I'd be amazed if he could win a Tour stage without preplanned cutting short of both the Giro and the Tour. Would Lefevre go for that? Would Cav? I think they would. And I reckon Prudhomme and the French press would be fine with it. There are endless precedents for sprinters starting the Tour in the knowledge they'll be DQ'd in the mountains.
I'd be amazed if he could win a Tour stage without preplanned cutting short of both the Giro and the Tour. Would Lefevre go for that? Would Cav? I think they would. And I reckon Prudhomme and the French press would be fine with it. There are endless precedents for sprinters starting the Tour in the knowledge they'll be DQ'd in the mountains.