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My exbert analysis is if you test him halfway through the race and he can't follow you for some reason it gets in his head and he kinda stops trying, but then at the end he still passes all the distancelets and ends up in a respectable position despite being out the race.
Liege this year is also a good example, completely out the race on la redoute but still 3rd.
He's better when he can smell the finish line