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					Originally Posted by hockey2315  I really wasn't impressed by anyone's performance in the race. Guess I missed something. I thought QR was flat and Blame benefitted. | 
	
 Most likely.
This was the Quality Road that "showed up" in the Hal's Hope at GP earlier this year.  I really hope they have an explanation .. because other than getting hit in the eye repeatedly with a braid bead .. I'm surprised at how awful his race was.  
Had he closed his right eye through the stretch or flinched a little more than he did - I would be sold that he might have been distracted, but I doubt that did anything more than just annoy him.