Rolland was told by his DS to knock it off after he pulled out almost 2 minutes. I think they knew that it was bad publicity when they get knocked about in the press, though as they say, no press is bad press.
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no matter what your opinion of LL Sanchez is, that's a textbook attack when you are with a sprinteur in the group; i'd think RacerEx would fully endorse it. Hell, Sanchez wasn't even the strongest on the climb and he weighs less than Sagan, but when the sprinteur refuses to chase down the attack, the one up the road gets a huge gap. Pretty good scenario for game theory, actually.
i originally thought Sagan was gonna get dropped and that LL Sanchez was going to outsprint 5-6 others ftw.