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Watching the race, Dan Lloyd's commentary was quite insightful, in terms of how the tactics of the race and the cobbled classics play out, which seem at odds with the received wisdom for the rest of the cycling season. How the pace of the peloton jumps up at certain places, because the road narrows and you need to be at the front, because if you're at the back there's no coming back, and the only way you know where these pinch points are is to ride the roads on the regular, or race those races. Sagan has done neither and so needs to gain the experience, or have an experienced team mate to show him the ropes...
So even though you know where Boonen is going to test everyone, is different to being close enough to him, to try and close him down as the previous climbs and kilometres of racing may have put you in the middle of the peloton, squeezed between slowing riders with no way to move past them..