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@WillMelling
Skinny - I think the Tour will have been happy to have van der Poel there if only for a week, he certainly added to the spectacle and dragging himself round for another 2 weeks wouldn't have added anything. It's also the case, not for the stars like van der Poel but many others, that finishing the Tour, even when you are injured or shattered, is nothing to do with honour and everything to do with not having a DNF on your palmares when it comes to finding your next contract. As James Shaw said, the World Tour is an industry, not a sport.