Its not when your leader is so far off and is just straight up sitting up. Ayuso did that today, so of course you don't call Soler, your only rider in the front group apart from Almeida, down to 'pace' for literally zero reason. Ayuso had Grossschartner for moral support and thats more than he deserved today.It's certainly the job of Vine and Soler to guard, pace riders like Ayuso and Almeida, today was the bike racing equivalent of the fire department going out for a pizza during an emergency. Today was a mental injury for UAE and I hope for the next 2 weeks the only questions asked at pre and post race pressers are why Ayuso stunk the place up so early and is he going to transfer teams during the race..
This is cycling 101 guys. Come on.