ave wrote:Wow, Cavendish won! And by some margin! WTF!
I was surprised not by Cavendish, of course, who rolled in with the main pack on the Levi's Gran Fondo stage the day prior and took it easy on the time trial the day before and thus I considered to be essentially a lock, but by Kristof, who BARELY beat Sagan the day before despite the latter's late-stage solo break and then finished behind him in the last stage. But then jet lag plays a roll in this race for the Euro-based riders.
In the women's race, my pick for the last stage was US crit champion Coryn Rivera, but she finished the same place she had the day before, behind Vos, but this time Vos was 3rd instead of 1st.