Going in to the race, Froome's imperial guard of Mikel Landa, Mikel Nieve, Wout Poels, Sergio Henao and Geraint Thomas had four mountain stage wins and seven top-ten general classification finishes in grand tours, as well as more than a dozen other victories in road cycling's second tier of races. In almost any other team, any of these riders would be a team leader.
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