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There's a decent documentary to be made about the evolution of sprint trains in the last 15 years. It's gone from the HTC model of using the whole team to deliver the sprinter to the front of the pack at 200 metres to go, to having a three rider train that doesn't hit the front until 700 metres to go at the earliest.
Yesterday's stage was interesting in that respect, as none of the sprint teams wanted to pull back Van Moer, and the GC teams were quite happy to leave him out front, so he was actually increasing his advantage in the final 10 kms.