Very entertaining race,

It took a looong while to take off, though. But well, that's rather normal. An Evenepoel back in stupid mode certainly makes any race more entertaining 😆

BTW, in Montréal, almost nothing turned favourable to him: the way the split groups were composed, almost nobody ever had a personal or team interest in helping him.

I loved seeing Seixas ride away, but hated seeing him lose to Del Toro - because fuck UAE.

What makes Del Toro bearable is that he often rides without glasses (which now look more like bloody windshields). I am not sure it was on purpose today though, because while putting them aside in climbs is the right thing to do (I don't understand the 95% of riders who don't do it), he was also without spectacles in all the fast sections, which is very uncomfortable and can be handicapping for the rest of the race if some shit or insect gets in your eyes at fast speed, which isn't unusual. He is also more elegant on a bike than Seixas who looks like Froome with his too long limbs he has to bend and angle in various strange ways 🙂

He also very fairly relayed Seixas. He could have played the card "I have 2 guys just behind" and Seixas would either have had to exhaust himself in preserving a top-2, or we would have a reunion of a group of 6 (with 2 UAE), which may have then let Evenepoel come back (as he did) and win.

He’d have lost to anyone given that sprint error, though, maybe even Michael Woods ;)

Seixas told he was looking for the 200 m sign 😃 I noted on the Québec race that distance signs were not all present on both sides, but they alternated: the .00 signs on the right and the .50 on the left side of the road (or the opposite, anyway...). So he probably was waiting for a sign that never came on his side. 😄

I am still not sure it was a very useful thing to do when you have gone 16 bloody times (!) through the same place, though 🤣