Cannondale-Drapac came into the 2016 Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah with the stated goal of supporting defending champion Joe Dombrowski in the team's bid to win a fourth consecutive title in the seven-day 2.HC race.
That goal took a major beating on Wednesday during stage 3 when Dombrowski lost nearly four minutes to the lead trio of Lachlan Morton (Jelly Belly-Maxxis), Adrien Costa (Axeon Hagens Berman) and Dombrowski's teammate Andrew Talansky. Dombrowski finished in the third group, 3:57 back and now trails Morton in the overall by 4:07, while Talansky is just nine seconds back.
"I'm probably a little far down to be in there for GC, but we'll see," Dombrowki told Cyclingnews after the stage. "I don't know exactly where everyone finished. There'll be some flexibility, so we'll see. I'm not too worried."
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Talansky got away with stage winner Morton and runner-up Costa on the lower slopes of the climb over Mt. Nebo. The trio peeled away from the rest of the GC riders and then worked together to build a gap of more than a minute over the chasers as they started the long descent to the finish in Payson.
Morton sneaked away in the final kilometres and won by three seconds over Talansky and Costa, while the chase group of four that included BMC's Darwin Atapuma, Joey Rosskopf, and TJ Eisnenhart, as well as Rally Cycling's Rob Britton, finished 1:22 back.
"Coming in to that last kilometre, kilometre and a half, I mean you think somebody might attack," Talansky said at the post-stage press conference.
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