This is where it kicks off. Yesterday’s soft peddle and tick tack will annoy Nibz and Quinty, Mov will tear this one apart and Merida will follow along, sadly the Sunweb Boys have nothing left, if you saw the anquish on Ten Dams face yesterday you’ll understand they’re bushwhacked.
If Tom, if, he can tail along with either of the split Trains (which sadly I doubt) he’ll have a myriad of choices to consider, which one to follow, how hard, oh shit there goes another.. and so on. Mov and Merida will tactically race together..
Toms only hope is Quickstep or Trek or Daledrapac or Lotto Soudal (all of whom have been quite quiet recently, (saving energy I hope for this stage) to assist him.
Hats off to the Sunweb boys, they must be destroyed by now.
Should be a cracker.