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I always found the hype around Zingle overrated.

Naturally, he was that close to win today, just to annoy me! 😀

I am not sure Lidl-Trek played it very well, choosing to favour collaboration in the breakaway, especially after they saw that Zingle was easy. It is strange because their very first strategy seemed to have been harassment, when Pedersen left a split after his 2 teammates, and Zingle (I think it was him?) had to make an effort to close the gap. It was his only chasing effort, by the way, as someone else always did for him.