Originally Posted by surak

It's semantics, they dropped him because they were driving the pace insanely high and didn't know he had an issue (mechanical or otherwise) before they opened up an insurmountable gap on all but 2 other riders -- even ones who didn't have equipment issues. It wasn't clear how soon they knew Jakobsen was gone, in any case they had an extremely short amount of time to still go for the win with Senechal.

The AF rider was supposed to be riding leadout and also lost his man. I guess DQT just wrecked everyone, but had the collective heads to not just ride a phantom train to nowhere.