Originally Posted by
philbob57
So ... based on 7/23/89 ... we know that there's strong competition with 50 seconds separating the 1st and 2nd GC riders, so if the margin were 1 second, we can assume there'd be competition for yellow.
Based on the same date, do we know that 58 seconds is to much to make up? I'm not sure of the logic/arithmetic to answer that question...
As I've pointed out in a different thread, the only exception to the 'rule' that GC isn't contested is where the final stage is an ITT as it was in 1989. As this year's final stage was the more normal sprint stage the GC wasn't contested.