Originally Posted by
surak
Congrats to Bardet, maybe he can get another climber's jersey at a GT now that he's on a non-French team without the weight of GC expectations.
I tuned in late and seemed like nothing much happened in the real GC race, as the GCN+ Breakaway after-show seemed to confirm. Lots of climbing left so I can understand the more cautious approach.
Just one last bit on yesterday's stage, this audio straight from Jakobsen to Senechal should put to bed definitively the question of whether the leadout went too fast (he certainly thought so):
https://mobile.twitter.com/lavuelta/...92721436708867
OK. mea culpa. You got it right and I got it wrong.
So was the mechanical thing fictional?