Tejay Van Garderen Knows The Tour Is Hard

Stupid hard--too hard for Tejay.  Is the ability to stay healthy for the three weeks the least obvious skill in the Tour?  Most obvious?  It's not enough to be the best, strongest rider for two weeks or one day or whatever; racing like that will wear you down and wear you out.  Van Garderen is 27 next month, so it is pretty clearly now or never for him in 2016, unless he wants to be the crack artist forever.  In cycling at the highest level, it doesn't take much to ensure you'll never win no matter how great you can be or are on any given day.  Does Tejay need a better doctor?  Or better chemistry?  Or get with the program?  Or the latest generation of hidden electric motor in his seat tube?  We may never know the...