Really set up Raging Toro because I think the field was a little gassed from running him down. He also didn't get any help from his breakaway partner, who was, I think, properly gassed, not playing games. Though probably never again will Toro get the 15 seconds of relative indecision he got this time. Once you've kilo'd a field, they tend to never forget it.

I was a little surprised that Jayco didn't give Plapp the green light to work with Narvaez. Maybe if Ewan were in top shape you call Plapp back, but clearly Ewan isn't, and Plapp is in such great form, he had at least a chance of dropping Narvaez before the final sprint. So the end result was they hurt Ewan to the point he barely made it back to the peloton.