The ‘Sprinters’, the Last Surfers of the Platoon in the Vuelta a España

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Not so long ago, when the Sky team became master and master of the platoon because they were the best, there was a hissing that Mark Cavendish, 55 stage wins between the top three, verbalized one day on the bus of his team, then Columbia: “We can’t do anything. They’re going to set the pace, so all we have left is to do the sprint tactic well.” And his words, even if they don’t have the same subject anymore, are still in effect because UAE and V…