Originally Posted by bonesx
a novice's question for you all. (because mcewen doesn't have enough written about him at the moment) i only saw the sbs highlights this pm, but it didn't appear that robbie, (and in fact dav/lotto) were in the chase for the intermediate sprint points. his 16 point advantage over boonen (for the win) was pretty much halved because of the points boonen managed to score along the way. reasons / ideas?
I can only guess that lil robbie is trying to do a Zabel. Can't remember which years (and couldn't be bothered lookin them up!) but Zabel came from a long way back twice in recent history to down robbie and stu. The Aussies had built reasonable leads but Zabel cut them down after preserving himself over the climbs and taking late sprint points when it mattered.
[edit] robbie's talk about "not caring about the green" is total BS. It's all he cares about. He will be within a coupla points coming into Paris, and will do his best to take it out again.