00:00Berbaki kurang 24 jam sebelum sanggah letur di Langkawi,
00:032026 bermula pelomba pilihan utama XDS Astana Tim Matthew Maluccelli.
00:08Berdepan detik cemas lepas terbabit dalam kemalangan ketika sesi latihan pagi tadi,
00:12dipahamkan Maluccelli tergelincir di selekoh di mana kerja-kerja pembinaan sedang dijalankan
00:17dan keadaan pembuatan jalan di penuhi pasir seterbatu kecil.
00:21Pelomba Itali itu kini menjalani pemeriksaan di hospital termasuk X-ray pada tangan
00:25dengan status kecerahan serta penyertaan yang dalam pelomba masih menanti keputusan
00:29daripada pihak perubatan.
00:33Ya, it was quite unfortunate. It's just one of those things in bike riding sometimes.
00:37We arrived in an unfamiliar corner that had roadworks and there was some sand and grit on the ground.
00:43Unfortunately, he lost the wheels and crashed and he's just getting a check-up now
00:47to make sure everything is okay. So he was having an X-ray done on his hand
00:51but he's already talking about going again on the bike this afternoon
00:54so we're optimistic that he's going to be ready to fire, ready for the rest of the race this week.
01:01Rakan sepasukannya Aaron Gate pada masa sama menyakakan LTDL kali ini
01:05bakal menjadi ujian berbeza dengan tiga penamat puncak di Gunung Jerai, Cameron Highlands dan Genting Highlands.
01:10kehadiran 70% peluma terpakar pendakian dijangka akan mengubah dinamik perlombaan tahun ini.
01:18Yeah, to have such a hard stage or such a hard final climb like this
01:22quite early and quite a long race is for sure going to put some extra fatigue in everybody's legs
01:27because, yeah, you're not trying, as a sprinter, you're not trying to win the stage
01:33but you still have to finish inside the time limit so it's, you still have to make it to the
01:38top of the mountain
01:38so it does change the dynamic and you can see I think with the start list this year compared to
01:44last year
01:44there's more teams coming here favouring pure climbers for the general classification
01:49versus last year we had a lot more sprinters in the race
01:52so I think that's definitely something that's played into it
01:55and I hope for our team anyway that we have enough diversity to succeed in both the mountains and the
02:01sprints.
