Problem with that is figuring out when's you've won the TT. Few people have a DS and an earbud.

Fun stage race story. Won the TT by a couple of seconds. Held serve stage 2. 10/5/3s time bonus for the stage 3 RR finish. 5/3/1 hot spot. By myself. Teams A/B/C conspire to gutter me on a long crosswind section. I hang on and watch the teams wipe themselves out. End up with 6 guys: me, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 2 other guys. 2nd, 4th and other guy are teammates. So are 3rd and the last guy. 3rd and 4th are down like 30 and 40s. The other guys are down decades.

So I'm playing 5 on 1, 3 on one, and two on one. This will be interesting.

Hotspot sprint and 2nd (future teammate and TT WC BTW) and I drop the field and haul ass up the hill. He nips me by a tire. Few minutes later we're told they are negating the hot spot due to a center line violation. "Sucks to be you" was my comment to 2nd, followed up by "I would be sooo pissed if that happened to me" and "man, you really killed yourself there". Hey, I'll play the occasional head game.

Much attacking follows. 2nd sits on my wheel grinning. At one point I'm chasing 2nds tweo teammates and try to get 3rd and his teammate to help. They don't, but instead attack 2nd and I. Fair enough. We look at each other, and bring them back, and I continue on to shut down the other folks.

More misc attacking. 3rd attacks solo and 2nd and I shut him down. Finally 4th place (2nds teammate) does a nice counter attack near the finish. 3rd place sits. Really? Because if it stays together he's on the podium, if 4th gets 10s he's not. I commence to explain the facts of life to 3rd place:

"Dude, you're off the podium right now, and you're not going to take 30s out of either of us. We're both going to drop you on the hill so you and your teammate might want to help pull that back". Still no help.

I'm literally doing the time gap every minute or two and the math. Gonna be close. But if I work to pull this back my rival is going to be able to attack or take the sprint for sure.

4th crosses the line with his hands up. Up the finishing hill and it's the same result as the hotspot. 2nd nips me by tire. Turns out 4th comes in 32 seconds in front of us. With the time bonus he takes GC by two seconds. Well played. My rival and I are tied on time, the TT is the tiebreaker so Racer Ex gets second, rival gets third.

And 3rd, gets knocked off the podium, despite having a teammate in the break.

Great example of how stage racing interests are fluid, how a smart team can steal the candy, and how you can shoot yourself in the foot.