Nice first day, already some real action due to the complete lack of sprinters with good teams or experience. I'm still thinking about what this means now for the GC. Generally I see three obvious favorites: Brian Ferguson, Frida Kahlo and Martijn Schoenmakers. Frida, the worst of the three in the TT, the best in the mountains, Brian the best in TT and the worst in the mountains and Martijn is in the middle. Luckily the TT is not flat, which might be a little advantage for Frida. In a flat TT, Brian would gain 6s/km on Martijn and 8s/km on Frida, in this it could be a lot less, but hard to say how much exactly. I'm still expecting to lose at least two minutes on Brian and maybe 30s on Martijn, all assuming that each of them has P-N form.
But let's first see, what's coming out of tomorrow's chaos
