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Perhaps there would have been, theoretically speaking. However, I am yet to see a big classic where three of the biggest five pre-race favourites get away in a break with which they are mutually content and then blow it because a team that has more than one outsider manages to organise a chase where they sacrifice a rider that pre-race had been promised a free role.
It was never happening that Martínez would get help from either Urán or Woods and when it emerged that Woods had had a mechanical on the final descent, even I didn't know who of those two should have been ordered to domestique for the other. With the blessing of hindsight.
search said:tobydawq said:Flamin said:Obviously I'm not going to complain when the top favourites attack with 50k to go, but I really didn't see the 'great race' that many on here saw. From the moment Pinot and Nibali rode away, the race was already over and it would be a contest between them. Sure, Roglic and Bernal came back in the descent, but they were dropped uphill so the same was going to happen again on Civiglio. Furthermore, the chasing group's action was lame (from spectator view) though textbook stuff from riders who have been outclassed earlier on the day.
Not that exciting imo.
I think it was as good as you get on a 100% asphalt race but I don't think it was close to being as exciting as the cobbled classics usually are.
The follower group was unluckily constellated, though. Astana and Mitchelton-Scott were the only teams with more than one rider but the four riders from those teams were the four weakest riders in the group, so Martínez was never going to get any help.
well, if Woods had worked for Uran (or the other way around - but I'd think Uran should be the captain for Lombardia), there still would have been quite a good chance to bring it back together
Perhaps there would have been, theoretically speaking. However, I am yet to see a big classic where three of the biggest five pre-race favourites get away in a break with which they are mutually content and then blow it because a team that has more than one outsider manages to organise a chase where they sacrifice a rider that pre-race had been promised a free role.
It was never happening that Martínez would get help from either Urán or Woods and when it emerged that Woods had had a mechanical on the final descent, even I didn't know who of those two should have been ordered to domestique for the other. With the blessing of hindsight.