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SeriousSam said:
I think he'll be tempted to ensure that he has net time gain on everyone that originates from strength, as opposed to the TTT and especially penalties. I'm hoping Porte has a stinker in the TT and then cracks so that he doesn't have to invest a lot of energy to accomplish this
I agreed. I don't think he is thinking about saving energy for the tour yet. Once he established his hierarchy among the GC contender by showing who's the strongest (especially against Porte), then he can start measuring his effort for the rest of the race. Because he knows, no one is going to question his Giro achievement if he demonstrates his pedal to the metal to smoke other GC, particularly Porte.
On the other hand, Porte hasn't been in his bad day yet, just having a bad luck. Today looks like everyone struggles except Contador. Who knows, maybe stage 15, the gauntlet finally drops. Certainly curious to see Aru struggling back to back stage in the rain. Wondering how he is going to bounce back on stage 15 if it's raining again. Should be interesting, if it's just he is not eating enough today or he starts feeling fatique (maybe he should crash in Porte's caravan). Uran seems to be better today. Saturday, we will finally got a confirmation if all the talk about Porte and Uran will take lots of time to Contador/Aru in ITT will materialize. *thank God*