In this case, the odds of the latter happening was probably more likely.
Better to try and be epic in races where it has bigger chance at working.
You really think so? I don't think asking Jorgenson to do a few turns at 12k from home to gain a bit of time on Evenepoel and the rest is more likely to result in him losing time than gaining it, in all honesty.
I get not working when the two made their initial move at 70km out, for sure (although even then I think doing a couple of half-assed or sandbagged turns to make them think you're collaborating and waste more energy might have worked or at least been beneficial to stop them from being stronger alter, but if he wasn't confident about leaving domestiques behind that far out I get it), but when you have the numerical advantage with 12km remaining and you're saying "I can't possibly ask my domestique to take a couple of turns", that's just way too negative an outlook for me. When are you meant to use your domestiques if not in the finale, in order to gain time on rivals?
Vingegaard was supposed to be a change of pace from the miserably defensive racing the team did at the Tour in support of Roglič, but the team car is showing that, in fact, the problem was never Rogla (and no, it was never Kuss either, although he served as the living embodiment of it). It's Maassen.
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