Yeah, with a stage like yesterday they really missed out on trying to balance things. They made it so boring that people were just tuning out and you're not going to get viewers with stages like this, while at the same time making the peloton take it so easy that they're going into the - already somewhat unwise looking - last 20 kilometers absolutely hyper-energized. Yeah, that's going to go wrong....the main Dutch preview I read every morning was already quite clear about it yesterday before the start
Loosely translated ('three out of three' points to the sentences before, where he was talking about Alpecin hitting two out of two):
Starting from this Year UIPM introduced a new "dedicated" world championship for Relay event.
I presume world cup final qualification is for the individual athletes based on their results in the WC tours, it does make sense to remove the relay event from WC final too.
Seems odd that the sport is heading in a direction of trying to make things safer but then a stage like this happens where even a clueless idiot like myself expected this to happen.