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On stage 2, when Pogacar and Vingegaard were descending together, Vingegaard was losing ground to Pogacar in the curves and having to sprint back after each curve. Vingegaard finally took the lead - or Pogacar let him - and then was able to descend at his own pace.

Possibly Pogacar observed that and figured Vingegaard has a little bit of a descending weakness, maybe something mental from his big crash? and decided to hit that weakness hard.

On the climb, UAE did a great job, killed off all of Vingegaard’s teammates, dropped the other GC contendors. But Adam Yates didn’t last long on the front, and Ayuso didn’t come up to help until Almeida was waving and yelling. Pogacar wasn’t on their wheels, instead he was behind Vingegaard. There was wind and the two domestiques and Pogacar could have been a mini-echelon with Vingegaard hung out to dry. So not perfect by UAE and they may have left some minutes on the table.