So you’re saying right now the highest salary teams aren’t winning either? They all have domestiques that would top 10 at a GT (Kelderman, Buchmann, Bilbao, Porte, Tullett and Arensman in the near future,…) and a lot of them have a decent TT.
My favorite Giro was the one that Dumoulin one because of the different rider types that were in the mix. At this moment the JV squad would put minutes into for instance Arkea in such a TTT but on this year’s stage 20, there’s no reason an on fire Quintana would not have put back minutes into Dumoulin…
How much GC action did we really have this year? Carapaz did maybe 2 half assed attacks but wasn’t strong enough to stay away, the others mostly sat in until Carapaz cracked on the Fedaia… The individual stages were mostly entertaining but even though the top 5 in GC stayed close for long, there really wasn’t a real battle… They were just looking at eachother on every climb, which is also why so many riders won from the breakaway…