Originally Posted by
Giacomo 1
Sagan has not impressed me in the sprints yet. He really is a stroke or two off of the best sprinters right now. Maybe it's all about the green jersey and not wins?
I think he is as just as fast as the best sprinters. But there are big differences between his situation and the other sprinters. Sagan doesn't have the practiced lead out train that the others enjoy so he ends up doing a lot more work just to get position, and he does actually do some work on the medium mountain stages while the pure sprinters are doing the absolute minimum to make the time cut. And yes, this year he did have the green jersey all but wrapped up early, so the smart thing to do is simply be in the top five for every possible stage and slowly pad his advantage. Basically one more stage and the green jersey race is mathematically over.