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your finish line at a certain point.
But clearly Wollring and the rest of that group clearly knew when the finish was coming because they all started trying to dive bomb each other into the final corner.
Wollring did so perfectly.
Niedermeyer in second position and Wollring dusted them, to be clear, going for the finish line.
She looked completely done after the finish, though.
And van der Breggen as well was struggling in that last sprint and lost a bit of time by the finish line to Wollring.
But to me...
Vorin winning the stage, first of all, nice to see.
But the fact that she dropped people in the last sprint here doesn't show to me how she could have dropped Van der Breggen and the rest for the whole stage.
No, no, no.
She was also done.
If anything, if the stage finish is not 1k before the top, I think the difference in how it plays out is that I'm not sure Anna van der Breggen does that pacing tempo until the stage is so-called wrapped up.
Because you have often in these situations also, but in these kind of situations, you sometimes have the tempo completely dropping for a bit, which van der Breggen wouldn't have minded.
Yeah, but it's also...
There's a bit of a difference between a super domestique and a leader in the sense that when you're a super domestique, you know your finish line on the mountain as well.
So there's that element added to it.
If you have Demi Volning in your team, especially with the level we've seen of her in the first half of this season, then I'm sorry, but I don't believe you would do a multi-leader strategy.
Just go for it.
And let's be honest about it.
They have basically won both mountain stages.