Actually you've said something different fisrt time, now you're changing your original words. Mess. Figure out what you want to say first.
And last time he trully sort of cracked, but it's good not to forget that he was ill that Tour, what can affect your performance, see? And he still lost three minutes there what isn't most terrible cracking. And above all, that wasn't stage after multiple mountain stages
In Giro 2011 he kept his level pretty well, did you forget? And he went pretty well up Mt. Ventoux in 20th stage in Tour 2009, actually it was his bet mountatin perormance that Tour and it came in third week obviously.