Yukiya Arashiro

Garmin controlled the race all day. Looks like they had a big enough team with specialist riders that suited the course. The smaller teams couldn’t break free. The other big name teams didn’t have enough depth. Was a nice 90 odd kilometer ride up in the morning. 6 a.m start and we went up the

Had some good Youtube clips of this stage but they keep being removed by Youtube for Copyright violations… What a great ride by Yukiya. If he didn’t take the initiative in the last 1.5km the trio were doomed. Usually in these situations one will break away and win or lose or all three will wait