Are we seeing the same phenomenon as in Giro Next Gen that the teams are not able to control the race so big break aways go off and manages to stay away. In the Giro Next Gen it had direct impacts on the overall race since the top 4 all gained time by being in big break aways.
In todays stage it's Dalby and Turconi that seem to be the biggest threats to the overall out of the 20 riders, unless there is a good climber I didn't recognize.
"not able"
Not sure about that. In the Giro for example Visma just didn't want to control. They completely threw away the GC for no reason, well for a 7th place for Rex apparently lmao.
And now, yeah it was kinda to be expected with so many flat stages that big dangerous groups were gonna go clear. The weird thing is that big teams like France, but especially Belgium and Norway just let this happen and wait ages to before working. To make it worse, Tim Rex, who has Widar as a leader, is just working in the front group. It's pretty insane. And then you have Italy, who actually have a good climber up front (Turconi) working in the peleton lmao.
So it's not just about no being able, but more about being tactically inept.