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I agree with LS here. Losing the jersey only caused more unknows and chaos than needed. Previously the only unknowns were Poga and maybe Yates. With stage 4 there's suddenly McNulty who's an unknown when it comes to climbing and some unnecessary byproducts with Billbao, Izaguirre and Buchmann. Roglic was more than strong enough to take Poga mano a mano. He didn't need to hope and rely on Astana and Movistar being dumb and blowing themselves up (as usuall) and i doubt he and his DS liked for him to go 40k deep. IMO Roglic was today strong enough to superficially tape terrible decisions from stage 4.
UAE lost the race yesterday by not being atentive enough at the top of Elosa and possibly by not including McNulty to the rotation on the flat preceeding Karabelin even if considering how hard he blew up later on (passed by G. Martin on flat!) i dunno if it wouldn't be only a hindrance for Poga. Also, i dunnohow hard Roglic went on Karabelin and if he had more reserves than it looked (he seemed to be in some trouble later on but he was perfectly fine on Arrate).
As for Jumbo being a young, unexperienced team in this race. Tolhoek, Vingegaard, Oomen, Foss and at least partly Hofstede are all tested and battle-hardened guys that palmares include a GT top 10 (Oomen Giro '18), l'Avenir win (Foss '19) and multiple WT stage wins. Besides the Dane everyone this week were subpar.
UAE lost the race yesterday by not being atentive enough at the top of Elosa and possibly by not including McNulty to the rotation on the flat preceeding Karabelin even if considering how hard he blew up later on (passed by G. Martin on flat!) i dunno if it wouldn't be only a hindrance for Poga. Also, i dunnohow hard Roglic went on Karabelin and if he had more reserves than it looked (he seemed to be in some trouble later on but he was perfectly fine on Arrate).
As for Jumbo being a young, unexperienced team in this race. Tolhoek, Vingegaard, Oomen, Foss and at least partly Hofstede are all tested and battle-hardened guys that palmares include a GT top 10 (Oomen Giro '18), l'Avenir win (Foss '19) and multiple WT stage wins. Besides the Dane everyone this week were subpar.