Good showing by Rogla today. Too bad he couldn't finish it off with a win. He showed all of his inexperience in the finale. He did a Sagan, brought a faster sprinter with him to the last 300m and started too late with his own sprint. But Tsatevich wins the sprint 9 times out of 10 anyway. He made a mistake earlier by not dropping him. These were his words after the stage:
“I was talking with Tsatevich in the finale of the race, but he wanted to wait for his team-mate Rodriguez,” Roglic explained. “I had to do it all on my own. I should have tried to drop him, but when you look at the whole stage, I did a good job. This week was one of the toughest in my career. The level was very high. This was a beautiful experience.”
So first we can conclude he was extremely strong. The duo had 13 seconds on the chasing group with Purito 5km to go and on the finish line they had 14 seconds on the chasers that were meanwhile caught by the peloton. If we consider Rogla did all the work it shows a very strong performance by him. Secondly why in hell didn't he try to drop him?! We almost didn't see pictures of the duo because of one of the worst coverages in WT races ever (it was shameful). But these were his words: I should have tried to drop him. If he really didn't try to attack the Russian it was a big mistake. It shows complete inexperience in these kind of situations.
Nonetheless a nice performance that should give him confidence going forward. So far he has done better in hilly stages than in the high mountains. We'll see if he can deliver on some longer climbs in the Giro.
They were really disappointing. 
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