Michael Woods won no friends as he sat on for the last several KM of stage 7 at the Vuelta joined by Valverde, Guilliame Martin, Omar Fraile, and Nans Peters.
An interview on the rest day with Sepp Kuss paints a more optimistic picture for Primoz Roglic who showed signs of cracks on stage 6 and fell 30 seconds back from Richard Carapaz on the GC. It wasn’t just the mechanical that tied up Jumbo Visma but also time wasted trying to sort out their jackets to keep them warm before the descent.
Closing up on the Giro, Dave Brailsford has some revisionist history to claim his strategy is to have a team of racers not robots, and the Giro Director calls for sanctions on Jumbo Visma and EF.