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hippy
Grand Tours always ebb and flow. The flat stages are always processional until the last 30k, but you have to have them to attract the top sprinters. I love a sprint a stage as it winds up and the peloton starts to really charge.
Sagan may as well be given the green jersey from the start, it really his to lose which is a shame because there have been some great battles for green in the past which always serve as a good sub-plot to the GC. But then it is Sagan and you want him in the race.
The loss of Porte and Nibali has drawn a lot of the sting from the GC battles, and with the loss of the Movistar trident. Not that they are out of the race, more than they may as well not be there. Roglic and Dumoulin are providing a good challenge still, a lot of racing left. After Thomas practically anointed winner yesterday I wouldn't be surprised if one of them manages a late raid, possibly in the TT. One crash, one mechanical, and the race can turn on its head.