He was way down on GC and allowed to go in the non-threatening break of the day. Doing a one off effort like that is very different from riding for GC for three weeks.
As @facsimile rightly says, the beauty of the race is that we don't know how he'll do. But he is, justifiably, the favourite now.
He was way down on GC and allowed to go in the non-threatening break of the day. Doing a one off effort like that is very different from riding for GC for three weeks.
Yes, I know. I was just trying to say: he's more of a climber now, and can come out on top among real climbers. Anyway, we'll see.
I'm not proclaiming him as winner yet. But remember the stage he won in the Tour de France last year? just sayin'... cc @andyp