS NOW COMING.

NOBODY WANTS TO PULL JUST TO PULL.

>> IS IT AN INSTINCT THAT YOU DEVELOP TO FOLLOW RIGHT MOVE IN THIS SORT OF END OF THE RACE SITUATION?

>> MAYBE, BUT IT'S SOMETHING I CANNOT EXPLAIN, BUT THE GUYS THAT ARE IN THE GREAT SHAPE WILL ALWAYS PICK THE RIGHT MOVE.

AND WHY IS THAT?

IS IT THAT THEY'RE LESS TIRED AND THEY SEE MORE WHAT IS HAPPENING OR THAT THEY JUST FOLLOW MORE MOVES AND BECAUSE OF THAT, THEY HAVE A BIGGER CHANCE?

BUT IT HAPPENS A LOT, THE RIDERS THAT ARE REALLY IN SHAPE WILL ALWAYS BE IN THE FRONT.

THEY WILL NOT SAY I MISSED A MOVE EVEN THOUGH I HAD THE LEFT LEGS EVER.

>> TRUE.

A MYSTERY THAT ALWAYS CONFUSED ME AS A RIDER.

I NEVER MASTERED THAT.

>> YOU CAN SEE HOW IT COULD BE A NUMBERS GAME, RIGHT?

IF YOU FOLLOW ENOUGH MOVES, MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, YOU ARE PROBABLY GOING TO GET THE RIGHT ONE.

>> YEP.

>> JUST HAVING THAT ABILITY IN A SPLIT SECOND, RIGHT, IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE TO IDENTIFY A DANGEROUS RIDER AND GET A FEEL FOR HOW THE RACE IS DEVELOPING, HOW THE RIDER LOOKS IN TERMS OF FORM.

IT IS A SKILL.

>> IT'S A SKILL, A TALENT THAT YOU CANNOT PUT IN DATA OR NUMBERS AND OFTEN IT'S NOT SEEN ESPECIALLY IN 2025 WHERE EVERYTHING IS ABOUT THE POWER AND THE NUMBERS YOU PRODUCE.

IT'S SPEAKS ALL ABOUT THE DYNAMICS WHICH IS SUPER IMPORTANT BUT LIKE THE SKILL OF FINDING POSITION ON A PELOTON IS ONE THING YOU CANNOT MEASURE.

A SKILL OF SEEING HOW THE RACE IS GOING TO DEVELOP IN THE FINAL IS A SKILL YOU CANNOT REALLY MEASURE AND IT'S A TALENT THAT A RIDER CAN HAVE AND YOU HAVE TO SEE IT AS A TEAM OWNER TO SEE LIKE, OKAY, IS THAT A GOOD FIT BECAUSE HE HAS THIS CERTAIN TALENT AND IT CAN BE IMPORTANT OORKS OF, EVEN THOUGH YOU DON'T HAVE THE BEST NUMBERS, ITS CAN BE IMPORTANT FOR YOUR TEAMMATES TO HAVE EXTRA SKILLS.

>> THESE ARE THE RESULTS OF THE LATEST KING OF THE MOUNTAINS CLIMB, WITH JUST OVER 20 MILES LEFT TO GO, IT'S ALL DOWNHILL NOW TOWARDS THE END OF LAP NUMBER 5 HERE, WITH JUST ABOUT AN HOUR LEFT TO GO IN THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC.

NOW FOR ALL THE SCIENCE, THE POWER METERS, THE NUTRITION, THE ANALYTICS, RACING I.Q.

IS STILL SOMETHING THAT YOU JUST HOPE YOUR RIDERS HAVE IF YOU ARE A DIRECTOR.

SOMETIMES THERE ARE THINGS THAT ARE HARD TO TEACH, HARD TO INSTILL, YOU JUST HOPE I GUESS WITH EXPERIENCE AND MATURITY AND JUST REPETITION IN THE PELOTON, YOU KIND OF FIGURE THINGS OUT.

IT'S A NATURAL INSTINCT, RACE I.Q., IT'S VERY DIFFICULT AND IF YOU ARE BEHIND THEM, YOU CAN HELP THEM A BIT WITH WHAT YOU SEE AND WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT COMPETITORS AND YOUR OWN RIDER TO GIVE THEM CONFIDENCE TO HELP THEM MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICES BUT IN THE END, IT'S THE RIDER AND HIS LEX AND ABILITY TO MAKE THE RIGHT MOVE.

YOU STHEEM RIDING BEHIND A FEW HUNDRED METERS BEHIND.

THEY DON'T SEE WHAT THE RIDER SEES AND WHAT PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW AND THE CAR SEES EVERY IMAGE WE ARE SEEING.

HE SEES IT WITH A DELAY OF LIKE 20 SECONDS SO THE MICRODECISION CAN NEVER BE MADE FROM THE DIRECTOR BUT FROM THE RIDER.

>> NOW FLY AGO LONG HERE ALL MOSTLY DOWNHILL UNTIL THEY GET BCK TO THE INNER HARBOR AND THE END OF THE LAP.

AND AS WE CLOSE IN ON THE FINAL 20 MILES, AND THEY ARE LITERALLY RUNNING OUT OF ROAD, SO IT'S GOING TO START TO GET INTERESTING IN TERMS OF THE DYNAMICS AND HOW THIS THING IS GOING TO DEVELOP.

STILL A BIG GROUP BUT LARGELY ALL TOGETHER SHEER ULTIMATE LAP OF THE THIRD EDITION OF THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC, THREE MILES OR SO AWAY FROM THE END OF THIS LAP.

AS I SAID, THIS IS THE THIRD TIME THEY HAVE DONE THIS RACE, A MAN SITTING NEXT TO ME, SETH VAN MARCO WON THE INAUGURAL IN 2022 AND THE MOST RECENT EDITION OF THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC 2023 MA TEE YO'-- MATHIAS SKJELMOSE GOT AWAY TO WIN SOLO AT THE END.

SO SKJELMOSE CAME TO THIS EDITION AS THE DEFENDING CHAMPION AS LAST YEAR'S RACE WAS IT CANCEL DUE TO THE COLLAPSE OF THE FRANCIS SCOTT KEY BRIDGE IN MARCH OF 2024.

NEILSEN POWLESS WAS THE SECOND WINNER, HE IS THE ONLY ONE ON THE PODIUM IN EACH OF THE TWO DECISIONS AND HE IS IN A DECISIVE MOVE RIGHT NOW NEAR THE END OF THE RACE.

POWLESS LOOKING FOR THE TOP STEP OF THE PODIUM FOR THE FIRST TIME.

HE HAS BEEN SECOND.

HE HAS BEEN THIRD.

NOW LOOKING TO BE FIRST TODAY, BUT SOMEBODY WHO WON'T BE FIRST IS THE DEFENDING CHAMPION, SKJELMOSE CRASHING EARLIER.

THE START OF LAP NUMBER TWO ON THE COBBLES.

HE WENT DOWN, THE FIRST CRASH OF THE RACE.

HE TRIED TO CONTINUE ON BUT EVENTUALLY HAD TO PULL THE PLUG.

HE ABANDONED SO THE DEFENDING CHAMPION IS OUT.

THERE WILL BE A NEW WINNER HERE SHORTLY IN 2025.

A HUGE SURPRISE TO SEE SKJELMOSE GO DOWN AND THAT'S REALLY THE ONLY SIGNIFICANT CRASH WE'VE SEEN IN THIS RACE TODAY, GIVEN ALL THE RAIN AND THE WEATHER, BUT MAYBE SOMEWHAT SURPRISING WE HAVEN'T SEEN MORE CRASHES.

HE'S THE ONLY ONE SO HE IS OUT AND THESE ARE ARE THE RIDERS ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE OF THE SCREEN, SOME TRYING TO GO OFF THE FRONT AS THEY MAKE THEIR WAY BACK DOWN INTO CENTRAL BALTIMORE AND A LOT OF ATTACKING, A LOT OF MOVEMENT STARTING TO OCCUR.

UNO-X OFF THE FRONT.

NOT THEIR LEADER BUT STILL ABRAM HAMZEN DANGEROUS MOVE.

IF HAVE YOU THREE GUYS IN THIS BIG GROUP, YOU WANT TO HAVE AT LEAST TWO GUYS IN THE FRONT, MISSING THE GOOD SPLIT.

GETTING REALLY DANGEROUS.

IF GUYS KEEP WAITING HERE THAT COULD BE DECISIVE.

>> AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE OR DEALING WITH SOME TECHNICAL CORNERS HERE AS THEY GET INSIDE THE FINAL.

>> ROUTES ARE STILL WET.

IT'S NOT RAINING BUT IT'S STILL SLIPPERY.

>> YEAH, YOU DO NOT WANT TO END UP IN THE LAST COUPLE OF RIDERS OFF THE BACK OF THE FRONT GROUP AND LET THAT RACE RIDE AWAY FROM YOU BUT THAT'S WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN.

I CAN SEE THIS GROUP WHITTLING DOWN OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST LAP BUT WE ONLY HAVE ONE LAP TO GO.

>> WHEN THEY PULL NUMBER 89 IN THE PURPLE AT THE BACK, THE ITALIAN STRUGGLING TO MAINTAIN THE PACE.

>> I ITALIAN GOING TO QUICK STEP NEXT YEAR.

>> FORMER ITALIAN NATIONAL ROAD CHAMPION IN 2022.

>> BUT NOW IS THE MOMENT NOT TO HESITATE AS THIS GROUP, IF THEY WANT TO COME BACK, NOW IS THE MOMENT.

DON'T SAVE YOUR LEGS.

FIRST MAKE SURE YOU ARE BACK WITH THE LEADING GROUP.

OTHERWISE ALL CHANCES ARE GONE ANYWAY.

AND IS SOME SOMETHING THAT RIDERS SEEM TO BE RIDE SHARE AND GAMBLE THAT THEY MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE.

IF YOU SEE 50 GUYS GET AWAY, IT'S NOT ABOUT GAMBLING.

IT'S ABOUT BEING IN POSITION.

YOU CAN ONLY GAMBLE WHEN IT'S A FEW GUYS, TWO OR THREE GUYS, THEN YOU CAN HOPE SOMEBODY ELSE WILL SAY THIS MOMENT, I WOULD SAY CLOSE IT DOWN WITH EVERY ENERGY YOU HAVE.

>> LOOKS LIKE SCHMIDT STRAIGHTENING IT OUT.

A GAP BETWEEN THE TWO FRONT GROUPS.

SO 11 RIDERS IN THIS GROUP AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN, SPLIT TO THE NEXT GROUP.

THE FLAT STRAIGHT RUN IN UNTIL THE END OF THE LAP.

WE'LL HEAR THE BELL AND IT WILL BE THE START OF THE FINAL LAP OF THE RACE.

>> McNULTY UP THERE, LOOKS LIKE SOMEBODY IS GOING TO TAKE THE FLYER ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE.

>> BOTHA,MIGHT NOT WORK THEY HAVE THEIR STRONGEST AND FASTEST GUY IN THE BACK, BUT THEY'RE COMING BACK.

BRADLEY SHEEHAN CLOSING THE GAP NOW.

IT WAS NECESSARY.

GRATED PERFORMANCE FROM TUD AR PRO-CYCLING HERE AT THIS RACE.

THEY HAVE BEEN SUPER ACTIVE AND HAVE HAD NUMBERS IN THE FRONT.

>> INTERMEDIATE SPREAD POINTS HERE AND THE BELL COMING.

>> HE HAS A PUNCTURE.

LAST LAP AT THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC.

>> LOOKS LIKE THE GROUPS ARE GOING TO COME BACK TOGETHER BUT IT LOOKS LIKE A BIT OF A TOUCH OF WHEELS ON THE LEFT SIDE.

SO WE HAD A MECHANICAL, TOUCH OF WHEELS, KIND OF DICEY.

STARTING HIS FINAL LAP.

AND NOW REMEMBER WE ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO COBBLE ONE MORE TIME.

500 METERS OF COBBLES.

MAY STILL BE WET AS WELL AND THE RACE PICKING UP IN TERMS OF THE SPEED AND INTENSITY, THIS COULD BE INTERESTING.

>> THIS IS THE RIDER THAT NEARLY CRASHED AT THE CORNER SOME PARTS ARE WET AND SOME ARE DRY.

THEY FORGET AND YOU GET A CHAIN REACTION.

SPRAYING OFF HIS GLASS GLASSES.

IT'S NOT GUARANTEED THEY SPRAYED OFF THEIR GLASSES SO THEY WILL BE HAVING TROUBLE SEEING.

ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU SPRAY IT OFF WITH SUGAR WATER.

A RIDER HITTING THE BARRIER, IT LOOKED LIKE AND-- TO HIT A PIECE OF METAL WHILE RIDING A BIKE AND STAY UPRIGHT.

>> THAT'S WHY HE IS AT THE BACK.

>> THAT'S A SHAME MAN.

>> AND HERE HE IS NOW.

THE BACK OF THIS GROUP AND AS THEY'RE ON THE COBBLES FOR THE FINAL TIME.

>> LET'S GO MATTIAS.

GREAT TALENT FOR TEAM NOVO NORDISK.

>> SLOWLY COMING BACK BUT IT TAKES A LOT OF ENERGY.

NOT REISY AND THESE GUYS ARE SPRINTING OUT OF THE CORNERS BUT THIS GROUP IS ABNORMALLY STRUNG OUT DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE ROADS ARE WET.

TUDOR ON THE WHEEL, SCHMIDT ON THE LEFT SEES THE DANGER.

>> SAME THING WITH EF, RAISED HAND, MAYBE A FLAT.

THAT COULD BE KNEEL-- NEILSEN PALACE.

>> AND IN A BLUE JERSEY, THE GROUP IS GETTING SMALLER AND SMALLER.

>> THESE ARE STRONG MOVES RIGHT NOW.

>> THAT'S THEIR SECOND PICTURE-- PUNCTURE IN TWO KILOMETERS.

THIS IS ONE OF THE FAVORITES.

>> MAYBE THE CAR IS NOT BACK YET.

IT TAKES TIME.

>> THIS IS NOT THE TIME YOU WANT TO HAVE A FLAT.

ESPECIALLY NOT AFTER ANOTHER ONE OF YOUR TEAMMATES ARE GOING TO BE VERY HARD PRESS TO MAKE IT BACK TO THE FRONT GROUP.

>> WHAT A HEAVY BLOW FOR EF.

I MEAN FOR SO LONG IN THIS GROUP, THEY WERE SITTING PRETTY WITH NUMBERS, SEVERAL TEAMMATES WITHIN A COUPLE OF MINUTES, IT HAS GONE SIDEWAYS AND POWLESS IS FRUSTRATED WITH HOW LONG THIS IS TAKING.

HE HAS BEEN ON THE PODIUM THE LAST TWO EDITIONS.

THE ONLY PLACE HE HABIT FINISHED IS FIRST, COMING THIS YEAR, HOPING TO RECTIFY THAT AND CLIMB TO THE TOP STEP BUT BOY OH BOY THIS IS REALLY DAMAGING HIS CHANCES.

>> THIS IS NEUTRAL SUPPORT, NOT HIS TEAM SUPPORT.

THIS IS NOT A FORMULA ONE WHEEL CHANGE.

>> WE SAW HIS TEAMMATE WHO GOT A NEW WHEEL SO EXPECT THE TEAM CAR HAS TO FOLLOW AND ARRIVE SO IT'S GOING TO BE VERY DIFFICULT TO HAVE ANOTHER PODIUM FOR POWLESS.

GAME OVER FOR POWLESS I'M SORRY TO SAY.

>> WOW.

TOOK TOO LONG.

>> TERRIBLE BREAK.

>> THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU RIDE ON AIR INFLATED RUBBER.

>> SO NEITHER OF THOSE WHEELS ARE GOING TO WORK THERE.

CLEARLY FRUSTRATED AFTER A SECOND AND THIRD PLACE.

HE SURELY WANTED TO WIN TODAY.

>> HE LAS HE HAS A NEUTRAL BIKE, NOT EVEN HIS OWN BIKE.

SO GAME OVER.

>> WELL, HE DOESN'T HAVE TO RUN UP A MOUNTAIN AT LEAST.

>> YEAH, HE ONLY HAS TO RUN FOR 15 MILES.

>> 200 METERS AWAY AND THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO GO IN REVERSE, OF COURSE.

>> SURE.

>> THAT'S WHY HE STARTS RUNNING,.

>> THESE ARE ICONIC SCENES HERE IN BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

I'M LOVING IT.

>> CYCLING IS ABOUT CREATING MEMORIES AND HE SURELY DOES, EVEN THOUGH HE IS LOSING MINUTES.

>> A CYCLE ACROSS, CARRYING THE BIKE OVER THE SHOULDER FOR A FEW MINUTES.

>> TOM HOPPER, TRUSTED MECHANIC, TEAM EF EDUCATION FIRST AND THAT'S A BLOW FOR NEILSEN POWLESS.

SORRY FOR HIM.

THAT TOOK A LONG TIME SEALED TO BE RIDING WELL, FEELING EXTREMELY STRONG COMING IN.

HE STAFERLGTED THIS RACE.

HE HAS BEEN BACK IN THE U.S. FOR SEVERAL WEEKS, WENT HOME TO HOUSTON TO RIDE IN THE HEAT AND HUMIDITY THAT HE EXPECTED HE WOULD FACE HERE IN BALTIMORE, SO HE WAS PREPARING IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS, WIFE ABOUT TO GIVE BIRTH TO THEIR SECOND CHILD SO VERY EXCITED ABOUT THE PROSPECTS IN HIS LIFE AS WELL AS FOR THIS RACE AND NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN WITH A CHANCE LATE ON THE FINAL LAP, HE HAS A TERRIBLE MECHANICAL ISSUE.

>> UNFORTUNATELY WE HAVE TO SAY IT'S PART OF CYCLING.

RACES HAVE BEEN DECIDED BECAUSE OF MECHANICALS AND THIS IS ONE OF THEM AND IT'S ALWAYS SAD TO SEE.

BUT IT'S PART OF IT.

>> THERE GOES BRANDON McNULTY.

NOW THIS IS A BIT OF AN UPHILL SECTION SO PUTTING THE HURT DOWN, THIS MAN CAN CLIMB.

NOT A CLIMB NECESSARILY BUT ANY TIME YOU HAVE A CLIMBER ATTACKING ON A HILL IN FRONT OF YOU, YOU ARE GOING TO BE HURTING.

MAYBE ONE MORE BOTTLE FOR SOME OF THESE RIDERS.

GOING UP THIS HILL ON A FINAL LAP HERE.

15 MILES REMAINING IN THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC AND BRANDON McNULTY FROM THE U.S. NEAR THE VERY FRONT.

>> SO NEILSON POWLESS IS JUST OVER A MILE BACK OF THE LEADERS NOW.

>> NO BOTTLES YET MEANS THIS HIS DIRECTOR HAS NOT RETURNED TO HIM YET.

ONE MILE IS A LONG WAY TO GO.

S. >> LIKE HE SAID, THAT WAS ABOUT THE BIKE CHANGE, THAT WAS JUST A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS WITH HIS TEAMMATE FLATTING BEFORE, NOT HAVING THE CAR IMMEDIATELY THERE.

I MEAN HE WOULD HAVE BEEN HARD PRESSED TO CATCH BACK UP EVEN IF HE HAD A SUPER QUICK BIKE CHANGE.

BUT I THINK THEY TRIED TWO WHEELS AND TRIED TO GIVE THEM ANOTHER BIKE AND, YEAH HE IS PUTTING IN A VALIANT EFFORT BUT HIS RACE IS OVER.

>> I THINK AT THIS MOMENT, WE BOTH HAVE TAYLOR, IN THE PAST, LIKE THIS IS FRUSTRATION.

THIS IS RIDING ON FRUSTRATION.

LIKE EMPTYING THE MENTAL TANK THAT YOU HAVE NOW BECAUSE YOU KNOW YOU HAVE THE LEGS TO RACE TO THE FINAL AND HE ALSO KNOWS NORMALLY HE CAN CANNOT COME BACK.

YOU JUST WANT TO SHOW FOR YOURSELVES WHAT YOU STILL HAD IN THE LEGS.

>> EVEN THOUGH HE WAS CLOSER, RIGHT, AFTER HE GOT THIS NEW BIKE, HE WOULD HAVE STILL HAD TO USE SO MUCH ENERGY TO GET BACK TO THAT GROUP HAD HE EVEN DONE THAT TO THEN HAVE ANYTHING LEFT TO TRY AND WIN AT THE END WOULD HAVE BEEN ESPECIALLY DIFFICULT.

>> ESPECIALLY DIFFICULT, WITHOUT BUT THE THING IS, WOULD YOU HAVE STILL HAD THE CHANCE, EVEN IF WITH SOME LUCK YOU COULD STILL WIN THIS RACE AND NOW EVEN THAT LUCK IS NOT ENOUGH ANYMORE.

>> A HOME RACE.

PERFORMED WELL HERE IN THE PAST.

AND HE IS PUTTING IN THE EFFORT.

HE HAS GOT THE T.B.MOTO WITH HIM FOR THAT.

WE THANK HIM FOR HIS EFFORT.

NEILSON POWLESS, A LONG WAY BACK HERE.

>> AND WE WILL SEE JUST WHERE HE IS COMPARED TO THE LEADERS RIGHT NOW.

LAST LAP OF SIX HERE AT THIS THIRD EDITION OF THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC.

IT'S A LONG WAY.

WILL, AS FAR AS FEATURES ON THE CIRCUIT, WHICH IS 18 MILES LONG, STILL HAVE THE FINAL CLIMB UP THE KOM TO GO.

NOW T.J. VANGUARDER IN THERE, TEAM DIRECTOR IN THE CAR.

>> HE KNOWS THE RACE IS OVER.

HE SENT THE TEAM CAR AHEAD.

>> HERE COMES MY BOY, HE GOES DOWN!

ARUINED THAT ROUNDABOUT, STILL WET SPOTS ON THE ROAD, CRASHING HARD AS THE RACE GOES BY.

>> JINXED HIM.

>> THE ANNOUNCER JINX IS REAL TAYLOR.

I KNOW YOU ARE STILL NEW TO THIS SIDE.

>> I'M SORRY.

THAT WAS MY PICK, MY DARK HORSE.

SLIPPERY ROADS.

>> DON'T BLAME IT ON YOURSELF OTHERWISE THE NEXT RACE YOU CAN'T SAY ANYTHING ANYMORE.

>> THAT'S TRUE.

>> IT'S GOING TO BE VERY QUIET.

>> ONE AND DONE.

FIRST AND LAST.

>> YOU NEVER TALK ABOUT THE NO HITTER DURING THE NO HITTER.

ALL RIGHT.

THIS IS ANOTHER LOOK.

>> WHITE LINE?

>> NO.

NO.

JUST SLIPPERY SPOT.

IT IS A SPOT WHERE THE CARS TAKE THE CORNERS AND THERE IS OIL ON THE CORNERS ESPECIALLY WHEN THE CARS HAVE TO STOP AND GAS AGAIN TO GO AND WITH THE FIRST RAIN, IT GETS MORE SLIPPERY WITH THE OIL ON THE ROAD.

>> McNULTY LOOKS LIKE RYAN SHEEHAN RIGHT ON HIS WHEELS, FROSTED TIPS.

SHEEHAN, McNULTY ALL NEAR THE FRONT LOOKING STRONG.

NO ONE LAUNCHING A SIGNIFICANT MOVE RIGHT NOW.

>> THAT'S THE THING WITH THE COURSE.

IT'S SNEAKY.

THIS IS AN OVERPASS BUT IT'S A BIT OF A HILL.

NOT ENOUGH OF A HILL, LET'S SAY, TO CREATE A HUGE SELECTION BUT IT'S ENOUGH TO CREATE A LITTLE BIT OF CONFUSION AND IT'S THOSE TOP RIDERS THAT ARE JUST GOING TO SNEAK AWAY AND CLAIM THIS VICTORY.

VERY CAGEY MOMENT NOW ON THIS FINAL LAP WITH JUST ABOUT A DOZEN MILES LEFT TO GO.

ONE MORE TIME UP THE KEY CLIMB.

COULD BE THE LAUNCH POINT FOR A SIGNIFICANT MOVE HERE THEY'RE TAKING ALL THESE TURNS AS DELICATELY AS POSSIBLE.

>> AGAIN, IMPORTANT MOVE UNO-X.

>> JAYCO IN FRONT.

TEAMS IN THE BACK WON'T CHASE THEM DOWN, FINAL TIME PAST THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT ON THIS VERY BRIEF SECTION OF COBBLES.

>> DID EF LOSE ALL THREE OF THEIR RIDERS, JUST IS MARI IN STILL GOING.

>> HE IS ONE OF THE FASTEST GUYS HERE.

IF THEY MAKE HIM WORK, MAKE HIM CHASE, HE WILL LOSE THE POWER.

>> HAVING GREAT LEGS TODAY.

>> BOB DONALDSON.

>> AND YOU KNOW, THIS ROAD COMING FROM DOWN DOWN ALL THE WAY TO THE CLIMB IS STAIR STEPPING UP.

YOU CAN SEE IT WITH THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT IN THE BACK.

IT JUST CLIMBS UP A BIT, GOES DOWN, CLIMBS UP.

AND THIS IS BODIN, THE FRENCHMAN ON EF, SO HE IS BEHIND THE LEADERS BAWDIN AND ALSO NEILSON POWLESS WITH THE LEADERS SUPER STRONG BRIDGE UP TO THE FRONT.

WE GOT DISTRACTED WITH THE CHAOS.

CLOSING IN ON THE FINAL 11 MILES.

ONE MORE CLIMB TO GO AND SEVERAL RIDERS IN POSITION BAT LIPPING AT THE FRONT OF THE RACE AT THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ THE BIGGEST PROFESSIONAL BIKE RACE IN THE U.S., ITSELF MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC AND IT HAS BEEN A DAY.

WE HAVE SEEN RAIN, WE HAVE SEEN CRASHES.

WE HAVE SEEN GUYS RUNNING.

WE'VE SEEN MECHANICALS ALL OVER THE PLACE.

THE ROADS ARE NOW DRYING OUT.

WE'VE SEEN SMALL GROUPS, BIG GROUPS AND NOW DOWN TO JUST THIS GROUP, AT THE VERY FRONT ON THE FINAL LAP, A SMALL HANDFUL OF CHASERS BEHIND.

ONE MORE TIME UP THE DECISIVE TEAM AND HERE COMES THE AMERICAN BRANDON McNULTY LAUNCHING A SIGNIFICANT MOVE AND WHO IS GOING WITH THEM, LARRY WARBASH, THE.

THIS IS AN UPHILL SECTION RIGHT HERE HE COULD BE ONE TO WATCH FOR A SOLO VICTORY.

>> IF YOU CAN HANG ON LIKE JARDIN, YOU HAVE TO BE IMMEDIATELY ON THE WHEEL EXACTLY LIKE HE DID.

IT WAS GAPPED A LITTLE BIT AND THERE WILL BE A BIG DIFFERENT TO COME BACK.

McNULTY TWICE A RUNNER UP AT THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS ROAD RACE WINNER OF THE TOUR OF POLAND EARLIER THIS YEAR AND OLYMPICS LAST YEAR.

HE WAS TOP FIVE IN THE INDIVIDUAL TIME TRIAL.

AND NOW WITH THE FRONT OF THE MARYLAND CYCLING WITH THE WAR BASH RIGHT BEHIND.

>> TWO GUYS LEFT.

>> HE KNOWS HE IS NOT AS STRONG AS McNUMENTY.

McNUMENTY HAS TO PUT THE POWER DOWN AND HOPE HE CAN DROP THEM ON THE LAST TIME UP THE KOM.

>> FANTASTIC RACE HERE IN BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

GREAT REPRESENTATION AS THEY ARE COMING THROUGH HAMDEN.

McNULTY ON LOAN FROM UAE WITH TEAM USA.

MIKE CREED, SORRY, IN THE TEAM CAR.

OLD VETERAN IF THE RADIO STILL WORKS, MIKE CREED IS A TACTICAL MASTERMIND AND HE IS GOING TO BE AMPING HIM UP.

>> AND IF WERE YOU MIKE CREED RIGHT NOW, WHAT WOULD YOU BE SAYING?

WHAT WOULD BE YOUR TACTICS?

>> WELL, HE IS NOT GOING TO RUN THROUGH BUT HE KNOWS HOW TO ACE AN EFFORT LIKE THIS WE ARE INTO THE LAST UNDER NINE MILES TO GO.

HE JUST NEEDS TO DROP DUE JAR DAN ON THE KOM.

IF HE CAN'T DROP HIM ON THE KOM, HE CAN START TO PLAY GAMES WITH HIM A LITTLE BIT AND ASK HIM TO ROLL THROUGH.

WHAT DO YOU THINK, SETH?

>> FOR SURE.

THAT'S THE ONLY CHANCE HE HAS AND ALSO de JARDINS KNOWS, HE CAN FOLLOW, McNULTY IS GOING TO KEEP RIDING.

HE KNOWS HE IS THE STRONGEST ON THE ROAD AND HE JUST HAS TO MAKE IT COME DOWN TO HIS PRINT AND THEN HE HAS A CHANCE.

ANYTHING ELSE THAT HE DOES IS LOST ENERGY EXCEPT WHEN HE IS OVER THE CLIMB.

IF I WAS HIM, THEN I WOULD START WORKING SO McNULTY WOULD ALSO KEEP WORKING.

THIS IS A GREAT SCENARIO FOR HIM BUT ONE RIDER IS A DIFFICULTY.

MAYBE FOR McNULTY BE BETTER TO BE WITH FOUR OR FIVE SO HE COULD GAMBLE.

NOW WITH ONE RIDER THERE IS ONLY ONE RIDER TO WATCH AND THAT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO GET AWAY.

YOU CANNOT SURPRISE HIM.

ONE OF THE BEST RIDERS IN THE WORLD.

THESE GUYS ARE ROLLING BEHIND.

THEY HAVE TWO RIDERS RESPECTIVELY.

PREMIER TECH, HE SAT ON THE BACK.

NOT PULLING THROUGH, SCHMIDT, I MEAN THESE ARE RACE WINNERS, LARRY WARBASS IN THERE,.

>> VERY STRONG GROUP.

BUT McNULTY GOT AWAY FROM THAT GROUP FROM THE RIDERS.

THEY KNOW IT WAS A DECISIVE MOVE HE COULD MAKE AND STILL YEAH, MADE A GAP.

IF HE KEEPS GOING.

IF HE WANTS TO KEEP GOING WITH DUJARDIN AT THE WHEEL, THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO BE AT THEIR BEST TO CLOSE IT DOWN.

>> THEY WERE COMING UP TO THE MOMENT RIGHT NOW, ABOUT TO TURN RIGHT ON TO THE KOM AND LET'S SEE IF BRANDON CAN DROP DUJARDIN SANDY DUJARDIN.

THE 28-YEAR-OLD VETERAN WHO KNOWS HOW TO CLIMB.

HE WON THE MOUNTAINS CLASSIFICATION OF A SMALLER RACE OVER A DECADE AGO JUST WHEN HE WAS GETTING HIS CAREER STARTED IN THE ALPS.

WON A SPRINT CLASSIFICATION.

ONE OF THE RIDERS THAT CAN WIN IN DIFFERENT WAYS.

>> HERE WE GR ON THE CLIMB.

LOOKS LIKE McNULTY WAS PUTTING IN THE ACCELERATION FROM THE BOTTOM.

NOT A LONG CLIMB, BUT IT'S POSSIBLE.

LET'S GO, BRANDON.

>> THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE HAS TO DO.

USE EVERY METER OF THE CLIMB.

HE IS THE BEST CLIMBER.

HE CAN EXTEND THE EFFORTS FOR AS LONG AS HE WANTS AND YOU SEE DUJARDIN SUFFERING TO HOLD ON TO THE WHEEL BUT HE IS STILL THERE.

>> THE ADVANTAGE THAT DUJARDIN HAS IS THAT HE HAS BEEN ABLE TO SIT ON THE WHEEL UP TO THIS POINT WHEREAS BRANDON HAS BEEN PUSHING INTO THE WIND.

>> ANYBODY GET AGO CROSS?

>> NOT IN MY OPINION.

THE GROUP IS FALLING APART.

GETTING AWAY BEHIND THE FOUR GUYS.

ONE GUY GETTING DROPPED.

IT'S NOT COHESION REALLY.

THEY CANNOT GO FASTER.

AND LIKE I JUST SAID BEFORE, McNULTY JUST WON A WEEK AGO, WON TOUR OF POLAND.

IF HE REALLY WANTS TO GO FULL IN HIS HOME COUNTRY, IT'S GOING TO BE VERY DIFFICULT TO GET IT BACK.

HE EXTENDED THE GAP.

CLINGING TO THE REAR WHEEL OF McNULTY.

THE GROUP BEHIND KNOWS THEY'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME AND TRYING TO ATTACK TO CLOSE THE MARGIN DOWN.

>> THAT'S ABRAHAMSEN AND SCHMIDT.

>> THAT'S A DIFFERENT STORY.

>> THEY WERE SAVING THEMSELVES.

THEY JUST WANT TO DO EXACTLY WHAT THEY DID AT THE TOUR DE FRANCE.

>> BACK TOGETHER AGAIN FORGET WHAT I SAID BEFORE THAT NOBODY CAN BRIDGE.

>> THAT DIDN'T TAKE LONG.

>> I REGRET THE WORDS ALREADY.

McNULTY THE TOP OF THE CLIMB, SO THEY WILL THEN GO DOWNHILL THE REST OF THE RACE.

>> THEY SEE THEM IN FRONT OF THEM ALREADY.

GAP WENT DOWN TO 15 SECONDS, HAVING DEJA VU, STAGE 11 TOUR DE FRANCE IF I WAS DUJARDIN I WOULD START CLIMBING NOW.

HIS CHANCE ONLY GETS BIGGER IF HE HOLDS OFF ABRAHAMSEN LIKE WE SAW EARLIER THE WEEK CAN BE REALLY FAST IN A SMALL GROUP SPRINT.

IT'S BEEN A GREAT RACE SO FAR.

>> AND WE HAVE SEEN JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING; INCLUDING VERY DIVERSE WEATHER AND NOW BACK TO THE VERY FRONT WITH BRANDON McNULTY IN THE BLUE, RED AND WHITE FOR THE U.S., DUJARDIN IN THE WHITE JERSEY, THE FRENCHMAN, ABRAHAMSEN AND SCHMID THE TWO CHASERS AND THE TRIO LED BY WARBASS IS RIGHT BEHIND.

>> DUJARDIN ASKING WHAT HE NEEDS TO DO, IF HE NEEDS TO PULL OR NOT.

YOU CAN SEE HE IS MOVING A LOT ON THE BIKE.

HE IS SUFFERING BUT THIS IS THE RIGHT MOVE.

YOU HAVE TO PULL IF YOU WANT TO KEEP THOSE TWO GUYS AWAY FROM McNULTY AND DUJARDIN.

>> YOU SEE DUJARDIN LOOK OVER AND SAY SOMETHING TO BRANDON McNULTY, NO DOUBT PROBABLY ABOUT WHO IS GOING TO PULL ABOUT THESE GUYS BEHIND, WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO.

SOMETHING IN THAT ORDER.

>> >> YEAH, IT CAN BE THAT HE IS JUST EXPLAINING THAT HE HAS GIVEN ALL HE'S GOT AND DOESN'T HAVE MUCH.

THESE GUYS ARE ABOUT TO CATCH UP WITH THE TWO IN FRONT AND THAT'S GOING TO SIGNIFICANTLY CHANGE THE DYNAMIC AND DUJARDIN'S ROLE IN THIS GROUP.

I IMAGINE HIM SITTING ON THE BACK EVEN MORE-- NOT SURE WHAT KIND OF A POP HE HAS, BUT LET'S SEE IF BRANDON CAN TAKE ANOTHER FLYER FROM THE GROUP OR IF THESE GUYS GO OVER THE TOP.

>> DUJARDIN HAS A PRETTY GOOD SPRINT ALSO SO MAYBE HE IS GAMBLING ON IT AND DOESN'T MIND IF THE OTHER GUYS COME BACK.

>> DUJARDIN A PRETTY ACCOMPLISHED CYCLE LACROSSE RACER, VERSATILE RIDER IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS.

McNULTY COMING BACK TO THE FRONT BUT WE ARE GOING HAVE A GROUP OF FOUR HERE AT THE VERY HEAD OF THE RACE, WITH FIVE AND A HALF MILES LEFT TO GO.

THE CLIMBING IS IN THE REARVIEW, DOWNHILL ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE FINISH, NOW IN BALTIMORE.

CLOSING IN ON THE FINISH, THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC 15 MINUTES LEFT TO RIDE.

>> THAT'S RIGHT.

10K TO GO.

>> AND THEY HAVE TO KEEP RIDING.

THE GROUP BEHIND IS ONLY 100 METERS AWAY.

>> WHO DO YOU LIKE FROM THIS GROUP IF THEY ALL STAY AWAY?

>> WELL, WE'VE SEEN A SPRINT BETWEEN ABRAHAMSEN AND SCHMID BEFORE AND IT WAS TIGHT.

I WOULD SAY SCHMID HAS EXTRA MOTIVATION TO TRY TO TAKE THE W. I WOULD LOVE TO SEE BRANDON McNULTY ESCAPE ON HIS OWN IN THE USA JERSEY BUT THE TUD AR BOYS LED BY LARRY WARBASSE, VERY EXCITING FINISH TO THIS LEGAL AIDER CYCLING CLASSIC.

>> NOW WITHIN 10 SECONDS NOW, HE COULD HAVE A GROUP OF SEVEN COMING DOWN TO THE FINAL FEW K. >> COMING INTO THE REALLY THE ONLY TECHNICAL SECTIONS OF THE COURSE AS THEY COME BACK DOWN INTO FALLS ROAD.

>> PARALLEL THE RIVER ALL THE WAY BACK DOWNTOWN BALTIMORE WHERE THEY WILL FINISH THIS THING OFF.

>> ROADS DRYING OUT BUT PATCHES OF MOISTURE OUT THERE FROM THE THUNDERSTORM EARLIER.

THEY ARE FLYING AND JUST ABOUT TO CATCH THE FOUR IN FRONT.

SO WITH JUST OVER THREE MILES REMAINING, IT COULD BE A GROUP OF SEVEN IN MERE MOMENTS.

FINAL LAP HERE AT THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC.

WELL, NO MORE TRUE LAUNCH POINTS FOR AN ATTACK OR SOME KIND OF SUBSTANTIAL MOVE, MOSTLY JUST DOWNHILL THE REST OF THE WAY.

SO WHAT IS GOING TO DECIDE IT?

WHAT IS GOING TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE HERE?

IT'S COME BACK TOGETHER.

WE HAVE SEVEN RIDERS AT THE FRONT OF THE RACE.

STARTED WITH 89 AT THE BEGINNING OF THE DAY.

NOW ALMOST FOUR HOURS IN.

IT'S COME DOWN TO THESE SEVEN AND BRANDON McNULTY HERE IS AT THE VERY BACK.

>> TRYING TO PICK HIS MOMENT TO MAKE A FINAL MOVE.

NEEDS TO PICK HIS MOMENT RIGHT BECAUSE THERE IS NOT MUCH TIME LEFT.

STILL DOWN AND BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, THEY'RE AT THE FINISH.

HE KNOWS HE HAS TO ATTACK TO WIN THE RACE.

>> USUALLY WHEN YOU SEE A RIDER LEAVING THE GAP LIKE THAT TO THE GROUP IN FRONT, THEY'RE GETTING READY TO LAUNCH AN ATTACK, I THOUGHT BRANDON WAS TRYING TO SNEAK AWAY YET AGAIN.

LARRY WARBASSE TAKING UP IN THE FRONT, A LITTLE BLUFFING SESSION HAPPENING IN THE BACK OF THE GROUP.

>> WELL, IN THE PREVIOUS TWO ADDITIONS WE HAVE SEEN SETH VAN MARK WIN IN THE INAUGURAL RACE FROM A FOUR UP SPRINT, MATTIAS SKJELMOSE, AND THEN IN THE THIRD EDITION OF THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC WE HAVE SEVEN RIDERS TOGETHER WITH TWO AND A HALF MILES REMAINING.

>> STARTING TO LOOK AT EACH OTHER.

>> ATTACK COMING.

>> AND NOW AN ATTACK COMING HERE AS THEY START TO SLIGHTLY GO BACK UPHILL.

>> A GOOD MOMENT.

WE HAVE A MOMENT BEFORE WE REALLY PICK UP IN THE FINAL TWO MILES, LET'S GO TO RASAN.

>> IT'S BEEN A FAST, HOT STEAMY AND ALSO WET RACE HERE AT THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC AND WE ARE GETTING DOWN TO THE CLOSING KILOMETERS.

WEAVER GOING TO HAVE THE PNC PUSH COMING IN THE PLAY MOMENTARILY AND I'M STANDING AT 300 METERS TO GO ON PRATT STREET IN DOWNTOWN BALTIMORE AND THIS IS WHERE I THINK THE SPRINT IS GOING TO TAKE PLACE AND WHERE IT'S GOING TO SEE.

AFTER 300 METERS IF YOU ARE NOT IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, YOU ARE NOT GOING TO WORK YOUR WAY TO THE PODIUM.

I SUSPECT THE WINNER WILL MAKE THEIR MOVE AT 300 TO 250.

800 METERS TO GO, SO HAVE YOU SOME SPACE TO WORK AROUND AND GET YOURSELF INTO POSITION FOR THE PNC PUSH.

>> NOBODY GETTING AWAY RIGHT NOW.

THAT'S THE CORNER THAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT, THE FINAL QUARTER ON THE COURSE AND 800 METERS FROM THERE TO THE FINISH, STRAIGHT AND FLAT: JUST.

>> JUST BEFORE THE SECOND TO LAST CORNER, WE AWE A LITTLE UPHILL AND WOULD I SAY THAT'S THE LAST GOOD CHANCE FOR AN ATTACK LIKE ABRAHAMSEN IS DOING NOW.

HE IS ATTACKING BUT DOESN'T WANT TO GO FULL, DOESN'T WANT TO WASTE HIS SPRINT LEGS.

HE IS LOOKING FOR AN OPPORTUNITY BUT NOT ALL IN.

>> TACTICAL BATTLE.

>> AND THE ROADS ARE JUST WET ENOUGH IN SPOTS THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT AROUND THE CORNERS, HOW HARD DO YOU WANT TO PUSH IT.

HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT TO BE ON THE BRAKES BECAUSE YOU MIGHT STILL SLIDE OUT, NOT FULLY WET THE WAY WE SAW EARLIER BUT STILL ENOUGH THAT IT MIGHT CAUSE SOME CONSTERNATION FOR THESE RIDERS.

>> NEW ATTACK.

>> IF LARRY WARBASSE SCHMIDT AND I WOULD HAVE TO SAY DUJARDIN IS DOING EVERYTHING RIGHT AT THE MOMENT.

DOES HE HAVE THE LEGS OR IS HE TIRED?

WE WILL KNOW SOON.

>> HE IS PLAYING IT SMART.

A SKETCHY THEY'RE IS OF RIGHT HAND TURNS HERE.

HERE COMING UP TO THE FINAL OF THIS RACE.

FINAL CORNERS.

ON THE COURSE,DUJARDIN AT THE LACK OF THE WHITE JERSEY, AHEAD OF HIM BRANDON McNULTY WERE LEADING IN A TWO-MAN GROUP FOR A WHILE BEFORE THEY WERE CAUGHT AND NOW THEY'RE LOSING CONTACTED HERE.

>> JOHANN SON IS PULLING IN A SOLID DIG AT THE FRONT.

JOHANNSON, THE NOR WEDGE ONFOR UNO-X AT THE VERY FRONT.

>> COUNTER ATTACK FROM THAT.

THEY HAVE JUST BEEN PINNING IT.

BRANDON McNULTY PUTS HIS HANDS IN THE DROPS.

AND NOW WARBASSE AT THE FRONT.

AMERICAN LARRY WARBASSE 35 YEARS OF AGE LEADING THIS SEVEN-MAN GROUP WITH A CINEMATIC FEEL, STEAM RISING FROM THE URBAN CITY STREETS GRIT I BALTIMORE, COMING TO THE END OF THE AMERICAN CYCLING CLASSIC, THE MOST SIGNIFICANT PROFESSIONAL RACE IN THE UNITED STATES.

>> LOOKS LIKE LARRY MIGHT TAKE THE CHARGE AND LEAVE IT OUT.

THAT WOULD NEUTRALIZE ANY ATTACKS HERE IN THE LAST K. WE ARE UNDERNEATH THE FLAMROUGE.

>> THIS IS A BIT UPHILL.

ALL RIGHT.

THE LAST TWO CORNERS ON THE COURSE.

AND NOW MAKING THE FINAL 90-DEGREE LEFT HAND TURN, 800 METERS TO THE FINISH, LONG, FLAT, FAST.

THIS IS THE FINAL PUSH TO THE FINISH OF THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC SEVEN RIDER SINGLE FILE THE AMERICAN AT THE VERY FRONT LARRY BARBASSE.

EVERYONE PATIENT AND POISES FOR THE MOMENT.

AND NOW A MOVE COMING FROM THE VERY BACK JOHANNSEN AND ABRAHAMSEN, THE TWO TEAMMATES AND THEN SANDY DUJARDIN OF FRANCE IN THE WHITE JERSEY IS IN THE MIX AND TOP STEP OF THE PODIUM.

SANDY DUJARDIN WINS THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC.

>> HE DID EVERYTHING RIGHT.

HE DID EVERYTHING RIGHT TO FOLLOW McNULTY IN THAT MOVE.

TO GAMBLE AND NOT PULL TO LET THE OTHERS COME BACK AND CHASE IT DOWN IN THE FINAL HE KNEW HE WAS THE STRONGEST.

>> VERY IMPRESSIVE.

HAND SHAKE WITH BRANDON McNULTY.

THOSE TWO WERE IN FRONT BY THEMSELVES FOR A WHILE BEFORE THEY WERE CAUGHT AND THEY BOTH WENT TO THE BACK OF THE GROUP AND DUJARDIN JUST WAS PATIENT NEAR THE END WAITED AND PLAYED IT PERFECTLY.

RECOVERED JUST ENOUGH TO HAVE THE SPRINT AT THE FINISH.

>> DUJARDIN SITTING PRETTY THE WHEEL OF ABRAHAMSEN.

KNEW HE WOULD BE THE FAULT GUY TO BEAT.

23.

>> THAT'S A MASTER CLASS RIGHT THERE.

AND THE 28-YEAR-OLD FROM A SMALL TOWN IN NORTH WESTERN FRANCE NEAR NORMANDY.

LOOK AT THEM COMING RIGHT DOWN CENTRAL, UP THE MIDDLE.

THAT'S JUST HAVING THE BETTER LEGS RIGHT THERE.

NOT A BAD SPRINT FROM BRANDON McNULTY EITHER.

FOURTH PLACE.

>> CAME JUST A BIT LATE.

ABRAHAMSEN ROUND CAN OUT THE PODIUM.

ALEX TRYING TO GET DUJARDIN BACK TO THE PODIUM.

WHAT A DAY OUT THERE.

STARTING IN THE HEAT.

BIG STORM COMES THROUGH.

SHEAFORTS THE RACE INTO PIECES.

RIDERS EVERYWHERE AND JUST THE RACE OF ATTRITION FROM THERE ON FORWARD.

>> FINISHING BACK IN THE SUN.

>> THE MOST UNLUCKY TEAM WAS EF WITH THE DOUBLE PUNCTURE AT THE SAME TIME.

>> 100%.

>> BRANDON McNULTY, GREAT SHOWING.

CAUSING THAT FINAL SELECTION IN THE LAST LAP DUJARDIN SHOWING HIS CLASS.

>> BIGGEST WIN OF HIS CAREER, FIRST WIN OF 2025.

SANDY DUJARDIN.

28-YEAR-OLD FRENCHMAN.

WITH A SPRINT FROM A SEVEN-MAN GROUP JUST SHY OF THE FULL HOUR MARK.

GETS THE VICTORY AT THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC AND THERE YOU SEE RA DAN GETTING DEBT FOR THE INTERVIEW.

IT LOOKS LIKE HE IS READY TO GO.

>> I'M HERE WITH THE 2025 MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC WINNER TOTAL ENERGY, ABSOLUTE JUBILANT RIGHT NOW.

THE TEAM IS COMING OVER TO CELEBRATE.

>> SANDY, WHAT AN INCREDIBLE DAY OUT THERE.

SO MANY DIFFERENT ELEMENTS.

HOW ARE YOU FEELING?

>> SORRY IF MY ENGLISH IS NOT GOOD BUT I'M HAPPY TO WIN HERE AND I'M GOOD FEELING.

AND I'M STRONG TEAM AND VERY HAPPY TO WIN, YES, IT'S AMAZING.

>> BIKE RACING IS HARD AND HARD TO COME ACROSS WINS.

WHAT IS IT LIKE TO WIN ON AMERICAN SOIL.

>> YES; I DON'T KNOW, IT'S CRAZY FOR ME BUT I'M SUPER HAPPY.

>> WELL NOW YOU ARE IN THE RECORD BOOKS TO BE ONE OF THE WINNERS OF THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC.

THE TEAM RODE INCREDIBLE.

WHAT WAS THE PIVOTAL POINT FOR YOU TO GET TO THE POINT WHERE YOU COULD CROSS THE LINE FIRST?

>> SORRY, BUT MY ENGLISH IS NOT SO GOOD.

IT'S AMAZING TO BE HERE AND WIN HERE.

>> WELL, CONGRATULATIONS MARYLAND LOVES YOU, UNITED STATES LOVES YOU.

ONCE AGAIN, OUR WINNER OF THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC 2025.

>> THIS IS AGAIN HOW HE DID IT.

2 JUST SAT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GROUP IN THE WHITE JERSEY THERE, FOLLOWED WHEELS AND THEN FOUND THE OPENING RIGHT UP THE MIDDLE HERE.

LOOK AT HOW IT OPENS AND ABILITY TO SLIGHT RIGHT THROUGH-- AND SLIDE RIGHT THROUGH.

TIMING IS LUCKY BECAUSE SCHMID CAME BACK FROM THE RIGHT AND IT WAS JUST A MATTER OF LUCK, A MATTER OF SECONDS TO NOT BE CLOSED IN, BOXED IN AND HE FOUND THE GAP.

AND WAS CLEARLY THE STRONGEST.

I HAVE TO SAY IT WAS NOT EVEN CLOSE ON THE FRINGERPRINT.

HAD ALMOST A BIKE LENGTH IN FRONT.

HIS ONLY PROFESSIONAL VICTORY IS FROM A STAGE AT THE TOUR OF RWANDA THREE YEARS AGO.

A HUGE MOMENT FOR SANDY DUJARDIN OF FRANCE IN BALTIMORE.

THE SUN IS BACK OUT JUST THE WAY WE STARTED ALMOST FOUR HOURS AGO WARM AND HUMID ON THIS SATURDAY IN BALTIMORE BUT NOW WE HAVE A WINNER.

NOW THIS MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC THE MAN IN THE WHITE JERSEY, SANDY DUJARDIN.

TOTAL ENERGY TEAM.

BIGGEST PRO-WIN IN AMERICA'S BIGGEST PRO-RACE.

THEY WENT PRETTY FAST IN A 45K AN HOUR AVERAGE.

>> SHOW YOU HOW THEY DID IT AS WE GO THROUGH THE HIGHLIGHTS SHOWING THE RACE TODAY.

THIS WAS EARLIER.

SOME ATTACKS COMING OFF THE FRONT JUST AFTER THE FLAG DROPPED.

BUT SOMEBODY ALSO THEN DROPPED ON THE PAVE.

THE DEFENDING CHAMPION.

MATTIAS SKJELMOSE WOULD HAVE TO ABANDON BECAUSE OF HIS INJURIES.

THIS WAS A TWO-MAN BREAK FOR QUITE A WHILE THAT INCLUDED THE 48-YEAR-OLD SPANIARD THAT WOULD BE CAUGHT IN THE EF TEAM AND THE PINK WAS RELL REPRESENTED IN THE FRONT AND THE RAIN CAME DOWN.

EVENTUALLY IT STARTED TO DRY OUT AND A BIG CREW LATE IN THE RACE FOR THE FINAL FEW LAPS BUT KOPECKY COLLIDING WITH THE BARRIER EVEN THOUGH HE WOULD LOSE A LITTLE TIME, HE WOULD EVENTUALLY REGAIN CONTACTED WITH THE LEADING GROUP AND NEILSON POW POWLESS HAD A FLAT REAR WHEEL THAT TOOK SO LONG TO CHANGE, HE DECIDED TO RUN WITH HIS BIKE AND ONE GOOD TIRE WHERE THE CAR COULD GET TO HIM AND AFTER THAT, A CRASH ON WHAT WE ARE STILL SOME MOIST ROADS AROUND A CORNER.

AND BRANDON McNULTY OF THE U.S.

ATTACKING LATE FROM A FOUR-MAN GROUP.

AND HE HAD SANDY DUJARDIN ON HIS WHEEL AT THAT POINT.

AND THEN DOWN TO THE FINAL SPRINT FROM THE LAST SEVEN DUE JAR DUJARDIN RIGHT UP THE MIDDLE AFTER FOLLOWING WHEELS, AND JUST GOT TO THE FRONT AT THE PERFECT TIME.

GOOD PACE AND OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE HIS BIGGEST PROFESSIONAL WIN AS THE RACE FINISHES IN THE INNER HARBOR HERE FOR THE THIRD TIME AT THIS MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC AND THE THREAT OF REALLY BAD WEATHER THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON, WE ONLY HAD A BRIEF RAINSHOWER.

THAT WAS IT, SO BY AND LARGE THEY CAUGHT A BREAK FOR THIS RACE AND ESPECIALLY AT THE BEGIN ISSUE WHEN IT WAS LARGELY DRY.

SANDY DUJARDIN THE WINNER AND NOW WAITING FOR THE PODIUM.

>> HONESTLY, GREAT RACE.

I REALLY ENJOYED IT.

ANY TIME YOU START WITH 89 RIDERS AND END UP WITH SEVEN IN THE FRONT OF THE RACE, THAT MEANS THEY REALLY GO FOR IT SO GREAT TO SEE HERE IN BALTIMORE.

SOMETHING VERY DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WE OFTEN SEE IN EUROPE WHERE IT IS MORE CONTROLLED TO WATCH THE SPRINT SIGHTS SUPER NICE TO SEE AN OPEN RACE WHERE EVERYBODY CAN GO THE THEIR SHOT AND SOMETIMES WE SEE SURPRISING WINNERS BECAUSE THESE KIND OF GUYS, THESE RIDERS DON'T GET OPPORTUNITIES WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO SPRINS.

WHEN IT'S AN OPEN RACE, IT'S SPECTACULAR AND NICE TO WATCH AND WE SEE NEW NAMES COMING.

>> ALL RIGHT, WAITING FOR THE MODEIUM HERE AT THE END OF THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC IN BALTIMORE RIDERS PREPARING THEMSELVES FOR THE PODIUM IN THIS INNER HARBOR PORTION OF BALTIMORE, REVITALIZED OVER THE YEARS AND LASHER POINT, HARBOR EAST, THE INNER HARBOR SUCH A WONDERFUL AREA IN THE CENTER OF THE CITY AS WE TAKE YOU THROUGH THE RESULTS LED BY THE WINNER SANDY DUJARDIN.

McNULTY OF THE U.S. JUST MISSING OUT IN FOURTH WITH MAURA SCHMID ROUNDING OUT THE TOP FIVE.

FIVE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES IN THE TOP 5 HERE TODAY IN MARYLAND.

LARRY BARBASSE OF THE U.S.

LEADING THE GROUP OF SEVEN UNTIL VERY LATE ON THE FINAL LAP.

KOPECKY AFTER HITTING THE BARRIER, GOT BACK IN THE GROUP AND MADE THE TOP 10 RIGHT ON THE NUMBER HEAVY RAINSHOWER DIDN'T GET TO SEE SOME OF THE TOP SPRINTERS SURVIVE IN THE FRONT GROUP.

>> >> LOOK THERE ON THE RIGHT.

WHOLE AMERICAN CYCLING ROYALTY FAMILY HERE HERE TO SUPPORT THIS MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC.

WE ARE ALL HAPPY TO BE HERE.

SANDY DUJARDIN.

DUJARDIN MEANS OF THE GARDEN.

>> BUT NO GARDEN VARIETY CYCLIST, I'LL TELL YOU THAT.

>> IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND LEGISLATURE LIVE JUST ABOUT TO COMMENCE WITH THE PODIUM CELEBRATION HERE IN FRONT OF THIS CROWD AT THE FINISH.

>> RIGHT ON THE EDGE OF LITTLE ITALY.

IT COULD BE A GOOD TIME TO GET SOME PASTA RIGATONI, SPICY VARIETY.

>> SPICY MEATBALL.

ANOTHER GOOD CROWD DESPITE THE WEATHER FROM EARLIER.

ONCE AGAIN A HUGE SPORTS WEEKEND FOR BALTIMORE, RIGHT UP THE ROAD ABOUT A HALF MILE AWAY, RIGHT DOWN EAST PRATT.

THANK YOU LOOK AT THE TOP OF THE MON SORE-- MONITOR IN THE DISTANCE, YOU SEE CAMDEN YARDS, ORIOLES HOSTING THE DODGERS IN TWO AND A HALF HOURS AND IT WILL BE THE CELEBRATION COMMEMORATING THE 30th ANNIVERSARY OF CAL RIPKEN BECOMING BASEBALL'S ALL TIME IRON MAN PASSING LOU GEHRIG FOR THE MOST CONSECUTIVE GAMES PLAYED.

RAVENS UP THEIR ENVELOPE SEASON TOMORROW NIGHT ON THE ROAD AT BLOW AND TODAY, AMERICA'S PROFESSIONAL RACE TAKING OVER THE STREETS OF MARYLAND, THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC.

>> BECAUSE, WELL, WE HAVE TO DO MATH.

WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHO THE KOM IS,... >> RIGHT NOW THEY ARE PREPARING FOR THE PODIUM BUT WHAT IS HAPPENING, WHILE THEY KNOW THE TOP THREE IN THE OVERALL RACE, THEY'RE STILL DOING SOME MATH TO DETERMINE THE KING OF THE MOUNTAIN WINNER AND INTERMEDIATE SPRINT WINNER.

BECAUSE THE WAY THE RACE UNFOLDED, KIND OF GETS BLENDED INTO THE SHOVER ALL CLASSIFICATION BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT RACING SCUFF FOR SPRINT JERSEY.

YOU ARE WAITING FOR THE OVERALL CLASSIFICATION AND IT'S A BONUS IN THE END BECAUSE THE CLASSIFICATION IS THE PRIORITY BUT THE SPRINT HAPPENS AT THE SAME POINT OF THE RACE.

>> UNIQUE TO THIS RACE THAT THEY HAVE THESE EXTRA CATEGORIES AND EXTRA JERSEYS THAT YOU CAN WIN SO SOMEBODY IS DOING SOME MATH SOMEWHERE UP IN AN OFFICE SOMEWHERE PROBABLY A TENT.

>> YOU DON'T SEE THAT IN MANY ONE-DAY RACES HAVING KOM OR SPRINTED COMPETITIONS BUT IT'S UNIQUE THOUGH ROSES AND SOMETHING COOL THIS RACE OFFERS.

>> TRYING TO GIVE PEOPLE SOMETHING ELSE, TOO., TO WATCH THROUGHOUT THE DAY AND PAY ATTENTION TO.

IT'S A LITTLE EASIER STEW MAYBE TARGET THE K.-- KOM IF YOU ARE SO INCLINED AS A TEAM BUT EVERYONE IS SO FOCUSED ON THE RACE ITSELF, THERE ARE RIDERS UP THE ROAD THAT ARE GOING FOR THE CLASSIFICATION AND THERE IS NO OPPORTUNITY TO JUST STARVE THAT OUT AND TRY TO FOCUS ON EITHER A SPRINT OR THE CLIMB.

>> THIS WAY YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO MAKE A TACTIC AROUND IT AS A RIDER YOURSELF BEFORE THE RACE.

>> SANDY DUJARDIN JUST PRIOR TO GOING UP ON TO THE PODIUM HERE, BASKING IN THE BIGGEST WIN OF HIS CAREER, THE SECOND WIN, FIRST IN THREE YEARS BUT NO DOUBT THE MOST SUBSTANTIAL OVER ABRAMSON ON THE PODIUM.

HIGHEST PLACED AMERICAN IS OFF THE PODIUM, BRANDON McNULT I.

TOMORROW SCHMID THE SWISS RACER IN FIFTH PLACE.

GREAT SHOWING FROM BRANDON McNULTY.

WE THOUGHT HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO HAVE IT THERE.

HAVE THE LAST LAP BUT SANDY DUJARDIN, PROVING HE WAS THE ONE TO BEAT.

>> YEP, IT'S STILL WAITING FOR THE FIRST AMERICAN WIN IN THIS RACE.

>> NOW WE HAVE YOU AND SKJELMOSE AND NOW WE HAVE THE FRENCHMAN.

>> VERY INTERNATIONAL TOP 10 AGAIN.

>> AGAIN, TERRIFIC RACE TO HAVE AT THIS POINT IN THE SEASON, LEADING INTO THE BIG ONE-DAY RACES IN CANADA, BOTH QUEBEC CITY AND MONTREAL NEXT WEEKEND AND OF COURSE AFTER THAT, THE WORD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN RWANDA SO GOOD PREPARATION FOR A LOT OF THESE RIDERS AND GOOD LOGISTICALLY THAT THEY CAN TRAVEL OVER NOT HAVE TO MAKE AN ADDITIONAL TRIP.

AND JUST STAY IN NORTH AMERICA IS THIS WEEK AND NOW WE ARE READY FOR THE PODIUM HERE IN BALTIMORE.

>> CHAMPAGNE POPPED.

(SPEAKING FRENCH) (SPEAKING FRENCH) INDEED THE FIRST TIME EVER THE TEAM IS RACING OVER IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PLUS IT'S ALSO HIS FIRST EVER WIN AT THIS LEVEL SO IT'S EXTREMELY SPECIAL.

THEY MADE THE TRIP ALL THE WAY OVERSEAS JUST SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS RACE AND THAT'S A BIG, BIG TRIP TO DO SO IT FEELS REALLY GOOD TO TAKE HOME THE WIN AND REALLY SPECIAL TO DO THIS ON THE AMERICAN SOIL BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE ONE OF THEIR MAIN SPONSORS, ENVY IS FROM.

IT'S COOL TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS IN FRONT OF ENVY AND HE THANKS THE SPONSORS QUITE A BIT.

>> HE HAD SOME FAST WHEELS TODAY.

ENVY WHEELS ARE VERY FAST.

YOU ARE A VERY CONSISTENT RACER.

YOU HAVE DONE REALLY WELL.

PRO SINCE 2022 AND CONSISTENT ON THE PODIUM GETTING A LOT OF RESULTS AND THIS IS YOUR FIRST WIN.

HOW DID YOU DO IT?

HOW DID YOU DECIDE NOT NOT WORK WITH McNULTY AT THE RIGHT TIME?

(TRANSLATING) (SPEAKING FRENCH) (SPEAKING FRENCH) >> YOU NECESSITY, ACTUALLY HE DID WIN IN RWANDA SO HE COUNTS THIS AS HIS SECOND VICTORY AND IT'S SPECIAL TO WIN HERE AND COOL TO WIN ALL OVER THE PLACE.

HE HASN'T HAD HIS VICTORY IN EUROPE YET BUT VICTORIES IN DIFFERENT PLACES IN THE WORLD WHICH IS PRETTY SPECIAL.

>> I HAVE A FEELING THIS IS GOING TO LAUNCH YOU INTO THE NEXT TRAJECTORY OF WINNING BECAUSE THE LEVEL OF THE RACERS TODAY WERE HIGH CALIBUR.

YOU ARE ALREADY AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL AND YOU WILL BE SUCCESS AT THE NEXT LEVEL.

I HEARD THAT YOU DID SOMETHING SPECIAL THIS WEEK AT THAT TIME MAYBE YOU MIGHT USE AS YOUR ROUTINE BUT I HEARD YOU PLAYED GOLF THIS WEEK.

>> (SPEAKING FRENCH AND TRANSLATING PRPB SO I'M QUICKLY GOING TO WRAP THIS UP AND HEAD OVER TO THE PODIUM.

IT'S SPECIAL TO COME OVER HERE TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

THEY WANTED TO HAVE A LITTLE FUN, TOO OUTSIDE OF THE RACE SO TWO DAYS BEFORE THE RACE, THE TEAM WENT AND PLAYED GOLF.

SO THIS MIGHT BECOME THE NEW ROUTINE.

>> THERE WE GO.

>> SANDY CONGRATULATIONS.

GO DO THE >> YOUR MOST AGGRESSIVE RIDER, PLEASE WELCOME BRANDON McNULTY FROM TEAM USA!

LIKE IS TO START OFF RIDING FOR TUD AR CYCLING TEAM, THE GERMAN, BRONZE MEDAL MAYRHOFER.

FINISHING OFF IN SECOND PLACE, RIDING, THE NOR WEDGE ONJONAS ABE RANDLE ZEN RIDING FOR THE NORWEGIAN, AND PLEASE WELCOME COMING FROM FRANCE, YOUR 2025 MARYLAND CHAMPION, SANDY DUJARDIN.

PRESENTING OUR MEDALS, DERRICK FROM OUR SPORT AND ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION MARYLAND AND THE BOARD OF MARYLAND, OUR MEDALS BEING AWARDED FROM DERRICK AND MAYOR SCOTT.

SANDY DUJARDIN, COME ON MARYLAND, MAKE SOME NOISE.

BALTIMORE, YOU WERE FANTASTIC.

YOUR WINNER, TOTAL ENERGY'S FIRST PLACE ONCE AGAIN, CONGRATULATIONS DUJARDIN, ABRAHAMSEN AND MAYRHOFER.

YOU CAN STEP DOWN.

LIKE TO BRING UP THE WINNER OF OUR PRO WOMEN FOR A PHOTO.

RIDING FOR CANYON-SRAM ZONDACRYPTO, AGNIESZKA SKALNIAK-SOJA, YOUR PRO WOMEN'S WINNER!

UNG BELIEVABLE, OUR INAUGURAL PRO-WOMEN'S RACE, YOUR WINNER AND CONGRATULATIONS ONCE AGAIN TO SANDY DUJARDIN.

CHAMPAGNE, THEY'RE ALREADY WET SO THAT'S NO PROBLEM FOR THEM.

POP THE CHAMPAGNE AND CELEBRATE HERE.

1, 2 AND 3!

HAVE FUN WITH THIS.

SMILE.

ENJOY!

SHAKE IT.

SHAKE IT.

THAT'S HOW WE DO IT!

THE GERMAN, AWESOME JOB, CONGRATULATIONS, OUR TOP THREE, A FANTASTIC RIDE ON THE PODIUM HERE IN MARYLAND.

MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC WITH OUR PRO MEN.

ARMS IN THE AIR, YOUR CHAMPIONS RIDE HERE!

THANK YOU BALTIMORE!

MOVING ON TO OUR MOST AGGRESSIVE RIDER, THE OPTIMIZER JERSEY, LIKE TO BRING UP TO THE PODIUM, JONAS ABRAHAMSEN.

RIDER COMING OUT OF NORWAY, RIDING FOR UNO UNO-X.

CASEY ARMSTRONG.

PRESENTING THE JERSEY TO OUR MOST AGGRESSIVE RIDER!

FANTASTIC RIDE MAKING IT INTO THE BREAKAWAY, FORCING THE BREAK, CONGRATULATIONS JONAS ABRAHAMSEN, YOUR WINNER OF THE RX BENEFITS OPTIMIZER JERSEY.

MOVING ON TO OUR BEST YOUNG RIDER, VISIT BALTIMORE AND THE CITY OF BALTIMORE.

I'M LOOKING FOR THE DUTCH RIDER TO HEAD ON UP TO THE PODIUM, MATYAS KOPECKY.

YOUR TEAM, NOVO NORDISK RIDER FINISHING UP AS THE BEST YOUNG RIDER.

THEY DON'T MAKE IT EASY, THE WET JERSEYS GOING ON WET ARMS.

THEY DON'T MAKE IT EASY.

NOVO NORDISK'S TEAM FULLY COMMITTED WITH TYPE 1 DIABETES, KOPECKY COMING OUT OF THE NETHERLANDS.

YOUR BEST YOUNG RIDER HERE AT MARYLAND.

DID YOU GAIN WEIGHT DURING THE RIDE?

HEY, ONCE AGAIN PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER, MATYAS KOPECKY.

MOVING ON TO OUR IN THE COMMUNITY KAISER PERMANENTE AWARD.

THEY TRAVELED AROUND THE FOUR DIFFERENT SCHOOLS A COUPLE DAYS BEFORE THE RACE.

THEY GAVE AWAY 50 BIKES AND WE WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO AWARD OUR IN THE COMMUNITY AWARD WINNER, PLEASE WELCOME LARRY WAR BASSE.

YOUR VICE PRESIDENT OF KAISER PERMANENTE GRAYSON McDEERMICK PRESENTING YOUR JERSEY.

LARRY MAKING IT INTO THE BREAKAWAY RIDING FOR TUDOR CYCLING TEAM AS WELL.

THE AMERICAN FINDING HIMSELF ON THE PODIUM HERE.

ONCE AGAIN GRACELAND McDEER MITT.

MARKETING SALES AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT.

THIS NEXT RIDER SPRINTED POINTS, ... >> GUYS, FINAL THOUGHTS ON THIS THIRD EDITION OF THE MARYLAND CYCLING CLASSIC?

>> HONESTLY IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR, YOU ARE THE REAL M.V.P.

IT WAS GREAT.

I THOUGHT THE CITY DID AN AMAZING JOB TO HOST.

I LOVE THE WEATHER ASPECT, HOW EVERYTHING CHANGED AND I THOUGHT THE RACE WAS SUPER EXCITING, DYNAMIC AND DESERVING WINNER AT THE FINISH.

>> I CANNOT ADD A LOT MORE.

TAYLOR SAID IT ALL.

BEAUTIFUL RACE AND A BEAUTIFUL THIRD EDITION.

I THINK ALL THREE EDITIONS, YEAH, GREAT RACE TO WATCH AND CAN'T WAIT FOR NEXT YEAR.

>> ALL RIGHT.

WE HAD SUN.

WE HAD RAIN, WE HAD WIND.

IN THE END THOUGH, IT WAS SANDY.

SANDY DUJARDIN WHO GETS THE WIN IN THE MEN'S EVENT AND NOW FOR TAYLOR FINNEY AND SETH VAN MARK, I'M STEVE SLANGER.

THANKS EVERYONE AS WE SAY SO LONG FROM BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.