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Flying_Monkey

Flying_Monkey

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Well, Cadel is not quite out of the Top 10, he's 9th...

The most fascinating battle is now the one for third place overall: Rolland has only 2 seconds on both Aru and Majka. I can't see him keeping his podium spot, but who will he lose it to?
 
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I think we all thought that Evans had lost his edge now, hence him targetting the Giro this year. I don't know what he plans for the future but 3 week grand tours are looking beyond him now. Mind you, top 10/20 at 37 is not to be sniffed at. Maybe he can pull a good itt.
 
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thom

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smutchin said:
Yes... up to a point. But he broke away before the top of the Stelvio. His intent was clear. Riders made their choices as they saw fit. Some stopped to put on jackets. Lost a few seconds there but probably made them up by not being too cold to ride hard on the descent. I just don't buy the argument that team orders or race directives influenced the outcome to the extent some are claiming. This is bike racing.

Quintana seems to be a take-no-prisoners kind of rider. This might rub a few people up the wrong way and may not earn him many friends in the peloton in the long run, but it's bloody brilliant to watch.
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Well that's fair enough - I didn't spot too much on the highlights about how all that transpired. I do think as you mentioned, that the fact the equivalent spectacular stage was repealed last year likely contributed to RCS being maybe over-keen to run it. I think this was too much in the conditions, that something clearly got beyond good race control and that this was the cause of the subsequent consternation, not the riders.

Was it appropriate to race ? I don't think such suffering is all that entertaining and it seems most of the teams considered it was very much a judgement call that they expected RCS to make. The Wouter Weylandt incident shows the risks - Taylor Phinney just screwed his season riding a descent encountering a badly placed moto. RCS has an obligation to be clear with the teams how they run their race, on where the red lines are, on what normal racing is. Unfortunately for Quintana, the lion's share of his current GC positioning has been achieved due to circumstances that many consider not normal.
 
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rich p

rich p

ridiculous old lush
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Brighton
I think they've missed a trick to take the sting out of the situation.
The majority would have been happy (happier?) if Quintana et al had been docked a minute, say.
 
Flying_Monkey

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rich p said:
I think they've missed a trick to take the sting out of the situation.
The majority would have been happy (happier?) if Quintana et al had been docked a minute, say.
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I've got no problem with the result at all. Quintana didn't attack, he followed the wheel of someone who attacked who was a threat to him. He had to do that.
 
Hont

Hont

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Any TT regs experts on here? Because Quintana's overshoes look illegal to me. I thought the reg was not above half-way between and ankle and knee.
 
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