Benji Naesen
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Yeah, he's not a GC rider here.
That's fine.
But the fact that they start the last climb and go individual for Del Toro and Vermarke, because the last climb is the indicator, right?
Every single team wants to get their GC rider to the final climb or their GC riders to the final climb.
And the fact that Vermarke did not just...
do massive pulls before that final climb, but genuinely try to go for his best possible time in a kind of 1v1 up the last climb against Del Toro.
Shouts to me that they want to keep Vermarke in GC, which I think that's brave with the parkour that we have in this race.
I don't see the value in that, if I'm being honest.
Vermarke for me is domestique.
Is there a world in which he's in the Tour de France team this year?
I would pick Vermaar or Zivakov for the Tour de France.
Pass two hills.
And even the thing with Decathlon, for example, is that one of the trucks didn't make it, Bissiger.
Horlo was the big truck.
Like, you looked at their actual team on the road, and Dan Horlo was twice the size than all the other riders combined.
He got no draft.
He got no draft.
He got no drop, but he's giving a lot to the rest of the teams.
And that's where the value lies for Dunhall in this team time trial.
And that's where they got it out of him as well.