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The Recap: sign up for our email of editors’ picksGet in touch with Luke via email or on TwitterGood analysis, Mike, thanks. Important qualification at the end about the likelihood of Pogacar having an off day, too. It doesn’t really look on the cards, does it? And he seems perfectly happy to try and survive without his team (although that may of course be different in the high mountains). Take the cobbled stage as an example ... how many times do you see a lightweight GC guy riding away from classics specialists on a flattish cobbled stage like that? He is on another level.“Today would usually have ‘breakaway winner” written all over it,” emails Mike Waters. “Huge day tomorrow, with a finish not hard enough for race-changing gaps between leaders. But UAE are vulnerable, not because they are fundamentally a weak team as many claim, as Bennett, Majka and McNulty could all easily be leaders of a smaller team. Continue reading...