Hello you beautiful cycling fans, we've done stage 21, we're in Madrid, thank you very much for joining me for the last three weeks of this Vuelta daily podcast, it's been an emotional rollercoaster, I'm glad I was able to share with you some of the crazy stages from the tragically bad weather in Andorra to Madrosos, wind, looking at pogger car, coming of age. It's been an epic three weeks, it's been an emotional three weeks and it's been a test in so many different ways to bring you this podcast but it's not something that I would change at all. So for one last time for the Vuelta, let's jump right into us. Before we get started, a massive heartfelt thank you to our show sponsor, MissingPeace.org. MissingPeace, they've been with us all through the Vuelta. They've been phenomenal supporters, they've sent on sweet swag for us, they've set up competitions, they've dealt with your inquiries and inquiries across their Twitter, Instagram, and they've been, you know, as much a part of the Vuelta as all you have, I suppose, for this podcast in the last three weeks. It's been brilliant to see a small little brand like them that are on their way up and have all the attributes that I think are worthy of praise, like independent handcraft, that little touch of class about them. So, the light of the guys around board and do for one last time, check them out. And although their shell sponsorship of us is ending, I would encourage if you've heard of it, it's raining like that, coming up in the next few months to check the mountains, tell them I want to mention it, and you never know, they might kick you a little bit of free swagger, not give you a quid off, you never know, ask nicely. Okay, so here we go, stage 21, and it was epic. Everyone attacked the leader, and we had all sorts of drama on the road, were crashes, and we had infighting, and Not that we didn't have any of that. As expected for anyone who's avid follower of grand tours, we had an absolute parade. We had a procession for 106km into Madrid, where we had Roglic, Boveredy, Poggaker, the front of the bunch, posing for photos, drinking champagne, guys down the back drinking beers, rolling along, real carnival atmosphere. Very hard for somebody who's not a cycling fan to really understand what's going on, It's tradition on the last stage of Grantors that they call a ceasefire. They've had 20 days where they've been sworn enemies, they've attacked each other, they've tried to outmaneuver each other, they've tried to out position each other, they've tried to make life hard for each other and for the last day they just call a ceasefire. And say, you know what, we've had 20 hard days of killing each other, let's just have one day of mutual respect and have a little parade, priority atmosphere as we roll into Madrid and just say you know that's our lot it's been a good vuelta this year and you can see the spirits were high the camaraderie was brilliant and yeah it was really a joy to see pogacare and Roglage on the front of the bunch just chatting the two Slovenians a country we're only a population of two million and it's I think the head of stage for Slovenia came out and said it's a greatest day in their sporting history. So that goes to show you it's not just our annual achievement in sport, it's the greatest day in their sporting history to have the two guys on the podium. Brilliant atmosphere, it's really enjoyable to watch and Sean Kelly and Carleton Kirby have done a great job on Euro Sport, just keeping it flown because it's a difficult day for commentators at times because there's not much going on apart from posing for pictures and there's no real race going on. So as tradition dictates we start racing once we get to the small circuits around, you know, whether it's Rome, Paris or this case Madrid. So when we got to Madrid, we started racing. Tight little circuit was talked, maybe the stage could be neutralized on the circuit because of rain and there's a lot of showers and white lines and they just didn't want Reuters crashing on the last day.