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Ditto on the riding of GTs for me, but people talk about it and we have seen it bhefore in terms of Nibali and Contador.
Possibly, but she did frame the article by citing that individual response and building an argument that indeed the ride was beyond inevitability and so credibility.
There are two narratives emerging; what I would consider the more measured objective one that looks at stage 19 as a well-judged, daring attack with Chris riding to his strengths, taking advantage of the surface of the Finestre and some risk on the descent, and the disorganised chase from isolated rivals, with the other, hyperbolic reaction which simply is that it was a super-human, alien effort that no-one should have been capable of. York put herself firmly in the latter IMO and fell into the CyclingNews rabbit hole when she did.