Yet it has happened in (relatively) recent history that an attack dominated the last stage. “That was the case in 1979. Nobody attacked leader Bernard Hinault then, he did it himself. With this he anticipated a possible attack by Joop Zoetemelk, the rider immediately after him in the ranking. Zoetemelk was the only one who could respond. So then had the situation that numbers one and two had escaped. They then sprinted for the stage victory, but nothing like this has ever happened since. “
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