I is going to change a lot of team strategies going into the next mountain series after the break.
I jumped into today’s coverage after he dropped out.
Took a while for them to show a clip of him on the side of the road. He did look a little banged up.
Nibali is up on Richie Porte by 2’33’.
Nibali only needs to hold them off in the mountains and 2”33” should be good for the ITT - maybe....
Not a Contador fan at all, but I wasn’t happy to see him out completely. I confess to finding Nibali rather dull.
It will be interesting to see what the teams do. I bet there are a lot of people blown away by how things are changed up so early on. Who takes over for who? Who steps up and makes a name for themselves now?
Did you see Horner’s reaction on being told Contadore was out for good? He was talking about how he might be 10 minutes back or more when the interviewer said “he’s dropped out” and Horner’s expression was like “whaaaaa...t?