Except a lot of performances were all over in the Giro, Doumoulin proving the only other consistent GC rider over three weeks. Hindsight is a great thing, and with it Yates burning matches day by day and riders like Pinot and Pozzo trying to follow and doing the same paved the way for a softly softly catchy monkey approach by Froome.
And Sky executed it well, Froome took his chance and Doumoulin was isolated and dithered.
Doumoulin needed a lieutenant, no-one from Sunweb so he had to lean on Pinot and Reichenbach, since Lopez and Caparaz where fighting each other. He admitted his mistake too: had he pushed on Solo he might have limited losses, stayed in pink.
Except a lot of performances were all over in the Giro, Doumoulin proving the only other consistent GC rider over three weeks. Hindsight is a great thing, and with it Yates burning matches day by day and riders like Pinot and Pozzo trying to follow and doing the same paved the way for a softly softly catchy monkey approach by Froome.
And Sky executed it well, Froome took his chance and Doumoulin was isolated and dithered.