Quote Originally Posted by Graham Breeze View Post
Yep. That's the theory. The hard part is getting two egos to decide which is going to end up winner and which is going to end up nowhere. And the interesting part is what the team manager was saying to the two riders on the earpieces.
Graham, this is professional racing at the top level. Or at least it's supposed to be. These riders are highly paid by their teams, and it was a disgrace, (although very good from a nationalistic, Yorkshire-is-the-promised-land kind of prospective), as far as the Jumbo Visma team is concerned.

Decades ago, when I was racing at a very modest level against riders of similar ability, we never let anyone hang off the front by 7-20 seconds and win; we were pretty poor, but we knew how to race

As good as Pidcock is, against a group of 5 top professionals he could, and should, have been caught before the line.