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Great ride from Valgren, who's starting to make a name for himself by being strong enough to get in these moves, and then tactically astute enough to put in the killer blow...
Though the assertions that he was the strongest in that group are just plain wrong, he just about held on through the climbs and then sat on whilst others were attacking/pulling. Valverde and Alaphilippe were strongest going uphill and Sagan on the flat, hence no-one wanting to pull for him.
For all of Kirby's blabbering and bullshit, I think he made a good point, that he somewhat let Valgren and Kreuziger go - both are ex-teammates at Tinkoff. When a mountain goat like Kreuziger goes off the front to chase, it really wouldn't have taken much for Sagan to get on his wheel to close the gap.