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Theory:
Quintana's "failure" in the breakaway he was in in the Pyrenees was a way of making everyone think he didn't have any legs and reassure them that he was safe to be allowed in a breakaway in a stage that he knew he could win back a chunk of time on.
Movistar meant it all along, and played their tactics superbly in that stage and today.
They were pulling the peloton earlier in today's stage, despite having three men in the breakaway, to thin out the GC contenders' trains to make sure they could get enough time off them.
Landa actually loves Quintana and found it really hard to blank him in that stage in the Pyrenees to sustain the myth of the "broken trident" as he sailed past, sharing the other teams.
tbc
@pdlouche
All the fucked up Movistar ‘tactics’ actually a massive foil?