He would probably have won if he didn't have to do leadout for Greipel on the first couple of stages. He had superform and wanted to get bonus seconds in the sprints but he was forced to do leadouts instead. This caused him to get quite frustrated and he showed this by winning a sprint on stage 4 from 350 meters out while Greipel was unable to pass him. Clearly he could've gotten an extra 11 seconds in bonus seconds prior to this if they had let him. Actually this situation was part of the reason of him leaving HTC, so clearly TdP is a really important raceAngliru said:In a weeklong stage race 11 seconds really is more than it seems.