The former US Postal sport director did not understand that for the second consecutive day the Soudal Quick-Step rider escaped:
"It was a good idea to break away on Saturday, when the climbs were hard and he knew he could leave anyone to go with him, but today (yesterday) I think it wasn't a good idea because the stage was much less hard, not easier, but less hard, and you have to think that after the effort of the day before he had to feel the fatigue, he's not a robot, he's not Superman, so for me he thought he could do the same, but cycling at this level doesn't work like that, not even if your name is Remco Evenepoel, so I think it was a mistake to get in the breakaway."
He explains the reason why it was a mistake for him for Remco to get back into the leak: "It was clear that there were going to be other riders of great quality that I wasn't going to be able to leave on the last climb, with gradients of five and six percent."
"Plus the accumulated fatigue, knowing that you have to do most of the work in the breakaway, there weren't one or two riders with him, there were seven or eight with him, and if you look at riders like Rui Costa or Lennard Kämna, those kind of riders are in a breakaway to win, they're not in it to be, I think it wasn't a smart move.
Discusses the importance of the team in decision making: "I don't want to say that he was erring on the side of naivety, but I don't know if he's the one making the decisions to do one thing or another, that it's something that's not going to work every day."
"So for me it's important to know the advice he's getting from the staff from the car during the race is good. With the big riders the big role of the directeur sportif is to think about the team and the next stages and try to keep the rider in check and only let him out of his cage when it matters and I think that's not the case with Soudal Quick-Step and Remco."