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If you speed up because you are going downhill then it is still going to take the same amount of time to get to where you are on the road because the chasers will also be going downhill by that point.
You have to go faster than the chasers go on the same part of the road.
This is harder for me to explain than i thought it was
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That makes perfect sense. The other thing is gaps are measured "backwards." So you don't get a time between A and B until B reaches a point A had been. So you won't have an idea of the gap between Majka and the chasers, taking the descent into consideration, until the chasers reach the descent (and start descending). The gap is the time it took them to get to the top of the climb, so Majka's descent doesn't have an impact on the time gap until the chasers are also descending.
I think.
Oh. I was expecting him to gain time after he summited.