Can someone rationally explain this women’s race?
The circuit is terrible so nobody wants to expend effort outside of the Cauberg.
The break went away and they got it close enough to catch, but then every team other than Trek and SD Worx, because they are super OP, have said to them that it's their job to chase. They've been bluffing each other because they both have multiple weapons and don't want to let the other team hit the final climb with more weapons at their disposal than them.
Canyon are the next strongest team on paper and they have a woman in the breakaway, so they're disrupting the chase, but they're able to get multiple riders up near the front.
Kopecky's getting concerned about them not catching the breakaway and superseding her own domestiques in order to get the work done.
There's a good chance now that the extension to the circuit on the last lap doomed the breakaway as they could well have held on had they done the 'normal' circuit but they've lost another 10-15" on the extension and it shouldn't be enough once the big guns open the taps on the Cauberg.