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Why not dance around across different disciplines? He'll likely win more, prompt loads more articles about being the greatest, sponsors will continue to flock to him and he will be paid more.
Sounds much more appealing than being someones teammate, fetching bottles, in a race he cannot win.
Zerostar-
so far, he's only been doing what he thinks is fun. the best strategy there is!
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MvDP seems to have the physical ability to win pretty much any race that he is in, the only thing so far unknown is long mountain stages and long stage races.
Given that his abilities include a sprint strong enough to beat hilly race sprinters (Alaphillipe, Matthews, etc), extended duration sprint, longer than a lot of top sprinters, huge aerobic engine, and ability to recover again and again from short hard efforts (cyclocross) he has a chance to win pretty much any stage bar mountain finishes.
In a classic sprint finish, he might be beaten more often than not by someone like Viviani/Ewan and end up acting like a 1000w for 30s leadout man, but if he launches and has noone on his wheel, then he'll be hard to beat to the line.
peter_v
Acliff
Well I can guess what that will be like, considering his CX & XC mtb seasons... and picking races that suit them, doesn't every (smart) pro rider? ;-)