I'm not used to seeing him on the attack like that, when he rode the entire Vuelta super passively, which seemed like the correct decision. I was really worried it would backfire for him, but he seemingly knew exactly what he was doing.
I was perfectly content with him defending 6th place, so to get up to 5th and add some stage points is awesome
Habtemichael showed up with the type of performance I was hoping to already see earlier in the season, but he does it here with 12th
Borisavljevic is always super solid, I didn't expect to see him in the early breakaway, but we clearly had designs to attack this stage
First team classification victory of the season and quite comfortable in the end. I'm always proud of these. I counted 200+ total points from the race.
Team depth at it again!
I agree with Fab, this was an epic stage and with it came an excellent read. Thanks for all the great reporting work, Cunego
Conci disappointing in the mountains and although his 5th in the TT is a very solid result, it doesn't do much for our points scoring here. A pity that Thijssen also dropped from 2nd to 5th in the Points classification on the final stage.
Altogether, not a great race for us although positives to take from Thijssen's performances
Thank you for the reports and congrats to those who scored well!
Fantastic final stage by Foss. First joining the break and once that was unsuccesful he managed to stick around with the "best of the rest" group and climbed to 10th in GC. Best of two worlds and that effort is basically everything i can expect from him here.
Overall, i reastically saw him somewhere between 7th and 12th strongest here so a 10th place is perfectly fine and exactly where i could expect him to finish.