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Either Matthews is playing possum or he's just cooked.
I think with 50 km to go people already made up their mind about the race being good because it seemed very unlikely the rest would stink as much as it eventually did. So yeah, I kinda agree, the finale really didn't deliver.Lot of talk for how amazing the race was when it was one moment of echelons very little after that.