It's not Roglic's TT ability that's killing this race, it's the fact that he has the strongest TT AND the strongest team at the same time.
Dumo didn't change at PDBF but Rogla did. Same for Bergen.
He is also the best climber so far. And has the best sprint.
He's not the best climber, he is a good enough climber that the climbers on the other teams haven't been able to drop him and/or his teammates. He does have the best sprint at the finish of a climb, but that is a different thing.
If not for a rain jacket and a descent, he is the one with the fastest time over the mountain stages. He has dropped the others more than they him.
He hasn’t dropped anyone outside of sprints in the final km. Those sprints tend to open up 3-5s gaps just by their nature, but they don’t tend to be examples of “best climber.”
Moncalvillo was hardly an uphill sprint.
Let Roglic and Carapaz swap teams and it could be a completely different race when Jumbo train is used for Carapaz who actually needs to gain time ahead of the TT (and is not afraid to attack, as we've seen).
Does the Jumbo train understand the concept of attacking though?
That course is in February I heard. First they have to dedicate the final few months of this calendar year to writing an essay on proper gearing.
I like them mixing different terrains into the TTs. I wish they'd include a technical descent after the murito, and then another 5km of rolling terrain with fast corners and roads of varying width.
Maybe split it into 2 cars with 4 bikes each, just so the team leader has an opportunity as late as possible to make any changes to his climbing bike?
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