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Matthew Brennan predicted "a few bodies going home in an ambulance tonight with a heat stroke" after Stage 15. That's not a struggling rider complaining — it's a three-time stage winner, still performing, naming a medical emergency in real time.
Brennan read his own power meter to journalists: 41°C average, 44°C on the opening climb. He's 21, on his Grand Tour debut, the first rider since Tadej Pogačar in 2019 to take three stage wins that early — which means this warning comes from someone winning, not fading. When the rider succeeding at the race is the one predicting ambulances, the conditions stop being a competitive disadvantage and become a safety question that outranks the result sheet.
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