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Mayomaniac said:I don't know if he really needs to ride a gt for gc, go for the gc in one week races and just go stagehunting in a gt, less pressure, less stress and you don't have to perform on every single day, If you have a bad day you can try again on another day.
SlickMongoose said:Mayomaniac said:I don't know if he really needs to ride a gt for gc, go for the gc in one week races and just go stagehunting in a gt, less pressure, less stress and you don't have to perform on every single day, If you have a bad day you can try again on another day.
I think that's good advice, but...
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/van-garderen-i-know-i-can-do-gc-in-a-grand-tour/
"I still think I'm capable of doing GC in a Grand Tour in the future, I'm not going to give up trying for that," van Garderen said. "Things might change as far as getting the full support of a team. I know that I'm not going to be up there with [Nairo] Quintana on Blockhaus, but I see myself as a similar rider to someone like [Tom] Dumoulin. I just need to eliminate these bad days and learn myself a bit more. But no, I'm not giving up on general classification."