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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's pretty hard to do "deliberately".

You could crash into them I guess, but that would seem fairly obviously poor form!

Other than that, you could try to drop them from the peloton on an early climb, but then you would need to drive hard for a long way to keep the pressure up. And even then, if the sprinter has their whole team around them to pace that is probably enough.

Most OTL's are either when the rider is a bit ill or the team just don't care.