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Toward the end of Saturday’s game, in a push similar to one for a lead-out show after the Super Bowl, NBCUniversal will begin directing viewers to “Ted,” a new Peacock series spun off from the Seth MacFarlane movies about a foul-mouthed teddy bear.

"Everyone in the team is hurting," said Mark Renshaw, who was Cavendish's lead-out man from 2009-2011 and in 2016, and joined Astana as a sprint adviser prior to the Tour.

“We really lose an important rider for all kinds of stages, including the stages where he was part of the lead-out for Mark Cavendish,” team manager Alexandre Vinokourov said.

“It’s amazing to have Mathieu as a lead-out man. If he had the space to go, for sure he has the speed to fight for the win.”

To an outside observer, the negative reception might have been all the more surprising because “Drag Race’s” unpopular lead-out show is set in the same neighborhood as Trunks.