It’s hard to imagine Vingegaard wouldn’t have been stronger had he not crashed. He did remarkably well given the crash, but how could that not have had an impact? I’m not sure he would have won, but his form has clearly fallen off. This is no surprise. Pogacar’s form dropped last year and his injuries weren’t nearly as bad. And given that Pogacar, Vingegaard, Landa, Almeida, Yates, and so on are all pushing their best watts ever, I don’t see the argument that Vingegaard has pushed his best watts ever (on one stage) sufficient evidence that he wouldn’t have pushed even more watts than he has.