monty wrote:
Lange is a top swimmer who has the hang onto the lead group ability, but not the speed to hold any breakaway. Lead group in the swim is fine for him anyway, that puts him with 20 other guys who all ride similar.
He might have the ability, but only in 2017 he really was with the top group, when Amberger was swimming at the front alone.
In 2016 Lange was in the first chase pack about a minute down from the front pack.
In 2017 Josh Amberger was alone at the front, Lange in the pack a minute and half behind.
In 2018 he was in the first chase pack, 3 minutes down from the lead pack.
Lange seems, more than any of the other top contenders, to calculate his race and not burn any matches and stay away from the front, until he gets to the run.