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I think the pecking order was made very clear on Sunday; Kelderman, TGH and Hindley are the three strongest riders in the race, followed by Almeida. The rest will do well to gain time on those four in the next five stages.
You can’t rule them out but it would take a major reversal of fortunes to see a final podium that didn’t include three of those four.
andyp
Bainbridge
I would think that Sunweb will lose Jai Hindley from the podium for the sake of Kelderman's challenge on pink.
Placings 3-8 are only seperated by a minute, with Nibali almost guaranteed to try and smash things up. Some of those are going to be watching each other for the minor GC placings rather than the win.
Agreed that Almeida needs to be broken first, then some collaboration with the inevitable Italian attacks to break Kelderman. Nibali to get a mountain stage win, Tao to beat him in the time trial.