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I was asking why Froome didn't attack not so much as in wanting to succeed in the break, more so to sow some doubt into the minds of those attacking him, a bit of psychological warfare.
I was hugely entertained by this stage and the back and forth and the implosion of team sky leaving Froome out on the road by himself, with adversaries all around, and he looked after himself admirably.
Apart from having good days in the saddle and being tactically astute, it seems to me that winning Tours requires the ability to fake feeling good/bad and also throw a spanner into the works of what your opponents might do, which an attack, whether it was caught or not would have done..