re: 2018 Tour de France thread: Thomas wins!

I think what people don't want to admit is that winning the GC is fricking hard. You have to be an elite climber and an elite time trialist, and there are simply too few of those. So what we have are a bunch of guys that are playing for a podium finish and hoping Froome crashes out, because they know they're going to lose 1'30" to him in the ITT or whatever.

I remember when riders first thought they could challenge USPS solo, and learned a hard lesson when Hincapie, Heras, Hamilton and company would just chew them up and spit them out.