Originally Posted by donrhummy
It has nothing to do with his weight and everything to do with his specialty, his skills, what he's been training for, and he has not been training for mountains.
And a bit to do with his teams options. If they had no real GC contender they might be willing to put a lot of effort into keeping him in Yellow. In htat case it would not surprise me if he managed to keep through the first mountians and see flat land again in Yellow. After all Mig and Jacques were not exactly mountian goats. But him keeping it to Paris would be a huge long shot, one the team will not take with better options.