Simone Velasco: A Pick From Yesterday

I thought I didn't think they'd drop him on the climb and I don't think they would have kept him away because Bouchard was in the break. He's the best climber in the breakaway, but 5.6k, 6% not that long. And then you've got the owner to work with a Velasco behind and Bouchard is the least aerodynamic rider of the scene. But keeping a solo gap on a 25k step descent, he will not do unless they have group two syndrome. It went up like an ice wall on one side and the other side, I was predicting there'd be no snow because it had sun in the morning and