The Hitch said:Because Sky can and should do that job for them.
Yellow jersey is worth a hell of a lot more than 10th on gc, or in BMC's case 12th with Cadel possibly losing time in the alpes anyway
You act like i am not looking at it from their perspective. I am. These teams would be far better off letting sky do the work and resting their domestiques, and only taking over when Sky REALLY cant pull.
I'm counting a total of one sky rider(s) finishing in the second group. Stannard, Thomas, and Siutsou were there at one point, but dropped off throughout the last 15k or so. I think its splitting hairs to try to decide exactly what Km sky was really on the limit, whether that happened with 25k or 15k to go. Even harder for those teams to make that calculation in the moment of "go. go, Go!"
The Hitch said:Did it make sense 5k from the end when the break had a minute already?
Every second counts