Originally Posted by
Athens80
Gents: sandbagging is deceptively underperforming with the purpose of gaining an advantage later in the competition. Froome and Porte were not sandbagging in Colorado. No knowledgeable person was fooled into believing that they're actually mediocre stage racers, and they gained no advantage thereby. They did not target Colorado. They targeted races such as the Tour de France and the World Championships. You don't ride as hard as possible every race, if you want to win any.
Good grief! Talk about a parsing a word to make it come out to suit one's argument. Let's see, how about slacking or loafing? Froome quit after two laps of stage seven.
While I'm delighted for Sagan (my ancestry is Slovakian) if this race is going to gain any legitimacy they're going to need to end a few stages on an uphill climb. Right now it looks like its a
PR-fest for each town in which the race ends.