Tense Ending! 😳 | Men's 2026 Volta a Portugal Stage 3 Final KM's

See we will see um right so now it's coming down by numbers 37 seconds with 5k to go it's going to be a very late catch if it does happen this though an incredibly fast-moving peloton with a probably rather nervous looking uh motorbike there waving them either side everyone threw it neatly final 5k to go for these leading four riders here they are leading at the moment the american joshua lebo uh of meridian racing at the back there in the light blue jose miguel morera ahead of him and gonzalo rodriguez the portuguese rider moreira and rodriguez both portuguese and on the front the irishman ronan o'connor riding for the aps pro cycling american team they have done a very good job today they're coming towards 4k to go and they still have 35 seconds of lead over this peloton now it's getting serious this is definitely ua team members xrg going right we're going to fully back well we believe the yellow jersey uh rui olivera he's not yet won a professional road race in his career despite being the olympic madison champion currently having won that title with yuri leitao uh can they make it work today either way the other continental teams in here as we know will not give up trying there's a real urgency to this now isn't though the whole it looks different the whole race looks different yeah indeed it's been a cautious day today this is the longest stage of the voltara portugal this year it's an 11 day race anyway it's been close to 40 degrees we believe the temperature might actually be 40 degrees in elvash where they're racing into right now on this far inland stage in alentejo and these four have done a really really good job 25 seconds now flick of the elbow from libo they're going to try and survive obviously all the way to the line but look at the speed of this peloton yeah they're taking full advantage of this descent um we're running to the bottom of the descent really pretty soon the bottom of the descent really is about to the two and a half 2.7 kilometers to go but you can see the speed on i kind of think that's a slightly reduced peloton as well i think there were a few people who got dropped in the back at the tail end of the last climb you haven't made it back on but 23 seconds three kilometers to go seven seconds a kilometer pretty tight well there's no time for pausing in there's a little bit of looking around the impetus in the peloton is definitely seemingly more twitchy if nothing else they've just gone through 3k to go so that's right our breakaway arm 200 meters ahead of them something like that we can see them they're right there yes right breathe in round the roundabout here should be fine it's a little bit dusty but it should be smooth it looks smooth to me there's a real battle though to get control definitely today there's more teams hutch that want to be in control of this yeah far more teams engaged in this because i think there are more teams that fancy the sprint today i tell you what i did think that we've done well to get through there smoothly i think one rider going onto the curb and hopping back in i think we are yeah we're all we're all in one place right this is another good showing by uh taffa ovos here they've done this before though and not quite made it count they've got a jump actually they've got a little bit of a gap between them and uh the first of the anicolor riders yellow jerseys back there too careful round the roundabout they've not made the catch just yet but it's close this is messy again hutch there are so many gaps opening up down there two of the uh abiludo riders have got a gap on the others i don't think they realize they're being closed up now by the taffa ovos riders the breakaway is going to get caught only one last attack one last attack from gonzalo rodriguez they've done a brilliant job these four but they're going to get caught just before the flam by the looks of it catch has not quite happened just yet in fact not quite there yet going with him brilliant to see this isn't it yeah we've had kind of splits being closed up some of the some of the county teams really making life hard here for um for the two three bigger teams than the rest this is this is an amazing ride by rodriguez i don't know how where the earth this is coming from they've been out there the whole stage is 180 kilometer stage in 40 degrees of that is a massive effort to try and stay clear and they're still not caught yet they're going to have about 600 meters to go and he's overcooked it oh no just as he was about to be caught um one of the abiludo riders has gone down hard as well that's going to cause a problem in the build-up for this sprint this will not be the same kind of expectation of riders we were looking to see there's the yellow jersey and he's going to do it i think at the moment we are looking at rui olivera closing in on the stage win he's got to catch one rider here this is one of the credit riders who's burst clear this is the perfect opportunity for rui olivera to do it but the credit boom rider who's ridden through the middle of the gap as the crash happened he's got to be coming to the line right now olivera takes the left hander if he's ever gonna win his first professional stage and it comes right here in elvash can he do it though olivera's read this one perfectly but has he gone too soon he's got riders all over him olivera's not gonna get this of it or is it they've got the one two wow wow what it's calling it immediate is the angle linares the venezuelan sprinter but i think it may have been gel matias matias was celebrating matias and linares were there well they did a lot of work tapa ovos and it looks to me like they have just made that count potentially with the one two which they celebrated on the line two we're going back to where the crash happened this is emil nielsen he's gone down hard oh you've got a feel for gonzalo rodriguez i was just waxing about what a brilliant ride he was doing staying out there but straightened up a bit on that roundabout hutch and he does not oh he looks in trouble doesn't he i'm sorry to see that i was such a strong ride from him today