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[YavorD]

If they are there in the first place, could be UAE and Visma already emptied themself as a team whilst a lot of RBH team members still yawning behind.

If UAE and Visma empty themselves, you won't have a whole horde of group containing 5 RBH climbers.
You'll have 4 riders tops, 2 of them Vingegaard and Pogacar. So no worries, they will be there.
Unless suddenly UAE/Visma drop their level massively.

And as for your second point, the other 2 won't be in better position because of it, they will be dropped by Pogacar/Vingegaard.

 

[CyclistAbi]

If UAE and Visma empty themselves, you won't have a whole horde of group containing 5 RBH climbers.
You'll have 4 riders tops, 2 of them Vingegaard and Pogacar. So no worries, they will be there.
Unless suddenly UAE/Visma drop their level massively.

Well, that is basically the ideal scenario and position to be in for RBH and IMHO only achievable if they bring a strong climbers oriented team.

And as for your second point, the other 2 won't be in better position because of it, they will be dropped by Pogacar/Vingegaard.

Pogi and Jonas aren't team members and they won't work in a way for the other to benefit from it.

 

[YavorD]

Well, that is basically the ideal scenario and position to be in for RBH and IMHO only achievable if they bring a strong climbers oriented team.



Pogi and Jonas aren't team members and they won't work in a way for the other to benefit from it.

No, it's not ideal because they won't have a numerical advantage, as I said once UAE/Visma set the pace for an attack, after the last helper (Kuss/Almeida/Narvaez) does his job, you'll have 1 RBH rider. At best. I actually see a situation at some point when you have a group of Kuss, Almeida , Pogacar and Vingegaard alone.

As for the second point, they will if some RBH rider is a treat to both of them.