I mean, the only other option would have been to launch Vingegaard which wasn‘t the plan. Their plan for Soulor had just attacked backwards and they weren‘t getting anywhere with pushing further.
Depends on where you draw the line. I think he‘s inconsistent on long climbs but climbs well enough to destroy races like Paris-Nice with medium-sized climbs. Today he also had a bad day though.
I think the first part is too punchy for the TT bike, it goes: Short flat section, then 300 meters 6%, then short descent for about a kilometer, then a kilometer of flat, before the gradients start after less than 3 kilometers.
Well, they have the numbers that Roglič can do, which are much higher than the numbers he did today. I doubt they can predict what numbers the riders will do and I‘m not sure it‘s even allowed to monitor live data from the team car.
I don‘t know, he clearly had some issue on Soulor, supposedly he overheated even though that climb was well-shaded. If he hadn‘t wasted so much energy coming back from that crisis, he would have finished better today.
Think the Simon Yates time is fairly overrated, Most power curves just underestimating 1 Hour power because they never do 1 hour all-out seems more likely