Forlì-Faeza: Poor Pauwels! :(

Imagine this situation: you're a professional rider and you've never won anything in the pro category.You're in a new team since this year and,during one tough stage of the Giro,you decide to enter a breakaway.There are some other riders with you: Bertagnolli,Serpa,Pinotti (who is an engineer like you),Bak,Vorganov,Grivko,Navarro,Lastras,Marzano,Eskov,Stangelj,Facci, Montaguti and Gonzalez.After more than 100 kms of breakaway,you and Bertagnolli remain alone.Behind you there are the GC guys and Basso attacks,together with Garzelli,but your advantadge on them doesn't get smaller at all.Behind Basso there are Di Luca,Menchov,Lovkvist and your captain Sastre.You're thinking about the stage and think you may win it.Your first victory in the Giro,wow.Then,your ds calls you on the radio: "You've gotta stop 'cause Sastre wants you to go back with him and help him".'What??? Are you kidding me?',you think,and you keep on riding with your breakaway's companion.Then the ds car comes near to you and they tell you that you MUST stop,otherwise...
You think over what could happen and you've got 3 options:
1) You disobey and win the stage.But then,if the captain loses time,you risk to lose your job.
2) The worst option: You disobey,you don't win the stage and Sastre loses time in the GC.In that case,they'll probably make you leave the team immediately.
3) You obey,don't win the stage (and lose a big chance of getting a prestigious victory) but don't risk your job.
You decide to obey.As soon as Bertagnolli gets away from you,Basso gets caught by the GC's group (thanks to Facci's and Lastras' work).You get joined by Bak,Pinotti and Marzano and you desperately try recuperating time on Bertagnolli.It's too late,the Italian rider wins and you arrive second.
Now,you've got some options.
1) You kill the ds and Sastre.
2) You tell bad things about them,don't speak at them for the rest of your life and change team as soon as you can.
3) You retire from Giro and spend some time thinking about how to take revenge of your ds and your captain.
4) You make them feel terribly guilty for not having let you continue your normal race,don't speak to them for the rest of your life and leave the team as soon as you can.

Well,if I was Serge Pauwels (this is the name of the rider to whom all this happened yesterday) I would choose for n.1.Immediately after the finish line.How can people be so stupid???? Einstein once said: "There are two things which have no end,and I'm not sure of the first one: the universe and human stupidity".Yesterday was the demonstration of it.

Btw,the stage was finally won by Bertagnolli,a good Italian rider who lives in a village near Faenza.
The pink jersey remained on Menchov's shoulders.Oh,talking about Menchov:yesterday I witnessed an incredible event: Menchov LAUGHED.Not very loudly,not for a long time,but he smiled and laughed (of course,in the Mute-Menchov's sense of the term....).I was astonished.
And d'you know what? He wanted his parents to be with him on the TT's day.And he also said that "Crime and Punishment" is one of his favourite books.I have never read it,but sounds like a serious,long book.Didn't expect it from him.