What purpose does the rule about riding the TT AND RR serve? It’s especially confusing considering the TT is after the RR, so more likely to lead to TT contenders soft-pedaling the RR, or even abandoning early. At least if the TT was first, the TT riders would then be free to give it their all for a team leader in the RR.
I've never understood it. And I seem to recall Dumoulin (and a few others) abandoning the RR in Rio after about an hour, in order to save themselves for the TT