Pedersen could've nuked Philipsen & co on this hill. Instead he tells his teammates to get off the front because.. he wanted to gift Jasper? I don't understand what they were doing.

The fact that they clearly had no agreed plan today for this hill is very odd.

@LucGrefte He could've done that. But then he would've lost the sprint to VdP

@LucGrefte I am sure that attack on the hill was the plan - but he did not have the legs to do it.

@LucGrefte I don’t even think he would have beat MVDP in any form today

@LucGrefte It seems that he was done in the sprint, tbf.

@LucGrefte I think he was pretty much empty

@LucGrefte If you Where watching.. I Guess you where. The tank was empty. No punch in his legs.

@LucGrefte Idk either, he should've just let Simmons get away, even though that would've meant free stage win for MvDP since he would just sit in the wheel.

@LucGrefte He was cooked from the (ill-advised) small group effort. I agree Trek really messed up in the last 10k or so though.

@LucGrefte its what Wout would have wanted

@LucGrefte I think Mads was feeling his legs.. he would not have been able to follow his teammates

@LucGrefte I don't think Pedersen was on the best of days.

@LucGrefte he was cooked

@LucGrefte Could it be that he did not have the legs? Just a thought.😅

@LucGrefte He was cooked after everything he did during the stage, it is week 3 of a grand tour. Think he preferred a rider in front to take away the 50 points

@LucGrefte Maybe because he was on the limit as well and was afraid they could not drop Phillipsen

@LucGrefte The impression is that the effort he put into making the first attack stick, combined with the fact that he did most of the work at the front and had to sprint flat out to win the intermediate sprint, left him with nothing in the tank for the finale.

@LucGrefte He is losing green jersey to bridging to the break. Got too greedy. Should have let Simmons and MVDP battle it out instead

@LucGrefte He wants Stuyven to win to protect points and because he's his former teammate

@LucGrefte He was done. It wasn't mote complicated than that

@LucGrefte Lidl is doing Lidl things. By the way, not enough is said about how terribly ill-prepared Mads is for sprints. Another example of how Lidl's preparation for races is so poor that even top cyclists are unable to compete at the highest level.

@LucGrefte Hiba muy justo pedersen también en condiciones normales no hubiese terminado tan atrás con esos rivales gasto mucho y nose si hubiese Sido suficiente para soltar a jasper la verdad podría pero no creo

@LucGrefte Y muchas mas veces. Si pedersen le releva a stuyven, kwiato y compañía el grupo no los habria pillado. Cazaron a stuyven a 300m de coronar porq iba solo. De haber ido relevando no cazaban. Sin embargo se descolgo aposta, no esq stuyven le sorprenderá. Ya tenia planeado parar

@LucGrefte he was cooked

@LucGrefte Seul van der Poel aurait pu, Pedersen n'avait pas les moyens.

@LucGrefte He was cooked for sure

@LucGrefte Bro

@LucGrefte he was getting dropped

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