Originally Posted by divingbboy:
“I'm talking about the very end of the stage, when the group containing the saxo and Sky boys were pushing ahead and things had broken down a bit. Everyone (including Froome) was doing their bit, but not Contador, As jack_kerouac said above:
"Kreizinger trying to get others to do some work ...Contador goes into hiding again..."passenger."”
Froome didn't need to do that, he was only on the front because he didn't fancy sitting in Contador's wheel on a fast descent - remember what happened last time he did that. Porte paced Froome down most of the way when he rejoined.
Contador's team leader, he had his teammate there, so it would have been pointless for him to do anything, especially given that there's another tough mountain stage tomorrow where Quintana is guaranteed to attack him. The group today had nothing to gain over each other, Contador wasn't going to lose any time by not helping, so the sensible thing was not to bother. Kreuziger wasn't asking Contador to help, he wanted others to waste a bit of energy taking the lead.
I really don't see what's so hard to understand about the fact that this is an individual race, so everyone does what suits them if they're the best placed rider in a team, or what suits their team leader! That's all Contador did, it's perfectly logical