Quote Originally Posted by tulip View Post
BRILLIANT FINISH for those two! Allez Fredrigo! How they held the peloton off I'll never know.
1) Because there were very few sprinters in the peloton so no teams really had the manpower or desire to chase them down for a sprint win.

And 2) Astana would then have to defend the yellow jersey and they don't want to . . . yet.